EPIC REDDIT MOMENT IRL :OOOOOOOOOOOO

  • lvysaur [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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?

      • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        fornite doesn't have loot boxes (gambling) though? or did they add those after I stopped playing

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      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

    • a_maoist_quetzal [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.