Friendslop is a scourge on the industry. How do we stop it?

>>715250727 (OP)
Whatever you're doing OP, it's working.

>>715250727 (OP)
execute all people that have friends by firing squad obviously

>>715250727 (OP)
lol loser

Its Streamerbait, will be forgotten like all the other FOTM slop

>>715250727 (OP)
The best selling list on steam is always such a bunch of braindead fucking slop. Why are they like this?

>>715250927
>you should talk about every video game that comes out forever or it's slop

>>715250727 (OP)
NPC game. Friends are not real and only bots pretend they have any.

>>715250727 (OP)
>sold more than Expedition 33

>>715250727 (OP)
I am always looking for new games to play with my friends
I don't get why more games don't come with coop

A friend bought me this to play with him. Now I've played tons of zoomer 5 day play then drop games but this piece of shit was fucking BORING and I love me some Death Stranding. I genuinely have never played a more boring game in my life and it wasn't even fun with friends. Like Fucking hell we are doomed when shit like this sells. I'd rather tranny propaganda with micro transactions if the game is at least somewhat engaging. I pretty much tabbed because /v/, this, and Webfishing to keep some form of stimuli on my mind because I was getting sleepy trying to play this garbage.

>>715250956
I would say there's little emotional investment in these games, and they know it. It's enjoying a game in an ironic sense where I suppose they don't risk getting too attached or judged. The low commitment angle is probably the key to it.

>>715251228
That game is also shit

>Fun game
>Bad

I don't get it

finna play this tonight with friends i havent spoke to in a long time

>>715251228
>$7 game vs $60 game


Gee, I wonder...

>>715250727 (OP)
I'm curious to know if people would still find shit like this, repo and lethal fun if they couldn't talk to their friends over the in game voice comms and hear the audio trail off.


I like playing games with friends, but I've never gotten the apeal of these "waoh so wacky" non games.

>>715250727 (OP)
I've got a multi-million dollar idea for the next friendslop game but I'm not skilled enough in making multiplayer games.

>>715250927
I still think Lethal Company is good.

>>715251528
Install gemini-cli

>Lethal Company
Didn't buy it
>REPO
Didn't buy it
>Liar's Bar
Didn't buy it
>Content Warning
Got it for free, played once, uninstalled
>Peak
Won't buy it


I don't invest in shit I know I'll play once or twice and then either we all drop the next week or I need to schedule 3 months in advance to play.

was amongus the first friendslop game ever invented?

>>715251510
>if they couldn't talk to their friends over the in game voice comms and hear the audio trail off
Proximity voice chat seems to be a huge part of it. But even then, Human Fall Flat didn't have it and sold oer 50 million copies.

>>715251505
>$60 game
???

>>715250927
FOTM has always been the weirdest criticism to me
There is almost no game worth playing for more than a month

>>715251572
all that time between lethal company and peak, yet you still haven't made one friend?

I want to learn unity and become a millionaire so that I can live a NEET life forever

>>715251582
I'd say Left 4 Dead was but back then we called those Coop shooters

>>715251510
They wouldn't even find these games fun if they were more expensive. The only reason any of those succeeded is because they are $10 less full price. The key to a game being successful on Steam is to be as close to free as possible and capable of running on even the oldest third world toaster. All three games also do that from what I can tell.

>>715251582
No, that's Human Fall Flat.

>>715251651
Start learning then
Pirate udemy courses

>>715251647
Learn to read retard, I made the mistake of buying somewhat costly games to play with my friends only for them to drop them within the week and me being left with a game that's boring solo

>>715250927
We live in an era where games will never be timeless again. The market is so oversaturated and players are so disparate, everyone forgets most titles and only remembers the few they personally played.

>>715251643
>FOTM
It also means the game has no lasting relevance or impact.

>>715251643
>There is almost no game worth playing for more than a month

Competitive PvP games can be if they really hook you like fighting games. There's at least depth to the gameplay there and something to learn and get better at.

>>715251718
can say that without crying

>>715250727 (OP)
You can't stop it, because it's not a problem, it's a consecuence
Streamers getting paid to play games, and orbiter simps smelling a chance to play with their favourite e-celeb, are the problem.
Both of those change the landscape of games without actually adding quality to the games.
They are non-quality variables being pandered because it brings money.
Imagine if the steam says "every game with a crayon painting minigame gets 15% steamcut instead of 30%"
Non-quality variable, all games released on steam would have a crayon painting minigame, it had nothing to do with you or delivering "better games"

>>715251643
You ever replay games you really like years later?

>>715251643
False. There are a lot of multiplayer games that have become timeless and always have people playing, like Age of Empires 2, COD, Halo, WoW, and Dota 2/LoL. Every single one of those games is over 20 years old at this point yet just as consistently popular as ever. None of them are flavor of the month trash like this game and the others like it.

>streamer streamer streamer
Do you people have friends? It's fine if you don't, I barely have any because I just don't work well with people. But the point is that many turbo normie kids and girls buy these games and they don't even watch streams. You underestimate the mind of a sheeple and the amount of kids Steam has.

>>715251643
These kind of people are annoyed that people are having fun with a game instead of begging on discord for someone to play the MTX scam game they bought (Probably fighting game), that's just seethe. And probably someone will come up with a 3hrs clickbaity video essay stating why fun games are bad and streamer culture is bad. Instant Upvote

>>715250727 (OP)
Kill every normie NPC who has "friends".

This isn't really friendslop because you can play alone.
>>715251228
>an actual game sells more than movie slop for normies
Good.

>>715251643
Actual broccolihaired opinion

>>715251959
Poorfag third worlder spotted

>>715251987
>Normies are having fun

Why aren't you playing anon games ? My backlog has like 30 games and I haven't even tried to look for recommendations.

>>715252059
You can play lethal and repo alone too, but the only reason people play these games is for wacky moments over voip and not the gameplay.

>>715252078
But it's the truth.

>>715252146
>Having fun with games is bad, except for mario party, that piece of dogshit is fun

Mario Party is from nintendo and it's Japanese and it's allowed to be dogshit

>>715251910
10 games out of a hundred trillion? I rest my case
Any other good game you can think of you played and beat in less than a month and maybe replayed it years later

>>715252146
But I like climbing games

>>715252115
No they aren't. The point is they are programmed. There is absolutely no such thing as friends. These aren't people.

>>715252275
>There is absolutely no such thing as friends
Jesus, can you at least try not sounding like a whiny roastie going through a breakup? Go into your vent channel or whatever.

>>715252236
When did I ever mention mario party?


>>715252246
Fair enough, that's the one thing I can see ok about peak. Turn your brain off and throw on a vid/podcast/album and just climb shit.

>>715252245
Well you can beat Super Metroid in 3 hours.

>>715252275
They're people having fun. Playing video games, watching anime and having “based” opinions doesn't make you any more interesting anon.

>>715251510
Yeah, they're still fun. I've got buddies that I occasionally play games like Lethal Company, Content Warning, and Kletka with. We don't use voice chat at all, and sometimes it actually kinda feels like it adds to the experience. Like when you get split up, you can't just drone into Voice Chat to be able to hear each other nearby, so you just have to kinda trust/hope they're nearby and were able to see your message when you intermittently send it, not knowing if they died or wandered off or what have you.

People who talk about "the industry" are pseuds.

>>715251718
>costly
none of these games are more than ten bucks anon.

>>715250727 (OP)
Only soulless shitskin third worlders play garbage like this. They can't afford or run anything else and they are too stupid to form their own opinions so they follow streamers and what others tell them, much like women. Also, there is no such thing as friends when you're over the age of 12, and that's facts.

>favorite streamer now nearly exclusively plays friendslop trash with his dipshit unintelligible spic friends

I don't see the issue with talking/communication being a main component of a cooperative game. Just because that has a stronger potential turn it into tiktok/streamerslop, doesn't mean the game itself isn't good at its core.

>>715252275
Just ponder the rope at this point lil nigga

>>715251228
One game actually takes skill to play and beat. the other is climbing slop so you can have funny clips of you failing to make for your youtube channel.

>>715252246
What are some climbing games?

>>715252704
I wouldn't mind it if there was actual substance to the gameplay.


Shit like lethal or repo are close to having good gameplay, but there's no real reason to bother with all the loot or engaging enough gameplay to want to bother getting said loot.

>>715252374
>>715252481
>>715252720
You're in for such a rude awakening lmao. Enjoy realizing absolutely none of your so-called friends are there for you or care about you at all when you actually need them. You pieces of garbage are going to get the worst karma of your pathetic lives for this and nobody you think has your back is going to give a shit whatsoever. Enjoy finding out how wrong you are, kiddos.

>>715252801
NTA but White Knuckle is quite good.

>>715252918
You're just unbearable of autismo but that's not the problem. The problem is you being too low intelligence to realize that and accept that people are different.

