fun fact: people who claimed to be good at multi tasking had noticeably lower efficiency scores than people who did not while preforming simultaneous tasks
The same goes for exam scores. I had a prof in college whose thesis was on meta cognition. Every semester she would ask at the end of each exam for students to self report how well they think they did. Those that did well underestimated their skill, and those that did poorly overestimated their skill in most cases. Super interesting stuff.
@@dougbongqueque Neither! I've also seen references to the phenomenon. Basically people who think they're good at multitasking turn out to actually be worse at it than people who think they're bad at it. Not sure why exactly. Maybe a lack of confidence makes you more careful and attentive and improves your performance more than you think it does.
Not me. I welcome the speed and therefore welcome even more consistency which absolutely demolishes opponents game in and game out. Do not play against me.
Serieusly tho, don't go playing classic Tetris in order to improve at Tetris 99, it may seem like it's basicly the same, but there are special ways of clearing lines in mordern Tetris and the tetromino generating system is different
I think he was trying to say play marathon mode or sprint, which is actually good advice. You most certainly want to do that on a modern Tetris system though, like 99 or PPT
Yeah thanks for the comment. From afar, we could think "it's Tetris", but when you get a bit into it, you realize they play very differenly and basically are two different games
Another fascinating video! I've never heard of the costs between switching tasks and having to multi-task really does change how you play the game. I'm glad to know why this ridiculous concept actually took off since it has been a question that has been bothering me for weeks. Also thanks for the shout out!
Thanks man! I'm glad this helped clear that up for you haha, and for sure! I had to help get some more eyes on your video, I really think it's the start of something big.
@@DarylTalksGames I haven't followed competitive play for a while, but you used to see that one a lot, especially as an opener. If you want to look it up it's called a Double Triple Cannon on the wiki.
I love the fast pace multitasking idea. Something that I do when I need time because I have loads of garbage about to be sent my way is that I spam spinning the piece so I can think about what setups I can do in order to clear lines quickly in a row.
I'm kind of sad that I used to be able to play a similar game (Tetris Arena) on tetrisfriends(dot)com up until a year or so ago. Now I have to pay for something that was free for 10 years during my childhood...
Another great vid, just came after your automaticity video and it’s a great follow up. I’ve played at a high level for years but after seeing # 1 in the world Wumbotize I’m reforming my game to use heavy Tspins (when I’m not playing Celeste), it’s a long process! More A+ content, ✌️
You need more subs dude, you're a fantastic addition to the game design video essay community on TH-cam. You remind me of Adam Millard, and I mean that as a compliment.
Hey thank you so much for that! I love doing this, regardless of the sub count, and kind people like you are one of the best parts of being a member of this community :)
Awesome video as always and very smart examples! I love the idea of Tetris 99, particularly the idea of a puzzle battle royale. Your analysis makes a lot of sense to me. Although I'm okay at regular Tetris, I'm definitely no grandmaster, so I'm not good at all at multitasking in Tetris 99... If I liked Tetris more, I'd probably push myself to get better, but I guess it's just me waiting for Super Mario World 99 to be a thing haha!
I was wondering when Game-Analysis-Tube™ was going to start talking about this game! Hell yeah. Great stuff, my man. Your point on 1:55 is interesting, though I would mention the following: if the goal is to be #1, most people are going to fail, most of the time. The simple "you either win or you lose" dichotomy might frustrate many because the win rate is too low, as mentioned in other comments. Even a pretty decent player will still "lose" the good majority of games. But of course, coming 2nd and coming 99th aren't really equally "losing". I would imagine this is true for every Free-For-All type/Battle-Royale games, of course. Even Ninja "only" wins 36% of his games. It would be cool for a game like this to have an Average Rank Placement or something. Or even a good ol' Elo rating. It would make you feel a little bit better for placing in the mid-30s or 20s and knowing objectively that you did better than most people would. By the way, Wumbo (the guy @ 5:36) has to be the best Tetris99 player there is and is one of the top 5 (?) tetris PvP players in the world (that I'm aware of, at least). Every one should check him out, because he streams the most often out of the pros. 92% win rate, fam. He has my absolute bets on the upcoming first ever Tetris99 Competition ( twitter.com/tafokints/status/1100910362663124992 ) [this post is not sponsored by or affiliated with the Squirtle Man Himself]
I'm glad you brought that up! Wins are absolutely far and few between and you will unquestionably spend most of your time "losing", so I think there's no question T99 isn't for everyone. I really like your idea of an average rank placement though, I think that invites players to keep working to improve their rank and it adds that social aspect to it, "my rank is higher than yours", etc. That said, I don't know if I would be a fan since I only either play masterfully or absolutely terribly haha, never anywhere in the middle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And omg, Wumbo is incredible. I really hope people go give him some views because it's like watching a magician at work. He just hits T spins like normal line clears. It's absurd. Thanks so much for the comment Felipe! :)
