As a person who went from playing countless story games as a kid to barely being able to finish a single story game per year as an adult this definitely helped me remind myself to go back to my roots.

I had to click because this 300 view video has the answer ive been searching for over a decade.

I keep buying new games but never playing them. I also keep switching between games, but never fully committing to one. It just feels overwhelming the amount of options there are. By committing to one game, it's hard to not feel like you're missing out on all those other games.

i think the problem is time and peace , single player cinematic experiences are super good , but to enjoy it to the fullest you need to binge on them and have a great audio and visual experience , with a dark room and no noise and kids

On the topic of repayability one thing no one ever talks about is how different replayability is between MP and SP. Replayability in SP is often seen as a tangible aspect like new game plus or side quest and critics of SP will cite that as to SPs superiority but what a lot of people overlook, including pro MP people, is the human element of MP not found in SP. I remember having a conversation with someone on discord who hates MP because theres no replayability, its just the same experience over and over according to him where as with fallout 4(his prefered game) he said he could run so many different characters and playthroughs. I made the point that replayability is subjective much like how genre is subjective and that a big part of replayability for MP is experience. For example my prefered game is R6 Siege, and the whole reason i love playing it is because even after years of playing and being in the higher skill brackets i am STILL learning new things. New angles to watch something, New ways to approach a situation, new ways to outsmart peopl, and even new ways to counter these new idea im learning if when someone uses them against me. This constant unending potential for new knowledge is a form of replayability. Another somewhat related aspect is people dont keep playing the same way forever. At a certain point all the best players can play at a similar and eventually someone somewhere is going to get creative and find a new solution that eventually all the best players will copy and adapt to and it will eventually trickle down the skill ladder creating what we as gamers call "metas". This constant evolution drivin by competition leaves so much room for untapped potential and is a form of replayability.

I'm not sure that single player games have higher requirements than multiplayer games. One reason that I don't want to play multiplayer games is that they require a huge amount of hours for you to to be competitive. It's not fun to always lose or be on the bottom of the score board so you need to play a lot to be successful. In single player games on the other hand you don't have to be bleeding edge to enjoy the story and the gameplay. You can even cheat or get help if you just want to progress the story.

A lot of multiplayer games have consistent, endless gameplay loops with a progression system, making it easy to hop online and do the same thing over and over but have it still be satisfying. That’s very different from a narrative-driven single player experience.

You should play story mode first, you wont go back when you have started to play online. And it gives you some safe way of basic training for what to come.

Wow, this is truly a masterpiece. I've watched several of your recent videos, and they've been absolutely amazing. Please continue producing such fantastic content! Additionally, I'd like to mention that I stick to playing the same games because my computer can't handle any other games. Believe me, if I had the capability to run different games, I would be exploring a wide variety of them. Anyway, please keep up the excellent work! God bless you.

I always have fun going back and replaying story games. That’s something I’ll never get bored of.

Dave the Diver is a new indie single player RPG that really hit the spot for an FPS addict. Not too long and easy to come back to, definitely recc

Straight to the point. informative. short but enjoyable. with great examples. Amazing video

This video was great! It's nice to see high quality content from lesser known channels being recommended by KZfaq.

im in the middle of this like i really enjoy playing some ds3 and baldurs gate 3 but on the other hand i really love playing with my friends in cs2 and im really glad i can find some good balance to both single player games and competitive ones

Nice video, i agree with your points. I find it harder and harder to find the energy or time to complete single player games as i get older

Great video. Going into more depth than the other 100s in this genre. Felt like I learned something new. Earned my sub

I love a cozy night with a nice drink and a game I've played 500 million times.

