>A new co-op experience where you take 3 friends->A new game where you and 2 friends->Grab 3 friends and prepare for->Assemble a squad of friends->Drop in with 4 friends-
>>735038167Games are made for streamers now not you.
I love when my friends pressure me to buy FOTM coop slop just to stop playing a week later.
>>735038167biggest releases this month were re9 and slay the spire 2
>>735038167I hope everyone is ready when in around 4 years a bunch of big AAA studios will release their $200m friendsloplikes all close together.
>>735038358StS2 is now friendslop, sadly
>>735038167anyone else buy a shit ton of co-op games but have no one to play them with?
>>735038420I buy them and also gift them to a friend that I know will be happy to play them with meSo I'm always playing those with at least 1 other person
6 months ago my friends and I had zero co-op games, now we have at least 10 and we still don't know what to play together. I hate this.
>>735038167please think of it from the poor devs viewpoint. if they can get you to rope in a friend or two that's marketing they don't have to do and means free sales for them and more potential for you or your friend to buy a monthly battle pass or use the premium shop which in turn might influence you or your friend to also buy the battle pass or premium items. you have to understand games take a minimum of 7 years and $100,000,000 to make so this is the only way the poor devs can (hopefully) make ends meet after seven day work weeks with minimal pay and time off.
>>735038358Biggest release of 2026 is going to be this>You and 3 friends drop in to a wacky haunted mansion searching for the bathroom and trying not to fart and poop! If you die you respawn as a poop!700k concurrent players on launch you watch
>>735038395>no friendslop Wrong>sadlySeek therapy you friendless loser lmao
>>735038736>more than sts2Delusional
>>735038767Start a lobby then faggot
Has there been any retard outrage more pathetic than calling games ‘friendslop’
>>735038767>>no friendslop >Wrongso you agree with me? stupid phoneposter
>>735038876Would you prefer "streamerbait"?They're practically the same word
my game will be completely playable solo but you will also be able to play it with a friend
>>735038167Why bother making a good game when you could make friendslop that gets defended because it's fun with friends?
>>735038936I would prefer for you to get some friends
that feel
>>735039017You could be my friend anon
>>735038824Hosted but im only on a2>>735038892Probably
>>735038876I assume it's just the latest thing people say "ironically".
>>735039109Oh, you've beaten the last boss?What does that feel like? I bet it feels nice.
>>735039147Its okay but now im stuck and keep failing on a2 because you dont get as much free heals :(I beat it with defect and necro
>>735038167I am 44 years old, married, and have four daughters. I don't have friends ffs! Devs need to stop doing this shit
>Slay the Spire 2>Mewgenics>SilksongThese are the ONLY 3 games that haven't flopped massively within the past 12 months. Everything else has suffered massive financial losses, layoffs, closures, server shutdowns, Twitter account deactivations, just complete devesation. Except for these three $20 single-player indie games. Astonishing.
>>735039345What are you ranting and gay about dude
>>735039345>I'm aware of only 3 games that were released in the last 12 months that /v/ didn't make fun ofYou really should play more games
>>735039345>Mewgenics>$20Bro buys from steam key resellers
>>735039637Are you playing Marathon right nowIs that what this is about
>New co-op / multiplayer game>Has no ingame text chat
>>735038351This is why I stopped talking to them.
>>735040003Of course voice chat only anonThe streamers and YouTubers need to make the funny scream
>>735038167There are enough single-player games for any given genre that already exist that you likely haven't exhausted the genres you like yet
>>735038351It's funny how my entire friend group will listen to any recommendations and weight the pros and cons in discussion about buying games. Everyone except Aaron, like he's the guy who will not shut the fuck up about a game but the second anyone else starts playing he moves on. He's done this so many times to so many people everyone just blatantly ignored all recommendations he gives
I am at work when my friends are home therefore I no longer have friends
>new fighting game looks cool>no one to play it with>new racing game looks cool>no one to play it with>new sports game looks cool>no one to play it with>new arcade game looks cool>no one to play it with>new MMO looks cool>no one to play it with >new RTS looks cool>online dies in 2 weeks>left with no one to play it withGuess I’ll just stick to shooters, action-adventure, and RPGs
>>735038351I thought I was the only one what the fuck.
>>735038167>4 player coop from a large publisher>comes with matchmaking or a lobby search>indie friendslop>have friends or use discord
>>735038167i wish i had friends :(
>>735038392It’s funny how many hero shooters have popped up. And a couple years ago was a bunch of farming games. >>735038296This stings because it even applies to single player games. Look at how Capcom marketed RE9.
>game corps then>Don't record our games! this is our content!>game corps now>stream our games!
