All I want is a game with a solid single player campaign. Is it too much to ask? ... I don't want no PVPVE, Multiplayer, "Extraction , looter shooter" bullcrap.
There are literally thousands of old and new games that fit that exact description, and there's no way you've played them all. I swear gamers entitlement is part of why publishers have become so bold about their bullshit, because consumers barely know what they want and even if they do, they STILL spend money on what they apparently don't want. Stop buying into fomo and just play old games.
@@imthedevilkys536yeah if they play along and try to act out the apocalypse. But if they just wait in a corner and shoot you from the back, it's just annoying and takes away from the experience. I wanna be able to experience the apocalypse without being sweaty af
@@grph1t3z That's what OP did IMO. Kids only play online games. Online-only games are for people with a short attention span, i.e. kids. The moment I hear anything that inclines it's online-only or have a multiplayer component I immediately skip. I don't want kids in my games and I don't want to rely on other people to have fun. I enjoy my own company in games. If I want to be social I'll just talk to my SO or kids or chat with a friend. Are people so lonely everything must be about playing together with others? Don't you people have too many people around you so you just want to run away and be alone sometimes? Anyway, IMO, if you can't enjoy single player games then games are boring to you because it's not the games you enjoy, it's the social aspect.
Did you even enjoy Jedi survivor baldurs gate dead island 2 or will you even enjoy the new Star wars single player game avowed, stalker, atomfall, state of decay 3? How is it not enough for you guys. We pvp players are the ones with the most played games tab filled up and it's all old games, warzone, fortnite, apex, PUBG, rainbow six siege even, we put in more time on our games than yiu and you get more games amd are never satisfied meanwhile we are crossing 1000 hours or tem year old pvp games. We are not the same. 5/13 games on her had pvp and those 8 made for you weren't enough, you want the entire dinner table on your plate and yours alone.
Thank steam for that. Shoulda been around when Half life 2 suddenley needed a internet connection when we all had 28k modems and they wanted us to tie up our phone lines while we played. luckily wasnt long a hack came out to end that.
@@bhasha3255 I pretty desperately want more single player looter shooters like borderlands and even outriders. Too many games depend on having multiple players.
I’ll be playing Sekiro and Elden Ring into 2040 and beyond! Bloodborne I loved lies of p but I’ve mastered it and platinum it also. Baldurs gate 3 is interesting I have 100 hrs into it and like it enough, but it’s not anything close to as special as Elden Ring! High hopes for Wukong
Then you'll definitely want to check out STALKER 2! The first one came out in the early 2000's. Even back then it had faction-aligning, a day/night cycle, procedurally generated side missions, and 7 endings; 5 bad endings, 2 good, one of which becomes cannon. In STALKER there is no leveling up nor any skill tree advancement. You are your equipment. Edit:typo.
@DaGreatGamblino It's a treat if you like RPG and FPS! Imagine if Metal Gear Solid had a baby with Silent Hill who was then raised by Battlefield. Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Skies are the two really good ones. IIRC, Call of Pripyat only took like 6hrs to beat even with all the scripted side missions, not the randomgen ones.
The caldera arou d a volcanic eruption has some magnificently fertile soil but as a human who lived in both hawaii and japan and a while in the Philippinesi can assure you people dont live jn volcanoes nor do they abandon them. If you live near an active volcano you feel it so many times when it does erupt you are caught trying to finish taking a pee or somethjng then you are a memory and statistic.... animals will abandon them thiugh. They leave early
As someone with no friends, I switch off at "PvPVE", "you and a couple of friends...". Give me solid storyline and engaging, well thought out challenges to overcome.
Thats just it, single player games have a immediate wear out date for getting new players. That being said half single player games could incorporate some coo-op that really adds to the longevity of the game and revenue. Probably more people playing and buying the now ancient state of decay 2 than any single player game out there a year old. These games are becoming garbage because theyre trying to bring in everyone with 90 modes and the only people they retain is a small toxic pvp base because the coop,pve and single lone wolfers dont want to deal with them.
I haven't gotten a multi-player game since the Predator asymmetrical multi-player game. And I don't even think I paid for it. I think it was on PS Plus
@@NotLaSimiaI find the cyberpunk thing hilarious. I remember CDPR fanboys joking on Bethesda for F4 and F76. Only for a CDPR game to be even more buggy while being a single player game 😂
We gotta get away from this PvPvE concept in post apocalyptic games. We got quite a few solid ass games in that sub genre for a while and then we just started getting those and it kinda never stopped.
