Borderlands<\/em> games offers local play on consoles as well. The scene isn’t thriving, necessarily, but it is surviving.<\/p> All of these games also have online offerings, and that’s a great thing. Not everybody lives near the people they want to spelunk with, and I will always advocate for better online options. But all of these games also recognize that there is a good reason for players to want to be near each other physically. Video games can be an isolating hobby, but they also have the capacity, as a medium, to force people together. I wish more games took advantage of that inherent strength of the format, but for now, I’m simply glad that there’s still space for that kind of game somewhere.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":840,"featured_media":367781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[468,596,19133,1858,109,437,22006,19546],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":840,"display_name":"Sorrel Kerr-Jung","user_login":"Sorrel Kerr-Jung","user_nicename":"sorrel-kerr-jung"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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