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FallenShadeslayer t1_j6kv0e0 wrote

Reply to Do girls find it weird when a guy plays a female character? by [deleted]

Honestly, I used to. When I was younger. Then I grew up and realized it doesn’t matter. If I can have super powers in a video game and save the world and do all that crazy shit, why can’t someone play as the opposite sex? I’ve even done it myself a few times. Sunset Overdrive, Skyrim and Diablo 3 are the ones that come to mind. It allows me to play differently than I normally would have.

Except in Skyrim. Doesn’t matter what I try, sneaky archer is life.

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thatbratakara t1_j6kuzpf wrote

Reply to Why Don't More AAA Studios Stealth Release? by SupremeJelly

I understand the need for marketing because of getting people hyped for the game and all but I really wish they would wait to start marketing until the game was finished and just being polished up. I honestly feel like sometimes they spend so much time marketing rather than polishing up the game so we end up with game breaking bugs at release instead of a more polished piece.

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B3RS3RK_CR0W t1_j6kuq04 wrote

Reply to comment by peko_ in the first thing that makes me not want to play a mobile game. by peko_

Yeah, but just make better mobile games. I won't mind ads if they weren't evert ten seconds. I can't tell you how many mobile games I play that seem interesting and fun, but I quit because it keeps preventing me from playing their damn game. You're out of energy? Buy more or watch this ad. You completed the mission? Watch this un-skipable ad that's longer than the mission. Now play that exact same mission over and over with ads that are longer than the gameplay. Hit a wall where you literally cannot progress? Watch fifty ads or spend $10. That'll get you through the next 3 missions before we ramp up the difficulty again and you're back to spending more money/watching tons of ads.

I literally download at least 5 to 10 mobile games a week, just to delete them after three minutes of gameplay. They're not games, they're ads. Mobile gaming has literally become that episode of Southpark where ads take over everything. You see a cool game, but it's not actually what you were shown. It's a completely different thing that is 90% ads. You download a tower defense game, but it's just ads for more mobile games that aren't games. It's all just ads. I just play them for five seconds and then never play them again.

Whatever happened to 8 ball pool, flappy birds, or plague inc.? They were games that I loved and had on my phone for years. There wasn't a grind. There wasn't an energy bar limiting you. Any purchases were all cosmetic. You got 5 to 15 second ads every four or five games. It was fair. Again, these are games that I had on my phone for years. They were getting much more money out of me through ads than all the mobile games I've played in the past three years combined. If the game is fun and I actually get to play it, they'll get ad time from millions of players over the course of years.

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