Never forget what they took from us...

And people wonder why I still play Factorio, Parkitect, ATS, or RCT. People suck and being able to ignore them is great.

Single player is the best.

I only play single player games, but couldn't care less about achievements. It is all about exploration, story, game mechanics and modding for me.

People treat achievements as if they are a status symbol. I mean sure, if you don't know what else to do in a game, they can give you some goal, but IMO the game itself should encourage you to reach the goal, not some external badge. The experience doing the task should be the reward in of itself.

It never went away.

"$3,000 setup to play a game from 2010."

I have an RTX 4070 that I've been using to play Half Life. I've owned my copy for a while, but have never played it.

Drives my wife crazy lol

Sometimes I even set the difficulty to Easy to really chill.

Or play factorio... Look at the time, ah it hasn't changed, then an hour later notices the date incremented. Oh

Don't care about achievements play games till like 70% then drop them. If it stops being fun I'm done, finishing a game is never a requirement don't have time for that

Friends don't let friends play League of Legends

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I want to play my character, not just play towards whatever the optimal setup is

Please recommend me your favourite story games. This is me and I'm in need of a good 'book.' :)

Edit: I'm going to tell you all to play Night in the Woods. Now, it is set in my home region and felt like a game made for me, but I think it has messages anyone could relate to.

I almost never buy multiplayer-focused games anymore. Of course not all gamers are shitty, but enough are to matter. Having left those games behind I can see how they were taking more joy from my life than they added. If friends want to do private co-op that's cool, but it's also rarer now that we're all older.

As far as sales go, I love playing a year or two behind new releases. Patched games at a discount ftw and timing doesn't matter in single-player games.

i have like 370 hours of factorio, and i've only really played it over the period of about. 4-5 months, though i've owned it for a year or two now.

Factorio is just one of those games. For anybody that likes open world sandbox games and technical stuff, you already own factorio, yell at me in the replies.

What did they take from us? I haven't played an online game in years now.

Don’t forget that this also unlocks using Linux for a lot of folks now.

Indie games are absolutely killing it these days, I love em. In Stars and Time, Animal Well, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, so many are fantastic.

not a big gamer but saw the civ 6 was discounted to 2 usd had to get it ofc and enjoying the single player life

$3000 setup just to play a game from 2010

Modding. And you can play others with it too.

I typically buy all the "best game of the year" games at steep discounts. Some of them really embrace a "live" game service and require hundreds of hours a season, which isn't my thing.

But my most played game last year was Vampire Survivors, A single player game that looks like it came from the SNES era.

My absolutely most favorite single player and gaming experiences in general are:

1. Outer Wilds
2. Tunic

Their replayability is 0 but man do these experiences stay with you. I still think about outer wilds daily and i finished it last year.

Also a word of caution:
Both these games function with knowledge-based progression, so almost everything you look up about these games can be considered a spoiler and will lessen your experience with them!

The rage-inducing MOBA’s what? Real cliffhanger at the end of this meme.

fuck MOBAs

And then you play Xcom 2 and realize that Dota 2 was meditative by comparison

I got Max Max on steam for $5 a few years ago. Worth it.

They never took it from me! Animal Well and Dread Delusion are phenomenal experiences just from the last couple of months. Indies are always generating good games, even when AAA is just following trends.

I'm happy with a 17" laptop, though I'm having to use a usb keyboard. Also playing a game from 2015, Rebel Galaxy. Nothing really stands out, but it's interesting enough for my tastes.

Don't forget the needless implementation of always-online single player games. Even for single/multiplayer games like PoE or anything Diablo, there's literally no technical need to have a connection. It's just fancy DRM for Blizzard and an excuse to milk you more microtransactions for PoE.

And before anyone regurgitates Blizzard's BS about anti-cheat, it's very possible to keep multiplayer characters on the server and single player on your computer and never have them interact or permit single player loot to be sold on their marketplace. Not to mention their regular online check for D2R. Blizzard has ALWAYS used aggressively hostile DRM. If they could virus bomb thieves' computers then they absolutely would.

I like both

Me, spending hours on Age of Empires 2 and loving it

My favorite games are Euro Truck Simulator and Elite Dangerous (where I fly a space truck).
Just letting the scenery pass by, enjoying a couple surprises on the way, practicing my docking skills, decorating my cockpit and listening to some old school country or reggae is relaxing as hell after work.

Literally me, except I don't really care much about achievements.

And here I am raging because dead by daylight absolutely sucks.

Single player LYFE

This is a respectable pursuit.

Not a victim of GaaS FOMO

I have all that and then I don't play my games from 2010 for some reason

Doctor, it hurts when I do this.

Gaming goals

I am playing TOME4 on a high end setup. I could probably play that game on a calculator.

laughs in GOG

HotS has never made me rage

LoL OTOH.....

1. Just avoid AAA slop from big publishers, problem solved.
2. Quite ironic you're using an AI generated image for it considering the same AAA publishers are considering using it. I really hope you don't think "DEI" and "wokeness" are responsible for these AAA publishers pushing multiplayer-first games on us.