Sanior

Roblox Scripter, 4+ years in scripting and game development 🫩

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[Sanior @Saniorz]

horror game logic pt. 2:

ammo: 6 bullets for the whole game
last save: 40 minutes ago
me: dies to the final boss with all 6 still in my pocket

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Mortal Kombat was almost a Jean-Claude Van Damme game.

The deal didn't happen, so Ed Boon and John Tobias made their own ninja fighter and put a parody of him in it: Johnny Cage. Same initials, JC.

Which timeline?
A) Van Damme game
B) Mortal Kombat

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every app update:

"bug fixes and performance improvements"
the one button I use daily: moved
new feature: an AI assistant nobody asked for

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me: finally builds the PC of my dreams

also me: spends the whole evening tweaking graphics settings and plays for 11 minutes

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The first Lara Croft was a man with a whip and a hat.

Core Design thought Toby Gard's hero was way too Indiana Jones, so he redesigned the lead. Her first name: Laura Cruz.

Which name hits harder?
A) Lara Croft
B) Laura Cruz

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POV: you spent 2 hours in the character creator and then wore a helmet for the entire game

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horror game logic:

flashlight: dies in 3 minutes
the one door I need: locked
the door with breathing behind it: wide open, come on in

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Halo's first stage was a Mac keynote.

Steve Jobs revealed it at Macworld 1999 for Mac and PC. It began as a strategy game. In 2000 Microsoft bought Bungie, and Halo became an Xbox launch game.

Halo as:
A) an RTS
B) the shooter we got

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Devil May Cry started as Resident Evil 4.

Hideki Kamiya's prototype got so fast and stylish that Shinji Mikami decided it wasn't survival horror anymore. So it became its own game (2001).

Would you rather have:
A) Dante
B) action RE4 in 2001

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POV: your charger only works at one exact angle so now your phone sleeps in a yoga pose 🧘

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The Legend of Zelda is named after a real person: Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Miyamoto just "really liked the name."

Did you ever think the guy in green was Zelda?
A) never
B) for years

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ray tracing. 4K textures. photorealistic rain.

and still yellow paint on every ledge you can climb

because they've seen how I play

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my favorite Steam review genre:

"1,400 hours played. Not recommended."

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The Companion Cube in Portal (2007) exists because players kept forgetting to bring the crate with them.

So Valve put hearts on it and made you care. Then made you incinerate it.

You:
A) burned it
B) cried, then burned it

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AI in 2026: writes code, makes music, plans entire trips

me in 2026: still not sure if the pole counts as part of the traffic light

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game: are you sure you want to sell this?
me: yes
game: you won't be able to get it back
me: I KNOW

*10 minutes later*

the quest: bring me that exact item

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Metal Gear (1987) is a stealth game because of hardware limits.

The MSX2 couldn't fit many enemies and bullets on screen, so Hideo Kojima flipped it: avoid the guards instead of shooting them, inspired by The Great Escape.

You:
A) sneak
B) go loud

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my first 3 hours in a new game:

0:00 graphics settings
0:40 more graphics settings
1:30 character creator
2:58 tutorial
3:00 "I'll continue tomorrow"

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POV: they gave the NPCs AI and now the guard still remembers the cabbage you stole 40 hours ago

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@MrBeast Give me money here then! I need 10k dollars for startup, I need money for real reason, not an abstraction vision