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I’m not opposed to playing multiplayer games. But I’m not going to be playing the vast majority of modern multiplayer titles.
Most of the time I wonder if there is even another player on the other end of modern game, or if it’s just bots
I like playing old games organized on discord and sites like game date
Got drunk and played megaman 11 with siblings, passing around the controller, cracking jokes about how megaman’s ow sound seemed weirdly gay and horny in this one. I was so bad I kept getting him hurt and it sounded like a gay porn.
My sister asks “isn’t that supposed to be a robot child?”
Me: “He’s been a child since the 80s and his voice is lower now. He’s a megaMAN now, and how dare you demean the short king fighting for your safety over his robo masochim kink and short stature.”
Brother: “yea he can’t help he was built that way. You’re a monster. Don’t kink shame”
Me and bro: -glare-
Sister (who is in a poly relationship and very much the alternachick of the family): “….what the fuck is happening here?”
Single player games are still fun when played together.
Your family sounds fun lol
Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.
The live service model has been a plague on gaming and has basically killed every bit of enjoyment I’m getting out of multiplayer game nowadays. Shit’s like having a job. You leave for two weeks and you might as well be playing a different game. Leave for a month? Maybe the game don’t even exist anymore. It’s exhausting.
It’s also why they keep dying. All of them operate off a walled garden model while simultaneously demanding “this is probably the only game you can play for a while” levels of time investment and using unlockables as the carrot.
So is it surprising that players don’t want to jump ship and leave all their skins and “look at me I’m special” shiny equipment behind for something that’s not much different than what they got already?
It’s the same thing as when every Tom, Dick, and Harry were sure they’d be the next WoW. Execs never learn.
You’re not supposed to leave! Subscribe to the Steam iv nutrition service and stay focused!
Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.
And even these games are way better as single player games.
It’s also making my move to Linux gaming way easier.
I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.
I miss split screen. Too many games nowadays, in order to play with my kids, I have to buy multiple copies, finagle multiple PCs and accounts just to play multiplayer. Finally my ancient laptop collection has a use
I sometimes miss counter-strike, but i lack atleast the time and the people to play it on a level where that game is fun and probably the reflexes.
The alternate modes like arms race or demolition are fun and quick.
and not what i’d want from the game ;)
it’s either a 5vs5 in a serious setting or in service of getting better at that, otherwise it’s not the game i miss.
Single player games are so great, but it does get lonely sometimes. There’s a whole genre that needs to be invented : multiplayer city-builders. For instance in Going Medieval it would be dope to be able to visit other players’ settlements for trade or raids on your server
Until your horse gets blown in half…
I really liked Fortnite when it was a single player zombie game. Well coop, but that was fun.
Yes, it’s a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day.
Or team based PvE games where it’s just trying to keep up with the speedrunners farming.
In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.
start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager
One of my younger coworkers was just complaining about that and I had the pleasure of informing them they were now an old man.
Was gonna say having kids is incompatible with souls like games.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a pause feature in most souls-like games? Or is this because its the boss battles that take up the most time and pausing in those is a death sentence?
Sorry if this is a newby question, I don’t play souls-like games. I’ve tried, they just are not for me.
Maybe in more recent “-like” games but most of them do not actually.
Dark Souls 1-3, Elden Ring, Lies of P and others typically do NOT let you pause. So you can’t stop in the middle of a fight.
I think this is slowly going away but a handful of clones still do this.
In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.
Yeah exactly. I need a game I can just pickup and put down on a moments notice.
I mostly only play single player games too but of the four used in this meme I only thought one of them was any good.
Nintendo is basically the only one who can get me to play multiplayer/online games like Mario Kart or my personal favorite that I did play competively, Splatoon. Literally that’s it. I would get into fighting games if I wasn’t ass because I do want to know more about their storylines, but I feel like a bitch if I just watch it.
The man thing that sets Splatoon apart is the fact that the voice chat is basically non-existant, so you don’t have to hear the endless slurs and rage from your teammates. The characters, plot, music, and art also really set it apart for me, but tbf those can be subjective and applicable to multiple games. But it’s a special game to me and our fanbase is rabid lol.
But yeah I absolutely love and almost solely play singleplayer games. JRPGs ftw!!!
I only stopped playing multiplayer games because all the current MP games suck shit.
Deep rock galactic. Best multi-player game i played recently other then stardew valley. Sometimes a multi-player game gets better with someone else
Elden Ring Nightreign has been my jam. Deep Rock Galactic and DRG Rogue Core are also fun.
But yeah otherwise a lot of MP games are ass nowadays. Too much lootboxes and hostile policies and not enough focus on fun.
I was pvp hardened in Eve Online, exactly because of that I will probably never touch anything multiplayer again.
EVE Online is old man friendly though… and still here.
