Undertale

[Ythan]

This game fills me with determination. This is the kind of game that deserves its own thread.

Anyone else yet?

[Ythan]

Also get out of this thread and stay out if you intend to play but have not yet. Just go away.

[Ythan]

His theme was my favorite until

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WDFUcjWARU

I'm in love with a fictional spider.

Oh but then I found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFxVmYXr-s0

I'll go on record and say that this game made by one dude as a hobby is hands down the best subversion of video game violence in the history of mankind?

made by one

dude

dog

[comicsans]you're all lucky this doesn't work[/comicsans]

[Ythan]

Man I post a lot.

[Ythan]

I've done it. I was concerned that might take a lot longer time to learn.

And I just noticed I didn't even use my pie!

[Ythan]

I had a feeling!

[Ythan]

He's not joking when he says you're going to have a bad time. You monster.

[Ythan]

also i found out that you can pet a lesser dog so much that its head hits the top of the screen then loops around then hits the very bottom
"Lesser dog has gone where no dog has before"

I spent a very long time on that fight and would have spent as long as it took if it went any further. I tried ten more times after it stopped just to be sure. Have never laughed as hard at a game as that battle.

[Ythan]

literally my only motivation to do a genocide route is to do the

sans battle

i feel so fucking heartless killing everything
its so difficult to do

You were never really his friend after all, were you?

It's totally worth it.

Iec, you are not locked permanently out of the good ending if that's what you mean. Yes you can just restart and do it.

[Ythan]

It's not nearly as fun as the dialogue, is it.

[Ythan]

i wish the frequency of encounters was more consistent
going through the entirety of the ruins one last time and getting absolutely zero encounters and passing through the area only to realise you had more to kill is not fun if you wanna get genocide over and done with

Once you kill a certain amount the save points will tell you how many you have left.

[Ythan]

Restart vs reset vs reinstall needs clarification.

Restart at any time, true reset after good ending doesn't really clear everything, don't reinstall just:

open your start menu, search %appdata%, enter roaming, go up one folder and then into local, then undertale, then clear your undertale.ini file

and that's a real reset.

[Ythan]

In fact, everyone open your start menu, search %appdata%, enter the roaming folder, go up one folder, enter the local folder, then the undertale folder. Post the contents of your undertale.ini file, you can open it in notepad. I'm trying to gather these from folks so I can compare them, we still haven't really figured out what everything means.

[General]
Room="6.000000"
Kills="0.000000"
Time="3290.000000"
Love="1.000000"
Name="Chara"
fun="14.000000"
[Flowey]
Met1="1.000000"

EDIT to clarify, different people may have different variables. All the ones I have are pretty obvious.

[Ythan]

Yes I'm trying to have Fun.

[Ythan]

You have to capitalize the F by the way. That's not a spoiler Toby tweeted that it was a typo.

[Ythan]

Pacifist was pretty easy since so little actually relies on your reflexes. Obviously those two fights are streets ahead of any other challenge in the game, particularly the latter one.

[Ythan]

This seems to currently be the top rated PC game ever and the top rated game of any kind this year, on Metacritic.

[Ythan]

If you could only spare one character in this game who would it be?

[Ythan]

Someone asked me if there was anything else to do after getting the good ending, or if they should just stop. I said both.

[Ythan]

I know it's literally insane.

[Ythan]

Oh hey I got this

Not far into it yet, but did

kill Toriel accidentally, reload after her last words, and then panic-google if I needed to reinstall the game when Toriel says

you look like you've seen a ghost.

Do try to avoid spoilers if you're still reading this page.

[Ythan]

I've been bugging someone to play this game since shortly after it came out (not that it isn't still shortly after it came out) and they just snapped me a picture of "Ah, the cactus."

[Ythan]

I-it's not as if I wanted you to understand what I was saying or anything.

[Ythan]

"How do I get EXP without fighting anyone?"

[Ythan]

Happy October everyone.

[Ythan]

*FIGHT
*ACT
*ITEM
*MERCY

[Ythan]

The music's pretty well done, that helps I guess.

[Ythan]

It's not SO bad. But don't try to say it's not bad, even if you think it's also good.

[Ythan]

to be honest im literally just spending my days waiting fr piano sheets for bonetrousle since i love that song

Not anymore.

[Ythan]

By some measures it's the best thing ever.

