This is still an issue with matchmaking systems intended to keep the game balanced in developer controlled servers though, so I don’t know what the relevance is.
Another name for them would be adversarial multiplayer. But, basically yes. Anything where there would be winners and losers is what I would call a competitive game.
Though others narrow it down further to more high skill adversarial games like Quake and Counter-Strike and League of Legends/DOTA for their professional competitive leagues.
PC, and then whatever the current generation consoles are (assuming they remain just Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft so there are only 3).
Now I have access to every game ever. Mostly on PC due to having a larger back catalogue and through emulation.
If I am not allowed the PC due to it “not being a console” then I will use a modded Xbox instead and still have emulation and the ability to install windows for all those PC games.
I am willing to bet that Microsoft knows damn well how rabid the hardcore COD fans are that they wouldn’t stop producing the game for a certain console, even just to sell more consoles. It wouldn’t be worth it.
It’s so crazy how much I loved Onimusha, but among all the survival horror games that get talked about from that time period, it always seems to be forgotten. Even I forget it, and I still have the stupid katana controller! lol
I was there. I would prefer to go back to that. At least you’d be able to find communities that have the same idea of what makes the game fun. Random matchmaking sucks donkey dick for making friends.
With the non-Steam version of Dwarf Fortress, you could edit the RAWS and make cats a playable race in Adventure Mode. The game simulates cats extremely well. So well, it was actually the cause of a “bug” at one point because the cats will lick themselves clean and would die of alcohol poisoning cleaning spilled liquor off their body after being in the dining halls.
Playing The Sinking City and it’s all relatively themed appropriately… And then I come to the graveyard where I can look at headstones and see “<name> - 3, 2, 1, Respawning in ERROR: CONNECTION RESET”
If I could look at the text I’d do that; that was what I was expecting to find, after all. But these are like 12th century manuscripts that you can’t even view without special access to places like the Vatican and things of that nature because they are extremely delicate. If a PDF or digital copy exists of things like that, I haven’t been able to find any.
Maybe worth it if you’re a scholar but… I’m just a curious guy lol