Another great video! I personally couldn’t enjoy Tetris 99 at all. It peaks my depressive mannerisms (typically rage) and my anxiety too much and the battle royale style isn’t fun for me. The wins v losses ratio is ridiculously low imo. This video at least let me appreciate the game a little bit more
Well I'm glad you could still enjoy this despite your relationship with 99! I 100% hear where you're coming from with the rage and this game. Realistically, sometimes you just get ganged up on and are eliminated so fast there's nothing you can do. And if you don't enjoy it, why play right? Thanks for the comment :)
Arika has also made the Tetris the Grand Master series! i feel like they used both the fighting game knowledge and tetris knowledge to create a beautiful combination of the two
You're 100% right about automaticity as it relates to Tetris. I'm certainly not a world class player but I do play at around two pieces per second on average and have played more than thirty thousand rounds, give or take. The reason it's easier to play multiplayer like that is exactly what you said: I don't necessarily have to focus on the board very hard and when I do have to switch between the two it's easy to fall right back into what I was doing (and placing the pieces is, well, automatic.) The only thing you're wrong about is "get good at classic Tetris". You should certainly practice, but in a single player version of the modern game. The randomizer in classic vs modern games is totally different. The classic one is truly random, while the modern ones ensure you always get the piece you need within a given number of pieces. That you can reliably get the piece you want makes it much much easier for this skill to become automatic; it means you're learning patterns of stacking rather than actually stacking each individual piece. In my case, at least, this isn't conscious, but if I sat down and had to list common patterns of downstacking I could come up with quite a lot.
What does it say about my brain that I won my first game of 99? Well, it says I've played plenty of Tetris, and competitive Tetris at that. Like, since 2nd grade and since discovering Tetris Friends, respectively. So my costs were low enough that my relative lack of experience, and everyone else's, made the actual skills add up in that way.
I haven't played T99 yet but I did recently get my hands on a ds copy of The World Ends With You and that game requires you to control one character with the stylus on the bottom screen while controlling another with buttons on the top screen at the same time and......yikes it's tough.
Me, zoning out to multitask and legitimately doing both at the same time and faster than separately: "well that was easy" *Later in the video* Daryl: "Multitasking is a myth" Me: "what kind of dark arts do I hold-" I do realize it's because I'm not focusing on doing the task, but it was just neat, I can't focus on two things at once, but I can do two things absentmindedly
I really enjoyed this video! my only concern is that I had trouble finding the 'game title (year)' info for in-video referenced games, since they randomly switched which of the four corners they'd appear in, and I had to search for them and at times rewind the video to check and find them. since this is an older video, maybe you've updated how you do this already -- and anyway, maybe I'm just a slow reader, so this is a silly concern -- but it might be helpful to consistently put the reference info in the same corner every time. but my silly complaint aside, seriously interesting video! I already knew multitasking wasn't really something we could do, not as we think about it for time-saving purposes, but you laying out the cost of hesitation pauses with the graphics you chose felt really enlightening. again, really enjoyed this, thanks for posting!
I find myself relating this to hand-independence in playing the piano. You can't think through every note on both hands in detail, the way to do it that you're basically setting up something like an AI macro for each hand to play through.
You could probably expand the "multitasking" concept to controlling the game itself. If you are not used to using a controller, you will have to put some mental effort into "this button make this happen" while also looking at the screen to see your opportunities/obstacles/etc
The speak and write task is fun lol! I had to move on to more challenging numbers because my birthday got too easy. My 14-digit library card number is harder, paired with new phrases. I'm a good speller, which helps. Interestingly, I tried switching it (saying the numbers and writing the words), but I can't keep my place in the words as I'm writing. I get totally derailed. Like, embarrassingly so.
Apparently I was born in the year '9S I didn't find that I swapped back and forth between the two tasks. Rather it was more like I'd pause, and while paused I'd cache 2 or 3 letters, and then I'd speak the cache while I traced, and then pause both again to build a new cache. Which seemed to work until the S of shiny overlapped with the similarly shaped 2 of 1992
Tetris 99 is one of the few (perhaps only) games that's made me seriously consider buying a console for only one game that I can recall. ANd I usually don't consider buying a new console unless there's at least 2-3 games I want for it. (I'm a PS3 guy). I want it that badly. (Nope, not even for SSBU, though I'd probly have to buy that because why would you not have a Nintendo console and it's SSB version?)
I think Tetris truly pushes the limit and shows just how powerful muscle memory is. Tetris 99 is just about the 2cnd slowest modern Tetris game I know. Put your eyes on the fan-made games and expect over 10 inputs per second.
My brother and I used to play Overcooked on the Xbox. "JUST PUT RANDOM SH!T ON THE CONVEYOR BELT" "I'M TRYING" And when the rats began stealing our food...
