It depends on the game. Like if it’s an online only game, then of course that makes sense. But a single player game, or even a game with a single player mode requiring always online is and will always be dumb.

Diablo 4 not being designed for offline solo play as well (like D2 and I think even D3 was) is annoying though.

The Last of Us is fine for about one playthrough. When I played through it I was sad the story was ending but I was kind of glad I didn’t have to keep playing. I feel like it stayed just long enough where it didn’t wear out it’s welcome. Haven’t gotten around to the 2nd yet so I have no opinion there.

God of War I’ve enjoyed in limited doses but I’m with you. I’ve bought a handful of installments for it and I don’t think I got much further than a few hours on any of them. I know it’s dumb I keep buying them but for whatever reason they always seem to have a great sale going on everytime I think about giving it another shot. The thing is I’ve enjoyed other hack and slash games and I enjoy Greek mythology but for whatever reason the gameplay in this series has never clicked with me

I’d add Halo 4 to that list. I think people just lost interest in the series over time in favor of new ones that have popped up.

I didn’t really like the story in 4, 5 or infinite all that much. I honestly don’t like most of the multiplayer maps in the newer games either. I don’t think the new games are terrible but ever since Bungie left they don’t have the same charm to them. Like Halo 2 seeing the scarab for the first time, or the different locales on Halo you’d travel to in order to unravel the mystery of the ring. In infinite you go into a bunch of nondescript towers as Cortana speaks gibberish and the brute guy keeps monologuing at you repeatedly. It was just obnoxious.

Yeah that’s what I read thanks for expounding, it’s definitely not good as somebody who also uses stackoverflow pretty commonly

All there was to really do after you beat the game was to do the limited time raids, breeding if you want to max stats (which if you aren’t doing competitive is not really worth the effort), or play competitive. And none of those actually took place in the open world they built. Felt like a bit of a waste

Well i know mods at stackoverflow were wanting to mutiny because the owners wanted to start incorporating AI responses to questions posted there or something like that

That’s the impression I got from the devs and admins here, but I’m not certain my impressions are correct or what kind of impact external users posting to beehaw communities impacts beehaw’s instance

I haven’t completely left, and to be honest the only way I’d completely leave is if the niche communities I cared about died (or were active here). That being said I’ve noticed my reddit usage has plummeted over the last week. I used to basically live on that dumb site and now I only check it maybe once or twice a day for a couple minutes

Well kbin.social and beehaw.org have both gotten the hug of death over the last 25 minutes so that’s fun haha. Might have to hop over to a smaller instance to spread the load out

I have front end and back end experience but work has me kind of bogged down this week. If nobody has stepped up by Sunday I should be free to start taking a look at it at the very least.

lemmy.ml probably won’t because it’s kind of the de-facto default instance where the devs can communicate to everyone. You’re best bet is to create an account on an instance that blocks lemmygrad (like Beehaw that was mentioned, i’m sure others do as well)

Is it possible to message on mastodon and peertube with lemmy (or is it only through kbin currently)? I was trying to figure out how that worked but had some difficulty

I’d also say this for Hearts of Iron 4. The vanilla game has gotten increasing amounts of flavor over the years, but the kaiserreich, road to 56, etc total conversion mods added a lot more replayability to the game

Most of my twitter engagement comes from links on reddit funny enough (usually sports related). There’s still a few people im interested in following as well so i’ll poke my head in here and there. But yeah i certainly don’t blame people for leaving the platform entirely. I just try to steer clear of the toxic stuff (which is very tough if you spend longer than 5 minutes on it)

Musk set a goal of making half of Twitter’s revenue subscription-based, but his revamped Twitter Blue subscription service got off to a slow start. As the NYT report said, reversing the decline in advertising “is crucial because ads have long made up 90 percent of the company’s revenue.”

Well it looks like he’s well on his way to succeeding in that goal if the ad revenue keeps dropping

Around then I feel is when spam bots on the site started to become really rampant too. I could be mistaken though

It never really caught on, but I stumbled upon an indie game called Ctrl Alt Ego on PC and I had a really fun time with it. It’s an RPG with some problem solving where your consciousness can jump to different robots and objects. You have a main body (an Ant) that you can jump into where you can add upgrades and powers to it. It’s really fun and pretty unique. The only thing I didn’t care for was the ending, it didn’t make a lot of sense. But still it’s worth trying out