^I'm still not following. How would it be "halfassed?" You don't always have to have max players to fully enjoy multiplayer. In MarioKart for instance, it's a nice change of pace when there's only four or so racers. Another example in Uncharted, beating the Co-Op mode can be done the same way as if you had three people. By definition, just one other person is enough to make it a multiplayer game.