hanselthecaretaker said:
Well then, why even bother making a video game if the PnP is infinitely better?
Or in other words, what does the video game offer that makes it worthwhile over the PnP that inspired it? There has to be something.
Having said that, there seems to be a decent amount of condescension and elitism surrounding board games, almost like how people compare books and movies. Not sure why there is always a need to compare two completely polarized things as if they were built with the same intentions. They each have their own strengths to provide engaging content in its own way unique to a given medium.
Video games having the execution part to them that PnP games can't do (well, technically they can but not very well as there are dexterity games but you won't be seeing any leagues starting playing dex games really outside of like crokinole). In a video game you have to time an attack or dodge, execute an attack, etc. Whereas in a PnP game, you roll a dice to see how good you swung a sword. Video games convey the feeling of you actually doing something far better than you can do with PnP/board games. Mastering some boss fight in say Sekiro or doing something in Dishonored like StealthGamerBR is a much different feeling that rolling a 20 in DnD. Much of what Dreiko said as well.
It's mainly that board games are in a golden age right now and video games are in a pretty shit place. It wasn't until about the last 10 years that board games were really amazing, you'd have the occasional good one, but for the most part they weren't good games. And PS2 era and down, video games were better on the whole. A good game is a good game regardless of medium. TV is in a better place than movies right now whereas the reverse was true for 50+ years. It's not about which medium is "better" but which medium has better content presently.
B-Cell said:
Smithnikov said:
B-Cell said:
they are board games where you couple with friend play some role ie waste of time.
And a video game isn't a waste of time...why?
it depend. if game is good. or masterpiece. it well worth a time.
It's really hard to make a good AAA game in the current environment. Every game has to sell like 10 million copies to be successful so it can only have elements that appeal to everyone. There's very little passion that goes into AAA games and most games are more akin to a product created on an assembly line vs a piece of art anymore. Whereas you can make a very successful board game about growing fucking TREES (Photosynthesis) but you can't even make a video game with a female lead because the focus group doesn't... oh shit, that's why you don't like anything but video games as most appeal to your very very specific preferences of dudes shooting other dudes...
