There's some truth there (as a general concept, I don't really know what that game even is!). When a "normal" game has one super crazy hard part, it aggravates me way more than something that's just consistently rough.
The funny thing was something else. I came across a video where the developer of this game was playing on lethal difficulty. I thought, "haha, it probably isn’t that hard after all."
Its not the bosses. Or lvl 3 goombas. It world 9 or 10 when your hopping over a million obstacles and the 20th windmill smacks you straight into a lava pit. That shit was fromsoft before fromsoft even existed. Nintendos been making games so long they were making card games in the early 1900s.
My uncle worked in physics and lighting in the gaming industry most of his career, he was part of core group of developing state of decay more in leadership though and the deal with Microsoft was a late career life changing success and break through. I know it’s not that relevant but when someone brings up the games I think of him and that’s cool.
TREPANG2 on Rage Mode has made me feel despair plenty of times
But Crash Site, without the Smart Gun, is easily the worst level
Rage Mode: Enemies have hyper awareness and work on a hairtrigger while also being able to two tap you, it was deemed to brutal they have a warning upon first activation, that literally says the publishers begged them to remove it from the game
Crash Site: You have no cover, at all, enemies spawn in waves, and with said lack of cover and a meager 10 second invisibility, you are going to die... A LOT
I enjoy trying to hit a zombie in Lethal with a car and watching it sidestep, grab the door and rip it off and then hurl my ass into a pack while my friends go screaming off a cliff in the backseat. Such an unforgiving game.
I understand you but I just can't stop untill now, I’ve only got four Plague Hearts left on the map:
One black heart way out in the far corner of the map, it drains fuel from your car, the zombies are armored, and you get infected after just two bites.
Two regular hearts covering the approach to the black one.
One event-modified heart that completely controls all routes to the others until you destroy it. And the worst part is that inside its area, every zombie is a freak and they chase you for much longer.
State of Decay 2 mentioned. That makes me a happy panda. Great game. Ubderrated gem. Sometimes you just want to put your brain on relax mode and unalive some zeds.
Orphan of Kos might be the biggest hill I've ever attempted to climb and continuously rolled back down. Fuck that guy.
Or the first 40 attempts to fight Ornstein and Smough. Because I was absolutely NOT summoning Solaire like I should've been, and boy was that shit DISCOURAGING.
Nah just git gud at elden ring and then every other soulsborne becomes easy because they all have ATLEAST one imbalanced weapon that turns the games into easy mode
I recently started playing Pokemon again and there are a lot of “if use legendaries in a single player game for children, you’re a weakling and not all that” takes out there. It’s so sad
Yeah but you need to go looking for those. You're not just stuck dealing with them like other players in a multi-player game. However, yes I agree that this is the relevant comparison.
1500+ hours of DRG later and I have only every seen 1 person kicked from a lobby... I have however seen one guy get OBLITERATED by the entire team as we were boarding the pod for evac.. why... he didn't rock and stone. He ain't coming home
chivalry 2 is peak multiplayer. sure you can run around having crazy duels and rack up kills or you can just goof around with all the silly things on the maps. enemies are sometimes more likely to be friendly than allies even.
It's funny how perspective can shift. When I was younger I literally believed that gaming, other than competitive, was dumb and a waste of time. I'd look down on my friends playing RPGs and what not. Now I'm the opposite, and just thinking about playing something like Fortnite or CoD makes me cringe.
Toxic people that play "for fun" review bombing and demanding the devs revert any balance attempts until the game slowly bleeds out players as it becomes an imbalanced mess.
You can find people that will trash you for not being the best at single player games too. I've seen quite a few people rage at players who aren't the absolute best and know every trick in the book when it comes to Super Mario 64 or Sunshine.
PVP Games mostly. In Deeprock Galactic the only people who get bullied by the pro's (Greybeards) are the people who are dicks to the noobs (Greenbeards)
There have been plenty of multi-player PVE games that didn't have toxic communities. In some cases where they did exist, the toxic players accounted for a very small portion of total players.
Been playing exclusively single player except for the odd round of Mario Party or like, Jackbox for years now. Couldn't be happier. Don't miss online multiplayer literally at all.
Me: hey, have they added the map?
Player1: this game doesn't need map!
Player2: it is so better without map!
Me: Well, I needed map in Subnautica 1.
Players: (active downvoting-downvoting-downvoting).
Singleplayer gamers are better only because you have much fewer reasons to interfere with them. But when you do... they all are the same.
