firesprite
Master Member
I think you'll really enjoy it. Seriously, some of the best, most emotionally intense writing in any format, much less a video game, I've come across.
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The music in that game is just awesome as well.
Master Boda
Sr Member
Dude it’s hard as hell to find a good single player game,most everything is geared towards multiplayer.
Cephus
Master Member
And I absolutely refuse to play multiplayer online. I might do it with someone sitting next to me, but not with some moron I don't even know.
cboath
Master Member
I just went to see if it was still there at 10 bucks and they gave me Witcher Enhanced Edition Director's cut for free
Well we've had a dry spell in the last 5-10 years because companies like EA were trying to sell the idea that people didn't want singleplayer games. The reason for that was because they were making a killing on multiplayer games with lootboxes and selling skins for characters. That's the reason GTA5 didn't get DLC, because GTA Online was making so much money.
Master Boda
Sr Member
True and that is a shame as EA could have made a really cool game with Star Wars Battlefront. I still play and think the originals were better. I did watch the South Park episode about EA so I should have known better.
HeartBlade
Sr Member
Yeah, if a multiplayer takes off, it makes an insane amount of money.
GTA online makes like half a billion US PER YEAR. Thats revenue but the cost is basically server maintenance and maybe producing some new content. Fortnite apparently made $5.8 billion in 2021. This is all with just designing some small new content and maintaining servers. The monry made from a successful online game is insane. Its no wonder companies want to get in.
However, the big problem is IF your multiplayer takes off. To be honest, most dont and due a quiet death with a tiny playerbase when the servers shut down, loving that content away forever. See Red Dead Online that didnt really take off, leading to Rockstar prioritizing GTA online with new content which leads to less stuff on Red Dead Online which leads to a smaller playerbase which leads to Rockstar ignoring it for GTA….
Gimpdiggity
Master Member
I’ve been playing River City Girls on Nintendo Switch. It’s a beat ‘em up, pretty solid. There’s a second one out now so I’ll get that when I’m done.
Sail Forth came out today. I really enjoyed the demo on Xbox like over a year ago, so I’ll pick that up too.
Been playing Destiny 2 again because a friend had his son start playing, so it got us going again. Story is still nonsense, but the actual gameplay is still top notch.
Sail Forth came out today. I really enjoyed the demo on Xbox like over a year ago, so I’ll pick that up too.
Been playing Destiny 2 again because a friend had his son start playing, so it got us going again. Story is still nonsense, but the actual gameplay is still top notch.
Same here.
Plus now, you have to pay extra to play online.
Last time I played online, I was really into Street Fighter 4 on PS3. I was destroying everyone who played me, as 2nd player there in person. Ken was my favorite....I thought I'd try online.....no matter how many matches I tried, I got killed every time. I never even won one single match.
I realized people will play a game so much and be so insanely good at it, that a more casual player like I was, was never going to get a chance to win....ever.
Playing one of the Wipeout HD games, there was a an online trophy that I thought shouldn't be too hard to get....yeah, ended up being so much harder because, again, of those super good players.
I just gave up playing online all together.
One thing I've learned in 27 or so years of playing online is to stay the hell away from multiplayer RTS and fighting games. When Command & Conquer Red Alert was out, I tried ONE online game and I was destroyed within about 5mins. I built one tank and was destroyed.
The people who play games like Streetfighter online are just insane.
Yeah, totally learned that real quick.One thing I've learned in 27 or so years of playing online is to stay the hell away from multiplayer RTS and fighting games. When Command & Conquer Red Alert was out, I tried ONE online game and I was destroyed within about 5mins. I built one tank and was destroyed.
In fact, Dan was always knownnas a joke type character....and thats who the person was using that destroyed me over and over.
Even kept using the taunt.
A big NOPE from me now.
Gimpdiggity
Master Member
I have a friend that’s a “tournament” fighting game player…you name it, he plays it. He’s been to Vegas for a few of them, and while he never wins, each time he’s come home with enough prize money that the trip cost him nothing out of pocket.One thing I've learned in 27 or so years of playing online is to stay the hell away from multiplayer RTS and fighting games. When Command & Conquer Red Alert was out, I tried ONE online game and I was destroyed within about 5mins. I built one tank and was destroyed.
I played him once. I am not very good at fighting games, but can generally get a few good shots in by just mashing buttons. Nope. He blocked everything I tried and literally pummeled me for about ten minutes. I’ve never tried playing another person in one again.
