>At work
>Collegue goes on about how he has a twitch channel
>Streams GTAV, FIFA, Fallout 4
>Ask him if hes ever played Dark Souls
>"Lol nah whats that, some fighting game"
I sometimes forget how niche this series truly is, and you faggots keep saying its been taken over by casuals
>>316831060
>Someone didn't know a game
>"lol it must be niche"
>>316831060
Dark souls is medium niche at the lowest. The only people who dont know it are people that only play GTAV, FIFA, Fallout 4.
>>316831060
I live in a shithole andmy sandnigger friends all know about it
>>316831209
>posting literal abominations
>>316831269
This desu senpai
Normies have weird ways of thinking. Just look at how the newest iterations of FIFA keep faring. They're more or less the same products.
A friend of mine recently told me that he considered getting a PS4 for FIFA alone but decided against it, going for a PC instead so he could get FIFA for free. I don't even.
It's like most console owners don't even care about video games. At least the FIFA crowd doesn't.
>shitposting thread
Nope
>>316831496
dumb frogposter
>>316831798
Second from the bottom right is great.
>>316831060
in my place people only play lol
>>316831557
>It's like most console owners don't even care about video games. At least the FIFA crowd doesn't.
They don't. The FIFA crowd are Europeans and other Not Nothern America regions where kids and young adults who follow soccer and or play football on the grass fields near their homes also indulge in it in digital form. That's what it literally is for them. Digital soccer. I mean they don't approach it as a video game lover or someone interested in the medium. They often play nothing else. At most Counter Strike because they view it as a digital military drill camp/paintball.
>>316831798
>imagine if skyrim was stripped down to the most dull gameplay and story elements
these are pretty ruff.
>>316832621
>mfw these people never realized Skyrim was always a game with the most dull gameplay and story elements
fucking casuals I swear
>>316832407
>used to be a certain company
>literally everyone just plays hearthstone, DOTA or lol
no wonder sonic is shit nowadays
>>316831060
the series was aways target too casuals so they can fell hardcore
>>316831798
i dont like Dark souls and even i think it has better gameplay than most games out there
specialy skyrim
>Fallout 4 is now a casual franchise on par with GTA and FIFA
I remember when Fallout 3 came out and I overheard bros saying "that shit is gay too much reading", Bethesda knew what they were doing I guess.
>>316831798
>evolveandlive
>the fun in this game is pretty much like god:not real
>>316831060
it hasnt been taken over for casuals, it simply is casual.
Its just a barebones hack'n'slash with 2 invulnerability buttons
>>316835079
What game isn't casual then?
Call me a soulsbaby, but I'm genuinely curious.
Also, please don't respond with some ancient japanese games emulated on a cooker.
>>316831798
The problem isn't just that they disliked the game.
It's that they disliked it because it's fantasy and not Skyrim.
>>316831798
Why do they think Dark Souls copied Skyrim when it came out first.
>At school
>Friends talk about vidya
>I'm so excited MGS: PO is going to be released next week, let's play it together on release
>What the fuck are you talking about, anon? We only play CS 1.6
>At work
>Co-workers talk about vidya
>Hey, what games do you play anon?
>Currently? MGSV, it's awesome
>Eeh? What is that? I play CS:GO
>tfw never met anyone who played other games than GTA, CS, CoD, BF, DotA and LoL
>>316837887
>Love to try new things and try to invite others as often as possible
>Everyone else just want to stick to their game of choice forever
>>316837887
I got 4 friends into melee. It only takes 20 minutes for them to fall in love with it.
They then do all the other shit by themselves like visiting smash boards and looking up tier lists and the Docu, tourneys etc.
You only need to push it a bit and it's like a snowball. Though, for some reason, they become massive anti smash 4. I literally never mention to them smash 4. ANyway that's a different story.
>>316838296
I've shown all my favourite games to all my friends that are interested in games, one picked up Dark Souls, loved it and came back to CS:GO after beating it. Most of them don't enjoy any singleplayer games and don't care about multiplayer unless it's competitive.
>>316838258
So you know how I feel, anon.
