Valve's next game is an Overwatch-style third-person hero shooter named Deadlock, a new report has stated. Details have…

Though the way the leaker describes it makes it sound more like a 3rd person MOBA than a hero shooter.

  • stardustEnglish
    1663·
    7 months ago

    I just want a nice story driven single player game from Valve again that isn’t VR.

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      301·
      7 months ago

      Same. Something I can play, save anywhere to deal with life, and pick back up when time allows. I was one of those weirdos who really enjoyed Doom 3 when it came out (with the ducttape mod; that was one mechanic I didn’t like) and grew up on old Commodore, Amiga, and PC single-player games and NES/SNES/Genisis RPGs. I want that again.

    • PlantJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      122·
      7 months ago

      Have you played A Plague Tale (innocence, then requiem)? It’s one of the best story driven games I’ve ever played. It’s entirely linear, so plot urgency doesn’t feel artificial like it does in open world games.

      • stardustEnglish
        41·
        7 months ago

        I played the first one but not the second yet. I did enjoyed the experience and the hairstyles stood out for the character designs with the ribbons.

        • Quazatron@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          7 months ago

          Hang on, that is a single player game? I now auto-discard AAA games up front because most of them are online multiplayer affairs with fancy in-game items to purchase and silly anti-cheat gimmicks that give Linux users a hard time.

          I might look into buying this one, then.

          • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            7 months ago

            Yep. You can play alone, couch co-op with controllers, or with friends online if that’s what you’re into. I’ve logged a couple of hundred hours alone and another hundred or so couch co-op.

            • LyDEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              I want to play it in couch co-op but I kept hearing that you miss out on content by playing it that way. For a first playthrough, is that true?

              • TexasDrunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
                8·
                7 months ago

                You’re going to miss content no matter how you play. It’s the nature of the game. Some decisions lock you out of options.

                I can’t think of anything you’d inherently miss from couch co-op.

              • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                7 months ago

                I played through the whole game with my gf and didn’t see nor read anything that would indicate that.

                Regardless of if you play, solo or with up to 4 people there are 4 characters in your party. Your main character can be one of the predefined ones or not. You will probably have/want a mix of both.

                First play through will take more than 100h and you will still have plenty to see for subsequent playtroughs. It’s literally impossible to see all of it first time regardless of how you play.

                Just get it, it’s not just a GOTY, it’s one of the best games in a long while.

              • emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                3·
                7 months ago

                No. My girlfriend and I are 140 hours in and still not finished, and I’m amazed at how smooth the coop works with the story. You can each be different places doing different things, or you can travel together, you can each have your own relationships with npcs. A lot of conversations with npcs will repeat depending on who’s talking, but important story ones won’t. As long as you mostly stick together and make choices together, you’ll have every option a single player game does.