• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Start making more Co-op campaigns cause I have 1-3 friends and I don’t want my only options to play to be a sweaty deathmatch or tree cutting sim.

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      3 months ago

      As long as it’s still playable solo. A lot of co-op focused games I’ve played don’t really work when playing solo

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, it’s annoying how many games are single player

      I have a console for couch play, why is it so hard to have couch play

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        3 months ago

        I have a HTPC with 4 controllers and honestly my steam library has more couch games than my old Xbox.

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          Yeah, it’s just a loot grind at end game. Mechanics are solid af though. I wouldn’t say it’s a massive failure. At least not at levels like Anthem or something.

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            3 months ago

            I agree with you on the mechanics. The game itself is fun and the story was great. Just found the endgame to be massively lacking.

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    3 months ago

    I (allegedly) have friends, but we’re all adults so there’s no way I can actually schedule time to play with them.

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    Multiplayer games used to have single payer storylines. Even franchises like CoD had some really fun and memorable ones (Snowy Park, anyone? “No Russian”?) and of course GTAV in general. Now it’s all just Battle Royale or some other standard FPS mode. There’s little inbetween.

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    3 months ago

    But if they focused on single-player games, they wouldn’t be able to get you to buy the same game again next year.

    (Madden notwithstanding)

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    The problem isn’t necessarily multiplayer games as much as many multiplayer games refuse to release with functions to help you group/party find and actually meet people in-game. They don’t have to because discord exists.

    So you go to play a new game and turns out you’re just playing with the same people you always play games with because despite being multiplayer there’s no reason to interact with strangers in-game.

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    Solo player here: I still prefer multiplayer games because single player AI is dumb and predictable. I can only put up with every enemy behaving the same exact way, making the same exact mistakes so many times before it gets boring. And FWIW you don’t need friends to enjoy most online titles. Most games let you queue solo.

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        Difficulty modes just more often than not means that the AI will either cheat or become a bullet sponge. Increasing the difficulty also doesn’t fix the issue of every enemy behaving exactly the same way as every other. Single player AI ruins immersion for me. The story has to be really good for me to be able to look past the bad AI that is in nearly every single player game.

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        Honestly all they need to do is create a difficulty selector. That’s the only reason I don’t play souls games.

        Inb4: “gitgud” Yeah that’s kinda my problem. Obviously.

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          I agree. These people are such snowflakes. How does an optional easy mode take anything away from them? It doesn’t, yet they cry about it as if I shot their firstborn when I bring it up. Just call it “super mega crybaby loser mode”, maybe that will make them feel better when they pick the “super mega ultra sigma hardcore extreme mode”. Treat them like little children, they will fall for it.

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            I disagree. That’s not the game or the experience the devs wanted to make. I don’t think every game needs to be for everyone. There’s always modding if you still want to play a game not designed for you. I don’t think it makes someone a bad person or a “snowflake” for liking a game’s identity and design philosophy to remain consistent. I wouldn’t mind personally if souls games had an easy mode, though I don’t really play them, but I know that fans of the series don’t like the idea, and it’s just not the experience the devs wanted to make. If you don’t like that the devs hold that philosophy, don’t play their games.

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    3 months ago

    i have a couple friends but they secretly hate me so make games for that please thanks

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    3 months ago

    I just want to play games with my husband. We have two games we play together off an on. 7 days to die and Ark Survival Evolved.

    They’re the two that we can make a private server and the gameplay together is actually fun. Wish more games like that would happen.

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      3 months ago

      Hello fellow married gamers!

      Might I recommend:

      Raft.

      Dinkum.

      Grounded.

      Valheim.

      V Rising.

      Starfew Valley/Terraria.

      Those are all games we’ve played together.

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        Thanks for the suggestions! We’ve played valheim so we’ll have to revisit it and check out the rest of the list!

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          The new-ish Valheim updates add a lot of worthwhile content. It’s worth booting up your old world for a weekend.

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      I’d like to suggest a game called Planet Crafter. Me and my significant other picked it up recently and it’s a fun and chill crafty survival terraforming game. There is no combat or monsters trying to eat you, survival is just like oxygen water and food bars, so that might be a turn off for some, but it fit the vibe we were wanting to play. Crafting / base building is similar to subnautica.

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    3 months ago

    Pubg, helldivers , insurgency sandstorm all great for solo multi-player. That cod battle Royale also not terrible