In the first five minutes he mentions Rogue, Angband, and Hack.  Dude is literally talking my youth.  All I need is a Larn mention and we're brothers.

He keeps coming back to this idea that you remember successes and forget failures. Maybe I'm just a particularly negative person, but I have a lot of very distinct memories of times that Roguelikes screwed me over.

Thinking of Roguelikes and the mastery loop reminded me of something I just read. It was about Isaac Newton learning math as a teenager... basically he took an advanced textbook and started from the beginning. When he got confused he stopped, then went back to the beginning to start over again. Got a little farther in the book each time, and eventually he finished without help from a single teacher. Sound familiar? :)

That potential is sure as hell being tapped nowadays

17:35 I haven't watched the whole video here, but there's a VERY important part of the negatives that he fails to mention.  When it comes to negatives such as things being really hard or dying and losing progress, a good game will make it clear that it is absolutely 100% your fault that you didn't dodge well enough.  Negatives that will be fixated on include stuff that makes no sense or harms you in a completely unavoidable way, which circumvents the whole "mastery" feedback loop that he mentioned earlier.

He talks a lot about champion mastery and about creativity with itemization, but I feel like there is an entirely different sort of item mastery that exists in certain games. Particularly with items for which there are multiple uses, I get a lot of satisfaction from coming up with new strategies that involve the use of that item.

Awesome talk! Those memes hurt though

I really enjoyed this talk. If not influential then certainly predictive.

It feels like there is a rather high percentage of the comments section that missed the part about using this to influence other genres.

One of the least utilized mechanics that can add to this random drop creative experience is to give the items ways to "levelup" or develop in certain directions through how you use it. This helps when you get a bad drop and rewards you for going with that alternate route.

for good "Zero to Hero" moment examples I would suggest anyone play "out of this world" from the mid/1990's. Brutal game.

Never knew until this talk that the Amulet of Yendor in Nethack was also from Rogue.

Dead Cells takes a lot of this advice to heart it seems.

You can tell this dude knows what he's talking about, and frustratingly you can also tell that this talk only barely taps into his thoughts on this subject. I'd love to have a sit down and talk to him about the "Whys" and "Hows" of some of his talk.

I don't think I've ever been excited for a Lifetime special until now.

he brings about one of the problems i've been having with enter the gungeon. I've platinum-ed both Isaac games and i still play them here and there, but when it comes to gungeon i've felt that something was off. I enjoyed it intensely at first but my excitement to keep playing died relatively quickly. I've felt that something was wrong with the pacing of the game. Part of that is there's never a state where i feel powerful. I feel like all guns are about the same strength. I also feel that the game gimps you a little too hard when it comes to keys and ammo, which does incentivize  you to use different guns but it also forces you to limp along in most cases. It also kind of forces you to clear every room in the slim slim hopes of finding ammo or a key. It really slows down the game and makes the pace feel like a slow drudge. Which doesnt mesh organically with the bullet hell intensity of the individual rooms. I guess what it comes down to is, the reward system in the game isnt rewarding enough.... on a side note, binding of isaac should steal the ideas of portals in some rooms...guess i should say that a lot of these problems might be easily fixed. they can buff certain guns or just put in new powerful guns. they can increase the number of key or they can increase ammo drops while maybe decreasing amount of chest rooms per floor.

The elements in roguelikes are even just now barely being gone into but this talk was on point. Just like 'RPG' spawned 'RPG Elements', Roguelike has spawned 'Roguelike Elements'

Very well spoken, and well organized. Will be watching this many more times to understand everything possible.

Great vid, I have loved rogue likes since the first one i played "Dragon Crystal" on the Sega Game Gear. Loved that game so much.

This aged a little too well

Any chance of making auto-captions enabled on this video?