>Low price points, often in the single digits
>Short development times
>Simple but solid mechanics, with a constant push for innovation in order to stand out from the crowd
>Already spawned multiple interesting new subgenres
>Little to no cutscenes or story, pure gameplay
>High replayability
>Well optimized
>Free updates
>No MTX
>Fun
Somebody please explain why I should be upset about all this.

>>715250727 (OP)
There's still too few co-op games. Such an under-explored genre with lots of interaction potential.

>>715251750
>has no lasting relevance or impact.
So meaningless criticism

>>715252918
bro thinks he's a movie villain

>>715253059
No. You're just an idiot and a child. But keep trying to troll, you're only making your karmic debt worse. You are going to suffer and none of your "friends" will be there for you. You will find it was never anything more than social shelter of convenience for people too weak and afraid to be on their own, like you.

ITT: future suicide victims

>>715252734
E33 is pretty easy though. I think it's more that people feel self-conscious about playing an overly serious game and telling people they like it.

>>715253118
Because it doesn't reach an ephemeral level of mechanical complexity for me to make a video essay about it on Youtube, so I'll instead project myself onto you and say it's not real fun and you're just playing for Youtube clips to post to YOUR channel

>>715253237
I don't have friends. See the difference is that I at the very least recognize that people are different. You don't. You think in a way. You think everyone is just like you but just haven't "woke up to the real world" yet. That makes you an idiot.

>>715253125
Absolutely. Anyone that actually appreciates co-op knows that the selection of games is woefully limited, especially for certain genres and themes. It's loathsome how feckless spoids try to denigrate any and all co-op material because they're bitter developers (or the money being given to them) aren't being used to make yet another single player game to be dumped amongst the trillions of other ones out there already.

>>715253118
Actually not well optimized at all and pretty boring solo.

>>715252918
>believing in friendship is bad karma
If you truly believe this you are a sociopath. Seek help.

If a game isn't fun to play by yourself, then it isn't a good or fun game.

/thread

>>715253536
>solo
Who cares
Get some friends sperg

>>715252275
i agree. internet friends are generated from numbers by your CPU. you are sitting alone in your room talking to your computer, not people

>>715250727 (OP)
Why should we stop it? Go find some friends so you can play it as well, OP.

>>715253118
It's popular. You really think there would be a single thread if /v/ didn't see their favorite streamers spam it?

>>715253678
I just mean that it makes it not that good game when most of the fun comes from chatting with your friend.

>>715253743
I don't watch streamers and post threads about games I play

>>715253536
>pretty boring solo
God, who gives a shit. Every time people ask for a single player game to get co-op, we get to hear from you niggers speak on our behalf about how it'd totally be boring and unsatisfying to play as a horde so it's not worth even having as a basic throw-in feature, and "if you want co-op then go play something else," but oooooooooooo when it comes to a clearly-intended-to-be-multiplayer game, suddenly it HAS to also be developed to have a fully fleshed out single player component.

It's insufferable.

>>715250727 (OP)
>Outsold the Switch 2
Tendiesisters...we lost...

>>715251743
tw3, dos2, bg3, cp2077, I can keep going

>>715253536
>>715253772
Suuuuuuure
And when I play a game like SRB2K, and online multiplayer is an insane mad dash for first as racers and items go flying everywhere, that's also actually not real fun because, meanwhile, offline solo time trials are comparatively more boring, so clearly what I'm in for with THAT is for chatting with friends and not the multiplayer gameplay

>>715251957
you think normalfaggots are somehow hearing about + buying Peak on Steam instead of playing Fortnite or going out on Saturday night? Doubtful.

>>715254049
I only know two of those

>>715253743
>Game bad because... people found out about it, thought it looked fun, then played it and had fun with it

We actually need more "friendslop". Or as not retarded people call them, "co-op games". They're fun, they're popular, yet barely anyone is making them.

>>715253118
>pure gameplay
no, thats the point of the thread retard. Its not pure gameplay. Its pure hanging out with friends. The game is just an afterthought to that.

>>715253224
stop typing like a nigger.

twitterslop threadslop on the boardslop in /v/ - the slopya

>>715254171
it's almost like you don't play enough games to have a valuable opinion

>>715253452
Silent missions in Payday 2 without lots of meta-knowledge was very fun. Other than that most co-op I can think of is horde management with objectives, which is also quite fun, but very saturated. I want more heist games or something similar that requires some co-operative planning and execution to progress. Horde stuff often feels like playing solo with your own goals that don't directly depend on others.

>>715254506
But it is pure gameplay. The only argument ever brought up against these games' gameplay is
>well, it's not as fun in single player
And it's like, wow, you really cracked the code genius: it's a multiplayer game. You're doing the equivalent of trying to do a 1v1 duel on a map built for 24 players.

>>715251582
>was amongus the first friendslop game ever invented?
contra? Double dragon? Pong? Gaming is littered with "fun with friendsslop".

>>715251582
I fucking hate you retards

>>715250727 (OP)
You can't, it's the only genre of game you have to play to experience.
You can watch expedition 33 playthroughs and get some enjoyment out of it but the only way you get enjoyment out of stuff like this is playing it or enjoying the people playing it.
It's what pure gameplay games are.

>>715254506
Why do you so fervently despise games that you very clearly haven't played?

>>715251408
What game you play

>>715254506
Oh so you're just a bitter retard and have no friends, got it. It all makes sense now.

lmao just like host a lobby on /v/ or something if you're gatekept from making connections literally everywhere else you big loser

>>715250727 (OP)
This brings me hope that maybe one day I can make an hour long flavor of the month streamer bait multiplayer game that will ensure I never need to work another day in my life.

>>715252146
>only reason people play these games is for wacky moments over voip and not the gameplay
so, every multiplayer game

>>715251750
Why does it need any?

>>715250727 (OP)
this game took 3 months to make btw.
these guys printed 10's of millions in 3 months.

>>715250727 (OP)
It's a genuinely fun game though, even more fun when you're grouping up with random people and gauging how good/retarded they are as you progress.

>>715257145
I'm amazed it even took that long

>>715251750
>It also means the game has no lasting relevance or impact.
But then games like Lethal Company and Among Us still have thousands of players, inspired thousands of games, and show up everywhere as mods and cameos. Even FOTM games that were "famously sniped" and "quickly killed" like Fall Guys still have plenty of players, inspired a ton of other games (to the point that Sega wanted to make their own version after the Sonic collab), and hold continued relevance.

>>715251880
It just becomes that future you's FOTM then.

>>715257285
It's almost like these bitter retards have no idea what they're talking about and are just lashing out

>>715257220
a lot goes into a game if you let it, REPO took like 3+ years, they were working on it before lethal company was even announced.
3 months is very impressive even if it looks like shit.

>>715250727 (OP)
>ascent 7
>gets cold at night
>increased stamina so legitimately can softlock yourself if you don't get the right items
>HAVE to take up a slot in inventory for a flare(since no flares at the peak) and lantern so stamina is cut more
>perma death
How the FUCK do you beat this?

>>715254189
This. My friends are too different in skill level and intelligence for competitive games to be fun for everyone. But lighthearted co-op games are perfect for spending an evening and shooting the shit.

>>715257285
Almost like not everyone agrees on that. Among Us and Lethal Company have escaped the FotM label because of all the copies.

Remember the hole diggin game? That's a FotM game until we get a wave of clones.

>>715257592
Damn, it turns out single player garbage was the real flash-in-the-pan FOTM streamerbait trash the entire time. Let's roll out, Multiplayer GODS.

lmao, we've rapidly reached a point where not only is slop a near useless word, but that the people who use it for everything can be safely ignored alongside their opinions.

>>715250987
If a game is just the flavor of the month that's completely forgotten a year later it's essentially literal slop

>>715257547
What exactly do the flares do?

>>715258227
summon the helicopter at the peak

>>715251551
REPO was much better though.

Retards dont understand the meaning behind the term friendslop.

Party games are not friendslop
Coop Shooters are not friendslop
Multiplayer games are not friendslop

What makes a game friendslop is
>designed to be played by streamers exclusively
>designed to be not playable in singleplayer
>designed solely to be a streamlined experience with no new content past 10-15 hours
>cheap price and low budget art style


https://youtu.be/Rdnkrl-XSvo?t=64

Mario party is not friendslop, It can be played with bots and it's unique in its aesthetic. It has none of these features

>>715261658
>designed to be played by streamers exclusively

What the fuck does this even mean? King of the Castle is a game designed to be played exclusively by streamers. Jackbox, to a lesser extent, is a game designed to be played by streamers. In what way is PEAK designed to be played by streamers "exclusively"? Other than it being a multiplayer game that lends itself well to "fun" moments, something that could describe about a thousand other games.

>>715262172
You really are that clueless, aren’t you

>>715262172
I also forgot to mention these games are designed to be played with reaction and solely rely on social interaction to be "fun".


Yes jackbox and all those others games have streamer integration, but they are more party games for families or parties. Its not a mass quick flip like lethal company, REPO or PEAK.


Not all party games are friendslop, but all friendslop are party games.

