8 Single-Player Games That Deserve Multi-Player
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Everyone always seems to try making this list, and the answer is always 'nothing'
I'd rather see a list that pondered what multiplayer games had solid enough game mechanics to craft a singleplayer out of.
Personally I'd say if they took Battlefield 1942 and gave it an Operation Flashpoint-like solo campaign it'd be the best thing ever.
I'd rather see a list that pondered what multiplayer games had solid enough game mechanics to craft a singleplayer out of.
Personally I'd say if they took Battlefield 1942 and gave it an Operation Flashpoint-like solo campaign it'd be the best thing ever.
Change some of these from multiplayer to coop and I'll agree a bit more, I'd be into a game where me and a pal got to play as Batman and Robin (although didn't Arkham Origins have a multiplayer?)
Most of these are a bit of a stretch though, seriously you want a Thief multiplayer?
Off topic though, is anyone else getting more and more depressed over the quality of the Escapists articles? Gods I miss Shamus Young and to be honest the only contributors I still care for here is Marter and EDA. *sigh*
Most of these are a bit of a stretch though, seriously you want a Thief multiplayer?
Off topic though, is anyone else getting more and more depressed over the quality of the Escapists articles? Gods I miss Shamus Young and to be honest the only contributors I still care for here is Marter and EDA. *sigh*
Yeah I was thinking something along these lines. Consider these:iseko said:
Your ship has crashed on an alien planet; You and the other survivors have to activate the distress beacon and survive long enough for help to come. Have plenty of secondary 'missions' that the crew can work together on to create weapons, activate various ship systems, or otherwise try to trap/kill the Alien. Basically reverse Evolve.
Or along similar lines, an ARK style game where it's a server with multiple players trying to survive on a world and the server randomly picks one player to be the ultimate hunter. Pop up a server wide "An Alien has spawned" message, anyone involved in bringing the alien down gets bonus experience and maybe special crafting material. And the player that was the alien gets bonus experience based on how powerful the players he killed were.
Or have an all out human vs alien mode a la 'Aliens'. Tight corridors and hot marine vs alien action with secondary winning objectives like 'marines overload the core' or 'aliens get aboard the ship (and spread to earth)'
Lol, I hadn't even considered this but yes, that would be great!Katherine Kerensky said:
I wouldn't mind too much with this is these had more discussion value in them. I get that's not really what the "8 X games that blankety-blanks" is about but this had been an article about how he wanted multiplayer to be in these games or how they'd failed in the past it'd at least be something. There's just no effort in going"Well this is a good single player game, it should have a multiplayer mode in it".Dr. McD said:
I do like Yahtzee, but to be honest I tend to binge watch him more on the escapists youtube channel rather than on this site.
No game deserves the sad fate of having its resources being misused into making yet another pointless and stupid multiplayer mode. Multiplayer isn't something that one should "deserve". It's not something good by default - hell, I'd argue it's not something good at all.
Zelda has had multiplayer games, Four Swords, Four Swords Adventures and Triforce Heroes. They're designed from the ground up as multiplayer games and are very fun. This would not work for a regular Zelda game because that's not how the games are designed.
The rest would all be terrible as MP games, except perhaps Skyrim or Fallout and I'm talking 2 player co-op max. We have enough issues with shit MP components being shoehorned into games as it is, stop feeding the issue.
The rest would all be terrible as MP games, except perhaps Skyrim or Fallout and I'm talking 2 player co-op max. We have enough issues with shit MP components being shoehorned into games as it is, stop feeding the issue.
It did. It was....oh god it was awful. 2 people played a very clunky version of Batman and Robin, everyone else got to be two teams of mooks who controlled like amateur hour does gears of war by way of student project with some of the worst 3rd person controls I have ever encountered. Resident Evils tank controls are more fluid. Which, when you have ninja batman and robin flitting about you, does not go well.TrulyBritish said:
It wasn't even Skyrim, that was the problem. It came off more as "generic MMORPG set in Mundus."Zontar said:
Yes, because what my Skyrim experience needed was people slaughtering vendors and teabagging them while I try to offload my bandit hideout loots.hermes said:
Complete Whole hearted agreement.canadamus_prime said:
Except Zelda, Which already had multiplayer games. And they were pretty good.
This is a dumb list.
Elder Scrolls/Fallout games wouldn't work with multiplayer in my mind because the whole point of the game is having the freedom to do what you want to the world. What to steal every chicken in the land? You can do it. As soon as you add another player though, you reduce that freedom because you have to take into account what the other player wants or is going to do.
Putting multiplayer into the Batman games is pretty terrible, the game works because every enemy is an idiot, add in human players and all they have to do is stick together and concentrate fire, the person playing Batman is screwed. Co-op could work but who decides what mission to do and when?
Not to mention how the controls (of a game not on the list I admit) of Dragon Age: Inquisition were butchered in order to make the combat in multiplayer easier.
Putting multiplayer into the Batman games is pretty terrible, the game works because every enemy is an idiot, add in human players and all they have to do is stick together and concentrate fire, the person playing Batman is screwed. Co-op could work but who decides what mission to do and when?
Not to mention how the controls (of a game not on the list I admit) of Dragon Age: Inquisition were butchered in order to make the combat in multiplayer easier.
For about half the games you listed, there is already a multiplayer equivalent.
The rest would not, in any way, benefit from multiplayer. Hell, none of the games on this list would benefit from multiplayer. All of them are designed around the singleplayer gameplay aspect.
The rest would not, in any way, benefit from multiplayer. Hell, none of the games on this list would benefit from multiplayer. All of them are designed around the singleplayer gameplay aspect.
Mad Max would've benefitted from the option for 4-player co-op. I really enjoy both the hand-to-hand brawling, and the vehicle fights in that game, and both aspects would lend themselves nicely to playing with a few friends if the enemies' difficulty and quantities were ramped up.