Games that had multiplayer but shouldn't

[WrongSprite]

Two Worlds. What a bloody disaster that was.

"BANDITS!"

"No, that's another player in Team Deathmatch..."

"Nay! Tis' not possible. Mayhap the taint has arrived."

"Verily dude...hold on a second."

*Summons steel golem.*

I'm serious, I can't imagine how bad that must have been.

Imagine? You mean you didn't actually play it?

Nice work. Two Worlds is one of the most fun games I've played with my friends.

 

[Starke]

World of Warcraft

You mean the adventure game that got scrapped or what?

 

[TurretedCasius]

Not being much of a fan of multiplayer, I'm tempted to go "any of them, ever", but that'd be unfair. Onwards:

GTA IV. The way the weapons work aren't geared for the kind of firefights you get in multiplayer- they're geared for the slightly more methodical and coreographed fights in singleplayer.

you make a very good point, the guns aren't very great for multiplayer fighting, but there is nothing better than you and your buds mowing down people on the sidewalks.

 

[G1eet]

I can be rabid fan-like, yes. I am very much one of the TES series, however I try to not be unreasonable.

Now that's a good series to defend.

Though I'm usually hard pressed to find an anti-Elder Scrolls person. I usually find that more people hate Mass Effect.

Halo series, Gears of War series, and Samurai Warriors 2.

never played the last game but the first 2 games you listed have great multi player

I've never played Gears online, but I have heard that online is glitchy.

But Halo's multiplayer is probably the best I've seen, only because of the custom matches and lack of glitches/dropped games.

The average maturity level of a Halo player (in my experience) hasn't been very high. Maybe it was because I only played it right after it came out, but I haven't really been wowed by the community as I have been with other games like Left 4 Dead and TF2.

Although the fact that there's less players and a higher responsibility in L4D means that people who like to fuck around and not get blamed don't play it. Again, it might be just my own dumb luck.

That said, I do enjoy playing multiplayer on Halo 3 when I'm with friends. Solo, I hate it.

 

[Hamster at Dawn]

Them focusing on multiplayer is my exact reason why they should nto have had it.

I sort of agree with you there. I like the multiplayer on Gears and Halo (although Gears often has horrendous lag) but I would prefer a better campaign than some more multiplayer maps any day of the week, especially when it's coop campaign.

 

[ssgt splatter]

The Darkness

 

[irishstormtrooper]

Rachet and Clank.

I actually kinda liked the multiplayer in those games.

 

[Bleep Bloop]

fear 2
urrrgggggtg...

 

[Jamis]

Rachet and Clank.

Great games, but multiplayer was terrible on a whole new scale.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Halo 2's story was not over quickly atleast compared to Halo3 and Halo 1's was fine and maps were 2 were a bit long but thats liveable.
Basically what I was saying is half way through is that Halo and Gears have a dated way of doing multiplayer as the way forward is you spawn with the weapons rather than a rat run to the best weapons.

So in a way it is like say Quake but you regenerate your health if you catch my drift which is good but by far inferior to say Battlefield or Call of Duty's multiplayer style of weapons as in you spawn with what weapon you want rather than have people camping weapons.

My main point is tht without multiplayer Gears and Halo would have nothing going for them. Personally, I am a fan of neither, I love my CoD and BF too much. But for consoles, Halo and Gears brought alot with their muultiplayer, too bad that their mediocre standard has been set as the bar for many games.

Gears as far a I know brought nothing Halo may of brought lan but I know what you're saying but console multiplayer is way behind PC and only having caught up to an extent recently with PSN and Xbox but even still being behind PC I mean ffs Halo brought lan to the xbox LAN!!!

 

[masterhazardous]

my god, kiutu is one to watch eh? haven't seen someone that self-righteous since this girl who came on to me, spent 3 hours straight glued to my face, dumped me the next day and said i was out of line for being disappointed...

erm, since i shouldn't post here if i don't have something to contribute... enter the matrix, since the single player was a linear shooter and the multiplayer was hand-to-hand fighting in a dojo (!)

