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Aquamarine on 25 May 2016
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Johnw1104 said:
JWeinCom said:
The main thing I dislike about them (aside from not being a fan of online multiplayer generally) is that the game is completely at the whim of the community and the developers. If a community ditches the game or decides that they just want to spend their time doing bizarre things (see Smash Bros Brawl taunt parties), then the game becomes suddenly sucky.

My favorite game is Mega Man 2. Unless my NES breaks, my Wii breaks, my DS breaks, my PS2 breaks, all roms are scrubbed from the internet, and all physical replacements are destroyed, I'll always be able to experience that game again. Not sure if I'll be able to play splatoon in 25 years in a meaningful way.

To be fair, while it's not expansive I actually found Splatoon's single player campaign to be a lot of fun.

But yes, I totally agree with this sentiment. It bothers me to some degree, as a person who is constantly going back multiple generations to my favorite games, that some multiplayer games have no single player (or offline) component (the biggest gripe I've ever had with a Blizzard product was their decision to not allow offline PC playing of Diablo III, for instance). There's just something frustrating about not being able to revisit these titles one day, though given every game released for the PS4 and Xbox1 (to a lesser extent the Wii U as well) at this point will not function in the future unless you have the games downloaded and patched on either the internal or an external hard drive (thus why I hope Sony gets with the program like Microsoft and Nintendo and allows full use of external hard drives to store game data), it might soon be a moot issue.

I definitely feel the same, then, but I suspect the sheer size of this games has rendered such a future borderline unavoidable. The Nx MIGHT buck the trend via memory cards, but that's about the best one can hope for with physical media going forward. If Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo decide to drop support (and lord knows Nintendo likes to do that almost immediately), your collection of games for the Wii U/PS4/Xbox1 become little more than decoration pieces.

Dude, imagine you bought a book.....and then 5 years from now when the publisher no longer sells the book it SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUSTS.

DVDs / Blu-Rays don't stop working, VHSs don't stop working, books don't stop working, CDs don't stop working...so why should we tolerate this with video games?

It's so fucking weird out of principle. Imagine how many millions of books we would have lost the instant companies went out of business. Libraries wouldn't exist! Books from the 1900s and earlier wouldn't exist! Our cultural heritage would just...vanish.