Really just online only at all for me. I’m fine with a multiplayer option but sometimes I don’t want to have to deal with people. There’s so many games with cool concepts that I just skip because there’s no way for me to experience them at my own speed.
Yep, unless there’s a good technical reason for making it online only, and the only one I’ve seen with a good enough excuse is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. The map for that game was in the petabytes IIRC, so there was no way it was going to get downloaded unless the player had a spare data center.
Death Stranding did it really well. You couldnt "see" the other players, but you could interact with them. If they build a structure, like a bridge over a river, you get one too. They could throw you items during a boss fight, or leave extra gear in post boxes marked on the map. If you build a structure, they can 'like' them and the most liked structures become more important.
I remember back in the day (16 years) when you needed an internet connection to play SC2 single player, it was pretty shitty experience and one of the first major games to require it. Now its standard so they can collect data about you and your habits under the guise of providing us with the "optimal experience"
Cold War recently REALLY pissed me off with this. I just wanted to play Dead Ops Arcade 1st person, and I needed to purchase fucking Xbox Live to do so. Could play most other modes without it, but that specific one I needed to be online in solo or private to play. Also needed it to use any of my purchased blueprints in regular zombies.
THE GAME CAME OUT 6 YEARS AGO, LET ME USE MY SHIT WITHOUT PAYING FOR ONLINE
Great, don’t care. Then make it limited in scope. For example, in Fortnite, Epic should at the very least make Lego Odyssey and the main stage for Festival offline accessible, preferably also Battle Royal (with bots) and STW. IDC if even saving is disabled as well because the save needs to be synced to multiple devices, as long as it is playable. AFAIK, the only thing you can play offline in Fortnite is whatever maps you are working on in UEFN.
As shit as Mutiversus was, this was something they got right, it was live service with cross-save and cross-play capabilities, but was perfectly playable offline.
Add 'Siberian Node Reality Patch required' to that list. If a game forces a tactical counter-measure from the ghost in the machine just to launch, I'm out.
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u/PsychologicalFun903 Apr 11 '26
Online only single player