I will delve into this game and try and explain why you need to jump in head first, along with the advantages of having your own server hosting. The latest installment in the survival genre is Valheim. The incentive and thrill of surviving, along with the pain and anguish of death, become a little bit more real. Now, you are a bare, unarmed character who has to run across miles of open terrain to regroup with your friends. A fully open world to explore and survive, scavenging for food cans while outrunning zombies in Dayz to taking on a T-Rex with only a spear in ARK Survival.Ī virtual death is so much scarier when you have the prospect of respawning naked on the other side of the world, knowing you now have to point your character in the right direction and hold down ‘W’ for 15 mins. In recent years, the online open-world survival genre has grown in popularity.
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Playing with others is where the true fun lies, and there is nothing like the feeling of having full control of your own game server environment. There was nothing quite like jumping on your favorite server for an evening, slowly making good friends, and laughing into the early hours of the morning. In the early days of the FPS Counterstrike, you could play on public/privately owned servers, give a 2 player (1vs1) head-to-head challenge, and eventually enjoy playing with a massive 64 players, 32 on each side. There is nothing more enjoyable than knowing you have out-smarted another human being, even if it usually is a squeaky spot ridden teen. Multiple-player games are what captured my heart and mind.
But I’ve always found the majority of single-player games very rigid and linear in gameplay, and killing endless waves of predictable NPC (non-playing characters) becomes quite tedious. I have never been a fan of single-player games.ĭon’t get me wrong I still have some fond memories of popping mutated pig cops while chewing bubblegum and swinging a crowbar in Half-life.