Back when I wasted money on games, I bought shit like Garry’s Mod, PUBG, Rust, etc. because I knew some people who played it and thought we could play together.
It never happened.
So they’re collecting dust in my library and now I only play single player games
oh god that's the worst. there's a reason they say it's easier to turn a gaming group into friends than it is to turn friends into a gaming group.
which games?
Axis & Allies & Zombies, Scythe, and Barrage. I wanna' play a full match of Scythe with all the expansions (don't own them yet) so badly.
ooh, I'm mostly a casual board gamur, but Scythe looks right up my alley. i love giant robots and i love peasants.
Yeah, a couple I think
The Forest, we got together with a few guys, everyone played the game before but me, so everyone (but one) tried to show me the ropes and not to spoil anything about the game. We got into a cave and a guy from our group started running killing every enemy by himself, then he rushed to a certain spot where he knew there was a powerful weapon. Everyone got mad and we stopped playing after one session.
Valheim, same dude, he hosted the server and played by himself when we were all away from our computers. When we logged in he already built houses, forges, docks and so on. We got frustrated and stopped player after two sessions.
ArmA 3, for some reason two friends of mine decided to play a milsim, they played two or three times together and "convinced" me to buy the game. I did, we never played.
I do feel guilty about this one, but a friend of mine always blames me for making him buy Space Engineers to play together and we never did, we both have the game but I feel SE is a fantastic yet super overwhelming game, I don't feel like thinking too much, I don't feel like learning my way into a rather complex game anymore.
Yes, but board games. The best way to get good at Diplomacy is to be the person employing every possible strategy just to get six of your friends together for a Saturday.
Yeah. I used to be a "Buy Newest Call of Duty, play it all year with friends, buy next one" guy, it wasn't until we stopped playing games together that I started buying single player. Now, I only play games like Elden Ring and Disco Elysium and the thought of trying to get back into multi-player games makes me nauseous
Yes and no. The thing is that everyone has to be in the mood to play the same thing and that usually doesn't happen naturally, so I kind of have to sell people on playing a game. Usually after a couple of dota/valorant losses I'll suggest playing something lighter/noncompetitive. I never got them to play :amogus: though, which annoys me more than it should.
I am, to my shame, very often the "other friend" in this situation. I just don't like multiplayer that much, my best friend will pump me up to play one with them, and - with a few exceptions, Valheim comes to mind - we don't even play it because in the end I really dislike both MP and voice chat and I've just discovered a new RPG or started Stardew, ONI, Anno, or Dyson Sphere Program once again.
I feel guilty about it.
my friends used to play ps4 during the pandemic and then they all buy switches except me. my one friend sells his ps4 so now we can't squad up anymore and they're all pressuring me to buy a switch. so my friend sells me their switch for cheap and i buy a bunch of $60 (!!!) 20 yr old games and we've played them maybe twice since I bought the switch 2 years ago. sooooo frustrating. i wish he would just buy his fucking ps4 again. now we can only play cross platform games or switch games and it sucks. capitalism sucks. fun isn't fun under capitalism anymore.
My gaming groups have all been so D&D pilled that the only way I have been able to get them to play new settings, even common ones like WoD, has been to brew a D20 version. Have you ever tried to D20 GURPS? It's not fun (And GURPS is already not fun!)
Gurps is aggressively unfun. You have to create a setting so fun you forget about the mechanics, and even then.
GURPS should not be followed to the letter. Use it as a jumping off point for homebrew.
Well yeah its literally only mechanics. You have to use homebrew. I just don't like the mechanics
I got Deep Rock Galactic to play with friends but we only played once. I got it on sale though so it wasn't so bad. Far more aggregious ways to waste money.
It's very hard to coordinate game time when everyone starts having families.
I used to play WoW with a guy who was a stay at home dad for a number of years and took in his sister's kids as well for a total of five. We would threaten to call CPS on him so he would be less distracted during important dragon killing business.
I have bought friends (and siblings) games that they then never played with me. Wtf man
This happens and I wind up playing without them, because I liked the game anyway
My friends used to like to try a different voxel sandbox survival game every week. Since gaming was really the only time we ever got together, me getting sick of that was really the first thing that drove a wedge between us.
This happened to me, except it was my friends transitioning to increasingly competitive games. We used to just like... fuck around in TF2 or Garrysmod. Then they got into competitive CS:GO and MOBAs. Everyone seemed so miserable and I'd try to suggest a cooperative or casual game and we'd play it for 30 minutes and a few would bail because there was no "progression" or "challenge".
Now I pretty much exclusively play single player games. Got sick of the toxicity. I'm a lot less closer to those friends unfortunately. All but one of them completely stopped playing competitive games.
Then they got into competitive CS:GO and MOBAs. Everyone seemed so miserable and I’d try to suggest a cooperative or casual game and we’d play it for 30 minutes and a few would bail because there was no “progression” or “challenge”.
I think games like Heroes of Hammerwatch and Risk of Rain solve this problem pretty well.
A huge problem I think people find with videogames over time is that after a bit of experience you eventually hit a point where nothing feels "fresh" without being challenging. You want to lose. You want to get better and try new tactics and find new ways to be better and better. You want to learn and adapt.
A lot of games simply are too easy for experienced people, and this is where competitive games fill a gap not provided by many other games. Human opponents become the challenge.
Games where you are supposed to lose many many many times before eventually winning solve for this issue. Giving a good feeling of progression and challenge.
