If "what is good" in a competitive game is really boring and not fun, then that's exactly the phenomenon being described by Johnson.
Unless "'what is good' in a competitive game" counts as an exploit that drags down the core gameplay experience in favor of micromanagement, it not.
It's not about "un-fun play", it's about the players finding something that wasn't intended by the game and abusing it to the point that they forget the entire reason they're started playing to begin with, like with infinite city sleaze. Even if you know what the "optimal" gun is in R6S is, you're still playing R6S. Even if you know what the "optimal" creatures are in Pokemon, you're still playing Pokemon. Meanwhile, if you know what the optimal strategy is in Civ 2, you're not playing Civ 2 as all your time is going to managing the dozens of cities you have.
I think it's practically impossible to enjoy CoD multiplayer as you did ten or so years ago. You can't play old CoDs as lobbies are empty, full of sweats or hackers, and the netcode is ancient. You can't play newer CoDs without being a victim of SBMM, sweats and missing DLC.
Multiplayer games were better when they felt like they were basically chatroom with a game over top of it. Nowadays, because of Discord, multiplayer games feel more and more like bot matches.
If you think looking up optimal gear is as far as people go to win in multiplayer games, I really wonder if you've ever played any multiplayer game ever. Multiplayer games becoming a nightmarish hellscape of unintended optimal tactics that nobody enjoys but everyone has to use or get steamrolled is the rule, not the exception.
It's a distinction without a difference.
Optimizing the fun out of the game means just that, optimizing a game to the point it stops being fun. The article may be referring to choices made by gamedevs but that doesn't mean it can't be applied outside that context. It doesn't matter if all players are forced to use just one strategy thanks to an exploit or because the multiplayer has become so sweaty that you can't be taken seriously otherwise, in the end neither of these are fun and they both result from trying to get the best results possible.
This as well. Those who complain the most about how a game isn't fun to play are the tryhards who have optimized the game, not the casuals (unless multiplayer achievements are involved), like that famous clip of a speedrunner speaking shit about speedrunning, or that competitive Pokemon faggot im a blisy making countless videos about how competitive is too hard and not fun to play.
Gears being desaturated was a stylistic choice, but it was the style of the time. Washed out and with piss filters on everything. Even racing games of the era like Grid and Need for Speed had the desaturation and piss filter, that these days can often be removed by mods.
I hear them talked about all the time. Second Sight, or Urban Chaos Riot Responce I'd agree with you.
That game feels astroturfed to me. The Gone Home of current year.
I'd also like to make a prediction. Trump with win the 2024 presidential election. Concord will be a failure.
I've never seen that. I've seen seen the left and the right call me various insults for pointing out that it's okay for games to have attractive women. It doesn't matter if a censor sits under a cross or a pride flag, it's retarded.
No. The customer doesn't really have a say. I haven't played AAA games for years, but I get labelled as part of the problem. If a single whale spends $80,000 on micro transactions, that's 1000 normal gamers who's opinion AAA doesn't care about.
I don't know Black Desert. Explain?
Same with "anime" or "furries".I don't even disagree but loli = bad! Is slowly becoming some fucking reddit bullshit where every other Kiwifarms post is someone updoot farming by posting the same fucking thing over and over and over and over again.
We get it man, you're a good person and you like all the correct things and hate all the bad things, here's your reddit gold.
It also happens in single-player games. In Oblivion, sneaking and fighting are fun. But at some point, you will probably figure out that the quickest way to close an Oblivion portal is to just run past all the enemies to the top and grab the rune. It's not "fun," but it's optimal. Once you realize you can close an Oblivion portal in about 15 seconds, it's hard to go back.
Wouldn’t it be less steps since you bought a machine already built and configured?
Operating a PC is a bit more involved than just turning on a peasant box.
Nice cope. Keep telling yourself that.
Okay. I'm sure who PC game are aware of that trade-off. And that's not even correct anymore, since now, you'd need an online account to access the most out of your Xbox/PS/Switch. Back then, all you'd need to do is plug and play your console of choice and boom.
What I mean is you could have all sorts off issues with your PC that a console peasant would never face. Let me know when a console peasant has to run through a bunch of steps in order to get a game to stop crashing.