The State of Battle Royales

Today I pose the question: Is the Battle Royale genre dying? Let's discuss it in another "Macro Thoughts" video!

The Outro song is "Bone Theme" by Michael Wyckoff

#battleroyale #macro #apexlegends

[jakeboice]

I do hope arena shooters and class based shooters make a comeback someday. I do think it’s possible. People need to realize as well that just because a game isn’t popular anymore doesn’t mean it’s still fun. I still play Black ops 3 multiplayer almost daily still and it’s still incredible almost 8 years later. Don’t let anything or any youtubers influence your fun in gaming.

[Uncannyskeletons]

Hyperscape has to be one of my favourite battle royales in terms of movement and mechanics ever made. Sad to see it go

[NumeroCinko]

I was waiting for someone to say "cosmetics are not content". Thats so true.

[supremecrackerr]

I severely miss spellbreak. Such unique fighting mechanics 😭😭

[eggabacon]

I want to see a resurge of popularity in regular campaign and multiplayer FPS games with extra modes like capture the flag, those are always fun.

[vengefulgaming]

That song made me go through a state of crippled depression... thank you Macro

[flyer]

Holy moly, I was talking to my friends about this yesterday, about how dropping in, looting, camping for 20 minutes *Warzone* and then dying to someone in a vehicle was just not fun. You read my mind Macro.

[d_Flores_b]

I really hope battle royales aren't the main thing companies look at if they want to make a game with good numbers player wise, I miss seeing some actual creative multiplayer games

[AdventuRaven]

Spellbreak and hyperscape were some of my favourites, if I could I would have kept the fandom alive myself

[Miunim]

Little known fact about the Respawn mechanic in Battle Royales, Fortnite actually had the entire system in development in their files before Apex came out. After Apex came out it ended up looking bad on Fortnite when they finally finished and released the reboot van.

[TheSoundofTanay]

I think the reason why Fortnite works is simply because they're not afraid of experimentation. In one season you have people using Dragon Ball mechanics and in another, they are swinging through Spider-Man's web shooters. One can say they never take themselves seriously, and just focus on what's 'fun'.
That helps them build consistency through evolution.

[qlem_the_creatr]

Macro is one of the only YouTube's that I agree with 99.9% of the time

[GojkoStojanovicII]

I remember a few years back, all I played were multiplayer shooters like Fortnite, Overwatch, COD, Apex and it was just miserable but in the past few months I’ve basically only played single player experiences like Red Dead 2, TheLastOfUs, Doom, The Batman Arkham games and I actually enjoy playing video games again

[BrownCharlie]

I personally like the concept of battle royale, but it seems like when a fresh battle royale idea comes out, no one wants to try it, and the game dies. People are getting bored of the same thing though, and this is why i feel like battle royale games are truly going to die out.

[craftytyt]

With all this shade towards BR's that Macro is throwing, I'd like to see him make the perfect BR. Genuinely like that would be a sick video : Macro pitching his own BR
Edit:Mom I'm famous I have a comment with over 300 likes!

[SlothLord]

I personally love Population One, I know the fact that it costs money and requires a VR headset is a huge drawback, but the fact that its in VR makes it so much more immersive and fun. The amount of approaches you can take to a fight by having the ability to simply move your arms and climb is unending. This makes it so it doesn't become very stale and is almost always a good time.

[nicalens]

You legally cannot make a battle royale video without talking about the greatest battle royale ever. Totally accurate battlegrounds

It was made as an april fool's joke and even so I think it is the greatest battle royale to date
The movement, absurdity of every gunfight, insane attachment synergies, dumb weapons and much more make it one of the most fun games I have ever played, especially with friends

It deserves all the attention it can get even if the developers abandoned it, so please go check it out
It's free to play btw

[GTM]

I think this genre it's here to stay, but I don't think it will get a whole lot more bigger.

[bion-geek-le]

the biggest strength and weakness of a BR is that they require a large player base, and if it can't keep things interesting, then the game dies

[frankthetank]

I've personally been entirely drained from the br experience. Really nothing that can be added will really keep me around at all since, like you said, it was fun the first thousand times. That's why I hope more Arena shooters come back to their former glory, like if 343 actually updated Halo Infinite