Great video! Hearing somebody else reaffirm my thoughts in a concise and clear way made me feel great about quitting League of Legends lmfao... in all seriousness, this is a great video, and I've started playing more indie games like Hollow Knight and Celeste. I still sometimes go back to league, but it's never really for more than a handful of games. I've started liking story games a lot more

I was a hardcore online MP gamer back when I was a teen in the 360/PS3 era, the golden age of online gaming imo. I played nothing but Gears of War, Halo, and CoD, 24/7. Only occasionally played SP games but now as an adult I've done a complete switch, I mostly play SP games. I'll occasionally play online MP but not for too long. To me, SP games just give me a better gaming experience, online can be fun if you're a competitive person or have people to play with but nothing beats a captivating story and exciting gameplay of a SP game.

From the title I thought you were going to list three popular title the gaming community can't stop playing, in a general sense. This was more personal than I realized and truly made me think. A friend recently started a single player game and was telling me all the amazing things. It's been years honestly since i've sat down and devoted time and effort into a single player game. You explained it all so well but at the end you challenged us to try the other side of things. I love me a multiplayer game all day.. but maybe I should look into a story game.. even if it's a short one like you mentioned. So thanks for making this video and making me want to step out of my comfort zone.

Ok but there's also games in the middle. There are plenty of titles, primarily or exclusively in single-player, which do not ask much of you in the beginning and are not some huge emotional investment major plotline to follow etc, while having tons of replayability and rewarding time spent from the player. Think of Tetris, Binding of Isaac, Terraria, Slay the Spire, Candy Crush, Stardew Valley, you get the idea. Some of these titles are absolutely massive in terms of popularity, and can get pretty notorious for having some of the playerbase clocking in insane hours spent similar to online multiplayer titles like League and CSGO. I don't even wanna imagine what those soccer moms who only play candy crush got for their hours played Putting life/time concerns aside, I think having one of such titles in your repretoire makes for a much healthier/well-rounded game rotation

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nothing wrong with wanting to keep getting better at a game you love, my friend always says "you are a gamer but only play one game." well to me that's like telling a basketball player "you are an athlete but only play basketball" you play the game/sport you enjoy and love and want to master.

Amazing video! Keep up the good work :)

I feel like my love for competitive multiplayer shooters comes from that instant gratification of knowing that I'm improving, instead of the slower nature of single player games when you don't really feel like your improving at anything due to how linear most single player story games are (with the exception of games like breath of the wild or GTA). Great video, really helped me understand why when my friends recommend me single player games and I hate them so I just go back to grinding cs

Very nice video. I like that YT algorithm has been pushing good videos to my feed recently.

I really enjoyed watching this video. Keep it up :)

Underrated video, keep making such good videos like this man.

one really good example of a replayable game is roblox, it has such a wide variety of games, you can constantly find new games for years, i've played roblox since 2016, and im still playing it all the time.

This is not a problem I have anymore. I played WoW for like 13 years, but since moving on I'm playing different games every month or less.

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Thank you soo much, I wanted to learn this for a long time now.😁

I have been playing the same few games for my entire life, I would sometimes try a few new games, maybe even beating a few triple A games, but I will always end up playing Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Terraria and a few others again after a long break, maybe I was waiting for a new update, maybe I got bored or sick of playing that game, but those few games always bring me joy more than other

insane that you only got 3k subscribers, great video

Fallout: New Vegas is my all time favourite game, I think you should give it a try if you like RPGs where your choices really matter

great video dude! nice to see quality content from smaller channels 🥳

I played tons of platformer and story based games like RPGs. Then I discovered competitive fighting games and it was a new gaming experience for me. Discovering how far you can push the game against other live players at an arcade. I devoted 10 years to Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and ignored every new game I bought because I kept discovering new strategies. In the fighting game scene, I discovered players who specialize in one game. There are those who only play Street Fighter 2 Turbo to this day in 2023. Having too many games to play is a good problem from the gamers side. I remember back in the NES days, I rented Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers from Blockbuster and beat it in 30 minutes. Then replay it because it was simply enjoyable to play. Like rewatching a good movie.

