>Play A N Y competitive game
>People only use what's easy to win with
>Play A N Y videogame that's remotely competitive
>People STILL only use what's easy to win with
Excuse me, where did the fun go in vidya?
Does anybody still play games out of fun? Even if they are competitive and they just play whatever they like the most?
Winning is fun. But even when its not, ruining someone else's day is also fun.
>play game where the objective is to win
>try to win
Whoa... What a novel concept....
>Winning is fun
But that's not the point of playing, that's a side effect of playing.
The point of playing should be to enjoy playing, not to play for a certain goal.
>competitive
>fun
LMAOOOO
>The point of playing should be to enjoy playing, not to play for a certain goal.
You're the kind of retard who spams taunts in smash and tries to make friends with enemies in tf2 aren't you
seething socially anxious skill-let
Nigger I've seen people tryhard at mememodes like URF in league of legends.
I've seen servers in MMORPG games comprised of the same class over and over just because it's overpowered.
No, I'm the literal faggot that plays what he likes no matter if it's tier S or tier Z and doesn't stroke the meta's dick.
If you're actually this autistic to not understand the concept of another person's fun being different than yours idk what to tell you.
Fun in multiplayer videogames died with eSports.
Prove me wrong, you can't.
I agree with you completely but most people don't know how to make their own fun and just want to see the victory screen and get a dopamine release
Blame shitty game devs that cant fucking balance anything properly and make everything a power creep by releasing new content thats better than the old stuff.
>play game that lets you build cars and fight other peoples cars
>devs introduce hovers cars which can strafe and travel in any direction, and avoid all terrain hazards
>wheel cars obsolete
>everyone using hover cars
Ok, I understand now. You're crying for attention because your main in whatever game is shit, and you want to experience the joy of winning but never will because you refuse to play a good character. Hence why you made this thread, so you can feel validated about your choices.
bait
Just make developers not want money anymore first, easy peasy.
Mostly because of matchmaking. Everything is ridiculously serious at all times, you'll rarely see the same people again so it's impossible to make friends and everyone acts like dicks, and there's no motivation to get good at the game since you'll just be put into games with players who are exactly as good as you.
People have always done this though. People would always pick Peach in Super Mario Bros 2 because her float was OP. People would choose Yoshi in Mario Kart because he's the fastest. Shit, even before video games, people would pick overpowered classes in D&D because new flash, it's fun to win and feel powerful. The "fun" didn't go anywhere, your idea of fun was always just something people did when screwing around with friends and not really caring about the game itself.
If you're asking where THAT went, the experience of messing around with pals and not caring about the game that much, that's another story. The death of socialization, the rise of matchmaking MP, and the end of private servers is to blame for that. Most people playing games now are playing with strangers, and the only thing uniting them is the game, so they have nothing else to focus on. Even worse than that, people can actually get agitated if you don't play the way they expect you to, because it can impact their experience with the game.
Compare playing an MMO with a bunch of friends to running a dungeon with randoms. Or playing a local multiplayer FPS versus Overwatch online or some shit. You'll see the difference instantly. That's what you miss, the environment that didn't give rise to metafagging. Not any overall lack of metafagging. People with no friends playing with strangers always acted like that.
>competitive
you understand what that word means, right? because you sure make it seem like you don't.
But it wasn't that way before, at least in the arcade times and the birth of home consoles.
I remember playing with my friends and we all picked what we liked at any time, disregarding the objective power of other characters completely.
I wonder if having such a big vidya scene is a blessing or a curse.
I think this is the biggest pice of insight I've read about this topic.
Even then, maybe I didn't have such exposure back in the day to strict metas and winning mentality in vidya as we all used it as escapism and a general way to have fun and engage with other people.
What does being in a competitive enviroment have to do with picking what's best?
Do you realize that people don't become athletes from one day to another, do you? They have to put work on it and try to be better themselves.
That's what I'm talking about, the progression, the actual drive to be better instead of using a crutch.
This aswell.
It baffles me how people still think it is hard to balance a competitive enviroment.
>Everyone deals 1 damage point per attack
>This new character deals 3 points per attack
>"Don't do that, everybody will move on to the new character"
>"Don't worry, we'll balance it later"
>2 months go by
>The new character now deals 10 damage points per attack
>Older characters deal 8 to compensate
>Game dies
The endless loop of competitive gaming.
>What does being in a competitive enviroment have to do with picking what's best?
because if you are truly trying to be competitive, you'd pick the best and strongest option.
give me ONE reason why you would pick the slower car over he faster car in the context of being competitive.
the only reasons would be because of "fun", because you want to challenge yourself or you think your skill can make up for it
or because you think he "slower car" is actually the faster car in practice.
either way you'd pick the top dog. that is, if you want to be competitive.
but most people are only semi competitive (or not at all) and that's why low tiers get played as well.
This mentality is why videogames are shit nowadays, desu,
it's not a particular mentality. that's just the natural result of being "competitive". and that's is why i posted