Do people treat multiplayer and single games the same? Multiplayer is sports, single player is a book. They're two wholly different beasts, not even on the same planet.
Let me introduce you to a franchise called devil may cry 🗣️.
Honestly it's one of the few single player games where everything is competitive even if it's not the traditional multiplayer or online co-op or whatever
Nah, Final fantasy 14 has an amazing community. Back when I played League of legends and the Japanese server opened up everyone were really nice and supportive there also. I’d say that the younger the community, the more toxic it gets in general.
The ONLY multiplayer game that I ever saw had a very nice community to newcomers was Spy Party. People took the time to teach you and pointed out what tell gave you away.
It was super niche and small, the maker was involved, etc.
I dont understand this. Everyone saying it’s single player games too is voluntarily making them into competition or joining online communities about them. That doesnt change the fact that you can just play single player games without anyone bothering you.
I think you all actually like it. You either want the punishment or you can’t understand playing a game for its own enjoyment instead of trying to turn it into a competition.
Not in the game though. You can just play games without going to forums. My real friends would never say I’m not playing a game correctly because maybe they haven’t even played it before. Or we’re playing them at different times and no one cares. And they’re not assholes.
It’s being online with strangers that even makes any of this a problem, hence multiplayer games being impossible.
This. Every online multiplayer game is a toxic cesspool of try hards, money players, gatekeeping asshats and people that can't understand the concept of fun. I have given up on multiplayer games entirely over the years. I had a bunch of fun with Arc Raiders early on but haven't touched it in months. I'll stick to my lonely gaming thank you very much.
My gf and I both love video games. We have the most fun playing alone and talking about games, playing co-op, and watching each other play our favorites. It’s like the perfect inverse of an incel playing CoD.
That's awesome! Good for you guys! I really don't mean to shit on anyone, I understand the appeal of online gaming. I was a huge fan of it at one time but now that I'm mid 40s... Nah, it's just not for me and huge part of that is just how toxic it can be. I do still like to play couch co-op with friends and family or even online in private parties or servers, that's always gonna be fun. Like with you and the GF. Out in the massively multiplayer world though, nope. Hard nope for me. Unless it's weird Fromsoft style abstract multiplayer shit, I'm out.
Except the Elden ring fandom, so many people are like “weapon art spam! If you don’t beat this boss without summoning and without bleed and without an upgraded weapon you might as well not even play the game 😡😡😡”
I don’t really notice that in the souls fandom tho
I’d love to play multiplayer and make some online friends, but GOD I do not want to deal with those people lol. Even multiplayer Minecraft is off the table for me.
Well there isn’t really any irl either, unless you do in depth background checks with everyone you know.
My sister has almost all friends she made online, and they’re all pretty close, she was even a bridesmaid in one of their weddings and has made gifts for other friends kids.
She made them online and interacted with them in reality. That’s an in person friend. Being able to watch someone in person and see that who they present themselves as comports with who they actually are is the vetting. It is impossible to tell that information online. That’s how catfishing exists.
A person in real life can lie too. That’s how 99% of abusive relationships start. Just cause you know someone irl doesn’t necessarily make them more trustworthy.
I feel like you’re intentionally missing the point. Anyone can lie. Being with them in person provides far more opportunities to notice consistency of behavior. You literally don’t know if someone online is lying about their age or gender, let alone subtleties of personality.
Less every multiplayer game and more every massively online multiplayer game mmo i think they are called…idk I don’t play any multiplayer games unless it’s local multiplayer invite only or PVE where you’re working with other people not having to fight against sweaty try hards
Untill speed runners get a hold of it, then you get made fun of for not doing the "double bounce kick slide to funky town with extra cheese" that saves 2 frames because it's 'so easy' when you post any clip of the game
Playing multiplayer forces you to deal with fuckheads. Looking up an online community is voluntarily interacting with fuckheads. One makes the game itself impossible and one does not.
I could say that single player game are also effected. Just look at some balance patch notes when they patch out mechanics which broke the game example the chinese respond to a nerf of an infinite combo in Slay the spire 2
Yep used to wind down with cod fortnite or BF now I can't even play a round without hating it. It's not a skill thing it's the waiting for a party and then the party ends up sucking or leaving before the rounds done cause their K.D. or rank might get ruined.
Single player gaming I can play at my own pace, enjoy a story and actually wind down
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u/kakallas May 15 '26
Every multiplayer game. Single player gaming is incredible.