>>715261658
>designed to be played by streamers exclusively
It's funny how the cope already starts here. Tens of thousands of people are playing it without giving a shit about streamers but "uhhhhhhhhh I'll loosely argue who it was ACTUALLY designed for, with no actual basis for it, so 100% none of it actually real and heckin valid"

>>715262398
>I also forgot to mention these games are designed to be played with reaction and solely rely on social interaction to be "fun".

That's completely subjective though. Under that definition, to me Mario Party would be "friendslop" because I don't find those games remotely fun to play solo, but PEAK wouldn't because after I played it a few times with friends I decided I liked the core gameplay enough to do solo runs to try and get the solo clear achievement.

All this criteria sounds to me like a post-hoc justification to explain why you have "superior" taste for not want to play the game the plebs are hyping up.

>>715250727 (OP)
>How do we stop it?
by seething on anonymous imageboards how people dare to have fun

>>715262680
>Under that definition, to me Mario Party would be "friendslop" because I don't find those games remotely fun to play solo
Yeah, the only Mario Party that I'd consider remotely fun to play solo would be Mario Party DS, because it actually puts a little bit of a spin on playing solo with stuff like the boss fights (there's also Mario Party Advance but it's barely Mario Party at all). Otherwise, playing single player Mario Party is duller than shit.

>>715262172
Most people don’t have 3 friends they can call up to play video games with. Friendslop games are basically unplayable unless you’re a streamer who has access to viewers or streamer friends to play with you. Everyone else will play a lesser version of the experience.

>>715262984
>Most people don’t have 3 friends they can call up to play video games with.

I am genuinely sorry that you believe this to be the case anon. Like I'm a total loser and even I still have enough friends that I had to install a mod to fit them all in a lobby for PEAK. I'd argue most people have at least 2 friends they can play video games with, that doesn't require being a popular streamer dude.

>>715257547
9 times out of 10 one of the 5 crates at the lava temple will have a flare, but it's still a massive skill issue if ONE of your team can't bring the original flare to the peak.

>>715261658
>Mario party is not friendslop, It can be played with bots and it's unique in its aesthetic. It has none of these features
But that's wrong. Mario party is not really "playable" singleplayer and it definitely wears out its novelty after you've seen all the boards and games once, which happens quite quickly.
It only has its price going for it per your arbitrary definition, and I don't see how that is a sensible criteria.

>>715262398
>no, you AREN'T having fun in this game, it's a reaction-only game!
Blow me faggot.

>>715263276
But mario party is not specifically designed for streamers, reactions and FPS talking and walking with a team or social deduction.

Friendslop is a very specific genre. I know friendslop when I see it.

>>715262984
>Most people don’t have 3 friends they can call up to play video games with

maybe if they're friends with the pretentious kind of gamers that turn up their nose at "friendslop", but otherwise nah I'd say most gamers have at least 3 friends dude, come on

>>715263169
Tard wrangling your friends so that your schedules match up and then asking them to play a game they probably have no interest in and probably won’t play unless you’re around isn’t exactly the easiest thing to do.

>>715262984
You can literally join the PEAK discord channel and find 10 million people to group up with.
>b-but they're not REAL friends
I already made several friends with random people I met through the discord. Thoubeit if you're an autistic shutin who can't speak without screaming about Jews and trannies then yeah I can see why you would hate meeting and playing with new people.

>>715262984
>Most people don’t have 3 friends they can call up to play video games with
I'd disagree heavily. If you can't find people IRL to play with, you can for sure get to know people online.
Personally, I have the opposite problem. There's not enough games for 5 people, so my friends and I are very limited in what we can do.

>>715250727 (OP)
/v/ loathing fun co-op focused games will never not be funny to me

Landfall literally SPECIALIZES in making cool fotm games at this point. They must making bank

It's fun

>>715263695
>>715263503
>>715263169
Fake gamer normalfag election tourists get the fuck out! REEEEEE!!

>>715250727 (OP)
>having fun with friends is a scourge
?

also solo peak runs are fun

This board is so fucking miserable lmao

>>715251643
wow you are fucking stupid
you are the exact kind of brainless trog that >>715250727 (OP) was made for

>>715263503
>ask friends to play in the morning
>sorry man gotta drive my kids to school/go to work
>ask friends to play at night
>sorry man work kicked my ass. Just gonna get some sleep.
Soon you will learn.

5 million people who got tricked into buying this. No one knows five million people, you're selling to anonymous strangers.

>>715253240
People feel lonely in the company of others all the time.

Loneliness is being too afraid to talk about the things you really care about, instead having to fucking fake it and pretend we all love Peak.

Slop like Peak actively discourages genuine connection and sincerity and being passionate about anything, and instead encourages irony poisoning and fakeness

>>715263719
They arent co-op focused games, they are content farms, clip farming games to get traction and they have little to no actual long term content. They are low budget games designed around proximity chat, social interaction, yelling and procedural generated content with jumpscares.

While party games are similar, they are different. Not all party games are friendslop but all friendslop are party games.

>>715264185
Shit man, I can't believe I got tricked into having fun playing video games with other people. How will I cope?

>>715251987
Newfag

>>715264293
>I'm a social recluse who doesn't know how to socialize, therefore nobody is genuinely having fun with this game

>>715251643
FOTM just mean a shit game that no one would buy normally if it wasn't for streamers hyping it.
Likewise it means no one will buy it after a month has passed because it's a shit game.

>>715253118
Because the average /v/irgin doesn't have friends and therefore must seethe.

>>715264359
the first thing you need to do is stop playing video games. it's the only way to avoid being tricked again. i suggest replacing it as your hobby with jacking it to hentai nonstop like us real gamers

>>715264293
>loneliness is being too afraid to talk about the things you really care about, instead of having to fucking fake it and pretend we all love peak
Or maybe they're talking about peak because it's what they're playing?

>>715264102
>Ask friends to play at reasonable hours once a week
>They agree and you have a few hours of fun
Maybe try being an adult

>>715264463
I mean the low commitment nature of it. Sure you can watch a shitty comedy with friends and there's no risk there and you can have fun, but there's a point where it only encourages a fear of being passionate about anything, a fear of sharing anything real with your friends.

This is the fate of all friendslop games.

>>715264682
>he thinks reasonable hours exist when you’re an adult
Soon you will learn.

>>715250727 (OP)
>stop having fun!

>>715264738
As proven by the trolling, meme-riddled, bad faith arguments shelled out by people who defend this game. They're incapable of being sincere.

>>715264293
>Loneliness is being too afraid to talk about the things you really care about, instead having to fucking fake it and pretend we all love Peak.

This is why you come here, to be able to talk about what you genuinely like and be surrounded by such friendly community

>>715264297
So what you’re saying is that they’re co-op games. Got it.

>>715265026
The culture of this place is very much a part of the same problem that propelled Peak to popularity. Drowning in irony just like you. Peak is a defense mechanism like the memes you hide behind.

>>715250727 (OP)
Make fun games at reasonable price points. One of the major reasons these succeed is because they're only 5-20 bucks.

>>715254049
Yeah I didn't play those. Don't really like RPGs.

>>715265032
No they all have a specific formula of the same objective based get in get out formula that is infinite, procedurally generated. Specifically designed to be played by streamers, clipfarmed and to have a 2 week shelf life.

That's what makes friendslop different from party games like jackbox or mario party. Mario party is nintendoslop but not friendslop.

>>715264293
For what it's worth, anon, I agree with you. I've had a consistent friend group for years and recently they have been infected by the "frienslop" mind virus where every week they are just wanting to play the new cheap, indie friendslop game that they found out about on reddit. It's all they want to play now. I fought it for a while and have made comments about it here and there, but now I just begrudgingly play along because they're my friends and I don't want to be left out, but I fucking hate this shit and it does make me feel lonely because it's all fake. I used to genuinely enjoy playing games with them and now I have to pretend to have fun with shit like "Peak" and REPO or whatever other game they find next

>>715265634
What would you rather be playing with them instead, and why don't they want to play those games?

>/v/ complains about modern games being too "cinematic" and prioritizing graphics and/or retarded plot shit over gameplay
>/v/ also routinely posts about chill games they used to play as kids with their friends
>/v/ now also hates these cheap, briefly entertaining games designed to be played with friends
I don't like games either, anons, but at least I'm consistent about it.

>>715265634
At that point why are they still your friends?

>>715265784
Guilty Gear Strive

>>715250727 (OP)
Play the copycats on Roblox for free instead of wasting money on a game your group is only going to play once or twice.

>>715253816
Maybe all coop games are just shit, ever think of that?

>>715265865
And my second question? Do you think they would get into fighting games with you if only these cheap, mass-appeal co-op games didn't exist?

