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[Trapezohedron]

is that by any chance Magical8bit?

[Putnam]

literally called "The NES soundfont", if you're referring to the soundfont

[Cerol Lenslens]

Go in unspoiled. Tell him nothing.

+1

Though, I would mention to him that the game starts off a bit slow. If he's a little bored by the Ruins, assure him the game picks up a afterwards in both difficulty and story.

+1 again. If anybody tells you to "play it X way", my advice is to curse their bloodlines to the last generation, throw something at them, and then play it Y way just to spite them.

Spoiler: No, seriously, this is spoilery, dont read if you haven't played. (click to show/hide)

I am really sick of seeing people go "I won't spoil it for you, but DON'T KILL ANYBODY! It ruins the game!!!!" Goddammit, that is wrong. Accidentally killing Toriel, getting taunted by Flowey and going back to do it right, only for Toriel to tell you you look like you saw a ghost and your first in-battle conversation attempt mention telling her you saw her die, plus the subsequent dressing-down by Flowey about the hypocrisy of sparing Toriel when you've eaten Vegetoid and murdered Froggit, and that he knows you're using the Save function to undo your mistakes? That's an absolutely important gameplay experience that most people who've been recommended the game seem to miss because some busybody tells them not to even attack anything before they even start playing.

Goddammit, encountering that mindfuck right there in the demo was what sold me on buying the game when it came out! Other people should be allowed to have that experience too!

[Sirus]

Go in unspoiled. Tell him nothing.

+1

Though, I would mention to him that the game starts off a bit slow. If he's a little bored by the Ruins, assure him the game picks up a afterwards in both difficulty and story.

+1 again. If anybody tells you to "play it X way", my advice is to curse their bloodlines to the last generation, throw something at them, and then play it Y way just to spite them.

Spoiler: No, seriously, this is spoilery, dont read if you haven't played. (click to show/hide)

I am really sick of seeing people go "I won't spoil it for you, but DON'T KILL ANYBODY! It ruins the game!!!!" Goddammit, that is wrong. Accidentally killing Toriel, getting taunted by Flowey and going back to do it right, only for Toriel to tell you you look like you saw a ghost and your first in-battle conversation attempt mention telling her you saw her die, plus the subsequent dressing-down by Flowey about the hypocrisy of sparing Toriel when you've eaten Vegetoid and murdered Froggit, and that he knows you're using the Save function to undo your mistakes? That's an absolutely important gameplay experience that most people who've been recommended the game seem to miss because some busybody tells them not to even attack anything before they even start playing.

Goddammit, encountering that mindfuck right there in the demo was what sold me on buying the game when it came out! Other people should be allowed to have that experience too!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I missed out on that, not because people told me not to hit anyone but because I knew going in (this was never a spoiler, was it?) that pacifism was totally possible. Like with Iji, I was determined to run pacifist from the get-go, and so continued to Spare Toriel. Her dialogue kept changing, so I figured I was on the right track.

[SeriousConcentrate]

Same here, Sirus. Whenever total pacifism is possible in a game (and I don't mean like 'have your party members kill everything while you do nothing', I mean 'only fighting when there is clearly no other option' ) I always like to do it first. If it's in a game, then that means the makers of it planned for it to be the more interesting choice, plot-wise. Or at least, that's what I think.

Eeeexcept in Metal Gear Solid. I enjoy all the hijinx you can get up to and aside from final score pacifism is (mostly, MGS3 had some boss rewards) meaningless in those games anyway.

[Putnam]

i made this soon after i played the game

not sure why i did it but i did

[PrivateNomad]

If any of you hang on the Forum Games and Roleplaying subforum, I need help with an Undertale game. One of our main players isn't active anymore and I'd like a good, active roleplayer to play their character, pretty please. At least until Trapezohedron becomes active again.

[itisnotlogical]

Go in unspoiled. Tell him nothing.

+1

Though, I would mention to him that the game starts off a bit slow. If he's a little bored by the Ruins, assure him the game picks up a afterwards in both difficulty and story.

+1 again. If anybody tells you to "play it X way", my advice is to curse their bloodlines to the last generation, throw something at them, and then play it Y way just to spite them.

Spoiler: No, seriously, this is spoilery, dont read if you haven't played. (click to show/hide)

I am really sick of seeing people go "I won't spoil it for you, but DON'T KILL ANYBODY! It ruins the game!!!!" Goddammit, that is wrong. Accidentally killing Toriel, getting taunted by Flowey and going back to do it right, only for Toriel to tell you you look like you saw a ghost and your first in-battle conversation attempt mention telling her you saw her die, plus the subsequent dressing-down by Flowey about the hypocrisy of sparing Toriel when you've eaten Vegetoid and murdered Froggit, and that he knows you're using the Save function to undo your mistakes? That's an absolutely important gameplay experience that most people who've been recommended the game seem to miss because some busybody tells them not to even attack anything before they even start playing.

Goddammit, encountering that mindfuck right there in the demo was what sold me on buying the game when it came out! Other people should be allowed to have that experience too!

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I missed out on that, not because people told me not to hit anyone but because I knew going in (this was never a spoiler, was it?) that pacifism was totally possible. Like with Iji, I was determined to run pacifist from the get-go, and so continued to Spare Toriel. Her dialogue kept changing, so I figured I was on the right track.

Spoiler: I have no idea what even constitutes a spoiler anymore (click to show/hide)

One thing I don't get is people saying to NEVER play genocide. It's harsh, disturbing and sad, especially if you played pacifist all the way through, but it's part of the game; it's not like you're missing out on a bit of optional dialogue here or there, it's a large part of the game that the creators spent a lot of time putting in. It'd be like cutting every blood-soaked scene of mob violence from The Godfather, yet still trying to praise it as a classic even though a large part of the story and plenty of classic memorable scenes are missing.

[Neonivek]

Innovation is valuable when it comes to increasing variety but I think Undertale's key strengths are that it's funny and that it has compelling characters. It would be good even if it didn't try to do anything clever with the medium.

It is still innovative in its own storytelling.

Innovation isn't just something gameplay has, even story has it.

[YaW]

Welp, thanks a lot, I'm gonna get into it without knowing anything! I'll tell you what I think about it once I've played it a little.

[EnigmaticHat]

Spoiler: I have no idea what even constitutes a spoiler anymore (click to show/hide)

One thing I don't get is people saying to NEVER play genocide. It's harsh, disturbing and sad, especially if you played pacifist all the way through, but it's part of the game; it's not like you're missing out on a bit of optional dialogue here or there, it's a large part of the game that the creators spent a lot of time putting in. It'd be like cutting every blood-soaked scene of mob violence from The Godfather, yet still trying to praise it as a classic even though a large part of the story and plenty of classic memorable scenes are missing.

Just because the dev worked on it doesn't mean I have to experience it

I ain't no completionist.

[Putnam]

In fact, I think that's outright the intended message.

Toby also refuses to put in achievements because he doesn't want to encourage any particular action.

[Egan_BW]

Just because being a completionist makes me an extradimensional eldritch monstrosity doesn't mean I shouldn't complete everything.

[Bauglir]

-snip-

I am actually okay with this. It only bugs me when folks approach it with a completionist mindset because they want to experience all the content for whatever reason, but at the same time insist on rejecting that very content because it isn't being friendly. If you're happy to take the game for what it is, and you for what you are, that's great.

although spoiler much?

[Rolepgeek]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The real reason I don't want to do Genocide is that it'll ruin all my happy endings forever.

Also because Asriel asked me not to.