"Having recently purchased a new gaming laptop, my very first task was obviously to start loading it up with a plethora of games that, until then, I had only dreamed of playing. As I set about building my new PC game collection, a strange phenomenon started forming in front of me. I began to notice that all the games I was downloading were either online games, MMO’s, or single-player games that required a gaming “hub” such as Steam or Origin."
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There are less SP only games this generation but they will never die out...
All were dying games?
Ummmmm i dont think so.
that's just a minor few.
They are shooting their own heads this way.
in the long run these things will effect gaming very badly
HELL NO!
Day Z, Firefall, The Last of us, Uncharted, Dead space, Mass Effect, Skyrim, STALKER Series, Metro Series, Far Cry 3, Arma Series, Portal, any RPG, etc. etc. etc.
Plenty of great Single player games to enjoy on the horizon.
Even with the switch to Online gaming you can still enjoy great SP Games like Diablo III!
Crap journalism....... I wish that was dying.
I want to be left alone most times to game and escape into the game world. Dead Space and Mass Effect were great examples of this.
as i do with a lot of games.
Well said gentlemen.
MP games have NO STORY!
Hate it!
More poeple play games every year. So yes, there are more poeple who like multiplayer games now. That doesn't mean gamers don't like the single player experience Things will change only if people change. If you still want single player games to exist, then keeping spending $$$ on them. It's the only thing publishers care about rihgt?
As an aging gamer I have to live with the fact there's no way I'll be able to compete with the rest of multiplayers out there regardless of the pay to win scheme they are putting up. I've seen how I performed in BF3 and having Premium players killing me with guns that I haven't purchased yet is like having salt shove into an already festering wound. I could stop torturing myself and enjoy the singleplayer campaigns but with the gaming industry slow but obvious shift towards online, social or F2P games...where else can I go? There are tons of RPGs that still offer hours of story but Diablo 3 had shown that you can have a RPG campaign online without rebranding yourself as an MMO. How long that's (RPG's singleplayer, offline campaign) going to last when there's temptation are all around to go F2P?
Age of Empire, Diablo, Mech Warrior. I've abandoned these classic titles thanks to their shift toward F2P. No, I refuse to play a singleplayer game that requires me to monitor my ping or find a server near my region or requires me to buy stuff with real money in order to move on to the next level.
Its a sad future.
Also if you look at the games that were considered to be the most plausible GOTY games last year, they all were games with fantastic single player campaigns (Skyrim, Batman: AC, U3, Gears 3, LoZ: SS). Two of those games have MP, but I personally don't care about MP especially in shooters, because I find it very repetitive and boring in the long run. With the exceptions of co-op story play such as in Borderlands of course.
Not to mention a long list of other recent and upcoming games which either are SP only or are bought by most players for their SP: Deus Ex: Human Revolution, L.A. Noire, Darksiders 2, Beyond: Two Souls, InFamous 2, Assassin's Creed 3, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, The Last Guardian, GTA V, God of War: Ascension, Final Fantasy versus XIII, Final Fantasy XIII-2, Hitman: Absolution, Bioshock: Infinite, Dishonored, Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, Spec Ops: The Line, Tomb Raider, Prototype 2, Mass Effect 3, Asura's Wrath, Dark Souls, Dead Space 2 and the list goes on and on and on.
The question is ridiculous because the answer is obvious: no, single player games are not going anywhere.
That's probably why I love Borderlands so much.
I would never want people "inside" my Skyrim.
Just seems to personal
idk
Dark/Demon's Souls
Journey
Borderlands
So its a bit more balanced now
online FPS is awesome as hell.
but It could never ever add up to the fun I have with my single player games skyrim, SR2, Fallout3
single player games are this personal treasure
damn that sounded gay hahaha
There will always be people wanting to tell a story, there will always be people wanting to play a story. Sometimes its about creating your own fun, and others its about a developer showing you a good time.
Single player will never die...the game industry, just like electronics, fashion, cars, and stupid catchy sayings, go in cycles...it will become the focus again in time.
Like Jean jackets and Daisy dukes...ok, maybe not the jackets...
Some single player campaigns are far better than the casual Call of Duty MP tacked on to boost its sales.
Bring back the days when video games were the past time of socially inept nerds. For some of us video game cartridges/game discs are our only friends.
Single player campaigns used to be so much better in most video games.
Rayman Origins has shown that there was an appetite for 2D platformers.
I think that there would be an appetite for a 3D platformer. No guns or grittiness. No sci-fi plot. No 'attitude'. Little or no characterisation. No trying to make a movie. Think like the first Banjo Kazooie game.
nothings wrong w/ multiplayer just dont shoehorn it in ala
dead space/bioshock
demon's and dark souls are how mp should be done - not compromising the single player experience
Currently the gaming industry needs new single player only ip's. Co-Op is a nice feature but look at ME3's multiplayer.
The game attracted alot of casuals, people which never even played the previous parts and kept whining about the ending.