You realize why console gaming exists, right? If you can't walk into a store and buy a console and game and then go home and play it (no strings attached) then console gaming has lost its way. They should at the very least mark the game case to say "this has to download a lot of shit to install" so you know what's coming.You guys realize that this is 2015, right? Nobody is building games that are primarily for offline play. That's not a console vs PC thing, it's just the evolution of gaming. A company that made offline only games is going to be out of business before they get started in 2015, and you're not going to get network play with fixes to problems and fresh content without installs and downloads.
The difference between PC and console today is really only two things. Primarily the input device, but also the system configuration. Console games have a fixed equipment requirement. PCs have to be upgraded to run the latest and greatest.
Downloadable updates just made software developers that much more lazy and allows them to push utter shit out the door and (in theory) fix it later.You realize why console gaming exists, right? If you can't walk into a store and buy a console and game and then go home and play it (no strings attached) then console gaming has lost its way. They should at the very least mark the game case to say "this has to download a lot of shit to install" so you know what's coming.
You're extending the concept of knowing that your console can play the game (as opposed to your PC maybe meeting the minimum requirements) when you get home to simply tossing the game in and being ready to play. I disagree there, given that it's 2015 and nobody is making blockbuster single player games. It simply just doesn't happen anymore and probably never will again. That's like me saying that "PC gaming has lost it's way" because I don't have to go to a LAN party to play multiplayer games anymore.You realize why console gaming exists, right? If you can't walk into a store and buy a console and game and then go home and play it (no strings attached) then console gaming has lost its way. They should at the very least mark the game case to say "this has to download a lot of shit to install" so you know what's coming.
it's 2015 and nobody is making blockbuster single player games. It simply just doesn't happen anymore and probably never will again.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that. I feel I should be able to hand a nephew a console and some games in boxes for Christmas and know that he could go home and play them. It's really the only high point console gaming had.You're extending the concept of knowing that your console can play the game (as opposed to your PC maybe meeting the minimum requirements) when you get home to simply tossing the game in and being ready to play. I disagree there, given that it's 2015 and nobody is making blockbuster single player games. It simply just doesn't happen anymore and probably never will again. That's like me saying that "PC gaming has lost it's way" because I don't have to go to a LAN party to play multiplayer games anymore.
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I'm pretty sure fall out is a blockbuster game.You're extending the concept of knowing that your console can play the game (as opposed to your PC maybe meeting the minimum requirements) when you get home to simply tossing the game in and being ready to play. I disagree there, given that it's 2015 and nobody is making blockbuster single player games. It simply just doesn't happen anymore and probably never will again. That's like me saying that "PC gaming has lost it's way" because I don't have to go to a LAN party to play multiplayer games anymore.
Downloadable updates just made software developers that much more lazy and allows them to push utter shit out the door and (in theory) fix it later.
Halo 5, Fallout 4, Forza 6 -- all released in the month of November (which is just halfway over) and are "blockbuster single player" games. You live in a metro area with a plethora of internet access. Think about people that live in who-the-****-knows Kentucky or Georgia. I can't go to WalMart or Amazon.com and buy a game, take it home, and then play it. That's what's ****ed up. 50+GB download instead of four discs in the box -- that's complete horseshit.You're extending the concept of knowing that your console can play the game (as opposed to your PC maybe meeting the minimum requirements) when you get home to simply tossing the game in and being ready to play. I disagree there, given that it's 2015 and nobody is making blockbuster single player games. It simply just doesn't happen anymore and probably never will again. That's like me saying that "PC gaming has lost it's way" because I don't have to go to a LAN party to play multiplayer games anymore.
Did I say it was?Halo 5 is hardly just a singleplayer game. Can't speak for the others.
Or BF arkansas!Halo 5, Fallout 4, Forza 6 -- all released in the month of November (which is just halfway over) and are "blockbuster single player" games. You live in a metro area with a plethora of internet access. Think about people that live in who-the-****-knows Kentucky or Georgia. I can't go to WalMart or Amazon.com and buy a game, take it home, and then play it. That's what's ****ed up. 50+GB download instead of four discs in the box -- that's complete horseshit.
Yes.Did I say it was?
Halo 5, Fallout 4, Forza 6 -- all released in the month of November (which is just halfway over) and are "blockbuster single player" games.
Saying something is a single player game is not at all the same as saying something is JUST a single player game. I done have to play halo 5 online to enjoy it - know what I'm saying?Yes.