How do we solve the "gun and ball gamer" epidemic?
i have a coworker who tries to talk to me about video games sometimes and I always try to name the most popular normalfag thing I can and there's still like a 50/50 chance he's never heard of it and acts like I'm some kind of specimen
>>745207102>Quoting genres instead of naming gamesWhat a fucking retard, just ask "have you played hollow knight, I honestly can't think of a popular enough roguelike maybe they meant roguelite in which case balatro, and Eldenring.
>>745207320>XDFuck off
>>745207102Gun and ball games are objectively fun
>>745208006This. You could complain that they're repetitive, each iteration is functionally the same, and they're full of cash-grab practices but they're popular for a reason. What isn't fun about playing as your favorite athletes?
only this board would think that random people they don't know have a taste for games that needs "solving" if you had a life you wouldn't have time to worry about such a banal cause
>>745207921They won't, because the possibility of one of them knowing a game they suggest increases. Can't "appear" cultured if that happens.
>>745207953kek
>How do we solve the "gun and ball gamer" epidemic?
>>745208113Please learn to use punctuation so that your posts aren't such a chore to read. No one likes guessing where one sentence ends and the next begins. Thanks.
>>745207921thisit's like asking if you prefer a string based fighter or a fighter with emphasis on normals and links, instead of asking if you just fucking play tekken or street fighterit's the same faggots who post "heh nobody got my epic batman reference" on twitter when it's more like they've heard it a million times and it isn't fucking funnyactual social retards
>>745208251This pic is ridiculously accurate for a soijak meme template
>>745208251that pic genuinely makes me angrygood job
>>745207102I still simply find it jarring to hear normies talk about games and anime in publicstarted a new job with quite a few zoomies there and they regularly talk about vidyanormie shit like valo, marvel rivals, and animal crossing ofc but still
>>745207102Whatever happened to car gamers? Gran Turismo used to be huge.
This entire board thinks GTA SA, the biggest nigger game to ever exist, is the best thing ever while complaining about ball and gun gamers. Just talk normally with your fellow human beings. If they don't know what you're talking about, explain it to them. 99% odds are they will get it because their kid or other friend has played that game. Your interests aren't so niche. Explain the damn genre if it is.
i've never really noticed that. most people now play all kinds of shit. this really feels like millennial 'i got bullied for playing videogames' manchildren trying to pretend they are still being oppressed by normies.like motherfucker its socially acceptable to talk about anime in public now. wake up.
>>745207102People have no fucking clue how normal "normal" gamers are. I would be seen as weird if i ever talked to anyone at work about my vidya. And you faggots, especially the tendies, are orders of magnitude weirder.
>>745208251>complains about kids having 4000 hours in fortnite dicking around not playing the game and emoting with skins they bought>also has 4000 hours in TF2 dicking around not playing the game and emoting but with hats instead of skinsactually insufferable
>>745207102They’re the only reason video games get made at all now. To answer the question, tie online play into sports betting apps, they’ll all rope or kill each other.
>they didn't know what Signalis or Silksong was, I FEEL HUMILIATED
>>745208006I buy a call of duty every other year and get a couple hundred hours out of itHonestly enjoying the latest black ops because they're getting real wacky with the guns instead of just "boring assault rifle 7" you get sticky trigger nade launchers, dual wield LMGs, a conversion that makes the basic pistol into a short range taser/emp comboProbably won't be buying MW4 coz it will be lacking whimsical shit like that
>>745208504it really depends on your social circle, the guy in the picture is brown, so he's most likely surrounded by nigsgrowing up in a poor hood, all my local friends only ever played fifa, nba, codthen after moving to a nice one, all the people there only know about the most basic shit like zelda, mario, lol, maybe csunless you surround yourself with tech or geek people, this is the most you're gonna get aside from the occasional hyped game like cyberpunk or elden ring (which they drop after a week)
"gun and ball" is the new dudebro hysteria on /v/?
>>745208251Gem template, saved.
Told one of these types i play games "like elden ring" and he goes "oh you like dem deep games huh"
>>745208929the consistent high-sellers on playstation and xbox no matter the season is always NBA, FIFA, Madden, CoD, and GTAhence, gun and ball gamer
>>745208952what he probably meant was "oh you play those games were you roll around a boss for 15 minutes"
>>745207102I honestly could understand a gun gamer. Not my cup of tea but at least there is some kind of substance even if pretty gross. Its like the mcdonalds of gaming. But ball games make zero sense. Its just worshiping random teams and sports celebrities and playing the same game over and over.
>>745207102>gun and ball gamerthat better be on the list
>>745208006back to twitter, dudebro
>>745208412Wait, the Blair Witch was the one behind covid all along?
>>745208108I don't know about the gun games but my understanding is that no one actually plays the game part of the ball games, it's all just gacha gambling
>>745208916Yep, can’t really make any generalizations. One of my friends has regular tabletop RPG sessions with his work buddies, while I just spent a decade without ever mentioning video gaming in any capacity to anyone (or hearing about them) in my work. As a happy accident, recently got derailed into vidya discussion with some of my colleagues and discovered that couple of them had played Disco Elysium and one is replaying Super Metroid, which was a nice little surprise.Point being, you could have colleagues who actually have rather good tastes, but if the environment in general isn’t tech-oriented enough, they might just not ever bring it up.
>>745207102you know this has been a thing since the PS1. It's what made gaming mainstream. So there is no fixing or changing this unless you just want to kill the industry.
The more things change the more they stay the same. Gamer bigotry uber alles.
>>745209175using dudebro as a pejorative is off-brand. dudebros are 'trad'
>>745207102>ball-and-gunThis is the newest cope for """gamers""" that are terrified of multiplayer, huh?
>>745207102Show them Assassin's Creed (any of them) or Yakuza 0.
>>745208790Truth nuke
>>745208251Okay but the games on the bottom left are amazing and you're missing out if you ignore them
>>745208916>gaman one night years ago>VC with black coworker and some of his friends>they’re playing CoD or something, I’m on Monster Hunter>they wanna jump on MH and play>one dude has a hacked console and sets all his stuff to max>can one shot anything but can barely figure out how to attack>leaves in the middle of the session to get bojangles>never jumps back on, later said he passed out on Xanax when he got backGood times.
>>745207102The gun and ball gamers are a threat to movie games everywhere!Stop them now, no more gameplay, only cutscenes.
>>745209346i said BACK
>>745208251>cyberpunk>fallout>not ball and gun gamessome ball and gun gamer is real fucking salty
>>745207102Actual gamers don't talk about video games in public, I'd also pretend to not know any of that shit
>>745209128You're obviously retarded. You looking down on normal people is nonsensical. Look up and maybe you'll learn.
>>745208385Gran Turismo sucks cock now.
>>745208412GTA SA is actually a fairly nuanced commentary/satire of the racial politics of the 1990s and one of the most accurate depictions of Los Angeles of the period but whatever you say bro
>>745208006Turn-based loving weebs are truly a plague on the internet yes.
>>745209630Learn about sports celebrities and teams? No thanks.