>>715265634
How is trying out cheap popular games any different than going to a matinee

>>715265634
>and it does make me feel lonely because it's all fake
But isn't that a you problem? YOU are fake, because you play along with games YOU don't like and pretend to have fun when you don't. Your friends clearly just enjoy other games than you.
Especially since you mentioned wanting to play guilty gear in your other comment. That's just a genre most people don't like and don't have fun with.
So I would say the games do not encourage fakeness or whatever at all (like you and the other guy say), but rather you feel like you have to be fake because you want to fit into something you don't like.

>>715265784
That other anon who said Strive is not me. I just want to play "real" games for lack of a better word. I'm really not picky. I just don't want them pitching a new cheap, indie game every single time I log on to play. And they don't want to play anything else because they just want to play whatever the new, popular thing is
>>715265859
I dunno. We're still friends otherwise. It's just the gaming shit that is annoying right now.
>>715266064
Because it's the only thing they want to play

>>715266271
Maybe try being a better friend.

>>715266217
>But isn't that a you problem? YOU are fake, because you play along with games YOU don't like and pretend to have fun when you don't
Sure. I never blamed them - the post I was responding to was talking about how you can feel lonely even with other people because you can't genuinely talk or relate. That's what I'm going through right now. I've tried to talk to my friends about these friendslop titles and suggest better games to play, but they just want to play the new, popular game. I don't want to feel left out, so I play along and feign enjoyment. It sucks. I'm just talking about it, not really blaming anyone

>>715250927
every game that /v/ has called streamer bait in the last 4 years has been really good and I still go back to them in multiplayer. was i trolled?

>>715266581
/v/ hates fun

>>715266581
More like you don’t belong here

>>715266545
I see. I just thought you were blaming the game for the situation like the other anon above when he said
>Slop like Peak actively discourages genuine connection and sincerity and being passionate about anything, and instead encourages irony poisoning and fakeness
because you said you agreed with him.
For what it's worth, I know your pain. My friends and I stopped playing competitive games of any kind, because it never works out and a certain someone always gets mad. So we are quite limited in our choices now.

>>715264760
Yeah but player count doesn't matter with friendslop because you get your friends together to play it. The amount of people you play it with will always be the same

>>715250987
If a game isnt talked about for at least a year+ then it has no cultural significance.

Are /v/fags jealous about not having friends, they’re the only ones who whine about friendslop? Autism getting in the way of being social again?

>>715257547
Ascent 6 and 7 rely both on your own skill, your knowledge of the day's mountain, and a good amount of luck. If you're in multiplayer you can get away with huddling for body heat, but if you're solo you NEED to find more heating options than just the starting lantern or you're fucked by the time you reach Alpine. Yesterday I made three attempts on Ascent 6 that ended in Kiln because I had really bad luck on item drops by the end of Caldera, the final supply drop had mostly food and I had to make some desperate reaches with lollipops and soda that couldn't quite make it.

Hopefully today's mountain is better, I'm eager to reach Wolf and Goat rank finally.

>>715266850
My overly competitive friend even gets mad during games like Peak. Dude can't help ruining everything

>>715267296
Yeah, same for me. It's usually fine for one or two sessions and then he starts shouting. Dude has issues, he's in therapy and it didn't change SHIT.
But we also don't want to cut him off, that would be a huge dick move.

You bought Peak because you wanted to forge connections.
I bought Peak because I intrinsically enjoy climbing games.
We are NOT the same.

>>715266957
Nobody comes back to these kind of games post launch

>>715267528
I know right, fucking stupid to me that people ITT are talking about this game as if the gameplay itself has no value.

>>715250727 (OP)
Do you guys not have friends?

>>715261658
>Mario party
>it can be played with bots
Literally no one is playing Mario Party with bots.
You'd have to be an incredibly autistic and pathetic individual to reach that point.

>game is about climbing
>made in Unity, where your entire model is pill-shaped, ensuring you are never truly standing on flat ground
>the mathematics of fall damage is fucked up and frequently will deal much more than it's supposed to
>>compounded by your own actions of trying to slow your fall or control it in any way
>holding shift when falling can cause you to take more damage
>Every single update somehow breaks more shit, the localization update left in localization notes in the lantern (read Loc: Snuff lantern when it's on)
>coconuts don't even make the sound when you hit people in the head anymore
>the QA team failed to realize that fucking AMD cards crashed in Tropics for the games 1.0 release
>the 1.0 release that was intended to be the final version, just released on steam with no early access (and otherwise respectable play)
Like holy fucking shit, I love the game, it's so fun with friends, but why can't these literal collegiate-niggers fucking pay for someone with actual talent working in Unity to fix the game for them? Why is it that being unable to reconnect to a lobby is a common issue still, why is it that crashing is still common for a swathe of the community, why the FUCK would they immediately partner with Makeship to make money instead of partner with PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO WORK IN UNITY TO FIX IT!???
It's like the most kike nigger behavior I've ever seen, the game was pure kino and has kino credits, it's soul incarnate, and yet for no reason at all they refuse to respect it despite it doing gangbusters
I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if one studio tries to take full control of it to get all the money, but that would've probably already happened by now
for FUCK'S sakes we couldn't even finish an ascent 7 run because someone dc'ed and couldn't reconnect, don't niggers actually test their fucking games with QA teams instead of just hiring their family members to do it for them?

i like to watch funny clips of people playing friend slop but I no play myself because no friend

>>715268270
>why can't these literal collegiate-niggers fucking pay for someone with actual talent working in Unity to fix the game for them?
If you bought it and are having fun, what does it matter? You’re still having a good time

>>715264778
>I don't know how to plan ahead! And I only make $15/hour at my manual labor McJob so I have to work really really hard for long long hours! I can't possibly make time fore video games!

>bro it's fun!
>bro it's whacky!
>bro it's zany!

And in a week it will be forgotten when your favorite zoomer streamer moves on to the next friendslop. You won't take my money Mr. Sheckleberg.

>>715267583
There are literally always people playing them

>>715250727 (OP)

>>715250727 (OP)
people like cooperative games that arent reliant on on shooting and your reflexes

>>715267052
The irony is that it's really easy to make friends in games like these if you just go to the official discord and group up with random people. A part of me thinks these perpetually-seething /v/irgins actually enjoy being friendless shitters who complain about not being able to enjoy anything.

>>715264760
thats still a lot of players
new games come out, its normal for people to move on

>>715251643
A game doesn't even become a game until you play it again.

>>715269743
>groomcord

>>715269806
fr fr that game fell off bro

>>715268270
Not shipping on disc made devs lazy and complacent.

>>715269912
Unless you're the one doing the grooming or you're a 10 year old being groomed, I don't see the problem with using Discord like any other chat room.

>>715269806
>If a game has 4 or more of these, it might be friendslop

Shit, is FNAF friendslop? All this time I never realised.

>>715269806
Where's fucking Among Us on this list

>>715270173
I changed it to 5. I think it should be a more strict requirement, I also updated the list.

FNAF is more horrorslop than anything desu.

>>715269806
>designed for streamers
What does this even mean?
Am I not allowed to have content that might make me or my friends laugh or talk to each other.

left 4 dead is friendslop

>>715251643
this really highlights the difference between millennials and older generations and the younger generations

>>715270465
>designed for streamers

It's exactly what is stated, a game that is designed for a twitch streamer to farm content, reactions, yelling, etc to 720p splice up clips to upload to tiktok, youtube shorts to generate ad revenue and subscriptions

>>715250727 (OP)
>people having fun playing games is a scourge on the industry
I fucking hate this place

>>715270574
Well yea, only encourages slop like this instead of real games

>>715270532
Not friendslop, there is an objective based gamemode, story, with an ending, different modes like versus.

>>715270638
What's a real game?

>>715270693
Nobody knows.

Theres one dude who keeps asking the friends group to buy these, the fag made us buy repo, played for 30 minutes and never again.

why are friendslop players like this?

>>715269806
I've never seen anyone moaning about simpler graphics make a good argument.
Sorry everyone, both Terraria and Minecraft are friendslop.

>>715270556
You haven't actually explained what it means, you just rephrased it using more words. What makes a game "designed for a twitch streamer to farm content, reactions, yelling, etc to 720p splice up clips to upload to tiktok, youtube shorts to generate ad revenue and subscriptions"? You could make tiktok reaction content about fucking dwarf fortress if you tried hard enough. What qualities of the games are you referring to that makes them "designed for streamers"?

>>715270793
Not friendslop, they have mods, can be played in singeplayer, they have an end goal with end game loot and items.

They can be co-op and in many times procedural generated but they are not friendslop.

>>715270758
And why are you still friends with him? Sounds like a problem with an easy solution

>>715270890
These games are specifically designed, as the chart says. They are designed for this.

Dwarf fortress isn't designed to be streamer bait content. It's not friendslop, and doesn't meet many of the criteria since it mostly focuses on singleplayer and is not co-op.

You have to meet a certain criteria to be considered friendslop

>>715270556
You can apply your shit logic to any game at all.
You must be miserable to check that sort of shit before buying games. Get what's fun for you because absolutely any game can be streamed and reacted to.

