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[mirocu]

It's not about age, it's about offline single player, baby!

Well said, Crow!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Dec 18 2021, 12:20 PM

[Acadian]

My experience over the past 6 years and +10k game hours in ESO has been different.

Have never experienced a queue to get into ESO though the game is very popular.

The game breaks a bit less often than my modded Oblivion or Skyrim did. And when it does break, instead of pulling my hair out and trying to troubleshoot puter settings and offending mods and load orders, my troubleshooting procedures for ESO are to go have a cup of coffee and let the game company fix their game - which they do.

A couple nice things I've learned to appreciate about ESO over the sp games is that when my puter hard breaks (need a new puter or reload of the OS), I don't have to rebuild the game/mods. I simply reinstall ESO and play - Buffy is right where I left her on the previous puter. Of course, the big draws for me are the mass and scale which totally dwarf Ob + Sky combined, and the fact that Buffy lives in a giant world that does evolve so it feels more dynamic.

All is not completely butterflies and rainbows though in multiplayer. ESO is totally single player friendly, but there is no getting around the fact that the mechanics of the game are periodically tweaked and 'upgraded' which can be frustrated as you have to adapt.

Just my two septims.

[Lena Wolf]

I think it depends on what you are looking for in a game. A multiplayer is not attractive to me because... err... it's got other players in it - non-NPCs. Nope. Not interested. Tried this concept a few times (not with ESO) and never again. Just not for me. Sorry. No offence to all non-NPCs out there but I prefer to play alone. And be in total control of my game world. Yes, that too. Off-line and my own. There's more than enough uncertainty and dynamism in real life, I don't want it in my fantasy world as well.

[mirocu]

A multiplayer is not attractive to me because... err... it's got other players in it - non-NPCs. Nope. Not interested. Tried this concept a few times (not with ESO) and never again. Just not for me. Sorry. No offence to all non-NPCs out there but I prefer to play alone. And be in total control of my game world. Yes, that too. Off-line and my own. There's more than enough uncertainty and dynamism in real life, I don't want it in my fantasy world as well.

THIS. SO MUCH THIS.



To each his own

[Sakiri]

I primarily play MMORPGs because of the regular updates. Every few months there's new stuff to do.

It also replaces my social life.

This isn't to say that I don't enjoy single player games, I've been playing elder scrolls games since morrowind.

And FFXIV is more popular than ESO by a mile. ESO is more a niche game, but that doesn't necessarily mean unpopular. it only seems more so because there's one server per region. The server I play on in FFXIV is just as crowded as the EU megaserver for ESO was in my experience, yet there's also about 10 of them. For EU that is. There's also servers in the US(about twice as many) and in Japan. The game was released by a Japanese company, Square Enix, so it only serves to say they're obviously in Japan as well.

Most western MMOs don't have Japanese servers ><

You guys would probably hate it though. The group content is forced on you at least one run of each of the main dungeons for the story. Other than that, there's no forced interaction and in the last two expansions you can run the dungeons with NPCs. Which is what I do, because sometimes, other people irritate me.

But yeah. I play all day every day for the most part, and there hasn't been a single player game out there with enough content to keep me satisfied as a result, so I play games that have regular updates. I can go on several month long benders of Skyrim, but I always eventually get bored of it. If you're only playing a few hours a day tops I could see not getting bored of something.

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[mirocu]

I will have Gorbys soon

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

It's not about age, it's about offline single player, baby!

Which most modern single player games require an Internet connection to play.

[mirocu]

It's not about age, it's about offline single player, baby!

Which most modern single player games require an Internet connection to play.

Which is why they will not be played by me

[Dark Reaper]

7 More days till Christmas! Can't wait to have a good ol' family Christmas Dinner and gathering, going to make this move TOTALLY worth it!

[Lena Wolf]

Which most modern single player games require an Internet connection to play.

Ok, I'll bite. Define "modern". But watch out - I don't like to be called "antique"!

But jokes aside, I actually have a few modern games - less than 5 years old and for PS4 - that do not require internet. Really. Wow. Yes, they still exist. From small studios, mostly.

[mirocu]

I don't mind being called antique. After all, I'm soon gonna have to practice my "Get off my lawn" yell

[mirocu]

*makes obligatory afternoon post*

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Which most modern single player games require an Internet connection to play.

Ok, I'll bite. Define "modern". But watch out - I don't like to be called "antique"!

But jokes aside, I actually have a few modern games - less than 5 years old and for PS4 - that do not require internet. Really. Wow. Yes, they still exist. From small studios, mostly.

Lol, are they from companies that actually finish their games and not rely on day 1 patches to make the game playable?

[Sakiri]

Yeah most new games use DRM that also requires you to be online to use them.

Even the original Dragon Age game used it. That was 2009 I think.

PS4(and consoles in general) don't count, though the newer consoles do require you to be online most of the time, if not all the time now.

[mirocu]

So NOW Saki decides to show up after a whole day of not showing up and talk.

[Lena Wolf]

Yeah most new games use DRM that also requires you to be online to use them.

Even the original Dragon Age game used it. That was 2009 I think.

PS4(and consoles in general) don't count, though the newer consoles do require you to be online most of the time, if not all the time now.

Consoles don't count? Why not?

[mirocu]

If consoles require being online for gaming, then I say they most def count as it would mean I wouldn't play on them. Same as I don't play PC games that require it.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Dec 19 2021, 08:10 PM

[Lena Wolf]

Consoles do not generally require to be online to play - I know it because I often disconnect network so they wouldn't waste bandwidth. It depends on the game, some require to be online but most don't. The ones that I play, that is. Dragon Age on Xbox360 or PS3 does NOT require to be online. May be PC is different.

[mirocu]

I did have to go online in order to play Bioshock 1 and 2, but it was a one time thing only to varify my copies so I could live with it.

[Sakiri]

I said the PS4 doesn't count because the PS5 most certainly wants you to be online constantly. It's become this thing with newer stuff.

Hell, I remember my ex's Xbox 360 throwing a fit when the internet went out.

DRM wants you online. If you don't like online, then you're stuck with older games, and I don't mind it so meh.

Besides, you're already being spied on. Embrace it. i guess.

But that's enough arguing. I'm out again.