/v/ - Video Games

Shit thread.

Everyone here already knows this.

Shit like this happens every generation. I'm not into it, so it doesn't really bother me. Last time it happened, the time before that, and the time before that, so on, I just continued to play what I liked. Most of these devs are doing it as secondary projects too, even Bethesda is talking about how they are doing all their mainline shit along side it.

>>14994523

And no one is talking about it. It's getting worse by the year.

>>14994513

Shit thread OP. Explain yourself.

>>14994525

can't really ignore it though. irl people talk about it, online people talk about it on every forum even niche ones people mention these shitty games you can't escape it.

Meme genres are meme genres. Don't play them, don't support them, display your antipathy to them at every opportunity, and let them pass. It'll all fade away into some new form of cancer anyway. The survival/crafting plague is mostly going away, so too will ASSFAGGOTRY and Quarter Pounder faggotry die.

>>14994560

You make a good point anon. Sorry for the thread. You're right, before this is was survival shit. I was just really angry and wanted a good explanation. my bad.

>>14994564

May I ask, why even pay attention to it?

>>14994572

I keep running into it that's why. I don't want to hear about it but i do anyway, especially at uni.

>>14994586

>paying to be indoctrinated into radical egalitarianism

>worried about silly vidya trends

Anon you need to get your priorities in order.

>>14994586

Have you tried telling people that those genres of games don't interest you whenever they involve you in the conversation?

>>14994593

These vidya trends could destroy everything though and this is having a tangible effect on communities based around vidya. I don't want to be playing ARMA 3 hearing about some faggot's last Fortnite game.

>>14994607

Yes, and then I leave and run into it again. I cannot escape it. A 35 year old at my internship mentioned it to me unprovoked once.

>>14994613

And, you haven't tried starting conversations about games you like?

>>14994610

I can't imagine there's that much communal overlap between hardcore milsims and fucking fortnite of all things.

>>14994618

I have, and they don't play them

>>14994622

You'd be surprised my dude. The same guys online I talk to who play DCS World or Dwarf Fort also play Overwatch. It's a social fad thing to play these games, not a personal interest.

>>14994629

In that case, the best advice I can give is to stick to a group of like-minded friends for your online vidya, and if someone comes up to you and starts discussing shit vidya with you in person, tell them you don't play video games, you read. That should make them feel awkward and shut that shit down right quick.

Also, as another anons have said, this too shall pass, and the next trend is going to be even worse, so buckle up.

I play games that appeal to me and ignore the ones that don't. If I worried about every single retarded thing normalfags I would do nothing else in my life but lose hair and sanity.

>>14994626

Then why don't you invite them over to your place to play the games you like sometime?

>>14994622

>PUGGERBUGGER is an ARMA mod

>4NITE rips PUGGERBUGGER off

Battle Royal are containment boxes for normalniggers and faggots like OP. the beauty is they contain more normalshitters in one game than ever. It's inevitable it would also contain faggots like you, OP.

>>14996177

I don't play them, i just want them to be away from me.

>>14994513

>Battle Royal and MOBA genres are eclipsing and ruining video games

>eclipsing and ruining video games

No. Quality videogames are being made at the same rate they always were, these new genres don't change that. They merely fill a very big new niche out there, that's all.

The kind of retards that play that kind of games isn't interested in other genres so there's no competition for playerbase, it's an entirely paralell market.

And before you utter the retarded "well, devs are gonna pander to them instead of making good games!" remenber that this means competing with giant well-known games like Overwatch, Fortnite and Dota.

You'll have some big companies that do it, some retarded smaller companies that attempt it, but most everyone else is gonna save themselves the trouble of coming up with their own entry in the genre only to fail because that playerbase goes after what's popular, not what's good, and they are not as popular as the big names.

Everyone panicking over this is an utter over-reactionary retard that enjoys drama more than videogames.

Go check out Quake Live player numbers before and after Overwatch was launched, for instance. Did it change significantly or did it stay the same since the Quake playerbase isn't interested in Overwatch and vice-versa?

Do the same for MOBAs and RTS if you want as well to reach the same conclusion. You're not seeing a shift of taste or a migration of a playerbase to a new genre, you're seeing an expanding niche that's completely paralell to yours and you have no reason to pay any attention to it. It's just normalfags being normalfags.

>>14997307

I'm gonna fuck Toni's cavernous cunt

>>14996440

>unironically thunking MOBAs and fortshite is competitive and requires skill

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>>14994536

EVERYBODY talks about it. You sound like a fucking normalfag.