Going through the absolute shit on offer currently it really is remarkable to me how backwards this industry has gotten. Micro-transactions were one thing but it looks like any kind of co-op game is just some god awful grind fest if it's free to play yet that's what the majority of the cons00mer types seem to be playing now.
At least Stardew Valley and Helldivers 2 can be called video games but honestly I tried PoE and it bored me to death not to mention the obvious trash FPS issues it seems to have right at the beginning. I'm going to just check out the Warframe gameplay rather than play it myself.
Even without the enemies having 500000 hitpoints it seems that matchmaking is often garbage in these games at the best of time which immediately gets me having flashbacks to GTA V and I go into a fetal position over that because rockstars matchmaking is truly awful. I don't think I could ever play co-op with people if they just quit halfway through and inevitably the instance ends right there so you're fucked and have to immediately jump to a queue only to have another twat abandon a game right after. So unless you can keep playing with people even after they leave or solo it that means the game is effectively unplayable.
Yep, offline or solo play only for me.
I remember the hidden world MMO. Terrible controls, but fun world. I guess I can describe that for a lot of games like this.
I played that for a bit. The first act was really fun and well made with super varied quests, and then you finished and went to act two and it took a massive nosedive, like they expended most of their effort on the first part and then realized way too late it wasn't enough content so they tacked on a bunch of extra stuff way late in development. And yeah the controls were godawful. Shame.
Just the subject has me remembering games like that. I can't remember any of the names.