They have their taste in games, and lay it accurately with tons of 'I know that X does Y, but not for me tho'. I expected some flame there, but no, just their personal opinion on what they like to see and lack.

Stepping into their shoes, I'd try old rpgs, quests, adventures accumulating in the backlog and already having their share of GOTY awards so you can hop from a masterpiece to a masterpiece.

They don't go deep into why f2p and MTX are popular. It's really just a sudden frustration that they aren't as represented. Cheers to you journoperson, please take a sit between groups as rarely cared for as you do, or even worse

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Stepping into their shoes, I’d try old rpgs, quests, adventures accumulating in the backlog and already having their share of GOTY awards so you can hop from a masterpiece to a masterpiece.

The trouble is there aren't enough new games that follow this ethos anymore. In particular, it's nigh on impossible to find a popular FPS or other multiplayer game that doesn't have a bunch of microtransactions plastered all over it. That's the core of their complaint, they used to be able to enjoy multiplayer games for the quality of the game, but the microtransactions dispel the illusion and turn it into a chore.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

They seemed to describe something other than regular, even old FPSs. If anything, these are the last tags in tneir library.

Video games are a medium of artistic expression. My favorites have something insightful to say with their story, force you to reconsider basic mechanics in new ways, make me laugh, and have proper conclusions. I don’t want to be distracted with goals outside the canon of the world I’m trying to lose myself in.

That's why I went about old RPGs.

I don't feel their message is well-coordinated. My first thought was that they played Elisium and Baldurs Gate 3, and then wrote that they want more games like that.

[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I suspect this is exactly why Battlebit Remastered blew up the way that it did this year even though it looks like a Roblox game. lol

I think people are starved for a good, clean FPS that isn't mostly battling menus, cluttered UI, MTX, endless DLC, P2W, battle passes, lootboxes, daily login bonuses, timed events, grindfests, invasive anti-cheat (or an overwhelm of cheaters), constant updates that break the game, etc. I think there's a lot of us that just want to shoot stuff and have fun with our friends, like the glory days of online FPS. I'd happily fork over $60 today for that kind of experience, but I don't trust hardly any AAA publishers to keep their promises if they even did offer something like that.