Disclaimer: this isn’t me dunking on vetex or his game whatsoever, this is me pointing out a major issue preventing arcane odyssey and vetex from being known in a positive light.
(please don’t ban me for 2 months vetex )
As we all know, arcane odyssey isn’t the most popular game on Roblox, or even the most popular rpg. I’m willing to concede that there are some games that ARE higher quality than ao, although granted most of them have full teams of developers instead of one guy.
the problem is when I ask around in places that aren’t the ao community, most people see arcane odyssey as some sort of outdated game with a trash and lazy dev (disclaimer: still not true), who barely does anything.
I see full release as arcane odysseys last chance to truly hit mainstream Roblox as a game people are known to enjoy, so I see now as the perfect time to actually start working on making ao appeal more to people outside of it, or at the very least solidify it as something with its own identity (I shit you not I saw someone describe the dark sea as “arcane odysseys version of the voidsea” )
I get that its easy to say “well these people just cant appreciate a good game” but if the people who can appreciate a good game only hear bad things about a good game, they aren’t gonna attempt to appreciate it in the first place.
oh yeah can I rant about deepwoken specifically for a moment
Why the FUCK do these people think that an entirely separate game, with origins PREDATING the concept of deepwoken, and completely different mechanics and combat, is some kind of “poor imitation” of deepwoken. Somehow the second a Roblox developer does anything OTHER than half-stun sekiro inspired combat post-deepwoken that’s the one they say is a shitty copy and deepwoken is just a better version of it
I saw a guy specify ao is worse than deepwoken specifically to avoid people getting pissed at him for mentioning it in the deepwoken community
well yeah but half of those guys are just modelers and the one coder is basically commanded by vetex on what to do
as a opposed to (forgive me for comparing them) deepwoken, which has 5 seperate coders, all of whom are “in” on what the main 2 actually intend to do at any given moment
I’ve always seen Arcane Odyssey as way more technically advanced and gameplay-rich game than something like Deepwoken and such. And more than either of those, it’s very, very unique in its own identity.
I feel like it simply does a bad job of introducing how you can and should play the game. Causing players to leave because it’s too complicated or intimidating.
I get you’ve played deepwoken somewhat, but I guarantee you AO is not NEARLY as hard to understand as deepwoken. I figured out arcane odyssey without using the wiki once, meanwhile to get a vague understanding of the shrine of order, a SINGLE MECHANIC. I had to read FOUR WIKI PAGES.
Oh that’s right. I forgot just how hard it is to learn Deepwoken since you helped so much.
And I’d argue that the wiki is even harder to understand than AO’s.
And if I’m not mistaken, it has the same compatible devices, as in only PC, the same age rating, and it has a price tag.
I never got why Deepwoken was so popular, and I still don’t.
yeah exactly, the full quote was
“don’t get me wrong, deepwoken is better than ao. but ao’s version of the voidsea is significantly better and more fleshed out”
this singular message pissed me off enough that I made this entire topic
still back to the point, can we somehow convince vetex to try to save the reputation of his game? From what I can tell people got overhyped on release and decided the game sucked afterwards, there’s gotta be some way to repair it though. As long as full release actually lives up to the hype, combined with at the very least a couple non-arcane odyssey youtubers covering it should hopefully boost the playercount
(tank fish please get along with that part 2 already )
I think at the time there was an issue of not much content(both story or side content) after Calvus to really use for a whole part 2 video, but now there should be enough for him to squeeze a 20 or so minute video out of it that isn’t just him sailing the dark sea.
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