I think this is why so many of us turned towards indie games to get our fix. Sure, they were less “polished” than AAA titles, but they felt meaningful, they were considerate of our time, and many brought back that childhood feeling of, well, whimsy. We were seeing new mechanics & storytelling devices.
Definitely agree that indies have been doing the work to innovate and inspire where AAA usually doesn’t. I unconsciously stepped away from indies, but I’m hoping to get back in there and bring more attention to some good ones. Feel free to list some recs 👍
If there any gamers out there that are becoming a indie game developer or be part of a indie/AA game studio, don't make a MMO rpg, or a Stardew Valley-like/cozy farming Simulator, or souls-like, or rouge-like (especially Vampire Survivors ones or bullet hell/heaven ones), or mascot horror, or open world, or metroid-vania, or walking Simulator as your first game project that you made. Try remaking games or make a knock-off version of a game like pac man, snake, duck hunt, tetris, cut the rope, or better, make a fan game of Fnaf, Sonic, or Dark Deception. Start something small, then build your way up to improve your creativity, 2d/3d modeling, coding, and development skills.
I’m a single player game junkie. I grew up playing games on the ps2 with no internet so even to this day I feel right at home with story driven singleplayer experiences.
I’ve always been more of a single player guy. I really only picked up MP games (FPS, Rocket League) around 2015ish, then stopped and picked MP back up in 2019 for a couple years on and off. I sunk a lot of time getting better at those games because I was “catching up” to everyone else that had been playing these games for years before me. After a while, it stopped feeling like a game and more like a job, and the fun was gone. Yeah, I still dabble in Battlefield as that is the most casual FPS game that I can play off-and-on without losing my “touch” with the game, but 90% of my time is in single player games. I find those to be much more enjoyable for what I’m looking for in games. No meta, no min/maxing to keep up, no FOMO mechanics, no battle passes, no time-limited modes-just quality, fun experiences that keep me entertained for hundreds of hours in some cases.
Hey you! If you’re watching this video or checking back in after having watched it, thank you!!!😊❤ This video is doing way better than I thought especially for my first. Just wanted to say that a new video is coming soon! If you liked some of what I had to say, I will be continuing to make videos about all sorts of video game stuff so be sure to subscribe if you wanna stick around ❤ That’s basically it, thanks again and see yah!
i am 16 and i have been gaming since i was 4 years old my first games included modern warfare 3 and black ops 2 which my grandfather put me onto and i love gaming more than anything but lately my passion and drive has left me and i think its because i took multiplayer games too serious i was elite rank in fortnite and tog fragging on call of duty trying my hardest treating the game like work when in reality i was looking for an escape and a different world to embrace i am now picking up the far cry series as of today and im excited i think it will bring my love for games back.
As someone that has been playing Destiny for the last 10 years.... and has a crazy list of single player games that I want to play, I feel this video. It's just a whole different feel and I want that story driven adventure and the personal time that comes with it like I had before. Great video. Very relatable.
