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nuckles87 on 24 March 2016
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Einsam_Delphin said:
nuckles87 said:

Adding an online multiplayer mode to a single player experience for the sake of it is literally one of the worst trends in the game industry right now.

Star Fox 64 was a single player game with a simple multiplayer death match mode thrown in as an afterthought. An online multiplayer mode that "isn't that great" isn't much of a value proposition as far as I (and most critics) am concerned.

Instead of that, this game comes with a WHOLE other game. One that has the potential for hours upon hours of game play. Doesn't that pretty much do what you say online multiplayer would do?

 

Pretty much every series Nintendo has added online to has been better for it, including previously single player only experiences like Luigi's Mansion and Kid Icarus. Starfox has already had multiplayer so online would just be a natural progression. Removing multiplayer altogether certainly don't increase the value.

 

A whole other game with not Starfox gameplay that you have to pay for.

Look, if you absolutely refuse to buy any games that doesn't have an online multiplayer mode, fine. But as far as I'm concerned, you're kind of missing the point of a traditional Star Fox game if that, of all things, is your benchmark for it. Then again, maybe you wouldn't like its on rails game play anyway.

Nintendo hasn't added online multiplayer for every series, and the vast majority that they have were multiplayer centric games to begin with. Yes, Star Fox 64 had a throwaway multiplayer death match mode that was fun in 1997. Adding a mediocre death match mode for the sake of it, like in SF64, doesn't really increase the value either.


You don't have to pay for it. It's bundled with the retail game. You can buy both games digitally for the price of a single retail game. And it having different game play is irrelevant to to the value. It's not like they wouldn't have to change the mission-based, mostly on rails, single player game play for multiplayer death matches anyway. Really, if anything, it's a better value than what you'd get from a modern version of Star Fox 64's multiplayer.