There are a ton of single-player games out there. The videogame genre started with single-player games, lol. You just have to look a little. Depending on your playstyle, Steam has literally thousands to choose from. A bunch of good stuff came out last year (do I even need to mention Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwart's Legacy, and Elden Ring?). Before the corps ruined everything, there were a bunch of greats out there. FPS's, Horror, City/World Builder, 4X, Open World/Explore, Strategy; you name it, they're out there.
@@gameranxTV i want a simple single player open world zombie survival. no forced online co-op. available for consoles. vast real open world. build bases, hunt, craft, fortify malls, gas stations etc, maintain vehicles, hunt, recruit, nemesis system, weather system and proper zombie combat, no blobbed out flesh puddles, no drop kicking zombies. i basically want to be Shane in TWD without the plot. let me look like shane, give me a gun, drop me in a world that looks as good as that and let me create.
@@Qwazaar919 easily fixed by devs just by putting co-op OPTIONAL, but nope, need to be online non-stop because of their shit game design and/or microtransactions to milk as much money as possible.
I can't stress this enough: How hard my eyes fucking roll anytime I hear a sniff of "open world" "online" "with PvP elements" I like PvP I like shooters I like open world Unless I was watching footage of the gameplay or previews I couldn't tell you which was which. Only 3 games sounded different from each other.
Well they would, but Sam Fisher would have to be replaced with transgeycolor person...Batman also has to be translesbian...superman has to be black woman...And defienietly need transbathrooms with tampoon dispensers in every single game...plus we need lots and lots of politics just to make sure people are thinking the correct thought and form correct opinions.
We need a days gone 2. It's kind of a hot take but I think days gone is considerably better than the last of us (especially part 2). I'm not saying that the last of us isn't a great game, but days gone is an under appreciated masterpiece
Quite a number of the games on this video seemed similar to Days gone. Seems a crazy decision not to create a sequel, almost spite, or being wilfully contrary
@@71simonforresterthe original didn't sell well initially mainly due to tepid reviews so although it's picked up steam since the decision was made a long time ago to shelve a sequel fingers crossed it'll happen someday though
I've replayed days gone about 4 times. I love the equipment and the story. He's not a badass, just was lucky. Please give us what we want. I won't buy a single game listed in this video.
As soon as I saw the walking fortress in the desert I immediately went huh someone likes wild wild west, you're not the only one who remembers that gem of a film Jake.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's waiting for a great single player post apocalyptic game. I feel like i complain a lot on this channels comments, but i know what i like and what i want, and 2D games, PvPvE, MMO, and raid games isn't it.
Every time I see these clips from Exekiller, i can't help but notice that the gas station and motel are almost 1.1 copies of the gas station and motel in the outskirts from Cyberpunk 2077. Am I crazy?
Is it crazy to hope that John Carpenter did the music for Toxic Commando? He’s such an iconic composer. The end credits music from Escape From New York is my ringtone.
You completely missed the "spin" in Forever Winter. In that game you are not the hero, you are not the Dragonborn, you are not from Vault 101, you are not participating in the active conflict. You're the rat. Just one of the NPC's in the town of Megaton. There are two warring factions going at it constantly; neither of them cares for you or even know who the f you are, and your goal is to survive by scavenging through the battlefield. They got you beat by miles in fire and manpower and you are not affiliated with anything but their precious loot.
First three entries "Yeah they'll probably suck but we'll see", next entry "Looks interesting, isn't coming out for a long time though", next entry "Yeah...looks okay". BUT DON"T MISS THEM
@@WELDINGWIZARD1 Sky Harvest, a cozy farming game that I have been working on from past year. It was featured by Steam during Farming Fest which subsequently got me an exclusive interview with IGN as well. ☺
The Forever Winter Please watch a dedicated video on this. They give a surface level preview, not hating on that, but these are some of the things to expect. You are at the bottom of the food chain. AI are battling one another, the AI adapts and reacts. Example: You are running along, weaving between cover with only a pistol/nothing. AI soldiers see you and deem you not a threat, they pass on. That same scenario but you have a rifle, they perceive you as a threat and attack. Another example: You are in a sector silenting taking down enemies. The AI WILL notice this and send stronger enemies to hunt down the rogue variable. Another Example: You can happen upon two groups fighting and take one or two off from a distance and they will not notice. If you get greedy they will split resources to find you. I could keep going
And not just that but the AI react to one another, they learn and base strategy off what their opponent does or has done. They will not funnel soldiers in the same way, they will take a different path. They will strengthen their side with elite machines. They(developers) base their idea on "pockets". These pockets are instances of patrols or battles. They move. You can be off in the distance watching a full on slugfest behind a piece of scrap
Maybe I missed it but you didn't even mention the intent behind "The Forever Winter." The idea is that you are not the badass hero. You are not that guy. You are the scavenger. The survivor. The rat, hiding in the shadows, snatching the drops of enemies that you would not stand a chance against on your own. Following twenty steps behind a roaming company of better fighters as they carve a path through the chaos for you to take advantage of. And they don't care that you're there until you prove yourself to be a threat.