*for me, the best era for online gaming was 2008 through 2011 👌 GTA4, Splinter Cell Double Agent, CODMW1&2, All-Pro Football 2K8, NBA Live 09/10, Madden 10, Backbreaker, RDR, Burnout Revenge, Burnout Paradise 😍 I haven't had FUN online since then* 👎
I was a strictly multiplayer gamer from 2012-2018 and RDR2 brought back the feeling I had as a kid playing single player games. After finishing it I finished every Kingdom Hearts game on Xbox, 8 Yakuza games (still a WIP) and tons of random SP games, gaming has become bittersweet to me. I miss the days of peak CoD and Halo with my friends, late night minecraft and Payday 2 sessions but single player games are just so much more enjoyable nowadays. I still play Overwatch, Valorant and the occasional Minecraft or Hell Let Loose with friends but multiplayer gaming just hasn’t been the same since 2018
Well i play both single player games and multiplayer games,,BUT, here my problem,,, if i play single player games, i feel stress Free and i can do anything in my own pace and no pressure and no toxicity from players,,, ,but i feel lonely and empty without anyone to chat with, and gets depressing,,and if i play multiplayer games i have friends to chat with and have a laugh to keep me entertained, but its stressful having a bad teams and losing streaks and toxicity, and have to be sweaty af with nothing but meta stuff just have fighting chance which is mentally draining at times, so its fun/lonely or social/stressful
Right you are. There's two ways I've dealt with *the silence*...it's by either putting on a podcast I like on the side or by playing on discord while my friends and I just chat or they play other games. I personally find seeing my friends play without me enjoyable since if they really like the game, they'll have fun regardless. Do agree though that keeping up with the negatives sometimes is more taxing than what the positives make up for
You were where I am now. I've been playing competitively since popping my quarters on the Mortal Kombat arcade machine, waiting my turn to destroy the guy currently losing. I have spent thousands of hours over the years since Unreal, Quake, Rainbow Six Rogue Spear, Counter Strike etc etc playing games online to compete. However my backlog has grown to around 800 games. I have yet to play through the Batman series, Bioshocks, Resident Evils, add in whatever series here. I don't even have to buy them, I already did and they just have sat un-played. I desire though to leave online gaming (except maybe for Rocket League because I love it). My wife and I play together a lot of co-op games, and we host quarterly LAN parties with family and friends so I'll still play some multiplayer stuff. But I feel it's time to say goodbye to competitive multiplayer only games and start going through all of the stories and experiences that I've been missing.
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem. In 2018-2022 I played quite often and enjoyed playing, but the last 1.5 years it has been getting worse and worse. I don't have time to play. I'm not in the mood for this. There is nothing to play... When a game comes out, it's all broken, buggy, unoptimized...
Yeah, especially when the broken games are sequels to awesome first installments...really kills the love a bit. Either way, with gaming it's important to not let a few bad apples spoil the bunch! Tons of good games are still coming out, be it indie or AAA. Just gotta look for em. Thanks for commenting and happy gaming!
You can't play everything. That's it. Play what makes you happy. Not stressed or angry. If you end a session feeling worse emotionally than when you started, fire up a different game next time. Put your next 500 hours into an offline RPG. Try an ARPG.
needing a subscription to play games is simply insane...this is not the gaming i want to do....and more than half the gaming world is falling for this trap....
Let me be brutally honest. Danganronpa: Hope's Academy Despair's Students, Persona 3 Portable, Ben 10 Protector Of Earth, Ben 10 Attack of Vilgax, Ben 10 Alien Force etc have the fun and enjoyment that Online Multiplayer can't give ever
I told you gaming isn't on the decline. Just look at indie games and AA games like Fnaf, Batim, Monstrum, Cuphead, Dark Deception, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Hades, Little Nightmares, Celeste, Skul the hero slayer, Metallic Child, Dead Cells, Curse Of The Dead Gods, Cult Of The Lamb, FIST Forged In Shadow Torch, Lumbear Jack, Pronty Fishy Adventure, 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim, Input6, Stardew Valley, Dead Estate, The Desolate Hope, The Messenger, The Coma, Rain World, A Hat In Time, Death's Door, Tunic, Haiku The Robot, Have A Nice Death, Kunai, Natti, Nova Drift, Peglin, Ak-xolotl, Atomic Heart, Voidigo, Spark The Electric Jester, A Short Hike, Lil Gator Game, Scarf, Mighty Goose, Cyber Shadow, Untitled Goose Game, Hotline Maimi, At Dead Of Night, Mail Mole, Nine Sols, TinyKin, Night Blights, Among The Sleep, Pikuniku, Pirate Outlaws, Soda Crisis, Pizza Tower, Pizza Possum, No Straight Roads, Popucom, Try To Fall Asleep, Everspace, Billie Bust-Up, and many more awesome indie games and AA games to look forward too!👌🎁🎊🤩
Thanks for the lengthy list of indies and AAs! I do agree that non-AAA games are making a ton of the right moves, and maybe in the future I can make a video to give these a spotlight :) I've already even played some of the ones you mentioned (Death's Door, Cuphead, Shovel Knight, Celeste, and all of the Hotline Miamis, etc.). I hope this video, while mainly focusing on AAA, got the idea across that video games should focus on delivering quality experiences that consumers/gamers will enjoy rather than milking them of their time and money for their own benefit. Either way, thanks for watching and I appreciate your comment
I agree with you i spent countless hours on counter strike and rocket league. It was so much fun at first but then it was more like an addiction where wins dont make you that happy and losses have you nervous and anxious. At best its a social activity with Friendly people at worse its a toxic addiction. Still it robs the time from fun and stories that campaign games give you. I think forza horizon 5 really nailed the single player and multi-player mix
It's not a stupid mentality. This is a huge misconception. The true issue is modern game developers lack of skill in proper game balance(fair play for everyone) and fun gameplay loops.
