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Is multi-player trumping single-player?
rabidkeebler \| 8:43 PM on 11.03.2007	6 comments

With Call of Duty 4 coming to us in a few days it brings to mind that shocking piece of news from a few weeks ago. That the single player campaign is short. Really short. 4-6 hours on normal difficulty short.

The general response from the gaming community from what I can tell has been a resounding "Meh." And this brings up a serious issue. Is multi-player starting to trump the single-player in the world of gaming? Now this isn't necessarily a rant about length of games, but so far I haven't heard a single person say that 4-6 hours is a good thing. They are just saying that they don't care. They say that as long as the multiplayer is good then it doesn't matter.

Not only this, but the gaming mags (flawed to begin with) seem to be giving more and more creedence to multiplayer. The top three things they are rating on look to be 1) Gameplay 2) Multiplayer 3) Singleplayer.

I can't help but feel as if singleplayer is becoming more and more of an afterthought. The big shooter games (Bioshock excluded) are giving more and more emphasis to multiplayer, while leaving their singleplayer products behind.

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5 comments | showing # 1 to 5

HawtPawkitHero

yes. Get used to it.

jdub28

humans > AI

FOR NOW

Clockwork

Yeah, its a damn shame. A DAMN shame.

Aerox

I agree. I typically enjoy single player far more than multiplayer. Maybe if most of the people online weren't racist homophobic illiterate morons I'd feel differently.

Lord_Satorious

Once you've been through the single-player campaign, there usually isn't a reason to go through again (achievements do help with this). It's multiplayer that keeps players coming back, because it's never the same game twice. I play a bit of both, but a great single player experience can be as compelling as anything, as Bioshock should have taught us. Single player will never go away, but multiplayer games are cheaper to make. Longer as in RPGs isn't always better, but give us more than a handful of hours for the single player game, I for one want to get my money's worth, not just training for the multiplayer aspect of the game.

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