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One thing I've realized recently, AAA games are a medium like blockbuster movies. They aren't enjoyed in a vacuum, there's a social participatory element to the
by xgulfie 7y ago
One thing I've realized recently, AAA games are a medium like blockbuster movies. They aren't enjoyed in a vacuum, there's a social participatory element to them. People want to be part of an active fanbase and/or talk about it with their peers.
Playing an unpopular indie game (or even a game that's >8 years old) is kinda lonely. Yeah its fun but who am I going to talk to it about? Playing Fortnite or Overwatch or even a new AAA single-player game feels like being in the cultural zeitgeist.
- easymodex 7y agoThis is actually super annoying to me, I love single player games, story driven fps or rpg or whatever, but everyone just keeps on churning out multiplayer or (even worse) co-op games. I don't have any gamer friends and I don't wanna play co-op with some random person but I do wanna have fun and experience some cool content.
- maccard 7y agoOffhand - Spiderman, Red Dead Redemption, Detroit, titanfall 2,Sekiro, monster Hunter world (kind of - the multiplayer I'd pretty much optional) are all AAA games released in 2018/2019. There's also a glut of indie games like Into the Breach,Celeste, Dead Cells - if that's more you're thing! There are oodles of great single player games being released still, and the enteryainemtn value of them is massive - games like Red Dead Redemption have o er 40 hours of content just in the main storyline alone!
- freeflight 7y agoTitanfall 2 is actually from 2016 but still holds up extremely well.
- anon777778 7y agoI think that the strategy of focusing on multiplayer is failing. There are multiple recent examples of AAA games that created backlash, eg. Anthem, Destiny, Fallout 76.
- mrhappyunhappy 7y agoOf course, nobody wants to play a dead game, no matter how fun. This has always been the case.
- Animats 7y agoYes. Second Life has that problem. Second Life has about 30,000 to 50,000 concurrent users at any one time, which is about equal to GTA V Online and would put it in 10th or 11th place on Steam if it were on there. But it's 16 years old and a "dead game".
- xgulfie 7y agoFunny because lately I've seen way more people posting Second Life stuff than say Spider-Man or GTAV, but then again most of my online socializing is with furries.
- stuxnet79 7y agoIt took me a while to realize the same thing. I used to play video games a lot but stopped abruptly and a lot of this had to do with the missing social context (went from a "gamer" group of friends to a more diverse friend group).