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crissindahouse on 03 May 2017
Machina said:
I saw it take off on Twitch and feature highly on the Steam sales rankings so knew about it, but had no idea it was selling millions.

The thing that stands out to me is the nonsensical all caps name.

The name consists of the creator (PlayerUnknown) which is a very famous guy in this genre since he is pretty much the guy who created or helped to create all BattleRoyale games. 

So yeah, it may sound weird for people not that much into this but for people who play these games, that game title is like "created by our god" lol. 



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Neodegenerate on 03 May 2017
TruckOSaurus said:
konnichiwa said:

It is more intense and harder.  When you are with 99 other randoms playing and the circle gets smaller and smaller and you are with the last 20 left the adrenaline kicks in and if you manage to be the last survivor it feels amazing. the satisfaction you get is probably one of the best experiences you can have in games. it has also double teams.

What happens when you die at the beginning? Do you watch the rest unfold as a ghost? Or do you get booted out and try again in a new match?

You don't get booted, but there is no spectator mode if you are solo so you just exit to lobby and go to a new match.  If you are playing in Duo or Squad (squad up to 4 people) you can spectate on your teammate.  You only see what they see though and have no camera control of your own so you can't really help them much, which is actually welcomed in this game format imo.



Carl on 03 May 2017

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SvennoJ on 03 May 2017
Neodegenerate said:
TruckOSaurus said:

What happens when you die at the beginning? Do you watch the rest unfold as a ghost? Or do you get booted out and try again in a new match?

You don't get booted, but there is no spectator mode if you are solo so you just exit to lobby and go to a new match.  If you are playing in Duo or Squad (squad up to 4 people) you can spectate on your teammate.  You only see what they see though and have no camera control of your own so you can't really help them much, which is actually welcomed in this game format imo.

It would have been fun 10 years ago when I still had 3 gaming computers going. Sounds like a great game to play together. It's make or break on popularity though. Getting a quick match is essential and with 100 players you need a huge user base to have new matches starting all the time.
I would give a demo a try out of curiosity, yet at CAD 37 for early access and little optimization I'm definately out.



Chazore on 03 May 2017
SvennoJ said:

It would have been fun 10 years ago when I still had 3 gaming computers going. Sounds like a great game to play together. It's make or break on popularity though. Getting a quick match is essential and with 100 players you need a huge user base to have new matches starting all the time.
I would give a demo a try out of curiosity, yet at CAD 37 for early access and little optimization I'm definately out.

It has a huge userbase though...

It's gained much more popularity than BF1 did on origin and it's base is climbing higher than BF1's, so it's definitely got a hefty userbase already and earned profit to boot. 

I dunno why the concept of battle Royale would have been fun a  decade ago, if it's still fun now. 



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.

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SvennoJ on 03 May 2017
Chazore said:
SvennoJ said:

It would have been fun 10 years ago when I still had 3 gaming computers going. Sounds like a great game to play together. It's make or break on popularity though. Getting a quick match is essential and with 100 players you need a huge user base to have new matches starting all the time.
I would give a demo a try out of curiosity, yet at CAD 37 for early access and little optimization I'm definately out.

It has a huge userbase though...

It's gained much more popularity than BF1 did on origin and it's base is climbing higher than BF1's, so it's definitely got a hefty userbase already and earned profit to boot. 

I dunno why the concept of battle Royale would have been fun a  decade ago, if it's still fun now. 

Just my personal situation. No kids yet, 3 networked gaming pc's which my wife and I played WoW on together every night. Nowadays no more gaming pc, and no time or energy to play pc games together anyway.

Popularity is a fickle thing though. By the time the game nears getting out of early access the next game might have taken over already. It most lilkely will be long forgotten by the time my kids are old enough to play it.



Chazore on 03 May 2017
SvennoJ said:

Just my personal situation. No kids yet, 3 networked gaming pc's which my wife and I played WoW on together every night. Nowadays no more gaming pc, and no time or energy to play pc games together anyway.

Popularity is a fickle thing though. By the time the game nears getting out of early access the next game might have taken over already. It most lilkely will be long forgotten by the time my kids are old enough to play it.

Then if your life is that busy and you have no desire to ever purchase a new PC or build your own, the chances are the game just isn't for you, what with priorities and all.

That depends on there being another game exactly like it that does better by it. We have all sorts of games that gain popularity and then fizzle out, this isn't limtied to a single platform or genre mind you, even AAA games fizzle out after some time.



Mankind, in its arrogance and self-delusion, must believe they are the mirrors to God in both their image and their power. If something shatters that mirror, then it must be totally destroyed.

SvennoJ on 03 May 2017
Chazore said:
SvennoJ said:

Just my personal situation. No kids yet, 3 networked gaming pc's which my wife and I played WoW on together every night. Nowadays no more gaming pc, and no time or energy to play pc games together anyway.

Popularity is a fickle thing though. By the time the game nears getting out of early access the next game might have taken over already. It most lilkely will be long forgotten by the time my kids are old enough to play it.

Then if your life is that busy and you have no desire to ever purchase a new PC or build your own, the chances are the game just isn't for you, what with priorities and all.

That depends on there being another game exactly like it that does better by it. We have all sorts of games that gain popularity and then fizzle out, this isn't limtied to a single platform or genre mind you, even AAA games fizzle out after some time.

Sure. It's just with these massive multiplayer games (or any online game) that you either jump in now or risk never getting to play it. Can't have a backlog with these kinds of games. Yet perhaps it becomes the new counter strike, that's still going.