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Are Games Getting Easier?
An anonymous reader writes "I can't help feeling that this generation of games for both consoles and PCs are getting increasingly dumbed down and easier to complete. There's no challenge in today's games, most of which can be completed on the day of purchase. Triple A titles such as Halo, Modern Warfare 2 are the worst of the lot. The whole reason for this article is Medal of Honor, this can be completed within hours of purchase. Where's the fun in that?"
ASS's creed 2? dozens of hours of the same fucking boring "go here, kill this guy" and "jump up and down in front of the guard till he attacks you out of boredom" crap, same as the first game. There's nothing THERE.
Red Dead Redemption? GTA 4? Really? Sorry, but I gave up on GTA and GTA-clones YEARS ago. There's no "story" there either, and the "sandbox" just consists of, again, doing the same crap over and over till you get bored with it.
I'll give the guys from Team Ninja credit for Metroid: Other M. Yes, their story wasn't the best and their gameplay had multiple personality disorder, but at least they TRIED to have a solid, single-player game.
I enjoy SINGLE-PLAYER play. If I'm going to do multiplayer, I'd much rather do multiplayer CO-OP ON THE SAME DAMN BOX going through the story. None of this "You can do co-op but each of you has to have your own fucking box" stuff that they're all trying to push us to these days.
Give me split-screen co-op modes so I and my buddies can have a beer, sit in the same living room, TALK to each other, high-five each other, and generally have fun playing. Give me split-screen multiplayer so ONE of us can bring a second box, plug it in upstairs, and we can do room vs room CTF and deathmatch team games.
And before you even THINK of putting multiplayer in your damn game, make sure that the single-player game is up to snuff. Nothing is worth the crappy nuisance of plugging in what should be a good game only to find out the single-player is basically just a tutorial for the multiplayer that nobody is going to be playing in 3 months anyways.
Think about it. Who plays the Bioshock 2 multiplayer? NOBODY. Who plays the Transformers: War for Shittertron multi? NOBODY. Who plays Singularity multiplayer? NOBODY. Every goddamn fucking game comes out that just wastes a ton of money building the "ooh you gotta have multiplayer" rather than spending their money making a really fun, enjoyable, engrossing single-player campaign.
Bioshock 2 was at least enjoyable in single-player, even though they obviously didn't quite "get" what made the first so special. Pretty much every other "multiplayer" title out there? SHAMEFUL.
There's a reason I hope to motherfucking god that they never try to add multiplayer to a Fallout title. It's not needed, nor wanted. The most I would EVER want to see might be a small, one-box co-op mode where one player can take over playing the companion.