Savagezion said:
dyre said:
Far Cry 3, Mass Effect 3, and the Assassin's Creed series have multiplayer. Nowadays developers probably know not to let the multiplayer detract from the singleplayer. Though, it probably won't be that great a multiplayer mode.
A FPS like FarCry is easy to toss in some multiplayer without even trying very hard and have it be at the very least average. Assassin's Creed I wouldn't know as I found 2 mind numbing with repetition and the story never once got me to give a damn after hours of hanging in there so I never looked back. Mass Effect 3 I have to say that it came at the expense of the main game. I don't find it coincidense that the first mass effect with multiplayer is also the first time a noticable drop in player choice dialogue appeared. Shepard is off having all kinds of conversations without me, his consciousness itself. A couple times I wanted to imnterupt him and go "uhhh, no..." The main game got railroaded pretty noticably. I cant say much for the other two, but Mass Effect does not put my mind at ease.
I don't like the AC series much either, but it's pretty clear that they put a boatload of effort into the singleplayer regardless of the multiplayer.
As for Mass Effect 3, I find it highly unlikely that the time spent on programming multiplayer was taken from the player choice dialogue, since that really doesn't require a huge amount of effort anyway. This isn't Witcher 2, where your choice will lead you to playing a completely different Act. Mass Effect choices have always been closer to lipservice. I'd even argue that Mass Effect 3 had a higher effort to incorporate choice than the previous ones (not including the ending), since it had to include changes depending on many of the actions in Mass Effect 1 and 2, like squadmate deaths, Kaidan vs Ashley, Rex's status, etc.
Anyway, regarding Tomb Raider, it doesn't look like a rushed title to me, and since it's not rushed, the devs can take their sweet time making a good singleplayer and multiplayer.