Online games are funny because if you’re good at them, they’re great…if you aren’t, they’re awful.
I HATE PvP in most arcade style shooters (Halo, CoD, Destiny, etc) because I just don’t have the twitch reflexes to be any good at them…but man, I LOVED Battlefield Bad Company 2. It rewarded sound strategy and patience more than having a quicker trigger finger. I was probably a Top 50-ish player in the world in that on Xbox. I was acquainted with and played with the same groups of people regularly, some of which I liked and others I didn’t. My play style was so recognizable that one time I changed my Gamertag…within a few minutes a guy in the other team switched to my team, came and team killed me, switched back, then sent me a message that said “Change your name all you want I’ll recognize that play forever.”
Sadly, most shooters now have gone the arcadey/arena route, and they just aren’t that fun for me in PvP. I enjoy them in co-op and PvE, and I will gladly play with randoms…but I just don’t do much PvP any more.
HeartBlade
Sr Member
I was never good enough at games to compete so multiplayer is a nightmare for me.
Not born with those super reflexes or even above average to be honest so I need to learn the enemy moveset and react accordingly in single player games.
I did encounter a guy that apparently played Smash brothers professionally (was literally walking around our dorm with a gamecube controller) and he kicked my roommate and my butt but did explain some techniques. I just don’t know how people come to find these techniques and what +1 frames on block or that kind of stuff means (In guessing you get an advantage in your attack connecting faster than the opponent if you block an attack first but how do you find this stuff out and execute in the middle of a fight?)
Not born with those super reflexes or even above average to be honest so I need to learn the enemy moveset and react accordingly in single player games.
I did encounter a guy that apparently played Smash brothers professionally (was literally walking around our dorm with a gamecube controller) and he kicked my roommate and my butt but did explain some techniques. I just don’t know how people come to find these techniques and what +1 frames on block or that kind of stuff means (In guessing you get an advantage in your attack connecting faster than the opponent if you block an attack first but how do you find this stuff out and execute in the middle of a fight?)
My only run in with a pro gamer was then RivalXfactor (I think just Xfactor now?) playing Battlefield 3 or 4. I had watched a lot of his Youtube channel because he gave a lot of good tips for the game that you might not know from playing it. Anyway I saw the notification that he had joined the game and I was running through the map, capping command points (or whatever they were called) and I see him, on the other team, and my brain had just enough time to go "Crap, there's...." and he headshot me before I could get a shot off. At the time I was a pretty good player, always at least near the top of the scoreboard, but he was good and fast! Man I miss those games.
At the time I was a pretty good player, always at least near the top of the scoreboard, but he was good and fast! Man I miss those games.
Cephus
Master Member
I hate PvP period. The last one of those games I played was back in the Quake III Arena days and it wasn't all that fun. Playing Doom with a friend is fine. Playing with strangers online, hard pass.
Mostly, that's why I walked away from MMOs many years back too, because you would up having to team up with people who weren't interested in having fun, they just wanted to RUN from fight to fight to maximize their XP gain. They would get one super high-level character to tank the enemies, he'd just stand there since none of their weapons could even scratch him, and the rest of us would level up over and over and over again, mostly without having to do much but spam some buttons. Zero strategy, zero challenge and zero fun. Lather, rinse, repeat.
I even got into a discussion once with the head of our guild over on Anarchy Online and he told me that I'd never have fun if I was expecting people who wanted to just play the game and not rush around. Even though I'd played for many years by then, I left and never looked back.
No thanks. I'm playing these things to enjoy myself. I loved the Halo franchise up until Halo 5, then... I stopped playing it. Short single player campaigns and everything else online multiplayer. I have zero interest in any of that.
Riceball
Master Member
The only multiplayer game that I ever really got into that wasn't an MMO (which I mostly played as a single-player RPG) was World of Warships. It's team PvP so it's not as bad as playing regular PvP. But some of the players could be pretty toxic with some either choosing to deliberately mess up the game by getting in your way or even shooting at team members to others trash talking simply because you didn't play the game the way they thought they thought that you should have. But then you'd have the occasional games where your team actually played as a proper team and not as a group of random individuals like you really are. And sometimes you'd even get players from the opposing team complimenting you on a well played game or well executed move, sometimes they'll even apologize for getting a lucky hit on you and taking you out of the game early after a single hit or volley.
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