Definitely interested to watch this. I feel like arena shooters are at a super weird place where people have nostalgia for single player “”boomer shooters”” and multiple successful (AAA and indie) shooters shave come out trying to recapture that energy but the multiplayer side is almost completely forgotten.
I think there are aspects to what an “arena shooter” must be that are just super unfriendly to new players, and it keeps a stranglehold on the amazing game mechanics of multiplayer quake style games.
Whoever can get quake style movement into a multiplayer shooter game mode that is fun to play as a noob will have a leftfield smash hit on their hands mark my words. The movement in a game like Xonotic is just impossible to describe, its like butter if butter was extremely fast. It reaches deep down into my brain and starts tugging on wires in a way that almost no other game I have ever played does.
steeznson@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I realise this is strange to comment on a 2 hour video but Noah is at his best when he keeps the scope of his video narrow and (moderately) focused like this.