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.

    • ssjmarx [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      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.

        • ssjmarx [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          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.

      • Wisp [fae/faer, any]
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        1 year ago

        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.