>>745209626this. I don't give a shit about people knowing what i play. The only games i've been playing lately is Subnautica, 7 Days to Die, Fortnite Reload, and Halo 2 on legendary. This fuckass list is how you know im not lying but IDGAF
I had these furniture movers moving stuff in my basement where I have a music studio. They were asking me what I do, and I told them I work on video games and very often I compose music. They wanted to see the games I worked on, so I showed them. Their eyes glazed over. These are games that have sold millions of copies, made tens of millions of dollars, regularly get threads on /v/."Cool man, maybe someday you'll get to work on GTA."Holy fuck.
>>745208251GEMMY
>>745207102I work with all women so I only talk about whats on the news or whats on tv and they ask me what im doing after work or at the weekend. Fairly standard boring normie talk. I would never ever mention video games to them.
>>745208412I dismiss anyone who dislikes GTA SA as being literally retarded like as a medical condition. They are the kind of people who would watch Naked Gun and complain it's the worst detective film they have ever seen.
>>745209626This. At work people would make jokes that I'd stare at a wall in my free time as I never told them what I did and we all laughed. Sharing information with coworkers is peak insect behavior.
>>7452071022000 dollar consoles unironically. Most "ball and gun" gamers are niggers, spics or thirdies, none of which will be able to afford the PS6 and new Xbox, and don't have the IQ for PC gaming. The problem will be solved within 5 years.
>>745207102Make an action game that is linear, not open world, that has the premise of Chaos in the Windy City and Army of Two combined.
>>745207102We can't. 7th gen was when execs decides to pander solely to casuals. Which was when ball and gun started outperforming every other genre.The video game industry doesn't like the hardcore sector within it
>>745208251Call Of Duty can be fun every few years but if you buy them religiously you are a sub-human and this is not up for debate.
>>745208251Seems like a based person who you can actually talk to about stuff, meanwhile Gen Z will just watch their parasocial streamers.
>>745209128Most people who buy FIFA yearly only play FIFA. It's like spending money to go a baseball game even though you have been to hundreds of games already. It's just a comfort thing for people interested in sports. They don't think of it as repetitive vidya, they think of it as "I like ball so here is ball media" and then they get to larp as ronaldo for a couple of hoursAnd I respect these guys more than the faggots who spend $200 on steam sales and play zero of it only to go back to their own comfort game. Guys buy FIFA and play it, which is inoffensive
>>745207102gun and ball gamer? wtf is that
>>745208360thats the thing, nearly all of them are. The best jak pics hit harder than normal.
I tell people i'm more of a racist than ball and gun person. Conversations seem to die pretty quickly though.
>>745208251I really do hate these people.They are the same types who insist Immersive Sims are the best genre but also claim First Person Shooters are inherently bad to begin with.Their shit taste is catered to far too much.
>>745210108Brainfried humanbot cant. Pay them no mind.
>>745210108Someone who first started video games with the launch Madden NFL title on PS2, at an age when they could have started with any game on the Atari 2600, Sega Master System, or NES.
>>745208006Back then yeah. Nowadays they’re completely shit
>>745208006Sports games are this dogshit of dogshit
Gun game covers such a wide amount of games. Ball is obviously just shit like FIFA and Madden. But Gun can cover stuff like Resident Evil and Pragmata in addition to the obvious stuff like Call of Duty. I feel like Sword needs to be added to Gun and Ball as well desu. Because stuff like Assassins Creed and Zelda is basically on the same level as COD and FIFA and Madden and so on these days.
>>745210108Some xitter meme that's I guess meant to replace dudebro or normalfag, basically people who only play yearly sports games and shooters. Got popular because the Okami xitter account referenced it.
Marathon transcends gun and ball
>>745208006the last good ball game I played was nba street
>>745207102My nephew is like that, little faggot basically just has a bunch of COD games and like 10 different FIFAs. He only got his PS5 like 2-3 years ago. I have no idea what causes this.
>>745210309gun game obviously refers to the mindless killslop that is CoD and GTA, the two games people only play when its not a ball game
>>745207102Ive made some games, most recently a survivors-like that did ok during that craze. whenever I say what I do for a living they respond "oh, I love games!".The next 15 minutes is us trying to find a single point of common ground so they can understand what I made.>ok, and what is steam?I've had the same conversation 20+ times now, no one in the real world plays other games.
>>745210408I know it refers to shit like COD but it can cover a bunch of random other Gun games as well. Resident Evil is fairly popular with normies.
>normies play normie shitwhat a revelation, also>twitter
>>745208006Watch out you're going to tilt the shit out of the mentally ill tendies
>>745210206The bing bing wahoo gamer is close in terms of terribleness but at least they are explained easily, these people are poseurs to the extreme
The sad thing is that even if you aren't dealing with ball and gun gamers, there's an enormous chance you're dealing with a modern redditor/twitch user. I have a coworker that's in our IT department, and one time I went over to his desk and saw he had a Super Metroid poster (this was a few years ago)>Oh nice poster dude, what did you think of Dread? I thought the faster gameplay was sick, but I wish the environments and soundtrack had been more up to snuff with the earlier games.>"Dread? Oh um, Dread, huh... what was that again?">The most recent Metroid, like the first one since Fusion, how did you not hear about that?>"Oh okay, I don't really play them but I've been getting into watching Super Metroid speedruns lately. Some of the runs are really cool actually...">...If this conversation had been anywhere other than a work office, the tirade of slurs from my mouth would have gotten the cops called on me.
>>745210026>The problem will be solved within 5 yearsThey will allow retarded subscription services like gta6 to exist, and they will still flood here and complain/beg bc the newest goybait crashes their shitty phones
>>745210026>and don't have the IQ for PC gamingSEA, Latam, Russia and China would like to have a word"master" race elitism is hilarious
I dunno where you guys find people who play any video games at all. Literally everyone in my office doesn't play any games even gun and ball shit. They would even see shit like FIFA and COD as weird.
>>745209175COD is a good shooter when you don't have an incel in your ear telling you it's bad
>>745209484tranny
>>745207102ironically with a gun
>>745210580you can be a fan of a game without playing itme im a big fan of pizza but i've never eaten it
>>745209676What happened to Gran Turismo? I just picked up 3 on a whim when going to a used game store.I’ve never been too into racing games but I’ve listened to the sound track of the game and figured it would be worth playing.
>>745210026imagine believing that you require some high IQ to play PC games.
>>745207102by not using nigger terms like "ball and gun" in the first place
>>745209585>it has a gun so its strictly a gun gameNo one talks about fallout for its gunplay, when people say gun game they mean a game where its mostly just shooting like CoD multiplayer
>>745210713I work with a bunch of zoomers/alphas and I'm surprised how little they play video games or not at all. I'm talking about how they don't own a PS5 or only really play games at a cousin's house or something. They just own a phone and that's it. So it's hard to make small talk at work sometimes considering how much older I am than them AND they have absolutely zero related interests. I can't even larp as ball and gun because they don't even do that Just a dumb anecdote of course but a lot of people here haven't met actual normies and it shows
>>745208006This anon speaks the truth. They may not be your cup of tea, but most gamers enjoy some shooters and sports games can be great. I know OP is thinking more of stuff like FIFA or Madden, but who doesn't like NBA Jam? Plus Madden can be fun too, especially if you're into football.Sports are just another form of game.
