I don’t think that always holds water, some games are just made to be played with others. Nobody is going to accuse Counter-Strike of being bad just because playing against bots isn’t the most thrilling experience. But for games like Borderlands definitely. Point being, the logic goes it’s bad and only saved by playing with friends doesn’t stop it from being a bad game, not that a game is bad just because it’s more fun with friends.

You don’t die in one hit to most things unless you run with very low health and armor. That’s a solvable problem.

And while sometimes bonfires can be a bit far apart, especially in the earlier games, people also seem to forget that you can literally just run past enemies. That said, I think it’s part of the journey and the struggle. Dark Souls is basically a rythm game in a way and that takes experience. Basically, you don’t need to kill everything but it’s good exercise.

Also there has always been an “easy mode”, cheesy build and multiplayer. If you think the game is too hard, play different.

My best guess would be that the engine just has vast amounts of technical debt. Skyrim (pre-LE at least) had a savegame corruption bug that has been around since Morrowind. And while I’m sure they have rewritten huge parts of the engine over the decades it’s not rare to see bugs persist over generations, and modders complaining loudly about it. The engine has never been great about asset streaming either so no surprise here.

Dang, my thing was basically collecting cars and modifying them, only real reason to still play this. So I very much cars about all cars, even the “crappy” ones.

They could have just made another store to sell all the old stuff. Would still “streamline” things and take nothing away.

This looks really cool. SupCom wasn’t quite the same for me so I’ll have to check this out.

It’s basically the “secret” behind Windows compatibility and part of the reason ReactOS takes so long to develop.

I just wrote a post on duck game over here:

https://feddit.de/comment/222116

Play duck game!

Everyone should know Duck Game. Duck Game is great.

It’s kind of a 2d sidescroller where you fight each other as ducks with different weapons from pistols to grenades, sledgehammers and laser guns. You can wear hats, there’s tons of content and even more made by the community and it’s very easy to pick up. Supports up to four people, works great on a TV with controllers and is a ton of fun.

Also, there’s a quack button and you’re obligated to quack as much as possible.

And it’s usually really cheap on steam.

Sometimes specific input method simply work better, there’s a reason most shooters on consoles have heaps of aim assist, those are inherently easier to play with a mouse, and those souls games with a controller.

That’s a very common complaint for the last, hell I don’t even know, 20 games or whatever.

No wonder you don’t like the feel of the combat. It’s just not something that really works without a controller, nothing you can really do about it, besides using a controller.

Yeah basically. It’s a loot shooter, it’s very fun in co-op but not good enough to carry itself in singleplayer.

I’ve been waiting for reddits death for ages, so no. The writing has been on the wall for a long time. I actually really like the idea of the fediverse, keeps any singular entity from having too much power.