Game Ramblings: Quitters, Splitgate 2, Daggerfall

I love FPS games, especially fast paced PVP FPS games. Now that Splitgate 2 was released, I played it a bunch.

I was big fan of Splitgate 1, I played it a ton. One of those rare fast paced FPS games, nowadays most FPS games are slow and sluggish. Well, at least to me, a Quake player.

I was excited to play Splitgate 2 but the game has some issues with mouse sensitivity: It keeps over/undershooting and just being weird.

Then people leave the matches immediately if things don't go their way. I don't get this.

Quitters

I used to play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory as a kiddo and had awful stats on the leaderboards, but I still played: The game was fun, the stats did not matter.

Seems these days people just give up immediately. They don't even try to learn the game against more challenging opponents.

I really don't get it.

When I played Quake Live in 2009 and 2010, I got my ass handed to me daily. But the game was so much fun, I didn't care.

I started then learning strafejumping and rocketjumping. It took me some time but it made the game even more fun.

Still got my ass handed to me. Still get absolutely wrecked in Quake Live, although I used to be a lot better when I was younger.

But I don't quit mid match. Why is this so common now? Maybe it has always been common, though in community servers you never really noticed it: Someone would always jump in to refill their place.

The whole ELO and Rankings and matchmaking and whatever seems to have made players ego hurt more when they get wrecked.

But counterpoint: Who the fuck cares? It's a game. If you like the game, keep at it and you'll learn it. I'm not a saint, I used to get really angry about losing in games. But I never quit in mid match, unless the enemy team had an obvious cheater or something.

Idk man, just weird. You're allowed to lose in games, and if anyone thinks any less of you for that, they're weak person.

Splitgate 2

Anyway, sadly one of Splitgate 2 devs ended up being a fool, and this fully solidified that I don't really want to have anything to do with the game or it's playerbase: Article by Aftermath

I will likely try the game again in ~1 year, if it survives that long: Despite the foolish business in the above link, the game is still lacking sense of direction. The first game knew where it was going, but this..? It adds everything from every other game (loadouts, battle royale..), then slaps portals to it, and calls it innovation.

The first Splitgate game was solid enough. Could have just made that again. Without the embarrassing tweets and hats.

Oh well, I'll probably go back to Xonotic, Quake Champions and The Finals again for my FPS needs.

Daggerfall

I've been also playing Daggerfall with Daggerfall Unity.

I've always wanted to play it more but when compared to modern games, playing it through DOSBox is a bit jank.

Daggerfall Unity made the game more playable and fun for me. The mod support also adds a lot of niceties to it.

I honestly really like it. Despite it's age, the game holds up very well with Daggerfall Unity and the mods enhance it even more.

There's all kinds of fun quests to do and bunch of random generated dungeons to delve. One of the quests I encountered was someone asking for help. I then went to look for the person, who in turn turned out to be "evil mage" and teleported me to some random dungeon! I then went through the dungeon, looted stuff, and looked for the mage who teleported me to the dungeon and kicked their ass.

It was so unexpected and fun little encounter.

I'm still working through the main quest, curious to see how it'll go!

Game ramblings

I want to make more gaming ramblings like this. Instead of posting it all to fedi, I just like talking about games I play in longer form. So I think I'll keep doing this. If you look my very old "Bitksel" posts, I used to make posts like this about certain games, but more in depth. They were fun but quite exhausting to write. So maybe short-form ramblings like this are way to go.

Anyhow thanks for reading. :) And don't quit the matches early unless you absolutely have to.