Single Player Games Are Dead
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Yes, I said it! Games that you play on your own are dead. You are witnessing a switch in the gaming world to everything becoming multi-player. Muti-player games add such a new experience to gaming that soon nobody will want to play games by themselves anymore.
When games like Pac-Man first came out, they were mainly 1 player. You could play 2 players and switch off when you lose a man, but hardly anybody did this. Then later games like Double Dragon and Rampage came out where you could play with multiple players simultaneously. Arcades later made a comeback based on the competition of mutliplayer games in the mid 1990’s such as Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter 2.
With the Internet, you can play with thousands of other players. The dynamic that Halo 3 and World of Warcraft bring to your PC is unmatched by any single player game. The Wii is popular because it is mainly a party system that involves multiple players in your living room. This is the future. Soon games like Metal Gear will need to have some type of multi-player capability added to future releases or franchises like this will simply die.
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Agarath
April 6th, 2008
at 12:11pm
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.
Bryan Thomas
April 6th, 2008
at 5:22pm
I agree with you completely. Unless the single player game is amazing with crazy features no one will ever play.
Brandon
April 7th, 2008
at 10:34am
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.
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