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kupomogli on 27 August 2013
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curl-6 said:
kupomogli said:
curl-6 said:
Meh, online multiplayer is astronomically overrated, especially in a platformer. If my fellow players aren't in the same room, it's just no fun.

When I was younger this would be the case, as I would be at one of my friends or they'd be over at my house.  I live several hundred miles away from my childhood friends now so with them online is required.  My friends that live near me, I prefer online though.  Depending on the friend, it's a 15-30 minute drive.  So a minimum of $5 in gas just to play some multiplayer with friends when we could play the same game online without wasting gas going to each others home  It's not like we can't still use mics to talk.

Even with mics, I find it just so cold and detached not being in the same room. It doesn't have that social feel of a gathering of friends.

Doesn't mean you can't still play at a friends house every once in awhile.  When I go to a friends and play games, it's never planned that we're going to play this game, or if we're going to play a game at all.  Should I just avoid playing Rayman Legends so when I'm over there and we decide to play a game, if my friend even owns it, we happen to agree on playing that game?  The developers should give us a choice whether we want to play online or local multiplayer, they shouldn't just assume that we live next to our friends and have the same schedules so can meet up at a moments notice to play the games co op.

Are these developers just not taking into consideration when gaming started getting bigger with the NES?  That those of us who grew up in that time period are older now?  They're screwing the largest portion of their fanbase just because they want to be cheap.