Submitted 1 day ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
“We explicitly build ambitious things, ship quickly, and improve with time. Moving fast is the optimal tradeoff for the kinds of games we make nowadays,” Epic’s Markman said, adding that “it’s a different approach than Epic in the single-player eras of Unreal Tournament and Gears of War.”
Those are two terrible examples to use for single player games.
extraction shooters are the survival craft of this decade. and they arent fun anymore. at least for me.
last one i gave a shot to was arch raiders and then the streamers ruined the vibes. now im playing dwarf fortress and honestly its been the most solid evidence beyond my official diagnoses that i am indeed, functionally autistic.
Unreal Tournament is an arena first-person shooter, with head-to-head multiplayer deathmatches being the primary focus of the game.
Those are two terrible examples to use for single player games.
My guess is what they really meant was ‘single-purchase’.
My guess, and it’s a personal pet peeve of mine, is that it’s the term that people use to refer to anything that isn’t live service. In this case in particular, it’s a perfect example of how stupid it is for that to be the term we use for that. While both can be played with only one player (so can Fortnite), they were both marketed as games that you would be playing primarily multiplayer.
Basing the success of your ip on other peoples ip doesnt seem like an amazing long term move tim.
Katana314@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Sounds like trend-chasing. Rushing a game out to meet a current popular genre generally spells doom.
shialac@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Did work out for the Fortbite Battle Royale
but yeah
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Yeah, but they caught that one on the rise, changing from tower defense to battle royale. While extraction shooters are already old news.