single player games are like movies and multiplayer games are like hobbies. do one for a self contained experience. Do the other for a progressively evolving experience. Both are good. both are bad. Find your reasons to enjoy either.
I think this is why so many of us turned towards indie games to get our fix. Sure, they were less “polished” than AAA titles, but they felt meaningful, they were considerate of our time, and many brought back that childhood feeling of, well, whimsy. We were seeing new mechanics & storytelling devices.
Definitely agree that indies have been doing the work to innovate and inspire where AAA usually doesn’t. I unconsciously stepped away from indies, but I’m hoping to get back in there and bring more attention to some good ones. Feel free to list some recs 👍
If there any gamers out there that are becoming a indie game developer or be part of a indie/AA game studio, don't make a MMO rpg, or a Stardew Valley-like/cozy farming Simulator, or souls-like, or rouge-like (especially Vampire Survivors ones or bullet hell/heaven ones), or mascot horror, or open world, or metroid-vania, or walking Simulator as your first game project that you made.
Try remaking games or make a knock-off version of a game like pac man, snake, duck hunt, tetris, cut the rope, or better, make a fan game of Fnaf, Sonic, or Dark Deception.
Start something small, then build your way up to improve your creativity, 2d/3d modeling, coding, and development skills.
@@keeganmcfarland7507Best indie roguelike is Cataclysm DDA
triple a titles are bullshit...most of the time its an unfinished game , pushing you to buy extras to have the entire gaming experience...
I’m a single player game junkie. I grew up playing games on the ps2 with no internet so even to this day I feel right at home with story driven singleplayer experiences.
Problem is that there is not much good story games.
@@8HeartNCM that’s objectively not true, there are plenty.
@@TheHipsterGamer name them and I will say what I've already been playing.
@@8HeartNCM Signalis, Anno Mutationem, Persona 5, Dragon Quest 11, Octopath Traveler 1 & 2, Gravity Rush 1 & 2, Yakuza Zero, Blasphemous, Elden Ring, Nier Automata, Nier Replicant, 13 Sentinels, Tales of Berseria, Tales of Arise, Scarlet Nexus, Stellar Blade, Ace Combat 7, Project Wingman, Inside, The Outer Wilds, Crystar, Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, Ghost of Tsushima, Haven, Atelier Ryza, Returnal, Stray, Sniper Elite, The Last Guardian, Neo: The World Ends With You, Valkyria Chronicles, Nino Kuni 1 & 2
@@TheHipsterGamer ok. Thanks. I'll try some of them.
I’ve always been more of a single player guy. I really only picked up MP games (FPS, Rocket League) around 2015ish, then stopped and picked MP back up in 2019 for a couple years on and off. I sunk a lot of time getting better at those games because I was “catching up” to everyone else that had been playing these games for years before me.
After a while, it stopped feeling like a game and more like a job, and the fun was gone. Yeah, I still dabble in Battlefield as that is the most casual FPS game that I can play off-and-on without losing my “touch” with the game, but 90% of my time is in single player games. I find those to be much more enjoyable for what I’m looking for in games. No meta, no min/maxing to keep up, no FOMO mechanics, no battle passes, no time-limited modes-just quality, fun experiences that keep me entertained for hundreds of hours in some cases.
Single Player games to Multiplayer games:
“I RISE! YOU FALL!”
