In theory I'm interested, in that the setting sounds kind of cool. Not so fond of the multiplayer focus though; if it has a campaign that can be played in single-player, why do I need to be online if that's all I want to do? It's like Diablo III all over again. Plus, when I hear about an online co-op shooter with prominent levelling up and looting, I think of Borderlands. And then I fall asleep because Borderlands is incredibly boring. And then there's this:
Everything you do in life is more fun if you do it with your friends.
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Having built Destiny we think it's really clear that this is the next step and in the future all games will be social in this way.
(From Eurogamer)
No. No no no no no no no NO. The first statement is just utter balls. Is quiet time reading a book by yourself improved by having friends around? Of course not, sometimes you want time to yourself. It's the same with games: most of the games I play, I want to play single-player without being bothered by other people; game time is usually me time. It's bad enough when Steam keeps popping up to tell me what my friends are playing, because I DON'T CARE. Leave me to play my games in peace. This is the next step up from that, and it's not something that appeals to me.
And no, I'm not ragging on multiplayer as a concept. It just annoys me when people include a single-player campaign when the game is clearly intended to be multiplayer. If you don't want people to play single-player, don't let them; don't let me think I'm by myself only to have some other idiot show up and start annoying me.
In brief: nothing wrong with multiplayer, but the industry's increasingly disturbing obsession with social gaming is really starting to get on my nerves.