>>745210931>the kids are going out every weekend and getting laid >oh fuck , here's weirdo anon wanting to talk about rescuing the princess in his video games again
>>745210825It wouldn't even be THAT bad if he just privately had watched some streams, even though it would still be extremely gay. But buying a poster and hanging it up at your desk for a game that you've only watched speedrunner trannies play is on another level of "have you no shame?"
>>745208006i mostly play turn-based rpg/srpg weebshit but i will never stop loving gears of war
>>745210931those dudes almost all play mobile games, that's the fidget spinner squad. i work for a major university and see that shit everywhere
I dont talk about vidya
>>745211006>the kids are going out every weekend and getting laidApparently not. Or at least far less than previous gens. Way fewer of them even own cars. I get the sense a lot of them just dicks around on their phones and maybe play free games.
>>745210931Well I don't even work with young people. Everyone I work with is in their 30s and 40s. None of them give a fuck about video games at all even stuff like Sports games and Call of Duty and GTA.
>>745210825>you can be a fan of a game without playing ityea we call that fake fan
>>745211136Have you ever touched an otter?
>>745211078shut up retard. you're so awkward you can't even talk to them now they don't play zelda
>>745210918modern fallout is skyrim with guns and skyrim isn't an RPG, its a badly designed action game
>>745211154no
>>745207102Palworld is pretty good. Has both guns and balls in it. Beats all the dogshit malware like rollslop, etc.
>>745211059I see them dicking around on their phones and it's mostly stuff like instagram reels, youtube shorts, texting or tiktokWhen I mean they don't play games, I mean they don't play games. It might as well be stamp collecting
>>745211154No, the one that came to see me every morning would swim away when I got close :(
>>745210931Pretty sure all they play is roblox on their phones/ipads
>>745208251trvke
>>745211294I've seen some of the younger guys play old school runescape on their phonesI kinda forget phones can do that stuff now
>>745207102There nothing to solve. There's a market for gun and ball. There's also a market for bing bing wahoos and cozycore lifesim femcels. They can have theirs just gimme mine.
i feel that people who like gun and ball games have a more intuitive understanding of game feel than your average rpg fan and that these games are way more complex than people give them credit for
>>745211154the spirit animal of the board
>>745207102You use the sigma strat.infect people with your taste, infect everyone with your taste, spread like a virus
>>745207102Why would you want to? Segregation works. Gate keeping works. Violence works. Gun and ball stays in the gun and ball corner.
>>745211419>OSRSI remember when the iphone first came out and there were a million PLAY RUNESCAPE ON YOUR PHONE scam apps. Like it was nigerian prince tier of scamming. It's also very surreal that not only is it actually a thing, there's mobile exclusive only OSRS playersI don't like time passing me by I'm scared
>>745208662>1k hours in Fallout 4, your most played game on SteamNande anon? Nande?
>>745207531When in doubt I bring up Sonic.Everyones heard of Sonic the hedgehog.
>>745207102Which games don't feature a ball or a gun?
>>745208006Gun games can be goodBall games are almost always bad.
>>745210848Kaz got a fetish for online multiplayer around GT5 so he QUITE LITERALLY said "there's really no point to focus on the single-player experience of Gran Turismo since players can now compete with each other all over the world" leading to the slow decay of the iconic Gran Turismo campaign.Add that to the bonkers idea that "virtual car collecting means just as much as real car collecting", inflating the prices of 1960s shitboxes to the 3-7 million credits and people playing GT7 (me included) have to grind for hours and hours if they want a specific car... Which can simply not be up for sale because they made the rare car shop an online-only live-service rotating showcase in which cars can disappear because someone else bought them before you did.GT3 is good though, you should play it, but it's probably the worst first GT game to play if you've never played it before.
>>745211164There is still too much walking and talking for a gun gamer to enjoy, they need constant kills like a CoD lobby
>>745211653It freaked me out when there was an official version of resident evil 4 as far back as the original iphoneThere was also a fucking deadspace spinoff game and they both actually looked and ran decently well and the pnly real negative was awful touch controls
>>745207102>talks to coworkers about videogames>works at papa john’s Checks out.
>>745211734i have never built the teleporter
>>745208251that's not a real gamer. A real gamer knows how influentual and amazing Minecraft is. How much influence it had on the gaming.RDR(2) is indeed boring ass shite for the few ameritards who grew up on cowboy fantasies. It's like a nigger playing Chinaslop for the story and "muh immersion" - doesn't work.>Half-Lifeback in the diamond age (late 90's to early 00's) playing pure HF deathmatch multiplayer was pretty fun.>falloutbuggy mess for fans, and again, mostly people from the U.S. it doesn't have the same appeal to anybody else, because the rest of the world doesn't really know what country music (culture) is.>undertraledogshit>nba, cod, bfdogshit indeed. the last time battlefield was good, again, were the early 00's. just like the rest of fps gamer, pretty much.>rollslopthat's just for shit eating mongoloids, not real gamers. real gamers don't play subpar clunky dogshit, they enjoy the video games instead.>discordalright, hot take here, but true real hardcore gamers do not use dogshite software like trooncord. Unless they're trying to make money by being a "content creator" or want to get their asshole torn apart by nigger dicks.>redditreal gamers don't use dogshit censored propaganda websites like reddit, because they're too busy playing video games instead.
>>745208251>guy with completely reasonable tastes and opinions>but he is drawn as the wojak so it is le bad
"Ball and Gun" is a bit of an unfair combo. While gun gamers might generally be morons ball gamers are a whole other level of retarded. Literally the worst of the worst. They hardly deserve to be called gamers because they're almost all just normalfag sportsball addicts who only care about sports games because of the "sports" side and dont know or care about anything else. A guy who likes CoD could potentially branch out to liking more fantastical games like Halo and then continue getting into more franchises and genres from there, but a ball gamer will never care about anything but his precious ball.
Problem is when you meet the opposite, the people that actually play good games, they're a stereotypical neckbeard dweeb that's annoying to be around!
>>745211356maybe you stink?
>>745211946>A real gamer knows how influentual and amazing Minecraft is. How much influence it had on the gaming.I don't like playing it and it didn't influence anything I enjoy.
>>745209486>Somehow i've got Okami on ps3>dont remember purchasing it>apparently I bought it in 2018 according to the timestamp>on ps3Should I play it again? Havent played it since ps2.
>>745211004But who's the healer?
>>745211820Crazy how touch controls still haven't really improved since the OG iphone. Marginally better but still awful. That's why people who do things like play OSRS exclusively on mobile are actual psychopaths. I can't do shit without fat fingering something and most I would do is AFK fishing or whatever
This board is so retarded wtf
>>745207102Gun and ball gamers love Elden Ring, try that
>>745212105it's perfectly fine. to each their own. you don't have to be a real gamer, I promise. you're real at something else instead.
