Send them a video of a team pinging the same mushroom for 5 minutes and tell them this is what the game is really all about.
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Just tell them that there's a lot of shooting too, maybe show them a video of a mission or something.
Edit: also if you have a discord group then maybe stream you playing it in a voice call?
A fresh video was posted today by Smii7y, where he's playing DRG for the first time and going in blind. Hilarity ensues
Just buy a copy for one of them and get them on your side.
Haha, sure will. That's the plan.
Tell them to try it out. If they say no, get new friends, because the ones that say no are clearly faulty.
If they've got Game Pass you can play through there.
Tell them
- It's mainly a lot of shooting
- It's non linear levels with destructible terrain (endless possibilities for traversal and tactical changes to the battlefield)
- The mining is just as one objective to complete (because the maps are not linear)
- Pacing is fantastic (on the right difficulty level). I had chills down my spine the first time making a mad dash for the escape pod while we were getting overrun the swarm
- It's basically Left 4 Dead , but new and improved with classes, heavy dynamic lighting, procedurally generated maps, destructible terrain etc
Seconding the idea of comparing it to Left 4 Dead. Procedurally generated maps mean you don't have to play the same hospital and circus over and over though.
Also they can play as the gunner and nobody will expect them to mine much of anything.
I thought the very thing about DRG was that you make shitload of new friends.
Show them a Hazard Level 5 Mission, that should be enough shooting
I mean if the reason they won't try it is "no shooting", then it seems like an easy fix. Tell them it's all shooting and show them a clip to demonstrate.
If the real reason is that they already play a ton of other similar games that they're having fun with and don't feel the need to add one more, sadly you can't force people to love what you love, just keep it in your back pocket for next time they're looking for something new.
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