I mean...if we gotta pick sides, I know where I'm going ;)
cringe
u are so underrated i saw the video and thought u have atleast 100,000 subs man keep the good work u are amazing
Thank you so much! I will be putting this comment on my fridge. I’ll do my very best :D
Hey you! If you’re watching this video or checking back in after having watched it, thank you!!!😊❤
This video is doing way better than I thought especially for my first. Just wanted to say that a new video is coming soon! If you liked some of what I had to say, I will be continuing to make videos about all sorts of video game stuff so be sure to subscribe if you wanna stick around ❤ That’s basically it, thanks again and see yah!
i am 16 and i have been gaming since i was 4 years old my first games included modern warfare 3 and black ops 2 which my grandfather put me onto and i love gaming more than anything but lately my passion and drive has left me and i think its because i took multiplayer games too serious i was elite rank in fortnite and tog fragging on call of duty trying my hardest treating the game like work when in reality i was looking for an escape and a different world to embrace i am now picking up the far cry series as of today and im excited i think it will bring my love for games back.
As someone that has been playing Destiny for the last 10 years.... and has a crazy list of single player games that I want to play, I feel this video. It's just a whole different feel and I want that story driven adventure and the personal time that comes with it like I had before. Great video. Very relatable.
*for me, the best era for online gaming was 2008 through 2011 👌 GTA4, Splinter Cell Double Agent, CODMW1&2, All-Pro Football 2K8, NBA Live 09/10, Madden 10, Backbreaker, RDR, Burnout Revenge, Burnout Paradise 😍 I haven't had FUN online since then* 👎
Those were really good years...wish we could get that COD back tbh. Either way, thanks for your comment and happy gaming!
I was a strictly multiplayer gamer from 2012-2018 and RDR2 brought back the feeling I had as a kid playing single player games.
After finishing it I finished every Kingdom Hearts game on Xbox, 8 Yakuza games (still a WIP) and tons of random SP games, gaming has become bittersweet to me.
I miss the days of peak CoD and Halo with my friends, late night minecraft and Payday 2 sessions but single player games are just so much more enjoyable nowadays. I still play Overwatch, Valorant and the occasional Minecraft or Hell Let Loose with friends but multiplayer gaming just hasn’t been the same since 2018
Well i play both single player games and multiplayer games,,BUT, here my problem,,, if i play single player games, i feel stress Free and i can do anything in my own pace and no pressure and no toxicity from players,,, ,but i feel lonely and empty without anyone to chat with, and gets depressing,,and if i play multiplayer games i have friends to chat with and have a laugh to keep me entertained, but its stressful having a bad teams and losing streaks and toxicity, and have to be sweaty af with nothing but meta stuff just have fighting chance which is mentally draining at times, so its fun/lonely or social/stressful
Right you are. There's two ways I've dealt with *the silence*...it's by either putting on a podcast I like on the side or by playing on discord while my friends and I just chat or they play other games. I personally find seeing my friends play without me enjoyable since if they really like the game, they'll have fun regardless. Do agree though that keeping up with the negatives sometimes is more taxing than what the positives make up for
Play COOP games (PVE) with your friends! 🗣️💯
You were where I am now. I've been playing competitively since popping my quarters on the Mortal Kombat arcade machine, waiting my turn to destroy the guy currently losing. I have spent thousands of hours over the years since Unreal, Quake, Rainbow Six Rogue Spear, Counter Strike etc etc playing games online to compete. However my backlog has grown to around 800 games. I have yet to play through the Batman series, Bioshocks, Resident Evils, add in whatever series here. I don't even have to buy them, I already did and they just have sat un-played. I desire though to leave online gaming (except maybe for Rocket League because I love it). My wife and I play together a lot of co-op games, and we host quarterly LAN parties with family and friends so I'll still play some multiplayer stuff. But I feel it's time to say goodbye to competitive multiplayer only games and start going through all of the stories and experiences that I've been missing.
Cheaters and tryhards killed multiplayer games (especially the PC jackasses using every illegal tool in the book because they can’t win in real life).
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem.
In 2018-2022 I played quite often and enjoyed playing, but the last 1.5 years it has been getting worse and worse.
I don't have time to play. I'm not in the mood for this. There is nothing to play...
When a game comes out, it's all broken, buggy, unoptimized...
Yeah, especially when the broken games are sequels to awesome first installments...really kills the love a bit. Either way, with gaming it's important to not let a few bad apples spoil the bunch! Tons of good games are still coming out, be it indie or AAA. Just gotta look for em. Thanks for commenting and happy gaming!
sounds like a you problem. there are still a ton of great games. especially last year. maybe you are just depressed.