[Ythan]

Okay, this game is fucking fantastic.

See if you can drag everyone in Raleigh down with you.

[Ythan]

Scummers.

Anime is real, y/n?

[Ythan]

Pacifist ending requires

0 EXP

.

And some other things that aren't hard to find.

[Ythan]

So the gibberish response in the word search that seems to be the top line of the grid is actually misspelled by a single letter.

[Ythan]

I thought he was just being lazy, but I was just being lazy.

[Ythan]

I was sad that Toriel didn't have unique phone dialogue for every room. It's just a set number and you get a new one each room you call her from. Her text her, iirc.

[Ythan]

Anyone see So Sorry last night?

[Ythan]

Also I'm so mad I just found out this was made by someone younger than me.

[Ythan]

YES

Yes.

[Ythan]

Only one thing left to do now.

[Ythan]

There is a reason I chose this avatar.

[Ythan]

Literally all my wallpapers are Blook right now.

[Ythan]

Spoiler:

[Ythan]

They got the tempo right. By which I mean it matches the one in my head.

[Ythan]

Pie your avatar is almost identical to mine from a week ago!

[Ythan]

NOTHING LIKE A HOT BUCKET OF SPAGH...

[Ythan]

So the moment in this game when I laughed the hardest might have been the jimpity jumpity joodle (and the limpity loppity leap).

But realistically it was probably just Lesser Dog.

[Ythan]

It cracks me up, I keep seeing people play hardmode by mistake.

[Ythan]

I would hate to have had to restart after going through the ruins my first time. I essentially played the entire game in one sitting when I first picked it up and I'm glad I didn't have to break that with a reset.

[Ythan]

Papyrus's face was the only part of Snowdin that felt like toby wasn't trying to make it literally winnable by babies.

But if you keep talking to Pap he'll tell you there's a switch you can press to skip it.

[Ythan]

I played genocide because I wanted to kill my best friend but I say the nice things every single time I have a chance.

[Ythan]

Anime is real.

[Ythan]

Please don't do this to me friend.

[Ythan]

http://rawr.ws/undertale/tem.html

Mouse over.

[Ythan]

Only one thing left to do now.

[Ythan]

Do whatever feels right Pie.

[Ythan]

I went outside for maybe ten minutes and came back to nineteen texts on my phone because a friend beat

Asgore thinking that would be the end

.

[Ythan]

/in

[Ythan]

Whatever you do don't forget Blook.

[Ythan]

I mean nobody would but I had to be sure.

[Ythan]

Never tired of Dog Song/Tem Shop remixes and mashups.

[Ythan]

Oh lemme find just the right genocide art

[Ythan]

I really dig Megalovania. Maybe one day it will be in something else good.

[Ythan]

Yay Pie.

[Ythan]

Don't worry you can just use up all your good healing items.

[Ythan]

WILL YES

[Ythan]

You'll still know.

[Ythan]

Should have just played genocide!

[Ythan]

huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhu

[Ythan]

Of course.

[Ythan]

0% chance this guy goes the rest of his life without playing genocide.

[Ythan]

Pie are you on /vg/utg too or what.

[Ythan]

Undyne's death is so much worse if you're NOT on genocide for some reason.

[Ythan]

Also she's super heroic if you're genociding.

[Ythan]

Time for a more perfect genocide run.

[Ythan]

[Ythan]

Did you get credits?

[Ythan]

Oh the final boss game crash bug. Just start it back up and try again, it shouldn't happen twice.

[Ythan]

Kojima's working night and day to bring it down.

[Ythan]

At least.

[Ythan]

Ironically if

Undyne and Sans

tried less hard I wouldn't do another genocide.

[Ythan]

/in for that too

[Ythan]

Megalovania > Your Worst Nightmare > Hopes and Dreams

[Ythan]

I've never heard the Homestuck version but the Undertale one is way better than the Halloween Hack version.

I also heard it more than twelve times in a row at my favorite part of the game so it stuck.

[Ythan]

I like Ghost Battle more (than Dummy!) for sure.

[Ythan]

Am I wrong to thing Metal Crusher is MTT's best theme

[Ythan]

I just saw the Papyrus font and didn't make a disdainful comment. This game has affected me deeply.

[Ythan]

Undertale's a great song but I never really want to listen to it outside of playing the game.

[Ythan]

Less than that but I know it was more than twelve. Maybe twenty or thirty something.

