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unless you've been living under a rock chances are you've at least heard of player unknowns battlegrounds or pub G and fortnight even if it was just from googling wTF is the floss dance but how exactly did these games come from seemingly nowhere two absolutely dominating the gaming market is there something that they're giving us that other titles just aren't well as it turns out the answer appears to be yes or at least that was the case when these games first hit the scene you see both pub G and fortnight are excellent examples of the Battle Royale game genre which has a number of hallmarks that distinguish them from other shooter titles the basic premise is this a whole bunch of players usually fifty to a hundred right now with future games claiming support for up to a thousand get dropped into an arena with no or minimal supplies or weapons items are scattered randomly throughout the map and over time the map shrinks forcing the remaining players into a smaller and smaller area with anyone caught outside of the safe zone getting killed the last player or squad alive is declared the winner sounds pretty simple but many other shooters didn't offer this kind of open exploratory free-flowing gameplay when pub G considered to be the genres defining title hit the scene in 2017 which is kind of funny because the game wasn't even built from scratch instead a player who went by the handle player unknown hence the name developed it as a mod for ARMA 2 / dayz taking inspiration from a year 2000 Japanese film called you guessed it Battle Royale the fact that pub G was a mod for an already popular game gave it instant exposure and popularity it presented a fresh twist on the shoot-'em-up genre that had been dominated by the Call of Duty series and its clones for about a decade by that point oh and it also didn't hurt that the wildly popular Hunger Games film series sparked interest in games that offered a similar style of combat but what exactly makes battle royale games so different from other shooters well part of it is the strong sense of player freedom in that you're just fighting other individual players on a large open map which gives lots of leeway for different players to play the game their way so you don't all have to go after this control point instead some people might choose to aggressively try to blow away the competition while others might prefer to hide away until everyone else is dead regardless there's less of a feeling like you're on Rails the randomness of item and weapon distribution also helps the game feel more accessible with a number of other popular shooters there's often this sense that you've got to be an incredibly good crack shot in order to enjoy the game at all but the more random somewhat less complex nature of pub gian fortnight have made the game more appealing to novices yet with strategy and skill with a weapon you're still rewarded enough to appeal to the more hardcore sex of the gaming community furthermore the matches themselves also tend to end fairly quickly so there isn't a huge time investment required in an age when all of us are busy and have short attention spans something that has actually led popular battle royale developers to make their games available on mobile devices with by the way a great deal of success on the subject of accessibility lots of the popular shooters on the market were expensive triple-a titles when pub G hit the scene but pub G was significantly cheaper with fortnight and more recently apex Legends both adopting the free-to-play model generating their revenue from micro transactions also of course we'd be remiss if we didn't mention the social aspect of the game the fast pace elements of surprise and the fact that it's rather entertaining to watch a bunch of contestants fight it out until one is left standing makes games like pub G & fortnight engaging to watch so it's no surprise then battle royale games are very popular with streamers as well as in the eSports community not to be left out in the cold other shooter franchises like Cod have taken note of this and added battle royale modes to one of their games and EA as well has recently gotten in on the action with the or mentioned incredibly popular apex legends with the way things are going though I wonder how long it's gonna take for us to go down the same path as MOBAs where the battle royale space become so hopelessly crowded that we get to the point where developers are literally fighting it out for market share like a bunch of kids shanking each other at the cornucopia speaking of shanking don't let your business get shanked use fresh books fresh books is the small business accounting software a custom-built for how you want to work it's a simple way to be more productive more organized and to get paid faster with fresh books you can create and send professional-looking invoices in less than 30 seconds you can set up online payments with just a couple of clicks to get paid up 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