As EP is straight for fast running meta wont apply.
When I talk about "Meta" I mean how outside influences determine the choices you make in the game, as well as things that are currently popular by the most dedicated and skilled players.
Here's what I mean: There's people that feel safe to use routes that have a relatively little chance of you dieing while other people use routes that are more dangerous but are ultimately faster. This can also be defined as "Meta" because an outside influence (your personality) determined the choices you make in-game.
And on that second point: When the game first started not many people in the game used dj (obvious, since it was not well known at the time). Now that is has become more widespread there's no way to win without it. My point being that Metagame can also refer to things that are currently popular(actually Magic the Gathering and other such communities use the term this way).
But I could debate debate this for hours so I'll just leave it at that and try to stay on topic.
As EVERYBODY can do it
Yes they can....if they know it even EXISTS.
Let me state my stance on this topic more clearly:
I'm not in favor of completely getting rid of dj COMPLETELY.
I AM however in favor of removing the way it is handled right now in the game. I see two options to fix it: Either John acknowledges
the dj and keeps it in the game (maybe make it an actual dj like in other games if EP2 is ever made) or instead removes it and makes some well-designed stages. And by well-designed I mean nothing like Zipper <_<.
Faith, from what I can tell you want to keep dj because of the depth it adds right? Then how do you think about this: Double Jumping is removed and instead we get stages that are not just one straight walk to the finish but instead allow for more different routes to take and shortcuts. Essentially I'm suggesting more Marathon-like courses instead of....you know.....Zipper.
However I agree with you on the fact that dj has added a lot of depth to the game.
They are not essential at all. The game would be way better without it. Some people don't like it at all. It's just a flaw people found in the game. No real reason to actually keep it if no one is going to have fun while playing. That is why there are games to have fun.
Why can't a game be deep,yet fun for everyone? And no, if you jusr remove the dj and do nothing else, the game will just crash and burn.
Not to use the glitches to give you an upper hand and majorly just beat people. I would like to see people not use the glitch to see how good they really are. I bet the best players like Zero, silvan, and blue, wouldn't do that well without it. Everyone would be pretty much even. That's why it would be much better.
This implies that double jumping is a skilless technique when it isn't. To fully use the double jump you have to have a great understanding of the maps and the way to move your character to build up enough flow. So the "Top 5" would still be at the top even if you remove dj (not to mention Zero pretty much wins on non-dj courses too
).
By removing the double jump you essentially remove the players that keep coming back to the game
Flow tap is an actual skill.
It's not. <_<
It's just mashing the space bar to conserve flow. No skill or learning involved. Double Jumping is the one that's more skillful.
but if he would add the map creator it would be way funner
If it's just user created ones and no official new maps then I disagree. Loads of games these days have User-generated content and it doesn't improve replayability by a lot(Wii Music anyone?
). The reason being that for every good and well-designed map you get 200 crappy ones. So I'd rather have good maps that are made by John himself then a sea of unplayable User-maps.