8:07 That's not really necessary because the Classic and Guideline tetris are totally different games and guideline is the one 99 uses. Classic is pure random piece generator meanwhile 99 uses the bag system and hold piece that makes the game easier to multi-task when you understand that you won't have fully random pieces coming. I became really decent at 99 when I understand how the t-spin works, the combo system works because I was thinking and playing like classic tetris plays. So no don't do that. Find and play a normal tetris game made from 2001 and onwards and then you will understand how this game works.
good vid, although tetris 99 is difficult for me for a different reason... I have been playing tetris on pc for quite a while, I like to think im alright at it since I can get under 50 seconds in tetris sprint. However playing tetris with joycons is a little weird but the real kicker is not being able to rebind controls, it makes the experience so frustrating. My brain just cant fathom that pressing up makes the piece go down. I really hope they let you rebind buttons soon
im late i know but great video *EXCEPT* the fact that you *should* *not* play classic tetris( as in gameboy, nes tetris). why? new mechanics Classic tetris is old(obviously) and things changed. 1.randomizer. Classic tetris uses the average rng system, meaning its completely unpredictable what future pieces are. Modern tetris(PPT, 99, and even DS) uses a randomizer call "7 bag". This randomizer ensures that all pieces will appear once in sets of 7. Once all pieces are pulled out, a new set is generated where the rng part is the order of appearence, not the pieces itself. Knowing this allows you to do tricks like all clear setups and Tspin setups. Speaking of which 2. SRS(super rotation system) is a system that happens when a piece spins. It goes like this: rotate the piece according to its center axis. If none of the piece is blocked off by other pieces/the wall, then it spins normally If there is something that blocks the spin, then it checks 5 spots near the piece, then moves the piece to the first spot that is unblocked. if all 5 spots are blocked, you cant spin the piece. This is why things like Tspins works and can send garbage to opponets more effectively(tspin double sends 4 lines(like a tetris) and tspin triple sents 6 lines(but more situational)) so if you want to improve in 99, dont play classic tetris
I think once you get to a higher level you don't even have to "multitask". Some high level players call Tetris 99 a "single player game". This is due to how little interaction there actually is to Tetris 99. You don't have to think about who's targeting you or who you're targeting since ut plays such a little role in the outcome of the game.
8:04 As someone who plays both Classic and Guideline Tetris, with currently a 39% winrate on T99 for over 1000 games played, I have to disagree on that one. Or at least I think you're mixing up the terms, especially when you show T99 and then NEStris as exemples. Classic Tetris (NES, Gameboy, SNES, basically every game before Tetris DS) requires different skills than Guideline Tetris (Tetris DS, Tetris Ultimate, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and of course Tetris 99) that I feel are different enough to the point where you can be really good at Guideline but bad at Classic (like I am). Guideline Tetris is more focused on what we call APM and PPS and overall creativity but is less about Finesse, where it's the opposite for Classic tetris which is far more focused on Finesse, precision and timing. That being said, I think your mistake is that you actually mean "Marathon" instead of "Classic", and to that I agree, especially when you're beginning to play Guideline Tetris (After some point tho, I find that playing "Ultra" for practice instead is much better : Scoring as much points as you can in 3 minutes : It's far closer to the challenges of Tetris 99 where you need to maintain a high APM). With that being said, that was a super cool video, it was really informative. Keep up the good work !
Are you by any chance also involved in computer science? What you describe is how a classic computer processor works, too. Instead of doing two tasks simultaneously it can switch from one "context" (you used that exact term) to another, but at a cost which we call the overhead. Anyways, good video, I'm still baffled by how I got addicted to a Tetris game out of all games. My personal best placement so far is 2, still hunting for that EPIC VICTORY ROYALE
Interesting that you say that. I have absolutely 0 computer science background, but quite a bit in human cognition. And the most common comparison made to the human mind is a computer processor. They make that analogy in textbooks and lectures quite a bit because its an easier way to grasp some of the concepts *and* because there genuinely is a lot of similarities. But I didn't know about overhead, that's actually fascinating, so thanks for letting me know! And keep on chasing that number one! I have no doubt you'll get it :)
Wombo is a guy i faced him in puyo puyo tetris dispite how good i am at puyo wombo i just have no chances but i can beat some great tetris And i play 99 tetris is because of puyo puyo series and my nostalgic of puyo pop fever
It sucks that it is all about t spins. That takes away so much of the difficulty and makes it really uninteresting to watch. It is hard to keep a right well going flawlessly. The t spins dont even mke sense anymore.
