Just because co-op games aren't for you, that doesn't mean they're intended to ruin the fucking game industry through some absurd casualization nonsense
As someone who games to avoid people I agree with this. If I'm going to play with someone I'd rather it be a friend or a sibling than Chinky Chan's cheat program.
I'm starting to get tired of these inane "musings" posts.
Yeah. I'm not one of OP's haters, but it's getting a bit much, even for me. I get having a passion, but he gets upset about the weirdest stuff, too. And then presents it as something everyone else should get involved with or something too.
There are such things as trends, and when one game hits it big there will be mimics. That has been going on as long as there are video games. We've had a few big coop hits recently, so we'll probably see more coop games trying to ride the wave. It's not a psyop. And we also had eras where coop was big in the past, too, such as Left 4 Dead going big.
I'm starting to get tired of these inane "musings" posts.
It's not like this forum is bursting with content each day so if someone wants to share random thoughts about whatever, I say go for it. It's easy enough to hide the thread and move on if it isn't interesting.
We haven't seen a major push from AAA studios to create real singleplayer content realistically for decades.
Suicide Squad and Redfall are just as (not)-playable in single player as in squad co-op. Starfield is single player only. The God of War Games are single player. TLOU 2 was single player. Dead Space Remake and RE4 Remake were single player. Zelda TOTK is single player. Pokemon is primarily single player. Mario is singleplayer. Hogwarts Legacy is singleplayer. Dead Island 2 is primarily single player.
Everything FromSoft makes is primarily single player. Stellar Blade is single player. I don't think Atomic Heart was AAA, but it's single player and got hype.
Single player games are absolutely still being made. You just forgot all of them.
So… you’ve arbitrarily disqualified over half the examples given (you said ‘decades,’ but the GoW stuff is too old? Or maybe it was Elden Ring snd Armored Core you meant with that?), then still admit to three titles (which is more than the two you have)? You want an AAA game, but you also don’t count anything that’s a woke, shallow game with a buggy release (i.e. almost all of AAA?)
I mean, I could find you even more titles (Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man 2, Far Cry 6, Like a Dragon: Isshin, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth), but they’d all fall under at least one of your arbitrary disqualifications.
If you want to say “the only games I think are ‘good,’ on the one platform I pay attention to, are co-op,” thst would be one thing. But you said “the industry isn’t making any of these games,” and you’re just… really, really wrong.
I haven't played in quite a while, but the most DRG had was a handful of cosmetic bundles right? Nothing impactful, no premium battlepass shit, and they kept doing free expansions. Just a one time purchase of $30.
Helldivers is AA. DRG maybe not even that. Ghost Ship got acquired and their parent was also acquired but they're a 32 person company now. I believe they were smaller at launch.
As someone who games to avoid people I agree with this. If I'm going to play with someone I'd rather it be a friend or a sibling than Chinky Chan's cheat program.
Yeah. I'm not one of OP's haters, but it's getting a bit much, even for me. I get having a passion, but he gets upset about the weirdest stuff, too. And then presents it as something everyone else should get involved with or something too.
There are such things as trends, and when one game hits it big there will be mimics. That has been going on as long as there are video games. We've had a few big coop hits recently, so we'll probably see more coop games trying to ride the wave. It's not a psyop. And we also had eras where coop was big in the past, too, such as Left 4 Dead going big.
It's not like this forum is bursting with content each day so if someone wants to share random thoughts about whatever, I say go for it. It's easy enough to hide the thread and move on if it isn't interesting.
Just a gut feeling, but it feels like the majority of them are from Lethn.
Suicide Squad and Redfall are just as (not)-playable in single player as in squad co-op. Starfield is single player only. The God of War Games are single player. TLOU 2 was single player. Dead Space Remake and RE4 Remake were single player. Zelda TOTK is single player. Pokemon is primarily single player. Mario is singleplayer. Hogwarts Legacy is singleplayer. Dead Island 2 is primarily single player.
Everything FromSoft makes is primarily single player. Stellar Blade is single player. I don't think Atomic Heart was AAA, but it's single player and got hype.
Single player games are absolutely still being made. You just forgot all of them.
So… you’ve arbitrarily disqualified over half the examples given (you said ‘decades,’ but the GoW stuff is too old? Or maybe it was Elden Ring snd Armored Core you meant with that?), then still admit to three titles (which is more than the two you have)? You want an AAA game, but you also don’t count anything that’s a woke, shallow game with a buggy release (i.e. almost all of AAA?)
I mean, I could find you even more titles (Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man 2, Far Cry 6, Like a Dragon: Isshin, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth), but they’d all fall under at least one of your arbitrary disqualifications.
If you want to say “the only games I think are ‘good,’ on the one platform I pay attention to, are co-op,” thst would be one thing. But you said “the industry isn’t making any of these games,” and you’re just… really, really wrong.
I haven't played in quite a while, but the most DRG had was a handful of cosmetic bundles right? Nothing impactful, no premium battlepass shit, and they kept doing free expansions. Just a one time purchase of $30.
Helldivers is AA. DRG maybe not even that. Ghost Ship got acquired and their parent was also acquired but they're a 32 person company now. I believe they were smaller at launch.