I finally tried it. I just don't understand it. · 12:23pm Mar 3rd, 2019
After finally trying Apex Legends, I can say that I don't understand the allure of battle royale.
More than that, I'm rather annoyed, frustrated, and angry that it's so popular, that people somehow consider this a fun experience.
Some games you land alone, where you scrounge for supplies for eight minutes, until you bump into an enemy squad and get slaughtered in 15 seconds.
Another game you land with an enemy squad and survive for a total of 30 seconds.
And there's no respawning; once your squad is wiped, which can take under 20 seconds, it's game over, find a new match.
Six games. Not a single kill.
I'm sorry. I just don't get it. I've been gaming for 25 years and I don't get it.
Footnote:
A friend came over last weekend with his Switch, and I tried Tetris 99. Now that was some goddamned amazing fun. Six games, and I almost always got in the top half, and my best game was 4th place.
So go fucking figure that if I want to keep playing the single battle royale game that I find addictive, I have to go buy a goddamn Switch.
Sounds like a review of Fortnite from this one Youtuber I watch.
Congratulations, you finally found a game you like that's exclusively on the Switch. Two to four more games, and it might be worth you buying. As far as Tetris 99 goes, it seems to me like a mix of Tetris and Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine (well, Puyo Puyo, but semantics). I've seen one livestream of it, and either the streamer sucks at Tetris, or the battle royale aspect of it can be unfair. Half of his games started with him getting threatened with half a dozen rows of blocks in the first five seconds, so it makes me wonder what you're supposed to do to play defensively.
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Yeah, it can get insanely unfair depending on enemy targeting, but in the six games I played, that only happened once.
It depends on the kind of BR that you are playing. although they're considered the same Genere, there are different sub-types (for example; comparing PUBG/ROE to Fornite: One is at least semi-realistic - or tries to be - and the other is a cartoon-like experience.)
Some people prefer Apex because of the ability-use gameplay that Mobas and some Class-Based shooters have. (Overwatch, for instance.) I guess it's just not up your alley if you don't like it.
But not all BRs are bad. You just need to find one that speaks to you.
I never understood battle royale either. It's a very shallow gaming experience that I feel the only reason it's popular among game studios is the potential for loot drops and microtransactions.
It's not even a new genre. TF2 has been around for eons and I very quickly lost interest in that. It's all so repetative.
Honestly, it can be pretty enjoyable but you have to accept that you're gonna lose a lot more often then you win. It kind of reminds me of counter strike where you'd usually die in the first minute then have to wait for the round to finish. At least in a battle royale, you can just start up a new game real quick after dying. It's also a lot more about survival than fighting. You'll most likely only get into a handful of fights in a single game so if you just want to be constantly shooting someone then it definitely isn't for you.
Well, there 'is' respawning if you manage to get to your teammates in time and to a respawn beacon.
I'm glad I can relate to someone about these Battle Royale games. Honestly, what is the appeal of wasing 20+ minutes wandering around an empty, quiet map and then see a moving blur about half the map away and then get sniped? It's not fun in PUBG, where everyone moves in 3 frames and the game STILL functions as it's Alpha version, it's not fun in Fortnite (especially when my PS4 lags out because it can't sustain the sudden change in the environment from people constructing 20+ story towers), not in Call of Duty either. I just... can we go back to Unreal Tournament? I miss being able to, you know, MOVE.
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Thank you. I know exactly what you mean.
I don't get why vets expect us to put up with sucking until something magical happens, or we get this squad of amazing ace friends who make the experience better.
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check this guy out
On the subject of BRs, my brother and I played a browser game called Surviv.io. Its a 2D BR game, with bullets being relatively low velocity, meaning you can dodge them to an extent. Vision is based on what kind of scope item you pick up. Games are generally pretty quick, so they're nice for some quick amusement. Its not everyone's thing though, and you have to accept you're going to get unlucky and shot most of the time.
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Ho-ly crap! And I thought I was good at Mean Bean Machine because I cleared the whole thing on its highest difficulty. With this player, it's like they know what they're doing even when it looks like they fuck up.
I only watched the first game; I do not have 9 hours to spend on this. But I'm not sure what shocked me more: watching this person play, or how long the game took.