>still ‘in contact’ with high school friends thanks to Facebook>used to go out together every week>slowly less and less of them would hang out>weekly hang out changed to monthly, then to quarterly, then to bi-yearly, and now to yearly>facebook chat so dead we don’t even wish each other happy birthday anymore >if/when we do eventually meet I find out none of the have been up to muchI don’t get it man
I don't have friends, I have contacts. And we're sure as shit not wasting our time on bing bing wahoo toys. We're making moves, grinding, and not in a friendslope. This is something you wouldn't understand.Pic related, costs more than your entire steam library :)
The amount of streamers and podcasters the world has is insane. Literally how are they all making a decent living out of this joke of a career? You’d think it’d be completely oversaturated by now.
>>735038351>>735040039I've lost a good portion of my friends over the last 6 or so years because I refuse to go along with the bi-monthly game swaps. Well, lost is a bit of a strong word, we still exist within the same spaces but we don't talk any more. I can't lay all the blame on them, a lot of it lies with the industry and the state it's in today, but it really is frustrating that I can't just sit down and play a game with people for months or even years.
>>735040883How old are you (roughly)
>>735041125Almost 30 :(
I will NOT have a normal oneI will NOT drink the IPAI will NOT touch grassI will NOT interact with normie zogcattleI will NOT play the friendslop
>>735039925Alright my bad>I'm aware of 3 games that were released in the last 12 months, and MarathonGrim...
>>735040883thats better than all of them getting married and having kids while you're still on /v/ getting trolled and not even playing vidya anymore. ;_;
>>735041171Yeah that's about when it happensRelax, it's normal
>41 years old>everyone is playing FRIENDSLOP and it looks so fun>ask my family? nah>ask my coworkers? can't let them know I play vidya>ask my...who else is there?
>>735038167>>735038296>tfw have 3 friends>tfw streamer with 3 friends>probably the happiest I've been playing video gamesYou guys should take the streamerpill. It's not about getting views or any retarded beliefs you'll hit it big. But you get an excuse to make friends and play coop games with everyone in voice chat instead of you playing with mute randoms. If you play coop or competitive games online and you haven't taken the streamerpill yet, you are absolutely missing out.
>>735038296How fucked in the head do you have to be to see "friends" and think "streamers"
>>735038351For me it was Destiny. Everyone swore it was the best game ever and I needed to buy it. And I only ended up playing it with one other person one time.
>>735042056Play PEAK with /v/. There's literally a thread about it every day.
>>735038351This but unironically>pay just $3-$5>get a game that we spend all week playing>goes into the pile as something we occasionally return toIt's one hell of a deal. Granted, you have to be not poor and have friends, which is a super fukken high bar for /v/ to clear
>>735038351got me with lethal company and peak. Played each for all of a couple hours, got bored of the random generation and repetitiveness.
>>735042208He posted a bazzjak, do you REALLY think he's in any way genuine or wanting to play video games?
>>735042096>putting together an entire streamer rig to broadcast to 3 peopleNo thank you
>>735038167literally how I felt with the new Outlast game. I dont even consider outlast properly.
>in a 4chan discord group >my FP in it claims I’m also his favorite friend there >have him on steam but can’t for the life of me get him to play vidya or watch anime with me >he’s always offering to play or watch anime with other people in that group I decided I need to just de-FP him and treat him like any other person in that group in my mind but, Goddamn, my dumb brain is too stupid
>>735042301Hey I just like Bazz ok???
Is L4D now considered friendslop?>Boss, we have a problem.>What is it?>Our AAA live service sales have slowed to a halt>Talk to our boys in marketing>A...actually sir.. they HAVE been working on solving this problem>What's been done?>We did a survey around our office in Seattle>Yuck, I thought I saw human feces on Mel's shoe>we added a lesbian hero with a half-shaved head to our game>Perfect. Go on>it wasn't enough so we added a Vitiligo option>Certainly that helped>no sir. Many of those we surveyed were obese black women, so we added that as an option too>And?>No effect, but the team gave me some bad news.>Whatever it is, I'm sure we...>People are playing extremely low budget, 4 player co op games.>Low budget? Let me see those screen shots...>Yes sir.>What the hell is this.. it looks like a child drew these. Don't they know that the MODERN AUDIENCE wants photorealism?>Actually sir... by our estimates.. their profit margin dwarfs ours by a lot>What is their season pass strategy? Maybe we need to copy...>Sir... They don't have season passes>WHAT?>They... They just sell the game as it is.. no micro transactions... no season passes..>Impossible. I went to the UNIVERSITY OF BUSINESS. I know better. What genre of game is this?>Well sir.. Like I said, it's co-op, they play with their friends and they seem to be enjoying these games quite a lot.>Friends huh? Having a blast, huh? Well I got a message for the boys in marketing. We're starting a new campaign.>What is it, sir?>I call it "Operation Friend-Slop". We will degrade and shame people for having fun with these low-budget so-called "games">Friend slop sir?>Yes, Friend slop. Get all our journalist contacts, every influencer that will still take our money. We will label these games as "Friend slop" because how dare people have fun playing games with their friends>That will bring them back to us. Brilliant sir. I'm on it. I see now why they pay you 35 million dollars a year.
