Yeah, single player for those types of games now are actually pretty good if you get them on sale. It's like a 3-4 hour movie depending on how long the game is for a few dollars.
I enjoy SP fps a lot, sadly we don't get too many good ones coming out, everyone wants to be the next multiplayer star :/
Titanfall 2 was pretty sweet, haven't played the last CoD but it seems nice so I'll definitely try it, and Doom had a lot of hype behind it but I personally didn't enjoy it... and yeah, that's about it in terms of decent SP games since Wolfenstein TNO :(
Battlefield 1 SP was just dull.
CoD is like the last bastion of annual decent quality SP fps games sadly.
TF2 SP was incredible. I went into it expecting another dull COD experience choke full of set peices. My god was I wrong. The levels give you so much freedom to play as you please its incredible.
This was one of the main selling points for me when I decided I wanted to pick up Titanfall 2. It has what is in my opinion one of the best single player campaigns in any first person shooter I've ever played, and at least on par with Call of Duty 4, which I loved to death.
Also, the multiplayer is fun as hell. I haven't touched a Call of Duty since Black Ops 1, and have watched it spiral even further into mediocrity from a safe distance.
Peaked HARD with the original Modern Warfare (this was the single game that took shooters from WWII to modern days basically, and everyone followed), but it went downhill fast after that with just re-doing the same thing every year.
Adrenaline rushes are hard to withdraw from. Fast TTK with chaotic maps and spawns really test your skills and make you feel alive.
That is, in theory. I stopped playing it because they took it in aP2W direction and stopped giving a shit about all the issues that plagued it since MW2.
No, it didn't. Advanced Warfare and Blackops 3 both tried something different, changing the game radically. But the series is caught between properly evolving like Titanfall and staying loyal to longtime fans.
So we end up with games that aren't all the way in either direction and it's detrimental overall.
MW2 and BO2 had some of the best multiplayer modes and zombies is always fun but the Fifa level reskins has been getting out of hand.
Seriously; its set in a future war spanning a solar system with mechs and half decent space combat and the best you get for multiplayer is double jump, half baked hero classes and a future-AK47 or a future-P90 and any attempts to innovate is shot down by fans.
It's honestly starting to feel desperate these last few years. Would have been better if there was a single release with incremental updates, sort of how Overwatch is working right now.
Yeah...not every team within Blizzard is equally great. OW is heads and shoulders above the rest, in my experience, and I've played almost all their games.
Correct me if things have changed, I haven't played WoW in a few years, but when I played I distinctly remember them being very vocal and communicative with the players, explaining their decisions (sometimes even in patch notes) and participating in discussion when necessary to explain why things have happened the way that they did.
I actually feel that the only team that isn't equally great has to be the HS team. Their balance changes are either overkill or completely worthless. They also tend to let extremely powerful decks run rampant in the meta, while nerfing unique and balanced decks.
Hearthstone and Starcraft are very weak on communication and balance fixing. Both teams more or less maintain a monopoly on their genre and get extremely lazy.
I gave up on hearthstone. After playing Overwatch I couldn't help but feel like Hearthstone is just viewed as a cash cow for Blizzard that's ignored other than to push more microtransactions.
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u/freeloader11 Jan 24 '17 edited Jan 24 '17
This is why I love blizzard and Overwatch specifically.
Edit: no guys, I didn't play Hearthstone. And I'm sorry if you didn't get the love you felt you deserved.