"The design of this piece of sky just fits the winning law of tic-tac-toe chess"
The map design of soul games has always been a topic that players are happy to discuss continuously. After walking a long way, players suddenly find the surprise of familiar locations, as well as the satisfaction of opening shortcuts, which can be regarded as a source of fun. In addition to surprises, some people also try to think systematically about how games are designed to achieve such ingenious structures.
From the release of "Eldon's Ring of Law" to the present, countless raiders and reviews have analyzed and interpreted the game's level design - but some of the analysis may not be on the point. Recently, there was a post that tried to show the design of the old man ring level, which was "group ridiculed" by netizens.
On March 10, in Reddit's Old Man Ring section, someone posted titled "Why From Software's level design is so good." Inside the text, the author attached a screenshot of the game with this mark:
The picture shows what the player sees while standing in Nyingover. The author of the post tried to show other players that From Software had already planted enough visual clues and guidance for you by marking important locations and enemies with arrows and boxes.
Although it has also been recognized and responded to by many people, saying that they can understand the author's meaning. But the evidence in this post doesn't seem to convince everyone. Some people think that the author just framed something and then said "this is where you're going", "This is your first goal", "This castle is on the left screen", without explaining clearly "why it's so well designed".
Compared with the focus that the author wants people to pay attention to, everyone's attention seems to have been distorted at the beginning.
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One of the Ubisoft UI memes – "If the old man ring is left to Ubisoft to do"
After a week, this post has received 18,000 likes, which is also a good result, and it is reasonable to say that the vitality of this post should end here, but the dissenting netizens are obviously not satisfied.
Maybe it's dissatisfaction with the author's vague explanation, maybe it's another "a picture to make you understand xxx" post, or maybe it's that the author is over-analyzing. In short, some netizens began to express their dissent about this post, as for the way they expressed it - that is, to make this post into a meme.
So these two days began, and a bunch of posts in style began to emerge in another community of Reddit, "Gaming Circlejerk".
Perhaps the meme was so applicable that it soon began to spread.
The amusement of netizens is that the original author does not seem to know that giving the player proper guidance is the basic design concept of a game. He felt that the design of the old ring was excellent, but his explanation made it sound like someone was telling you, "You want to drink water, it's because you're thirsty."
Because the popularity of this stem is quite high, in addition to attracting a group of netizens looking for fun, there are also netizens who sympathize with the original author and feel that they are disturbed. As a result, several sides have their own opinions, almost triggering a new debate.
Under the "The Elder Scrolls 5" post, netizens began to discuss what form is not considered "over-analysis", whether such a design is really the original intention of the developer, and the definition of meme.
It's just that such a discussion is clearly beyond the original meaning of the original author of the picture. After he noticed that his posts were starting to get out of control, he began to actively respond to the questions and attacks of netizens. For example, explain to everyone that he only likes this shot in the old man ring, and does not attack other games, or tout the meaning of the old man ring, and admit that he does not know too much about the design of the game.
The author admits that he himself has been somewhat "over-analyzed"
In simple terms, the author may have been standing in front of Nyingover, suddenly recognizing the place he had been to, and was struck by the design of the old ring—as most of us have felt. Then he carefully made a screenshot description that he thought was detailed, excitedly wanting to tell netizens about his "discovery".
But unfortunately, when this whole thing has become a stalk, it is no longer in the author's control.