No distractions from couch co-op and single player titles
The dream
Reject MP, return to story based gameplay
I mean… you can have both
Instructions unlcear, Dark Urge only party.
As long as its in separate games, sure. If a game has both single player and multiplayer, at least one of them will be shit.
Baldur’s Gate 3
I was thinking about coop
I don’t know if you really can though. Most multiplayer games are meant to be played over and over again, which block out the time that you’d normally spend on single player games that have a fixed ending. Back in the day, I played a ton of WoW and then moved straight to League. I missed like a decade of great single player games because multiplayer is such a trap.
Just play old games, lol
Meanwhile, us New Zealand gamers are eagerly waiting for free slots on the Aussie servers.
RTS games are all dead
Is this post from 2014? Age of Empires is stronger than ever, since the release of the Definitive Editions and AoE4!
All right, name me another rts.
Aww, I don’t know why you deleted your reply to my comment. It was funny as fuck!
Well there’s Age of Mythology, which had a definitive edition announced a couple of years ago, and which just today they made an announcement of an announcement (don’t you love that those seem to be a thing now…) of more information coming up next month.
There’s a new Company of Heroes game that came out last year, and a shockingly high-quality open-source RTS called Beyond All Reason, and an RTS-ish Dune game from 2022. None of these really appeal to me though, as I just love the gameplay style of the Age franchise. So I don’t really know how strong they’re going.
Last year also saw the release of the finished version of the massive Battle for Middle Earth 2 mod Age of the Ring. That’s a game that you can’t even buy any more, from anywhere, and it still has enough of a community to support that interest. (Admittedly, personally I would include BFME in the “rts games are all dead” category, but perhaps it’s just not quite as dead as one would think.)
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Stormgate is currently in closed beta!
Aussnon has never downloaded GameRanger either and it shows. BfME 2 and CaC: Red Alert for eternity.
Gameranger is still a thing? Haven’t thought of that since my days playing ghost recon 1 in the mid 2000’s
The range of the game is infinite.
Why play games with other people at all? People are like the worst
Stop playing competitive games and see how fast that changes.
Competitive gamers are assholes who just want to prove they are better than other people.
just want to prove they are better than other people.
Isn’t that kind of the whole idea about competitions?
Sorry that you have such an experience; many online games have fairly toxic communities, others do not; and for every game you can find amazing and kind teammates if you look closely!
Honesty, I played WoW back in the day and was in a cool guild so I’ve had good experiences. I don’t have a network of people that I play with already and don’t have the time to go out and build one. I don’t love being on mic either so I know its a me thing. There are a lot of fun single player games that are really enjoyable.
Because AI is predictable and boring (and/or cheats). The human element keeps games exciting.
This is true it is interesting but when I get my ass kicked 9/10 times no matter the game I become uninterested
Inb4 get good
Coop games can have good communities. Deep rock galactic is the prime example
Rock. And. Stone.
What did you expect Ausnon? You literally live on a prison island. Maybe support immigration and get some more people in there so you won’t have to depend on other region’s servers.
Lol so many things to correct you on, but instead, I’ll just say you’re a fucking idiot.
Triggered, snowflake? Go fuck yourself.
Oh no.
What was it?
Well, imagine living in Europe where there’s millions of other players. Yet you play solo cause you don’t have any friends.
200 ping to NA? Lucky east coasters. In my wow playing days living in perth on the west coast I was main tanking at 300-500ms.
Bloody west-islanders with their land and internet.
600ms ping in WoW from NZ to West Coast servers was “good”.
Well it is the most isolated captial city in the world
Out here ANTICIPATING shield taunt times
Even if you’re in Australia, servers are on the east coast, so playing from Darwin is hell.
Before I retired in protest, I managed to get to the highest competitive rank in Halo Infinite. Only when I moved to NSW did I realise how crippled I was.
At least they have Path of Exile (IIRC PoE has aussie and a NZ server, because GGG is based out of NZ nearby)
So don’t play online. People are toxic af anyway in most multiplayer games.
So how else I’m gonna feel good beating those sweats who do nothing but play the game 8 hours a day and still get beat by me who got lots of responsibility.
A lot of people prefer multiplayer only games. Just like how you prefer single player games.
Even like 10 years ago I would frequently get a steady 30 ping in heaps of different multiplayer games. I don’t play as many games these days but I know enough people who play online, even in competitive shooters, who don’t have any issues.
Maybe they live in a small town somewhere, because at least in the bigger cities it’s not that dire.
They’re talking about getting matched to servers overseas. You’re definitely not getting 30 ping to Singapore, which in most cases is the best server you’ll get if there isn’t an Australian one.
