SC2's co-op was so fucking good. You could 'main' a commander, play with your bros, lose and get angry but do it in a contained pve space. If only they had done the same for reforged. I remember early Twitch when SC2 dominated the top 10 streams every (european) evening. Me and my friends happened to play different races so we'd root for different people, granted I had ladder anxiety so never got to play much.
I've started loathing pvp games ever since I started trying to cut out doomscrolling and wasting my time. I quite enjoy Battlefield 6, but you literally don't get to play half the time. You spend half of every minute trying to figure out where people are (spawning up your ass most of the time), getting shot or holding space to respawn. You get at most 65% playing per minute, and then I just wonder why. Like who and what does this serve? It ain't even fun. My urge to shoot or build units or unlock skills is much better served in singleplayer games. I played hundreds of hours of Warthunder only to find that Toriyama game 'Sand Land' basically being a singleplayer vehicle/tank customization game, scratching that itch with none of the pvp-induced anger.
I've lost my love of PVP as I've gotten older. I think it's really only fun if you have the drive to play a game enough to be dominant at it, like that RTS version of 30+GameOvers demanding we 1v1 him, or my younger self playing Killzone 2 for at least 2 hours after work every day to stay at the top of the game. A shortcut is to have a group of friends you play with. I had consistent groups for Black Ops II and Bad Company 2, and even though we weren't top individual players, just having that basic coordination means face-stomping public lobbies. In recent years, the big FPS publishers have taken active steps to disable the organic formation of play groups. They don't want you grouping up with buddies you met online to go win games; they want you silenced in your cuckbox to grind through Battle Pass tiers and buy skins.
It's pretty awesome and I appreciate how the long loading times for Gitaroo Man and Rule of Rose became a non-issue; now I blink and they're over. It really is like playing on a better version of the PS2.
Sly Cooper I have the least experience with, platformers where you play as multiple thieves in order to do separate objectives. The multiple part may be a sequel addition. Pretty interesting stealth experience.
Sly is a children's game that isn't fun if you're older than maybe 12. It's well made, but unchallenging. The Jak series is a polished turd. The first is an okay Rarealike collectathon that's mechanically relatively well-executed. The next two games add various poorly executed mechanics to chase the latest fads of the time, complete with truly horrendous shooting mechanics. They also completely change the story in each entry, demolishing any attempt at coherent world-building, and simultaneously try to be srzbznz and whimsical at the same time. The "big payoff" at the end of the third game, which I won't spoil for you, basically amounts to the developers dropping their pants and mooning the player. Like imagine if this was the final scene of Revenge of the Sith:
Lmao the only likeness is the eyebrows. Why even get a nigger if you'r gonna not us hr face? They don't need DLSS5, the devs do it already!
You'd think the woman herself would be insulted.
im just playing for the campaign. multiplayer isnt really my forte with games, especially with the abysmal speeds my internet runs at
Yeah, when it comes to shooters it's just more comfortable to pick something team-based where you can help even when 1vs1's don't go your way, or where twitchy gameplay isn't too important. Hell Let Loose and to some extent R6 Siege comes to mind, even if Siege has probably gotten even more cartoonish and pozzed, haven't played it in a couple of years.
You have a higher tolerance than I do. I absolutely fucking hate Rick and Morty and dudes told me High On Life's humor is that but even more insufferable and annoying.
It's even worse without Justin Roiland. High On Life wasn't that Rick and Mortyish.
Everything Roiland was part of seems worse without him, even if it was already really shitty with him, and I'm somewhat in awe that people keep consooming it anyway.
I'm making a broader point - nearly any PVP game requires significant time investment, or you're just going to get your ass kicked a lot. Most people don't want to "practice" video games. I'm in that group now. No rant about my need to "git gud" will change the fact that practicing pre-aiming, training apm, or anything else like that is deeply unappealing to me these days.
