Here’s a cold take: Robtop should add the ability for creators to mark levels with Epilepsy warnings. This would really help people like me who have to worry about shitty nine circles clones causing us a seizure 💀
@@dareal_roizy Yes, but not all kinds of flashing lights trigger it for me. It’s a certain kind of flashing from one color to another rapidly that triggers it for me
Never expected someone with epilepsy to play GD. Wish for the best for you when it comes to epilepsy. Seizures sound really bad, and worrying about randomly getting them when trying to play a game sounds very not fun.
Hot take: Firework is a good level, I've heard people complaining about how it's boring cuz there's its greyscale, but I personally feel that the greyscale fits the level's theming and atmosphere.
Fireworks has the best gameplay in the top 30 and that's a fact. And well, the deco is very good for its time and still looks nice (better than shit like Avernus, Acheron and Tidal Wave). My opinion: Firework is the best top 1 in the history of the game after Bloodlust.
5:56 There is one, actually! Mechanical Showdown was changed from a feature to an epic rating after 2.1 released, when it was set as the weekly demon for the first week of 2.11.
Bro rob loved this level back than. -it was put in a gauntlet -it was the first weekly demon -and it's the only 2.0 level that got changed to an epic rating
@darksun4029 Its honestly deserved as honestly mechanical showdown still EXTREMELY holds up today. Its probaly more revolutionary levels with 2.0's limits. Its also probaly the first 2.0 level that ACTUALLY used move triggers in a proper way in 2.0 .
Can’t wait for 15 of my discord friends to ping me with a screenshot of my comment in this video saying “RGC JUMPSCARE” because they didn’t expect to see me
Totally agree with the generation retro point. Its really not that hard after you get the beginning down, you just need to remember a few things. Do a practice run, and youll be done in no time.
Most people truly don’t use practice mode unless for demons cause they think non-demon levels are sightread-able and easy enough. So when a level that is “easy” requires practice mode, it feels unnecessary and difficult
if they actually watched colon's video then they would know that he didn't have an issue with the level itself, just the fact that robtop decided to put it in a gauntlet all the haters just completely misunderstood the video
I am a GR hater but I agree with that GR hot take, I just dislike it because it's in a gauntlet. I call people like that "proper" GR haters. (Term name kinda pending IDK)
0:39 I remember watching a level requests stream (idk about the name) and he got a level, checked creators account, saw he has no cp and said "okay another one" 💀
It’s really funny to compare the highest quality star rated levels (Tidal Wave, Electric Forest, Sink, etc) to Conical Depression. They are the same quality in the eyes of RobTop.
@@carbonationstation1551 I mean most better levels are featured or higher. The system isn’t that broken. (Also any other level I reference would be based on my fucked up opinion, so if I call Niwa a high quality star rated level a lot of people would disagree)
I said this on the community post, but I’ll say it again: 2.2 wasn’t as grand as I thought it’d be and it was kinda disappointing. All the features we got could have probably been implemented in 2-3 years, not 7. Plus, getting some of the features delayed is just dumb
I think your expectations are just too high. Although I do agree it could of come out sooner, I think that’s just because robtop kept adding new things instead of finishing the important stuff
Idk if this is too much of a hot take, it’s more just talking about feelings. I took a break from playing GD for like 3-4 years and then decided to come back to it in January 2024. I was one of many that fully accepted that Silent Clubstep was impossible, no matter what. When I initially came back, I learned of a “Demon List” and saw Silent Clubstep as not even number 1. It was number 3 at the time. A few weeks later, I see the level being beaten as like a regular extreme demon, people make memes out of it, I even saw people tryna make Silent Clubstep 2. The amount of change that this game went through just through the completion of that level alone just didn’t sit right with me. I know it kinda sounds like “Ooh bro’s mad that impossible level got completed ooooooh.” I’m not mad. I’m happy for everyone that conquered that monumental challenge. I think I just need a few more months to adjust. And adjust I will because I’m back to creating!
