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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Time-wasting respawns/progress loss seems like a very blunt tool with which to motivate the player to keep playing.

Tried playing a game of tennis with my friends. 0, 15, 30, 40, Point. Then if you're two scores ahead the game resets. Wtf! Why did the game reset? I was 30-40 and now I'm back to 0? I should be allowed to keep my 30 into the next game.

Now I'm being induced into playing more tennis! I hate this.

And tennis has so few maps! Almost everywhere I go is concrete. Very luck to find a clay court anywhere. You need to buy the DLC to find grass, and only if you're really lucky.

Its repetitive. Its exhausting. The rules barely make sense. And the match-making is completely fucked. I'm either playing people I trounce or getting my ass handed to me almost every time I go to a court.

I think I'm going to try and pick up chess instead. Does anyone know how I can upgrade my pawns to queens, though?

[–] solarvector@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 hours ago

My favorite part of playing tennis is the commute back to the court after every time my opponent scores. I really get to savor and look forward to the next time I'll get to swing my racket. It also makes victory that much more meaningful knowing that not only am I an expert at swinging the racket, reading my opponents moves, and responding, I've also memorized every crack, crevice, and nuance of conversation along the route to the court. That meaningless repetition of unrelated action is what makes games fun!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

It's a very funny comment but also tennis is only the gameplay of tennis. People don't play tennis because they Iike the story so much lmao

[–] PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

People don't play dark souls for the story either. We are there for the gameplay.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Speak for yourself. I think many soulslikes have fascinating stories, and they're wasted on players who don't pay attention to them.

[–] Masamune@lemmy.world 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Go for ping pong if you want to get roped in because of the plot.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Maybe tennis 2: pickleball

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So your claim is souls likes are more like tennis than say, Fortnite is.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fortnite is just baseball with extra steps

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

All games are just stick and hoop with extra steps