Thread 718634193

Which game got ruined the hardest by metafags?

The entire MMO genre.

>>718634193 (OP)
Overwatch

>>718634193 (OP)
>MMOs by virtue of wikis and external communication programs existing

>Games created with PVP/competitive in mind and """fun""" second, see OW

>>718634698
I would argue that it started with LoL, particularly the concept of the developer enforced meta. Riot started the whole
>You will play the characters we want in the way we want or we will ban you
Which infected every single game with "competitive" ambitions since.

>>718634193 (OP)
the literal, whole, entire internet, and the way we approach basically every single game, and game design, and the way we treat eachother, etc. it is impossible to say "it just affected one genre", it is literally an entire paradigm shift

back in the day people made games they thought were cool, and people who thought games were cool played them, and just did whatever on them. the concept of "optimizing xp/hour" did not exist to the average person. the idea of a "proper build" did not exist to the average person. people would (sometimes) read the tooltips and just click around on random shit. and nobody cared. there was no "dps meters", there was no "you need to have 100 cs by 10 minutes", there was none of that shit

now, every single online game has a data aggregate site. every single single player game has the IGN guide / youtube walkthrough posted before it comes out. there is no sense of mystery. there is no unknown. there is no "i wonder if this is good", you can simply search it up online and already know

>>718634193 (OP)
all multiplayer games?

>>718635236
>you can simply search it up online and already know
you HAVE to search it up, every sense of mystery died early 15 year ago when half of the shit didn't work like intended and writed or didn't do anything at all.

>>718634193 (OP)
Gears of War.
The original premise of a cover shooter with quick flanking and tactical movement was entirely supplanted only a month or so in as people realised the optimal way to win was by rushing your enemy and shooting them for a one-hit-kill with the shotty whilst using the magnetic lock cover system to spam movement and never get hit.
It was then never stamped out because the devs didn't care or hoped people would play the game properly, and such things were never taken out or improved upon in later games beyond have bigger maps. Gears 3 had a little less of it because shooting rush-niggers down before they get to you was far easier without extremely tight maps to rush-cover-bounce off along the way.
But yeah, this too >>718635236

>>718635457
well in general i personally try not to but yes, developers know people will be able to search it up and so they think its more okay for things to be retarded. it also cuts out any mystery in games, if you browse /v/ even trying to avoid spoilers you will inevitably be shown garbage like DID YOU GET THE SECRET ENDING? DID YOU FIND THE MISSABLE? and that kind of stuff plants seeds in your head to make you want to look things up. back in the day literally you would just get a game and play it and not know what the fuck was going on. it was great

>>718634193 (OP)
WoW 100%

>>718634193 (OP)
the meta looks like lebron's hairline

>>718635236
oh come on dude. ever heard of a site called gamefaqs? people have been optimizing games as long as they've existed
playing diablo 2 at launch, not only were people optimizing builds for pvp, there was also an arms race of rampant duping and hacks. you're nostalgic for an era that never existed

>>718634310
You're not wrong, but IMO datamining is what damaged MMOs far more than metafaggotry.

>>718635814
>the internet ruined video games
>well what about this old website on the internet!
Retard

>>718635896
Datamining really fucked them.
Removed any and all surprises the Devs might have wanted to add.
No more secret mounts or items, it's all revealed weeks before it's dropped.

took niggers and nigger lovers 70+ years to realize that 3 is more than 2 LMAO