Man is it so hard to ask for a post apocalyptic game thats not zombie, magic or mech? Just do a post apocalyptic rpg of 1 town working together with a good narrative story. Seems obvious. Yet no ones doing it.
We need more RTS games like Warcraft and Starcraft but not always online. I got a hold of Empire Earth on GOG and that's one of my favorites because you start in prehistoric times and build your city all the way to the future. So much fun! A game can take all the time you want it to. Age of Empires was another good one and they're releasing Age of Mythology Retold next month.
I love rouge-likes' replayability. The randomly generated rooms, randomly (but usually lightly influenced upgrades) that are bot persistent, with seperate perks that are.... I think we can apply this to a lot more genres than hack & slash games.
I always wanted to try S.T.A.L.K.E.R but i never got around to it, still for me, having a ton of games i want to play is a great problem to have personally, it means there's always something new to play :)
If anyone is on the fence with the stalker console editions, they play great and are just as fun and immersive as the original PC games unmodded and I've been having a blast playing on the ps5.
And for anyone upset about the delays, don't forget one of the main developers of the original Stalker games was Killed In Action in Ukraine defending his home against a senseless Russian invasion.
Once on Blue's Clues, when Steve Burns was ill, Chuck Norris came to the show and disguised like Steve to let the children not know that Chuck Norris was on Blue's Clues. After the episode, Chuck made it through the game without clues. Steve then said "Did you use clues?". Then Chuck Norris took his disguise off and roundhouse kicked Steve in the face without a word. That was 16 years ago.
i am SO TIRED of these new games seeming like cool ideas and settings but just being pvpve like its hard not to see it as someone from the top asking if this game could be online multiplayer somehow to add in battle passes and microtransactions like can we just get normal video games again? i hate it here man...
About Atomfall: Rebellion also does Strange Brigade, and for anyone who hasn't checked that game out, you are doing yourself a dis-service. Visually, it is one of the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous games I've ever seen. It is truly amazing. And a very fun game, too. Since Atomfall is a Rebellion game, it's a guaranteed "YES" from me. Good list, Jake and Gameranx.
I know its not new, but Project Zomboid is having a massive update soon. Alot of new buildings and places and they're updating alot of popular places. It is THE zombie game. Nothing else comes close imo
You might have already heard of it but you might give cataclysm: dda a try. It’s a turn based apocalypse survival that iirc zomboid took some inspiration from.
Yeah dude i agree, it feeds trash! I saw the new cod is up for pre order, had to look and its like number 8 in sales...... Number 8 and its not even done. FFS people stop.
I played the first playtest for Arc Raiders in 2023 and it was pretty fun. Needed more content like traders, quests, etc. but the maps, guns, combat was pretty solid.
The "Forever Winter" game was not done enough justice You are a survivor in a war between 2 factions. There is Rogue AI machines, troops with their own objective and you are in the middle of the battlefield looking for supplies.
Me and my friends discuss this all the time. We concluded that the prefect zombie survival game would have the gameplay, graphics and perspective of Dead Island/Dying Light, the map size and environment variety of a dystopian GTA5 and Skyrim, The RPG and scavenging elements of fallout 4 (including the dialogue options, skill, stats and morality choices), the need for water, sleep, and food, variety and ability to make any and every building a base from supplies and make survivor communities from State Of Decay, the horde events, fun gameplay and chaotic moments of Left 4 Dead, the story immersion of the Last Of Us, the exploration/ large variety of random events/ side quests from RDR2/ Skyrim/ Fallout 4, the gameplay element of being able to send out survivors to do certain errands around the city/countryside from Assassins Creed and an ever changing amount of/ difficulty/concentration/variety of zombies from day to day across the map where certain city districts and sections of the map have “The Swarm” for a day or so-making duties or missions in that area impossible/very difficult for a few days until it moves to another area of the map i.e the AI director in the Left For Dead to encourage replay ability.