>>745212037Ball gamers are the ones buying a console only to play FIFA/madden on it yeah. It's like some autist who plays nothing but league for 15 years but worse.
>>745210580Wow what a faggot(not you that guy)
>>745212231I'm a real human who decides my taste by instinct and divine revelation the way God intended, you fucking mongrel. Minecraft sucks dick and do you.
>>745212019yeah
>>745207102>Thinking sword and potion gamers are any betterThey play different genre, same slop. RPG and story-driven games have little to no gameplay, and all story.
>>745208662>almost all AAAIsn't this a normiefag steam library?A lot of my library is <10000 steam review stuff. I don't assume anyone IRL knows about shit like "lorn's lure" or Poco
>>745211136Ive never read my favourite bookNever watched my favourite movieNever drank my favorite drink
>>745208662>>745212526I swear to god people really out there thinking their games makes them not normies at all when games like that in the pic are basically AAA normie slop.
>>745212512>Sword and potion gamersIt's the same niggers. Ball and gun niggers just play Skyrim and treat it like GTA.
>>745212189Fuck you I was told I was special
>>745210026>cost of entry affecting anything besides the popularity of freemium games like fortnite and genshit
>>745212608They will act all uppity and try to explain surface level political allegories as if it's deep and complex. It's fucking embarrassing.
>>745208251uh oh, you mad, Jemarcus?
>>745210026>2000 dollar consoles unironically. Most "ball and gun" gamers are niggers,Unironically have more respect for ball and gun gamers over sword and potion gamers since they actually respect gameplay way more. And multiplayer is more "video game" than RPG and story driven games. Ball and gun gamers have their own problems, like they chase trendy video games, mostly a social experience.. I could name more but other than that they actually want to have FUN. Meanwhile, sword and potion gamers wanna act like pretentious snobby nerds respecting "story" over gameplay.
>>745207102>MetroidvaniasHave always been shit. More fun to watch than they are to play.>RoguelikesEverything is a roguelike these days. So much so that we call half of them 'Roguelites' now to distinguish between all the games like the original and all the games that just ape its main features.>SoulslikesThis genre is, and always has been trash for losers who take vidya too seriously. Vidya is not a skill, its about fun. If you want to overcome a challenge, go do something challenging that develops an actual skill.
>>745212526>>745212592It's still niche and weird to any true ball and gun gamer. GTA, RDR2, CP2077, 2K sports games, CoD, Far Cry. Maybe AssCreed but that's already getting close to the weird zone. Fallout? Elder Scrolls? Resident Evil? Hitman? XCOM? That gets you weird looks.
>>745212512>RPG and story-driven games have little to no gameplay>NOOOOOO I CAN'T CLICK CLICK BANG BANG DON'T LET ME THINKlol ball and gun niggers
>>745207102i don't care what "anime and pedo bait" gamers have to say about anything
>>745207953Anon emoticons are fine.It's him being a stinky brown troll that you should take issue with.
>>745212778>Fallout>Elder Scrolls>Resident Evil>HitmanThose are all really basic normie games. >XComSlightly niche
>>745209486Okami gaped that poster lol
>>745212398god doesn't exityou can't englishI think you should fuck off back to your sand boards instead and post more carpets. I'm not interested in tuned camels with body kits.
>>745212778>It's still niche and weird to any true ball and gun gamer.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Normalfags really trying so hard to not admit they're normalfags.>Elder Scrolls? Resident Evil? Hitman? XCOM? That gets you weird looks.You're ragebaiting. You're not fooling anyone. But there's people out there who unironically think this. Those series sold millions of copies just like most ball and gun games.
>>745212778Nigger my grandma knows what resident evil is. Never had anyone react not knowing what resident evil is.
I've been lucky with my current job as they're all mostly PC gaymers and vets. The other day I was regaling my Civ 5 game to them and how I hate Siam and want to fuck Theodora.
>>745212806This is how I know sword and potion gamers do not respect the video game medium. You don't give a shit about gameplay. This is why I despise sword and potion gamers. You're all pretentious dorks who just want to read a book or watch an interactive movie. Most "CLICK CLICK BANG BANG" have more complexity than most story driven games which is even sad to consider.
>>745208251>enjoy midnight club>enjoy battlefield hardline>enjoy nba street>hate industry's indie darlings>have gone back to ocarina, re4, mario 64>hl1 over hl2>power level hidden, no gay merchis this what they call fence sitting???
Sports sims game absolutely fucking blow. Why do niggers and 80 IQers get mad at this simple fact? Arcadey sports games are objectively more fun, but they don't have Ngubu and LeBron in the roster for the 80 IQers to cream their pants over. It feels like sim ball games are just made for people who don't like video games.
>>745210627SEA, Latam, Russia and China aren't human. There has yet to be evidence of even one (1) single human being having been born or lived in any of these places and we can safely disregard everything they say.
>>745207102>How do we solve the "gun and ball gamer" epidemic?Give 'em one good CoD, Madden, NBA 2k, PES and Golf game and they're good for a generation. Then you just leave them be. It's simple but unfortunately it's not achievable given the industry we have today.
>>745209943Thinking you're too good to talk to people you spend most of your week with is peak angsty 16 year old behavior. I'm not even trying to gotcha. I've been that guy. It's a miserable way to live.
>>745208662Crazy how not a single thing on that list is niche (no killing antidote coomslop doesn't count). Not even something like a fighting game where it's slightly niche or some random indie with 10 reviews or 500 hours in some embarrassing anime titty game Just pure unadulterated 9-5 gamer dad list, it's honestly impressive
sport games take more skill than any shooter games lets be real.
>>745212778>Fallout? Elder Scrolls? Resident Evil? Hitman? XCOM? That gets you weird looks.From? If you talk to normies, esp. about video games, then you're a normie. In the real gaming space the weird looks start at the fanfics about fucking wererabbits in df.
>>745212769>he thinks souls games are hardsuper mario bros and donkey kong country are harder games that kids beat. You fell for the meme even though they are just average difficulty adventuring games.
>>745212778>skyrim>niche
>talking to your coworker about your personal lifeDo people really do this shit?
>>745208006I'd rather deal with this guy than most of the retards on here and ive been gaming longer than most of you fuckers have been alive
>>745212940nah. that's being a real gamer. real gamers don't buy merch nor collector editions.
>>745208251>fag-life 2>tlou>cyberpozz>troon vegas>undertroon>soi wars>r*ddit soulsGood post. Colossal clitty leakage inc.
>>745207102Go look at the Sega Genesis top selling games. The majority of them were ball games. They have always been popular. I'm trans btw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Sega_Genesis_games
>>745208251rdr2 is the most normie appreciated game ever.
>>745211946>A real gamer knows how influentual and amazing Minecraft is. How much influence it had on the gaming.lol newfag, old /v/ hated the game like this board hates fortnite now
>>745207102Where do people work that all their coworkers are dumb normalfags? Are you all working in adult daycare offices?