>Accidentally mishandle an antirope cannon
>It flies off into the sky
Welp

>friendless solo niggers whined about being forced to interact with people in MMOs
>now they're coming for co-op games

>>715266581
/v/ doesn't have any friends and thinks streamer bait is some kind of insult or something. If a games worth streaming it has to be halfway entertaining to play

I think some people hate co-op multiplayer because they're compsweats who need to play against rather than with people, they need those wins to feed their ego.

>>715271073
No, you can't apply this logic to "any game". There is strict set of requirements and these games are specifically designed to be friendslop.

Why is gmod not friendslop even though its largely multiplayer and has a massive co-op user base?

Because even though its streamer bait sometimes, it has a massive singeplayers, lots of content, unique content in servers. Thousands of hours of unique content. It's not friendslop. It doesn't meet the criteria.

>>715270926
Nope, they meet the criteria so your dipshit list either needs more highly selective rules for why fun games are specifically bad with these conditions or you can realise how fucking dumb this is

>>715258170
>forgotten a year later
More like a month. Remember repo? Lethal company? Schedule 1?

>>715271331
No they dont meet the criteria.

They specifically have unique content, mods, end game goals and progress and minecraft and terraria by default dont have proximity chat.

They aren't friendslop.

>>715271224
>constantly trying to argue about it being friendslop when others are questioning the definition of a game designed for streamers
You said gmod can be streamer bait, so it must be shit as well.

>>715251643
>no game worth playing for more than a month

This is why we should bring back Modding tools so people can continue to foster game content. People still play Quake and Doom even though you can beat that shit in an hr or two. Because Mods.

people have been complaining about there being no good co-op games ever since the industry killed it and now we have plenty
I think it's fine

>>715271413
There's more than one criteria that makes up a friendslop game, just having voice chat in a game or multiplayer doesn't make it friendslop.

This isn't some subjective opinion of mine, this is what exists in games like lethal company, peak, repo, content warning. They all share almost identical game structure.

>>715270965
i'm not, the dude is openly passive agressive towards me, i tolerate him because he's a friend of a friend

Friendslop doesn't even make top 100 in the list of problems in the industry.

>>715271224
>it's streamer bait
>NOOOOO NOT WHEN IT'S THIS GAME
Can't ever be consistent. Any game is content and can be reacted to.

>>715269806
The person who coined the term in the first place included a bunch of games that fit practically none of your criteria

>>715250727 (OP)
>Cheap game that a group of friends can easily enjoy for an afternoon or three.
>/v/irgins cannot comprehend this.

>>715271007
Your criteria are arbitrary and full of holes. The fact that you cannot even explain what they mean when asked shows how little thought you put into them. I could ask a dozen other people that use this stupid fucking term and they'd come up with different definitions to you anyway.

>>715271407
So Minecraft and Terria don't count because they don't meet ALL of the criteria, and because they have other aspects that aren't covered by the criteria, yet PEAK does count for some reason even though it also doesn't meet ALL of the criteria and also has other aspects that aren't covered by the criteria? God you're fucking dumb.

>>715270926
>they have mods, can be played in singeplayer, they have an end goal with end game loot and items.
you just described lethal company

>>715271534
No one is talking about if a game is friendslop, they're talking about your specific definition of streamer bait which is so vague because any game can be streamer bait.

>Friendslop, 2025
:l
>Friendslop, Retro
:O

>>715271634
Adding "slop" to a word doesn't mean somebody coined it.
>wordslop

>>715271642
it's joyless cunts with no friends justifying that a game they've never played or only played alone isn't good because they saw someone having fun.

>>715271634
Well my own definition is more valid, because its objectively looking at how "similar" they are. Lethal company, REPO, content warning etc all have objective defining features that make them friendslop compared to say minecraft.

I don't give a fuck about what some random who says and makes a shit tier list.

Friendslop is an objective term with objective qualities that can be measured.

>>715271621
It's not the fact that it can be reacted to, any game can be reacted to. The difference is friendslop is specifically designed for twitch streamers, gmod is and never was designed for this purpose.

Which is why gmod is not friendslop, among other things since it doesn't meet the criteria of all the other qualities of friendslop

>>715271724
well its different
>1:you needed to make friends IRL
>2:your friend needs to be together with you irl
discord "friendships" are not real friends.

>>715271876
>Friendslop is an objective term with objective qualities that can be measured.

It isn't, and the sooner you realize you're just some autist who's become fixated on a FOTM buzzword and not an authority on the matter, the better. Get over yourself you midwit.

>>715271659
PEAK meets friendslop because it has
>proximity chat
>procedural content
>designed to be played with friends
>designed for streamers
>cheap price under $10
>no real ending
>low budget art style

it meets all the criteria of friendslop where as minecraft doesn't.

Minecraft may be procedurally generated, but it's not friendslop. It has an ending, and is not specifically designed to be played multiplayer, or played by streamers.

>>715271407
Peak has a mod to see corpses of other lost teams, an ending where you reach the peak and progress by additional difficulties.
Simply having a directional mic is the biggest cope you can have.
Did everyone complain about your smoke alarm beeping?

>>715272006
They do though.

Lethal company
Content warning
Chained together
Devour
REPO

These are games that are friendslop because they all share the same qualities

>>715272025
>it meets all the criteria of friendslop

Apart from all the other ones that were in your gay little chart that you're now conviently forgetting about? It also does have an ending btw. Just because you can choose to play the game again on a higher difficulty doesn't mean that reaching the peak isn't the ending.

>>715270445
Add this to the list

>>715272154
Its also designed to forgotten. It's already being forgotten. It's friendslop. It's designed around playing with your friends and it's streamer bait. It's friendslop.

Just because it has an ending doesn't mean its stil not friendslop, it meets all the criteria.

>>715272006
bitch and moan all you want but its already cemented and widely used

>>715272025
>>designed for streamers
That's any game you can play though?
You can record and upload anything.

>>715272265
>it meets all the criteria.
>except for the one's it doesn't
>and also it meets this extra criteria that I just made up now

I hope to god you're just trolling me and you're not actually this retarded

>>715269912
Are you scared of being groomed? How old are you

>>715272329
Even if anything can be "designed" for streamers, friendslop isn't one quality, it's a list of criteria that makes something friendslop.

That's why GMOD isn't friendslop, despite being heavily used as streamerbait and youtube bait for 15+ years now.

>>715272025
But how many of your arbitrary criteria have to be met in order for it to be friendslop?
>no real ending
not true for PEAK, the ending is you leaving the island.
>cheap price under $10
Same for minecraft unless you're a loser who bought it late
>low budget art style
same for minecraft
Just say you don't like co-op games, dude. Your criteria are cooked, as the kids say, no need to over-complicate things.

>goal: reach the peak
>unlock new difficulties by reaching the peak
>credits roll after reaching the peak
>somehow not the end
Olympic level gymnastics going on here

FOTM or not 5 million copies is a lot. It's not a fake and gay metric like "players"

>>715272542
Minecraft isn't under $10 and its massively critically aclaimed, it also is not solely designed to be played multiplayer and it has no voice proximity chat like every friendslop has. It's the best selling game of all time and has millions of users still playing.

It's not friendslop.

Graphics fags will never learn that games age far better when styles instead of pure realism.

>>715272650
Club penguin was friendslop too

>>715272667
g*d i hate crackers so much

>>715272865
MMOslop, not friendslop.

It doesn't fit the criteria of friendslop

>>715272865
Runescape fits the criteria pretty well.
That proximity text chat is unquestionably.

reaching nearly 300 postslop in this thread soon

>>715272994
It's MMOslop.

Runescape wasn't designed to be streamed at all, and it has lots of unique content, quests, etc.

Also it is still popular to this day, unlike actual friendslops. I can tell when something is friendslop both on an objective basis and an emotional intuitive basis.

>>715273208
>I can tell when something is friendslop both on an objective basis and an emotional intuitive basis.

Your entire definition is based on emotion, as evidenced by your constant moving of the goalposts whenever someone pokes holes in your idiotic "criteria".

Hey guys have you checked out this dark souls game. It's got this proximity messaging thing and you can force your way into multiplayer.
Best yet is it never ends, the game loops over but gets harder.
The graphics are kind of low budget now but my favourite streamer loves that.

>>715270640
PEAK is the exact same, except instead of running from zombies you're climbing a mountain.

>>715273358
Its based on objective facts about these copy cat friendslop games that all have the same qualities, and I can see with my eyes that they are friendslop. It is objective.

Lethal Company
Content Warning
Among US
REPO
Devour
PEAK

These are friendslop games.

>>715273450
Uh huh, sure thing bud

>>715270445
>>715269806
>>715273450
Your criteria is just bad in general, you can't understand what you're trying to group because a game having proximity chat and no real end or goal doesn't fit it into an genre.
It's just stupid.

>>715250927
I have 60 hours in lethal company and we still play. We’re streaming to nobody, we’re just having fun.

I wonder how many people complaining about "friendslop" are mad because they can't even make it up the beach slope. I've noticed a lot of people get filtered hard by the jungle level.

