/tg/ - Traditional Games

>>224085

Because they're a well-designed mix of horde/swarm tactics, religious fanaticism, stealth and crazy technology. They are an actually diverse faction not defined by one single thing. It makes them feel more real.

How many single races can do the same and feel like one natural army instead of bits stapled together? Whoever made them did a damn good job.

They're fun to paint, fun to play, and fun to customize.

>>224085

They take on the evil characteristics of many subterranean Fair Folk Races, that have lost them in their Generic Fantasy presentation.

In more simpler words, they are the evil Dwarf from medieval Folklore.

Because they break all the dull dull things, they make shine shine from them. No god can make dull dull out of shine shine, yes? Skaven win, orall die, some time both, just need time. Skaven always win.

Or in other words, there is no way to make them a generic race. Much like 40k orcs they are immutable in intent and purpose. Orks WAAAGH, Skaven are the level 1 basement rats come back with vengeance.

>>224085

Because they embody all of the "evil" traits in humans that have allowed us to survive and overcome challenges.

They're fluffy little mousmen

>>224287

Vermintide: L4D ripoff

>>224292

I'd say not. From what I saw they improved upon the formula immensely.

L4D is like Dota, a good game that sprang forth a sub-genre. Is league of legends automatically trash for using the same basic concepts?

>>224302

L4D is shit because of the players.

If you play with people that have a brain it's the best game EVER.

But try playing with no more than 2 other friends. I dare you.

I can guarantee Vermintide, shit or not shit, is going to follow the same rule.

>>224085

Because you are a furry.

>>224302

But anon, LoL is shit. So is all its awful knockoffs like Smite.

Its the same as TF 2 and its knockoffs.

Its the same short fight over and over again with only minor variations, ad nauseam, with skill only coming down to twitchy reflexes and memorising the entire map in advance.

Its shitty same and unvaried gameplay carried only by the company of the people around you. For all the entertainment value it has, you might as well be watching a movie or drinking with the same people to get the same result.

In short, its a glorified minigame for a chatroom.

L4D and Vermintide are just continuations on that formula.

If they really wanted to make a fun game out of skaven bashing, how about a Mordheim game that actually follows the gameplay of the game? Or even better, a Necromunda game, since Mordheim was just a medieval version of Necromunda

>>224302

League is trash because of its community. The actual gameplay is basically a stupidly simplified version of older rts like Warcraft 3 where you had to balance a hero with abilities and long respawn, several resources, an army, and a town. It's basically potato Warcraft 3.

>>224292

European Migrant Crisis Simulator 2015

>>224830

IIRC the genre came from a StarCraft mod ("Aeon of Strife") so that makes sense as a description.