I know there will be some more organic titles like Helldivers 2 getting popular and of course the much loved Deep Rock Galactic. I wonder though if we're going to see more and more co-op based stuff being pushed as devs seem completely uninterested in trying to solve the issues of multiplayer games if they can't retain control of the playerbase. The co-op genre by itself I don't have a problem with, I'm just not that interested in it.
Seems that the next logical conclusion for these bastards is to start making a push for catering to casuals and console players a lot more and pump out boring online only co-op scenarios that aren't remotely challenging and then proceed to spam microtransactions in peoples' faces. My reasoning for this is that it gives players something 'new' to try and they don't even have to worry about all of the problematic stuff like balance or hacking that often comes with more competitive based titles.
This makes sense to me, but it's so damn cringe because it's the safe and easy option and bores me to death. More and more it's becoming clear that AAA studios are simply not interested in catering to gamers who want to be challenged because it's too much of a challenge for them to make something good.
TLDR: Smol pp AAA studios are pussying out of the overall gaming market to cater to normie console peasants by trying to normalise co-op gaming and avoid all other genres.
You're massively misconstruing what I've been posting as have others, the singleplayer games you've mentioned if you're being honest simply cannot be counted as brand new games because they're repackaged versions of old games. In a lot of cases these games didn't even necessarily need a re-make because they weren't that unplayable to begin with. It's a bit like looking at Bioshock 1 and going, yeah let's do it again and make it a 100gb install size with some hd textures and charge £60 for it. No, come on, same deal with the bullshit Mass Effect legendary edition.
Yes I'm aware I'm being hyperbolic with my point because they did put real effort into some titles that is to repeat 'some' but in a lot of cases they haven't.
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.