>>715273450
Where's Mario party?

>>715273208
Lethal Company wasn't meant to be streamed at all either at first, it was initially a teenagers roblox project being imported over to Unity because of limits?

>>715273109
maybe the real friendslop was /v/ all along

>>715250727 (OP)
eh this gets a pass. sure you play it only once or twice but its an actual game.

>>715251643
FOTM used to be a fun word to describe interesting and trendy novelties here. I used to look forward to the new /v/ FOTM. Now it’s just this retarded copout criticism.

>>715271634
>terraria
>friendslop

>mentally ill people are arguing with a friendless mentally ill person
>for over 5 hours straight

>>715273747
It's actually a really fun game at that. I have to actively stop myself from playing it alone so I can enjoy it with my friends.

>>715251718
Whatever you say you friendless loser lol. These games are cheaper than a ticket to see a movie at a theater. Who gives a fuck about dropping 10 dollars on something to have a fun time with their friends, even if they chose not to make it their entire personality. I would say you would have a point if this was some shit like Borderlands where you would be dropping 70 bucks but even if you friends only play the game once or twice 10 dollars for a fun night right friends playing a game online is still more economical then spending money eating out or seeing a movie together.

>Don't have friends to friendship slop with.
I've missed out on all the FOTM games, and it pains me when I watch streamers having fun and laughing together while playing these, I wish I could partake in it, I just wish for a small bit of happiness.

>>715273839
>mentally ill person enters mentally ill argument thread to drive-by mentally ill post his mental illness
good1

>>715273839
These threads always pop up. It's always fun to peak into like the person making them thinks they're gonna change the mind of people buying some garbage game to play with friends for a weekend because they told them it's only fun because they're playing it with friends.
As if they don't somehow know that wanting to play it with their friends.

I love how people are acting as though proximity chat automatically makes a game bad. What the fuck is this level of cope?

>>715250727 (OP)
>Friendslop is a scourge on the industry.
Why?

>>715274035
I have no idea. I think it’s one of the most fun features of these games. I think it’s just one mentally ill guy grasping at straws.

And if these gamers aren't friendslop

Then why do they show the same characteristics as every other friendslop game. They are the same.

>>715273942
Happiness dwells within oneself.
Lucky Numbers: 7 14 23 64 89 92
Chinese word of the day: 黑鬼 (hēi guǐ) - Nigger

>>715272667
Swarthoids don't have that intrinsic desire to scale insurmountable obstacles in order to achieve catharsis. PEAK is literally a white-only game.

>>715274163
>New game with limited content
>People play the content
>Stop playing after they play the content
You gonna make a pitch about GAAS being the savior of the industry now?

>>715273823
Its a bad game. I hate terraria, but it's not friendslop.

There's certain requirements to meet friendslop. It is craftingslop though.

>>715274163
Because they are literal clones of lethal company. Are FPS games Doomslop?

>>715274248
All games are just slop of their predecessors

>>715250727 (OP)
> OP doesn't have friends to play friendslop with

>>715273942
I'd play games with you anon. Unfortunately I only play stuff that highly interests me because I have the tism but I hope you gain the courage to join random lobbies and make friends.

>>715274248
>Are FPS games Doomslop
Sometimes, yes. But it depends on the game since they do new things.

Obviously overwatch and CSGO are both FPS shooters but not doomslop.

Ultrakill would be doomslop, yes you could categorize it as that.

>>715274426
Overwatch and CSGO are Quakeslop

>>715274426
You are insanely autistic and should re-evaluate your life.

>>715274163
Why would anyone playing these games give a shit about the player count when they are playing the game exclusively with their group of friends, and why would any of the people who worked on the game give a shit either? Lethal Company was made by one zoomer furry who now has generational wealth, and content warning was literally a side project made by a studio in it's spare time released initially for free on April Fools.

Maybe if your brain wasn't so fried from an entire upbringing fueled by algorithmic media distribution you would learn how to finally grow the fuck up and start having a healthy relationship with the media you consume, or at least put that effort of looking at line charts all day into something more productive like trading stocks or something.

>>715274426
Now this is 4chanpostslop a derrivitive combination of SAslop and 2chanslop.

>>715274609
LMAO

>>715274658
trvke, chanslop doebiet

slop

“Friendslop” is the funniest criticism I’ve ever seen. Indie studios are making games for people to have good times with their friends and /v/incels seethe because their bitter angry pariah behavior means they have no friends to enjoy it with.

>>715251505
It’s because the $7 game is peak

>>715254941
contra is fun solo

>>715253240
tfw all 3

>>715250727 (OP)
>How do we stop it?
Is there a reason you can't just ignore it?

>>715272025
>no real ending
You mean the ending where you reach the peak?

>the industry is in trouble because there are games people play with friends!!!
Amazing how the only way you irony poisoned newfags are willing to be sincere about something is when you're accidentally revealing you don't have any friends and nobody likes you.

>>715274236
To be fair, games are about systems not content. Content is just novelty, you experience it once and that's it. Systems are designed to be replayable, therefore the conclusion is that they're just poorly designed games if people stop playing.

>>715274426
>Ultrakill would be doomslop
what
>go into room
>get locked into room until you kill things
>repeat
it would be painkillerslop if anything

SLOP SLOP SLOP SLOP
Shut the FUCK up and come up with actual descriptive words.

>>715274916
I honestly feel it's just the growing generational difference. You have zoomies on this site now who never made friends in school and missed the window of open mic online gaming to make a group of friends online. I still hang out regularly with the group of friends I made from playing TF2 and still chat with them and the friends I made playing f2p korean MMO garbage as a teen on a near daily basis. Even I noticed how the moment Microsoft added Xbox live party chat that open mic lobbies just dropped off the face of the earth and I cannot even imagine what it's like now to grow up in an era on the internet where everyone else already made their group of friends to play online with and there's just no real avenues to try to forge such a relationship today. Acting bitter about a market they cannot engage with is still loser behavior.

>>715275470
I dont consider that a satisfying ending and regardless even if there is an "ending" in the form of credits etc its more of a term to refer to progress. Its friendslop because the progress is superficial because it's centered around friends.

Theres lots of games with no ends like garrysmod but they aren't friendslop, though they might be modslop or streamerslop

>>715275556
Damn, every game must be bad because someone has stopped playing them at some point. What a brilliant conclusion any more?

>>715275610
Friendslop is descriptive because there's objective qualities that it has.

It's a game designed to be played with your friends and nothing else beyond that. No content, No progression, proximity voice chat, jumpscares, reaction bait etc etc

They are all the same. If they have all these combined qualities they are friendslop. It's not really that hard to understand

>>715275335
It is not enough to ignore things I don't like. Other people should not be allowed to like them.
t. terminally crippled basement dweller

>>715266719
been here since 2005. you will never fit in.

>>715275756
That has more to do with vidya being artificially obsoleted due to limited hardware compatibility and sequels.

>>715275665
This is a much more compassionate reading of the situation than I had, but I agree. The death of server browsers and open mic chat, often to “curb toxicity” has managed to create some very angry, lonely kids. I play a lot of these friendslop games with people I met IRL, on TF2, and messageboards. This current generation is growing up really angry and alienated.

>>715252654
If your closest friends aren't considered family that would help you bury a body if you needed to, you are just unlikable and shitty lol

>>715275863
>No content, No progression, proximity voice chat, jumpscares, reaction bait etc etc
Wtf magical game could you be talking about that has no content and no progressio fucking VR chat?
This is the most retarded criteria purely fueled by your emotional responses.

>>715252918
I'm going to correctly assume you lost what few friends you had because you went to a certain board and then started spewing fbi crime statistics and politislop everywhere and your former friends decided they didn't really want to hang out with the schizo who thinks the jews spread covid through 5g towers while being gay thoughts into (You)r head.

Peak isn't friendslop because it has an end goal.
Friendslop is stuff like Lethal Company and REPO that just goes on endlessly.

>>715276040
I think it has more to do with it being a retarded conclusion.
Books aren't bad because I don't read the same book everytime I pick one up.
Just like movies aren't bad because I don't chose the same movie every time I decide to watch one.
It's just the most brain dead thing I've heard today that I'll just chose the option that you're fucking with me because it's so retarded.

>>715275863
Nice replyslop
>Post has no content
>Post is engagement bait
>Post has no meaning or is pointless

>>715251750
This is like 98% of games though so whats even the point of that distinction at that rate

>>715276193
Not him but I love browsing /pol/ and even encouraged several of my friends to try out PEAK with me.

>>715276118
Thats just describing lethal company doe, thats what I'm describing. After 6 hours you've seen the entire game and every area.

It's just a friendslop game. It's not hard to understand. It has no real long term content as a game thats 90% of its playerbase is gone, and all those people got scammed LMAO.

Is Ratchet & Clank platformerslop?

>>715252665
>favorite streamer
Maybe kill yourself

/v/ is friendslop

>>715276374
>After 6 hours you've seen the entire game and every area.
Do you drop fighting games after using every character once?

