Thread 712980721

What are /v/'s thoughts of friendslop games?

>but those are just coop games we've had coop games forever
Friendslop is a very specific flavor of coop games.

>>712980721 (OP)
I have friends so I enjoy them.

>>712980721 (OP)
I don't have friends so I hate them.

both lethal and repo are kind of nothing games with no real gameplay and if tards couldn't scream at their friends while they play it, no one would of bothered with these games.

>>712980721 (OP)
>Friendslop is a very specific flavor of coop games
Define them.

>>712980721 (OP)
I have 130 hours on REPO beta with about 1/4 of it being solo.

I, someone who is within access to buddies, enjoy them.
However they all have awful longevity. They are the perfect example of FOTM.

I'll forever be pissed that that god damn furfaggot idiot didn't update Lethal Company more during its golden days. Threw one or two updates at it then worked on his visual novel games that no one cares about or will even play.
Mods had that game on life support for months but nowadays its basically dead.

>>712980721 (OP)
Only multiplayer games worth playing.

lethal was fun for a few weeks
everything after comes off as a cheap clone cashing in on a trend

>>712980843
More often than not horror
No story or anything, just games with "gameplay loops"
Purposely made to be unfair and have aggressive learning curves to ensure that your first batch of hours is full of funny deaths, screaming, and hype moments. Basically "Funny Moment Generators"

>friendslop
you know when you look at a piece of fanart on the internet and you can just tell the artist draws porn for a living?
in this case you can just tell this is a twitter originated buzzword

Lethal was (and still is modded) dungeon diving kino. throwing together a modpack with some custom moons, endgame content and the casino mod makes the game feel fresh and rewarding, still one of my favorite games to play with friends but they rarely want to play it.

Singleplayer is too punishing, but still a solid horror game.

>>712980843
>not combat focused
>usually 4+ players
>streamer bait
>microphone/voice chat strongly suggested

>>712981078
Pretty accurate, I buy it.
Yes I do enjoy them and its true that they get old after a little while once you see all there is. I hate that they are always early access to justify updates, at least they often compensate it by being dirt cheap most of the times.
What other games are like this aside of Lethal and REPO? I saw some copycats but they were genuine asset-flip slops.

>>712980721 (OP)
any ones focused around 3 people?

>>712981424
Content Warning and Headliners. Phasmophobia and its clones also fall into this category.

>>712981424
Kletka --- Cold, Russian aesthetic
Murky Divers --- Cartoony Scuba Divers
Headliners --- Pokemon Snap but with Zombies and Kaijus

>>712981501
Shit absolutely forgot about them lol, I think that proves the point further.

>>712980721 (OP)
I kinda wanna fuck the REPO robots.

>>712980918
Cute breasts on her

>>712981595
Anon they are made of tin that shit cuts.

>playing REPO with a few friends
>one of them is a cute girl
>hide under table
>she's hiding beside me
>gets super close to my face
>"come here often?"
My heart was beating so fast. Why am I like this.

>>712980721 (OP)
Lethal Company and Repo were funny. The others are more obviously just trend chasing schlock with no substance.
I don't have friends so I don't mind them one way or another though. I just pass up the gayming content that gets stunlocked by them. Gets boring once you're semi-familiar with the game. Party games like Jackbox are better for stream bait since it isn't just "react to thing and purposefully fail"

eventually you come to accept that better with friends is a meme for normalfags.
>universal problem
>everyone has to be on at the same time. and of course you need friends. if you lose your friend group its over
>party games (like jackbox)
>the game itself is usually a glorified prompt box for your own humor
>fad squad games (like lethal company)
>vast majority have minimal appeal on their own, and mostly come down to reacting to shit
>proper squad games (like DRG)
>universal problem amplified, even just playing with randos in comparison to friends is hollow
>progression based games (like abiotic factor)
>universal problem amplified, everyone has to be on for just about everything or else someone's experience is getting fucked and/or they start to fall behind everyone else
>sandbox games (like minecraft)
>hollow at their core, and if you have more "endurance" than the others you'll probably end starting a project that takes you longer than the others interest, leaving you alone with your gigabuild and nobody to show it to.

>>712983890
Skill issue

>>712980721 (OP)
>friendslop
I like them but they get boring pretty fast. Lately I don't play with friends because they only play Rivals and Dead by Daylight which I wouldn't mind playing if they actually had fun and not be angry at every little thing making me feel like I am the only one having fun. Wish we would play some party games but I don't see it will happen considering friend's gf is fucking try hard and can't have fun because she can't win in party games.

>>712986501
>I wouldn't mind playing if they actually had fun and not be angry at every little thing making me feel like I am the only one having fun
I play tarkov with my friends and they all die a lot, feel the exact same. They refuse to play anything else

>>712980721 (OP)
some are shitty cashgrabs.
some are good games.
some are good solo.
all are fun with friends.

>>712980721 (OP)
FOTM by design, which makes me dislike them, but I'm reluctant to openly shit on them. At least they're functional for getting people into VC.

>>712987382
I can't understand this, why play something if you are mostly angry while playing the game? I asked them once about it and they told me they're having fun but I can't see how being annoyed by every simple inconvenience is fun to them. "This teammate sucks!", "this character is broken!, "this skill is broken!" etc. every single fucking game. I can't stand it to the point I don't even want to chat with them online

>>712981632
no lewding azumanga girls, bitch.

>>712980843
A game that's designed around the fact that playing with your friends is automatically enjoyable.
>shallow gameplay mechanics that rely on player to player interaction
>barebones concept and gameplay loop, to be padded out by player to player interaction
>simplistic, usually comedic or bizarre artstyle
Don't get me wrong, I play these games and I enjoy them, but saying this isn't a genre is retarded.

>>712981632
>>712980918
incredible how troons always out themselves

>>712980721 (OP)
They're fun but not for long. They are the perfect example of FOTM even though they shouldn't have to be. I can understand Lethal or Schedule 1 not updating regularly since they're one-man-shows but the REPO devs are something else. Multiple months of work for one beta-looking ass map, two new mechanics and some balance changes.

>>712980721 (OP)
I don't have any friends to play friendslop games with

>>712980721 (OP)
I hate that they're focusing on making Repo more like Lethal Company instead of its own thing. The appeal of Repo is working up to being overpowered and throwing enemies that used to be dangerous straight into pits, if I wanted to struggle I'd just play Lethal.

I enjoyed the text to speech in repo