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Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.

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[–] Blake@feddit.uk 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (39 children)

I’m gonna come out swinging: not even a game, but two entire fucking genres:

  1. Battle royales. I am like 90% convinced that gamers have been tricked by some dark psychology that has somehow convinced them that these games are worth playing. I don’t know whether it’s because the quality of FPS games has been so low for so long that today’s gamers have never really played a properly fun shooter or what. Battle royales are 75% downtime. You spend so long fucking around parachuting in to the map, walking around, collecting stuff, bla bla bla, interspersed by just a few moments of action, and when you get killed it usually doesn’t feel fair, it’s because a whole other team showed up right as you were already fighting someone else and put you in a nearly impossible situation.

  2. MOBA games are just RTS games with the best bits taken out.

[–] potterman28wxcv@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I highly disagree with the 2nd point

I hate RTS because there are so much going on everywhere at the same time that I just can't handle it. You gotta master your production while scouting while repelling raids while strategizing to see what kind of army the opponent is building while exploring the tech tree and.. damn how did they just send an army of 50 fellas??

MOBAs allow me to fully focus on the moment and whatever I'm doing instead of being perpetually late on the actions that need doing

[–] bmaxv@noc.social 1 points 1 year ago

@potterman28wxcv @Blake

Imo theoretical #RTS development just stopped after StarCraft and total annihilation.

Sup com is my favorite but nobody really tried to reimagine what "RTS" should mean.

Not like COD -> Doom(2016) did for fps.

So both perspectives are valid and deal with unsolved problems that are unfortunately just hard and not profitable to solve.

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