Stolen from myself 6 months ago at https://lemmyverse.link/lemmy.zip/post/35616522

I know I remember seeing some people talk about how nice some of the environments in Hitman were, and that they’d just walk around as a tourist from time to time, treating it like a walking simulator/virtual tourism thing instead of the stealth assassination game it is. Curious about other things like that, where you play a game totally differently than it was meant to be played.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    12 days ago

    Many computers have enough spare compute power to run the server in addition to the game all on the same system.

    I know I’m coming from a position of privilege because I was playing it on a 5950X with 64 gigs of RAM and a 3090, but even so, like it barely even broke a sweat.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      11 days ago

      Many games that have multiplayer and singleplayer options run singleplayer by hosting a server and then joining it.

      • LowtierComputer@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 days ago

        And then you’ve got the new Battlefield 6 which requires you to wait your turn to connect to their remote server so you can pay the Singleplayer campaign.