Animavore wrote:trubble76 wrote:dalv8409 wrote:willhud9 wrote:^^ That is my problem I am having with consoles. Too much online desires, too much trying to be like a computer and as a computer gamer, I find it laughable, because they are not even close to comparable.
I loved the N64, and PS/PS2 and even the Xbox. Why? Because they were consoles. They were created for offline games, and home entertainment. Have a party of friends over? Play Xbox or the N64. But now they are trying to dominate online play, and its silly. Want to play online? Buy a computer. It does not require you to buy an Xbox Live Gold account, and does not require you to put up with so-so graphics from a console. But that's just me.
I don't get this online play fetish either and in my opinion it is destroying the single player games. On websites I see people complain about online play with some games yet moan more about the single players aspect. Everyone I know who has a PS3 asks me what is my psn name so they could play a certain game we both have with me and I tell them my psn is only for the psn store and dlc.
I too lament the demise of single-player offline gaming. I don't like people, I don't even like the people I like, why do they think I'm going to like playing games with demented 12 year old kids from America with some sort of tourettes disorder.
Demise of single-player offline games? Not sure what you mean here. We just had the brilliant Tomb Raider and BioShock: Infinity. We have coming up Remember Me, The Last of Us, Beyond: Two Souls, GTA5, Dark Souls 2, Metro: Last Light, etc... No end of single-player games coming up.
As for screaming 12 year-olds - this is why I'd rather have the XBOX/PS4 demographic stay right where it is.
Yes, you're right, I think demise was unnecessarily hyperbolic. It was mainly a whinge about the rise of online interactivity, which would be okay but some games seem determined to make people play that way.