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There is just no depth in gameplay. Good games are easy to learn and hard to master. In Pogo you can only optimize the grind. Pogo is fairly easy to learn (tho
by anotheryou 10y ago
There is just no depth in gameplay. Good games are easy to learn and hard to master. In Pogo you can only optimize the grind.
Pogo is fairly easy to learn (though there are a lot of strangely obfuscated things very relevant to your in-game success), but there is plain nothing to master.
Rocket League does a great job here: There are just 3 main controls: steering, jump and boost, but there is physics and there are other players. Beginners try to make the best of their luck pushing the ball in the right direction at least, while pros jet through the air, ration their turbo, anticipate if the other goes for a shot, have fairly good control over their aiming and use the simplified chat to collaborate with teammates. It's very niche compared to PoGo, but look at the google trend. Thy initial hype went away, but it refuses to fall lower: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-06-20%202016-09-01&q=%2Fm%2F013bd3tm https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-06-20%202016...