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It seems that the younger generation is actually learned something. Good lad.
I play video games to escape the world full of people I can't stand. Not to run back into them in a place where they no longer have any manners at all...
What is the "younger millennial" part of the comment about? I'm one of the older millennials and feel this way. Heck I know some Gen X guys that grew up playing video games and feel this way.
I think it may have been a misstatement. I’ve never heard folks talk about being younger millennials, just elder millennials and regular ol run of the mill millennials.
PvP is when you put in the boxing cartridge and one of you is the white guy and the other is the black guy, but you do better because you know the controller you gave your friend doesn't like to go left.
(Yes, I'm old.)
As an old fart I have enjoyed beating a computer many times. However, beating your friends is always nicer.
The entire latency problems and whatnot come when you are trying to beat strangers online; that has always held very little appeal to me
the only PVP i need is CHESS
Hard agree. Online pvp is and had always been a latency contest. A person's ability to aim where something was 300ms ago is not impressive.
I remember the days of quake 2 rocket arena getting sub 10 ping and seeing ppl skip across the screen.
rocket jumps and rail gun combo ftw
PVP is only fun when I'm good at it and that takes time. The last PVP game I was heavily into, it took me a year just to get decent. It wasn't until the third year when I felt like I was above average.
My interest is with the Hard mode AI and only the Hard mode AI. Outsider do not need to get involved.
I much prefer co-op multiplayer to pvp and co-op in a game I’m interested in is rare.
So yeah mostly singleplayer.
I always enjoy co-op when I actually do it, but nowadays I just can't commit to the long gaming sessions like i used to.
Worse, I feel kind of beholden to help the other players have a good time. Which can be fun, but but when my introvert battery is low, that is the last thing I want out of my game.
It's not a great feeling when you want to leave, but you're sticking around because you don't want to quit mid chapter or whatever.
Probably not healthy to want to get out of innocuous little social situations all the time hahaha oh well
I'm roughly on the same boat. A format I've come to enjoy is streaming a pausable strategy game with a group of friends and taking decisions collectively (so if the game is Frostpunk, we're basically the oligarchy that's deciding how much is the working class going to slave away and how many deaths are acceptable), but it's hard to find stable friend groups that like it.
Interesting take. I’m Gen X, and when online play came about it was amazing after so many years of singleplayer games, or games that your opponent had to be physically present to play on another controller next to you. So to reject online play to me seems…odd.
That said, I think online and always-online have done a lot of damage to gaming, from DRM to loss of physical ownership to loss of good singleplayer storylines in triple-A games.
That, and your total lack of ownership of online-only games. The constant treadmill of, "Oh, did you have fond memories of playing Game X? Want to play it again? Too bad, Microsoft/Blizzard/EA/Activision/whoever turned off the servers so now your disc is tantamount to a coaster."
An old man yelling at clouds I may be, but you know what? I stick a cartridge into my Nintendo and the fucker just plays. Every time.
I love couch co op and single player. Online is great im sure but I despise that it has taken over gaming, ruined GTA
Yep. The preference for online-only games like PUBG, Apex, or others where it has removed fun, deep, single player campaigns like GTAV that used to be the hallmark of a good game has definitely done serious damage to the gaming we used to know.
Best games I have played across the last few gens have been god of war, hitman, lotr shadow games, Jedi games and when I enjoy a game like fall guy all I want is to play locally with my wife.
The main issue for me is that the amount of time I would have to put into a game to get good enough to not get shit on in pvp kills the enjoyment. I played a ton of destiny 2 and was still solidly mediocre at pvp. My first 2 games of Squad I don't think I got a single kill. Pubg was just miserable starting out. Never gonna touch warthunder.
You’re absolutely right. If you don’t have time to invest in getting good at multiplayer, pvp can be frustrating at best. I’ve got thousands of hours invested in my preferred game and I’m pretty damn good, I’m very competitive, but even I quit a game occasionally because of other players.
Despite the gaming community's constant rhetoric that “nobody cheats, git gud kid, learn how to aim”, cheating is rampant. From players that abuse aim assist with devices like the chronos max to just good old-fashioned aimbots, they can ruin anyone’s game, even mine. And even I quit games when players are so obviously using artificial aim assists that it’s just not fun, and popular FPS shooters are the prime targets for cheaters. Even if you are good, there’s more than enough people willing to wreck your game.
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