It is extremely easy to keep a right well going flawlessly in modern Tetris games, because of 7-bag randomization, the hold features, and 5-piece previews. It's literally the first thing a new Tetris player will learn how to do (after all, no new Tetris player will start out learning T-spins). th-cam.com/video/U97a5OMjYBs/w-d-xo.html If it was so difficult, the guy in the video I linked wouldn't be able to play at over 4.5 pieces per second for an entire 9 minutes. It takes a huge amount of work to learn about tspins. i don't know if you realize this, but doing tetrises over and over again is basically mindless to veteran players (just build a 9-wide stack and dump I-pieces into the hole), where as tspinning requires you to think a little (make the t-spin base and overhang and dump T-pieces).
When I first started Tetris 99, I was able to snag a 1st-place win in just five games. (My actual "win ratio" is more like 1 in 8.) For the most part I generally just set one targeting mode (often "attackers") the whole game and just focus on playing good Tetris ... I don't score many KOs, but I almost always reach the top 20.
That's a really solid strategy man, I'm more or less the same in terms of how I target. You definitely don't need kills to win a reasonable amount of games if you can just play fast sound Tetris
@@DarylTalksGames But I do sometimes switch _from_ "Attackers" mode just to check who's actually targeting me intentionally (and weaken the aggro bonus for whomever may also be on "Attackers" mode).
If I were you, I deleted this video, that game and Mario 35 have already been closed, and it will happen with F-Zero too 🤣,.People who come in to play for a couple of days and never come back are never going to be a success.
Oh no! You could also try writing your name on a piece of paper and saying your phone number out loud at the same time. Then, you would just do them back to back instead of at the exact same time. Does that make sense?
You definitely still can to a certain degree. As long as animating is pretty second nature for you and you aren’t too invested in the video, you can probably get away with it. But it might be pretty tough to do if the video is super interesting or the animation is taking a lot of focus in that moment.
Tetrus 99 is such a bad game. I dont understand what's going on. Theres too much going on at the same time. Idk what even junk blocks are and the game doesnt give you a tutorial on how to even play. It just pisses me off. I've been trying to play the game for hours and hours and I still end last because I just dont understand what's going on.
If you want to get good in Tetris 99, then get good in **modern** Tetris. In "classic" Tetris you have no hold function and with that it is a different game.
fun fact: people who claimed to be good at multi tasking had noticeably lower efficiency scores than people who did not while preforming simultaneous tasks
The same goes for exam scores. I had a prof in college whose thesis was on meta cognition. Every semester she would ask at the end of each exam for students to self report how well they think they did. Those that did well underestimated their skill, and those that did poorly overestimated their skill in most cases. Super interesting stuff.
That would have to do with the Dunning-Kruger effect, right?
Am I misreading this? Or is it a wonderful joke that got missed ?
@@dougbongqueque Neither! I've also seen references to the phenomenon. Basically people who think they're good at multitasking turn out to actually be worse at it than people who think they're bad at it. Not sure why exactly. Maybe a lack of confidence makes you more careful and attentive and improves your performance more than you think it does.
@@Kellan__they-them i was misreading, i thought they were saying conflicting things lol🤦♂
The tasks may have been easier if i remembered how to spell jewellery...
I didn't even try
I forgot my birthday while doing it, and used Christmas eve instead
@@rey7014 bruh I also forgot
And that's how I learned Battle Royale Tetris is a thing.
Who else gets the worst anxiety when the the pieces fall faster when there's only 50 players left
The music. The dang music
I used to start screaming when I got down to 10
I convulse while violently shitting myself
Not me. I welcome the speed and therefore welcome even more consistency which absolutely demolishes opponents game in and game out. Do not play against me.
Serieusly tho, don't go playing classic Tetris in order to improve at Tetris 99, it may seem like it's basicly the same, but there are special ways of clearing lines in mordern Tetris and the tetromino generating system is different
I think he was trying to say play marathon mode or sprint, which is actually good advice. You most certainly want to do that on a modern Tetris system though, like 99 or PPT
Yeah thanks for the comment.
From afar, we could think "it's Tetris", but when you get a bit into it, you realize they play very differenly and basically are two different games
nice
they're each from different branches, so yeah
same with even fundamental things like rotating pieces
Another fascinating video! I've never heard of the costs between switching tasks and having to multi-task really does change how you play the game. I'm glad to know why this ridiculous concept actually took off since it has been a question that has been bothering me for weeks. Also thanks for the shout out!
Thanks man! I'm glad this helped clear that up for you haha, and for sure! I had to help get some more eyes on your video, I really think it's the start of something big.
Amazing video!!!!!!
Your explanation was clear, and the video very intertaining with the writing and footage :)
Thank you so much for the kind words!
“Now spell first and then write your date of birth”
Got it.
*Proceeds to write out Jewelry is shiny on my hand.*
6:59 Sickest tetris play ever made here!!!
Insane right?? Here's the channel of the guy that did it: th-cam.com/channels/Vx7kmzyY3z5T_jAgbDW-Fw.html
Yeah, I had to watch it a few times because I was like "Wait, what. That's a thing?!"
