Newell: Valve to Replace Single-Player With "Single-Player Plus"

[BeerTent]

Jesus Christ you people, get your head of your collective asses. Gabe isn't saying that he'll force Facebook and IM and Twiiter down your throat while you play single-player. Read the story again, and this time, carefully. He is merely using Facebook as a point by saying that most people nowadays are integrated into these social sites. That's a fucking given. People like social integration, and Valve wants to find ways to bring to the table but still deliver single-player experiences. How the hell did anybody here get that Facebook was going to shoved in your face while you play Valve games? Nowhere does he say this. Nowhere.

When did this community turn into a bunch of whiny, jump-the-gun babies who don't read the stories they whine about?

Well said. I also feel a bit left in the dark about it like TheYellowCellPhone, but when I hear "Social single player experience" I think the sole reason why I got a console. The ability to bring your friends in a single player experience. Co-op.

IMO, Everything is better with the inclusion of Co-op.

 

[Atmos Duality]

More multiplayer bullshit.

I feel like a relic nowadays.

Likewise.
I don't mind games having co-op potential, but unless said games are made with co-op in mind you end up with serious balance issues.

There's something to be said for the potential of atmosphere in a single player game. The main reason I like the Half Life 2 games is primarily because of the level design and how things are squirreled away.

 

[Dunn159]

Not even someone else on PSN? Remember nobody on PSN has had the ability to play online co-op

 

[GeorgW]

I resent the comment that all gamers have Facebook. A lot of us are anti-social dickheads that equates Facebook to the plague, myself included. Otherwise, great.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

And after that they'll invent Singleplayer DLC ! oh right! it's already made...

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Just have an option to make it minus.

 

[Omega Pirate]

I don't have FaceBook, his statement is false. (Insert cake meme in here)

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

"Single-player is great, but..."

Flexo's great, you say?

 

[Awexsome]

I'm cool with dev's using stuff like facebook to organize something like an advertisement campaign. That's a good avenue for that.

But call me skeptical about integrating stuff with facebook into the retail game itself... but that's just speculation. Maybe we're all getting worried over nothing and Valve has some awesome system in mind that walks all over facebook.

 

[samsonguy920]

I like this. One thing I love about Left4Dead is the component where you can go in by yourself, and over time if friends want to join they can just hop in and lend a hand in dealing with pesky tanks. Of course stopping to send a chat is a bit hairy, but that can illustrate the fun of texting while a jockey is humping your face.

 

[rembrandtqeinstein]

"Every gamer is instant messaging, every gamer has a Facebook account."

Wrong. So wrong.

But gabe is looking at the pile of money zynga is getting for smearing shit on the screen and he says "I gotta get me some of that."

Looks like its back to nethack for me.

 

[gideonkain]

Who are all these people saying "99% of the time I'm talking to my friends online anyway"

Christ, that would annoy the crap out of me - I play an MMO and once and awhile a DM but I really do not want a fully immersive social network when I got to play "my games"

 

[Twilight_guy]

OMFG, Valve is making Half-Life integrated with facebook. I don't have a facebook and thus that feature doesn't affect me but its still RUINED FOREVER!!!!!!!one!!!!!!!eleven!!!!!

I think people need to calm down. Vavle makes one statement about moving away from isolated gaming and maybe integrated social network stuff for people who have it and a huge fire of hate spews up. If you really think that's so horrible... why are you here? The Escapist has integration with Facebook too so obviously it was RUINED FOREVER already.

 

[Lucane]

Funny I'm a gamer but I don't have a Facebook account... maybe it meant for developers to include it for a grow market of Facebook users.

Just no more stupid achievements/trophies like Professor Portal again please.Thanks to the PSN outage I'm NEVER going to find a person who hasnt played portal co-op to play with me.

Once it's back up you can either have an existing friend who has it create a new account(or use an existing alternate) to play with for 5 minutes or have them clear their own file and do it and then clear your own afterwards(or in reverse order.)

 

[RJ Dalton]

I have a facebook account, but I haven't logged onto it in almost a year and don't even remember my password anymore. Does that still count as having a facebook page?

 

[Anachronism]

Gabe Newell: entertainment is inherently increased in value by having it be social, by letting you play with your friends and recognizing that you're connected with other people.

No.

I'm sorry, but this is completely wrong. Ironic that this should come up on a site called The Escapist, really; surely the point of escapism is that you want to, well, escape? To leave behind the real world and engage in a fictional one, without any of the ties that remind you of your day-to-day life? Adding a social component to a game when you're trying to lose yourself in that game's world is just going to remind you that you're playing a game, and drag you back to grim, depressing reality.

Would a novel be greatly improved by having someone sit over your shoulder and talk while you read it? No. Would film be improved by natter? Imagine how annoyed you'd get if you were trying to watch Inception in the cinema, and people insisted on talking throughout it. Single player games, likewise, will not be improved by adding a "social" component. The entire point of a single player game is that you don't want to be social.

 

[Popido]

Damn you Facebook!!

Because of you, the whole internet is being immigrated by dumb shits! I know you're behind it! Somehow.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

I'm glad we have that all cleared up then.

LOL at what I assume to be sarcasm.
I'd love to know exactly wtf Gabe is talking about, but I'm not going to sweat it. I like my games single player. Not single player "plus", not single player "enhanced" by morons typing shit on a chat channel that I can't get out of my face. SINGLE. PLAYER. But until Gabe figures out what the hell it is he's trying to say, I'm not going to worry, cos he may just mean a bunch of optional features that can be turned off.

 

[quhouv vhqwiufv qwiu]

"Every gamer has facebook account"

That sentance is everything that's wrong with gaming today.

I proudly deleted my facebook 2 months ago and haven't looked back .

 

[anonymity88]

...Uh.

Nearly EVERYBODY in this thread is angry.

Why?

I've been reminded of how tragically alone I am in the world by Gabe Newell.

ADSKL;GJ;KDFGAB that guy, seriously.

Ot: I honestly like the sound of this idea and have long since made peace with the fact that the HL2:EP3 is a lie.

These forum posters need to calm down before they burst an e-blood vessel or something.