Re:We need more video games that are social platforms first,...
by cableshaft on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:11PM
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As other people have said in reply to you, this really isn't true anymore, just true of (some of the) biggest of the big publishers.
I almost exclusively play single player games and still have a large backlog I've been working through the past couple of years that seems to keep getting bigger because more games keep coming out.
There's plenty of great single player games coming out. The Outer Wilds alone is one of the best single player experiences I have ever had in gaming, and that came out in 2019 (and won a Bafta for Game of the Year, so it got some recognition too).
Currently playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which is a nice long single player story that just came out a month ago.
But besides that, in the past few years there's been Disco Elysium, Person00a 5 Royal, God of War, Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds (different than Outer Wilds...not as good, but still worth playing), AI: The Somnium Files, Resident Evil 2 (remake), Resident Evil 3 (remake), Death Stranding, Devil May Cry 5, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Kingdom Hearts 3, Zelda: Link's Awakening Remake, Plague Tale, Shenmue III, Sinking City, Astral Chain, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Detroit: Become Human, Pillars of Eternity II, Return of the Obra Dinn, Life is Strange 2, Control, Trials of Mana... and that's just since 2018.
Doesn't even include 2017 that has amazing games like Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nier:Automata, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hellblade, Night in the Woods, A Hat in Time, South Park: Fractured But Whole, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doki Doki Literature Club, Golf Story, Danganronpa v3 (but play the first two before that), Thimbleweed Park, What Remains of Edith Finch, etc.
I even had to leave out other great single player games that don't really have stories but are really good, like Into The Breach, Baba Is You, Mario Odyssey, Yoshi's Crafted World, Spyro Reignited, Mario Maker 2, hell even the game talked about in the article, Animal Crossing, can be played single player just fine.
If you can't find something you like out of everything here, then I'm not sure what type of game you're looking for. Granted, single player games aren't being pushed by EA or Activision or other major publishers, but they're still being made and are still very popular.
I almost exclusively play single player games and still have a large backlog I've been working through the past couple of years that seems to keep getting bigger because more games keep coming out.
There's plenty of great single player games coming out. The Outer Wilds alone is one of the best single player experiences I have ever had in gaming, and that came out in 2019 (and won a Bafta for Game of the Year, so it got some recognition too).
Currently playing Final Fantasy 7 Remake, which is a nice long single player story that just came out a month ago.
But besides that, in the past few years there's been Disco Elysium, Person00a 5 Royal, God of War, Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds (different than Outer Wilds...not as good, but still worth playing), AI: The Somnium Files, Resident Evil 2 (remake), Resident Evil 3 (remake), Death Stranding, Devil May Cry 5, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Kingdom Hearts 3, Zelda: Link's Awakening Remake, Plague Tale, Shenmue III, Sinking City, Astral Chain, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Detroit: Become Human, Pillars of Eternity II, Return of the Obra Dinn, Life is Strange 2, Control, Trials of Mana... and that's just since 2018.
Doesn't even include 2017 that has amazing games like Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Nier:Automata, Horizon: Zero Dawn, Hellblade, Night in the Woods, A Hat in Time, South Park: Fractured But Whole, Divinity: Original Sin II, Doki Doki Literature Club, Golf Story, Danganronpa v3 (but play the first two before that), Thimbleweed Park, What Remains of Edith Finch, etc.
I even had to leave out other great single player games that don't really have stories but are really good, like Into The Breach, Baba Is You, Mario Odyssey, Yoshi's Crafted World, Spyro Reignited, Mario Maker 2, hell even the game talked about in the article, Animal Crossing, can be played single player just fine.
If you can't find something you like out of everything here, then I'm not sure what type of game you're looking for. Granted, single player games aren't being pushed by EA or Activision or other major publishers, but they're still being made and are still very popular.