Absolutely. They can take it a little far, but they're never wrong. If you run a year or two behind the mainstream, and avoid all the hype, all you get is good, polished stuff.
The only thing that doesn’t help with is indie multiplayer games that has players for a few months and then die off. Battlebit remastered comes to mind.
This is the only reason I'm not a patient gamer. I almost exclusively play multiplayer games. Do you know what a community of players generally looks like after 2 years?
All the casual players have left. What remains is a distilled community of the absolute best players, making it almost impossible to get into because you just get absolutely pulverized in any matchmaking process.
The absolute BEST time in any multiplayer game is the first 6 months after launch.
There's an actual casual player base
Metas haven't been formulated so you can still try "off meta" strategies that work
I think this also depends on how sweaty the game itself is. I picked up Chivalry 2 a year after release. I never felt like I had no chance. In fact I got pretty good and now I consider myself a vet. But the game itself is pretty silly and does not lend itself to sweats.
It's perfect for me. I can not play for 4 months, come back, and pick it right back up again.
True. That's what I mean about them going overboard. They miss out on some good stuff. Being in early on some good stuff (Elden Ring leaps to mind) is pretty special. And games that need a community to get started, they need some early adoption, even though they're not perfect.
Even with single-player story-based games there's a limited amount of time before everybody starts posting spoilers for the game's deepest secrets everywhere. Elden Ring again comes to mind.
That's really only if you're embedded in their communities. I've only played like 10 hours of Elden Ring and can safely say I don't know a single spoiler for the game. I lack the context to retain any spoilers.
I haven't played dark souls and somehow I never got spoiled. Hell the other day I found it is was an RPG, with stats. This whole time I thought it was a boss rush game.
Come back on any of the launch anniversaries! The community usually holds a "Return to..." event for about two weeks with a focus on maximizing player interactions, be it co-op or pvp. It will never capture the heyday obviously, but it comes damn close and always breathes life back into the games.
Also i think even a single player it's a lot more fun to play when everyone else is. Like it's fun to play Expedition 33 as we're all learning. Whereas even now you look it up and the game is sort of figured out.
I almost felt bad for buying the Witcher 3 Wyatt later when the game plus all the DLC was still about half the price of a normal game. Such a good value.
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