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Don't like them. Deathmatch is more fun, and is even better with some Quad Damage

I dislike rage games or any kind of game that damages my already fragile psychie.

:( I don't understand why people like them

Sounds to me like you just need to relax your own expectations and examine why you play those games. I started playing PUBG with friends this year and had a lot of fun. But i'm not really playing for the win. Of course we are trying to win, but the enjoyment of the game and the time we spend is just as important. A game where we try something stupid and die laughing is just as much fun as getting a win. One of my mates sometimes rages when he dies to what he considers to be bullshit but for me, I just shrug, and queue for the next game and start over. I enjoy the act of playing the game so why should i care if i have to start over?

Come to the bayou and play Hunt Showdown you’ll never leave

I want to upvote you a thousand times. I mean, I don’t have 900 hours logged in a battle royale game, but I have tried a few.

The suckiest part to me, the bad, is how fucking long it takes to go from joining a match to the next.

I suck at these games, and that’s fine by me. I realise that being good comes from experience, and experience comes from failure. I know I need to fail one thousand times before I am decent, and I know I need to fail ten thousand times before I am good.

Therefore, if the gameplay experience is to wait two minutes to find a game to join, wait a minute for everyone to queue, wait for a minute to hit land after the drop, run around searching for anything to use for 5 minutes, run around searching for anyone to fight for 5 more minutes, and then lose the fight? I just spent 15 minutes doing nothing.

Compare that to a shooter that has a game mode in which I can respawn in 5 to 10 seconds. Much more fun.

I hate battle royales because I very much dislike the gameplay loop, but because they are popular every new shooter is a BR. Bah.

I spent lots of time in Erangel one spring/summer several years ago.

I had fun, but I don't know why every big game had to become battle royale. I had my fill of fun, and was on to the next thing.

Nah I don't play anything anymore that forces me to do PvP and that includes all Battle Royale games. I rather play shooters where I either can play alone or, even better, my friends and me against zombies, monsters or whatever have you. Those are the greatest shooters!

I've also never liked BR games. Too often it felt like you run around for minutes, looting stuff and nothing happens.

Then you see somebody and kill them without them noticing you. Or.. you get killed the exact same way.

Or when playing with friends. Like Apex, you get into fights with other teams, which is cool, but then thrid party comes in and owns you from behind.

Then it's over and you've to do everything all over again, running around looting etc.

Or you decide to drop in laces where many players drop too. Then you have stupid fist fights or pistole fights. If unlucky, queue again and do it all over again.

I think this is more annoying than anything else. I prefer joining a fair 5v5 fight on a map where I respawn anf keep going. Or real TDM/DM.

I think BR games have too much of a luck factor attached to it compared to oldschool real FPS games like CS, UT, Quake and all that. And I think that exactly is rage inducing.

I don't really like BR games either. I'm enjoying the new fad of extraction shooters like Tarkov, Marauders, DMZ, etc. You get the risk/reward pressure but aren't forced into pvp engagement as much. Most of the time I lose because of mistakes I made, not because someone was inherently better.

I played Fortnite for about a year after the BR came out. I enjoyed the PvE version of the game and the BR had the right balance of ridiculousness and solo gameplay I wanted out of a competitive shooter.

I never enjoyed the team driven BRs because I don't find my team relying on me relaxing.

I personally am very limited these days in the PvP games I will play. I really enjoy either single-player experiences, or co-op games like Deep Rock Galactic, that new Starship Troopers game and Ready Or Not. But yeah, as far as PvP goes, I turned away from BR very early on and never looked back. That's a young man's game, if you ask me. I'm holding out hope Starfield will be great, and I'm absolutely stoked for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 as a long time vet of the original three entries.

Steep learning curve, having to wait to join a match in order to play, and not having time to just enjoy the world are my big turnoffs. I would love to run around a PUBG map with just like AI bandits and some animals

I love the game play and aesthetic of fortnite but playing solo BR can be too intense and i rarely feel like doing it. It's more fun and less intense playing with friends though

I tried a couple battle royal, but I never invested that much time in them. I basically ran around for a bit then died. I didn't get into them. I've played a ton of counter strike and overwatch tho.

Battle Royale sucks, story games with multiplayer elements are where it's at :D

FFXIV is the only online game I will tolerate playing with strangers

Good on you for quitting rage games. I used to have this issue as well and after taking a few years off of them, I was able to get back into them without the anger and frustration.

I only play online games with friends now and only for fun. I actually just got into Fortnite and it’s really fun to play and just kinda goof around with friends in. If we win it’s nice but if we don’t it’s not a big deal. The game is so goofy that it’s hard to get mad at.

But when you do start realizing that the main games you play just piss you off, you need to take a step back and try to find what games actually let you have fun and what conditions you have fun under. For me it’s either single player games, or multiplayer games casually with friends.

I’d probably lose my mind playing Valorant alone but it’s really nice and casually with a group of people just talking and playing together.

Valorant, Fortnite, phasmophobia, grounded, and overwatch 2 are probably the best group games I play at this point. I can’t recommend league sadly because everyone I play with also just gets angry at this point lmao.

I dunno how much skill they take.

I can't stand competitive multiplayer. But I'm not very good at paying games. It seems to take me more than twice as long as people say it should to finish most games (I do tend to try and do everything I can on my first play through).

That said I tried playing Elden Ring multiplayer, helping people beat bosses, and that was a surprisingly wholesome experience.

I generally have the same feeling with online FPS games. I used to play Battlefield 3, 4 & 1 a lot. Eventually I realize those games are so intense, and I'd get tired so easily. They still sounds fun to play but I don't want to deal with the intensiveness, the competitiveness of the game so I never come back, but they still are good games.

I hated them from the beginning. They're boring. It's so much walking and looting and very few shooting. I don't even like tac shooters either though, I also find those boring. I rather lean towards the arena and "hero" shooter side. Actual gun fights with good teamwork which last long is what I like. Unfortunately, that's not as popular anymore.

Yeah I really don't enjoy them