Comments on: Platinum Games, Vanquish & What? No Mulitplayer! http://thegamershub.net/2010/07/platinum-games-vanquish-what-no-mulitplayer/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LukieDisco http://thegamershub.net/2010/07/platinum-games-vanquish-what-no-mulitplayer/comment-page-1/#comment-3109 LukieDisco Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:42:12 +0000 http://thegamershub.co.uk/?p=8826#comment-3109 Informative article and a bit of a 'stop and think', scratch your head affair as if I am honest I would have to agree and say that unless the content and quality mirrors what the core single player game can achieve, why bother? As much as I love a strong and well thought out multiplayer gaming option and enjoying the social aspect of a great game with online buddies ( Gears, COD, Forza, PGR all nailed this format to name but a select few ) it may well have put me off shelling out my hard earned for games that could have jumped on the bandwagon such as DMC, Darkstalkers, Alan Wake, POP etc. To my point, I loved the original Dead Space and the mere thought of Dead Space 2 being an online experience has filled me with dread at this stage as I always feel when I hear news like this that the new experience, although may be adequate will never mirror the original painstakingly crafted single player campaign ( it just widens the target market )! Budgets are a tough thing to balance and games go one way or the other so it's rare finding a game these days with 10/10 single and multiplayer aspects. I'd like to see a true focus in one area or the other and then at least the gamer will know enough before purchase to make their own decision on what element of that game is more important to them. The future would be financially very bright if developers released single player games and then released DLC for multiplayer ( or vice versa ) to keep everyone happy. One last point, I am a huge Achievement collector and so do I want to spend £40 and only achieve circa 50% of the achievements when I can buy a single player game and have them all to myself ;o) Happy game playing to all, however you enjoy your pixels! Informative article and a bit of a ‘stop and think’, scratch your head affair as if I am honest I would have to agree and say that unless the content and quality mirrors what the core single player game can achieve, why bother? As much as I love a strong and well thought out multiplayer gaming option and enjoying the social aspect of a great game with online buddies ( Gears, COD, Forza, PGR all nailed this format to name but a select few ) it may well have put me off shelling out my hard earned for games that could have jumped on the bandwagon such as DMC, Darkstalkers, Alan Wake, POP etc. To my point, I loved the original Dead Space and the mere thought of Dead Space 2 being an online experience has filled me with dread at this stage as I always feel when I hear news like this that the new experience, although may be adequate will never mirror the original painstakingly crafted single player campaign ( it just widens the target market )! Budgets are a tough thing to balance and games go one way or the other so it’s rare finding a game these days with 10/10 single and multiplayer aspects. I’d like to see a true focus in one area or the other and then at least the gamer will know enough before purchase to make their own decision on what element of that game is more important to them. The future would be financially very bright if developers released single player games and then released DLC for multiplayer ( or vice versa ) to keep everyone happy. One last point, I am a huge Achievement collector and so do I want to spend £40 and only achieve circa 50% of the achievements when I can buy a single player game and have them all to myself ;o) Happy game playing to all, however you enjoy your pixels!

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]]> By: Frost http://thegamershub.net/2010/07/platinum-games-vanquish-what-no-mulitplayer/comment-page-1/#comment-3087 Frost Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:50:19 +0000 http://thegamershub.co.uk/?p=8826#comment-3087 Interesting article, of course there are exceptions to the rule - Halo 3 comes to mind here. Halo 3's campaign, in my opinion, was sufficiently long enough while still having one of the best multiplayer experiences ever. On the flip side there are games like Heavy Rain and games with more of an RPG flavour that don't lend themselves to having multiplayer very well if at all. So these games are really by an unwrittten rule required to have a longer lasting campaign than games with multiplayer. My final point is does coop count as multiplayer? In my opinion - no, it doesn't. As it is in essence the campaign but with a friend. Laters! : ) Interesting article, of course there are exceptions to the rule – Halo 3 comes to mind here. Halo 3′s campaign, in my opinion, was sufficiently long enough while still having one of the best multiplayer experiences ever. On the flip side there are games like Heavy Rain and games with more of an RPG flavour that don’t lend themselves to having multiplayer very well if at all. So these games are really by an unwrittten rule required to have a longer lasting campaign than games with multiplayer. My final point is does coop count as multiplayer? In my opinion – no, it doesn’t. As it is in essence the campaign but with a friend. Laters! : )

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