@@DarylTalksGames I haven't followed competitive play for a while, but you used to see that one a lot, especially as an opener. If you want to look it up it's called a Double Triple Cannon on the wiki.
Fantastic video as always! I even went back to watch some of your older videos, like the automatic speedrunning one. Keep up the great work!
Thank you! I'm really proud of the speedrunning video, so I hope you enjoyed that one :) Thanks again for the support L!
I love the fast pace multitasking idea. Something that I do when I need time because I have loads of garbage about to be sent my way is that I spam spinning the piece so I can think about what setups I can do in order to clear lines quickly in a row.
You know Battle Royale is a strong genre when it can apply to something as weird as Tetris!
Dude it really is unbelievable how easily it can shake things up haha, despite all the mainstream criticism battle royales get.
@Daryl Talks Games
Would you ever consider doing a third video on a Battle Royale? It’s seen as mainstream in this audience, but I’d drink it up man!!
Never say never ;)
Your videos are so good. It forces me to watch them all.
Keep up the good work man!
Great video my dude! I always love these psych of play vids.
Hey thanks man! Glad to hear you enjoyed it :)
Great video as always man
Spencer, my boy, thanks for watching bro :)
I'm kind of sad that I used to be able to play a similar game (Tetris Arena) on tetrisfriends(dot)com up until a year or so ago. Now I have to pay for something that was free for 10 years during my childhood...
tetr.io exists
have fun
jstris too
tetr.io or jstris.jezevec10.com will help you :)
Another great vid, just came after your automaticity video and it’s a great follow up. I’ve played at a high level for years but after seeing # 1 in the world Wumbotize I’m reforming my game to use heavy Tspins (when I’m not playing Celeste), it’s a long process!
More A+ content, ✌️
You need more subs dude, you're a fantastic addition to the game design video essay community on TH-cam.
You remind me of Adam Millard, and I mean that as a compliment.
Hey thank you so much for that! I love doing this, regardless of the sub count, and kind people like you are one of the best parts of being a member of this community :)
Awesome video as always and very smart examples! I love the idea of Tetris 99, particularly the idea of a puzzle battle royale. Your analysis makes a lot of sense to me. Although I'm okay at regular Tetris, I'm definitely no grandmaster, so I'm not good at all at multitasking in Tetris 99... If I liked Tetris more, I'd probably push myself to get better, but I guess it's just me waiting for Super Mario World 99 to be a thing haha!
Dude don’t even joke, it could absolutely happen lmao, Nintendo has done weirder! I know I would play :)
I was wondering when Game-Analysis-Tube™ was going to start talking about this game! Hell yeah. Great stuff, my man.
Your point on 1:55 is interesting, though I would mention the following: if the goal is to be #1, most people are going to fail, most of the time. The simple "you either win or you lose" dichotomy might frustrate many because the win rate is too low, as mentioned in other comments. Even a pretty decent player will still "lose" the good majority of games. But of course, coming 2nd and coming 99th aren't really equally "losing".
I would imagine this is true for every Free-For-All type/Battle-Royale games, of course. Even Ninja "only" wins 36% of his games. It would be cool for a game like this to have an Average Rank Placement or something. Or even a good ol' Elo rating. It would make you feel a little bit better for placing in the mid-30s or 20s and knowing objectively that you did better than most people would.
By the way, Wumbo (the guy @ 5:36) has to be the best Tetris99 player there is and is one of the top 5 (?) tetris PvP players in the world (that I'm aware of, at least). Every one should check him out, because he streams the most often out of the pros. 92% win rate, fam. He has my absolute bets on the upcoming first ever Tetris99 Competition
( twitter.com/tafokints/status/1100910362663124992 )
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I'm glad you brought that up! Wins are absolutely far and few between and you will unquestionably spend most of your time "losing", so I think there's no question T99 isn't for everyone. I really like your idea of an average rank placement though, I think that invites players to keep working to improve their rank and it adds that social aspect to it, "my rank is higher than yours", etc. That said, I don't know if I would be a fan since I only either play masterfully or absolutely terribly haha, never anywhere in the middle ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And omg, Wumbo is incredible. I really hope people go give him some views because it's like watching a magician at work. He just hits T spins like normal line clears. It's absurd. Thanks so much for the comment Felipe! :)
@@DarylTalksGames I Wumbo, You Wumbo, He She Me Wumbo. Wumbo. Wumboing. The study of Wumbology! It's first grade Spongebob!
The tetris effect soundtrack was a nice touch
Great topic. Thanks,
Computers call constantly switching between tasks "Thrashing".