>>316838296
How do you do it anon.
Even people who make general statements like "I play FPS games/strategy games" seem reluctant to go away from their Starcraft or CS despite giving me the impression they are curious of other games in the same genres.
>>316831060
>at work
>fat office admin girl talks about how much of a gamer she is
>plays only WoW
>black guy who works in the back as a software dev with me
>is super quiet and waears nice sneakers all the time
>talks about dark souls and other niche games with me
Black dude is pretty based
>>316831060
>niche
Sure thing, the multi-million selling game is niche
>>316837060
Probably competitive or grand strategy games
>>316838867
That obviously depends on the game. Europa Universalis is casual grand strategy for sure.
>>316838743
Intelligent black people who don't act like ghetto pieces of trash are top tier as friends/acquaintances. It's a fact
>>316837060
This is also actually niche unlike Dark Souls
>work as a software engineer
>all my coworkers are married and don't play games
g-g-guess i'll go back to anime desu senpai
>>316831060
dark souls is still pretty niche
but it's not super obscure or anything
>>316835079
>Bare bones
>Two invulnerability buttons
Yeah, evasive moves are just invulnerability buttons despite the fact they have to be timed.
Guess any game with a block feature is casual.
>like a mix of casual garbage and niche games
>not casual enough of garbage to talk to my co-workers about
>not niche enough to talk to friends who play indie/niche stuff
Well fuck.
>>316838693
Well for one i am pretty good at Melee. I guess they see how much more fun the game becomes if you get good? Maybe it's the fact that the weeklies here gather 40-50 people? I don't know, it's not hard to get someone into melee these days.
About any other game, i am at a loss though.
>>316831798
i don't know how many times i've seen this image but it triggers my autism every single time
>>316838619
Nowadays multiplayer games like League or CS:GO are just ways casual gamers use to get competitive. You might be too tired to go out and play football with some buddies, but you can always make a cup of joe and hop onto CS:GO where you can really get into 'it'. You know what I'm saying?
Lots of time these people play it not because they love video games, but because it's a fun outlet for their ambition and competition. You might suck at soccer, but your good friend could message you on Skype and ask if you want to play a match of CS:GO. They go to the same college, same shitty minimum wage job every single day. you feel me nyiguh?
>>316831798
While I personally think DS is shit, what the fuck.
Only a few of them have valid complaints, but inevitably compare it to Skyrim.
>>316838867
>csgo
>lol
>dota2
Which competitive games aren't casual?
>>316841672
fighters
star craft
arena shooters
>>316831060
It's a great commercial success, was advertised all over the place getting mass media coverage, has had countless let's play and spotlight type videos made about it, got several releases including a ''PS3 essentials'' one that only the top selling AAA games get, and you're saying it's fucking niche?
The only niche thing about it is that it filters out the literal mouthbreathers while simultaneously letting casuals with large egos feel as though they're hardcore for beating it.
>>316837561
Nobody did. But a few people wrote articles before either game released praising Dark Souls as a game vastly superior to Skyrim (people who had managed to play both demos). There wqs an enormous backlash from rectal ragnarok'd Bethdrones, and I think that was the first time I witnessed one of these weird Metacritic shitposting campaigns.
>>316841672
In all honesty, none of those games are casual. They have a huge learning curve and it takes hundreds of hours for you to even be considered competent at them
>>316837887
>Currently? MGSV, it's awesome
You're no better, you tasteless fuck.
MGSV was fucking terrible.
>>316837887
Well, CS people are just stuck ten years ago.
I know one of these guys, too. Granted, he buys stuff on steam, but apart from some RTS there is nothing outside of Counter Strike for him.
>>316844705
>MGSV was fucking terrible.
Depends on what standards it is being compared to.
For a game where the dev team got shit on? It was pretty good.
For a game trying to complete and round out the legacy it comes from? It was mediocre and incomplete at best.
>>316831060
>>316837060
>>316837887
>>316838743
>>316840313
>>316841087
All these faggots suck AAA cock and don't even know it
>>316831798
The user reviews from Amazon are somehow worse.
>>316831060
Roll souls is slasher
