I was hoping for the thing where you play through like half of the game and only then it shows you the title against a dramatic vista.
devin 2 hours ago [-]
So good.
Maybe lean into some of the metal gear solid dialogue by having a long back and forth about "What's a mine?" "What do you mean 'mark a mine'?" "How do I know when I'm done?" etc.
mkobit 2 hours ago [-]
I really enjoy this trope. The "Zelda Ocarina of Time if it were a modern game" series has the MGS style discussion, and the whole series is incredible.
Nice but the logos are skippable, which is not realistic.
LugosFergus 48 minutes ago [-]
Also, since it's an Unreal game, it's missing long load times, camera jitter, frame spikes, and dynamic resolution constantly kicking in.
fidotron 2 hours ago [-]
But I didn't need to install a publisher specific launcher to run it.
ravenstine 2 hours ago [-]
And then be forced to download a 42GiB update.
theroadnotbacon 2 hours ago [-]
I was absolutely hoping to see production babies in the credits. Can’t win ‘em all.
jameshart 1 hours ago [-]
No pets credited either.
larrydag 15 minutes ago [-]
I love the parody. Is this a treatise on modern game development? I hope so.
xbar 2 hours ago [-]
I was angry at the wasted 30 seconds of opening licensed 3rd party software listings, but I stayed through to the end of the credits roll, laughing until I cried.
This is Art.
nottorp 2 hours ago [-]
I think the opening logo sequence is too short. Also it's missing agreement to 2-3 EULAs that you have to scroll down all the way for the accept button to get enabled. And the epilepsy warning. And the disclaimer that it's all a work of fiction.
jameshart 1 hours ago [-]
Failed certification because it didn’t warn you not to turn off when the save icon is spinning.
adamanonymous 34 minutes ago [-]
Also missing the redirect to your browser to connect to Epic Games and create a SweeperPro account with 2FA
m_w_ 13 minutes ago [-]
Great parody - very "Focus, M"-esque. Often, it feels that we've lost sight of "If it's not fun, why bother".
lapetitejort 3 hours ago [-]
Missing:
Sidequest to sweep 10 mines.
Achievement after sweeping 5 mines
The yellow diamond is nice but what if I don't notice the diamond? I need a colored scent trail leading from my cursor to the yellow diamond, and a pinging noise when my cursor is near a mine
Mocapped mines
Jack Quaid
$70
RobotToaster 43 seconds ago [-]
Those will be in the $50 DLC
jandrese 2 hours ago [-]
There should be additional audio logs you can find under some squares that provide snippits of backstory.
lapetitejort 2 hours ago [-]
This is minesweeper 33. I'n out sweeping mines and I ran across one that looks different than the others. I'll keep investigating while mine sweeping. I'm recording this 30 second clip onto an entire recording device with a 64gb SD card. I'll leave it on this rock for others to find. Don't worry, I have 11 other devices to record my short messages. Wait, the mine, it's glowing! I can't--
rf15 2 hours ago [-]
Sorry, did you mean Achievement for Starting the Game for the First Time?
Please expand this into a full open-world minesweeping game
LunicLynx 1 hours ago [-]
Needs:
- Checkpoints after each mine
- DLC for rounded corners
thesuitonym 4 minutes ago [-]
The DLC is a hat for John Sweeper.
magnat 32 minutes ago [-]
Felix Varga and Johanna Kowalski (Online Services Engineers) must have done a really good job - with all the traffic from the HN front page login servers didn't go down and queue was almost instant.
xoxxala 2 hours ago [-]
10/10 story. I look forward to the forthcoming motion picture adaptation from Skydance directed by Michael Bay.
So good. Looking forward to level 2 so we can find out what happened in Singapore.
jameshart 58 minutes ago [-]
That will be coming in the first DLC in a few months, delayed because it is being developed by a new team after the original development studio was bought by Activision, retasked to making a mobile solitaire game, then laid off.
NSUserDefaults 1 hours ago [-]
And which half of the staff gets fired day after release?
derac 22 minutes ago [-]
What no 30 minute shaders compiling sequence?
361994752 2 hours ago [-]
the non-stopping narration makes it so hard to actually sweep the mines....
nvme0n1p1 2 hours ago [-]
Don: Sounds like you're getting rusty. The Sweeper I knew in Singapore would never have choked like this from just a little background noise.
