User blog:Trollpastalol1234/Looking Forward to 2015

Around a year ago (actually, it was a little more than that) I said that I thought 2014 was going to be a great year. Well, I was right. It WAS a great year. But it was also a strange year the likes of which I'd never seen before. I never expected Murder games to experience such a collossal surge in popularity. I mean, I could NEVER have foreseen that. I was expecting another year of edgy niche games and team-based war shooters. But along come games like Murder Mystery and The Mad Murderer, and I go, "Hmmm? This is an odd little turn-up here!" I wasn't expecting to see any of those, much less expecting one of them to get 15,000,000 plays in less than a year. That one is, of course, The Mad Murderer.

Bravo.

I guess obbies are kind of obsolete now... :(

But, honestly, 2015 is going to be another strange year, but also another good one. Roblox has been releasing a string of good updates, really reversing the image of "depraved-update-releasers" they've worn in the past. I think my favorites are the animations, the new chat (whisper chat, team chat, and all that stuff and such), the new textures, and the EXPLOSION! The textures added a whole new, beautiful dimension to Roblox games, especially the new ice, granite and marble textures, which are, quite frankly, stunning.

I expect no less than the pinnacle of innovation from Roblox this year. Actually, I take that back. Innovation is a word I hate to use in conversation unless I really have to. It's the sort of word people with thick-rimmed glasses and blue and white lab coats say. I'm not that guy. I prefer to use the word "evolution". So, here's to another year of evolution, for Roblox and for the players and devs that inhabit it. We've come a long way since the beginning, and even since 2012 for goodness sake. In 2012, I was lucky if I didn't experience crippling lag every game I played. The absence of dynamic lighting was strange. Darkness didn't feel dark, light didn't feel light, fire didn't burn as it does now. But now everything's changed, and in my opinion it's changed for the better. In 2015 we can do things our past selves would only have dared to dream of. We can make a game based around stabbing people in disguise, and somehow make it the most addicting thing ever.

So sit back, get a mug of whatever drink you prefer, and watch as 2015 rolls by.

Welcome to the future, ladies and gentlemen.



(Oh, by the way, the 2014 egg hunt sucked big time. Just sayin'.)