*portal, saints row .............but i think depending on the game single-player is less importantIt's his opinion and I COMPLETELY disagree. There some really good games that have really good single-player (Dark souls, Demon Souls, Mario, Legend of Zelda, Uncharted, Borderlands 1&2)
Do you hate Professor Layton? He's just a gimmick, is he not?
It also sucks that alot of singleplayer games will also try to have a multiplayer mode as well even if its poorly done it feels like its a compulsory thing.Really not much for me to say. AW already basically covered all my thoughts in his second post. Multiplayer has become much more gimmicky for sure, with so many games (especially shooters like CoD) half-assing a single player campaign, and relying completely on multiplayer to carry it.
But anyway, the OP specifies multiplayer in general, not online-multiplayer.to be honest i've had multiple encounters with games i wanted to play offline multiplayer and couldnt, since they could only be played online multiplayer.
it's ridiculous that having all the people in the same room, with all the controllers, a working a console and a game in it you cant play a game that has multiplayer,
and instead are forced to buy more of the same consoles, more copiesof the same game, and pay an online subscription, aside from getting the console connected to a lan etc.
that's a gimmick to get you to buy that crap,
personally i prefer the multiplayer days of 4player Goldeneye or most other games like that on a n64 for example,
and havent felt any multiplayer since then to be better.
(<- not console specific =P)
Still doesn't really change the fact that multiplayer based games dominates a bit to much of the market making devs think that every game must have some form of multiplayer.But anyway, the OP specifies multiplayer in general, not online-multiplayer.
No. Multiplayer is a much more of a gimmick.well, stories are pretty much a gimmick in todays games most of a time
If guys like these are meant to be the future gaming developers, well, expect A LOT of social networking crap games. These kind of "gamers/devs" makes me sick, I'm sure a lot of people like him never enjoyed a single player game in all it's glory, from A to Z, hours and hours searching every corner, reading every dialogue and discovering everything from the game itself, history and gameplay. Trying harder to improve skills in those hard games and again spending hours and hours in the process. Today devs (not all of them) are very weird.