Games with a protagonist that blatantly lies to you

The new game plus allowed me to experiment with unconventional builds mostly. The main part that dragged in my opinion is honestly the comet fight and Alex losing his friend

WHERE'S
THE GODDAMN
RECORD?

Why the fuck would anyone be attracted to alex?

GIVE IT TO ME

Games that only exist for irony poisoned retards

People have been attracted to much worse

Cyberpunk 2077

The game has some ideas and plot points that are interesting it's just that the writing it's baked in is insufferable.
Most of the more interesting stuff is also glossed over (especially so prior to I.V.) although it might be more interesting because it's not really focused on in the original story which saves it from having poor writing.

I hate to break it but that’s way more common than you think. If you’re a pseud in high school and college and decently attractive, you can get it.

It starts to drag for me around the time you're in the mall finding Essentia and YIIK 2 is generally interesting but not being able to skip through the dialogue like you can in the main game made it feel like torture around the end

Raging Loop.

game is written so pretentiously you'd think it was a parody until you realize allanson was entirely genuinely.

I agree on Benevolent Psychosis dragging on but I might have ruined it for me by marathoning I.V. since I lost my old save data

Why are you faggots spoilering shit as if anyone genuinely cares about fucking yiik spoilers lmao

you are here for le epic maymays
we are here to yiik out
we are not the same

Because it takes less than a full second to do and because enough people have played YIIK to where Anon Babble has had a relatively high number of threads actually discussing what happens in it.

I don't get why people are mad at the Rory suicide scene it's honestly one of the better voice acted scenes in the game

I know she didn't exist yet but Nameless Child should've been referenced more in the OG plot, she bumps the game's story up to the point where I'd even call YIIK good.
Chondra going on that weird rant about race makes no sense for her "I just wanna forget it all" character, though.
They're Running Shine secondaries who think you bully Rory to death instead of just neglecting him until he ropes.

secondaries

I seriously hope nobody here has played this shit.

WANNA WATCH ME JERK OFF?

It's like the one good thing it has going for it

We do see Alex's sister one time in the older version of YIIK it was in Essentia's old mind dungeon puzzle with the doors

asian girls

why is there two of him?
is it twin peaks like where there's a toupa and dopplegangers and shit?

That game was a 10/10 up until the ending.

I've never played a game that was so completely ruined by its ending.

It's trying to be like Persona 3/4 where the portrait and dialogue are in the foreground while the character models are in the background, but because the portrait is dead center it looks off.

I mean the nameless child as a character is a weird space where she cannot really be 'referenced' herself. The base game did make several references to Alex's sister, his false recollection of her and I believe even references to Michael's relationship with her.
Similarly, the base game alluded a few times to Alex's dad having left to be with Rory's mom which invited the possibility of them being half brothers and Carrie and Allison/Alice being one and the same.
I think the real problem is all of this was far more compelling than Alex himself which was all the OG plot really focused on while the other threads were not necessarily hidden or out of the way, just glossed over and never really relevant.

There is tulpa shit but there is just a multiverse thing where there's just varying differences. For example one of the party members is from a universe where you can make a phone call to the dead, but you can't ask them where they are and how they're doing because if you do they're cut off from calling.

my video essay is better than playing a game

baten kaitos

Not difficult when the game is YIIK.

People liked raging loop?

Nobody cares about that little faggot and it doesn't matter how "good" the voice acting is when you have to listen to HUNDREDS OF THESE STUPID FUCKING MONOLOGUES, only this one is Alex jerking himself off over Rory's dead body and pretending that he's aware that he's a piece of shit.

Hey..wanna know something messed up..? ...MY SISTER DIED HERE. RIGHT ON THIS BOARD...

Alex just admits he ignored Rory reaching out for help and he was a piece of shit and refuses to tell vella that he ignored the signs. People who have had someone close to them commit suicide or attempt it usually feel a similar kind of way most of the time although less dramatic compared to how Alex puts it

Nobody cares about that right now we almost just died ourselves

I think it's just not really compelling and nobody
A. Cares about Rory.
B. Cares about Alex's personal thoughts and feelings about it because he's fucking annoying.

I care about Rory

He is literally me fr I believe him

Then why did you get the Rory mcfucking kills himself scene.

I wanted to see how it happens

Yes. Not the true ending though.

You had 7 girlfriends?

YIIK IV is the most 5/10 game ever

If you just talk to a girl for long enough and don't act like a complete sperg, you can get a gf fairly easily.
Though Alex IS a complete sperg so I dunno how he managed it.

