For so many of those players, Rocket League hasn’t lost its appeal over time. There’s no beating or even mastering Rocket League. It continues to grow and scale with your ability, continually entertaining all the way from sloppy first goals to Rocket League Items aerial laser shots hundreds of hours later.
I’ll probably never be truly great at Rocket League. I’ve poured those hundreds of hours in and sometimes luck into an aerial goal, albeit without much clear intent. But I’m better than I was six months ago, or a year ago. Rocket League appeals to me the same way the first Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games did all those years back, when I’d lose hours of my day tooling around half-pipes and chaining together epic trick lines. The sense of gradual self-improvement is palpable, and that rewarding sensation still hasn’t subsided.
