I don't have a problem with it, but I hate it when a game pushes you to be in the same room with it. I have close to 550 hours into Forza Horizon 5 and I can't stand it when a weekly challenge requires me to touch the PvP in any capacity. What 4 cars made it to the finish line 10 seconds ahead of everyone else? It's the players that picked Ken. The meta can change, but there is always going to be a Ken. I'm happy that the weekly asks to just play a match, but it is agonizing to have that mirror show me where my skills are at compared to others.
But I played 550 hours though. That's me getting over that PvP weekly challenge and I spend 4 hours every Thursday afternoon nailing whatever PvE "meta" challenge they ask for at the hardest difficulty. There's a ton of ways for that game to explore metas because cars come in different varieties which I'm happy to mess with while listening to Podcasts. It's fascinating because single player games can be meta'd. You know who you are if you said "this run is gonna be different", and now you're 10 hours in sporting Nightingale armor again. Every car is the main character in that game if you stick with it, so I like to main Honda. That's just a meta I like. Lets see how I do with this Honda CRX with a Rally setup because the weekly challenge asks for it, and I'll probably forget to stop playing with it after the challenge is done because it's meditative after a few minutes when I finally get the hang of how it drives.
Probably any form of online PvP. I'm always going to be in my head about a meta playing against me in the background. "Then just play the meta". The fun for me in Titanfall 2 is not because I went 37 to 1 sporting the CAR/Alternator in a lobby full of new players coming in from a Steam sale, you know? It's chatting with those newcomers in Frontier Defense and helping them get up to speed after mowing down 30 nuke Titans while everyone has a smorgasbord of a build.
A group of buddies chatting with each other is always going to stomp a crew of randoms as well. Is there even a "Lone Wolf" lobby in any game? TDM, but no parties allowed. They had that for one of the Modern Warfare games back in the PS3/360 era. It was the most even keeled I ever felt about wins/losses during a session. It was less about going to sleep after a win, and more of me shaking my head with a smile because I cost the team a win because the person on the other side used some weird build.
@facelessvixen: Well I'm still on that grind right now. haha Been limiting myself to a single run of Cayo a night. Send a request if you need a heist buddy. I'm usually available after 6PM PST.
Been playing Forza Horizon 5 and I just finished Series 8's Summer challenges for the most part. All I got to do now are the daily's which now have a 7-day time limit before the challenge expires. FH4 had a 3-day limit which wasn't too fun to worry about as a completionist. FH5 has been awesome overall, but I dread every PvP challenge cause of having to redo it. PvP challenges in this game isn't "tired from work, just need to relax" friendly.
That especially got me teary eyed. After buddies absolutely and understandably broke promises to join me on it, life getting in the way, and accepting that I should set my pride aside to finish everything on the easiest difficulty to account for randoms I ended up playing with I couldn't help but feel the sort of relief that Dan Ryckert did.
So yeah. Found my money making routine in that game. My account is way beyond the need for Shark Cards now. I'm just helping randoms by taxiing them to a randomly spawned Treasure Chest that changes location daily. I sometimes taxi them around to help them experience the Los Santos Slasher hidden quest. It's been a chill and happy time for me.
I want to say I was 6 or 7 when I played Doom on PC at a kiosk in my local Micro Center. I was already exposed to the spine pulling in MK2 at an ice cream shop so no biggie? Hard to forget the Doom moment though since some lady that took a page out of Nancy Reagan's fashion article grabbed me and said something to me about video games and the devil. My Dad's a chill dude, but I'll never forget how loud he sounded when he told her to "let go of my child or I'm calling the police". Had a long talk with my parents with a Happy Meal on the side.
Putting my vote in for 5. There's nothing wrong with 4 and there isn't any lore you need to soak up before touching FH5. They're all an awesome time though. You can't go wrong with any of them.
One game where it is funny that I hate the music is FIFA 98 Soundtrack Chumbawamba's Tubthumping is a song I never need to hear again!
I logged on just to comment this, looked up as I was typing, and saw your comment. There's just something about the tune that gets on my nerves. haha
Didn't exactly ruin the game for me, but I was a shitty try-hard metalhead growing up and the soundtrack to Burnout Paradise really pissed me off. Still played the hell out of the game though. I played the Remastered version a few years ago too and didn't really mind the song selection, but it did get repetitive so I had Google Play Music playing in the background so I could listen to high-energy Kpop.
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