Now I know that this question probably immediately irritates you, but please listen.
I have been playing games since I could remember. Ive played single player, and multiplayer. Im mostly talking about multiplayer here, so when it comes to single player, know I dont mean you. Enjoy what you enjoy.
But I find that the vast majority of games these days are so improperly balanced that im surprised they get dropped, or worse, left, in the state they are in. Examples include: This game, Star wars battlefront 2, every call of duty ever, r6 siege, etc.
I grew up in a beautiful era. My childhood multiplayer was halo, and that was as balanced as console games have ever gotten in my opinion. There were OP things, but you didnt choose them off the rip, you had to lock down the map and wait for the spawns. You had to earn strong weapons. Fight tooth and claw for them.
Then as I hit my teenage years it was counter strike. That game is, Probably the single most all around balanced game I have ever played. It has its flaws, but aside from getting csgo’d by rng bullets at times, Everything else is rock solid. Simple, but solid.
But Now its like everywhere I go there just isnt even a droplet of the concept of balance, or fairness put into these games.
This game is just so poorly balanced I wrote an entire guide about it and Im still sitting here watching it burn. So I wont even get into it right now.
Star wars battlefront 2 (ea) lets heroes and special classes pretty much be infinitely used, and as such normal classes are SEVERELY outclassed 90% of the time. Most games of swbf2 End with every single player playing either a hero, or a special class. Only exception is heavy, because heavy is usefull somewhat. I understand heroes being op. But the special classes? they have twice, or more, health than the defaults. Which means most default classes are shooting bbs at them unless using a very strong but slow fire rate weapon. Shits painful.
Cod is cod. What can I say. Try to play search and destroy on cod, get rpg’d repeatedly, then killstreaked, then lose. Not always the case, but when people play the “Meta” thats the gist.
Siege’s balance equates to “1 shot headshot makes everything fair”. Thats a stupid mentality and honestly the 1 shot kill headshot kills the game. It results in everything you could possibly hate about siege. Spawn peaks, getting lasered through glory holes, Pixel peeks, Etc. And as such, the meta has revolved around that type of gameplay, which defeats the purpose imo.
My point is, tell me honestly where there is a single balanced game these days? they dont exist. Maybe, just maybe, Some indie games might have it. But I cant think of a single AAA game in the past 10 years.
So back to why I asked the original question. I have brought this up in several communities. And the majority of the answers are as follows:
“Its just a game bro”
“Its balanced” (I ask how and they deflect. Because they cant explain it.)
“SALT”
“Shut up”
Not everyone gives these answers of course, and good discussions are had. But The VAST majority of gamers that are vocal take this approach. So many dont want to discuss what is wrong with their favorite titles, and resort to highly immature responses, which makes it worse because no discussions are had when you shut people down like that.
The thing that pisses me off most about this is this. We are all gamers. We are a community. If you dont want to take the time to think about how to better games as a whole could be done, thats fine. I respect that. Most people just play to play. But when people Actually do start the discussion, And you feel that way, and you have nothing but the above to say, Please, close your mouth, and zip it up. Because comments like the ones I quoted do nothing for us as a whole, and on top of that, they make you, and most of our community look like fucking idiots.
This is why games suck these days. Because the dumb ones, seem to be the loud ones.
And shit man maybe in making this, Im the dumb one too. Maybe Im part of the loud stupid majority that fuck everything up. And if you think so, please feel free to reply that. Otherwise I want to know what you guys think… Why is our community like this?
And yes, I know I’m Hypocritical on this. I respect people talking about game balance. But I dont respect people shutting others down because they cant comprehend anything more than the word salt and formulate that into words. those are the kind of people that really need to be shut down. Shit pisses me off, and ironically, leads to me getting salty lol.