Another great video! I personally couldn’t enjoy Tetris 99 at all. It peaks my depressive mannerisms (typically rage) and my anxiety too much and the battle royale style isn’t fun for me. The wins v losses ratio is ridiculously low imo. This video at least let me appreciate the game a little bit more
Well I'm glad you could still enjoy this despite your relationship with 99! I 100% hear where you're coming from with the rage and this game. Realistically, sometimes you just get ganged up on and are eliminated so fast there's nothing you can do. And if you don't enjoy it, why play right? Thanks for the comment :)
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I’ve been noticed lol. Thanks for taking the time to read it
Arika has also made the Tetris the Grand Master series! i feel like they used both the fighting game knowledge and tetris knowledge to create a beautiful combination of the two
You're 100% right about automaticity as it relates to Tetris. I'm certainly not a world class player but I do play at around two pieces per second on average and have played more than thirty thousand rounds, give or take. The reason it's easier to play multiplayer like that is exactly what you said: I don't necessarily have to focus on the board very hard and when I do have to switch between the two it's easy to fall right back into what I was doing (and placing the pieces is, well, automatic.)
The only thing you're wrong about is "get good at classic Tetris". You should certainly practice, but in a single player version of the modern game. The randomizer in classic vs modern games is totally different. The classic one is truly random, while the modern ones ensure you always get the piece you need within a given number of pieces.
That you can reliably get the piece you want makes it much much easier for this skill to become automatic; it means you're learning patterns of stacking rather than actually stacking each individual piece. In my case, at least, this isn't conscious, but if I sat down and had to list common patterns of downstacking I could come up with quite a lot.
It’s 3am right now and my family is asleep and let me tell you I almost screamed when I saw Gearless Joe in the thumbnail
What does it say about my brain that I won my first game of 99?
Well, it says I've played plenty of Tetris, and competitive Tetris at that. Like, since 2nd grade and since discovering Tetris Friends, respectively.
So my costs were low enough that my relative lack of experience, and everyone else's, made the actual skills add up in that way.
I haven't played T99 yet but I did recently get my hands on a ds copy of The World Ends With You and that game requires you to control one character with the stylus on the bottom screen while controlling another with buttons on the top screen at the same time and......yikes it's tough.
I never thought I would feel too old for Tetris. Damn.
Me multitasking watching this video:
*surprised pikachu face*
Me, zoning out to multitask and legitimately doing both at the same time and faster than separately: "well that was easy"
*Later in the video*
Daryl: "Multitasking is a myth"
Me: "what kind of dark arts do I hold-"
I do realize it's because I'm not focusing on doing the task, but it was just neat, I can't focus on two things at once, but I can do two things absentmindedly
Great video!
I really enjoyed this video! my only concern is that I had trouble finding the 'game title (year)' info for in-video referenced games, since they randomly switched which of the four corners they'd appear in, and I had to search for them and at times rewind the video to check and find them. since this is an older video, maybe you've updated how you do this already -- and anyway, maybe I'm just a slow reader, so this is a silly concern -- but it might be helpful to consistently put the reference info in the same corner every time. but my silly complaint aside, seriously interesting video! I already knew multitasking wasn't really something we could do, not as we think about it for time-saving purposes, but you laying out the cost of hesitation pauses with the graphics you chose felt really enlightening. again, really enjoyed this, thanks for posting!
Great video, as always!
Thank you very much!
bold of you to assume im able to spell jewlery without checking anywhere
I find myself relating this to hand-independence in playing the piano. You can't think through every note on both hands in detail, the way to do it that you're basically setting up something like an AI macro for each hand to play through.
i couldn't ever get that down lmfao, nice to know why!
That rush of POWER! When you clear the entire board of the blocks and sending those attacks to your cry BABY enemies! THAT'S what makes it so fUn
You could probably expand the "multitasking" concept to controlling the game itself. If you are not used to using a controller, you will have to put some mental effort into "this button make this happen" while also looking at the screen to see your opportunities/obstacles/etc
The speak and write task is fun lol! I had to move on to more challenging numbers because my birthday got too easy. My 14-digit library card number is harder, paired with new phrases. I'm a good speller, which helps.
Interestingly, I tried switching it (saying the numbers and writing the words), but I can't keep my place in the words as I'm writing. I get totally derailed. Like, embarrassingly so.
Apparently I was born in the year '9S
I didn't find that I swapped back and forth between the two tasks. Rather it was more like I'd pause, and while paused I'd cache 2 or 3 letters, and then I'd speak the cache while I traced, and then pause both again to build a new cache. Which seemed to work until the S of shiny overlapped with the similarly shaped 2 of 1992
How far are you in the future that you have letters in your date of birth
Tetris 99 is one of the few (perhaps only) games that's made me seriously consider buying a console for only one game that I can recall. ANd I usually don't consider buying a new console unless there's at least 2-3 games I want for it. (I'm a PS3 guy). I want it that badly.
(Nope, not even for SSBU, though I'd probly have to buy that because why would you not have a Nintendo console and it's SSB version?)
I think Tetris truly pushes the limit and shows just how powerful muscle memory is. Tetris 99 is just about the 2cnd slowest modern Tetris game I know. Put your eyes on the fan-made games and expect over 10 inputs per second.