[Ythan]

Spoiler: genocide?

[Ythan]

Papyrus, do you want anything?

[Ythan]

Thank you Om. I'm going to have a great time.

[Ythan]

I could tell just from the title.

[Ythan]

[Ythan]

END

So stark and horrifying. <3

It gets worse if that helps.

[Ythan]

I know it's 2015 but if anyone ITT hasn't played earthbound there's a very high probability you'll like it. Unless you only enjoyed undertale's combat system and hated everything else.

[Ythan]

Keep in mind what else we were playing 21 years ago, I guess.

[Ythan]

If you run out of space in your inventory in EarthBound you're bad at games.

[Ythan]

Then again I don't get why anyone would hang on to most items in most games.

[Ythan]

Nah never played any Dept. Heaven games. And good (good) point on FF6, but we weren't playing the other two 21 years ago!

[Ythan]

Based on your description though: I should clarify that I'm talking about junk items intended for such lowly purposes as healing and the like.

[Ythan]

It's a rare day that I think "If only I hadn't sold that potion."

[Ythan]

32 inventory slots iirc?

[Ythan]

And I mean "Hey guys I made you a device to clear obstacles in your path" but sure, the first time I played I dumped it after the first one and had to pull it out later.

[Ythan]

UNDERTALE

Favorite character go.

[Ythan]

Smiley trashbag.

[Ythan]

napstablook

uhh... the rest......

this...

mettaton and muffet somewhere up there too...

[Ythan]

Training Dummy, Mad Dummy's cousin, is Napstablook.

Sans and Papyrus are Gaster post-whatever.

[Ythan]

I feel like I'm Alphys's target demographic but eh.

[Ythan]

That got me the first time I reached it.

Pass along my encouragement.

[Ythan]

Turns out the fish is really easy on genocide if you just spin around in circles.

[Ythan]

Friend is watching genocide on YouTube, I'm glad I at least get to experience that trap vicariously.

[Ythan]

MGS3

[Ythan]

Circles are hard.

[Ythan]

(Now, if most of the game were like the True Laboratory then I'd change my mind, but etc.)

Most EarthBound part of the game hate to break it to you.

[Ythan]

Spoiler: =3

[Ythan]

Who on Earth called Goat Mom Cow Lady.

[Ythan]

I am the only person alive who did not know how to properly pronounce Papyrus

And oh almost certainly.

[Ythan]

I am hyperaware of the Papyrus font, formerly because it's stupid and everywhere but now

[Ythan]

It's not stupid anymore. It was saved from the refuse heap by this game.

[Ythan]

could you stay in character for a whole game?

[Ythan]

Papyrus making puns.

Hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm

[Ythan]

Man I can't wait for this theme game.

[Ythan]

Spoiler:

[Ythan]

I hear SU pronounces Peridot wrong. That's the entirety of my awareness about it.

[Ythan]

The fanbase though... can get a little controlling, abusive and just plain awful sometimes.

Well does seem like tumblr bait.

Then again this is an Undertale thread.

[Ythan]

Spoiler: uh

[Ythan]

If you post a link I don't even have to go out of my way.

Wish me luck not hating this!

[Ythan]

Nice avatar, Hot Fireman is one of my favorite undertales.

[Ythan]

"Just give up. I did."

[Ythan]

Thanks Ythan for bringing attention to this game, it totally deserves it.

I'm happy to johnny appleseed this game everywhere I post.

[Ythan]

I would like some means to fight Omega Flowey without cheating.

[Ythan]

That video's my new go to for explaining Undertale.

On another note, I saw a younger cousin of mine today and remembered she was a homestuck so I tried to tell her about this game but she's already at Mad Dummy.

[Ythan]

I tried one time and couldn't figure out what form of media it was or what to do with it so I gave up. No regrets.

[Ythan]

There's a program? You can just do it yourself. Maybe it's different with Steam idk.

[Ythan]

He has thought of EVERYTHING

The same thing happened when the demo was released.

Pretty handy to get that much feedback on a demo for a game that wants to be meta.

[Ythan]

I went back to get a sans save. May go back again for Undyne

[Ythan]

Esurio your location is better with that avatar.

[Ythan]

Oh that's actually great. I didn't watch it last time, it's deceptive and I figured it was just corn.

[Ythan]

dat wingdings booty

[Ythan]

So does he

add

meaningless religious motifs when he ports it from America to Japan?