>>745208662grim
>>745207102I've never had that reaction personally. People always just saw me as a gamer and knew I only played Nintendo/PC even back in the day. The real nerds were the 40K people and those who played board games
>>745212880>you can't englishIrony
>>745213094>Go look at the Sega Genesis top selling games. The majority of them were ball games.The whole concept of "ball and gun" games all started with that. Look at the first games ever like Pong. That would be considered ball and gun. The concept of video games has always been competitive in its roots. I'm not saying story driven games like the RPG genre doesn't hae its place but literally people need to check their gaming history and realize ball and gun games started everything about gaming. Gen Z and younger just love to to disregard gameplay (they think gameplay is a fucking toy, it's insulting to the gaming medium to ever think so) because they assume there's no depth, and story and political allegories is somehow more important.. And It makes me MAD. How can so many people defend gaming and once the topic is on gameplay they just think it's some stupid irrelevant thing. FUCK SWORD AND POTION GAMERS. KNOW YOUR ROOTS!!!
>>745213231old /v/ had a hand in developing Minecraft, you fucking imbecile.
>>745208251trooncore bros our response?
>>745213120Its number 1 hated game by zoomers
>reeee why don’t my normalfag coworkers understand my retarded niche micro-genresThey deserve all the ridicule.
>>745213307>t. normie child
>>745212850>>745212885>>745212907>>745213002>>745213043You guys either don't have a job or have never talked to anyone about hobbies, especially vidya. You have no idea how normie REAL NORMIES really are. Game with dialogue choices? Weird. Game played from a top-down perspective? Weird. Game has puzzles like RE or SH? Weird. I'm serious. Couple years ago i had some co-workers sitting at lunch, vidya came up. Uh yeah, love Warzone. Oh fuck that shit, Warzone is for fags. I love Battlefield. On and on. Hey anon, don't you like vidya too? Yeah. Like Fallout. Huh? What's that? Oh the world ended and you gotta survive. That sounds gay.
>>745212512>Everything is always the sameYou're gonna have a rough life buddy
>>745213340>durr a few people in a few threads involved with Minecraft dev so forget the MILLIONS OF THREADS that dog on the game and the general consensus of the board was its a kids game
>>745213501You're not understanding my point. That's not what I'm saying here.
>>745212939Text adventures have existed since before your illiterate parents ever met.
>>745212769What games do you play?
>>745213425>have never talked to anyone about hobbies, especially vidyathis is correct. as a real gamer, the last thing I need, or want, are more goyim in gaming. Half this thread already doesn't belong.
>>745207102Allow people to write nigger in chat.
>>745213425And yet, these are the people whomst steamchartfags appeal to with their chart posts.
>>745207102>Sword/Gun and potion gamers whining about Gun and Ball gamersWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW MY COWORKER DIDN'T WANNA TALK ABOUT MY ELDENSOULSBORNEROUGECRAFTINGMETROIDKINO? FUCKING NORMALFAG NIGGER RETARD SCUM!!!!!!!!!!!
>>745213550>Text adventures have existed since before your illiterate parents ever met.I'm 36. I admitted story driven games existed in my other pos t>>745213336 I played Zork before. Like I said in my original post. I'm not downplaying story driven games, they've existed a long time. But competitive, action oriented games like ball and gun games have existed way longer than "text adventure" games.
>>745213658BASED BASED BASED!!!!!!
>>745213534>why don't you listen to goyimkek
>>745213368And you think r*dd*t is a place dominated by zoomers? Retard.
>>745213658I just wish sword and potion gamers weren't so fucking pretentious about their genres. They're annoying.
>>745213120>rdr2 is the most normie appreciated game ever.True.>>745213368>Its number 1 hated game by zoomersFalse. Waaay false.
>>745208006never played fifa but madden is trash and I really wanted it to be good
>>745213658are 4 niggas in a row gamers a subcategory of sword and potion gamers? Because both are insufferable so can we lump them together
>>745213336>Gen Z and younger just love to to disregard gameplayIs this actually the case though? If anything, there seems to be a trend towards playing mobile and multiplayer live service games rather than story games. That has its own issues, but problem isn't that they're disregarding gameplay.I agree with you that "ball and gun" games deserve more respect though.
>>745207102Guns now shoot with mini pokemons instead bullets. Replace balls with miniaturized car model so they wouldn't bounce and knock out anyone that tries to kick it.
>>745208251>favorite game is some abandonware indieslop that's never leaving early access>"it's actually great if you play with these ESSENTIAL MODS">spends more time troubleshooting and updating their mod list than actually playing
>>745213550And computers were completely worthless until they stopped being influential. Pure coincidence, probably.
>Sword and potion gamers trying to dunk on ball and gun gamers again>Meanwhile, retro arcade and character action genre game enthusiasts stay in their corner enjoying their favorite video games
>lots of people are enjoying something that I do not, how do we fix this?Who the fuck cares? It’s like getting mad over hypercasual phone games for moms. They’re made for a different audience.
What needs to be “solved” and why exactly did it become my responsibility?
>>745209630most goyishe post ive ever read
>>745214054>Gen Z and younger just love to to disregard gameplay>Is this actually the case though? If anything, there seems to be a trend towards playing mobile and multiplayer live service games rather than story games.Most of them are in their late 20's, some hitting 30 years old. They're not teenagers anymore. You're out of touch.
>>745208251Murdered half the board lol.
>>745214103>Who the fuck cares?We're on a message board to discuss things.
>>745214103I was weaponized by feminists on 4chan in the late 2000s to turn on normal people and good games until everything went to shit, and by g*d, I will do it again!
>>745207102Metroidvanias/roguelikes/soulslikes are the gun and ball games of fake nerds
>>745213425Nobody ive talked to about vidya has ever not known what resident evil is.Have I interacted with people who dont know what it is? Sure probably, but video games didnt come up in conversation with those people.Fact is literally everyone who plays vidya has heard of resident evil.
>>745214143You're supposed to develop better taste as you get older and they haven't. They can still be safely disregarded as Zoomie faggots.
>>745213336>>745214054The people who don't like gamplay are millennials who are STILL desperate for video games to be taken seriously as art.Arcade gamers (Gen X) do not care about storyGen Z/Alpha care about live service and gacha, both are focused around gameplay (and selling skins)Millennials are the target audience for shit like God of War (2016), Last of Us, etc. I was born in 94, so I am a millennial. I recognize the pattern. I myself got asshurt when I was growing up because video games were advancing so quickly but were still compared to Pac-Man. I remember playing FF7 which was a massive, epic, globe trotting adventure with an hollywood sounding track, romance, mini-games, tons of world building etc. My parents still treated it like it was the same as Donkey Kong from the arcade. That happened to tons of millennials who got a stick up their ass and now need video games to be full of hollywood style acting/writing so that people will take them seriously.
>>745214223>blue prince fans are fake nerdstruke
>>745214257>You're supposed to develop better taste as you get older and they haven't.They grow up, just like any other generation.. Just like Millennials. Especially Left leaning Gen Z, they tend to focus on story more than anything. They don't give a fuck about gameplay mostly.
>>745208113I bet nobody wants to talk about the games you like because they inevitably turn into sermons about your politics.
