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Oh yeah, games like mobygames.com, yeah those are great games.
Stop fucking hotlinking already people, what's so fucking hard about using the attach function?
An intruder!
I've been enjoying a lot of Battlefield on the 360 and it's probably the first online-only game I've gotten into since Alien Front Online. It got me thinking: as social interaction and online replayability becomes increasingly important (EA recently blamed Dead Space's and Mirror's Edge's commercial failings on lack of multiplayer), what has become of social deprivation, one of video game's most difficult sensations to produce?
Film directors like Kubrick and Tarkovsky used this sensation well. Within video games, it's difficult to replicate since the medium inherently is about physical interaction. But there is a history of games that have used social desperation (aka lonely games) to create atmospheres of terror, claustrophobia, and dread.
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Oh yeah, games like mobygames.com, yeah those are great games.
Stop fucking hotlinking already people, what's so fucking hard about using the attach function?
Last edited by bbobb; 06 Aug 2009 at 05:24 AM.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
Way to hotlink.
Condemned definitely comes to mind. You got a bit of radio banter, but it was pretty oppressively lonely.
System Shock 1 and 2 are big ones as well, as well as Ultima Underworld.
Last edited by Frogacuda; 06 Aug 2009 at 05:26 AM.
So much ****ing semen.
Everytime I turn on my PS3 I feel lonely.
level six laser lotus
Metroid I-III and Prime, definitely.
Please look forward to it!
Shadow of the Colossus is definitely up there.
Father Brain
Fallout 3 is mostly lonely as hell.
Fuck multiplayer. I'll have to go retro to get my social deprivation apparently.
Edit: And get that Myst trash out of there.
Last edited by Yoshi; 06 Aug 2009 at 09:34 AM.
Gunslinger Redux
I prefer almost all my games solo and I cannot stand when reviewers bash games soley on it not having any multiplayer abilities. It's like, yeah the game was great, everything about it was just fantastic. But no multiplayer, so D+.
For the most part, my favorite thing about XBL is the leaderboards and shit like that.
Look out, man, Wooly's gone ape-shit.
Gunslinger Redux
Wow, I just re-read your post Sqoon and realize that I had no idea what you were talking about when I replied.
I must have been blinded by your hotlinking.
So... um... yeah, I'd go with Silent Hill. I felt pretty lonely playing those games.
Look out, man, Wooly's gone ape-shit.
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