So! You’re probably wondering why, and I have two words for you: Versus Mode. I’m not alone either! Beyond the eight or so close friends I play with regularly, it’s averaging around 20 thousand concurrents per day as of late, making it a firm fixture in Steam’s top 100 most-played games. If you ignore my foolish teenage dalliance with DOTA 2, the most-played game in my Steam library is Left 4 Dead 2, a game that came out in 2009, and one that I’m still playing multiple times a week, eleven years later. The thing is though, I’m a total hypocrite.
I just don’t tend to replay old games, unless they come back as proper remakes, like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2.
As a youngster, I loved Bioware’s space opera RPG series, but there was no way I could bring myself to play through those games again. Approaching the launch of Mass Effect Legendary Edition, I had a revealing internal dialogue.
