Start making more Co-op campaigns cause I have 1-3 friends and I don’t want my only options to play to be a sweaty deathmatch or tree cutting sim.
Outriders campaign is great for co-op.
That game falls off so hard in the endgame. Have never seen such a massive failure.
Yeah, it’s just a loot grind at end game. Mechanics are solid af though. I wouldn’t say it’s a massive failure. At least not at levels like Anthem or something.
I agree with you on the mechanics. The game itself is fun and the story was great. Just found the endgame to be massively lacking.
I (allegedly) have friends, but we’re all adults so there’s no way I can actually schedule time to play with them.
Multiplayer games used to have single payer storylines. Even franchises like CoD had some really fun and memorable ones (Snowy Park, anyone? “No Russian”?) and of course GTAV in general. Now it’s all just Battle Royale or some other standard FPS mode. There’s little inbetween.
Stop forcing me to play with strangers online, split screens need a comeback!
Solo player here: I still prefer multiplayer games because single player AI is dumb and predictable. I can only put up with every enemy behaving the same exact way, making the same exact mistakes so many times before it gets boring. And FWIW you don’t need friends to enjoy most online titles. Most games let you queue solo.
Not meant to be a sneer, but isn’t that what difficulty modes / end game content is for?
Difficulty modes just more often than not means that the AI will either cheat or become a bullet sponge. Increasing the difficulty also doesn’t fix the issue of every enemy behaving exactly the same way as every other. Single player AI ruins immersion for me. The story has to be really good for me to be able to look past the bad AI that is in nearly every single player game.
Stop making everything a rogue or soulslike too FFS
I happen to love those types of games, so I’m here for it. Luckily, there is plenty of games out there.
Honestly all they need to do is create a difficulty selector. That’s the only reason I don’t play souls games.
Inb4: “gitgud” Yeah that’s kinda my problem. Obviously.
I agree. These people are such snowflakes. How does an optional easy mode take anything away from them? It doesn’t, yet they cry about it as if I shot their firstborn when I bring it up. Just call it “super mega crybaby loser mode”, maybe that will make them feel better when they pick the “super mega ultra sigma hardcore extreme mode”. Treat them like little children, they will fall for it.
I disagree. That’s not the game or the experience the devs wanted to make. I don’t think every game needs to be for everyone. There’s always modding if you still want to play a game not designed for you. I don’t think it makes someone a bad person or a “snowflake” for liking a game’s identity and design philosophy to remain consistent. I wouldn’t mind personally if souls games had an easy mode, though I don’t really play them, but I know that fans of the series don’t like the idea, and it’s just not the experience the devs wanted to make. If you don’t like that the devs hold that philosophy, don’t play their games.
I just want to play games with my husband. We have two games we play together off an on. 7 days to die and Ark Survival Evolved.
They’re the two that we can make a private server and the gameplay together is actually fun. Wish more games like that would happen.
Hello fellow married gamers!
Might I recommend:
Raft.
Dinkum.
Grounded.
Valheim.
V Rising.
Starfew Valley/Terraria.
Those are all games we’ve played together.
Thanks for the suggestions! We’ve played valheim so we’ll have to revisit it and check out the rest of the list!
The new-ish Valheim updates add a lot of worthwhile content. It’s worth booting up your old world for a weekend.
To add to the list (not all top notch, lots are play once and done):
The gears of war series (all on game pass)
Baldurs gate 3 (DnD)
It takes 2 (story)
Minecraft Legends
A way out (story)
TMNT: Shredder’s revenge (classic side scrolling button masher)
Diablo 4 (the campaign was fun, but after that wasn’t much keeping us entertained)
