unless you've been living under a rock chances are you've at least heard of
player unknowns battlegrounds or pubg and fortnite even if it was just from
googling wtf is the floss dance
but how exactly did these games come from seemingly nowhere to absolutely
dominating the gaming market is there something that they're giving us that
other titles just aren't well as it turns out the answer appears
to be yes or at least that was the case
when these games first hit the scene you see both pubg and fortnite are excellent
examples of the battle royale game genre which has a number of hallmarks that
distinguish them from other shooter titles the basic premise is this a whole bunch
of players usually 50 to 100 right now
with future games claiming support for up to a thousand
get dropped into an arena with no or
minimal supplies or weapons items are scattered randomly throughout
the map and over time the map shrinks forcing the remaining players into a
smaller and smaller area with anyone caught outside of the safe zone getting
killed the last player or squad alive is declared the winner
sounds pretty simple but many other shooters didn't offer this kind of
open exploratory free-flowing gameplay
when pubg considered to be the genre's defining title hit the scene in 2017
which is kind of funny because the game wasn't even built from scratch instead a
player who went by the handle player unknown
hence the name developed it as a mod for arma 2 dayz taking inspiration from a
year 2000 japanese film called you guessed it battle royale
the fact that pubg was a mod for an already popular game gave it instant
exposure and popularity it presented a fresh twist on the shoot em up genre
that had been dominated by the call of duty series and its clones for about a
decade by that point oh and it also didn't hurt that the wildly popular
hunger games film series sparked interest in games that offered a similar
style of combat but what exactly makes battle royale
games so different from other shooters well part of it is the strong sense of
player freedom in that you're just fighting other individual players on a
large open map which gives lots of leeway for different players to play the
game their way so you don't all have to go after this control point instead some
people might choose to aggressively try to blow away the competition while
others might prefer to hide away until everyone else is dead regardless there's
less of a feeling like you're on rails the randomness of item and weapon
distribution also helps the game feel more accessible with a number of other
popular shooters there's often this sense that you've got to be an
incredibly good crack shot in order to enjoy the game at all but the more
random somewhat less complex nature of pubg and fortnite have made the game
more appealing to novices yet with strategy and skill with a weapon
you're still rewarded enough to appeal to the more hardcore sex of the gaming
community furthermore the matches themselves also
tend to end fairly quickly so there isn't a huge time investment required in
an age when all of us are busy and have short attention spans something that has
actually led popular battle royale developers to make their games available
on mobile devices with by the way a great deal of success
on the subject of accessibility lots of the popular shooters on the market were
expensive aaa titles when pubg hit the scene but
pubg was significantly cheaper with fortnite and more recently apex legends
both adopting the free-to-play model generating their revenue from
microtransactions also of course we'd be remiss if we
didn't mention the social aspect of the game the fast pace elements of surprise
and the fact that it's rather entertaining to watch a bunch of
contestants fight it out until one is left standing makes games like pubg and
fortnite engaging to watch so it's no surprise then that battle royale games
are very popular with streamers as well as in the esports community
not to be left out in the cold other shooter franchises like cod have taken
note of this and added battle royale modes to one of their games and ea as
well has recently gotten in on the action with the aforementioned
incredibly popular apex legends
with the way things are going though i wonder how long it's going to take for
us to go down the same path as mobas where the battle royale space becomes so
hopelessly crowded that we get to the point where developers are literally
fighting it out for market share like a bunch of kids shanking each other at the
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