>>735042481FP...?
>>735042585It's a gay person thing where a closet homo singles out one person in the friend group they plan on trying to seduce.
>>735042212Yeah I don't understand the complaint.Oh no they didn't want to play the same game for years on end?What horror.Instead you got to have a good time with friends.Something tells me /v/ is just a bunch of poorfags that thinks 10$ is big boy money.
>>735042096>you just need to do everything in public where random fags can clip your shit out of context and ruin your lifeYeah sounds like a lot of fun, NOT. You'll understand the consequences of your actions when you're older, sweetie.
>>735042570Before friendslop became slop, there was friendkino. Back when playing with friends on the internet (on your home console no less) was new and fun. L4D was friendkino. Then hop on Castle Crashers.What we're experiencing now is not that.
>>735042716>he can't stop himself from screaming nigger into the mic for four whole hoursSounds like a you issue.
>>735042716>slursPeople get in trouble for less important things.
literally not my problem
>>735042747I will never shame games that target having fun with friends, especially when they are free of microtransactions. It's this generation's couch co-op and it makes AAA mad
>>735042212>>735042712It's incredibly simple and straightforward: a lot of /v/ anons have wrapped up their personality and self-worth in painting video games as a challenge that also serves as a measure of character, both in completing them and your adherence to them for ages on end as a fan. The idea of something that's just meant to be played for like, 50-100 hours, is centered on having fun, and is focused on having fun directly clashes with their worldview, and to make matters worse: they rarely ever are able to actually play them due to a lack of friends, so it remains a bitter stick in their craw that they can't play them in the intended way or properly call out why it's shit.It's why they have to resort to strawmanning why people play games, or try to say it's just chalked up to "anything is fun with friends" instead of the mechanics actually leaning into that. It's particularly funny when they try to play in solo and say they can get a measure of the mechanics there, and thus confirm it's shit, but then they clearly can't actually get the full measure since all the tools n' mechanics n' shit are explicitly for multiple people.
>>735038167KONICHIWA DUDE!
>>735043256Ayyy I knew there had to be a couple lunaheads out there in the crowd
>>735043203I think the lack of friends and the autism to make new friends is probably the biggest thing. A large portion of /v/ has probably played Team Fortress 2 or Left 4 Dead or Payday 2. If they were taken in by an extroverted /v/irgin and their friend group who plays those game and they were treated nicely, they would probably choose that over playing with randoms alone. It's just the /v/ can accept that it's hard for them to make friends.
>>735043203>I like friendslopUh huh
>>735044124Yeah I like playing with my friends. That's why they're my friends.
>>735044204Pretty gay dude, I bet they're all trans
Only two of my friends play multi-player games, and they just play all the hero shooters with each other. Otherwise, we all just play our separate singleplayer games and talk about our respective playthroughs.
>/v/ is now full of friend-havers, non-virgins and some of them are even married
>>735042212>>735042712>>735043203lots of verbal diarrhea from a couple of consoomers
>hey anon why aren't you talking in voice chat lol
>>735038167Some of the most fun I've had with new games in recent years (the bar is low!) was with DRG co-op with strangers. You just gotta dip your toes in the water and find out where/how the sweatlords play and where normal people play.
I will watch Japanese women pretending to be anime girls play them, but that's it.
>>735042852>he can't stop himself from screaming nigger into the mic for four whole hoursunfathomably based
>>735038351stop playing it a week later? we don't even get to playing it the FIRST timeat least it's their money and not mine
>>735038351The weird cutoff where co-op games mostly fall into the flavor of the month style is where I lose interest in them.
>>735040982Stay puft fren
>>735038167Games are a social hobby you retarded autist. Make some friends and your hobby will become 20 times more fun.
>>735047161I scream the word nigger randomly as a vibe check irl around my friends to check if they're still based
>>735045541nobody has ever articulated what is wrong with enjoying products
>>735046096Okay but why aren't you?
You guys don't have friends?
>>735048046I'm old. all my friends are dead
>>735048046my friends are either too busy or mentally ill and disappear