Thank God we have post-apocalyptic games on the way... there certainly weren't enough of them. Post-apocalypse to me means "We couldn't think of anything creative, so we just gave up and made dirty people running from zombies".
Some series i get like SOD3 but this has been going on for ever. Every time one developer makes a great game , thats all we get for years. We went through space games, only pvp and other eras where if you werent into it , your done. Now its this.
just one person's opinion, but in a list of "20 upcoming games of x genre", there's no way all 20 are actually going to be "SHOULDN'T MISS" games. A lot of people (possibly the majority) also prefer a 10-minute video to a 20-minute video. And I want to make it clear that I am a Gameranx fan! I love the lists, I love the before-you-buys, I love the Friday news videos and so on and so forth. I just see a 20-minute video and think "do I wanna watch a 20-minute video?" and if I see a too-good-to-be-true title I just pass because I know that maybe only 10 minutes of the video (optimistically) is showing quality games. Quality over quantity, right? Near the top, I see another comment bringing attention to this, so apparently this isn't simply a "me issue". We like Gameranx more than all other publications and it's important that the quality remains more important than pushing a certain length of video at a certain time. I mean, maybe in terms of revenue it isn't actually more important, but if you care about quality it is.
I’d rather have a 20 point list covering more obscure and ow budget entries even if they’re probably gonna be trash rather than short lists of the same old sequels. Broaden my horizons a little lol.
@@johnvalliant261 Fair, but that kind of suggests that the options are either "give me everything, including all the trash" and "only give me the typical stuff". Gameranx can still show obscure goodies with a short list. The title should've just been less specific, like "20 upcoming games" or "20 games we're curious about". The title they gave it made it clear that this would be low-quality clickbait content. Even games they are looking forward to, they will remain "hopeful" or "cautiously optimistic" about, so they are clearly capable of saying things that are actually real. It's also a little frustrating because there may be titles on the list I'd like to know about, but it's not worth sitting through 15 minutes of crap for 2 minutes of something I'll find out about somewhere else anyway.
I want the next Metro game that isn't VR. Imagine going back to Moscow as the savior, fighting off the greater powers. Maybe not as our silent protagonist from past but as his offspring. Growing up hearing the stories of his father and mother, grows up feeling guilty that they waste away in the metro. He grows older and leads a small army, or group, to cause chaos. Utilizing scouts and contacts within the tunnels.
The perfect AAA model: branch up in two entities. 1 - 100% focused on AAA from 0 to release 2- 100% focused on AA games (more, steady revenues) AND support for AAAs (DLCs etc) So that we keep solo experiences as fully fledged AAA in this weird industry 😅
You're immersed in a post-apocalyptic world scavenging for resources, managing your thirst and hunger, counting your bullets and trying to find a safe place to spend the night preferably where you can safely set up a cozy campfire... suddenly, "YoMAMAon4's" crosses your path doing a naruto run shooting at you, killing and teabaging you! boy... such immersion!
Great list! Another title to keep an eye on is Immortal Gates of Pyre. While it’s an RTS, it’s got a unique, gritty vibe that might scratch that post-apocalyptic itch you’re looking for.
SoD3 and Showa America Story are the only ones I'm really interested in. The rest being all FPS (not usually my thing) and/or "looter/shooter", "extraction shooter" or "PvPvE" just turn me right off. A proper MMO, like Ashfall, might be alright, but, for example, as soon as I learned Arc Raiders, which looks really interesting, is an extraction shooter, I was out. Man, give me that world in a SP (w/ optional multiplayer), or even something like The Division, and I'd be all over it!
Metro VR, im sure you already know my thoughts on that. Feel FEAR, FEEL the uncertainty of what you are LOOKING / SEEING at, what you are HEARING. KNOW NOTHING, but know ONE thing, that you are alone, and you, are seeking the TRUTH.
Amen, to all these comments. SIngle player, maybe w some co op, but a nice long campaign! If I had a dollar for every time Jake said "PvPvE" or "Looter" "Tactical", multiplayer, extraction... " I'd be rich by the end of this video. Remember engaging narrative?
The only Gears of War game that I want to see is one where you hunt down and defeat Kate. They hinted that she was the villain in 4 and 5 , but you never get to bring her to justice.
The one thing that keeps me going is, that someday, just like there was a time where multiplayer was scarse, in the future we are going to go back to great single player games.