>>745214143I probably am out of touch. I'm misinterpreting statistics about financial success and taking them to represent what people care about. Story-based games have been declining relative to multiplayer live-service games financially, but not in terms of actual demand.
>>745214085>character actionDumb reddit scum
>>745208385It sucked since 5. 7 is a greedy cash grab. Now it's Forza Horizon or driving autism sims or few Indies or retro. There is nothing new major going to get released.
>>745214317If your favourite game isnt from the sonic the hedgehog franchise you aren't a real gamer.
>>745214317>Arcade gamers (Gen X) do not care about storyThose dorks will play some euroshmup and automatically say, "this is literally like my childhood so much nostalgia"
>>745214332The most popular games with Gen Z/Alpha are shit like Fortnite, Roblox, Warzone, Apex, Marvel Rivals, Valorant, etc. They are like 100% story and 0% gameplay. I don't think single player games are very popular with the younger generations.
>>745214417my favorite game is warcraft 3, I like the custom games but also the story :)>>745214432Well, yeah. They just want arcade, high score like experiences.
>>745214432Casuals have nostalgia too.
>>745214436>They are like 100% story and 0% gameplay.Pretty obvious what my typo is here. I meant 100% gameplay, 0% story.
I IDEA HAVE. WHY NO /V/ MAKE GUNBALL GAME?
>>745214387>Story-based games have been declining relative to multiplayer live-service games financially,It's unfair to compare honestly because the way live-service games is continuous. Doesn't even matter anyways because most single player games end up making just as much. RDR2, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077 each game sold billions of copies in years. This is why sword and potion gamers and ball and gun gamers are literally 2 sides on the same coin.
>>745214436>I don't think single player games are very popular with the younger generations.I disagree. I think live-service games are generally popular for everyone, considering it's free and accessible.>>745214490>Well, yeah. They just want arcade, high score like experiences.No. my point is Euroshmups are trash. They play nothing like arcade games lmfao. Gen X don't know what real arcade games are like they base everything off of aesthetics mostly
>>745207953He's talking about Pokemon
>>745207953Unc still thinks people make that dumb emoji face in 2026
Gun and ball gamers do not force the devs of my games to cater to them, nor do they annoy me otherwise.They play their stuff, I play my stuff.Can't say the same about ""female"" gamers.
>>745209839Were they jeets?>saar maybe someday you will be CEO!
Someone should make an actual "gun and ball" game. The ball can only be moved by shooting it, players can shoot each other but it only pushes them around for either interference or assists (speed up teammates or help them "jump").
I work with a guy thats just like me and we just talk about eroge and weird japanese shit all the time.
>>745215860It definitely exists but probably only as indie low budget tech demos.
>>745215954>Worked with some black anime weeb who looked like a fat Steve Urkel>He kept talking about how much he loves Dungeon Fighter Online>Tell him it's trash too grindy>He stops talking to me about video games because he got super mad about itI mean it's just a dumb korean grind fest I'm good homie
>>745209743>GTA SA is actually a fairly nuanced commentary/satire of the racial politics of the 1990sIt's just a mash-up of popular movies relevant to the setting, like every Rockstar game
Those ball n gun gamers are mostly straight and male, you say? Interesting. I wonder why this supposed "problem to be solved" is suddenly popping up again after woke feminists are beginning to lose cultural influence over this hobby. Must be a coincidence i'm sure
>>745216241This. So much this.
>>745216109I knew some guy who couldnt stop talking about dungeon fighter online too, I did end up playing one of the phantasy star online games but it sucked giga ass because the dude was following some optimal path and had to do everything at speed run pace.
I work the night shift with a bunch of hardcore gaymers and we play a lot of the same games. i gave my steam profile to both if them and said i would be open to any vidya together and neither of them sent me a friend request but we still talk about the same shit every night.
>>745216109Did you word it nicely, or did you say it like you were on 4channel dot org?
>>745210104This would be true if FIFA wasn't filled with microtransactions where someone can dump $2000 into it, and I've even gone in a customers house who was a fifa addict who did that so they're real people out there
>>745208251AAiiiieeeeeee
>>745216753I said, "That game sucks. Isn't it grindy?" and he straight up said in a defensive tone, "Do not speak ill of my favorite game. I've put thousands of hours into it." I laughed awkwardly.
>>745216824Oh, so you're both spergs. Got it.
My coworkers asked me yesterday if I play hollow Knight and I said oh I don't like metroidvanias. They all play marvel rivals and they ask what competitive games I play and I say I play like quake 1 and unreal 2k4 and they act like I just named some super obscure title
>>745216859I don't really care it was just funny how he got super defensive about it. He's just a nerd (like me, but less butthurt)
>>745208006Gun, sometimes Ball, idk man. There are people who buy that yearly day 1. Literal insanity
>>745216905I had this dorky co-worker.. He would only bring up like obscure indie games. He asked me if I played any Indie games at the time and I said, "I'm playing this game called Underrail." and he got super pissed like he didn't know what the fuck I was talking about and tried correcting me and said, "Do you mean UNDERTALE?" And I had to correct him. He got a little mad because he was always about knowing indie titles and shit. I wasn't even trying to make him mad or anything.
>>745208006Gun, sure they can be, ball? Nah, fuck those sports games. Most are just the same shit. And it’s retarded to by the same game year after year when it’s literally just the same shit with a few different names.
>>745209743>niggers and their culture is le evilWhoa
>>745208251>Im going to enjoy slop ironically to be contrarian against contrarians high IQ way to live
>>745207102I disguise as a ball/gun gamer just so I don't have to talk to anyone. And bringing up sub genres like that outright is just asking for a bad time
>>745209085Shazamtrannies don't go outside
>>745207102>Remember talking about video games with black co-worker>Says he only really plays Madden and GTA>Asks what I play>Mention Total War as I like strategy games>"I heard about that series before">MFW
>Hey anon, what've you been playing lately?>>I've been playing some X/Y/Z>What's that?>>Brief pause as I asses the optimal wording for my responseSomeone asked me what Gothic was the other day, and I concluded that the best answer to that was 'its like Skyrim but you die really fast'.
>>745207102Trying to make completely normal genres of games into a slur and acting like there's an "epidemic" that needs to be solved is one the funniest and most pathetic things I've seen this year. People really will do anything to try to seem superior to others
>>745210580Actual poser behavior being a fan of something but not interacting with it meaningfully in some way. Most basic fucking comparison would be being a Nirvana fan but the only song you can recognize/name is Smells Like Teen Spirit.
>>745210580>If this conversation had been anywhere other than a work office, the tirade of slurs from my mouth would have gotten the cops called on me.damn dude calm down
I remember right before the ps5 dropped, all my buddies in the army were playing>pubg on mobile>cod mobile>clan wars (?) Or some shit mobile base building game>smash on switch>warzone on ps4More nerdy niggas played>squad>doom eternal>skyrim>rdr2>miles moralesThere was 1 guy into>shin megami tensei whicheverThat one got arrested for some reasonAnd me of course who played none other thannothing reallycause i wasdepressed as fuck
>>745214317>Millennials are the target audience for>Shit that came out in 2016Bruh, we graduated high school and went on to work all the way back in 2008. Anything that came out after that is for zoomies, not for us. Also fuck you and fuck Last of Us.
