There is nothing special about the ending animation of Chapter 149: The Real Hardcore Gamer (Second Update) . At most, the awards he has won and the programs he has directed are listed one by one, slowly opening up like a scroll.
But once the honors were over, the farewells followed, and current and former employees who he had fired showed up to show off their achievements and what happened next.
This process is one of the ending processes, but Liuzi feels a little bored when he thinks of those employees who were used by him and then ruthlessly abandoned.
"It's just a game." Liuzi reminded himself again, "All the gameplay is part of the game, it doesn't matter."
He didn't know why he was nervous, but he still looked at the screen and read the subsequent introduction.
The first to appear were the employees who ended up staying on his show team.
These employees are all five-star employees he carefully selected. Each employee has super good characteristics and excellent attributes, and is his right-hand man to complete the final trial.
And because of these characteristics, even if they leave their own program group in the future, their achievements will be unlimited.
They are glamorous, and their high wages give them no worries. The excellent company environment in the later period makes them full of energy and looks very energetic.
They looked at Liuzi outside the screen gratefully and spoke their true feelings.
[Thank you, director. Joining your show is the best thing I have ever done in my life. ]
[I think back then I was just a nobody, confused about my future. But director, you dug me out of the streets, trained me, and took care of me. It's been an honor to work with you on so many interesting shows. You are my benefactor. I really don’t know what I would have done if I hadn’t met you. ]
[I never knew before that I actually had the talent to be a host. It was you who discovered my talent, thank you director. ]
[Photography is something I have always wanted to do, but unfortunately no one supports me. It was you who made me see my possibilities. You are the best mentor. 】
These people have perfect resumes, and they also have good words for Liu Zi.
Their gratitude is sincere and not in any way false.
They are all successful people in the six-sub program group and excellent employees. Each of them can play their own role and will be the top talents in the future.
But compared with these people at the top of the pyramid, others are completely different.
If they are the apple of the eye of Liu Zi, then what will be shown next is the cannon fodder behind the apple.
Among these cannon fodder, there are five-star employees with not very good characteristics, and there are also low-star employees who he used up his last energy and then ruthlessly abandoned.
The employees whose wages he had deducted earlier were still there, looking at Liuzi with indifference.
Judging from the final portrait, the employees who have been drained of their remaining value have haggard faces and dazed expressions. Even through the screen, you can see the blank and helpless eyes of each other.
Before joining their own program group, they were full of expectations for the future and had bright eyes.
Facing the six sons, they showed tired smiles and congratulated one by one.
[That... congratulations. ]
[Sorry, I can't accompany you to the end. You are a great director. ]
[Sorry, my health has slowed down the progress. Thank you for the compensation you gave me. ]
[From the first time we met, I knew you would reach this point. You have the potential for this. 】
【congratulations. 】
【congratulations. 】
【congratulations. ]
...
Compared with those successful employees, the number of abandoned employees is twenty times as many. Behind every successful person, there are a large number of corpses, which forged their ladder.
Watching these former companions pass by one by one, Liu Zi seemed to have really experienced 20 years and began to look back on his own prosperous years.
Suddenly looking back, he was surprised to find that these people were all old.
They are stepping stones on the road to success, so-called unknown people, firewood and fertilizer.
None of the six children can remember their names. After all, no one cares about how many mouthfuls of rice they have eaten.
But I don’t know why, when I saw the ending scene, these people became alive again.
Although he knew that this was just a game, and the goal of the game was to become the best program director, looking at these elderly employees who were trying to apologize, Liuzi still felt like his heart was stabbed hard.
The ending of the game after beating the game is nothing special.
It didn't preach, and it didn't ask the question "Is it worth it?" It just showed the ending of the employees very plainly, as usual.
But the more ordinary it is, the more it makes Liu Zi feel suffocated.
The joy of completing the game was gone, replaced by confusion.
Everyone hates capitalists except capitalists, but everyone wants to be a capitalist.
Although it was just a game, Liuzi sadly discovered that in his subconscious, he still hoped to be a capitalist.
Turning off the game, Liuzi looked at the gradually polished Dongfang, with a lot of thoughts in his mind.
Opening the browser, he logged into the game inn and browsed the posts to see if anyone had the same feelings as him.
Although the Game Inn is used to publish games by living immortals, games from Fangcheng Studio have also been moved up and have their own independent sub-section.
The website administrator has also delegated some management rights. Some other types of game development teams can also establish their own sub-sections here and release their own game trial versions to attract traffic for themselves without violating the law.
Many small independent games use this place as another promotion point for their games, which further increases the popularity of this place and makes it develop into a comprehensive forum.
It stands to reason that as a forum like this grows in scale, it will inevitably encounter hacker attacks, fights, scoldings, or pacing. However, the administrators of the website seem to be very experienced. They patrol the forum with high intensity 24 hours a day. , as soon as you find something wrong, take action immediately to nip the fire in the bud.
In this way, the discussion atmosphere on the website seems very comfortable, and Game Inn has no plans to introduce advertising or capital. This makes this forum very pure and comfortable, and it is Liuzi's favorite forum recently.
Browsing the "I am a Director" sub-forum, he found that discussions about "I am a Director" were already in full swing on the forum. Some people had begun to sort out the random events in the game, and various combinations were being gradually improved.
Some people have even collected performance animations with different combinations. Some animations are quite satisfactory, but some funny animations are still quite interesting.
Others have noticed the salary loopholes and come up with their own ideas. However, their idea is still just a conjecture, and it has not yet been implemented into practice like Liuzi.
Their understanding of games is not as deep as mine, and they don’t know the capital operations that should be paid attention to in simulated operations when playing games.
