/v/ - Video Games

It wouldn't be a problem if developers weren't equally retarded and think these addicts will step outside their drug dens.

>>15625263

I feel extremely bored.every time I see a list like this with these games.

its both for the better and for the worse

on one hand, it causes AAA devs to keep making bad games in an attempt to gain that audience and become the next fortnite

but on the other hand, it keeps them out of obscure games that aren't awful and/or have a good or at least not awful community

it'd be better for video games if normalfags stopped playing video games and moved on to a different, newer medium of entertainment that people with taste inherently wouldn't care about, though

what could such a medium of entertainment be?

>>15625313

It used to mostly be like that until 2016.

>>15625312

>world of tanks

Team tank game. Shoot each other. I played World of Warships for a while, and I enjoyed enough of it to be dismayed at what sucks about it. It made me long for a BETTER team battleship game.

>>15625312

It is(or was, I don't know, Fortnite might have taken that spot) the most profitable F2P game on the market. Basically it's a russian F2P tank game where you play with WW2 tanks in team deathmatches. It's stupidly grindy, poorly optimized and the balance last I played(which was when they decided to take out Artillery shell trail lines) was getting worse.

It's weird, I don't really remember if the gameplay was fun or shit. I wanted to give it a second shot earlier this year but it's like 20 or so gigs and I can't be bothered.

>>15625312

>World of Tanks

15vs15 team battles, wins by capturing the base or total annihilation. You're driving a tank, an artillery piece or a tank destroyer. But also:

>imbalanced tanks

>imbalanced fictional tanks, especially if they're Russian

>literal P2W amunition that turns the game balance into a joke

>balance itself doesn't exist until tier 5 (out of 10), but then gets worse again with every tier

>every tank beyond tier 6 requires grinding for XP to unlock them or credits to buy them

>every tank, period, starts as a piece of shit and you have to grind to make it bearable/good

>matchmaking forces you to play with tanks 2 tiers higher or lower at random, which means you're frequently playing against tanks objectively better than yours

>the only way to shorten the grind is to pay for premium time (+50% to credits and XP), pay for premium tanks (more credits and better crew XP) or buy gold that you convert to credits or XP outright

>crew skills are tedious to acquire as well, so if you don't get the premium tank you'll grind them much longer

>also tier 9 and 10 tanks on average lose money instead of earning it, so unless you have premium time you'll be losing money to train crews in tanks of those tiers

>all but 3 mildly useful items to mount on your tank require gold to remove instead of destroying them, so you can't try them out for free

>and tier 10 tanks are the best ones for earning yet another currency, bonds, used for buying even better equipment or "clan reward tanks" (some of which are also OP)

>an entire indirect fire CLASS exists and if you want to get free special tanks you almost have to play them

>every single time you shoot, there are 3 semi-RNG rolls: to hit, to penetrate armour and how much damage, any of these failing/underperfoming can easily fuck you over in a game where damage is permanent for the duration of the match

>>15625347

Roll a die. On 1, 2 or 3 you get a kick in the ass, on 4 and 5 you get nothing, on 6 you get a candy. is of balance comrade)))))))))))) Also, it was never the most profitable, but it most certainly is in top 10 most Jewish games. It's a good thing it's finally losing steam.

>>15625399

stop

>>15625399

Another sad case of Russian bias.

>>15625399

I find it weird how no one else besides russians tried their hand at the f2p tank game. Wargaming ground assault was alright, I actually remember enjoying that one because I could drift in that and there was that one match where I went all Imperial Guardsman and held the line against 7 tanks probably were AI players by angling myself just right and fucking them up, but I also dropped that for a reason I can't remember.

There was Armored Warfare but that died before I even knew about it.

>>15625427

>There was Armored Warfare but that died before I even knew about it.

2015-2016: Obsidian Entertainment Interactive, of all people. On Mail.ru's payroll

2017-now: My.com, child company of Mail.ru. The joke is that they're less competent than OEI.

Game technically still exists, but since Balance 2.0 tanks simply aren't any fun to drive, besides a few broken ones. Even WoT is better now.

>>15625448

thats when overwatch started to hit the scene and video games started to become ultra homogenized into one tiny group of games that are associated with gaming to the point where ellen degenerate is playing the shit on live TV making it worse

>>15625475

I'm pretty sure that started way earlier. Look at cover based shooters for a more recent example.

>>15625445

Well that sucks. I don't suppose WoT is worth even the time thinking about it anymore?

>World of Warships isn't on the list.

Phew.

>>15625482

that is a gameplay mechanic that became popular, not a monolithic 'only play these games' fad

>>15625299

can i barrow these?

>>15625496

Yeah that was always the case, at least where I lived. As a kang pretty much the only game anyone wanted to play together was(still is) the latest FIFA. Not only that, nowadays we have these PS4 arcades where a small selection of multiplayer games are available(mostly CoD, a fighting game(usually from Netherrealm), sometimes there's Rocket League or some wildcard) and still all anyone wants to play is fucking FIFA.

>>15625523

>kang

Is it true that nobody hates niggers as other niggers do?

>>15625571

Kang as in Edgyptian. Probably true since we're kind of pseudoniggers and we hate ourselves more than anyone does.

>>15625263

Not a single one of those games interested me, even at their respective heights. Do I have good taste, or are they just that vapid?

I like Rocket League personally, but that's despite the lootboxes and obvious e-sports trash. The base gameplay is solid and is simple-to-learn, hard-to-master like a lot of good shit. Still, it could be better. Also it never sold for full price, and it didn't have lootboxes when I bought it… I don't know if I'd want it now.

>>15625399

This guy knows what the fuck he's talking about. Particularly the grind(Korean F2P was their example I think), premium ammo, artillery being unbelievably gay, and the stupidity of RNG in every single shot. But there is one more major factor ruining the game, and that's the power creep; every new tank line is more OP than the last one, encouraging people to buy their way into it to farm everyone until it gets nerfed.

Don't play World of Tanks, the Russian developer is scummy as fuck.

>>15625681

Nah you're just a faggot.

>>15625681

tf2 was objectively good gameplay wise around 2007-2009

>>15625830

You would probably still want Rocket League unless you're that anti whaling fag that finds all microtransactions bad. Even purely cosmetic ones like RL has. A fool and his money are easily parted whether you buy the game or not.

>>15625919

>implying microtransactions are ever justified

>>>/reddit/

rust aint that normalfag, to get anywhere you need to have no job basically

>>15625271

CHECK EM

>>15625263

>>15625313

Normalfags aren't even the main target of game publishers. The main target is still children. This is why they can sell on brand recognition despite constantly cycling through new audiences.

>>15625919

>microtransactions aren't always bad

Get a load of this guy.

>>15629399

Normalfags are children in adult bodies.

>>15625919

Microtransactions are always bad.