>>715276374
Okay, but there's still content and progression. Or does your mood just decide that there isn't? Not every game needs a real long term skinner box content goal. People can just play a game like it's fun.

It's like calling Left for Dead and Halo friendslop levels of retarded.

>>715276435
Yea. Super mario is platformerslop too

>>715276374
>got scammed
imagine thinking that playing a good 20 enjoyable hours with friends for cheap is a scam

>Be a 35 year old NEET
>Wake up, play single player/more in depth games for most of the day
>When friends get off work in the evening play 1-3 hours of friendslop
>Hop back on the more hardcore games after they go to bed

It's great

>>715276562
Well its not about needing long term content, that's only one of the objective qualities friendslop is missing which makes it friendslop. Its just that if you have all the qualities of friendslop, it's friendslop. It's not that hard to understand.

GMOD isnt friendslop because it doesn't meet the qualities of multiple friendslop games, It's that simple.

>>715276562
>People can just play a game like it's fun.
Careful anon, that's heresy on /v/.

>>715250927
>>715250927
>>715250927
>>715250927
>>715250927
>>715250927

love me some slop posting

>>715276683
But GMOD does, that's the point. The most popular games in there are RP ones where the content is walking around and talking to people.

>>715276663
based

>>715276743
quoteslop

>>715276663
n8?

>>715276663
>Bragging about being a woman playing "Hardcore" games like Genshin Impact
lol

>>715250927
it still made more money that you'll ever make in your life tho

>>715276374
I have 60+ hours and still haven’t seen everything with my friends. The mod scene is one of the best I’ve seen for a game. When it started to get old, mods gave us another 40 hours and counting.
It’s a top 10 for me at this point, and probably the only multiplayer focused game to be on my top 10.

>>715276824
fagpost slop

>>715258170
>>715267000
games are not for cultural impact, they are politics, they are for fun.

>>715277009
replyslop

>>715276813
It doesn't though.

>has endless UNIQUE content
>is not specifically designed for streamers
>Is not specifically designed for friends
>hasn't fallen off, It's one of the most succesful and played games on steam of all time
>has an amazing singleplayer

It's not friendslop

>>715277009
postslop

The ultimate friendslop

>>715277087
a game has to be multiplayer to be friendslop bro

SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP SCHLOP

>>715277087
MMOslop

Doesn't have the defining qualities of proximity chat, reaction bait, not designed for streamers, not designed to played with your friends, most people in WoW play solo.

>>715276082
See now, if anything credit should be given towards these "friendslop" games for beginning to popularize open proximity chat in the mainstream. While I still carry about the game will be good, just recently the demand for proximity chat got loud enough to get a studio like Bungie to reconsider their decision against it to protect against "toxicity" and adding the feature to Marathon. I think open proximity chat is overall the evolution of what open mic online chat was back in the day, and likely the best opportunity the younger generation has gotten to be able to even have the chance at forging strong bonds to create their own online friend groups like what late millennials got to enjoy during the period of open mic Xbox Live lobbies back in the mid-late 2000s. That's at least my perspective, as someone who is already on the other side of what a decades long online friendship looks like. I hope it works out that way, more people deserve such happiness.

>>715250727 (OP)
>Friendslop
Can you define it? I get that you must be talking about multiplayer games but I don't know what specifically.

>>715277168
basedslop

>>715277069
No it's not friendslop because you emotionally don't want it to be by your dogshit criteria. Thinking GMOD has amazing single player is probably the most braindead thing you've said. There's literally nothing you can do without other people making shit for you to do or making shit for other people to do.

>>715277038
fakekino unfun fakefun, in fact, ungoysloppa forcedslop unslop, someforced fakeanimation ungoyslop to be precise

>>715250727 (OP)
A friend asked me to buy this and I had plenty fun with him this evening

>>715277202
>While I still carry
While I still doubt*, how the fuck did I mess that up

>>715277220
Its already defined.

Whatever the major qualities of

Lethal company
Content warning
REPO

Are, that's friendslop.

>>715277236
It’s artificial fun but it is based. Unfortunately, it has a bit of a wokeslop slant.

>>715277191
slopinion
>>715277236
slopnuke!!

>>715277220
Games that are meant to only be played with a group of friends, and feature mechanics that feed into creating funny moments, like janky physics, proximity voice chat, etc.

>>715277235
GMOD was originally a singleplayer game designed to be a sandbox.

It's not friendslop and it has no qualities of friendslop besides the multiplayer aspect but that was added later. And again just because a game is multiplayer doesnt make it friendslop.

All multiplayer games are not friendslop, but all friendslop are multiplayer.

>>715277417
>played with a group of friends
>feature mechanics that feed into creating funny moments, like janky physics, proximity voice cha
..Arma?

>>715277445
Wow a sandbox where you spawn scientists and kill them then you uhhhh uhhhhhhh. Surely people solely played it for this reason for years. You mongoloid.

>>715277167
your gay ass isn't doing molten core solo

>>715250727 (OP)
This is good friendslop though.

>>715277342
Forcedkino, fakefun, ungoyslop sloppa goy, forced, unfun, fakegameplay fakepost, ungoy sloppa! sloppa! Slop goy. Slop goy, forcedfake... fakefun.

>>715277516
Arma is a military sandbox simulator with an extensive singleplayer, creator kit, mods and content.

Not friendslop even if it has multiplayer and streamers play it.

It's not specifically designed for streamers or playing with friends, although you can do that.

>>715252236
Anon what are you doing?

>>715277069
>UNIQUE content
>full of stolen assets
Sloppy work anon

>>715277417
So Ark?

>>715277658
As opposed to the walking sim with 4-6 hours of unique content in lethal company with the same procedural enemies with the same buildings and the same locations?

That's why lethal company, REPO, etc are friendslop

>>715277610
>zoom zoom!

>>715276907
What drives people to just make shit up like this, like it doesn't even feel like an attempt at an insult cause it's so random xd

>>715277696
Ark is survivalslop, craftingslop even.

Trying to get this retard to define Friendslop in a way that doesn't fit 100 other games is pretty funny.
At this point every modern game is streamslop because you can stream it to your friends.

>>715277627
>It's not specifically designed for streamers or playing with friends
Arma 3 launched with less singleplayer content than Lethal Company on launch.

>>715277859
That's not how it works.

Just because streamers play a game doesn't make it friendslop.

It has to specifically be made for playing with friends, streamers, have proximity chat, have no long term content to be "friendslop"

>>715277745
Your brain mistakes novelty for meaning. If the core mechanics served by procgen are good, I can enjoy it for dozens of ours. Getting bored after 4-6 hours is the mark of someone with a low traditional IQ, and hating friendkino is the mark of someone with a low social IQ.

>>715277942
>Load up a voice chat program
>My game is now friendslop
OH NOOOOOOO

>>715251381
Seethe looneytroon seethe!

Bad bait, not even worth a (you)

>friendless losers crying about friends enjoying games together
these threads are always funny to peek into

>>715278000
A voice chat program isn't a video game.

Though it would now be classified as softwareslop, if it's not FOSS and is proprietary locked down shit.

It's softwareslop.

>>715258057
We reached that point years ago.

>>715250727 (OP)
It sold 4million more copies than death stranding 2.

>>715250727 (OP)
But this is the best climbing game since botw.

>>715278019
That won’t slow down the other replies in the thread

>>715277017
they're politics huh? What policies are they pushing?

>>715277784
Hit the nail on the head, huh?

>>715277942
>It has to specifically be made for playing with friends, streamers, have proximity chat, have no long term content
You're just describing lethallikes.

>>715258057
Cope, friendslop is now a definitive, objective and coined term to describe games designed and around the shallow qualities like those found in lethal company.

It's only you that won't accept it, everyone else already has accepted it's real.

What the fuck is up with today's Tropics
Most maze-like ascension ever

>>715278323
I’ll play with you, lonely anon

>>715278109
Yeah but when I talk in the game they can hear me in the voice chat program even if it's a singleplayer game now it has voice chat. Fucking really sick of all this friendslop.

>>715278323
>sloptubers

>All these lonely friendless losers itt
If you can't even get someone to play with you and have fun with some 2 bucks shovelware, no wonder you will remain forever maidenless /v/irgins. Just how fucking hard is it for you to have a normal human conection?
Why make a big deal out of people with friends having fun? Just stick with your singleplayer games at this point.

>>715278301
>lethalike
termslop

>>715278278
No, I'm literally wondering what point you're trying to make because it's so random and off the mark lol
You seem like an ESL

>lmao just use discord
I hate modern /v/ and the kids who post here

>>715277610
>ungoy sloppa!
Sloppa? Sloppa?! Shiggy diggy!! Goy fun kinobased, forcedunkino! Basedbasedfun, pajeet! Unforcedanimation unforcedfun fun! BASEDKINO!

Like seriously watching this retard try to re-define co-op games without saying co-op game is hilarious.

