Games are jumping on the multiplayer bandwagon but is this necessarily a good thing? I want to know what the community thinks.
There are a number of issues that arise whenever games decide to announce early so let's go over some of them to find out why this is a bad practice.
To be honest I'd rather know stuff is in the works but other ppl throw fits over it so it's whatever
I'd rather they announce a game when it's like 3 months away. Quick little advertising campaign, round of interviews, gameplay deep dive, and a launch trailer. That's all you need. Cheaper marketing rather than wasting resources trying to maintain hype over like 4 years.
Also, it's more likely that people will be hyped up and make an impulse purchase, or a preorder if the release date is announced.
Not announcing too early also contributes to better work environment. I’m in IT and there’s just too many crunch happened because some higher ups set a hard deadline way too early down the line.
Yeah. Fallout 4 announcement was great. Announced during the summer and it came out fall of the same year.
The same thing happened with Witchbrook, its been multiple years and nothing. No updates at all, really. It's nice to know something is coming, but waiting for 5+ years for info isn't really fun
Ikr I agree tho, in the ps360 era games were shown in trailers and they'd release within a couple months, plus cutscene trailers are so days of the old I don't get hyped off of that, they used to show gameplay footage, screenshots in the game informer magazines they had confidence back then creativity was at a all time high folks weren't copying souls games like that or call of duty, nowadays we get shhi like 2023/2024 trailer with a damn fall 2026 type of release day like really bruh tf by time that come out yall sure ya gone get sales from folks who been waiting that long, that's a huge risk doing that cause people lose interest
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Uncharted 2 is a perfect example of how to add a fun unique multiplayer while not getting in the way of the single players development
However...
Uncharted 3 is a perfect example of how not to go over board with your multiplayer when doing a sequel. They added "COD" like changes....sorry I mean everyother multiplayer changes and it ended up not being as fun as Uncharted 2. It's become an unbalanced mess. I think U2 was more fun since it was just your skill and your two boosters...nothing more, nothing less.
^ Agreed completely with Mike
Uncharted 2 is a rare exception of a game where multiplayer was built fantastically, and Uncharted 3 was an example of them adding too much.
That said, Uncharted is the only series which I cannot imagine without the Multiplayer, and I think everything else has been a lazy effort to try and cash in on the multiplayer scene.
Bioshock, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, all highly rated single player games that added a multiplayer component that never truly shines and sustains. I feel God of War will be similar, but I am intrigued when I hear small comparisons to Power Stone, and as a huge fan of Power Stone, I have become more interested in following Ascension.
MP games are just becoming unbalanced messes. Overloading the game with perks, classes, weapon addons, kill streaks, death streaks. Its worse than the blue turtle shell. Mario Kart is actually LESS random than modern shooter MP. While i don't want games to be as simple as quake and UT3, i do want skill to make a comeback in multiplayer. watching an XP bar go up and earning red dot scopes doesn't keep me interested. Learning the maps, perfect weapon combos, weapon placement, choke points, and skill keeps me playing good MP games. We like to play games afterall. Why not play for the fun of playing rather than for the next rank up.
Also the whole "60 dollars for 500 hour skyrim, vs 60 dollars of 10 hour God of War" is ridiculous. Lets just compare the endless lollygagging of Minecraft to Uncharted next. Skyrim is a slow paced game designed to let you get what you want out of it. I could personally only stomach the main quest, everything else was useless. Uncharted 2 on the other hand was an excellently made campaign with great combat, pacing, story, and visuals. Both worth 60 dollars for different reasons. Do you really want to hack n' slash on god of war for 500 hours? The time-for-money argument is lame. Some games are great, long, and drawn out. Some are great exciting 10 hour campaigns.
I know I'm in the minority on this, but I really liked U3's multiplayer -- I didn't expect to, but I ended up getting 20 or so hours out of it.
But that's the exception. I honestly can't think of any other franchise that a) started out as SP-only, b) added a multiplayer mode to a subsequent entry in the franchise, and c) said online mode not sucking. I'm sure there are others that I'm unaware of, but they sure as hell aren't Bioshock, Dead Space, or Mass Effect.