I recently completed my postgraduate studies in English from CU. I would love to hear your questions and doubts and would try to answer them from personal experience.
The important element of PUBG which set it apart from the later Battle-Royale games like Fortnite and Apex Legends was its no-bs style approach to producing a realistic gameplay experience.
I remember, when a long time ago the Chinese beta was released, I immediately hopped into it with utter shock because of how closely it resembled the PC gameplay experience. But then, after a couple of years, it started pushing micro-transactions very aggressively. Battle Pass, premium crates, premium skins etc. I've been on and off of PUBG Mobile since they introduced the battle pass or royal pass whatever it's called, and each time I came back, somehow it was worse than it had been.
Few days ago, I once again installed PUBG Mobile, or BGMI whatever, after playing a game I realised just how bad things have gotten over the last few years. The game is currently having a collaboration with THREE DIFFERENT THINGS. ALL AT ONCE. Naruto, Spiderman and Ferrari. Honestly, that's some astronomical level of greed imo. Not to mention, the moment you open the game, you have to turn off like 3-5 different micro-transaction slop to even get to the home screen.
The game encourages you to download TONS of data that in no way contribute to the gameplay experience (just a ridiculous amount of skins). It has now become similar to Fortnite, perhaps even worse.
Around 2020-22 I used to play CODM but then left it for the same reason. I understand that the mobile games market is not sustainable unless they put ridiculous ads or micro-transactions in the game to keep it free and generate revenue, but don't you think this is just getting out of hand?
Don't worry I slimed Stein too, upon which Harold Weiner (Harvey) seemed very pressed.
Mdickie universe is something else lol.
Okay so my character was out there slaughtering people for no reason (especially in the subway) and then got arrested for serial murder by this certain Officer Cameron, but the court verdict was in my favour, and as soon as the cutscene ended, the siren started blaring and now I was wanted for murder. So I get out of the station and walk into the subway, and go on a killing spree again. This same Officer Cameron shows up, tries to catch me, but after some beating, he suddenly said he would take the heat on himself, so I agreed, and then I arrested him for the crimes that I committed. 😭🙏
RIP Kafka and Camus, you would've loved the absurd world of MDickie games.
I arrested him because it was flashing “attempted murder” in orange under his health bar and it turns out he tried to murder a cop, so this is what the court punished him with amputation, except the one limb they removed is his head. Damn.
I find it hilarious that the dev made him bulletproof. But still, prior to this I was still able to throw him under the tracks, get him injured, got him into chaos in the hospital and then arrested him and finally the court case went on my favour.