Let’s sort this skill issue in Quake Live, Apex boy.
Single player games
Submitted 2 months ago by GolfFoxtrotLima@ani.social to games@lemmy.world
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altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ll never forgive Apex for denying me a Titanfall 3. Titanfall 2 is a masterpiece
HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org 2 months ago
Recently I rediscovered StarCraft 2 for me. Am I ever to reach a top ladder placement? Hell no. But the games in platinum league are fun and it is often surprising what tactics other people come up with. Especially because almost anything can work on that level when it is decently executed. No need to play the same optimal openings all the time like the pros.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Never got into StarCraft, but WarCraft 3 was one of a handful of early online games for me (as long as Mom didn’t need to use the phone lol), and I never played at a competitive level, but some of the strategies I’d see other people pull were so creative that I would watch the match replay to find out how the fuck they were able to rush my base with like 15 wyverns so early into the game. Then I’d try to do it myself, sometimes successfully. Really fun stuff.
Object@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How does it feel to have 4 less starting workers
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No real difference. Kind of a shit patch overall but I respect the effort. If they actually cared about the game’a economics they could have just re-read the essay written about it over at TL during the LotV beta. But Blizzard almost never admits fault, unfortunately.
HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org 1 month ago
It feels strange and interesting. Although I started playing again only a few weeks before the patch, everything feels kind of off. All the feeling for passage of time is gone and has to be relearned. But overall it gives a few more seconds of breathing room at the start of the game to set everything up.
As I am playing Zerg, the most interesting part is that with the new patch I suddenly have the option to stop spending larvae for a bit. So it is not only drone as much as possible and see what money is left an what you can afford, but actually a decision, when to build the first hatch etc.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, SC2 and RTS in general is - surprise surprise - about strategy way more than mechanical speed. You’ll see that with people taking a nostalgia trip in AOE2, too. You will eventually reach a point where lack of mechanical speed will hold you back in SC2 but that’s quite literally like the C and B tier professional bracket - you would already be at the point of being able to win a free dinner here and there in tournaments.
Dagnet@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only multiplayer games I still play are deep rock galactic and the occasional MMO. The former has the best online community around and the latter I can filter who I play with easily
Pipas66@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Single player games are so great, but it does get lonely sometimes. There’s a whole genre that needs to be invented : multiplayer city-builders. For instance in Going Medieval it would be dope to be able to visit other players’ settlements for trade or raids on your server
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
There’s a well-working multiplayer mod for Rimworld.
jj4211@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meh, I found that being good at competitive games felt more like work than fun. I play the fun way and get trounced before it could really get fun, so I switch to advance in leaderboards and maybe I could, but it just sucked because the fun stuff tended to be the less strategically wise way to go.
Even non-competitive gaming “hey, let’s all get together at 7 pm to do something on the game”, now I have “meetings” to worry about.
Single player is there when I want it, for however long or short as I want it, and can play in a fun style rather than an effective/efficient style.
SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
The problem is multiplayer competition, which is comparable to gambling addiction.
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The game loop itself antagonizes. It’s funny b/c in some single player games you can see that mechanic, they use it narratively and sparingly for humor.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’ve recently been playing Tales of Maj’Eyal and it’s such a nice vibe. There’s an in-game chat for people just going about playing their single-player adventures, generally filled with kind and intelligent people. The game is complex enough that being able to ask questions in the chat is a nice option.
FRYD@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I used to play on my college’s Overwatch team. I did the grind. I hit GM. I put in 5000 hours. It has forever made me despise competitive games/gaming. 2 years ago, I tried valorant for a few weeks and was immediately accused of smurfing just because I was pub stomping the lobbies.
I still have good fps fundamentals and pretty much any one I touch is trivially easy, but I stick to single player games now.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How do you like boomer shooters?
FRYD@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Eh. They can be fun for a bit, but it’s either super easy or require too much active attention. I got a full time job now and I’m just not looking for an “all gas” game when I actually have time to sit down and play one. If I play any shooter nowadays, it’s gotta have something else besides running and gunning to keep me engaged while I play.
shoo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hot take: single player games are lame, co-op is where it’s at. That’s not to say there aren’t good single player games or I didn’t enjoy them in the past, but my evolving tastes and circumstances make me mostly skip them.
- Games in general have no respect for my time, so if I’m getting on for an extended session it’s going to be with my friends. If they do respect my time, why should I pay $40+ for an 8 hour experience when I could buy a dozen used books for that price and get more content and variety?
- Even games with compelling storytelling suffer because there’s a core conflict between who’s in control of the pacing and scene focus. What do I gain from holding a controller during the 8 hours of cutscenes in MSG4? Why play Dark Souls if I manage to miss out on 80% of the subtle world building? Does having a branching plot really make a story better?
- Putting aside narrative, games without a human element are either dopamine toys or simulators. Most games aren’t honest about that and are a palette swapped Total War, a tweaked 2D platformer, a fighting game with [gimmick], etc… It’s very rare to see innovation because innovation is hard. Even harder when you’re spending time on assets like character art, music, and world lore instead of the one thing that make games games: mechanics.
I’ll still play the odd rogue like or crusader kings to kill time, but I generally don’t feel the need to expand my catalogue unless a game looks fun as a platform for social play (friendslop as some might say).
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Co-op games pretty much always suffer from the fact that adding additional humans makes each player generally worse at paying attention and learning. So the game has to be designed as if it’s for a class of slow 8 year olds.
Willy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I really liked Fortnite when it was a single player zombie game. Well coop, but that was fun.
Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 1 month ago
Nintendo is basically the only one who can get me to play multiplayer/online games like Mario Kart or my personal favorite that I did play competively, Splatoon. Literally that’s it. I would get into fighting games if I wasn’t ass because I do want to know more about their storylines, but I feel like a bitch if I just watch it.
The man thing that sets Splatoon apart is the fact that the voice chat is basically non-existant, so you don’t have to hear the endless slurs and rage from your teammates. The characters, plot, music, and art also really set it apart for me, but tbf those can be subjective and applicable to multiple games. But it’s a special game to me and our fanbase is rabid lol.
But yeah I absolutely love and almost solely play singleplayer games. JRPGs ftw!!!
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 1 month ago
I mostly only play single player games too but of the four used in this meme I only thought one of them was any good.
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I used to enjoy playng online in mc servers and occasuionally gmod and cs:go, but only with friends on those last 2.
Nowadays I would never open cs:go because I wouldn’t be able to find it fun, especially since I can guatantee I’d be mass reported for not being good at the game. And gmod ain’t fun with strangers, IMO.
Any more I just find so much more fun im singleplayer titles and maybe games like Oaken Tower and Krosmaga ( the only PVP games I play anymore ) where it’s not skill based PVP. I just find exploration, my own choices being why I lost, and other such singleplayer type of things so much more enjoyable than losing because someone had a wired internet connection or a lag switch or simply a higher level/better equipment from playing longer or better hardware or whatever.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Until your horse gets blown in half…
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At least update the meme with more recent games
Zephorah@discuss.online 2 months ago
What recent games on the single player side? In the RPG side, content has fallen off.
We’re still waiting for Witcher 4 ten years later. Dragon Age killed itself. Mass effect trilogy is a one off. Spiders never really got to finish the Greedfall sequel before being shut down. The newest thing right now is Baldurs Gate 3.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well there’s GoW: Ragnarok and Tears of the Kingdom as sequels for two of the games on there, for starters. You could then replace one of the other two with Baldur’s Gate 3, and maybe even Tainted Grail even though it’s indie.
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Single player games for life baby.