Richard Bailey of TheKoalition.com writes:
Yesterday, we wrote up an opinionated editorial on five 2013 games that we feel will be ruined by multiplayer. While it may have seemed silly to come up with these accusations outright, we already had in mind a few past examples that support our theories on why this feature isn’t necessarily needed for every video game out today. Without further ado, I now present to you our list on four current gen games that were ruined by multiplayer.
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"The quality gap between Uncharted 1 and 2 is astounding, but Uncharted 3 felt like more of the same in a lot of ways."
That is like AC1 and AC2 and AC:B. The jump was so big between 1 and 2 that B seems not as good because it isn't the momumental jump but that kind of jump is a tall ask for any game series. I think AC:B was the best in the franchise because it was AC2 but more. Which is why I am using it as an example for Uncharted. I think 3 was the better game because it was U2 but the story tried to do something completely different (and in my opinion it worked)
Spec Ops the line multiplayer wasn't bad. It just was a poler opposite to the single player game. It just didn't fit with the game at all and I am not sure multiplayer would fit with the theme it ran with
You are scrapping the barrel obviously . GTA and UC3 didnt suffer one bit in the sp modes because of the multiplayer .
And it's highly open to debates that ME3's issues were caused by the mp . And by most accounts it's a great mp anyway .
The irony is that you might have been left with still a sp you dont like (if you are among the dissatisfied) AND yet without the good Mp to make it less sour
San Adreas all the way.
Not everyone think that to begin with , and even if true ,it's a matter of focus and style of gameplay and plot decisions , not the inclusion of mp .
How is it bad?
I love playing U3 with my good friends - and friends across the pond for that matter.
Touching what you said about AC:B I guess it's a love/hate thing. I personally preferred AC2 due to it's groundbreaking features but AC:B was a great game. I liked the trainees, horse freedom, new moves and revenue from my buildings. Looking back, it was slightly below AC2 in my opinion because the environments weren't as varied.
yeah i will trust their opinion ...NOT
I had a great time finishing Spec Ops and it never occurred to me there was a MP, so that didn't change anything from my pov.
Mass Effect 3 multiplayer is the best of that style I've come across, with a ton of support throughout the months with packs, classes. SP was still great to me.
GTA4 multiplayer is ape shit crazy, great inclusion to a good game.
I guess I disagree, to each his own.
The way they developed the game was different from 2 and it really showed and felt like it. Don't get me wrong I loved 3 but 2 was superior.
I remember reading about the team creating the levels and then building the game/story around it, instead of creating the story and then building the levels to cater for it like in 2. It felt very detached.
Spec Ops is still one of my favorite game I had the chance to play last year, and while I didn't play the MP a whole lot, I don't think the game would have been any better whitout it.
The only two reasons I can see where multiplayer would "ruin" a game, is when a single player franchise goes co-op/MP oriented (like the Resident Evil series, although I'm more of a fan of the newer games in the series as I love the co-op experience) or when a game is made with limited resources and the multiplayer is taking away some of these from the campaign.
Adding a multiplayer component to a great single player game in itself won't ruin a game. If you don't like it, just don't play the MP, and let those who enjoy it play it.
I loved Uncharted 3 and only ever SP'd.
Mass Effect 3 also did not suffer from a MP component.
Both of them have decent MP and also have decent Single Players. Just because UC3 was not as big of a jump as UC2 and just because ME3 had a really terrible ending, doesn't mean they have bad single players.
And I didn't play multiplayer on any of them. The single player campaign was superb on all three games (yeah, ME3 too, regardless of your opinion about the ending).
Multiplayer didn't ruin any of those games. Granted, I found it VERY annoying to see that my Galactic Readiness rating was always at 50% on my ME3 playthrough, despite me doing all the side quests I found and upgrading as much as I could... just because I didn't play the online part. But that didn't ruin the game for me.
On the other two games, though, I didn't see the multiplayer interfering with the actual game at all. I like Uncharted 3 as much as I liked Uncharted 2. It was a bummer that it was a shorter game, but it had more epic moments. :P
Consumers are getting something for free and they complain. SMH. Patcher has a point that sometimes gamers just want to cry and whine over nothing
That being said, I didn't play the multiplayer portions of any of the games listed. As an option, I don't mind it being included, and we might as well get used to it.