Anyone else sick of online being rammed down our throats?

[Deofuta]

Why? Why be angry at the reasons for purchasing a game?

Or do you mean you are angry at people for denouncing the single player campaign? Which I can understand. Seemed like a bunch of action movies roiled into one crazy package, and I enjoyed it, realism be damned.

However, I DID purchase it only for the MP.

Do you hate me? :'(

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Op: I'll agree.

Why should I have half a game...no, only a quarter while 75% go to mother fracking Online!?

It's Insanity I tell ye!

 

[likalaruku]

I con't use LAN/splitscreen either.

 

[RaigairTheOmnipotent]

it pisses me off how they pawn off cheap story, single player or split screen, and just focus on the online. its stupid. my best memories of gaming was split screen on timespliters 2 againt bots. now days when you play the story you feel cold inside and then you play the online just to have some 8 year old cackle down the mike at you. thats why i moved to pc. at least then their voices have broken.

 

[GundamSentinel]

A friend of mine only buys splitscreen games. His gamestack hasn't grown much over the last years. I miss it too. That and decent singleplayers. Maybe I should only buy single player games... You're right OP.

 

[Ph0t0n1c Ph34r]

Nope. Don't want online play? Don't buy the game or don't play the online part. Less people use LANs now, developers know this, and don't feature it to save money. Plenty of single player games out there. And I personally hate most co-op stuff.

 

[Premonition]

I think they assume that us gamers don't have any real life friends.

 

[SimuLord]

Multiplayer in general? Pah. Not interested. But game studios figure that the more their game relies on MP the more they cut down on piracy because the game has to authenticate with the MP servers every time it is to be played. It's really hurt singleplayer, especially on the PC.

 

[Wolfram23]

Firstly, I grew up with 2 sisters who only ever really played Super Mario, so as the only gamer in the family I played a LOT of single player.
That being said, the lack of LAN support I don't care about. I've used LAN a few times, but for console's it's a pain in the ass to organize and move big tvs around etc. Split screen, however, I do love. I wish more games used split screen and co-op. Allowing either split or inviting a friend online should be standard, or even a mix and match (2 consoles, 4 players, 1 game).

A good example of doing it well I think is MW2. Massive multi, fun single, and split or online co-op.

Also, I like multiplayer a lot, but I don't like forced competitive multiplayer. It can be fun to go against a person - but it can be awesome to team up as well. Demon's Souls has a very interesting multiplayer/single player overlap. I like it.

I'd like to see racing games feature entire career modes online. I made a long thread post about car game ideas actually.

 

[Mr. GameBrain]

Devs! I want my splitscreen back! :,(
Make some bots too, they don't even need to be smart, just some cannon fodder while I test out different weapons/maps.

Lan doesn't hurt either.

Co-op on LAN on borderlands is soooo fun! I want more games to utilise this some more.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Yes, it assumes that everyone lives in the city and has the kind of broadband that's on all the time.

I don't, I live in the country, and my broadband is quite sporadic at times. And future Ubisoft games will now require you to be online all the time. Why? To prevent piracy?

Well it won't, that much is for certain. All it will do is annoy people like me who bought the games legitimately.

I'd like them to bring back playing offline with bots too, I haven't seen that at all recently.

I've never played a single Unreal Tournament game online, they're just as fun with bots.

Ubisoft can go fuck themselves with a rusty pike.

Bribing and threatening critics, ruining the Prince, making Far Cry 2, and now this...

 

[chronobreak]

People are gonna buy the games anyways, so until everyone starts speaking with their wallets instead of forums and petitions, gamers are going to keep getting screwed.

 

[Ace of Spades]

YES. Finally someone shares my viewpoint. All my friends look at me like I'm the antichrist because of this.

 

[Irridium]

I'm sick of developers complaining that "technical limitations" are the reason that most games these days don't have splitscreen. Because the console is asked to do "at least twice the work".

If goldeneye on the N64 can do 4 player splitscreen on 4 megabytes of RAM, there is no good reason a game these days on powerful consoles should have anything less than 4 player splitscreen.

 

[Zacharine]

I hate it quite a lot. So much so, that I have configured a quite strict firewall on my computer: no program, not even my Win7 OS gets permission to access the net without a reason. All the programs are installed on my computer, hence they ought to work even if I yanked out the ethernet cable.

And all I keep asking is why? Why does program X or game Y seek to connect to the 'net. Advertisement? Patches? DLC? Not valid, I say. If I want them, I'll download them seperately. If a game 'requires' an internet connection, guess what; it just got cracked and the legal DVD delegated to a shelf next to me.

But when it does come to playing with friends, would it really hurt the game makers to include LAN-coding? It's not like its somehow hard to integrate into a game that has a multiplayer capacity over the 'net.

Sigh. It's like they've forgotten us people who play multiplayer mostly only on LANs with good friends that all are sitting within a shouting distance. ANd the world is a poorer place for it.

Thank His Noodly Goodness for modding communities, who fix these glaring idiocies for us. ANd that just might be one of the main reasons I'm a PC-player. Modding ability.

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

Wouldn't bother me as much if online (or atleast XBL) didn't cost $$$

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

The Death of LAN is basically due to marketing creep by the manufacturers. Why give you something for free when they can get something out of it?

 

[AngloDoom]

Yes! Yes I do, online-forum-poster!


Okay, okay, I know that's not the point. I just thought it was kind of funny.

Anyway, I despise how I have to either bulk-buy 360's or connect to the interwebs to play the game with someone else, when my friend is sitting next to me looking all sad.

Surely, it's not as hard as wirelessly linking it to two-thirds of the planet?