| tao said: Yeah a great singleplayer FPS doesn't need a great offline/online multiplayer. I guess that's why Golden Eye, Perfect Dark, Halo and half-life did have a great multiplayer.... lol what a bull. |
You never really played Half-Life and Half-Life 2 when it they were new did you?
Valve has always focused on producing the best single player game for release and then adding multiplayer later; on top of this few people play the game modes that Valve produced and focus on third party mods.
Deus Ex also was released with no multiplayer component ...
At the same time Quake 3, Unreal Tournament and America's Army have no single player game ...
In general, I think that when developers have limited time and resources they should focus their efforts on one side of the game or the other; being that every developer has limited time and resources they need to decide whether they want a great single player FPS or great multiplayer FPS. As far as I'm concerned games like Red-Steel would have been far better had they took the developers who were working on the multiplayer component and put them to work polishing the single player game.
