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Tetris 99 |OT| Where we dropping y'all?
- Thread starter Cerium
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Either you all are like amazing at Tetris or you're liars lol. Consecutive wins sound like an incredibly feat.
It's fascinating that Tetris has such a long history with Nintendo back with the original release on Game Boy and somehow they managed to keep making interesting iterations for Nintendo consoles over the years and now it's the biggest selling point of their online service.
The story of Nintendo and Tetris is incredibly interesting and if anyone has never watched From Russia with Love then do it because it is amazing. Yes, it is an hour long but find an hour and sit down and watch it.
I'd also say the Gaming Historian video on Tetris is a good watch.
Had two number one wins in a row tonight. Proceeded to lose early on in subsequent games. Should have quit while I was ahead.
It's very addictive.
It's very addictive.
Got 2nd place just now, heart is racing. This game is great. I feel like how i have when i play blackout in blops4
I do it pretty consistently, but I've been playing this game for 30 years. I'm definitely not as good as some of these crazy advanced players. I'm good enough to get 1st place often enough but not so good that I don't get overwhelmed when I run into some of these whiz players.
Tetris is to video games what checkers is to board games.
Anybody agree? Everyone knows how to play it, it's a classic since the beginning and it spans generations and such.
Anybody agree? Everyone knows how to play it, it's a classic since the beginning and it spans generations and such.
Last week Friday I brought my Switch to work for after hours Smash and Mario Kart, but we ended up playing this game the most. It is incredible. I'm totally hooked. It's all I played during the weekend. Got two 1sts so far, but wanna get more consistent wins, so I'll look into T-spinning.
I love how high level Tetir play looks like you're playing it wrong and then suddeny a bunch of t-spins clears the well and you realise you were watching someone who knew exactly what they were doing all along.
This is gonna sound tryhard as fuck, but there's some lack of satisfaction in most victories because there are decent odds that most of the last few players in a match get there more by chance than anything else, and picking them off is anti-climactic.
Like something of value is lost when you're just focusing 100% on the metagame and not actually taking into account any of your individual opponents.
Like something of value is lost when you're just focusing 100% on the metagame and not actually taking into account any of your individual opponents.
I'd argue you can say the same for any battle royale, ultimately there's always a lot of luck involved. It's an inherent property of the genre. And people enjoy it specifically because of that. As long as you have a decent enough level of skill you can just try and try again until you get a win (and being able to retry quickly helps a lot as well).
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I agree, and personally I think it makes multiplayer games more fun/interesting.
KO'ed 7 out of the top 10 and got my first win, feels so satisfying. 20 minutes later and I can't stop grinning.
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True, I did notice this makes a significant difference. Didn't realize until I booted up Puyo Puyo after playing Tetris 99.
Crazy that this guy has over 4K viewers right now. Nintendo seriously tapped into a whole new potential expansion into esports.
I feel like I've hit a brick wall. I'm constantly on defense and never have enough clears to clear attacks back, despite my best efforts. I have no idea what I could be doing better on the games I feel I'm doing my best. Kinda feels like there's no improving within the game at this point...:/
You may have walked into your chicken dinner first try no big deal but me, I strangled the other top 5 with my bare hands.
Congrats, first one is always the hardest. And well, when you personally KO 5 out of the last 6 opponents, nobody can claim you lucked it out either. Well done.
I finally got my consecutive win, it takes luck in my case, although I've seen a pro got 85 wins streak.
My best KO's streak is 20 , but I finished below top ten at that game (they want my badges lol)
I use Down R-Analog (i.e attackers) early in the game, if somebody target me. and then I use UP in R-Analog button (i.e KO) mid game.
Unless you are so brave to go for possibly unbalanced battle for the badges.
The more KO's you get, the more garbage you send. Set yourself to KO mode as soon as you start to try and get some early badges. If you have like 3-5 lasers on you, attackers mode is a brilliant way to get KO's too
So I got hit with 10 lines of garbage literally within the first 6 seconds of the match. How is that even possible? To send 10 lines of garbage you need at least 1-2 badges and a tetris. That can't be done in 6 seconds.
Either you had multiple people targeting you, or somebody knew how to set up a quick Perfect Clear or DT Cannon.
I noticed this when I first won. Compared to a standard Tetris vs match, there's something detached from this which makes losing feel less bad but winning actually feels kinda less rewarding. Not being able to see how my opponent is doing really puts a sense of "okay I won, but why?" after every win.
I don't know what happened these last 2 hours but it was way harder than usual, people sending tons of garbage in the very first seconds lol.
Yes, it is exhilirating and burning me out. Which is exactly why I deleted the game lol
I don´t play online and I just used some Gold Coins to buy a 1-month access to NSO. I mean, I love Tetris after all and wanted to try 99. But this is not for me. I simply think it is wrong for my body to feel the way it does after just playing a mere videogame. I consider it unhealthy, both physically and mentally. Glad I got to try it out though.
Yeah, balancing in this game needs to be improved. I win fairly regularly but there are situations where you basically can't do shit, even if you're good at Tetris. There are definitely games where the amount of rows that arrive just make no sense in relation to what's being done on the other screens attacking me, too. Like that time I got hit by like 16 rows without even being targeted.
That video of a DT Cannon is one of the most impressive Tetris performances that I have seen.
On my second day I won 3 out of 6 games but now it's way more difficult, only won one game in the last 2 days :/
Yeah, probably a perfect clear. They involve a bit of luck (they are possible maybe 1/10 times) bit they are very easy to pull off and do not represent any real risk to the one doing it, I always try to do them.
Between people getting more experienced playing this and the matchmaking after getting to level 10+ I have a way harder time getting in Top 20 now.
Still having a lot of fun with this though. Hope the game gets update, a squad mode could be dope but offline modes could cement this as a GOAT Tetris experience.
Still having a lot of fun with this though. Hope the game gets update, a squad mode could be dope but offline modes could cement this as a GOAT Tetris experience.
I already had some sort of Ragequit during these moments where I just hard drop everything, and get into the next match as fast as possible.
The more people targeting you the more garbage lines you send out in general. So if someone got targeted by a bunch of people at the start and they throw out lines it's going to be a lot more, I don't know the exact amount but if you have enough people targeting you a single with no badges will send out 8 garbage lines, and like 15 for a tetris.
https://www.twitch.tv/kevinddr/clip/PowerfulAggressiveBaboonCoolCat
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Pretty much. Unless the skill level of the people targeting you are significantly higher than your own on average, being ganged up at the start can actually give you a better shot at earning early badge points. It also takes a long time for garbage lines to spawn at the start, so you have plenty of time to react.
If you have PPT on Switch or PS4 you owe it to yourself to check out the leaderboards and watch the top 5 matches, these people go fucking Super Sayan Jedi Master on each other, it's insane and super impressive.
just tried it. first game got to #26 although i have no idea WTF i'm doing. some basic explanation in game would be nice but i guess i'll just need to look on the internet. i'm sure it'll be fun once i know what i'm doing.
edit: actually know what....no it doesn't sound fun at all.
edit: actually know what....no it doesn't sound fun at all.