Love the video, I also wanted to mention that a lot of the multiplayer games are not just a game but a constant self improvement mission to complete, always trying to become better so you can win more

Great vid man, I also like how at the end you asked both sides to go try and do the opposite as opposed to just one. I’d have to agree with a lot of points that you hit throughout this video, I had this realization sometime either last year or two years ago when I picked up smash bros and started (still have yet to finish LOL) the story mode on hard. It was through that I remembered the calming and “true” peace of video games and not the mindless fun time highs I was spending back to back with friends ): I definitely think it’s possible to enjoy both, but it’s just about moderation. As for me, I’ve chosen to jus keep multiplayer games as my “social night” with friends who are too far to connect in person and not something to grind on (I never really was a type to solo multiplayer rank type games). Mario bros wonder i think is out now, and I’ve been wanting to pick up Kirby’a forgotten land for a while now, hopefully sometime soon I’ll be able to experience and enjoy games like “the good old days” :) thanks again for making this video! Def something the world needed

i buy so many story games and never actually play them, or start them but never finish. im gonna go play some of these now because this video motivated me to do so. thanks

it's curious, I have the opposite happen to me, my comfort games tend to be single-player because I get stressed when dealing with people multi-player, plus a massive skill issue on my part ngl

109 subscribers but 500k subscriber level production makes you go hmmmm. You hit the nail on the head with a whole lot of charm

This reminded me why I went to Singleplayer Games. Before that I only played minecraft then csgo and clash of clans then lol for countless hours. But I am so glad im playing now Singleplayer because I was really missing out just queing into these multiplayers.

Look at how the games are designed and what keeps you playing. This includes everything from how unique the sandbox is for you to experiment in to what rewards you can achieve

This video was so good. You deserve way more subs! Keep up the good work

For me, Monster Hunter fills the perfect niche for this. It's absolutely endless replayability, because you're always challenging yourself to find new ways to beat the monster, to beat it faster, exploring new play styles, trying new builds, and there's so many endless combinations of skills and playstyles that it's pretty much infinite. Not to mention the combat itself is absolutely exhilarating. But it's also multiplayer, so you can go burn time goofing off with people and the level of challenge varies greatly due to all the different types of monsters in the game. Truly my favorite franchise of all time.

HA! I don't have this problem, after i feel like I've finished a game its really hard to go play it again, but i obviously don't play online games as i see them as lesser, still fun, but when playing story games you get fun AND the story/experience

Love this topic. This is why I like Kid Icarus uprising and sonic games. It wasn't open world it was short mission segments

You will be really huge if you manage to pump videos like this consistently. Subbed

I think that comfort point makes the most sense. Why do something different when what I know I already enjoy is right there? My main 2 games I’ll return to are Warframe and Rocket League. Every once in a while I can find something else to sink my teeth into for a couple hundred hours, or more, but I’ll always return to those 2 for more.

Damn, this is some good stuff man. Keep it up, this topic hits home hard as I boot up destiny 2 after 2000+ hours. Sub number 160 right here!

Just wanted to leave you a comment to say that you're doing good on your videos. Enjoy it fam. We'll be here waiting for the next thing you do.

actually underrated, keep up and soon you will hit the 200k mark, i swear

Good job man. I hope u grow more

I sometimes have periods of weeks/months were I can play the same online multiplayer game but then after a while I get a bit bored/burnt out and decide to play a story based game as a sort of remedy and actually end up enjoying it more than the multiplayer games

Damn this video randomly appeared on my feed, awesome stuff man

I am your 485 subscriber, you're gonna get big soon!

honestly thank you, you changed my prespective

Outer Wilds is a singleplayer game everyone should play. Its a unique experience and for the love of god, dont look up any guides or anything that could contain spoilers.

With emulation now being so good, its very nice to go and check out some games you played before u ever touched those easily replayable games. but now im just stuck playing modnation racers and skate 3...

Im so glad the algorithm recommenced your channel to me

i really like all theese smaller creators with high quality like this channels popping up in my recommendations. keep up the good work and also i will never download a single byte of Fortnite or anything with a battlepass and stupid microtransactions

Tfw you return to any pvp game after 2 years bc of nostalgia and in next 3 minutes you remember why you dropped it.

