Im tired of having to spend thousands of hours to stand a chance against others, im tired of video games turning into a second job. Im tired of playing against sweatlords who systematically abuse every single exploit they know of to ruin servers and destroy people’s fun. Im tired that every new game has to be an esport now. Im tired.
So yeah im fully done with mp games. However i still like games, and recently i realised i basically only enjoy singleplayer games. So yeah, Anyone got good/niche/unknown singleplayer game recommendations?
EDIT: im an idiot i didnt specify what sort of games i enjoy lol. Sadly ive already played disco elysium, i actually got 100% on it on steam, hah.
Recently I played Control, and i consider that title to be one of the best games ever made, so i really enjoy that kind of game but oddly the RE4 remake that resembles Control bored me so bad I turned it off 2 hours in. Basically I really enjoy shooters and games woth very strong narratives.
But my favorite game by far has to be RE:Village, that game blew my tiny mind, everything about it was amazing, the impeccable art direction, the gunplay, the enemies and the story, just 
. But by far the greatest thing about that game was the winter mood, i played it in the dead of winter and love the season, it genuinely shaped my expectation of what video games should be like. I also had a lot of fun hunting treasures and prizes down.
I was having a big argument with someone last night. They were defending all the “progression” bullshit and I was just yelling “BACK IN MY DAY THE ROCKET LAUNCHER AND QUAD DAMAGE WEREN’T TIME GATED AND IT WAS BETTER” over and over again.
It’s all bullshit now. You used to be able to just jump in to a server with a community you liked, play a few rounds, chat with your friends. No one was keeping score, no one was grinding to unlock anything, the game wasn’t shoving advertisements in your face every twelve seconds. Instead of having to spend several minutes in matchmaking between every round the game just loaded the next round, in the same server, with the same people.
Nothing was “unlocked” because the concept was bad and anti-competitive and would give some players mechanical advantages so why would any game ever do something like that? You could just use whatever you wanted.
Bllelegh
Yeah the quake management of weapons is the best one imo. You want a better gun? Alright bucko, go grab one over there.
Meanwhile bf2042: uuuh just spend 6 hours grinding bots in an empty boring map! Easy dude!
The first game I remember with “progression” was BF2, where htere was an alternate weapon for each class. I was totally befuddled as to why it was there and why you’d want to “unlock” them. I’ve already got the gun that is good for my class, what am I going to do with two guns?
Alas now every game has 8,000 nearly identical guns and miserable balance. : p 
I prefer the rs2 approach where the best gun is an early ww2 rifle made out of wood lol, Mas49 for life
30-06 solves every problem except lower back pain from carrying 30-06.
I hate this shit the most. All the stat tracking bullshit plays right into my neuroses. If I play “for fun”, the experience is always hampered by the nagging voice in my head going “this will lower your W/L and you might get judged”. Ugh, fuck off.