Most of the video games I’ve played were pretty good. The only one I can think of that I didn’t like was MySims Kingdom for the Nintendo DS. Dropped that pretty quickly. It was a long while ago, but I’ll guess it was because there were too many fetch quests and annoying controls.

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    Battle Royals - for me, it’s about how the consequences heighten the tension, and how the threat of getting unceremoniously smashed back to the lobby heightens the victories.

    Playing with friends makes the the whole experience fun. If you drop and have some downtime ‘just’ gearing up, you can chat and hang out and goof around. Then when shit kicks off, it’s just so much more impactful (imo) than a game where you’ve just died and respawned a bunch already and you can do the same again. The teamwork and communication has to be next level and it feels so damn good to win a round, especially when you’ve been on the back foot and had to claw your way out of tough fights.

    No mind tricks, not fussed about loot boxes and skins, just awesome memories from when we where playing enough to get almost half decent at it.

    …and now I’m missing Apex Legends, might reinstall and remember that my friends don’t play it any more

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      Yeah, I like Apex because when you are in a fight it’s almost entirely down to your reflexes. Not just your physical reflexes but how quickly you can adapt creatively to your immediate environment and plan your tactics at a high speed. The addicting part is the lack of knowing for certain how and when you’ll be engaged and by who, then being good enough to get yourself out when it does happen.

      I don’t always like to hot drop, but when you do it can be a lot of fun as everyone scrambles for the supplies and then your team comes out on top despite having to bite and scratch your way through opponents with basically a spoon you found.

      I don’t know if it’s due to having some undiagnosed adhd or something, but I find that state of flying by the seat of your pants to be kind of soothing, almost therapeutic.

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        Hahaha ummm yeah as for your last sentence, I finally got around to getting a diagnosis for adult adhd recently and yes, having that focus naturally demanded of your brain by something you actually enjoy doing is definitely soothing. Kinda explains all of the activities I’ve always been drawn to (intense games, sim racing, rock climbing, skydiving etc)