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| Single Player And Multiplayer Begin To Merge[message #334286]
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Thu, 17 July 2014 15:41 
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 MarutiaOrtia |
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Games traditionally feature both single player and multiplayer as separate entities. With the rise to prominence of PSN and Xbox Live, the two modes have been competing with each other. Underwhelming multiplayer in strong single player experiences and lacking single player gameplay in exciting multiplayer focused games were all too common in recent years.
At last year's E3, there was a clear tide shift in the game industry as the two modes began to harmonize. Destiny, The Division and Watch Dogs offered glimpses into games that acted like MMOs with players in huge connected worlds and raids, but all with the polish and mechanics of a top-tier AAA action game.
While The Division may not end up hitting until 2015, expect to see more and more games that are both announced and released featuring this melding of single player and multiplayer. It's another way to effectively make games "always-online." Do you think that this is the future of games development?
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| Re: Single Player And Multiplayer Begin To Merge[message #334305]
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Fri, 18 July 2014 14:30 
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| Shanga |
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Massive multiplayer nowdays has opened a huge can of worms. The bigger the crowd gets, the more retards get in. By far the worst multiplayer type is the random team one. In the old days of Everquest the "pickup group" was the most desperate and shittiest idea you would have when fighting group instances. If your friends were crap at the game, the pickup group was crappier.
Somehow this made game devs think "hey, lets mix idiots together with good players, this should be fun". Don't know who first came up with this idea, I'd like to shoot him in the face, drive a truck on his head, throw him off a cliff then bitch slap him to death.
Even when crap random teams aren't the case, playing in multiplayer is about the worst experience you can have. Take Fifa... the ammount of quitters and ragers there is immense. And guess what - the devs allow it! Because they can't fucking write a decent code to discern between intentional quitting and disconnects, they let the players deal with frustration.
Statistically, there are way way more idiots in this world than people of decent IQ. And large gaming companies fell in love with this new customer - bad at games, but always ready to pay to get an unfair advantage. So don't be surprised any decent gamer hates the online, with a few exceptions there's nothing out there to like, it's a realm swamped with cretins.
[Updated on: Fri, 18 July 2014 14:31] by Moderator Report message to a moderator
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| Re: Single Player And Multiplayer Begin To Merge[message #334336]
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Fri, 18 July 2014 23:47
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| Shanga |
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Well, the usual crowd of window-lickers isn't even a challenge to beat. They spend their time driving around in circles, drowning in water or simply gazing at their bottom. You can recognize them in any game, especially those involving guns, it's the retard who starts shooting the second the counter reaches 0 and hits every team mate in front of him. Saw them in WoT, they are plenty in Warthunder, even goddamn Robocraft has them. In EQ2 or WoW they're the ones that run around in raids and pull ads that kill entire raid. Or rez when told not to and wipe the raid again. And examples are countless. I some form or shape they infested every online game.
The others, boasting shreds of minimal human IQ, I enjoy to play against or with. Win or lose. But they're rare material.
Maybe I am too old, maybe I am out of fashion too but I actually train and learn about my games, especially online ones. Probably it's why I don't understand the "new gamer".
[Updated on: Fri, 18 July 2014 23:51] by Moderator Report message to a moderator
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| Re: Single Player And Multiplayer Begin To Merge[message #363679 is a reply to message #360405]
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Wed, 15 September 2021 19:40
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| Gopan |
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Registered:June 2016
Location: Norway |
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I love playing single player games. One week ago, i stopped my WoW subscription because of the toxic youth who judge you cause you are still on foot at lvl 40 or using your wand in an instance and such. And that was in Classic, hated retail cause everything is fast, easy and soloable. I remember back when it was a new game, or Star Wars Galaxies, 2003- 2005, everyone was dying to help others. Now they don't even form words, only acronyms, such as hf, gg, tc,gl and other assorted nonsense code that only the kids can understand. What's the rush ? i am 56 years old and laid back by nature, like Static from JA2. So, no more MMO's for me.
Concerning the mix of SP with MP, Splinter Cell Blacklist sucked in the way that some missions had to be done in Co-Op ONLY. But in Wildlands and Breakpoint, you can choose, i still prefer playing solo though.
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| Re: Single Player And Multiplayer Begin To Merge[message #364829 is a reply to message #334288]
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Sat, 27 August 2022 13:10
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| Gopan |
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DepressivesBrot wrote on Thu, 17 July 2014 16:21When I play SP games, I absolutely DO NOT WANT to deal with all the botters, cheaters, afk-ers, flamers, ragers and assorted scum of popular MP games. It's as simple as that.
I wholeheartedly agree. Lots of people, mostly kids or teens, when they buy a game , they go and jump straight to the multiplayer portion.
When i buy a game, first thing i used to do, was read through the manual, cover to cover. The next day, after work, i'd install the game and enjoy it to my heart's content. Only multiplayer i ever played (WoW and Star Wars Galaxies excluded), was the very first Call of Duty, i would do top score, with a sniper rifle no less. That was before everyone played german for the mp-44, which was 100% accurate, even firing from the hip, even firing from the map's other end. Then came the cheaters and i got disgusted.
Splinter Cell Conviction has a lot of things to unlock and some of them are exclusively in the single player campaign.
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