NO YOU CAN’T WIELD POWER THAT’S CHEATING WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE IMAGINARY RULES I MADE UP!

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    There’s no wrong way to play a game, sure, but you also can’t get upset when a game is tailored to a specific audience that won’t cater to the way you play the game. So there is effectively one way of enjoying the game.

    Even in fighting games, if you win every round, is it still a game? Loosing to a skilled opponent can be just as satisfying as winning. Challenging yourself with personal limitations is just fun. Maybe you loose more, so what? Maybe you loose every time - maybe you do it just to see how long you survive.

    The first game that comes to mind is From Software games. Notoriously hard, but there are vocal minorities that decry its difficulty, and subsequently all difficult games, as “unfair” and desire an easy mode. Maybe it is unfair, but the people who play it are sadistic enough to keep buying it. I say this as someone who despises their games and have never finished one. I’ll stick to my map games.

    With that being said

    …maybe you do it just to watch a pompous dork fill up column space about how you’re playing the game wrong.

    Whenever I think of Overwatch, I think of every nerd getting angry in the voice chat because you want to play as a big monkey instead of forming the most lethal, efficient team composition to fight the other team. Some of the most frustrating yet funny moments in TF2 were when every asshole was a sniper or a spy and lost the match. Like, sorry man. I just want to blast some guys off the cliff. You worry about the cart