Real bloomer hours who up, smash that upbear if you’ve been playing through 40 years of incredible video games bloomer

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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    6 months ago

    decided to go the battlepass route

    My comrade, this entire video is about ignoring that sort of game.

    I see and feel your pain from the untimely death of Unreal Tournament 4.

    however

    Multiplayer is a scourge and the entire reason games are in this monetised live service mess, good riddance!!! Quake and Unreal were both singleplayer games that got coopted!!!

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      6 months ago

      I amend myself, then: I was raised by Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament 2004. Trying to go back to those single-players even in the moment when those were still popping actually never captured me; I get precious little out of shooting AI. Maybe when I was a kid clearing my way through Doom 1, 2, and Plutonia; but that was more ‘practice for competing there’ even then. Competition’s been in my blood since MK2(and maybe inadvisably, I was introduced to that at the age of 6), so no cap hearing you say “multiplayer is a scourge, good riddance” sets my teeth on edge and makes me wonder if discourse with you on this subject is even worth the effort spent.

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        6 months ago

        Oh so you’re why the other person(different reply) is getting mad about people saying arcade games are MTX!!! I see!

        But look right, you can’t really effectively monetise a single player game that way, it’s always some kind of mmo thing no matter how they spin it. It’s more that multiplayer has always been an instinct of devs it seems, and it can’t coexist with singleplayer games healthily under capitalism when publishers could be bringing out a Battlefront II or an Apex Legends.