XDefiant is Supposedly a Throwback to a Simpler Time of the Late 00s, and ‘mid 30s dad-gamers’ Can’t Get Enough

Ubisoft’s newest game, XDefiant, which brings together factions from around Tom Clancy‘s universe, launched to a lot of server issues that left many players stranded. But that doesn’t mean the game wasn’t fun. In fact, it sent some of the fans into a world of nostalgia as they enjoyed their time there.

It’s not just this generation but the one before it that entered the newly released game. While many gamers of today, who are used to the realism delivered by the next-gen games, may criticize it for the ‘unrealistic’ feel, the ones who used to enjoy games like Call of Duty 4 don’t seem to have any problem with it.

This is What we Call a Traditional Gaming Community

XDefiant cannot be a Call of Duty killer when it radiates the same vibe that old-school arcade shooters and mobile games do. But that’s what the gamers from generations X and Y want in it. But that doesn’t mean they don’t love how video games have advanced with engines like Unreal Engine 5.

A gamer dad in his mid-30s shared this as he went on to play XDefiant. The user HBKShawnMichaelz (no, that’s not who you think) jotted down a detailed experience of the game on the social platform Reddit.

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As other users confronted the post, they felt the nostalgia and didn’t waste a pinch of time to chime in on the conversation. User KairuSenpai1770 misses the “low stakes mayhem gameplay.”

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To many, the game just doesn’t feel right. This is probably due to gaming community adapting to advanced video games today. A reload animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2007) won’t give them the feel the series reboot delivers. That’s natural, given that we tend to be inclined toward an improved variant of a product.

XDefiant is Still Ahead of Call of Duty in Some Ways

Sure, the game has failed to outrun Call of Duty upon launch, killing the expectations springing after it emerged as a potential competitor over Warzone 2.0 and Modern Warfare II during the beta run, but XDefiant has managed to outshine some other video games in the FPS arena.

Talking about weapons, players might already have found their favorites. Some of the most popular at the moment include the M4A1 assault rifle, the Vector .45 ACP sub-machine gun, the SVD Dragunov sniper rifle, and more.

While Call of Duty certainly remains the better game to the majority, the fact cannot be ignored that XDefiant has done a better job when it comes to matchmaking. Unlike the infamous SBMM Activision Blizzard employs, the game’s executive producer, Mark Rubin, decided to let go of the algorithm so it wouldn’t compromise on variety as well as fun.

Did you feel the variety in the game? We would like to know your experience in the comments section below.