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unless you've been living under a rock chances are you've at least heard of

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player unknowns battlegrounds or pubg and fortnite even if it was just from

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googling wtf is the floss dance

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but how exactly did these games come from seemingly nowhere to absolutely

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dominating the gaming market is there something that they're giving us that

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other titles just aren't well as it turns out the answer appears

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to be yes or at least that was the case

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when these games first hit the scene you see both pubg and fortnite are excellent

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examples of the battle royale game genre which has a number of hallmarks that

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distinguish them from other shooter titles the basic premise is this a whole bunch

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of players usually 50 to 100 right now

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with future games claiming support for up to a thousand

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get dropped into an arena with no or

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minimal supplies or weapons items are scattered randomly throughout

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the map and over time the map shrinks forcing the remaining players into a

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smaller and smaller area with anyone caught outside of the safe zone getting

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killed the last player or squad alive is declared the winner

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sounds pretty simple but many other shooters didn't offer this kind of

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open exploratory free-flowing gameplay

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when pubg considered to be the genre's defining title hit the scene in 2017

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which is kind of funny because the game wasn't even built from scratch instead a

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player who went by the handle player unknown

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hence the name developed it as a mod for arma 2 dayz taking inspiration from a

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year 2000 japanese film called you guessed it battle royale

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the fact that pubg was a mod for an already popular game gave it instant

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exposure and popularity it presented a fresh twist on the shoot em up genre

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that had been dominated by the call of duty series and its clones for about a

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decade by that point oh and it also didn't hurt that the wildly popular

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hunger games film series sparked interest in games that offered a similar

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style of combat but what exactly makes battle royale

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games so different from other shooters well part of it is the strong sense of

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player freedom in that you're just fighting other individual players on a

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large open map which gives lots of leeway for different players to play the

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game their way so you don't all have to go after this control point instead some

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people might choose to aggressively try to blow away the competition while

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others might prefer to hide away until everyone else is dead regardless there's

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less of a feeling like you're on rails the randomness of item and weapon

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distribution also helps the game feel more accessible with a number of other

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popular shooters there's often this sense that you've got to be an

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incredibly good crack shot in order to enjoy the game at all but the more

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random somewhat less complex nature of pubg and fortnite have made the game

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more appealing to novices yet with strategy and skill with a weapon

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you're still rewarded enough to appeal to the more hardcore sex of the gaming

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community furthermore the matches themselves also

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tend to end fairly quickly so there isn't a huge time investment required in

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an age when all of us are busy and have short attention spans something that has

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actually led popular battle royale developers to make their games available

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on mobile devices with by the way a great deal of success

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on the subject of accessibility lots of the popular shooters on the market were

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expensive aaa titles when pubg hit the scene but

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pubg was significantly cheaper with fortnite and more recently apex legends

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both adopting the free-to-play model generating their revenue from

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microtransactions also of course we'd be remiss if we

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didn't mention the social aspect of the game the fast pace elements of surprise

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and the fact that it's rather entertaining to watch a bunch of

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contestants fight it out until one is left standing makes games like pubg and

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fortnite engaging to watch so it's no surprise then that battle royale games

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are very popular with streamers as well as in the esports community

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not to be left out in the cold other shooter franchises like cod have taken

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note of this and added battle royale modes to one of their games and ea as

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well has recently gotten in on the action with the aforementioned

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incredibly popular apex legends

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with the way things are going though i wonder how long it's going to take for

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us to go down the same path as mobas where the battle royale space becomes so

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hopelessly crowded that we get to the point where developers are literally

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fighting it out for market share like a bunch of kids shanking each other at the

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