 

[irishstormtrooper]

While it hasn't come out yet, Uncharted 2's multiplayer looks out of place. I know because I played the beta that came with inFamous. My thoughts explained more deeply. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.124029#2541731]

 

[xavierxenon]

All of them, if they spent less time with online multipalyer then maybe single player campaigns will be longer and better.

 

[iyaerP]

I can be rabid fan-like, yes. I am very much one of the TES series, however I try to not be unreasonable.

Now that's a good series to defend.

Though I'm usually hard pressed to find an anti-Elder Scrolls person. I usually find that more people hate Mass Effect.

Halo series, Gears of War series, and Samurai Warriors 2.

never played the last game but the first 2 games you listed have great multi player

I hate oblivion. Morrowwind and Daggerfall were fun, but oblivion was good until I got to mid-high levels and was getting slaughtered by the single lone monsters. This happened with a number of characters until I realized that you had to break the game mechanics to be able to play the game without having the creatures out-scale you.

That kind of failure is criminal in my book

 

[Hitman 43]

Nope.

 

[Halfbreed13]

Halo 2's story was not over quickly atleast compared to Halo3 and Halo 1's was fine and maps were 2 were a bit long but thats liveable.
Basically what I was saying is half way through is that Halo and Gears have a dated way of doing multiplayer as the way forward is you spawn with the weapons rather than a rat run to the best weapons.

So in a way it is like say Quake but you regenerate your health if you catch my drift which is good but by far inferior to say Battlefield or Call of Duty's multiplayer style of weapons as in you spawn with what weapon you want rather than have people camping weapons.

My main point is tht without multiplayer Gears and Halo would have nothing going for them. Personally, I am a fan of neither, I love my CoD and BF too much. But for consoles, Halo and Gears brought alot with their muultiplayer, too bad that their mediocre standard has been set as the bar for many games.

Gears as far a I know brought nothing Halo may of brought lan but I know what you're saying but console multiplayer is way behind PC and only having caught up to an extent recently with PSN and Xbox but even still being behind PC I mean ffs Halo brought lan to the xbox LAN!!!

Whoa whoa, I am a pc elitist to the core, Halo doesn't compare to a fucking doom flash on the pc. But for the consoles it was the first big online game.

 

[-Seraph-]

FEAR 1's multiplayer was just so...bad. Probably the only FPS I own with a multiplayer I will never touch again.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I'm pretty sure Fable 2's been said right? RIGHT?! I thought so.

World of Warcraft

Agreeded. I prefer raiding by myself.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Spoiler

Halo 2's story was not over quickly atleast compared to Halo3 and Halo 1's was fine and maps were 2 were a bit long but thats liveable.
Basically what I was saying is half way through is that Halo and Gears have a dated way of doing multiplayer as the way forward is you spawn with the weapons rather than a rat run to the best weapons.

So in a way it is like say Quake but you regenerate your health if you catch my drift which is good but by far inferior to say Battlefield or Call of Duty's multiplayer style of weapons as in you spawn with what weapon you want rather than have people camping weapons.

My main point is tht without multiplayer Gears and Halo would have nothing going for them. Personally, I am a fan of neither, I love my CoD and BF too much. But for consoles, Halo and Gears brought alot with their muultiplayer, too bad that their mediocre standard has been set as the bar for many games.

Gears as far a I know brought nothing Halo may of brought lan but I know what you're saying but console multiplayer is way behind PC and only having caught up to an extent recently with PSN and Xbox but even still being behind PC I mean ffs Halo brought lan to the xbox LAN!!!

Whoa whoa, I am a pc elitist to the core, Halo doesn't compare to a fucking doom flash on the pc. But for the consoles it was the first big online game.

Fair enough I guess I wasn't really paying too much attention it is very late for me where I am so I guess when stuff like this happens you have to wonder if you're on the computer too long.