Hmmm, maybe you should read what I said again.

Game design is one of the only things that I try to engage with seriously on Lemmy. I was genuinely discussing elements of genres that aren’t as cut and dry as you dismissively poo pooed without actually providing any backup for what elements you think are crucial to any of those genres. There was no real discussion, but thst was not because of me throwing in some sarcasm occasionally.

The mods have removed some of my comments for some reason and I guess I will just stop engaging seriously here and go back to shitposting. Trying to talk seriously about elements of game design is obviously frowned upon and just repeatedly calling someone stupid and wrong is encouraged.

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So wildly incorrect that I’m convinced you’re trolling.

You can think that if it helps you sleep if you like.

I guess BRs must all have some sort of airdrop beginning, a deadly moving circle and permadeath. In which case I guess Apex, Warzone and PUBG itself ceased to be BRs since they introduced respawning. From now on, everything will be labelled “Arena Shooter”.

Take the blinkers off, have a sip of water, calm yourself down a bit.

I love The Finals. You don’t need to jump into a thread to defend it from me like it’s your first lover. Getting worked up about me labelling it a Hero Shooter and then stating it has zero elements of a Battle Royale is absolutely deranged. Battlefield is literally one of the origins of the hero shooter genre. Classes and gadgets are very customizable but have hero shooter mechanics in that the 3 different body types have distinct abilities and utilities.

It may not be a “circle closes on one lifed competitiors” pure PUBG BR. But it is a dystopian game show where people (albeit avatars) are pitted against each other in a fight to the death (albeit with a monetary points scoring element). Like, you know, Battle Royale.

Oh holy shit stop the fucking presses. An online multiplayer fps is not a single player game? No way.

Oh so you agree they tend to make only multiplayer live service games? Which was my entire point. I guess there was no reason to argue about genre based semantics at all!

The new “Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” is even more depressing.

Battle Royale bro? Not in the strictest sense of “is it PUBG”, but it has a lot of the genre’s elements in there. It’s basically a hyper speed Hunger Games with heroes. I’d say it’s a fusion of BR and Hero Shooter for sure.

The point is, it is about as far from a single player experience as you are going to get.

You might be waiting a while for that. Venture capital funded and so far have made a Battle Royale and an Extraction Shooter. Will probably be a Survival game next if a new trend doesn’t come along first.

I know, let’s vote for hell on earth instead. That’ll surely clean things right up.

You can’t have coffee AND Bovril.

Another copy of a copy that didn’t become the next CoD somehow. Keep trying AAA CEOs, I’m sure the next one will be it.

The man is a Democrat, a physicist and non-religious. Most have been in politics too long to come up with this dumb idea.

Probably best not visit the UK or large portions of Europe in that case.

Well I was being facetious, but this proof of concept seems to prove me right.

Monitors are now obsolete.

Any game you can use sharts is a win

It’s interesting that you bring up a faction within an occupied nation (which at the time was not an independent nation), but fail to mention that 2 of the mentioned 3 did initially align with the axis and signed treaties with them. Hmm, could there be some bias there?

Because they are loose in a jar like that, I’d probably rather eat them than use them properly

Oh, I didn’t realise he’d outed himself as a piece of shit

That last one just seems like a kink