Why is every single reddit-approved videogame just the same rinse and repeat of hyperrealistic military white guys either shooting things, or in an "open world" (also shooting things)?
Not that I have anything against that particular genre, but why do we need 230498230498234092856 of them?
Yeah but that's not gambling. You know exactly what you're going to get before paying for anything. There's tons of legit criticism to be made of Fortnite but gambling isn't one of em
DayZ was the originator of those games though, and had originally less of a focus on just deathmatching it up with guys in military gear. The fun was running around some postapocalyptic backwood in Russia wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants with a broken arm, desperately trying to find a can opener while trying to determine if the guy you just bumped into at a depressing concrete Soviet housing block is being weirdly quiet because he doesn't speak much English or because he's secretly planning you to shank you for your can of beans
I was part of an emergency medical service that would drop in with crutches splints and blood transfusions. Dicks would pretend to be injured and try to set up ambushes.
In all honesty it's to get people to take the view of "super tech-kitted out military white guys = protagonist" and everyone else is part of the hostile wilderness. It's not Campaign anymore, it's Player versus Environment, and it's not hard to see the settler colonial roots.
Why is every single reddit-approved videogame just the same rinse and repeat of hyperrealistic military white guys either shooting things, or in an "open world" (also shooting things)?
Not that I have anything against that particular genre, but why do we need 230498230498234092856 of them?
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fornite doesn't have loot boxes (gambling) though? or did they add those after I stopped playing
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Yeah but that's not gambling. You know exactly what you're going to get before paying for anything. There's tons of legit criticism to be made of Fortnite but gambling isn't one of em
Aren’t there piñatas though? Or are those free
Iirc those are in the other mode that frankly no one plays and isn't even available on mobile platforms
they are the biggest one at micro transactions
DayZ was the originator of those games though, and had originally less of a focus on just deathmatching it up with guys in military gear. The fun was running around some postapocalyptic backwood in Russia wearing a t-shirt and sweat pants with a broken arm, desperately trying to find a can opener while trying to determine if the guy you just bumped into at a depressing concrete Soviet housing block is being weirdly quiet because he doesn't speak much English or because he's secretly planning you to shank you for your can of beans
I was part of an emergency medical service that would drop in with crutches splints and blood transfusions. Dicks would pretend to be injured and try to set up ambushes.
I also established a full on Medical Academy in SWG-Emu because apparently even video games for me are just more bureaucratic work.
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In all honesty it's to get people to take the view of "super tech-kitted out military white guys = protagonist" and everyone else is part of the hostile wilderness. It's not Campaign anymore, it's Player versus Environment, and it's not hard to see the settler colonial roots.