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Mmmm...Not Entirely. (Destiny)

by Morpheus @, High Charity, Wednesday, October 03, 2018, 00:25 (2221 days ago) @ Funkmon

Ok, the Disney and Elder Scrolls answers do require a decent amount of video game know-how...but for the last three...

Destiny 2 was pretty big for that year, in terms of hype, demand, excitement and most certainly advertising. Bungievision took great delight in putting ads for D2 in front of every YouTube video with more than 100 views. Of course, it also later became an example of how microtransactions and lootboxes equalized to gambling. Obviously not the main example, but if MSNBC talked about it at one point, it must have been relevant.

Joust was made a billion years ago(Sorry Kerm...) and it was around the time where video games were nearly the world's biggest innovation; almost everyone either wanted to or did play this new 'flavor of the month' called video games. I'm guessing the contestants are in their 30s or 40s--it's very unlikely that none of them played or even saw a Joust box in college or high school. Joust was made before I was born, and I've never played it in my entire life. The few times I've ever even seen videos of Joust were in history documentaries. Even I know that the player rides an ostrich.

The Battle Royale one—that is outright inexcusable! Fortnite, PUBG, whatever—or more accurately the genre of said game—is the BIGGEST thing ever right now. Gamers and civilians alike are basically saying "World of who? Call of what?" On at least three separate occasions, just in passing, I've managed to catch reports of Battle Royale games on the news—real life cable TV CNN news—in both good and bad exposure. Fads that take over the lives of millions—to the point where it's literally becoming addictive—is like blood on a white couch. If they asked something specific about Fortnite like game mechanics or tips and tricks, that's one thing--but for no one to even know the type of the games that have taken the internet by storm and has actually gained a recurring presence on the news?


Now yes, it is pressuring to yank something like that from one's thoughts in five seconds, but the Battle Royale thing is Eagles Dethroning big. Or Beanie Baby big.


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