Adding multiplayer would "dilute" Wolfenstein's storytelling

MachineGames' Tommy Tordsson Bjork on the benefits of single-player focus to "pushing the boundaries" in The New Colossus.

[UCForce]

Now that's awesome, MachineGame.

[mafiahajeri]

The game feels like a much better COD but I see why they made their choice.

[gantarat]

mostly single/mutiplayer have seperate budget and made by different team (if game suppose to have both mode in original plan)

if game made for pure single mode only but for some reason publisher want add mutiplayer later that mean developer need cut some budget and people from single mode to make it (which is not good)

[ninsigma]

That's good. The first was awesome with great gameplay and campaign (the DLC was also very good) so I'm glad they only focused on that for the sequal. However, I do believe the gameplay would be really fun in an MP setting so it would be fairly welcome if they made a separate MP mode when finished with 2.

[Zeke68]

They wont, they already stated they will start on the 3d and final (?) part of this trilogy. :)

[ninsigma]

That's fine by me 😁

[The_KELRaTH]

Yeah just look how RTCW was watered down. It was terrible the way so many enjoyed playing the multiplayer and created 1000's of maps

[Kleptic]

Not sure I get your point, though.

RTCW's multiplayer was great, one of my all time favorites...but the single player was forgettable. You could argue exactly what the developer is talking about.

It's also important to note that RTCW came out with a class based mp that was very 'new' at the time. It didn't invent it, but balanced and structured it to an extremely high level. The genre is flooded with that kind of mp, now.

[The_KELRaTH]

I really enjoyed the single player and have replayed it a number of times. The mp was fantastic and I created quite a few maps for it at the time. Its the missing user created content thats the true failure.
One thing we dont see a great deal of nowadays is the Assault style mp which I believe was 1st seen in Unreal Tournament 99.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Not every game needs it. Especially one as fulfilling and fantastic as 'The New' Wolfenstein series.

[C-H-E-F]

Why do games focus on having BOTH multiplayer AND single player at launch? If you want to do MP, but the game is a SP core. Focus your heart and soul on the element that matters. After the game launches if you have the resources focus it on the MP experience. But throughout the whole development, have a small team of like 5 people working on the MP component so you aren't set back after the game drops.

Although the single player isn't the greatest, look at Ghost Recon and they did have a MP element (co-op), they didn't have PVP, spent what like 8 months? now they have PVP in the game.

Games are living things now, all it takes is an update and boosh it can bring it back to life, we've seen this with Socom so many times.

[The_KELRaTH]

I would suggest it was to give value. You played the SP which maybe would last 20 hrs or so then played the mp which used to keep ppl playing for a few years or more.
The great thing was there was always new map content every day.

[yeahright2]

awesome news.

[andrewsquall]

It sure would. I also wouldn't be buying it at all if it were a 3 hour tacked on DICE campaign where its sole purpose is to use footage from it for the trailers.

[DafunkyRebel]

I just want to Nazis, single player or MP doesn't matter