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When a new game launches, what words/phrases will turn you away from it?

TheocritusTheocritus Member LegendaryPosts: 9,976
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For me it's:

Battle Royale
Full loot PVP
Anime (not always but usually)
Voxel based graphics
Sub required with no free trial

I'm sure there are many more let's hear yours.

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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    Open world
    Permadeath
    Cash shop
    Full loot
    MOBA
    Battle Royale


    kitaradNyghthowlerAlBQuirkyWarlyx

    EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests

  • ScorchienScorchien Member LegendaryPosts: 8,914
    Scaling

    Anime

    Gender Locked

    Voxel

    MOBA

     BR
    Amathe
  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    edited June 2020
    Early Access

    No maps, compasses, or location tools

    F2P 

    Just like ”insert old school favorite"


    TokkenNyghthowlerAlBQuirky

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  • kitaradkitarad Member LegendaryPosts: 8,164
    edited June 2020
    Open World

    Full Loot

    PvP without choice

    RNG gear upgrades

    Crafting depending on combinations that requires cash shop purchase to increase chances

    Limited Housing

    Placing resources in PvP areas


    AmatheNyghthowlerbcbullyAlBQuirky

  • SovrathSovrath Member LegendaryPosts: 32,780
    mini-map
    touting thousands of quests
    fast paced combat

    And if the look is silly/cartoonish then that's usually a first step to not buying it.
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  • AAAMEOWAAAMEOW Member RarePosts: 1,617
    asian f2p games
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  • NyghthowlerNyghthowler Member UncommonPosts: 392
    Sandbox full loot PvP
    Perma-death
    Cash Shop
    Lewt Boxes
    EA
    AlBQuirky
  • CaffynatedCaffynated Member RarePosts: 753
    Battle Royale
    Loot Boxes
    F2P NO TRICKS NO TRAPS!
    MOBA
    Hero shooter
    Social Justice buzzwords

    AlBQuirky
  • WizardryWizardry Member LegendaryPosts: 19,332
    edited June 2020
    For me it's:

    Battle Royale
    Full loot PVP
    Anime (not always but usually)
    Voxel based graphics
    Sub required with no free trial

    I'm sure there are many more let's hear yours.

    Those are all fair and good criteria however Voxels offers us another layer to game play.

    We should not be fooled by bad developers of which are many,i have seen some AMAZING voxel graphics,you wouldn't even know it was voxel.Not only have i seen it,i saw about 7+ years ago from a SINGLE person slowly making his own game.

    Matter of fact there are videos arising showing upgrades to Minecraft even,graphics that look pretty good.

    This is why you hear me saying so many games are bad,what is POSSIBLE in this industry right now is incredible,we are just not seeing it because as i have stated many times,most studios are in this to make as much money as possible,the quality is not their concern.

    AlBQuirky

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  • lahnmirlahnmir Member LegendaryPosts: 5,050
    edited June 2020
    Sandbox
    Realistic
    Simulation
    Sport
    Mobile

    Chris
    Roberts

    (I kid, I kid)

    /Cheers,
    Lahnmir
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    It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.

    It is just huge resource waste....'

    Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer

  • bcbullybcbully Member EpicPosts: 11,843
    Single player
    battle grounds
    story driven
    auction house
    f2p no subscription 

    I need people
    world pvp
    not interested in everyone being the hero
    i love player run stores
    i hate gems/whatever conversion
    AlBQuirky
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,028
    edited June 2020
    Including both single player and multiplayer games:

    Gender-locked
    Early access
    Indie
    2D
    Retro
    Crowdfunded
    Souls-like
    Full loot PvP
    Permadeath
    Roguelike
    Roguelite
    Procedurally generated
    First person
    Open world
    Survival
    Battle royale
    Horror
    Sports
    Racing
    Stealth
    Mobile
    Sandbox
    Realistic
    Simulator
    No quest markers or compass
    No auction house
    Subscription
    Post edited by Aeander on
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  • CaffynatedCaffynated Member RarePosts: 753
    Aeander said:
    Including both single player and multiplayer games:

    Early access
    Indie
    Crowdfunded
    Full loot PvP
    Open world
    Survival
    Battle royale
    Horror
    Sports
    Racing
    Stealth
    Mobile
    Sandbox
    Realistic
    Simulator
    No quest markers or compass
    No auction house
    Subscription

    What's wrong with indie? You don't need a soulless corporation backing a game for it to be good.

    Pillars of Eternity, Mount & Blade, Path of Exile, Warframe and dozens of other fantastic games come from indie studios.
  • AeanderAeander Member LegendaryPosts: 8,028
    edited June 2020
    Aeander said:
    Including both single player and multiplayer games:

    Early access
    Indie
    Crowdfunded
    Full loot PvP
    Open world
    Survival
    Battle royale
    Horror
    Sports
    Racing
    Stealth
    Mobile
    Sandbox
    Realistic
    Simulator
    No quest markers or compass
    No auction house
    Subscription

    What's wrong with indie? You don't need a soulless corporation backing a game for it to be good.

    Pillars of Eternity, Mount & Blade, Path of Exile, Warframe and dozens of other fantastic games come from indie studios.
    As ever, there are exceptions. I do play or have played Warframe (and I'm a master founder) and Path of Exile among others. In regards to games like the Witcher 3, I consider them to be AA given the studio size (and Warframe is another such case given its massive 300+ person studio size - hardly what one thinks of when they think of an indie company). 

