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Video gaming ended for me when Warcraft went from being a game where you could play against the computer and became a game where you pretty much had to play against other players around the world who were devoted to becoming the best and some who were willing to use cheat codes. I liked that I could just pause when called to supper or someone, usually the wife, wanted to talk about something. It was casual entertainment at the time. If it has changed back to something like that, I'm not sure if I have been away for too long or what, but I just can't seem to get interested in even looking into it any more.
The only reason I am here to comment was seeing listed in the Entertainment header and the title caught my interest.
Yea, I hate the way gaming has been headed. I mean, I understand it, but hate it. A lot of games have turned into pay-to-win, or at the very least, pay to potentially get a slight advantage...
I think now, we are starting to see that changing too though, with games like Fortnite. Sure, you can buy skins, gliders, pickaxes, backpacks, or whatever, but they give you no advantage. Everyone has the same hitbox, and it's all cosmetic.
You can pay $10 to get the "Battlepass", which my husband and I did, and get every Battlepass from then on just from the rewards you get. So, we are on our 5th Battlepass and have only spent $10 TOTAL, since February. We have also managed to gain a ton of cosmetic stuff, emotes, and other stuff as well. Sure, some people spend a fortune on that stuff, but you don't have to, and it doesn't help. I don't mind that kind of transaction. It's the "loot boxes" and "supply drops" that give you better weapons and stuff that bother me. It's the $15 DLC that only has 4 maps on it or a short single player story worth $5 that bother me.
I don't mind supporting a game that I like, but the moment I start seeing that nonsense, they won't get a penny more from me.
Video gaming ended for me when Warcraft went from being a game where you could play against the computer and became a game where you pretty much had to play against other players around the world who were devoted to becoming the best and some who were willing to use cheat codes. I liked that I could just pause when called to supper or someone, usually the wife, wanted to talk about something. It was casual entertainment at the time. If it has changed back to something like that, I'm not sure if I have been away for too long or what, but I just can't seem to get interested in even looking into it any more.
The only reason I am here to comment was seeing listed in the Entertainment header and the title caught my interest.
There's still games like that. The older I get the pickier I get about what games I'll play. That's why I appreciate how programs like Steam or Uplay have free trials. Uplay got me with a free trial of Ghost Recon Wildlands, it's now one of my favorite games of all time. I love that they have added content since the game released; they put in a Sam Fisher mission and Rainbow 6 missions on the base game without charge. I just bought the Year One Season Pass for $40 and it's basically another game worth of content added to the base game alone (lots of extra guns and missions added). I haven't even played Narco Road or Fallen Ghosts yet.
This is all single player, pause able stuff. I've really loved the Far Cry series also. I used to love the Call of Duty series, but they lost me as a customer years ago. Over time I've come to love single player with co-op optional, open world, shooters. I have come to HATE games that force me to babysit a flak gun, drive a tank, walk down a particular alley, etc. That's why the Call of Duty and Battlefield series lost me.
I wish they'd make an open world WWII shooter, something along the lines of being a cut off Red Army soldier in Belarus or the Ukraine. You could recruit partisans, capture better weapons, etc to upgrade your abilities. There could be different factions in play like the nationalist militias, Wehrmacht, partisans, Red Army. The trick is the open world part, don't force me to drive a freaking tank. I tried CoD WWII after skipping numerous CoDs, that one mission caused them to lose me as a customer, probably for life. If I wanted to drive a tank I would have bought a tank game, not a FPS.
Take Fortnite. Sure, I can buy all sorts of things in it, but the baseline game is fine as F2P. I'm not a serious Fortnite player. For what it is to me, an occasional thing I play on mobile, it's fine as is.
I play Pokemon Go and might spend $20 a month on a community day box or something. That can be a money sink. During the warmer months, I walk more and hatch more eggs, so run through the incubators faster. If I can't afford it, I can just use the one free incubator. I'm not far from max level, have tons of high level Pokemon, and have pretty much "beaten the game."
The last CoD I played in any depth was the original Modern Warfare. I don't think I've played Battlefield since Battlefield Vietnam. Fallout 76 looks like a hot mess.
I really liked the Modern Warfare series from CoD. I thought they did a good job on the story line and they fixed the few complaints I had with the game play in MW2. Unfortunately they started to lose something after the first Black Ops game.
Take Fortnite. Sure, I can buy all sorts of things in it, but the baseline game is fine as F2P. I'm not a serious Fortnite player. For what it is to me, an occasional thing I play on mobile, it's fine as is.
That one just blows my mind. NO singular advantage to spending money on the game. Zero. And Epic is making MILLIONS!
That one just blows my mind. NO singular advantage to spending money on the game. Zero. And Epic is making MILLIONS!
Good for Epic, I say. People who can't spend the money get a good game for free, and still get some things every season for free with the free portion of the Battlepass, and people who want to spend the equivalent of a paycheck every few weeks on skins and emotes can do so as well. I don't do that, because the skins and stuff are outrageously expensive. For example, some skins cost 2,000 V-Bucks, which is $20. Then if you want the glider, that's another $10-$15, the pickaxe another $10...
I would be 100% fine with EVERY game being this way, to be honest. I would never buy another game! . I would just continue to use my "default" stuff, and not care 1 little bit.
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. I would just continue to use my "default" stuff, and not care 1 little bit.
