You might like it, but myself, and quite a few other people, don't like it. We should just mod it out? Well, why not have it's absence be the standard? Why shouldn't you be made to mod it in? It ruins my experience, probably a lot more than it could enhance yours, and it breaks the overall atmosphere of the game. It's out of place more than it is anything else. It's an (failed) attempt at humor or being cute or cool, or whatever nonsense, for the pure vain sake of those things, instead of being something well designed which happens to be those things. It devalues the entire experience. And what are your divine, objectively correct reasons for thinking it should be there, that so destroy what I have to say? You said you think it's funny and cool, and that's all I'm getting as to why you think it should be in. Is that really it? What are these several points that validate it's implementation? Additionally, if you actually think otherwise, i'd go as far to say you have a bad opinion, and probably a bad sense of humor. I know society told you everyone is welcome to their opinion, and opinions can never be wrong, but that's a lie. This enemy isn't even a joke. It's a happy poo. What's funny about that? Where's the joke? What's cool about a poo? You brought up the potential irony of a cute poo in the middle of a grimdark environment, but it sounds more dumb than ironic. It doesn't sound worth the destruction of the atmosphere they worked hard to develop for the sake of such a lame 'joke'. "Hey, I'm struggling for my life and crawling through waste, fending off horrible abominations, but there's a happy poo. Haha. So funny." No, it's not funny. It's just dumb.
Guys guys... What will this mob DROP OFF as loot???? Reminds me of Sims 3: ‘When using the Fire Pit, Sims can no longer roast and eat horse fertilizer.’ - See more at: http://soletron.com/soletrons-top-10-hilarious-patch-notes-from-the-sims-3/#sthash.UIQo6n2y.dpuf
Well, while I'm not too fond of poo monsters in general, this particular one does have a certain amount of cuteness that I find endearing. I might even try to capture one and make it my pet, taking it to all the fancy restaurants~ Almost makes me wonder, though: what are people eating in the future that causes their own excrement to become alive?
Ugh! People, this is not what they are spending a majority of their time doing. This is simply the only interesting thing to mention on a progress update. There is no point in updating about anything else, because it would just be bug fixing code, and core game code. Like, for real. If you were in charge of making progress updates, would you tell people about the boring repetitive logic problems you're doing daily, or would you tell them about some silly mob, or cool dungeon, or interesting NPC you put in while others were hard at work with the important things? I think most people that understand how to please a crowd would go with the latter option. You must be fun at parties. If you don't like poop, then don't go into a sewer. Easy as that. I don't know what kind of mob fits better into a sewer environment than poop. It's not like this thing is gonna bounce around in the overworld, so if you don't like it, just avoid its habitat.
I don't think it's the fact that Gaikang doesn't like poop, more-so that they don't like sentient poop with cute faces. Besides, what if there's a quest to enter said sewers, are you saying that they should bypass that entirely just because they don't want to have the atmosphere of crawling through dank, dimly-lit sewers shattered by seeing a happy turd-monster bouncing towards them? Keep in mind, if they're allowed to be used as pets, you'll see several people running around with these just for the fact that it's 'ironic' to have a pet shit bouncing all over the place.
Well it's official. There is always someone in the starbound community that will post giant walls of text complaining about ANYTHING the developers mention... even a poo monster. The only reason I could see for having such an intense negative response is if you had some kind of terrible/traumatic potty training experience as a child and now have some sort of irrational hatred for all things poo related. Or you are just far more mature than the rest of us, yet still not mature enough to refrain from complaining about the presence of a poop monster in a video game, which I assume makes up such a small portion of the spectrum of maturity that it probably includes only you.
That they spend any time on it at all is reason enough to get a bit miffed about it. Seriously, poop monsters? Yeah thats HILARIOUS! is what I would say if I was still prepubescent. I would tell them about the important things such as the progress of the game and how coding went and that business in other words I wouldn't tell them about the less important aspects of ensuring a feature complete game, including: Silly monsters. Silly features. "Cool" Mobs. "Cool" Dungeons. These are only shown to garner interest, they don't tell us how the game is doing, they just show us what to expect. Personally I would much rather the updates were more like Omni's where he goes into detail and actually tells us what he did with his day rather than "Fixed some bugs, also POOP MONSTER, its made of POOP because it lives in a POOP environment in the sewers with POOP. TEE HEE!" Lets apply this reasoning to everything else in the game some people don't enjoy: If you don't like flying creatures, don't go above ground. If you don't like walking creatures, don't get out of your ship. If you don't like fire, stay in the ocean. If you don't like water, stay in the desert. If you don't like the first tier boss, don't finish the first tier. Shall I continue to demonstrate how ridiculous this sentiment is?
