The Revenge of the Post Here When You Get Something New thread

There's two major issues I have with multiplayer these days - well, aside from the fact that so many games that don't need MP have it - I just bought the new Tomb Raider for a few euro and the box proudly boasts of its multiplayer options. I don't ****ing care. Anyway... The first is XP and progression systems. It was a nice novelty when it was introduced, for a game or two, but then basically every game started implementing versions of it (one reason why Left 4 Dead was such a delight - they excluded such a system). It makes the whole thing feel like a chore or even a full-time job, significant elements of the game locked unless you commit the time to it - there's really something to be said for just being able to drop in and play, and not being forced into some time consuming metagame. And then there's map packs - if you're playing the game even a month or two after release, you feel like you're behind the curve unless you start paying more money. Season passes are crazy. There's clearly a massive market for them, but it's a pain for anyone who wants to play the game more casually.

All that said, I am very pleased with Battlefield 4 MP vanilla :pac: I've never had a PC capable of running a game from the series, so it's my first experience and I'm enjoying the scale and anarchy of conquest mode, and I've experienced none of the stability issues being reported online. It's not something I see myself getting addicted to - I'm happily balancing it with playing through many far smaller, more original games I picked up during the Steam sales, like Rogue Legacy and Dust, as well as a few console single player games - but for me anyway it's a new experience, and one I'm having a lot of fun with, even if my kill/death ratio remains dangerously lopsided. I would never celebrate it as a paragon of originality or artistic integrity, but it can have its place in a balanced gaming diet, much as I once upon a time enjoyed my time with Modern Warfare 1. As ever with these things, it's the fact that huge amounts of people only play CoD, Battlefield etc... that is a major cause for concern. Single player BF though? Complete cack.