Love the video, thank god Ive found you

Amazing video man!!

This is exactly what i felt like for a while now ! Glad im not alone..

Story games haven’t felt the same since I was younger, I used to love every single game I played now I really need something special to be able to finish it instead of starting and forgetting about it for half a year, right that game that stands out for me is ffxvi and it’s phenomenal

Good vid, keep up the quality. The script might need some refinement though considering how some phrasings were slightly jarring

Idk why but for me I don’t start new games often because knowing I have work the next day or after the weekend makes me feel like I don’t have enough time to sit and play something new. It’s like when you tell yourself you need to start going to the gym but it’s too deep into the week to go so you’re like “I’ll just start next week.” Because of that, I just go back to something I’ve already started or isn’t story focused. Anyone else do that too?

A lot of single player games I will play through once and probably never play through them again or for a very long time. God of War, Spiderman, Arkham games, Horizion, etc. There's a few exceptions like Bethesda RPGs, Rockstar games, and FromSoft games, and Dragon's Dogma, these can be played a ton over and over.

The only game in a while that has broken my cycle of switching to and from RL and Apex is No Man’s Sky. The story is pretty great, and the idea that you can constantly upgrade, build bigger bases using the thousands of different materials and technologies at hand, make your squadron larger, etc. really helps to bring back that constant sense of progression that you would get in the type of multiplayer games mentioned. I feel bad for the ppl who stopped playing after the release flop because now it is a really solid game.

I've been through this years ago, decided I had broke far too many controllers now I have 1000 hours in minecraft and couldn't be happier for it. It's really hard to break from the cycle of misery that is modern shooters like fortnite, cod and apex but it is SO worth it you just have to find something you're really passionate about (for me it was God Of War 2018) to outweigh the addiction of "well I've got nothing else to do". You do have other things that you can do you've just gotta find them If you push past the addiction, and yes it is an addiction for many people, it's worth it and you will never want to look back. I'm very lucky to have been able to push out of the endless cycle of yearly cod releases so young, with help from people around me I got out at around 14. Good luck with what you decide to do with your life :)

I mean simply, it’s conditioning. The more you play something, the more it feels natural. That’s why it’s very hard to make a new, competitive game, that people will try.

for my experience when you get older it just comes down to time to play and commitment. I have so many single player backlog games I need to beat and I'm sure I would love to play them all. It's just for me when I'm older I just don't have the mega free time to play them. Especially with working full time. It's just nice to get home and hop on a few games of some multiplayer games with my friends and go to sleep and repeat my days. usually on my days off I really want to play a good story game, but I always end up getting distracted or end up just thinking about things I should be doing. Basically, it's just down to growing older, not having a lot of time. As well there are sooooo many new games coming out so it's easy to get distracted by another new shiny game and the pile just adds on. I miss the old days where there was just a small variety of good games. Now it feels like a gamble if a game is going to be good and then you just end up going back to the comfortable games you always want to play. That's what I have come to realize. I just wish I had more time.

I think the biggest reason why I can't play most single player games anymore is that thanks to KZfaq and Let's Plays, I don't need to play a game to experience its story, and once I know its story, I don't feel like playing it for myself because I already experienced the story. That's why I'm staying blind on Baldur's Gate 3 until it releases on Xbox, because that's my only console as of right now.

You hit the nail on the head.

replayability in games is something that makes a game amazing to me, because not only do i get to experience the game once, i then get to re experience it and find other cool things, whether that be in the story or online.

This is so real, I have like 37 games in my backlog and even with all the games ive completed ive put 2.5x more of the time in singleplayer games combined into multiplayer 😭😭

I wish more game developers would implement the kind of NG+ Devil May Cry has in their games, it's pretty much the only kind of NG+ that matters. What's the point of carrying over all your gear to the next playthrough if nothing can challenge you? Up the difficulty, change every encounter, and make the stronger enemies appear early, maybe even introduce a new mechanic in the hardest difficulty too (devil trigger for enemies in DMC's case).

