User blog:Trollpastalol1234/Why I've Never Played a Murder Game

So I mentioned in my previous blog post that I've seen a phenominal trend in murder-themed games over 2014. I'm sure that comes as no surprise.

What DOES come as a surprise is that I haven't gotten to playing any of them.

Let's take a look at the Roblox Blog. We all know the Roblox Blog. It's the blog that the admins use to press new features and generally provide a link between the players and the "aristocracy". The aristocracy back in my day (2012 was when I joined) largely consisted of the admins and the blog writers themselves. Now, when I look, what do I see? Game devs. Successful game devs. Successful and very, very robux-rich game devs. The 0.005%, as it were.

I know there's no real reason for this, but that sort of insane publicity disgusts me. I've got no real solid, concrete reason why this is so. It's just my hindbrain lunging out at me and whispering "Sellouts, the lot of 'em," rather nastily. I don't particularly like my hindbrain. I'll keep it out of this article because nobody else likes hindbrains.

Now I understand Loleris and the other devs on the top echelons of society worked up to where they were from the bottom. But they've been at the top for a long time now. With Mad Painball's release, the Roblox Blog has been swooning over the 0.005% as if they were Jesus, Buddha, and Brad Pitt all rolled into a big smarmy ball. We're still getting interviews like, "Who Created Mad Paintball?//?" Well, if ya wanna know, Mad Studio did. Y'know, the new massive MegaCorp a-rollin' in dough and swamped by an unprecedented number of fans? We already know ENOUGH about Mad Studio, so just leave that to the players.

The reason I try not to play any of the Mad Studio Games, or any murder games for that matter, is that I know for a fact there are other games out there that deserve to be spotlighted by the Roblox Blog. Take Armored Patrol, for instance. I recently said that their 8.2 update sucked, and it did, but then I got used to it, and now the game's more... equal. The people that play it are honed to combat excellence. The mechanics are simple, but what Wingman8 does with those mechanics is complex and fun. Armored Patrol deserves to get its next fifteen minutes of fame (even though it's well-known and respected).

2D Obby by brickgame191 is another game that should get more attention. It's chock full of challenging levels and interesting gimmicks. And to top it off, LOOK AT IT. JUST... LOOK. Simple, but beautiful. Aesthetics don't need to be delivered at knifepoint. And to think I found brickgame191 advertising for his doge game on the Robloxity comments section; he wasn't lying when he said he made good games.



Another game I think needs more attention is Kingdom Life 2.

I mean, just look at this screenshot to the left. In Kingdom Life II, one of my favorite Roblox games of ALL TIME, you can be a crazy Scottish alcoholic, a guy with a wolf hat, and a freaking angel with a scythe! And that's not even all the combinations of things you can be! According to my calculations, there are approx. 3,523,363,155,933,381,737,086,408,704,000 combinations of hair, skin color, clothes, facial hair, hats, weaponry, faces, backpack-style items, and of course colors for all of them (excluding colors, the number of combinations would be 561,204,884,646,000). To put that huge number in perspective, a question posed on AntWeb.org in 2013 asks, "how many ants do you estimate to be in the world?" The answer: 321,035,624,829,901,000. There are literally more possible combinations of physical attributes in KL2 (including color) than there are ANTS ON THE PLANET EARTH. And that's not even counting the staggering possibilities for identities given by the name-changing bar in the bottom right corner of the screen.

If that's not blog-worthy, I don't know what is. You could make a long-running anthology series on ALL the characters possible in KL2 and still theoretically have fresh ideas millenia from now.

And to think Mad Studios has a handful of predefined characters and a guy with a knife.

And then there are those games that are just pure eye candy. Roblox never features those anymore. Here are a few:

City V2 Neuro City V2

Waterfall Fortress Brickbattle: Waterfall Fortress

Subway Station

and Pond

I suppose I'm becoming jaded like all those '08ers that say Roblox was better back when they first joined. I'm not. I just want a bit of a shakeup. I'm SICK and DEAD TIRED of Mad Studios always getting the frontpage of the Blog. I want to see new and obscure/forgotten blood. And the inclusion of a new Minigame Game in a recent blog article is good news for that score, but again we're just choked with Mad Studio's creations.

I don't HATE Mad Studio. It's just, to keep fresh, the order of things must change. and the easiest way to do that is to promote new, old, and obscure games through the Roblox Blog. Mad Studio is extremely talented, but so are other people. Loleris is a great Dev, but there's more to Roblox than just Devs. There are many people who would love to be written about, and who, like Mad Studio, deserve to be written about.