Bit Rant: Leveling Into Atrophy

Bit Rant is a parody series intended to overstate issues with specific elements in gaming for comedic effect. While some points are valid to a degree it is not intended to be taken literally.

Experience and leveling systems have become so ubiquitous in games that you'd be hard pressed to find any game released in the last several years that didn't have leveling in some form. Despite constant jokes about the pervasiveness of mechanics like shooting and sandboxes, leveling systems largely sidestep major criticism despite being arguably the most overused element in all of gaming.

It's unfortunate that the most manipulative and least interesting mechanic in the history of gaming is the aspect that has been propagated through the entire medium.

Bit Rant: Guns and Disempowerment

Today I'm going to try something a little different with a new series I call Bit Rant. Basically this will just be a humorous rant against popular mechanics or topics to approach them from a different point of view. As such everything here should be taken as parody rather than literal critique.

With that out of the way, let's talk about how horrible the mechanics in modern FPS games are and how they directly undermine their narrative themes!