What the hell.
No, what the fuck.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and likes or dislikes but I simply do NOT understand the almost universal hate for DS3.
DS 1 & 2 are some of my favorite games of this gen, more so for their survival horror attributes and audio design than anything else. I started DS3 expecting to be MISERABLE and OMFG MASS EFFECT SPACE OF DUTY DUDE BRO CO OP...and what I got instead...was Dead Space.
Wtf.
YES it isn't as scary and YES it does have more action sequences and YES there are areas that are locked behind co-op walls and that absolutely fucking blows but...its still dead space. You are never FORCED to co op, EVER. I played most of the game on my own and that feeling of dread and overwhelming isolation is still there. The voice acting was on point, the terror is still there and by all accounts the fact that you do end up facing A GREAT DEAL more enemies at once makes things all the more difficult.
And the game has Kain...KAIN. How can you hate?
Games don't exist in a vacuum. We've had multiple examples of games where the single player experience was impacted by the inclusion of co op and we've had games where the single player campaigns apparently were just glorified tutorials to lead you to the multiplayer, which was the feature that was advertised first and heavily.
It's good if what Visceral told us about the single player game was true, but you can't blame people of being sceptical when they've been burned in the past.
Even if co op or multiplayer is your biggest new feature - if you still have a good, full single player experience, then talk about that first if that's what made your games great in the past. I don't like the way they're marketing games like DS3 or the new God of War to me. As a result I won't buy them at launch.
I'm glad if the franchise is alive though.