>>745208006>um actually paying $600 for a 0.0001% chance to gacha lebron james or messi is objectively fun
>>745207102what the actual fuck is "gun and ball" even supposed to meanso many times i've seen this term and still no idea
>>745218238sports and fps basically dudebro normalfag games
>>745218238Got popular right after/during the GOTY award when people sperged online about something I already forgot about
>>745218238Safe nigger. No, really, it's reddit and other faggot hangouts too scared to whine about COD and NBA and Fifa.
gun and ball has become the newest word twitter niggers use to feel like they belong with the "cool guys"
>>745207320Of course they know what Dark Souls is, they live in Blighttown.
>>745208270get a bigger IQ and it won't be a problemthanks
>>745218392KekBlighttown is the best area is DS1 btw
>>745218238Remember the dudebros who only played Halo/CoD/Madden on the 360 back in the day?It's that.
>>745218238>ball gamesthe same 4 copy-pasted sports games that get shit out every year with nothing but a few player name changes and they charge $150 for it >gun gamesCoD/battlefield slop
>>745208006That may be true but it hasn't been for at least 10 years. And all their studios are the biggest niggers in the west too>Actiturd charging full price for 10+ years games
>>745212116Okami is a shitty game that sucks ass. Only play if it you want a game that never stops talking at you.
>>745208662>Rise of the ronin>No nioh or nioh 2Yup, a nigger
>>745208251Truth nuke
>>745218504>pokefag hates all other jarpigs business as usual
>>745218238Euphemism for nigger
>>745217238>contrarian calling normal people contrarians for not being contrarian while calling popular games slop even though thats what contrarians do????
>>745218652he’d rather havea buffalotake a diarrhea dump in his ear
>>745208006Why would you play sports in a video game and not just the actual sport? I like basketball, so I go to my local gym on weekends and work on my 3 pointer. I’ve never played 2k
>>745209839okay but what did you make music for?
>>745218892playing the sport isn’t really the point, its about the athletesgenuinely if NBA and Madden only had generic NPCs not based on real people as the players nobody would buy them
>>745207102>How do we solve itInclude ethnic cleansing of browns in every single game for a few years and it will quickly become unpopular with normies. Nobody will be able to talk about it on social media and we'll unironically return to the small cadre of autistic, middle-class white people that gaming was made for because they'll either enjoy it or won't care. Everyone else will fuck right off and there will be no more normies in gaming. Simple as.
>>745218504Fortnite has a story? I know the original did but not the BR game. Who the hell plays it for the story?
>>745212178The advertisement break oxygen masks.
>>745219035So just a really expensive version of celebrity worship?
>>745219310In reality you'll continue being ruled over by woke feminists, dumbass
>>745219913yupits like gacha but they’re pulling for Michael Jordan instead of anime girls
>gun and ball gamesThey should stop saying this because it's very racist
>>745207320you talk about dark souls in the shitting streets sar?
>>745220124>Woke>FeministsAnon, this is already on its way out. We don't listen to them anymore and they're constantly seething about it. Woke basically destroyed the social contract and the economy, its no longer needed. And Feminism destroyed the birth rate, it won't survive the upcoming wars. Simple as.
>>745207102Realistically you wouldn't want them to infect ur games. Be honest, you lot would gatekeep the shit out of your games you love
>>745221027You keep whining they won't buy your drag queen simulators, make up your mind already.
>>745220180To the very last game dev!
>>745207102I worked with people at a past retail job who literally only played Rocket League. It was funny.
>>745207102What is it with you faggots who need to "solve" things? Mind your own business.
>>745208251What Mexican made this?
>>745208251He seems like a pretty based guy aside from liking Last of Us and Indieshit.
>>745209839chad movers putting you in your place
>>745223081>tranime Yeah we can tell youre insufferable to be around
>>745208662You are allergic to color. This is a grim brown shit.
>>745207102When I worked retail I did have coworkers that shared by game taste or at least played various type of games. However I also for the first time met actual niggers who bought a console and only buy the newest cod and NBA and even spend money on micro transactions.
>>745208251No one liked FF12 until the release with the class system
>>745223393>>tranimeyou're an annoying sperg as well
>>745208790Those games are gunslop.
>>745219913not only that but its also very gay!
>>745208006This, I'm a Steel Panthers and Football Manager man myself
>>745207102>work in a warehouse for years>can talk about loser shit with anyone all day>finally escaped and have a career job>everyone is 60+ and i cant talk to anyonesad. i think about leaving sometimes.
>>745212880>god doesn't exit>exit
>>745224339>talking to "people"LOL
>>745212778you are literally this >>745208251
>>745209486I remember when that tweet first came out and people thought they were being racist
>working at Papa johns past 22>unironically saying "soulslike" or "metroidvania" shiggy fucking diggy.
>>745207320>I's mutts.Yeah we know already, Saheep
>>745221192No one brought up drag queens you closet faggot, outed under zero pressure lmao
>>745224968You coming on to me, sword and potion? Not interested.
>>745208251This type of person is the midwit of vidya which is why that image makes so many people here mad. Their taste goes a little further beyond the ball and gun, but at the same time is not developed enough to be taken seriously.
>>745207102Who cares what their coworkers think? You should be working. Even if they liked the same things as you, they'd probably have nothing interesting to say anyway.
>>745211740You don't want to be known as the guy in the office who's into Sonic.
>>745225370Making casual acquaintances and even friends with people you see every day has benefits beyond them saying Reddit quips once in a while.
>>745207102I've been on this earth long enough to know that a pure gun and ball gamer is very rare. Like a guy that just plays COD and NBA or FIFA type games and literally nothing else.Every other normalfag plays souls games, GTA games, Hitman games, racing games, deck builders like slay the spire which every other normalfag plays, various job simulators like truck, farm, construction, house flipper, etc.
>>745218040>And me of course who played none other than nothing really cause i was depressed as fucksounds opposite of what I expect, when depressed I played games to get lost and focus on <thing>.
>>745207102You can’t. Normalfags gonna Normalfag.
>>745226143People at work are not your friends and you're putting your living in the hands of people who wouldn't bat an eye if you died tomorrow when you exchange any personal information with them
>>745207102BEHOLD!1!!
>>745226860fucking soccer
>>745208662>150h on Saarfield>ER but no Souls>Hitman Absofuckinglution and not the actual good ones>Modern Asscreed>Remakeslop>Modern Womb Raider>KCD 2 but no 1I can tolerate 1k on F4 because I assume the best (lewd mods), but this?Yeah, I'm calling you faggot
>>745219565>Who the hell plays it for the story?No one but it's fun to see what happens. Not every story needs to be an epic
>>745226860Give it a few years until it becums a cult classic like that shitty Wind Waker game
>>745227958broit's already 10 years old
>>7452281815 more years
>>745208006Gun, yes, if you don't play on controller like a fucking normgroid.Ball, could be, but the sheer amount of anti consumer skinner box bullshit they have in them nowadays make them unplayable.Both can be good if they're not from a AAA studio
>>745210274Nah Super Mega Baseball 4 is incredible and one of the best baseball games ever made. Everybody's Golf was amazing before the online servers were canned.