MitPitt 2 hours ago [-]
Focus, M.
isoprophlex 2 hours ago [-]
No lootboxes?
ravenstine 2 hours ago [-]
There aren't even any skins I can buy with my mom's credit card.
jandrese 2 hours ago [-]
I like the part where it doesn't even matter if you hit a mine, you are on this train ride regardless of what you do.
wredcoll 2 hours ago [-]
That was a great parody, but how much of those effects still worked even though you knew it was coming? The fade ins, blurring the outsides, the emotional voice talking to you... it definitely raised my interest more than just opening minesweeper!
I mean, it doesn't last very long without something else going on, but there is a reason.
thaumasiotes 1 hours ago [-]
> That was a great parody, but how much of those effects still worked even though you knew it was coming? The fade ins, blurring the outsides, the emotional voice talking to you...
Worked?
The game takes a very long time to load. This is funny, but not desirable in an actual game.
There is voiceover dialogue as you start. You can listen to it, but at some point you'll want to start playing the game.
There is an indicator telling you which square to clear next. I ignored this for several reasons:
- I want to know if you're compelled to follow it (you aren't);
- It's pointing to the wrong square;¹
- Following it would defeat the entire purpose of playing the game.
Dialogue continues as you play. But you can't listen to it because your mind is occupied. Following the indicator would solve that problem...
¹ There is a game you can find called Hexcells that is supposed to be an "improved" version of minesweeper. The "improvements" are two:
1. It's a hex grid, not a square grid.
2. In general, there is only one hex known to be clear at any given time. This means that the structure of the game is that you mindlessly reveal whichever tile you just gained information about rather than suffering under any obligation to think about what you can tell from the board.
I'm not sure why this was supposed to be an improvement; the only effect is to remove the entire puzzle aspect from a puzzle game. But hey, Steam reviews are "overwhelmingly positive". https://store.steampowered.com/app/265890/Hexcells/
johnnyanmac 1 hours ago [-]
>First, the game takes a very long time to load. This is funny, but not desirable in an actual game.
In unrealistic fashion, you can in fact mash through the license logos once you load in. So thr game itself doesn't actually take long at all to boot up on a technical level; the delays were a design choice.
forgotTheLast 2 hours ago [-]
Where do I enter my credit card info for the Season Pass and the special operator skin?
Maybe lean into some of the metal gear solid dialogue by having a long back and forth about "What's a mine?" "What do you mean 'mark a mine'?" "How do I know when I'm done?" etc.
Here is the forest temple video which is a short sample of what to expect: https://youtu.be/KC656o7_zVk
"X... button?"
"Focus, Sweeper! Sweeper? SWEEPEEEER!"
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs
This is Art.
Sidequest to sweep 10 mines.
Achievement after sweeping 5 mines
The yellow diamond is nice but what if I don't notice the diamond? I need a colored scent trail leading from my cursor to the yellow diamond, and a pinging noise when my cursor is near a mine
Mocapped mines
Jack Quaid
$70
- Checkpoints after each mine
- DLC for rounded corners
I mean, it doesn't last very long without something else going on, but there is a reason.
Worked?
The game takes a very long time to load. This is funny, but not desirable in an actual game.
There is voiceover dialogue as you start. You can listen to it, but at some point you'll want to start playing the game.
There is an indicator telling you which square to clear next. I ignored this for several reasons:
- I want to know if you're compelled to follow it (you aren't);
- It's pointing to the wrong square;¹
- Following it would defeat the entire purpose of playing the game.
Dialogue continues as you play. But you can't listen to it because your mind is occupied. Following the indicator would solve that problem...
¹ There is a game you can find called Hexcells that is supposed to be an "improved" version of minesweeper. The "improvements" are two:
1. It's a hex grid, not a square grid.
2. In general, there is only one hex known to be clear at any given time. This means that the structure of the game is that you mindlessly reveal whichever tile you just gained information about rather than suffering under any obligation to think about what you can tell from the board.
I'm not sure why this was supposed to be an improvement; the only effect is to remove the entire puzzle aspect from a puzzle game. But hey, Steam reviews are "overwhelmingly positive". https://store.steampowered.com/app/265890/Hexcells/
In unrealistic fashion, you can in fact mash through the license logos once you load in. So thr game itself doesn't actually take long at all to boot up on a technical level; the delays were a design choice.