[Ythan]

~every AU in human history is terrible~

[Ythan]

I'd be running it right now but it got dibsed and then nothing.

[Ythan]

Tentative counter-dibs.

[Ythan]

I'm sure this site will support an endless series of Undertale games.

pre-/in for every Undertale game ever.

[Ythan]

hey guys

how does Genocide Frisk clean their Ballet Shoes?

They put them through the Wosh.

[Ythan]

Papyrus and Sans are Gaster's pieces and I can't read a comic that suggests otherwise.

[Ythan]

You can edit your name in the files of course. But it will add a tag to your pause screen if that bothers you.

[Ythan]

Shattered across time and space and whatnot.

[Ythan]

I love how many people still use Mario Paint.

[Ythan]

I chuckled at the last panel.

And throughout of course.

[Ythan]

Jazz is incredibly diverse Brandi!

[Ythan]

[Ythan]

Should have posted this instead but I was seriously taken aback at the time.

[Ythan]

You took me seriously on that second one and I need to do some self examining.

[Ythan]

Pretty jazzy.

[Ythan]

So fun fact every brass instrument (not sax) IS played by basically mouth farting into it.

[Ythan]

Undertale is in semifinals against Melee for Best Game Ever on GameFAQs, for the next four or five hours.

[Ythan]

Oh and it's winning.

[Ythan]

If it wins it'll be up against the winner of OoT and SMRPG.

This bracket's actually surprisingly solid throughout. A bit of fluff but less than I would expect.

[Ythan]

This is really big so I'm just gonna link it.

[Ythan]

And with Undertale having beaten Melee I can't even place a vote in this next one. OoT and SMRPG are both the best game ever. I think it ends here.

[Ythan]

It's pretty flawless.

[Ythan]

I figured OoT would win but yeah I thought it might be closer.

[Ythan]

I mean, I'm going to probably get at least one if not all three of them when they come to 3ds in january,

Wait, motherfucking WHAT?

Is this a thing? Have I really become that far out of the loop?

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2015/1 ... ruary_2016

[Ythan]

At least there's Fire Red and Leaf Green.

[Ythan]

I don't think it adds much if anything worthwhile beyond rb. Maybe some sprites got fixed?

[Ythan]

IIRC, Yellow was an Ash-centric version of R/B, so you had a pikachu that followed you and couldn't evolve, instead of the "final" Rocket mooks there was Jesse, James and meowth, you could acquire all the starters at various points throughout the main story. Additionally I think most sprites were changed, some movesets were changed, and some pokemon locations were modified.

No yeah I know, but I'm saying it doesn't really add anything. For me at least, RB but more like the anime isn't really a big deal. Crystal etc added more neat stuff.

[Ythan]

'going to Grillby's'

[Ythan]

And with Undertale having beaten Melee I can't even place a vote in this next one. OoT and SMRPG are both the best game ever. I think it ends here.

uhhhh OOT sucks

You've always had really poor taste in games but I love you anyway.

[Ythan]

top 5 LoZ is some combination of Majora's Mask, Wind Waker, Link Between Worlds, Minish Cap, and we can throw in one of Link's Awakening/Link to the Past for good measure

Okay then.

[Ythan]

LA is fantastic but OoA/S is just the same but better and twice as much.

[Ythan]

Link's Awakening was my first game and I have enormous nostalgia for it, and I am telling you the Oracles are better yes.

[Ythan]

I believe the action/puzzles dichotomy between Seasons/Ages was intentional.

[Ythan]

I can see an argument for not starting with the NES games but ALttP is good.

[Ythan]

It stands out on the snes, which says a lot.

[Ythan]

Oh I thought you were setting up a pun.

[Ythan]

I would have bought the soundtrack if all of the mp3s weren't available in the drm-free version.

[Ythan]

Napstablook and also Mettaton.

[Ythan]

He's just big boned.

[Ythan]

Spoiler: ahuhuhu

[Ythan]

Don't get your hopes up! He said he'd like to start something new this year but it would take infinitely long.

I guess that's in dog years though.

[Ythan]

I do think it will be easier to find the time to make another game as a millionaire.

[Ythan]

I think that applies to any game with rampant sidequesting and morality options. Currently playing some Skyrim and that comes to mind.

[Ythan]

If someone wants to make one they should make one.