Roguelites are not True & Honest roguelikes, they are transroguelikes. Whenever somebody textwalls about how roguelikes are inherently bad, it's like reading somebody rant about how they hate women because they're all rust programmers with stubble who wear chokers all the time.
I don't get it either, and I'm someone who both plays Poker frequently irl and has a weakness for card based battle systems.
I didn't hate it, but my lasting impression was "That's it? That's the game everybody is claiming they're hopelessly addicted to?"
Yea that was my take too, I thought it was ok, but gaming journalist niggas and YouTubers were claiming it was so hopelessly addictive they were losing sleep.
There's not much mystery honestly, people like when big numbers become bigger numbers, and specially when those bigger numbers become biggest numbers.
People here liked it back during nextfest before it released. I can believe that its growth was organic up until the gaming youtuber faggot clique artificially blew it up. I haven't played it though.
I feel like that would've been more compelling if not for the randomized nature of each run. If I were constantly thinking about how awesome my next run was going to be now that I had some insane combination of multiplier cards in my deck, it might have engaged that number-must-go-up dopamine hit.
Old games tend to have their own quirks, even the ones that have aged exceptionally. People will always have bias to something newer, especially in the case of old games which may need extreme legwork to even run on modern hardware (The sims being an example).
Even the most retarded people you can think of are more fun and challenging to fight than bots.
More challenging? Sure. More fun? I don't agree.
Absolutely not. The most retarded player is no different than a bot set to the easiest difficulty. Often times even worse because at least the bot doesn't struggle with remembering what button does what and a shitty internet connection.
Is it just that bad for fighting games, or do arena/tactical FPS games just have that much better player bases?
When online gaming first came to consoles I remember reading a quote "If I wanted to be social, I wouldn't be playing video games."
1000% agree with this, the fact that its become the norm among people is an absolute disgrace, people who bitch about how the game industry sucks yet only plays multiplayer games have no right to bitch about the industry at all, right now im playing thorough Oblivion and RDR2 and im having a lot more fun with those then FPS Slop
I don't want to be on the knife-edge of failure, game after game. These days, I don't even want to git gud. I really just want to put in a modicum of effort and watch my gun go shooty-shooty bang. Before SBMM, if you weren't absolute garbage, you'd randomly get matches where you did well. Now, playing at all means being under the constant stress of needing to always do you personal best in order to not get turned into meat.
I don't even play CoD, and I feel this in my bones.