>>715278514
>Discord bad because....because it just is okay?
inb4 "PEOPLE I DONT LIKE USE DISCORD"
That goes for every platform ever

>>715278574
All co-op games are not friendslop, but all friendslop are co-op.

>>715276337
Great, that means you at least have the IQ required to not sperg about the latest twitter screencap to your friends.

me and my gf (male) bought this game, played for 45 minutes and refunded. the climbing mechanics are embarassingly simple, practically abset -- mash your face against wall while holding the "climb" button and dont let the "climb meter" run out. the only source of challenge is the shoehorned-in survival game meters (eat every ten minutes or you starve to death, piss every ten minutes or your bladder explodes etc). it's almost like a caricature of a bad game.

>>715278502
You're an ancient neet that doesn't have neet friends. It's fairly obvious that you're obligated to play with your care taker.

>>715278919
Or you know I was just born into a rich family and have fuck you money

>>715278598
Talk to real people you fucking zoomer

>>715279108
Then you'd have neet friends.

>>715278720
post playtime mr larp

>>715277754
>he can't talk /v/iral marketingese
ngmi on this board, literally forcedpost, shiggy diggy, forced arguments, fakefun

>>715279187
Do you think rich people live in bubbles and never interact with non-rich people?

>>715277610
Dark Souls?

>>715279267
No, I think playing videogames at odd hours means you meet other people who play at odd hours and not normal working people who play for 1-3 hours a day lmao.

I play these games and I still call them friendslop

>>715250727 (OP)
Maybe you should try making a friend.

>>715279296
That's rollslop isn't it?

>>715279380
>Be a kid
>Make random friends in the neighborhood/school
>Grow up together mostly on the same schedule until it hits the point they begin careers and families while I don't
>Still keep up with each other and play friendslop during their free time, which is becoming increasingly common because in your 30s kids are old enough to be left alone for awhile and careers tend to become more going through the motion than hustling

The thing is this isn't even some crazy rare concept, the fact you lack the critical thinking to take this possibility into account is why you'll always be a poorfag LOL

>>715279690
Nigga I'm an actual rich neet lmao. You're doing the woman thing now of trying to emotionally manipulate me to feel bad. You lose those connections because it's too hard to keep up or reconnect with normal people and not really worth it to play 1-3 hours a day.
I meet women leeches like you all the time because I play at weird hours.

>>715253240
>loneliness
Only experienced by extroverts, who account for the vast majority of the world's population. Friendless extroverts have no asocial skills; they're obviously going to fall into a depressive stupor if left alone for long enough.

honestly the game looked fun
I just hate it's focused on multiplayer

>>715279927
>You're doing the woman thing now of trying to emotionally manipulate me to feel bad. You lose those connections because it's too hard to keep up or reconnect with normal people and not really worth it to play 1-3 hours a day.
The projection is very real, sorry you were unable to hold onto your friends anon, hope you make some new ones.

>>715279927
>I'm an actual rich neet lmao
And yet you're the one without friends to play vidya with.

>>715279970
Several of my friends have played it solo and had an easier time than we did in co-op

>>715280032
You're literally seething over being called out lmao. Why would you even initially reply? Are you that desperate for attention sitting alone all day? Why don't you talk to your good friends you had to struggle to interact with for a few hours to randomly cancel on you.
>>715280148
And you're samefagging as if I don't have friends to play with when all I've said is that you play genshin impact.

>>715280198
I feel bad for you

>>715277220
Session based games with little to no metagame elements. Physics jank, voice chat. Target audience: pre-teens, female streamers.

>>715279927
>You lose those connections because it's too hard to keep up or reconnect with normal people and not really worth it to play 1-3 hours a day.
Nah, you're just a shitty friend and they cut you out
Hell, I don't play with friends regularly and it's been a long time since we all met up as our full group but if some of us are available we'll do something and we keep in touch through a group chat we've all been a part of since 2014.

It's not that hard to have friends, you're just an asshole.

>>715279927
>I-I'm rich too!
yet your first thought when hearing about someone else being rich your first thought was they're a housewife? that makes no sense, you're a lying retard

>>715250956
Reminder: those are the people talking shit about consoles here.

>>715273942
These games are shit and only entertaining to women and children anon. You are NOT missing out.

>>715279927
>play 1-3 hours a day.
Nigga that's unhinged and impossible for normal people. I wouldn't even want to do that if I didn't have to work.

>>715280198
>jump the gun and make an ass out of yourself by assuming shit
>Y-YOU'RE MAD
never change

Friendslop isn't real, it's only purpose is to bitch and whine about a non-issue

>>715273942
I'll play with you if you pretend to be a woman

>>715280603
>>715279927
failed attempt at samefagging LMAO

>>715280198
>when all I've said is that you play genshin impact.
What now?

>>715280358
I do to when you feel the need to spam the thread while literally using an addon that can add or remove you's for screenshots. Wanna whip out the phone for some of these or?

>>715266581
>Games that are best when played with friends or at least being sociable are unpopular on /v/-jaded, lonely faggots
Not surprising at all.

>>715280851
Since you asked so nicely.
At this point it's better for you to just leave the thread. You have multiple people making you look like a fool

>>715265907
>skipping out on your reparations to AGGRO CRAB® GAMES (journalist-approved indie dev)

>>715250956
Let's see what is selling on consoles
>on switch: the 6 millionth installment of Mario kart with extra soullessness
>on ps5: movie game with ugly man hating lesbian number number 15

>>715252665
>favorite streamer
Kill yourself

>>715266719
>>715275961
Not fitting in here is not the insult you think it is.

>>715281070
>AGGRO CRAB
Huh?

>>715281045
It's an anonymous image board, I don't need to reply to people calling me out like you do because it's personally affected you in some way that you have to declare that you're not actually a human leech and spam the thread with it.

>>715280851
burden of proof is on you, not them

Rare easy Kiln today. Tropics is the hard section.

>>715281229
>I don't need to reply to people calling me out
Yet here you are lol

>>715281229
>I don't need to reply to people calling me out
Then why are you? You know you're just giving us more material to mock you with, right?

>>715281381
Because it's funny to watch you cry and squirm, did you run out of anime pictures or is it getting too hard to samefag while using them?

>>715277627
Literally nobody plays Arma singleplayer.

>>715278440
>Why make a big deal out of people with friends having fun?
It incentivizes laziness since everyone will just make more friendslop than something meaningful. Soon enough all there will be is friendslop

>>715281464
Oh you want smug anime pictures?

>>715281581
Nah, you just notice stupid people mix up which personality they're trying to samefag with.

>not having a single friend at 20+
i refuse to believe niggers like this exist
i can understand not having a wife or a gf, but no friend? really faggot?

>>715279146
Yeah, us real gamers talked to each other using Ventrilo and AIM, something Discord can never replicate!

Don't call it sl*p, bro!

>>715281648
They also think everyone is the same person when they're the lolcow of the thread.

why did pic related fail?
it was prolly the only friendslop i genuinely enjoyed playing

>>715281918
It failed? People were playing it for a while no?

>>715281776
Some people probably aren't because as soon as it's said 1 or 2 anons join in to antagonize. Most of the starting one were because it's such a milquetoast post to get spam replied with people who were clearly following the line of conversation of shitposts which never happens on 4chan outside of samefagging lmao.

>>715281769
I feel like all these accounts are AI.

>>715282289
Worse, they're early millenials

>>715281776
Also I'm sure all the 4 chan people need to stand up for the rich person literally using poor as an insult and it isn't just some extremely triggered leech woman.

>>715282030
yeah but then people forgot about it
buckshot roulette mp is even better, I wish my friends were into it. They seriously play nothing but rivals nowadays.

Reading this thread there's like three people in here that have indicated they've played the game. Only three.

>>715282752
That's every 4 chan thread. Most people calling the OP a retard while he tries to make up terminology for games he has never played.

>>715282752
Only faggots play friendslop.

>>715282752
why would anyone who plays this jump into the thread
>twitter screencap
>slop in the subject
only way it could be considered easier to notice bait if it had more buzzwords in it

>>715282464
>>715282857
>"4 chan"
>"4 chan people" instead of anons
where are you niggers coming from

>>715283008
It's a way to emphasize it's not normal posting you candy ass roody-poo. I guarantee I've been here longer than you.

>>715283132
>pulling out ancient word filters
knowyourmeme it is

>>715283242
Yes I pulled it up and read the entire article within a minute then replied to you immediately with context.

>>715282921
Because this is the only thread for Peak on the board?

>>715281741
There's a friend of mine who got married at 18 and haven't stopped grinding ever since, he once told me I am his only friend and he misses these times when he could shoot shit with whoever whenever.
We barely talk bc his parenthood got to his head and he likes to preach normiehood too much now, I can't even share no interesting books or games with him, he starts his "escapism bad" speech. Ofc he haven't made no new friends since.

>>715283884
Dude just sounds like a prick if he thinks that the only reason people enjoy things is escapism.