Hardcore gamer = someone who plays only cinematic grizzed white dude games and/or military fetishizing FPS
Casual gamer = anyone that is not a 15-25 yo male, and/or plays anything outside of the previously mentioned games, especially if those games are colorful.
So basically the gaming community is full of gatekeeping, misogyny, toxic masculinity and general chuddery. They make sure they're the loudest voice heard when anything about games is talked about, and won't be happy until all games a homogenous stream of bland, hyper-realistic but with a grey filter slog of mindless action with no heart or soul. And don't you dare force them to read any dialogue or story.
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It's why I quit MMOs and multi-player in general. Just let me dick around. There's like 9 classes and 40 weapons just let me do what I want to do. This is my 1 hour of downtime after work before chores. I'm not going to spend that hour watching or reading some jargon laden guide so I can get berated by a 14 year old anyway.
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i like that they had to give a cool name for
"The strategy we force everyone to learn because none of us are willing to develop communication skills for our team-based multiplayer games."
If I wanted to play a game with strict meta shit I'd just learn chess.
A plurality trying to imitate proplay without actually learning why they make the choices they do (The rest are one tricks who just play their main). Its why you can learn to last hit consistently and climb to plat on the income difference. Learning "Bruisers are strong all rounders, generally picked for their self sufficiency. Picking them frees the jungler to play more around botside objectives like drake" is something most players never learn
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There's a time and place for it, busting a game wide open and seeing how absurd a power level you can reach is absolutely fun too
Mvm meta is absolutely crazy, you can actually be put on a banlist simply or picking weapons that are deemed to be too broken.
It's funny to clown on nerds using "the meta" using non meta stuff yourself. Beating them flying their f22s in ace combat using an F-2A or MiG 21. Beating the meta cars in Gran Turismo using a GR3 Volkswagen beetle race car. Them rage quitting in the game chat and direct messages is comedy fuel
lmao I fly the Mig 21 in DCS, get a player kill in that thing and people are just so impressed they can't even get mad. Just gotta use Vietnamese ambush tactics and know when to commit and when to run.
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Starcraft 2's co-op mode is the cure for this. I haven't played it in a while so idk if there are still people playing it but you get broken special powers and units and the "meta" doesn't matter at all because you just get to have fun blasting away at the AI and every RTS should have a mode just like it because it's great.
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I remember Blizz released stats at one point and something like only 20% of players had ever played a matchmade multiplayer game, and only 5% played them regularly. And then you see new RTS' come out that are multiplayer only and it's no wonder why they all flop.
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I miss SC2 so much :nostalgia:
SC2's co-op is still pretty active. you can find a game on any difficulty in under a minute pretty much any time of day.