HEY YOU WANNA SEE ME JERK OFF?

He's the right amount of pathetic and autistic to land mid art hoe pussy either that or he probably misquotes famous authors to chicks

I think he's just really really fucking stupid

He's everywhere

Did anything good come out of the update?remake?dlc??? whatever the fuck it was

they made the gameplay better, and they made the more obscure ideas and plotlines easier to pick up on.

yeah, the game is decent now

That game is the proof you can't make a protagonist too unlikable when making a game, if the main character is not likeable enough, people will not like it, perhaps this is the limit of video games compared to books and movies ?
it's funny how much of a deal Anon Babble make of this game when it has less than 1000 reviews on steam after all these years.

ah ok, thank you, makes sense
interesting

Self awareness has ruined YIIK for me, the OG was genuine in every aspect

That game is the proof you can't make a protagonist too unlikable when making a game, if the main character is not likeable enough

If the writing around it was good, it probably would not have mattered.
The problem is that the gameplay (of the OG) was beyond terrible, the writing of all the characters was pretty shit and the writing and pacing overall is really bad.
I would also argue that you could write a character to be unlikable and still write better than Yiikman. There was way too much dedicated to "isn't he unlikable guys"
It was just a terrible game overall.

People immediately hated him just from his looks alone he never had a chance to begin with

It's still genuine mostly

I think he looks cute. He is a faggot.

Meant for this vnon

If the game was good, that would have gotten around. Hell, if the game stayed exactly as is, and the MC wasn't as hated, it might have sold even less.

how would you have handled it?

Not really anon nowadays a lot of people just judge games by first impressions or what YouTubers or what people online say

Assuming we're keeping the major story beats and characters the same.
Release it as it is in IV with better menus, proper inventory management, respawning enemies and more effective equipment.
Cut down on the over-explaining during the base game and have characters like Vella and Rory be less verbose. Drop most of Alex's monologuing since his flaws are already established without needing nearly as much of his dialogue. Use that time to put more between Vella and Essentia's mind dungeon.
Shorten the back and forth in Vella's mind dungeon.
That's what I can think of without substantially changing the story/ending.

YouTubers or what people online say

Right, which is what I was implicitly referring to when I said

If the game was good, that would have gotten around.

If the game was genuinely good, youtubers would get the word around. Even past the surface level analysis, the game sucks. It's actually far, far worse if you look past

the MC looks like a hipster bitch

so it failed in every regard.

Which monologues exactly would you cut out because it'd feel weird removing some of them that actually shows Alex not being accurate with his details or being blatantly wrong in his assumptions like when he said Rory said his dead sister is connected to Semi when he never said that in his post

i might never play this game but knowing the developers went back to try to make the combat good shows they give a shit
a lot of devs dont

Yiiiiik

When I say

Drop most of Alex's monologuing

I don't mean drop entire sections entirely, I mean cut out meaningless fluff, flowery language and make it more concise. Stuff like when he's talking about how things are making him feel or his own actions. You can keep in the message while dropping him needing to say four paragraphs just to say "this is weird" "I messed up "I feel bad."
You can say it helps convey how much of a douchebag he is by how needlessly verbose he is but his flaws are already gotten across without it. A lot of it is just needless.

He was supposed to be hipster scum though

How did your reading comprehension fail you that badly? The argument being made in these posts is that the game around Alex is still terrible regardless of he himself being intentionally unlikable.

the whole point of this scene was just to have a little kid ripped in half and to have the wife call him a faggot (also they didnt rape the kid even though thats totally what the crossed would do)
funny how they try to be edgy but cant even commit to the shitty low effort bit

This game and its characters have grown on me over the years despite me having never actually played it. I used to feel burning hatred whenever I saw an image of Alex, but nowadays it's more like "ayeeeee, there's my my boi". It's a strange feeling.

I think it's funny as hell how Michael just wants to kill Alex now and has a gun now

now

Mouthwashing

I gotta rape Anya she's got dick sucking lips

It's kind of funny how Alex cock blocked Michael

I envy YIIK secondaries, I feel like the concepts and characters are easier to digest when you're not forced to deal with the awful gameplay.

ALEX!
Welcome to Vancouver, British Columbia!
I don't have it!
But wait before you goooo, I have a gift for you!
It's a bottle of?..

I wish I could remember poetry or something as easily as I can remember lines from this fucking review...

Not him but Yiik is frequently doing this thing where Alex contradicts himself in his monologues and you have to be paying attention or you won’t notice. Very little of what he’s saying is fluff