>live in UK>say you've been playing Dead Space on the Xbox>Deanos visibly confused
Gun and ball gamers rule you.
>>745228587Remake or original?
>>745228587I also tried to get someone to play Deus Ex Human Revolution once, and I think they thought I was a "goth">oh he's got a long coat like the Matrix innit?Yeah, mate. Sure...
>>745228702Original. It was 360 era.
>>745207102Why didn't he just say "indie games?"
>>745208251>Cyberpunk 2077>insinuating future GTA is some kind of underground nerd-cred gamelmao, an actual fucking gun and ball gamer made this.
>>745228767Nice.
>>745228997what's nice about it? It was just a popular mainstream game, wasn't it?
>>745208662this seems extremely normal though?
>>745212512>story-driven games have little to no gameplay, and all storyno shit, why did you lump RPGs with it though? it's literally false.
>>745229045Yeah, but it was decently enjoyable.
>>745229174RPG games have little gameplay. It's all based off of knowledge, not skill.
>>745208251>opinion automatically invalid if you enjoy any rockstar gamesTrvth nuke supreme
>>745229174RPGs are literally the easiest low effort trash genre ever made.
>>745229212i know, but my point was that something that to me was a normie game, was still absurdly out there to this guy.If something isn't Fifa, CoD or GTA, it doesn't exist to these people.
>>745208251>this many replies for one of the most low effort soijak templates ever
>>745229242I mean, there's a reason why literally every AAA game uses RPG elements now. I would say something like Wizardry and some Roguelikes would take a bit of effort but other than that, majority of RPG games are very easy.
>>745207102>any roguelikes or soulslikesAbsolutely deserved. Total autist death
>>745207102>when an elves & anime gamer calls you a gun & ball gamer
>>745225802Thats the nobody talks to unless absolutely nessecary guy, so yes you do want to be the offices sonic guy.
>>745225802>>745229706>SonicHonestly, if you say you like anime, and you're out of shape and look ugly you're going to be looked at weird. Especially if you're working with the younger generation they think anything and everything is pedophile coded
I asked my coworkers at Comet Ping Pong if they ever play Bing Bing Wahoo games and they looked at me like I was from another planet
I'd just lie to my coworkers and say I don't play games, just doomscroll. I can't pretend to be a normgroid, I'd fall apart.
>>745229585because having a shallow leveling system and perks adds a little addictive boost to your game.That's not the same as a real RPG.
>>745231334>That's not the same as a real RPG."Real RPG" but it is though. Like leveling up, boosting your attributes, picking skills/abilities.. Sometimes picking a class. These are parts that are mostly in a lot of highly regarded RPG's. Obviously there's nuance for each game, but generally speaking it's all the same, deadass.
>>745231424A good RPG has problem solving attributes. Building a character counts for something.
This must be a psyop thread, most of my friends play the most normalfag garbage imaginable, pokemon, tcg trash, maplestory ( the NFT version ) and friendstop of the monththe only thing i tell them and everyone else is " i play a lot of different games" and thats that, the fucking endyou american niggers have your brains fried
>>745208006Current sports games are fucking awful Sports games of ye olden times when they were made by Sega and typically were in arcades are goodBut yeah every game with a gun is fun
>>745210304Sportsball fans should be culled in general.
>>745213120i am a streamer and i constantly fight with my zoomer chat about how bad rdr2 is.
>>745235224meant for >>745213368
>>745207102at least ball and gun gamers PLAY games the real cancer are the secondary "watched a streamer play it" subhumans
>>745207102Gun and ball gamers are fine I just don't want my games targeted to them or take their opinions as valueSame reason people who just watch the game on youtube shouldn't give their opinions on how the game feels to play but they sure will anyway
>>745207102>>745207531The twitter faggots and you no social skills. You never bring games and generes up.
i love it when zoomers take a tweet and let it devise culture for the next several years. this is the 1000th time this has happened
>>745207102TND would help
>>745207102You can't "solve" it, it isn't an epidemic, it is endemic. Ball and gun gamers have always been the driving force behind video games. They are, after all, generally speaking, normies. What that might mean may change depending on the era, but the result is ultimately the same. It means FIFA will outsell whatever games you care about by an order of magnitude. It means they will pay literally whatever they decide to charge for the new GTA game with a smile on their face.
>>745211765the 5 types of game are ball, gun, sword, plane and guitar
>>745238303Despite featuring neither a ball nor a gun, guitar is actually ball and gun
>>745238303Game types are actually: Physics/geometry, maths, rhythm, movies/stories or dressups
>>745237954They're also the ones that are going to eat up the $1k PS6 (no disk slot) just to buy COD and the yearly release sports game
>>745208251>*insufferable*kek the output of seething normalgroids can be unintentionally funny sometimes
>>745207102the only solution is to put an end to xbox and playstation consoles. these two platforms primarily attract normies.
>>745208412You say this but I tried to explain Etrian Odyssey 2 to my dentist like 12 years ago and it was like I had attempted to explain experimental math theorems
>>745208251>all those seething repliesbodied those freaks
>>745209839>>745218902can i ask if you have done any smaller indie projects that they DEFINITELY havent heard of?>>745210878in the 90s you actually did. good luck giving a 5 year old xcom ufo defense to figure out on his own compared to fucking mario
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>oh you play games, anon? I like video games. what do you play?k-katawa s-shoujo..
>>745242596>EHHHHHHH? anon-san, that means you masturbate to crippled girls?
>>745207102Is it an epidemic if it has always been the norm? Why are people talking about this now?
>>745207102by just waiting a month and then you'll get a new set of buzzwords to spam and these will be forgotten
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGHIn1cryaU
>>745210580Based. I would have gone off right there in the office.
>>745208251Put me in the screencap. Millenials absolutely BTFOd
>>745208251>Hasn't played either of themDamn, this is so accurate.
>>745219035Ball games sound a lot like gacha shit.
if you play turned based garbage you have no ground to make fun of gun and ball niggaz
>>745208251>he doesnt like playing Heroine HeroNgmi
>>745244007the most korean of gachaslop shit WISHES it was even a fraction as gacha'd out and successful as FUT in EA FC
>>745208662Sometimes I wonder where I'd be if I put those 20000 wasted hours into learning marketable skills, starting a family, exercising, studying philosophy etc, basically anything other than gaming. Well, I'm too far gone now...
>>745244021It's amazing that you faggots went extinct during the 2000s and now you're back in full force pretending like Assassin's Creed is better than a game with tactical combat. This is probably the only opinion you have on vidya.
>>745212764Ball games are just lootbox simulators, they are impossible to respect.
> Yeah I dont play ball & gun games, I play REAL GAMESOkay what games do you play?> Dark souls!Oh....
>>745208662this post is so fucking funny