This is like therapy for my game addiction

After 3000 hours in Siege.. I took a break and feel the withdrawals every day. However, I've been getting into random games like Sea of Stars and Contrast purely cause I'm not wasting time playing ranked anymore

This is so true. Personally, 2019 COD: MW is one of my all-time favorites and yet it pretty much burnt me out on shooters for what feels like the rest of my life. I think some of the most fun I ever had while playing a game was in gunfight with one of my best friends, and I'm glad my time taking PVP seriously was able to end on a good note. I've since switched to primarily playing singleplayer with the occasional coop with friends and I could not be happier in that regard.

I always wondered why I couldn't get into open world games or games with huge swathes of content, and I realized that the gameplay loop of these games are generally just not enticing to me. My favorite games are respawn shooters (i.e, CoD, Halo, Titanfall, etc.), and it really is how you describe it. I like the challenge of online shooters and how different every game plays and I can more or less choose how long my play session is. With open world or story driven games, it feels like the more time I spend *away* from them, the harder it is to get back in. Although, I have been exploring a bit with indie roguelikes and reverse bullet heavens and turns out I really like meta progression too. Maybe I'm just not a story guy shrug. Regardless, nice concise video, very good work.

it's called an addiction

This year I took a break from fps games and played a lot of other games I know I would also have fun in but never finished cause I wanted to spend my time getting better at fps games. Now my aim is a lot worse but I’m having a lot more fun so I definitely feel it was worth it

IM UPSET IM LATE FOR THIS LOVE THE VID❤

I started playing ratchet and clank on pc a few weeks back and it really took me back to being a kid and playing on my ps2! I recommend trying it out if you haven't!

It is because it is familiar and you know what to expect. The same thing goes for rewatching movies and tv shows and listening to the same song 10 times in a row every day.

i came to the comments to see the thoughts of the million other viewers just to see 800 views, such incredible video quality and i’m sure you’ll blow up soon

Great video man

I just like games where I can practice for many hours and then see the results of the hard work paying off (by comparing myself to other real players). Like grinding in a single-player game but has real-life consequence (e.g. developing muscle memory, improving reaction time, motor skills, etc). CSGO is perfect for this, you can develop skills to be really quick at recognising threats, doing something about the threat, quick thinking, pattern-recognition, problem solving, teamwork, communication, mind-games, etc.

Thank you for reminding me to actually play some story game instead of sweating games like overwatch, csgo, valorant, fortnite, rainbow and rocket leauge.

It's gotten easier to be content in sticking to a single FPS game considering the state of the FPS market.

Good video man

Listening to this as i queue up for my 6000th game of aram sure does hit different. Counter to that tho, i generally only play single palyer games as long as im enraptured by rhe gameplay loop. Hardspace shipbreaker is one of my favorite single player experiences of the past few years, and by most accounts its a lonely game opining about workers rights that probably fell short with its intended message. Rogue legacy, an indie roguelite platformer from the early 2010s, has sucked up 650 hours of my life according to steam. Storytelling in video games is almost inconsequential to me. I put more than 200 hours into cyberpunk, just driving around and exploring, i never finished the main storyline but that hasnt dampened my enjoyment of the game at all. Great video, im trying to make my way through DSR this year, dunno if ill beat it but its a nice change of pace from *an ally has been slain*

short answer to me is "Same Games, Different outcomes" games i play almost everyday is War thunder, CSGO, and L4D2 and you are right about 3 game

The beginning is basically eating McDonald’s because it’s your bread and butter, but on the other hand, there’s a new game that’s a misalin 5 star restaurant.

Great video!

For me it was because I grew up playing Modern Warfare 2 2009 on my PS3. So I’m used to it. And anytime I played any other game it was usually online or at my cousins house via split screen. Now that split screen is practically dead and we both have different responsibilities now. I just went back to what I enjoyed, what I know how to do well and what I did solo. Which is COD Multiplayer.

YT recommended coming in clutch with this one 🙏🏼