In Gran Turismo 4, I wound always buy the AE86 Trueno as my first car. This left me with no money to do anything else.
So I had to do several races (usually placing 3rd or 4th) in a used Corolla with bad brakes and in severe need of a tune up and oil change just to have enough money to start working on it.
I vaguely recall this transition with a Call of Duty game, when you could no longer host your own, for a game where that really wasn’t necessary, unlike MMORPG.
And today with the high bandwidth home connections, hardware capability, or even just using a VPS, you could still host with appropriate performance.
My first thought was “oh nice it would be cool to discover some new Leeeroy Jenkins!”. Then I entered the thread and saw that’s not at all what was meant.
Thought that was just stat quo since call of duty or madden started pumping out annual games. I never checked but I assume I can’t boot up Madden 2011 and still find servers to play on.
I’ll always be able to play World at War multiplayer because it supports LAN and player-hosted servers.
I don’t know if the newer ones support LAN or hosting our own servers, but if they don’t then it would mean we’re essentially renting access to the game’s multiplayer features.
It really means we’re going backwards just to make businesses richer than us even richer at our expense.
They’ve been putting out annual releases for a long time, and Call of Duty used to still have LAN. It doesn’t look like Madden ever had LAN, from a quick search of the old covers, which would list the features the game supported, but it was pretty common even in console games back then.
Can confirm, I remember when Madden introduced online multiplayer, and there was a small kerfuffle because there was no way to bypass their servers. I remember having the conversation with my buddies that it didn’t matter, because we would all prefer to play together on the couch in the same room, and playing strangers on the internet didn’t sound appealing.
Yeah, I’ve never played Madden online. That’s very much a couch game to me still. Not that I’ve played it much in years. I picked up my first copy in over a decade a couple years ago when it was on sale at the end of the season.
Disclaimer : I really haven’t been able to play nearly as many games as I should have.
Doki doki literature club.
Inscryption
Thronglets (mobile).
For all pretty much the same reason. I get tingly when games interact with you as the player rather than you the avatar. It has to be done right though. Games are always looking at the camera and addressing the player, but they’re only giving instructions or flavour. These three are the best I can remember at making you feel part of the story simply by being the player.
Yeah I feel you there. Just turned up on gamepass and I thought it might be as good as slay the spire. Which it isn’t. When I finally completed the game only to find out it was only act one and it started doing it’s thing it blew me away.
This whole movement really highlights how hard it is to get the word out for me. Fediverse isn't a huge place as it is, relative to other online spaces. But every time SKG related topics surfaces there are always people who have never heard about it and people talking about misconceptions that Ross has addressed many times.
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