You are able to avoid quests, and most quests are optional. Main story quests can be skipped or ignored and then bypassed. Plus her argument is that a happy turd-monster doesn't belong in starbound, which would be relevant if it weren't for the fact that you have to go to a perfectly reasonable environment to find said happy turd-monster.
Right, just like a childrens toyroom is a perfectly reasonable environment to find a sentient finger painting. EDIT: A better monster for a sewer environment, mutant vermin. I hope someone makes a mod to remove the sillier creatures in the game because I would download that in a heartbeat.
Well, the fact that you don't like anything at all about this game brings up the concern of why you're even here. Quite frankly, I think any game that you develop, I would only play when it came out, and wouldn't pay any attention to during the making of because you sound like a generally boring progress reporter. As for the humor bit: I don't find Penguins in UFOs with rocket launchers to be hilarious, but I understand that a lot of people can see humor in it, and I therefore make the assertion that although I don't agree with the humor, I can endorse it for as long as it's around. If I don't like the water, then I would avoid it as much as possible. I wouldn't get angry about the developers putting the water in the game, though. What's the point in that? There's plenty of different things to like and dislike about a sandbox game. So if you dislike something, since it's a sandbox, you have the option to avoid the thing you don't like. In the end, your argument of "The devs should only be doing what pleases ME" makes less sense than my "simply avoid what you don't like" argument, as they have a much larger audience than JUST YOU to feed. So if you don't like some of their development decisions, either get out, or get over it. It's ultimately their game, and if they want to have a tiny happy little poop monster, then they're going to have a fucking tiny happy little poop monster. Well then go and make your game with mutant vermin sewer creatures. The fact that the devs want to have a lighthearted enemy in the game is entirely on them. If you don't like that decision, nothing's stopping you from quitting to support the development. Honestly. If you're going to get upset at a almost infinite sandbox for having one little mob that doesn't please your senses, then I would hate to have dinner with you because you seem like an insanely picky and obnoxious person to be around.
There are hundreds of thousands of better choices for sewer monsters than happy turds, this is one of them. With that said, it would seem that the community as a whole are content with potty-monsters and other zany antics, so when am I going to get my pizza elemental?
only reason i dont like your comment is the video but /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ THIS THIS needs to be posted as an alert thing to stop asking about beta
"Oh noooooo! The developers of one the most diverse games yet to exist decided to add potty humor in an attempt to adhere to a larger demographic! I guess I have to flame their forums and pretend like I'm some sort of God of all comedy that has the final say in what is funny and what isn't!"
How did you derive that conclusion from my post? Read a little closer next time. Yeah, I guess actual progress reports are boring. Silly me for thinking that reporting progress in a progress report is vital. Thats good for you, I personally think its ridiculous, I don't see the humour in it, its lazy humour if anything. One of the reasons I enjoyed games like Portal is that even though the humour was ridiculous, it was by no means lazy. Rather than delving deep into the realm of absurdity, they sat on the borderline and provided an enjoyable, funny game with real depth. Starbound seems to think that the more absurd you go, the funnier it becomes. This may be the case for children and others, but not for me. Which is why I don't endorse this kind of humour, and which is why that if I can, I will have the first tier boss modded, as well as anything else I think is stupid rather than funny. So I should avoid a biome I enjoy due to a monster I think is stupid? As far as I can tell, the biomes are all made exceedingly well, however if they populate them with such stupid "crap" as the Po, then I'm going to find it hard to enjoy the game. I don't want to have to avoid an entire biome simply because some people think sentient shit is hilarious. That is not my argument, try again. No, I'm going to complain, and make my complaints known. Exactly as I should if I spot something during the games development that I don't enjoy. Just as YOU should do if you see the same. This is the ideal point in the games development to make yourself heard, and if enough people complain, they will change their mind. It doesn't matter that its ultimately their game, they are at the mercy of their audience, if they press on with decisions that are not popular, they will not be well liked. Granted, it would appear most people like this concept, which is a damn shame, thats still not going to stop me from voicing my opinion on it. This kind of logic is even worse than the "Well don't go into sewers if you don't like it". "ITS THERE GAME THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT!" Not if they want to be successful. EDIT: If you try to appeal to everyone you end up appealing to no one. See SPORE for an example. EDIT AGAIN: Well then go and make your game with mutant vermin sewer creatures. The fact that the devs want to have a lighthearted enemy in the game is entirely on them. If you don't like that decision, nothing's stopping you from quitting to support the development. Honestly. If you're going to get upset at a almost infinite sandbox for having one little mob that doesn't please your senses, then I would hate to have dinner with you because you seem like an insanely picky and obnoxious person to be around.[/quote] EDIT AGAIN: Seems like you have absolutely no idea what community feedback is.