Tetris Friends Beta OG crew here. RIP.
My brother and I used to play Overcooked on the Xbox.
"JUST PUT RANDOM SH!T ON THE CONVEYOR BELT"
"I'M TRYING"
And when the rats began stealing our food...
I like this style of video! Despite not being very good at video games myself... 😅
8:07 That's not really necessary because the Classic and Guideline tetris are totally different games and guideline is the one 99 uses. Classic is pure random piece generator meanwhile 99 uses the bag system and hold piece that makes the game easier to multi-task when you understand that you won't have fully random pieces coming.
I became really decent at 99 when I understand how the t-spin works, the combo system works because I was thinking and playing like classic tetris plays.
So no don't do that. Find and play a normal tetris game made from 2001 and onwards and then you will understand how this game works.
good vid, although tetris 99 is difficult for me for a different reason... I have been playing tetris on pc for quite a while, I like to think im alright at it since I can get under 50 seconds in tetris sprint. However playing tetris with joycons is a little weird but the real kicker is not being able to rebind controls, it makes the experience so frustrating. My brain just cant fathom that pressing up makes the piece go down. I really hope they let you rebind buttons soon
Took me longer to do the two separatedly rather than at once...hecc
i know this video is 4yrs ago, i'd just say, the highest rank i got so far is 3rd place, i still haven't gotten the 1st rank. 😭
been playing for over 2 years now and still havent gotten that #1
I have never lost a game of Tetris.
im late i know but great video
*EXCEPT* the fact that you *should* *not* play classic tetris( as in gameboy, nes tetris).
why?
new mechanics
Classic tetris is old(obviously) and things changed.
1.randomizer. Classic tetris uses the average rng system, meaning its completely unpredictable what future pieces are. Modern tetris(PPT, 99, and even DS) uses a randomizer call "7 bag". This randomizer ensures that all pieces will appear once in sets of 7. Once all pieces are pulled out, a new set is generated where the rng part is the order of appearence, not the pieces itself. Knowing this allows you to do tricks like all clear setups and Tspin setups. Speaking of which
2. SRS(super rotation system) is a system that happens when a piece spins. It goes like this:
rotate the piece according to its center axis.
If none of the piece is blocked off by other pieces/the wall, then it spins normally
If there is something that blocks the spin, then it checks 5 spots near the piece, then moves the piece to the first spot that is unblocked. if all 5 spots are blocked, you cant spin the piece. This is why things like Tspins works and can send garbage to opponets more effectively(tspin double sends 4 lines(like a tetris) and tspin triple sents 6 lines(but more situational))
so if you want to improve in 99, dont play classic tetris
I think once you get to a higher level you don't even have to "multitask". Some high level players call Tetris 99 a "single player game". This is due to how little interaction there actually is to Tetris 99. You don't have to think about who's targeting you or who you're targeting since ut plays such a little role in the outcome of the game.
Have you seen yakine? Hes a beast at tetris in general
Omg yes, he is incredible. Frankly just scary to watch haha
I ignored the instructions and simply went ahead and spelled the thing before tracing the date of birth - because I knew it was so much faster °-°;
8:35 also applies for dark souls
Huh. Kinda like singing and playing guitar, along with the complexity behind each of those skills.
8:04 As someone who plays both Classic and Guideline Tetris, with currently a 39% winrate on T99 for over 1000 games played, I have to disagree on that one. Or at least I think you're mixing up the terms, especially when you show T99 and then NEStris as exemples. Classic Tetris (NES, Gameboy, SNES, basically every game before Tetris DS) requires different skills than Guideline Tetris (Tetris DS, Tetris Ultimate, Puyo Puyo Tetris, and of course Tetris 99) that I feel are different enough to the point where you can be really good at Guideline but bad at Classic (like I am). Guideline Tetris is more focused on what we call APM and PPS and overall creativity but is less about Finesse, where it's the opposite for Classic tetris which is far more focused on Finesse, precision and timing. That being said, I think your mistake is that you actually mean "Marathon" instead of "Classic", and to that I agree, especially when you're beginning to play Guideline Tetris (After some point tho, I find that playing "Ultra" for practice instead is much better : Scoring as much points as you can in 3 minutes : It's far closer to the challenges of Tetris 99 where you need to maintain a high APM).
With that being said, that was a super cool video, it was really informative. Keep up the good work !
