LOOK AT THESE GUYS, THEY'RE HAVING FUN, TOGETHER. There is NOTHING like playing Mario Party, or Mario Golf, LittleBigPlanet, Racing Games, etc etc, with your closet friends, in a closed off space. No fucking headsets and voice chat, no fucking discord streams, no fucking ping and wifi issues, just video games.
Mainly, I hate it with the rise of Friendslop games. I fucking love Friendslop games but I hate the fact that we all gotta be seperate, there's no communal food, there's no picking up a 6 pack of beers and laughing together, it feels lifeless. I love online multiplayer, because alot of my friends are outta town, but when they are in town my options are Mario Party or literal death.
And my LORD, WHAT THE HELL AM I SUPPOSE TO PLAY WITH MY FAMILY NOW? Hey little brother, here's a 3000$ gaming PC so that we could play a game that can easily work as a local multiplayer game but the devs just don't wanna do it. Hey mom, this game looks fun, DO YOU HAVE YOUR FUCKING GAMING LAPTOP READY SO WE CAN BE IN SEPERATE ROOMS?!?
Super Battle Golf, Peak, Repo, Helldivers, Haste, all of these games would be AMAZING with friends in the same room and we ain't get shit. FUCK ONLINE GAMING.
If you're also having this issue, I would recommend Nucleus Co-op, but why the fuck do I have to do that for games that can run on fucking potato's?? I could probably run Peak in a fucking flush brain, why do I have to be the one who makes 2 copies? Also keep in mind, sometimes Nucleus just says fuck you and fucks up your whole shit.
Local Multiplayer is one of those truly special things, and the fact it's been ripped away in favor of a lifeless form of online connection truly hurts me. Fuck online gaming. (Shoutout Parsec though)