You can't play everything. That's it. Play what makes you happy. Not stressed or angry. If you end a session feeling worse emotionally than when you started, fire up a different game next time. Put your next 500 hours into an offline RPG. Try an ARPG.
needing a subscription to play games is simply insane...this is not the gaming i want to do....and more than half the gaming world is falling for this trap....
16:06 this is Just Cause 4 and 3, they are so fun
Let me be brutally honest. Danganronpa: Hope's Academy Despair's Students, Persona 3 Portable, Ben 10 Protector Of Earth, Ben 10 Attack of Vilgax, Ben 10 Alien Force etc have the fun and enjoyment that Online Multiplayer can't give ever
The 2020 siege era is undefeated
One of the top 5 years of 2020 for sure
I told you gaming isn't on the decline.
Just look at indie games and AA games like Fnaf, Batim, Monstrum, Cuphead, Dark Deception, Hollow Knight, Shovel Knight, Hades, Little Nightmares, Celeste, Skul the hero slayer, Metallic Child, Dead Cells, Curse Of The Dead Gods, Cult Of The Lamb, FIST Forged In Shadow Torch, Lumbear Jack, Pronty Fishy Adventure, 13 Sentinels Aegis Rim, Input6, Stardew Valley, Dead Estate, The Desolate Hope, The Messenger, The Coma, Rain World, A Hat In Time, Death's Door, Tunic, Haiku The Robot, Have A Nice Death, Kunai, Natti, Nova Drift, Peglin, Ak-xolotl, Atomic Heart, Voidigo, Spark The Electric Jester, A Short Hike, Lil Gator Game, Scarf, Mighty Goose, Cyber Shadow, Untitled Goose Game, Hotline Maimi, At Dead Of Night, Mail Mole, Nine Sols, TinyKin, Night Blights, Among The Sleep, Pikuniku, Pirate Outlaws, Soda Crisis, Pizza Tower, Pizza Possum, No Straight Roads, Popucom, Try To Fall Asleep, Everspace, Billie Bust-Up, and many more awesome indie games and AA games to look forward too!👌🎁🎊🤩
Thanks for the lengthy list of indies and AAs! I do agree that non-AAA games are making a ton of the right moves, and maybe in the future I can make a video to give these a spotlight :) I've already even played some of the ones you mentioned (Death's Door, Cuphead, Shovel Knight, Celeste, and all of the Hotline Miamis, etc.). I hope this video, while mainly focusing on AAA, got the idea across that video games should focus on delivering quality experiences that consumers/gamers will enjoy rather than milking them of their time and money for their own benefit. Either way, thanks for watching and I appreciate your comment
My modern gaming biography would have been a better title
I agree with you i spent countless hours on counter strike and rocket league. It was so much fun at first but then it was more like an addiction where wins dont make you that happy and losses have you nervous and anxious. At best its a social activity with Friendly people at worse its a toxic addiction. Still it robs the time from fun and stories that campaign games give you. I think forza horizon 5 really nailed the single player and multi-player mix
competition is violence. "git gud than the other" is stupid mentality
It's not a stupid mentality. This is a huge misconception.
The true issue is modern game developers lack of skill in proper game balance(fair play for everyone) and fun gameplay loops.
Unreal Tournament 2004. Deathmatch. Oh wait, can't buy it on steam anymore.
I agree on the Fortnite comment. I will not touch that game unless I’m paid north of six figures to do so. 😅
#Doubt that you have a gf if you played overwatch
My wife’s boyfriend really likes this comment, can someone explain why?
And then people go on to exchange online gaming for massive open world games that waste hundreds of hours on collectables and achievements...
Great thumbnail
Thank you! It's made with lots of love (and tears) :D
single player games are like movies and multiplayer games are like hobbies.
do one for a self contained experience. Do the other for a progressively evolving experience.
Both are good. both are bad. Find your reasons to enjoy either.
Personaly play vs a human is way more exiting, the IA in games is awfull
spot on. great vid
Give rocket league a chance.
Get good
Get head trauma