0:13 i think this idea could be implemented well if it was only given to elder mods and specific mods that aren't as trusted with good levels. in fact, a new mod rank, being something like "direct mod" or something would make the situation a whole lot easier to deal with.
imo camera controls should mostly be used to reduce the number of blind jumps a level could have, and reduce the amount of screen space the ground (particularly custom ground) takes up on screen I made a layout a while back that uses the offset trigger quite often to show things in advance, makes gameplay feel a lot smoother and gives a lot more freedom for how a level is built when you can guarantee you can use large elevation changes without anything being blind many people only use camera controls for effect and I feel like that's just entirely the wrong approach to take with them. to me camera control feels like a QoL feature more than an effects feature
Levels Need to stop being labelled as top 1 levels unless they are actually top 1 it gets annoying because it gives the community false hope that they will get a new top 1 only for it in reality to be placed in the top 10
I feel like this is a hot take but I hate the whole “gd levels are entirely subjective” thing. Like, no, levels can be objectively good or bad based on their quality and originality. You can still like a bad level or dislike a good level but that doesn’t change its quality.
Mirror portals are underrated, especially when they sync to the music like in Theory of Everything or the first on in time machine. The only reason that people hate them is because they are sometimes used to make annoying and or unfair transitions. And I think the reverse trigger can replace it in the sync department.
About the first point, honestly I think that would cause the rating standards to go down, but that's good as long as the ratings above a basic rate don't. It would just allow newer creators to start without being literally impossible for them.
hot take: riot for caua is a really good level and should be atleast rated because i, personally, find the level really well decorated and it seems like a level that could be one of the best if it didnt have as many flaws as it did.
hot takes: the black blizzard song is SO overrated, i cant go a week without hearing someone talk about how "good it is" i personally despise this song. also wasureta is genuinely such a good level its just how the community treats it, u cant enjoy a level without being called names like femboy, weeb etc. at last, eternal night is the BEST top 1 by FAR, its song is good, the gameplay is awesome, and the deco is immaculate. its so sad that nobody wants to verify this cuz this would genuinely be a better top 1 then zodiac.
Optimization should be a much larger factor in deciding a level's rating especially if it is around easy demon level as people with low-mid end devices will want to play something that looks nice. No point in rating a level as epic or legendary if only 5% of people can play it.
the majority of players in the gd community have horrendously high standards for any level they play because they only look at the top of the mill levels that everyone has played (castlemania, white space, WHAT, etc), which causes them to often shit on a level if it isn't up to their absolutely unreasonably high standards. on another note, i have noticed that many stargrinders actually seem to like... enjoy the game and dont have sky high standards so honestly... if you lower your standards for what a good level is in your eyes, you might start appreciating a lot more levels you play and also probably just enjoy the game more.
This will never see the light of day so im gonna say it right now I think hacking is generally good for the game every time that a hacker joins the game the skill ceiling is shattered as other players try to beat the “top player”
i agree with cheaters raising the skill ceiling, however i dont think any of that justifies: the stolen top player status the stolen top 1s the stolen verifications the stolen first victors stealing well deserved recognition squashing other deserving top players of their goals misleading a whole community making money, of which would go to other deserving people, off of a lie. does a higher skill ceiling actually justify all the hurt and distrust to legitimate players and the damage done to the outside perception of the community as a whole?
expression and song representation should be more of a factor in rating than the current arbitrary "decoration standards" many standards i feel miss the point of art lowering it to having x y or z in order to be good, when in reality each element of a piece contrabutes to its overall goal, not how technically impressive it is also there should be a better way of sending levels than waiting 5000 years of a server to open requests and live streams
i hate the stupid click between frames argument because it does give an advantage over vanilla and i understand the demon list banning it but also just play the game for fun and use it if you want Edit: i play on ios btw and i really want this mod and would use it even tho i do consider it cheating to something like demon list standards
I think that camera controls could have felt way cooler now if the lobotomy shit at the start of 2.2 didn't happen. Like after seeing 5 of those levels i started hating them so much and I think it's kind of a shame tbh.
