Why did post-Soviet countries become so obsessed with cRPGs to the point they became a cultural phenomenon over there?

Why did post-Soviet countries become so obsessed with cRPGs to the point they became a cultural phenomenon over there? Even Eastern Euro chicks I've spoken too at the pub in the smoking area talk about Might and Magic, and Classic Fallout has numerous Russian fangames and spinoffs like AtomRPG.
Even in the modern day they aren't copying Betheshit or Ubishit or whatever, but classic CRPGs. Why?

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  1. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    I remember that encounter, almost more fricked than the BBQ place.

  2. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    PCs were probably cheaper or more common in Eastern Europe than consoles were.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      This, as a balkanslav piracy was much easier on PC.
      Also the reason PS2 was so popular here.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      This, as a balkanslav piracy was much easier on PC.
      Also the reason PS2 was so popular here.

      This

  3. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    they aren't homosexualed yet

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >russians aren't gay
      don't tell him

  4. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Why did post-Soviet countries become so obsessed with cRPGs to the point they became a cultural phenomenon over there?
    They like a very specific type of crpg for complete morons. They won't touch anything that requires brains. Slavs basically all have severe dunning kruger syndrome.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      I think you should look up your buzzword of choice and come back to your post

  5. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    As if cRPG classics like the M&M series or Fallout 1/2 wouldn't be worthy of "obsession". No wonder they stood the test of time and inspired titles like AtomRPG, which oozes soul and encapsulates everything good about indie game development. Why would anybody copy Betheshit or Ubishit outside of financial reasons?

  6. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >least incestuous pedo slav

  7. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's what happens when you're not infested with consoletards. Post-soviet countries were poor as frick in the 90s and early 2000s (and a lot of them still are), so people couldn't afford consoles (or even PCs, which is why computer clubs were such a big deal) and instead played pirated shit, often of older PCs which also restricted them to older games.

    Thus, an appreciation for not just RPGs, but also strategy games, old-school shooters, stuff like that.

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      HOLY SOVL

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      sometimes i wish i could go back to those times
      >city full to the brim with started but never finished projects, building that have the base but were never finalized, reminding me of fallout
      >everyone is dirt poor, no real class system, enforcing some sense of camaraderie
      >cafes open around the clock to get your gaming fix
      I lived only a year at my grandmas but these are the best memories. Now i just sit in my room like a moron and study the whole day and sleep the rest of it. Utterly soulless

  8. 2 months ago
    Anonymous
  9. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    AtomRPG is Russian Fallout 2, along with the themes of memes and cultural references included left and right
    it's quite literally a game that westerners will never understand

  10. 2 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      Immersion ruined by having minecraft icon
      Didn't it come out like a few years ago?

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        anon, I...
        you've been in a coma for... quite some time

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          >minecraft is over 20 years old
          comrades i dont feel so good

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          >2011 game
          >released in 2009
          why do websites put up with this, I don't care when the dev claims the executable is "finished," if it's released then it's released.

  11. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Consoles didn't really become a thing at all in Eastern Europe in general until the 00s. You either played vidya on PC or you didn't play vidya at all.

  12. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >might and magic
    do they even play that? i thought they only played heroes of might and magic, which has little to do with CRPGs

  13. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >showing the dad how fricked his family is until he commits suicide
    kino

  14. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    They're built different

  15. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Slavs are hyperfocused on PC games in a way that japs are hyperfocused on console gaming. Probably because that's all they had available.

  16. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Love me slavjank

    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >when you beat you wife for extra XP points

  17. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    >copying betheshit
    nobody can do it. plenty have tried, some have come close, but bethesda has a deathgrip on their niche.

  18. 2 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 months ago
      Anonymous

      >clean
      must be some high end cafe, our shit always looked like some goblin cave

      • 2 months ago
        Anonymous

        the camera quality's probably not high enough to see the filth
        given that they seem to have ashtrays on each desk, I doubt it remained that clean for long

        • 2 months ago
          Anonymous

          yeah probably was some kind of grand opening
          all cafes ive been to were dirty in a sense that the shit was yellow and used

  19. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shitty weather for most of the year and general grim environment favours long-form and escapist vidya, so RPGs. The reason they prefer cRPGS compared to nushit is because the modern skinnerbox/graphics chasing disposable flashy american mindset doesnt exist there. They just want engrossing stories and deep gameplay because the education system as inherited from soviets has an emphasis on mathematics and hard sciences, thus conditioning them to enjoy deeper more complex systems as they have heavier worked brains that need more exercise to not get bored than your average illiterate American who just wants to shut his brain off and smoke weed.

  20. 2 months ago
    Anonymous

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