I've had various ponderings about this for a long time after random frustrations.
Many moons ago, and to this day for console gamers, multiplayer was a thing that could be done under the same roof. It was great to have your friends round for a game of FIFA or a battle on Mortal Kombat II, Tekken the likes (Showing my age now). You fired on the game, chose a controller and a team/player/character and went to it. It didn't matter what your login was or if you were online, you were just playing the game.
Now, on the PC at least, everything seems to be hugely restricted to your Steam account login. There are very few options for actual on the couch multi-player games.
Online gaming society is booming but real world gaming society, I feel, is absolutely at deaths door. Now, I know that Covid will have a lot to answer for with regards to society, but I feel that the gaming world was already going down that path anyway.
Is it just dying out? Would people genuinely rather sit in their own silos with a headset on rather than in the same living room sharing some beers?
Ironically, this is coming about due to me having 2 VR setups (which is an isolation option in itself). I simply want to have a PVP over LAN dual in different games, racing sims would be nice. I can't for the life of me figure out why you can't just play a 2 player, offline, simple offering of the games. Why does everything need to be convoluted and difficult to manage? Years ago most games HAD to have multiplayer/coop as an option or their games wouldn't sell. I understand that our fast broadband has untethered a lot of the limitations we had for house to house PVP but why does there need to be an exchange on player interaction in the same house?
I believe I may have found one offering that will allow a PVP game on 2 VR sets at the same time. In order to do it I need to create another STEAM family member, share with that family member and then put both that account and my own account into offline mode. I can then run the game on both systems at the same time, connect to a LAN option (somehow, not looked into that yet) and then I should be able to set up a PVP game.
Not being funny, that's absolutely ridiculous. I would be happy with an extremely cut down offering with limited options when looking to play multiplayer in Project Cars, it's not even an option with a controller. In order to play multiplayer you need 2 PCs and the game twice (officially) in order to share a bit of fun with a mate.
It's no surprise to me that we are becoming so socially inept, everything is forced to be online now.
Many moons ago, and to this day for console gamers, multiplayer was a thing that could be done under the same roof. It was great to have your friends round for a game of FIFA or a battle on Mortal Kombat II, Tekken the likes (Showing my age now). You fired on the game, chose a controller and a team/player/character and went to it. It didn't matter what your login was or if you were online, you were just playing the game.
Now, on the PC at least, everything seems to be hugely restricted to your Steam account login. There are very few options for actual on the couch multi-player games.
Online gaming society is booming but real world gaming society, I feel, is absolutely at deaths door. Now, I know that Covid will have a lot to answer for with regards to society, but I feel that the gaming world was already going down that path anyway.
Is it just dying out? Would people genuinely rather sit in their own silos with a headset on rather than in the same living room sharing some beers?
Ironically, this is coming about due to me having 2 VR setups (which is an isolation option in itself). I simply want to have a PVP over LAN dual in different games, racing sims would be nice. I can't for the life of me figure out why you can't just play a 2 player, offline, simple offering of the games. Why does everything need to be convoluted and difficult to manage? Years ago most games HAD to have multiplayer/coop as an option or their games wouldn't sell. I understand that our fast broadband has untethered a lot of the limitations we had for house to house PVP but why does there need to be an exchange on player interaction in the same house?
I believe I may have found one offering that will allow a PVP game on 2 VR sets at the same time. In order to do it I need to create another STEAM family member, share with that family member and then put both that account and my own account into offline mode. I can then run the game on both systems at the same time, connect to a LAN option (somehow, not looked into that yet) and then I should be able to set up a PVP game.
Not being funny, that's absolutely ridiculous. I would be happy with an extremely cut down offering with limited options when looking to play multiplayer in Project Cars, it's not even an option with a controller. In order to play multiplayer you need 2 PCs and the game twice (officially) in order to share a bit of fun with a mate.
It's no surprise to me that we are becoming so socially inept, everything is forced to be online now.
