Anyone else dislike the Battle Royale genre?

Gunz13 wrote: ↑ Yes 100% for the same reason.

If I do game during the week it is for a couple of hours. The last thing I want to do is spend 20 min looting only to be killed in some bullshit way.

Jimboski wrote: ↑ It's not only those points you mentioned but it's the fact that when you die you just watch your friends play lol. At times you just wait 30 minutes unless your party backs out.

jb10071 wrote: ↑It's similar to any game though, it becomes more enjoyable the better you become. When you're in the top 3 fighting for the win, things get intense, adrenaline starts to creep in, you're under pressure to eliminate people before the circle closes you in. That's the rush you play for.

It's very different in multiplayer mode, you're racking up kills - you die, you respawn. You know the map, you know the weapons, you can spot enemy tendencies, you're not constantly adjusting to a scene. Totally different game.

DjRags604 wrote: ↑ Just played a few rounds of CoD Warzone for the first time. I’m typically an average/slightly above average CoD player but I really disliked this experience. This seemed to be the rhythm of the matches
1. Land, scramble for gear and don’t get killed
2. Armor up and camp, waiting for circle to shrink
3. If circle threatens you, move and camp again. If not, stay and camp further.
4. Wait for shrinking circle to force short burst of action
5. Win or die

I realize it’s supposed to play different than regular CoD but I didn’t think it would be that boring. Got some kills but died usually in the first 50 people. Irealize I’m in the minority but really disliked my time. Anyone else feel similarly or are most enjoying it?

M1GOmigs wrote: ↑
Agreed - part of it is chasing the feeling of winning, which is unmatched by a regular multiplayer game or even larger Conquest/Ground War mode win. I could have an amazing regular multiplayer game where my team wins the game and I rack up the most kills, but once you finish, you automatically jump into the next match without that feeling that you accomplished something. The satisfaction of my team beating out 100-200 enemies to come out on top is just not there, and it's hard to explain.

daner90 wrote: ↑ I typically dislike the Battle Royale genre because I don't feel like I get enough action for my time (Father of 2, full time job=not much time for gaming). Fortnite was the first Battle Royale I tried and I found it incredibly boring and a waste of time.

With the release of Fall Guys last week on PS Plus I have found an exception to this genre. This game is incredibly fun and quick to get into a game. It is basically non-stop action with very little downtime. Two thumbs up for Fall Guys!

daner90 wrote: ↑ I typically dislike the Battle Royale genre because I don't feel like I get enough action for my time (Father of 2, full time job=not much time for gaming). Fortnite was the first Battle Royale I tried and I found it incredibly boring and a waste of time.

With the release of Fall Guys last week on PS Plus I have found an exception to this genre. This game is incredibly fun and quick to get into a game. It is basically non-stop action with very little downtime. Two thumbs up for Fall Guys!

M1GOmigs wrote: ↑ Agreed - part of it is chasing the feeling of winning, which is unmatched by a regular multiplayer game or even larger Conquest/Ground War mode win. I could have an amazing regular multiplayer game where my team wins the game and I rack up the most kills, but once you finish, you automatically jump into the next match without that feeling that you accomplished something. The satisfaction of my team beating out 100-200 enemies to come out on top is just not there, and it's hard to explain.

DjRags604 wrote: ↑ I can understand that, even if I didn’t experience it myself. I did have a brief moment of excitement where I held down a room to capture some Intel. Nobody really challenged but I was freaking out the whole time. It reminded me a little bit of king of the hill or hard point. However, after that it was just more of me waiting around and then eventually I was killed by someone who I had dead to rights. Again, I know I am in the minority and I don’t for see these games going away but I hope that class in multiplayer still shows itself in future releases

M1GOmigs wrote: ↑ Yeah, it's definitely not for everyone, but I think winning or getting close to winning makes things more interesting. I still remember the very first time I won a BR game - it was PUBG, and I had a squad with a couple RFDers in it ( @gatorb6 @SpicYMchaggis ) where our quad managed to hold down two apartments to end the game, gunning down the last team as they tried to flank around the houses. Nothing in gaming has brought the same kind of feeling with it than winning at BR.... The anticipation and the level of stress amps up as the circle closes and less people are left on the map. If anything, it's like a Search & Destroy game because there are no respawns and the stakes are higher. Last week, I had a day where my duo/squad came in 2nd place three times and we narrowly missed each win. I can still vividly picture how those all played out in the end, and I've even replayed the what-ifs in my mind to try to learn from where we made mistakes or where luck just wasn't in our favour.

BTW I'm not young either - I and the guys I run with are all in their 30s. Some, like me, have kids and all of us are employed full-time. It's basically taken over my late night gaming and I'm able to squeeze in like 2-3 games. Thankfully other games like Cyberpunk aren't getting in the way right now. I will jump also into regular MP as well, especially when I need to grind guns or just for a quick fix though

M1GOmigs wrote: ↑ The satisfaction of my team beating out 100-200 enemies to come out on top is just not there, and it's hard to explain.

ReeGee wrote: ↑ No one is ever really beating or even engaging with anywhere close to 100 players in a typical BR game. More often than not you're probably only actually engaging with maybe 1/4 of those total players if that and making it to the end is largely determined by chance of how the other skirmishes in other areas of the map played out that you had no influence over.