Are you by any chance also involved in computer science? What you describe is how a classic computer processor works, too. Instead of doing two tasks simultaneously it can switch from one "context" (you used that exact term) to another, but at a cost which we call the overhead. Anyways, good video, I'm still baffled by how I got addicted to a Tetris game out of all games. My personal best placement so far is 2, still hunting for that EPIC VICTORY ROYALE
Interesting that you say that. I have absolutely 0 computer science background, but quite a bit in human cognition. And the most common comparison made to the human mind is a computer processor. They make that analogy in textbooks and lectures quite a bit because its an easier way to grasp some of the concepts *and* because there genuinely is a lot of similarities. But I didn't know about overhead, that's actually fascinating, so thanks for letting me know! And keep on chasing that number one! I have no doubt you'll get it :)
Nah, they took me like the same amount of time because I suck at spelling
29 wins so far. But i dont use t spins or targeting though
But does this game count towards the 'tetris is most sold game' claim?
But, I can play a video game while listening to this video, and draw while listening to music.
All Action puzzlers except Tetris are fighting games :D
What about Puyo Puyo Tetris?
@@matthewcolosi7606 Well, Puyo versus Tetris is boiling Puyo-raging broken mess (and the game itself isn't some technical masterpiece lol)
145 hours = playing 99 while watching this
I spelt Jewellery wrong and then forget my date of birth both times
Wombo is a guy i faced him in puyo puyo tetris dispite how good i am at puyo wombo i just have no chances but i can beat some great tetris
And i play 99 tetris is because of puyo puyo series and my nostalgic of puyo pop fever
Dude I would just be happy to even hang in there with him for a few moments lol, that guy is amazing.
I played 2 games of tetris 99 and won both
If I had done that, I think I would have retired happy right then and there haha, that's amazing!
Yeah tensions were high lol those years of tetris in my childhood payed off
I wish tetrisfriends.com was still a thing. It was free battle tetris. Now I’ll have to pay like $300 for a switch just to play tetris.
you should try out jstris if you havent.
To be fair, I can’t spell jewellery normally
It sucks that it is all about t spins. That takes away so much of the difficulty and makes it really uninteresting to watch. It is hard to keep a right well going flawlessly. The t spins dont even mke sense anymore.
It is extremely easy to keep a right well going flawlessly in modern Tetris games, because of 7-bag randomization, the hold features, and 5-piece previews. It's literally the first thing a new Tetris player will learn how to do (after all, no new Tetris player will start out learning T-spins).
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If it was so difficult, the guy in the video I linked wouldn't be able to play at over 4.5 pieces per second for an entire 9 minutes.
It takes a huge amount of work to learn about tspins. i don't know if you realize this, but doing tetrises over and over again is basically mindless to veteran players (just build a 9-wide stack and dump I-pieces into the hole), where as tspinning requires you to think a little (make the t-spin base and overhang and dump T-pieces).
only 30s in but: bitch i'm a non native speaker i can barely spell "jewelry" on a normal day
My ADHD prevents me from not multitasking oof
Me who forgot my dob
wait a second i dont know my date of birth
nah its just impossible to win as a casual player.
When I first started Tetris 99, I was able to snag a 1st-place win in just five games. (My actual "win ratio" is more like 1 in 8.) For the most part I generally just set one targeting mode (often "attackers") the whole game and just focus on playing good Tetris ... I don't score many KOs, but I almost always reach the top 20.
That's a really solid strategy man, I'm more or less the same in terms of how I target. You definitely don't need kills to win a reasonable amount of games if you can just play fast sound Tetris
@@DarylTalksGames But I do sometimes switch _from_ "Attackers" mode just to check who's actually targeting me intentionally (and weaken the aggro bonus for whomever may also be on "Attackers" mode).
Stop reading the comments while the video is on!
YOU CANT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
I hope by "refreshingly" you mean, sickeningly.
Maybe you should git gud?
If I were you, I deleted this video, that game and Mario 35 have already been closed, and it will happen with F-Zero too 🤣,.People who come in to play for a couple of days and never come back are never going to be a success.
sorry, I couldn't understand your experimentation :(
Oh no! You could also try writing your name on a piece of paper and saying your phone number out loud at the same time. Then, you would just do them back to back instead of at the exact same time. Does that make sense?
now makes sense :O
I thought I could multitask (ie watching a video while animating) without any penalty :( .I'll be mindfull about that
You definitely still can to a certain degree. As long as animating is pretty second nature for you and you aren’t too invested in the video, you can probably get away with it. But it might be pretty tough to do if the video is super interesting or the animation is taking a lot of focus in that moment.
I see, I felt relieved after thinking "OHNO I should stop watching any video while doing stuff, even the not-so-interesting ones D:"
PS: before you ask, I find your videos really interesting, so I stop doing whatever I'm doing to watch them
Tetrus 99 is such a bad game. I dont understand what's going on. Theres too much going on at the same time. Idk what even junk blocks are and the game doesnt give you a tutorial on how to even play. It just pisses me off. I've been trying to play the game for hours and hours and I still end last because I just dont understand what's going on.
Ah, the only battle royale game I care about
If you want to get good in Tetris 99, then get good in **modern** Tetris. In "classic" Tetris you have no hold function and with that it is a different game.