A game so mediocre not even its demise manages to stand out in any real way.
...yeah, I've been posting charts and it's been going worse than I expected. Not sure what your point is.![:\](/styles/custom/emotes/svg/chris-confused.svg "Confused :\")
lol fluffers gonna fluff.
They'll probably make it single player in the case that happens, and add the bare minimum bot runners for it.
this sort of rubs into the problem with an RPG-esque online game that's a shooter, there's only so many ways to make a gun that's actually usable/good, its not like swords and magic and shit, where the moveset can be varied, the ranges of the swings, ect.. with a gun it shoots, faster or slower, bigger or smaller damage, with ranges, you can only go so far and the longer the game goes on, the more true it is.
Two issues which have gained more prominence in recent years (when compared to the aughts and early 2010’s) is the increase in cheaters and the internet enabling rapid development of refinement culture for these games. It’s why even if you brought back the good games from the past to today the play experience would be substantially worse in the present.
I remember a funny clip of a streamer’s other streamer friends immediately wanting to return to Arc Raiders after the ad time was over and the main guy having to say, “c’mon guys we need to give the new game a chance!” to protect their future ad deals. I think it was peanut. Regardless, if even notorious sloppa enjoyers (most are COD Warzone players and shit) find your game a chore to play, and have not touched it since you paid them to, I think it’s a sign your game sucks balls.
Aztecross, as I’ve referenced in this thread previously, is the most annoying one. He jokes that he doesn’t get preferential treatment from Bungie (he does), he acts holier than thou whenever someone in his chat shits on D2 or Marathon (retarded).
Time heals all.
I think I recall Aztecross claiming that Marathon would have 100k concurrent players for at least a month after its release. This was already funny when he said it considering even then the game's success was doubtful, but it's even funnier in hindsight when you see how low the player count is now.
I saw that, inspired me to do the same (game holds up so well by the way, fucking great game that D1), but I can only assume he did that because he has been the one spearheading this “Destiny Remastered” copium the last few weeks.
I kind of doubt they'll cut him off. He's made videos on D2 being in a rough spot for awhile at this point and it hasn't really changed anything with their relationship as far as I know, he still gets a lot of early access to most of their new releases. I think probably because he's big enough that the backlash would only make Bungie's PR worse, but also because if they need him to he'll gas up anything Bungie puts out at least up to the release.
He was also gunt guarding Highguard pretty hard too. His 'review' made it clear Cross has no idea what he's talking about 99% of the time. There was also Arc Raiders. When it first came out, he said he was going to play it all throughout November. Guess what he did? Ditched it for Destiny 2 because he wanted a shitty helmet. The whole Call to Arms event was a shit show in of itself as it made it abundantly clear that a vast majority needs Bungie to hold their hands and give them hand outs in order for them to even fathom touching an activity.
It’s so sad. The grind is part of these games. Like, the cabal brothers strike in Destiny 1? That has the dope ass titan arms? It took me like 100 collective hours to get it to drop. “WAAAAH WHAT A GRIND SO BORING!” Well, no, because the strike is engaging, the gameplay is good, gunplay is fun. Like, the grind is there to incentivize playing the content over and over because the content and gameplay is good. THATS what’s been removed from current D2. The jeets and trannies that run D2 now just heard people bitching about “grinding” and removed the grind instead of making the content itself enjoyable, or adding in new gameplay mechanics. We haven’t had a new primary weapon archetype since D2 launch and that was submachine guns. Incompetent retards.
They have custom servers instead of AWS money sucking ones so I am inclined to agree.
AAA essentially makes you into a little replaceable cog. I don't know how anyone truly can be excited about it outside of maybe their paycheck / job being effected.
