"6 Reasons Modern Gaming Doesn't Suck: An Anti-Rant"

[kane_magus]

I think a lot of people (myself included) need/needed to read this. I'm the same way, honestly. I complain a lot (justifiably so, I believe) about modern gaming, but if I just stop for a moment and take a look at it, I have to realize that it is still pretty frickin' awesome on the whole, despite those bad things about it.

Even the article's point #1. I almost had a knee-jerk "No, you're wrong. I was with you until that one." reaction to that one. But then, I recall that I'm now playing Minecraft multiplayer with owsf2000 and goldpseudo, and I honestly don't think I could ever go back to seriously playing it singleplayer. Add to that the fact that I'm really looking forward to the upcoming The Secret World (despite the fact that it is a MMO, the likes of which I am usually at best apathetic about and at worst downright adverse toward), and I have to believe that I'm starting to come out of my shell as far as multiplayer is concerned, at least a little bit. Sure, you won't ever find me playing Call of Duty with random douchebags on Xbox Live or whatever, but still...

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

When it comes to #1, it only makes sense for a portion of the game industry. When it makes sense, no problem! Minecraft is one of those games that work well on both regardless. I still singleplayer now and then although admittedly I spend more time on the server these days.

Of course, I'm not shelling out 60 bucks for a game that'll become obsolete a few months down the road when the servers for it are shut down.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

To be fair, even Minecraft kind of sucks hairy nutsack on a public server, at least based on the tiny bit I played with you on that one public server anyway, what with the griefers and the overbearing admins and such.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

On a public server, yes, very very much. It's pretty much why Minecraft multiplayer would fail and fail HARD if Mojang attempted to set up a single world server for all multiplayer and forbid players the ability to set up their own private servers.

You know, like 99.9999% of the video game industry apparently does these days.

The ability to have private servers is the only thing that really saved multiplayer in minecraft.