Robtop said that top levels are somewhat the icon for the new comers as they are very popular on yt, I think there shojld be higher standards for top levels
Stereo Extremeness is good in my opinion because I can’t judge the gameplay (because I can barely do easy demons) and I think the decoration looks really cool
My possibly hot take is that, if you wanna showcase a level you made, it is perfectly reasonable to make an auto version of it as a proof of concept As long as you don't hack the verification it shouldn't be an issue
@@_Tao__ I'm stating this because Creators who have a skill issue when it comes to playing GD itself shouldn't have to fail 100 times just to check if the triggers for their super cool boss-fight works. Yes, I know there is a start position trigger, but that can only do so much.
My hottest take: GD 2.2 has been awful recently. Laggy levels that are unplayable for us mobile players, an increasing amount of toxicity within the community, levels that are highly overdecorated but have shit gameplay and a stupid ass free99 trend going on. I’m just fed up with it. And about the mods, none of them are on mobile. This means ofc everything is excellent for them and they send levels that are legit unplayable for ppl on mobile. Gauntlets, daily’s and weekly’s have been affected by this too. To the ignorant people who say “just buy a PC”, imagine you’re a 10yr old kid who bought the game with pocket money or asked his parents (it’s a cheap game so that’s no problem) but now they can’t even enjoy it because it’s unplayable. It just isn’t fair. Even the shaders are laggy.
11:13 even though generation retro is undeniably a bad level its unironically one of my favorite just because of how silly it is (you have not win! you... DIED! jajajajaja)
Hot take, I think that we should not have sent death threats to the mods to rate tidal wave. And I could see where rob was coming from, I mean, tidal wave is a WHOLE different level is difficulty. The game is getting too hard to even compare with when Slaughter House got rated.
Fixed hitboxes takes the fun part of the game. Zoink is way too idolized after all the space thingy and that's not a good thing Sorry if I made a grammar mistake (I hope I didn't, not my native language)
Very cold take: conical depression has to be the worst rated level in history and does not deserve its popularity or rate. It is worse than generation retro. I do not care about It's history, (with Rob saying that if krmal beats it, it would be rated) it has terrible game play and worse visuals and is a disgrace to the community
hot take: gameplay is more important than decoration because id rather have fun playing a level than having to randomly tap because i cant see any of the gameplay
How is click between frames ok? It’s literally a mod!? The reason fps bypass was allowed was because it gave a fair playing ground for everyone. No one has to use click between frames!?
Adramelech is better then Flamewall and is overall one of the best tupcoming top 1s; Tidal Wave is better then Bloodlust; Vehemence is the best upcoming top 1; Thanatophobia is the worst insane demon in history and should be extreme; Acheron is a Tartarus sequel; Aeternus isn't Riot's last project; Hard Machine is underrated; Zodiac is super inconsistent in its deco; Glorious Fortress should have won the awards; Change of Scene and ISpyWithMyLittleEye are overrated; Detroit and Cleveland Circles deserve a rate; Vernam won't stop making remakes of new popular/controversial levels; Michigun's part in AA is the worst; (no disrespects to Michi, rest in peace) Wavix has to do a second video on Vehemence since the other one is outdated and the level upgraded a lot since then.
I hate to be the nerd here, but using "Ranking" in your title is kinda clickbait as you just went through comments and didn't rank anything. Besides that, I really liked the video.
Level verification is stupid. "oh what an amazing level I made I'm gonna uplo- WHY DO I HAVE TO BEAT IT" like just use your eyes to see if it's possible. But it'd still be required in extreme demons And also even after uploading it it's gonna have around 11 views
My hot take is you should be able tp go through block in editor mode with ignore damage cuz i have alot of impossible levels ive made while i was drunkenly jumping off the walls but i cant play em cuz i keep fucking dying on blocks. Or being able tp bot levels for showcase without a 3rd party
2 player platforms control fine on mobile. people need to stop complaining. Idk how much of a hot take this is but every 2 player level I see has a bunch of mobile players complaining about it
Hot takes: -Abyss of Darkness and Avernus are S-Tier levels -i dont like the golden because i can see NOTHING -i absolutely dont like deimos by endlevel -kocmoc unleashed is very very good
