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A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.

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Playing multiplayer titles is the best way to involuntarily become a Patient Gamer (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30139581

In my case there's a huge timeframe between 2008 and 2025 I have played mainly multiplayer games like Tibia, Runescape, Realm of Mad God, Counter-Strike, Killing Floor and rarely touched singleplayer games.

I have barely touched GTA1, GTA2, GTA 4 or GTA 5 (finished GTA3 and GTA:SA not so long time ago). I have spent 30 mins in Skyrim. In Witcher 3 2-3 hours while (Witcher 1,2 stay unfinished). HalfLife series keep waiting for me to come back and lead Gordon to the end of the story.

I can go with more and more examples with classic singleplayer games which patiently wait in my library and if you ask me, the multiplayer games really "help in this regard.

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[–] SomeAmateur 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Multiplayer relies on other people so they are more likely to have people buy it early on to play with their friends and a high player count.

The downside is you're paying full price for a game that still has issues to sort out. And eventually the game dies off when everyone else moves on to the next thing

Single player games are cool because in many ways the value goes up over time. You pay a lot less to get a full more polished game, some with an awesome mod community making even more stuff.

But to get back on track with this post yeah you can totally balance it. Play the best multiplayer games while new single player games release, get fixed and get less expensive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

The sad thing is there's another end of the curve where games get too old to be as enjoyable as if you played it at the time.

Shooters pre dual stick controls can be tough for example.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

This is how I ended up almost exclusively patient gaming for years starting in 2013. I'd been locked into World of Warcraft for since its first release and Pandaria era was really the first time I started looking at other games to play. I had plenty to catch up on!