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.
The issue is that your contention in your original post was that there is “an artificial push for co-op happening,” and that they are trying to “avoid all other genres.” My point is that that’s provably untrue, because look at all these other games being made.
I agree that most of the games I mentioned are mediocre at best, but that’s not the point. The point is that their existence, the fact that lots of dev time, marketing campaigns, and billions of dollars are going into these largely non co-op games blows your point completely out of the water. I don’t care how much you defend your point with “but those games are disappointing,” because that’s not the debate here. The debate is: “are big publishers still making non co-op games,” and the answer is: “unequivocally, yes!”
I listed twenty-two games. Two were remakes. If the only defense of your point that you can muster is “remakes don’t count,” I need make no further argument.
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.
The issue is that your contention in your original post was that there is “an artificial push for co-op happening,” and that they are trying to “avoid all other genres.” My point is that that’s provably untrue, because look at all these other games being made.
I agree that most of the games I mentioned are mediocre at best, but that’s not the point. The point is that their existence, the fact that lots of dev time, marketing campaigns, and billions of dollars are going into these largely non co-op games blows your point completely out of the water. I don’t care how much you defend your point with “but those games are disappointing,” because that’s not the debate here. The debate is: “are big publishers still making non co-op games,” and the answer is: “unequivocally, yes!”
I listed twenty-two games. Two were remakes. If the only defense of your point that you can muster is “remakes don’t count,” I need make no further argument.