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'These kids do not care about romance': Game devs want to know what today's teens want, and surveys say sex and romance isn't it (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

No, come on man...!

What we need...

Is another... open world survival pvp crafting game.

Preferably with zombies.

And season passes.

And 83939583 in game cosmetics.

...

About a month ago, as a joke, I said that like the most frustrating, evil game I could imagine would be basically a game that is nothing but shitty NPC escort quests, through an active warzone with other players in PvP, where the NPC is fragile, annoying and whiney and pretentious as possible, moves slower than you run but faster than you walk...

....and every time they get wounded or just scared or drop something or trip or see a butterfly, you go into a bethesda death stare with them where you have to get through a 10+ step dialogue tree that is different everytime and only has a single success state, all others result in you having to retry...

... and its all still an active real time combat zone while you are locked into this, you and idiot NPC still vulnerable to other players.

The state of video gaming is such that within minutes, someone said this would actually be a game they'd want to play, that its an actually novel idea, sounds fun.

When I read that, my mouth dropped, in a dazed stupor.

EDIT: Fuck, all you'd have to do is call it Puppy Girl Escort Quest, and make the person you're escorting be varying kinds of kawaii waifus, surprise, the game is actually a harem anime.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

So what you're saying is, an extraction shooter where you play as a bodyguard for the VIP NPC, with some fun risk reward mechanics related to straying from the NPC for loot, and deciding which items to keep for yourself and which to give to the NPC? Sounds quite novel, could be fun