Stronghold rant...

[Briansmithtown]

Ok, now this is my opinion as a spectator looking in on the game, and again this is my opinion, i'm not trying to change anyones perspective of the game or anything... Stronghold. I did not like this game particularly, and in this post ill give you all the reasons I can.

So it all started when they released the trailer... I feel like releasing the name of the game and the theme really kinda ruined some of the excitement. Sure it got people wondering, but the little clue drops every year is, in my opinion, best. But that's not a main issue to me. The second is that FIRST moved away from their idea of "its the sport for the mind". It became a automated medieval times, and a little boring at that.

When the game was released, I thought it was interesting...until I saw the end of the video. Then the first and only conclusion I came to was that this was nothing more then a game from the App store. And the medieval theme was contradictory. The theme would only attract a certain group of kids who are not already in FIRST Now lets get to the field. The fields looked cheesy, and the scoreboard and the sound effects where horrible. The game play was kinda boring, too. Everyone was mainly going for the one task, drive over the defenses. Cool at first, boring 90 matches later. There wasn't that much defense, either. Besides the obvious field defense, robots didn't pay too much attention of defense. The goal had too many obstacles, and it basically forced many of the robots to do the same thing.

I ventured out to watch the Orlando regional, and it was, for me, about a 2 and a half hour drive. I didn't stay more then an hour before losing interest.

Now I will say its much better then 2015, by a long shot. But taking away the sports aspect of it, adding gross sound effects, and overall game play I feel weakened this years game.

These are my opinions, and I may get hate for it, but its what I believe. My team did good this year, and I'm proud of them for doing good this year, but as a spectator, I feel that it became boring.

Also the whole foul thing is interesting. I don't have an opinion on that though.