Games Inbox: Single-player games under threat, Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, and inFamous apathy

metro.co.uk:

The Monday letters page thinks there should be more family friendly video games, as one reader doubts there’ll be a F-Zero comeback.

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True to form I love that EA has got themselves into such a mess over their single-player tweet that they had the director of God Of War berating them, not to mention the boss of their own Respawn studio! It’s even funnier given they were trying to be hip with the kids by carrying on a TikTok meme.

I do feel sorry for whatever low level schlub actually wrote the tweet though and how they just automatically connected EA with not liking single-player games. What can you really except given how often EA has talked them down? Even though two of its biggest upcoming games – Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and the Dead Space remake – have no multiplayer at all.

Single-player will always be under threat as long as multiplayer is more profitable but at the moment things seem to be going pretty well. At the moment, my main concern is actually Sony, not EA, and their pivot towards live service games. We’ll see what they’re like but if they turn The Last Of Us multiplayer game into a mess of microtransactions that’ll be quite the comedown from all the critical acclaim they’re getting right now.Gazza

Ask a silly question Full marks to that Nintendo fan that paid £34,000 just to ask a pointless question. He does still have stock in Nintendo though, which is probably going to go up sooner or later, but I’d love to know what he thought they were going to say. Did he imagine they were just going to admit a new game out of the blue? Nintendo, of all companies?!

I guess maybe his idea was just to let them know that there was still interest in the