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shadowthehh t1_j2di4yn wrote
Reply to What’s a game that you owned, tried to play, but it was too hard. So you put down the game for a long period of time, played others to improve, then came back and beat? by Ellaciraptor
Not exactly the same, but a fairly similar anecdote.
I played Dark Souls 3 up to the final boss and then dropped the game because I thought defeating it would immediately set me to NG+.
I was wrong. And when I found out, in order to train my now atrophied Souls skills back up, I played through Bloodborne. Ironically, again, up to right before the final boss. This one indeed autotriggering NG+.
shadowthehh t1_j2cw5vx wrote
Reply to Looking for “1.5 Player” games. by Crislak
You mentioned Sonic 2, but Shadow The Hedgehog also has this. During the story, a 2nd player can control most of the other Sonic characters when doing the hero objectives.
shadowthehh t1_iye4t1k wrote
Reply to comment by CrypticXSystem in Are fighting games getting old? by CrypticXSystem
You're good.
But the answer is largely power fantasies. Highly skilled warriors have been glorified throughout human history, and so being able to fill the hero role and (usually) defeat evil or prove they're the strongest without any of the real consequences scratches a certain itch alot of people have in the back of their minds.
shadowthehh t1_iydye94 wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Are fighting games getting old? by CrypticXSystem
That doesn't put them in the fighting game genre.
The fighting genre includes games like Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, Tekken, Soul Caliber, Super Smash Bros, etc.
As for what you mentioned...
Elden Ring: Action RPG.
God Of War: hack'n'slash.
Resident Evil: These ones actually kinda jump around abit, but mostly they're survival horror.
Fortnite: Third person shooter.
Apex/CoD: First person shooter.
So your actual question would be more along the lines of "Why do so many games focus so heavily on combat?"
shadowthehh t1_iydvzj4 wrote
Reply to Are fighting games getting old? by CrypticXSystem
None of the games you mentioned are fighting games.
shadowthehh t1_iy87jrm wrote
Pun fully intended...
Hell yes.
However it's not really a story game. In fact the Doom Slayer at many points outright ignores any exposition being given to him.
shadowthehh t1_j6wa5cz wrote
Reply to What is the coolest/scariest fact you know about space? by [deleted]
False vacuum decay fucks me up due to the idea that it could happen at any point at any moment.