If you’re sick of massive AAA developers running cash grabs, my suggestion is stop patronizing their games until they get their sh*t together. An excellent alternative if you’re looking for a fun FPS game is Battle-Bit Remastered. I personally love this game, and there is a long running joke that the three guys that made this basically shat on the AAA developer world when they released a full featured FPS for $15 that is enjoyable and has 0 micro transactions.
I totally respect what they’ve done, and I admittedly am not a Call of Duty player, but Roblox graphics are an instant turn off for me and I really don’t think the general CoD player base is going to be drawn in by it either. If there was a graphics pack that made it look modern and zero percent like Roblox I might be able to get into it, but not as it is.
I’ve played some surprisingly good games with untextured polygons.
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Star Fox
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Race the Sun
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Carrier Command 2
That’s not to say that you couldn’t take the same games and make a flashier version that I wouldn’t like more, but I do kind of think that it forces the developers not to use glitz as a crutch. Like, if you’re going to make a game with untextured polygons and sell it, you are going to have to have solid gameplay.
Another benefit is that it’s easier to revise a game if you haven’t committed a lot of expensive assets into particular game design decisions. I think that a long, iterative development process with gameplay revisions is probably a good thing for gameplay.
I kind of wish that one could more-frequently get commercial “HD” DLC for small-budget games, like indie pixel-art games. I think that low-res pixel art is a good way to reduce asset costs, let the player’s brain fill in a lot of the detail, but if a game does turn out to be successful and I like it, I’d like to be able to also get a more-detailed version. That way, I’m only paying for assets on games with good gameplay.
I’ve seen a small handful of games do that, but it’s definitely not the norm.
Maybe AI upscaling will help.
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I remember the days of the OG MW3, some people mockingly calling it Modern Warfare 2.5
I guess it will be a similar situation, or the same, all over again, maybe it already is
I’m itching for a good single player arcade-y/soldier-y FPS. Anyone have a suggestion? Haven’t played CoD (nor BF for that matter) since the one with the No Russian level.
3 days late but, seconded on battlebit! expecially for that arcade feel. it’s all the best parts of battlefield in a package that can run on basically any modern hardware.
Yep this one’s in my wishlist, I’ll get it next time it’s on sale!
BattleBit, if you want a BFBC2 multiplayer feeling!
I stated playing battlebit and I don’t even consider bothering with mainstream titles anymore. This release is garbage, the last 5 releases have just been progressively worse and worse, like hey even bother?
It feels like I have more fun in 1 game of battlebit than I did over the entirety of my 200+ hours of BO2, which was the last mainstream shooter I played that didn’t feel entirely like a waste of money.
Battlebit was one of my faste fastestest refunds. Such a bad game.
As someone enjoying it tremendously, why?
The gameplay is smooth, there is a plethora of maps and modes, teamplay is encouraged but not strictly needed. Mapsize ranges from 16v16 to 127v127.
The only arguement i could see is the low poly graphics and that’s like, what did you expect?
Bad graphics, bad gun balance, bad gunplay, bad community, too many unaddressed bugs, reporting system is very bad.
Did you play like, AT launch? Battlebit has by far the best gun balance of any FPS I’ve played in recent memory. Every single gun I’ve used is viable, it just depends on playstyle. After the SMG nerf it’s a wildly even playing field.
What’s your problem with the gunplay? It’s the same as every other FPS game out right now. Staged reloads, handling that makes sense, bullet drop + travel time… literally what is there to complain about here?
I could go on but this is turning into a rant, and I have a sneaking suspicion that you’re some rogue COD stan and I might as well be yelling into a void. Either way it’s valid to like what you like, your tastes just heavily confuse me lol
The majority of the videos on the game are about how bad the game balance is. There should be no surprise that only 2/3s of the reviews are positive.
That’s just not true, the game is at 89% positive. The game has gun balancing problems, but so does every shooter ever. They regularly release patches to shake up the meta.
Why are you using youtube videos and not actual game reviews as a metric for how good the game is? The videos stay up forever, reviews are MUCH more likely to change to reflect changes to the game.
The videos are recent and show issues with the game.
Reviews tend to be put up and almost never changed.
Okay I’m seeing tons of comments from people about Battle Bit, but is there something good like it that features more realistic graphics? No disrespect to that game but the Roblox style instantly kills it for me.
Battlefield 1 is solid and still has decent NA community servers. Semi modern, but not much of a cash grab with good stories and a fun multiplayer experience. Especially the naval battles (imo!)
I’ll give it a shot. I admittedly have never played a single BF game since BF Vietnam, lol, and I somehow own on PC like 7 BF games including BF1. So I’m going to take your advice and give it a shot!
I have 1942, Vietnam, 2, 3, 4, 1, and 5 (I Believe that’s release order), is BF1 a better choice than 5 to try out?
I mean, I’m biased, but I refunded BFV and put well over 500 hours into BF1, haha. It feels better than V imo.
If you bought horse armor back in the day, you directly caused this problem.
