Comments on: Single Player Games Are Dead

Comments on: Single Player Games Are Dead http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/ Just another Lockergnome weblog Fri, 25 Jul 2008 23:47:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: OMG! Tabula Rasa is dead! | crown.MONKEY http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-1624 OMG! Tabula Rasa is dead! | crown.MONKEY Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:19:39 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-1624 [...] almost like we’ve heard it before in various contexts. PC Gaming is dead! MMOs are dead! Single-player games are dead! Dumbledore is dead! Whoops. Sorry about that last one, it just slipped [...] […] almost like we’ve heard it before in various contexts. PC Gaming is dead! MMOs are dead! Single-player games are dead! Dumbledore is dead! Whoops. Sorry about that last one, it just slipped […]

]]> By: Brandon http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-941 Brandon Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:34:23 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-941 I have to vehemently disagree. Sure, you have a point in saying that multiplayer games (Halo, Call of Duty, WoW) have revolutionized the way that people play games, but those games simply cannot reproduce in the same fashion, the feelings and emotions that are present when playing a well written, well developed single player game, such as Mass Effect, any number of JRPGs, or even the single player storyline of Halo. Yes, the multiplayer dynamics of MP Halo, and WoW are unmatched by any single player game.... but when have you seen a strictly multiplayer game (WoW), or the MP component of a game (Halo), evoke a strong emotional experience akin to a great story in a SP game? It can't be matched, or rather, I have yet to see that, though there may be something out there that I'm missing or have yet to come across. Until every game comes with a great coop mode (Halo, Gears of War), I would hardly say that single player games are dead. There's more to gaming than trash talk, fragging, and teabagging; and that is hardly dead. I have to vehemently disagree. Sure, you have a point in saying that multiplayer games (Halo, Call of Duty, WoW) have revolutionized the way that people play games, but those games simply cannot reproduce in the same fashion, the feelings and emotions that are present when playing a well written, well developed single player game, such as Mass Effect, any number of JRPGs, or even the single player storyline of Halo.

Yes, the multiplayer dynamics of MP Halo, and WoW are unmatched by any single player game…. but when have you seen a strictly multiplayer game (WoW), or the MP component of a game (Halo), evoke a strong emotional experience akin to a great story in a SP game? It can’t be matched, or rather, I have yet to see that, though there may be something out there that I’m missing or have yet to come across.

Until every game comes with a great coop mode (Halo, Gears of War), I would hardly say that single player games are dead. There’s more to gaming than trash talk, fragging, and teabagging; and that is hardly dead.

]]> By: Bryan Thomas http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-937 Bryan Thomas Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:22:51 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-937 I agree with you completely. Unless the single player game is amazing with crazy features no one will ever play. I agree with you completely. Unless the single player game is amazing with crazy features no one will ever play.

]]> By: Agarath http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-935 Agarath Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:11:15 +0000 http://www.lockergnome.com/oztech/2008/04/06/single-player-games-are-dead/#comment-935 I'm an older gamer, and I tend to disagree. For me at least the single person game sells the multiplayer game, and more often than not, with the amount of "additional" stuff that you have to install to play a mulitplayer game, (steam, punk buster, etc) I flat out refuse to play a game that demands that I install gamespy or more crap. Maybe I am getting old and stogy, but I won't bother with a game that doesn't at least let me try it out single person. I can't be bothered. I’m an older gamer, and I tend to disagree. For me at least the single person game sells the multiplayer game, and more often than not, with the amount of “additional” stuff that you have to install to play a mulitplayer game, (steam, punk buster, etc) I flat out refuse to play a game that demands that I install gamespy or more crap.

Maybe I am getting old and stogy, but I won’t bother with a game that doesn’t at least let me try it out single person. I can’t be bothered.

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