>>714534496
you could say any of this about any game or genre where 2 or more players compete against each other. but a lot of other games whether theyre counter strike, rocket league, street fighter, dota2 remain popular and have massive player bases with healthy numbers of noobs joining regularly.now i believe, and people in this thread seem to be in agreement that the reason that these so called "slashers" die off and havent had a breakthrough hit game or franchise yet is that the high level gameplay is nonsense, to put it into one word.

you pick up an FPS because you want a game where you have gunfights, and where skill at aiming is the factor that separates skilled players from new players at least in the mechanical sense. you can imagine by looking at utter noobs what the game must look like at the highest levels: better aim, better coordination, better tactics etc. the same is not true of slashers. its a completely different game and different set of "skills" at the highest level. it looks like a different game and mockery of the thing its supposed to simulate

i dont think condensing it to "cry baby shitters cant hang with the pros" really covers it