Not sure which games they want to play that don’t have Aussie servers though. I don’t play any shooters.
Great! It means you have more time to enjoy the beauty of nature!
Wait, it’s Australia.
I know it’s a running joke that Australian wildlife is so deadly, but genuinely, in my day-to-day, I almost never think about it.
Except for a couple of months in Spring. When riding my bike becomes a game of Russian roulette with whether or not I’m going to be swooped by magpies.
Jerky. There’s a reason they call them the black and white mafia. Throw some jerky for them and they’ll remember you, corvines are damn smart.
The problem is that this only works if you have a particular magpie in your neighbourhood. If you’re talking about a dozen or more different magpies across all possible places you could want to go, it becomes completely impractical.
Eh, depends how much you hate swooping, but I’ve done it on a couple of 35-50 K loops I do regular with like 6 swoop points and jerky lasts so one bag is good for a season. One or two (occasionally three) stops and throws is good for the season, doesn’t seem that impractical, but YMMV.
While you’re right that you can befriend them and they’ll remember you, our magpies aren’t corvids afaik. I used to bring plain cashews as part of my lunch and the local magpies were obsessed with them. There was one that would run along behind me whenever I walked outside, and she even followed me into buildings a few times.
magpies aren’t corvids
I stand corrected. I’ve even learned that before and it didn’t stick, maybe this time. Still damn smart and visually similar.
For today’s lucky 10 000: https://youtu.be/YGGTcYfrEZU?si=xzjxe1ST5vWgImkD
Ha. Looks like YouTube is telling me I’ve seen this before.
I recall having seen it before, but my recollection was of a man. Might be thinking of a different video. (I think he also tried taking the helmet off, and that worked.)
Also, by the gods that helmet was absolutely useless. There’s a zero percent chance of it staying on in the event of a crash, as loose as it was.
Yeah there’s a few, I had to look through some other ones but to me this is the classic one haha. There’s also one with a 10 year old screaming his head off while escaping on his scooter >.<
Thank you, I’m one of the lucky 10 000
It’s more than a running joke, it’s hilarious when the yanks say it. They have shit loads of venomous spiders and snakes, plus fucking wolves, bears, cougars, alligators and crocodiles.
But you can just give em the old ‘at least our schools aren’t shooting ranges’ too.
We have Australian magpies here in NZ too, and I was always told to be cautious around them but I’ve literally never seen them swoop at anyone.
Is there something about the Aussie environment that makes them aggro?
Fun thing about them is there’s always two of the bastards. So when my kids and I see one we always make it a game to find the second one. It’s often quite a challenge
I have forged a peace deal between me and the magpies that live in my trees a few years, it’s a tense relationship, but they don’t swoop me and I don’t swing a plastic rake at them.
I’m trying to train my son, who loves chasing pigeons, not to chase magpies because they remember you
Anon forgot to mention that many local servers are infested with Chinese cheaters.
Many of them are genuinely highly skilled players.
Apparently that (and genuine cheating) is some part of Asian culture that brings the “I can’t enjoy the game unless I excel at it” mentality to a whole new level.
People who haven’t lived in China just do not understand their culture at all. It’s competitive to a degree we do not comprehend. Places in just sought after primary schools can have literally million to one odds. Universities are even more competitive. Ditto for jobs. The entire culture is built around protecting the individual and family at any cost. Students are expected to cheat if they can get away with it. It’s expected in business too. If you don’t cheat, you’re considered a fool who rejected a chance to elevate yourself. Cheating is a normal way of life in China. They don’t understand why we don’t like it in games.
With their demographics changing this culture may change too. Well, in 50 years or something.
Nah, I deal with a lot of China people at my workplace, and the culture has not changed. They still cheat a lot. They may work hard once in a while, but if they can cheat to get ahead, you can be damn sure they’re gonna do it.
Yes, I meant not now, but with a lag.
It’s not particular to China. It’s peasant culture. Peasant fairy-tales tell us about it. Russian peasant culture wasn’t much different (and still can be seen in some Russians). Western European peasant culture was similar too in medieval times and even more recently.
Most of Chinese are descendants of peasants, and also they had to survive in a very competitive environment.
When I used to play dota it was amazing the difference in difficulty between US west servers and SEA servers. 6k mmr us west was about the same as 4k mmr on SEA. Whenever the international was hosted in Seattle the US West servers would be flooded with Chinese players and I wouldn’t even bother playing because just get completely shit on
I also wonder how it goes in southern parts of Africa, for example.
Africa is not really a region full of servers, and routing connections from there to, like, Europe through underwater cables must be a pain like no other.
I often come across South Africans on EU squad servers.
DRG is playable up to 400ms easily. Rock & Stone brother!
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