• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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
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      3 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
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      2 hours ago

      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