Multiplayer in Bioshock. As if it was a main selling point of the franchise. Poor decision to even try.
I'm always afraid of taking some shit by even mentioning it, but stuff like this is doing more harm than good for gaming, IMO. Maybe I'm in some minority there, and I do like multiplayer but I think there's a place for it, and not every game
is a place for it.
Maybe I'm insane but I get this feeling that devs think welp if we don't include multiplayer we're not going to be as successful as Call of Duty, and that's the wrong way to go about it. And there may be some truth to that, but the way I see it, does the addition of MP
really govern sales on specific products? The first Uncharted was well-received and I guess sold about as well as they expected. I don't think anyone, after that, was really pulling for, or expecting the sequels to have MP. The MP in the last two Uncharteds was well done I guess, but necessary? I wonder how Uncharted 3 would have turned out without the team spending time and resources on the MP. I know that game's single player could have been better than it was.
I think more gamers would rather a team put all their time and talent into "what they know." It's kind of like writing. Write what you know. Don't try to write something that you feel
inclined to write just because another writer did a good job with it and think that your work will benefit from it regardless of how well you implement it. The original Bioshock was great because it felt like a completely fleshed out experience with a singular vision. I don't remember a lot of people saying that it should have had MP, or that the following installments should try it out. It's like the Metroid Prime 2 fiasco-- a total waste of time.
Maybe I'm seriously off here, and I don't really look into sales or charts or data like much of GAF does, but again I feel that there's a place for multiplayer. Not everything needs it. I think if someone is interested in Bioshock Infinite, they're going to get the game or at least check it out with or without multiplayer. Same for Uncharted or any other single-player focused franchise like Metroid. I'd much rather them use the time and money that they would have put into MP into the single player experience. I realize that sometimes other divisions handle other modes and such, but it's still just the feeling I get. Maybe I'm the only one that knows that feel, I'm just speaking my mind on the matter.