    But I find the vocal hipsters praising the indie sphere as the font of gaming creativity to be obnoxious when most of the indie sphere is the same 2D platformers, Roguelites, survival asset flips, and "retro" games. There are great indie games, but they are drowning in a sea of average games and outright crap on Steam.

    Moreover, I've found them largely unnecessary in my personal gaming time. It's so easy to call the AAA sphere soul-less when you're judging everything as an EA, Activision, or (to a much lesser extent) Ubisoft. When in truth, that label is as wrong as considering all indie games to be passion projects. I could fully populate my gaming hours with incredible, high-quality, passionately made games even if I never stepped outside the realms of Nintendo, Sony, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Sega (or more precisely Atlus), Square, and NISA. Let alone all of the other companies on that scale doing anything approaching their quality of work. 
    Post edited by Aeander on
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  • AlBQuirkyAlBQuirky Member EpicPosts: 7,432
    Tops on my list is: "Made for everyone." (You can't please everyone...)

    PvP
    OWPvP
    Sandbox seems auto-linked to OWPvP, so sandbox does not have the pull it once did.
    Perma Death
    F2P (and cash shop) To me this indicates hurdles placed intending to make you buy.
    Action Combat
    Early Access (I'm not going to pay you to test your game.)
    "Steam only" or "Epic Game Store only" or ANY other "exclusivity."
    Launchers

    - Al

    Personally the only modern MMORPG trend that annoys me is the idea that MMOs need to be designed in a way to attract people who don't actually like MMOs. Which to me makes about as much sense as someone trying to figure out a way to get vegetarians to eat at their steakhouse.
    - FARGIN_WAR


  • deniterdeniter Member RarePosts: 1,435
    Scaling

    Action Combat

    Queue (for instanced content)

    Full Loot PvP

    FFA PvP
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  • CryomatrixCryomatrix Member EpicPosts: 3,223
    NCsoft
    Scaling
    Quest driven
    Themepark
    made and/or marketed in Asia
    Pictures of ingame loli characters
    Lobby
    Anything on mobile


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  • AmatheAmathe Member LegendaryPosts: 7,630
    Star
    Citizen
    ScorchienkitaradAlBQuirkyKyleranIselin[Deleted User]klash2defVigor021

    EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests

  • DibdabsDibdabs Member RarePosts: 3,238
    edited June 2020
    Asian game company
    Anime themed in any way
    Retro
    Made with Unity
    Platformer
    2D
    Turn-based
    Battle Royale
    Co-op
    Cash Shop
    Sports
    Racing
    Horror (pffft, what "horror")

    ...and finally, ANY game that launches it's spiel with the uninspired words "You wake up..."

    Post edited by Dibdabs on
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  • iixviiiixiixviiiix Member RarePosts: 2,256
    Buy to play - with cash shop .
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  • KyleranKyleran Member LegendaryPosts: 43,975
    edited June 2020
    I'll try most anything. I have been pleasantly surprised so many times when I have overlooked the labels and tags of description. 
    Like the films I watch, I follow creators more than games or genres. So I tend to find projects by others I know or have worked with and then explore, test and play their creations.
     
    You remind me of my grandfather.  His advice when it came to food was to try everything and anything, or how else would you know if you like it.

    He lived up to his word, you name it, he tried whatever someone called food, bugs, all kinds of strange animals, plants, etc.

    Still thought he was nuts....because it turns out he didn't like most of those weird foods, most ended up as wasted money and in some cases, severe gastrointestinal distress.  :#

    Same with gaming.  Most folks know what they like and their tastes are fairly well set.

    Sure, they could try 100 different games outside of their comfort zone but likely no more than a very small number will prove enjoyable for any length of time.

    To me it's not worth the time or money to risk suffering through 90 bad games to find 10 I will enjoy.

    Instead I do research and basically stick with the very small handful which appeal to my very specific tastes.
     
    I normally try and play no more than a small handful of games in any year, three or so on average, never more than five since the 90s.

    Two so far this year, FO76 which carried over from last September and Disco Elysium which I had my family give me for Christmas as a lark, mostly because many here were highly praising it.

    I hated it....for multiple reasons, quickly setting it aside after only a 2 or 3 hours and returned to the wastelands of Appalachia.



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  • delete5230delete5230 Member EpicPosts: 7,081
    F2P
    F2P
    F2P
    Cash shop
    Cash shop
    Cash Shop
    Asian
    PvP
    Easy 
    Easy
    Easy

    Lastly F2P, Cash Shop, Easy, Asian 
    AlBQuirky
  • IselinIselin Member LegendaryPosts: 18,719
    edited June 2020
    Crowdfunded MMO
    Browser
    Mobile
    Sandbox (code for no content, a lot of punching trees and pointless full loot ganking)
    EQ-like (code for glorifying bad, primitive mechanics)
    Anime
    JRPG
    Battlegrounds
    BR
    Shooter
    F2P
    Loot boxes Surprise Mechanics

    And the terms that make me pay attention:

    RvRvR
    Dynamic changing world
    Classless design






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