Examining the Battle Royale Landscape, One Year Post-PUBG (Writing on Games)

[Géza!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895DoOQsOFg

[Noob©]

The 'landscape' will be challenged when two of the biggest shooters arrive with their bandwagon.
Otherwise, the analysis has got a small game sample, perhaps their focus is only on PUBG and Fortnite.

[Vandooz]

One thing i'm totally burned out on is walking long distances and doing nothing in the meantime. I had that by playing Dayz (Arma 2 and also GTA V Online (long distance driving missions for a little gain, IF youre not getting blown up by a player/hacker)), takes hours to just get a few minutes enjoyment out is just mindboggling boring. Plus a few people invited me to gift me PUBG, but i absolutely can't and won't be doing this since i have only a few hours free each workday.

[redBadger]

I think the Battle Royale craze is dying out. The two big dogs are PUBG and Fortnite and will remain that way. However putting them in other games like Call of Duty and Battlefield shows that it's just a fad to be easily monetized by corporate big-wigs who don't know any better.

[Swiket]

Honestly I’m still waiting for a BR game that doesn’t have the gimmicks of Fortnite and has much more polish than PUBG

[RaikohZX]

At least Battlefield V looks to be having a solid standard multiplayer as it usually does on top of a full campaign so that the battle royale is just something of an addition, much like the whole horde mode craze of years past. Treyarch being forced to toss aside their campaign by publisher hijinks for the next Call of Duty, creating a boots-on-ground multiplayer that keeps the controversial Specialists while trying to make it class-focused but with a short TTK as per CoD standard, and then making battle royale one of its selling points as they advertise it on literally reusing / touching up assets, areas and characters from previous Black Ops games? That's a catastrophe waiting to happen.

[Dreyzie]

This so much. I'm stuck with PUBG because Fortnite doesn't offer the same experience.

[Galactic S.O.U.L]

I'm guilty of sometimes playing PUBG almost just as I do in Fortnite, always being aggresive and making dumb plays lol

[Nachy]

After the initial charm of having 100+ players in a game, battle royale really just starts to feel stale due to the prominent issues with every BR game so far which are extended periods of downtime, very luck-based gameplay and quick feelings of repetition. I will admit some of the most enjoyable and intense moments I had recently were multiplayer games with friends on PUBG, and there were some genuine great moments that aren't easily replicated in any other multiplayer game, but those great moments are like a drop of water at a small oasis in a large tedious desert.

It's a very gimmicky genre, and so far the only BR game that comes close to addressing most of its issues is ironically a joke game which is Totally Accurate Battlegrounds, and it's also mostly due to the fact the game itself is just ridiculous and prioritize fun over anything else. Slapping BR on any established sort of gameplay in a familiar setting can only remain interesting for so long.