I (allegedly) have friends, but we’re all adults so there’s no way I can actually schedule time to play with them.
This is also my situation. Also friends who don’t game at all.
You should try to schedule a slumber party lol
Lan slumber party!
I suggest Phasmophobia.
But if they focused on single-player games, they wouldn’t be able to get you to buy the same game again next year.
(Madden notwithstanding)
And solo players might not be as motivated to buy and show exclusive loot and skins
They would also have to come up with a story and level design. It’s easier to make other players the content of the game.
Stop forcing me to play with strangers online, split screens need a comeback!
I haven’t played online multilayer since Halo 2 and I don’t think anything will get me to start again.
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 making everything a rogue or soulslike too FFS
I love rogues, but most soulslike games feel soulless (pun intended). Once in a while we get a great game like Lies of P, but most of the time they are uninspired.
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.
This is what they did with Doom.
The easiest difficulty put the Doomslayer in a baby bonnet with a binky in his mouth.
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)
I’d like to suggest a game called Planet Crafter. Me and my significant other picked it up recently and it’s a fun and chill crafty survival terraforming game. There is no combat or monsters trying to eat you, survival is just like oxygen water and food bars, so that might be a turn off for some, but it fit the vibe we were wanting to play. Crafting / base building is similar to subnautica.
Thank you for the suggestion! We’ll definitely check it out!
Most of my friends are too busy playing old copies of Parenting and I refuse to put up with the multiplayer random matchup system.
+1. I have nothing further to add.
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 are for making you lose the same way every time instead of winning the same way every time.
Multiplayer is for having a chance.
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.
Yeah but actually playing with friends is so much better. I almost exclusively do it that way now
Can I borrow your friends?
Sure thing. You want a discord link?
Not arguing that, but not everybody has that option. If you don’t have/don’t want friends, queueing solo is the next best way to get maximum enjoyment out of a game, IMO.
Can’t stand playing other people. What’s wrong with solo games?
bouta make true AGI so I can create friends to play with
Sounds good until the Ai finds you toxic and wants to play Stardew Valley alone.
fair enough for the ai tbh
“I don’t have the patience for PvP”
TBH I’d like more multiplayer games with a real story. Most games on PC and console alike are singleplayer only.
(MMO and MOBA excluded)
all games should be both. I love the pawn system in dragons dogma 2 and would love an online/offline mmo that would let your character level and get rewards from other people using your character.
