Poll: Horde Modes: Way of the Future for Multiplayer?

[wgreer25]

Well the "horde" mode or more correctly co-op play, I think has one very important element that is severely lacking in online gaming. You are forced to act as a team. Well, I shouldn't say forced. I should say, you will not succeed unless you work together. Many games now have a good co-op mode (RE5, GeoW2, L4D). If anything, this can be a platform to teach groups of people how to work together (and use a fraking mic). I just seems that in competetive multiplayer, even though you are part of a team, everyone goes out on their own. And that is the team that will loose.

I just think these game modes are a nice relief from getting grenade spammed and spawn killed and still be able to play with others and ENJOY it. If more people played these type of game modes, maybe they would get the idea and work together in the competitive multiplayer. Or maybe I am just asking for too much.

 

[CRAVE CASE 55]

Id much rather have PvP but this is fun every once in a while to let your friends know when the shit hits the fan they get over run and you laugh.

 

[S.H.A.R.P.]

If this horde type is a sort off last man standing game type, where you work together with your team (in various rounds?) to defeat enemies with ever increasing difficulty, until either you reached the last round and haven't died, or everybody on your team is dead, then this has been done quite a while before L4D and other current games. In UT2003 (released in 2002), there was the game type Invasion, where you worked with human players, to kill off alien scum in increasingly difficult rounds.

On topic, I liked it in UT, but it didn't really catch on there. I haven't played it in other games though, but to say it is the future of multiplayer? Killing with each other is fun, but to defeat somebody in fair combat will never die out. What else would we have to measure our e-weeners?