Damn it!!! Damn it all to hell! (Last of us MP confirmed ¬_¬)

[binary solo]

Ajescent said:

I hoped that TLoU would be single player only but alas, it seems the game will be jumping on the MP bandwagon.

 

Creative Director Neil Druckmann
“We are supporting multiplayer with The Last of Us. We’re not ready to talk about the details of how multiplayer will be implemented, however we can say that it is not co-op within the main campaign."

On the plus side, it seems the single player will remain single player. Which is a saving grace I guess.

rest of the piece here

I am disappoint. Why not have a co-op option for the main campaign? It is ideally suited for campaign co-op given there are 2 protagonists in the game who seem to be pretty much on screen together through the entire game. Though maybe one of them dies before the end (I'm guessing the dude dies) which would make co-op possible only up to the point of that character's death. Being able to play through the main story with someone is great!!! the best sort of multiplyer there is IMO, and sadly underutilised. It was one really great thing about RFoM, split screen co-op for main campaign. Co-op campaign in R2 is pretty good too, but it's not quite the same as playing the main story in Co-op.

Enslaved should have had campaign Co-op too.

ND would have been criticised for not having MP in TLoU. It's virtually expected that there be MP in almost every game, even GoW Ascension is gonna have MP, and that's a quintessential SP game. MP gives a game the perception of longevity so it's an important tool in the ongoing war the industry is waging on used games / sharing games.