Therefore, although they found the solution to the problem, because they failed to run it properly, the final result was actually a little worse than a normal game. While Liu Zi was browsing the forum with nothing to do, a post suddenly caught his attention.
""I am a Director", the secret of the evil way style gameplay is revealed!"
The poster is a player named evil outsider.
After seeing who the poster was, Liuzi frowned, wondering what the other party had done.
Some people are meant to be together, and some people are just not meant to be together.
Liuzi felt that he and the heretic must have been enemies in the previous life, and they still disliked each other in this life.
They have never met each other, but have bickered on forums.
He couldn't stand the other party's behavior of looking for bugs and having fun and disrupting the game environment. The other party also disliked his old-fashioned way of playing games step by step.
This may be the difference between hardcore players and casual players.
However, although the opponent is not pleasing to the eye, Liuzi has to admit that the opponent's brain works very quickly and his game sense is very keen. He can often discover some weird things and then win through inexplicable means.
Of course, sometimes he is so evil that one wonders whether he is playing a game or not.
In "The World's No. 1" some time ago, he finally achieved the extremely difficult title of "The World's Most Evil Man" through various outrageous methods.
And through the review post he wrote himself, other players discovered that although this title is heinous, this guy actually played it so well that other people liked it.
He did bad things and gained a good reputation, so he was worthy of being a heretic.
Liu Zi clicked in with curiosity, and his heart skipped a beat.
In the post, the heretic posted a screenshot of his ending at the front.
Judging from the data in the screenshot at the end, he obtained the right to direct the Spring Festival Gala in the 18th year. Although he was three years later than himself, it was still a very remarkable achievement.
But what surprised him most was not this, but his final list of employees.
His employees are all early employees, which means that he only recruited those initial employees, and no one was recruited later.
The qualifications of low-star employees are poor, and their growth potential is not very good. To train them requires a lot of funds, which is impossible to get together with ordinary gameplay.
Moreover, these employees seem to be of a certain age, but because their physical attributes are highly cultivated, they still look quite energetic, with cheerful smiles on their faces.
Compared with the last description of his employees as boring and zombie-like, Liu Zi became more and more puzzled.
What did this person do?
Could it be that he found a modifier?
But after seeing the text, Liu Zi found that the method used by the other party was extremely simple.
That is the save/load method that every player will use.
"I Am Director" is a rare game from Fangcheng Studio that can be archived.
Random events will appear in the game every once in a while. Some random events may be some kind of gambling mini-game. If you guess wrong, you will lose all your money, but if you guess right, your principal will be doubled.
Someone has studied that there is a high probability that a random event will occur in the game every month, so you only need to save the game at the beginning of the month and wait until the random event occurs.
Silently calculating the funds required to train these employees, Liuzi discovered that the other party may have read the file thousands of times.
By constantly loading files, gambling, and then loading files and gambling again, heretics can have a large amount of funds at the beginning, and then they can play however they want.
All I can say is that he is indeed an evil player among evil players. Only such a person can do it by spending more than ten hours reading files.
This kind of gameplay is a typical shortcut, and it is one of Liuzi's least favorite game methods.
But seeing the happy smiles of his employees, Liu Zi was a little envious for no reason.
Maybe it would be okay to read a few files in the early stage to increase the funds...
Putting this dangerous thought away, Liu Zi thought for a while and wrote out his strategy.
It has nothing to do with spreading my own game ideas, it just wants to slap the face of the heretics.
Not long after the post was posted, it attracted a group of players to leave comments. The sudden increase in popularity was automatically detected by the forum and pinned to the top as a popular post.
I don’t know whether it was intentional or accidental, but his posts happened to be placed together with the posts of the heretics, so that players can see and compare the posts of the two as soon as they come in.
One had to read files manually, and the other had no conscience. Players from the two factions soon began to have friendly discussions in each other's posts. From time to time, they were locked up in the dark room because of misfires and foul language.
Just when I thought there were only two ways to play the game, a third post appeared with a third genre.
"You can take a look at the summary of some matching routines of "I am a Director". I have tried it myself, and I have no problem leading the Spring Festival Gala in the 20th year." The
poster is a chance encounter, currently a well-known UP host at Station B, and a player of "Botanical Garden" The group favorite (positive meaning).
This girl is beautiful and kind-hearted. Although her legs are disabled, she is optimistic, cheerful and versatile. She will feel much better after watching her for a while.
However, she often tells horror stories, which makes many players want to read but dare not.
Many players have already summarized the matching routines, but if this post can be upvoted, it must have its merits.
Clicking on the post, Liuzi took a breath of cold air.
He already considers himself a hardcore gamer. After all, he summarizes the game data and creates an excel sheet just to calculate the benefits of each choice. This is already so hardcore that it is a bit romantic.
But after seeing the data provided by Chance Encounter, he felt that he was still a little conservative.
In addition to matching, the game also has a function that is not commonly used, and that is detail adjustment.
This function is a bit useless, but the effect is that players can adjust the details of each combination.
Using "Sketches + Anti-Fraud" as an example, players can customize the number of actors, the key points of the actors' lines, where to save money in each process, where to price, etc.
However, there were too many details, and it was difficult to find the key points, and the effect was not clearly visible. Liuzi gave up after trying it for a while.
Unexpectedly, someone actually used this function to adjust the details of mainstream matching!
Just when Liuzi was stunned, he saw the message below from an anonymous player.
[This is a hardcore player, the gameplay is really too hardcore. A guy who calls himself a hardcore gamer, tell me how you feel now? 】
Sixth Son: "...Here's a heretic!"
Thanks to Yan Lian for the 100-point reward, thank you.
(End of chapter)