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The monopoly in the minds (media.piefed.zip)
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imagine if skyrim was the most popular game of all time by an orderof magnitude and people caleld video games ‘skyrims’. and it cost ninety dollars and took up half the average computers hard drive. and then peoel would be on nexus being like ‘hi guys check out my farming sim skyrim mod’ and it just had you kiling draugr but on a farm. and people were like ‘yeah i think that you just cant do farm simulation in video games’ and if anyone brought up stardew valley theyd be like ‘okay well first of all its presumptuous to assume i can afford a second video game or have space for it on my hard drive. and Second of all when i play skyrim i just run back and forth around the towns picking up all the cabbages for seven hours on end so i don’t see why i’d need a whole game programmed to be about farming. i can play skyrim the way i want to. stop gatekeeping gaming.’ anyway thats what its like to like ttrpgs other than dungeons and dragons.
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[–] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

idk i think its a bad analogy. Its more like calling all rts games starcraft or something. They can be thematically different and even play very differently but the underlying structure is the same. And its not unreasonable when talking with someone who isnt knowledgable to start with something similar and if they care to hear more to explain the differences and if they dont then the conversation can end

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

    All rts are Dune.

    But yeah. Or how anything hack and slash is now “Souls like”

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    I thought the defining feature of "Souls-like" games was more about the difficulty of said hacking and slashing, and heavy punishment for mistakes.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    But it also has to have tight controls. Failure has to be the player's fault. That's the defining characteristic.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago*

    Failure has to be the player’s fault.

    I was going to say "they have to have low random factors" but I realized that's the same thing. Dying to a random crit in a souls-like would be infuriating

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