What is the big deal with Online play?

[Alacrist]

ckmlb said:

Alacrist said:

ckmlb said:
Great job comparing games in the past with no online....

Man it's crazy how the people ignored the online on the PS2, GC and the Wii... oh wait...

It's literally pointless to compare when online wasn't even avaailable.

My point is online doesn't sell games as much as people think they do. And a game isn't going to flop in sales because it has no online.

Depends on the game. Also, and I state again if Metroid Prime had online it would sell better it's a fact because of the popularity of FPS shooters in the US.

A lot of games cannot even have online mp because they are by nature single player games .

More and more on that list you have will be online because it's about time console games go online mor, I mean everything is done online but playing games won't follow? it will.

Everybody seems to miss the point where I said "Online gaming will keep going it is a good idea". You comment like I said "online sucks it's not needed", I agree online will be the future but I still don't see it being a must-have feature.

Also, have you played Metriod Prime muilt-player before, it sucks it really does. Prime is not a good mulit-player game unless it was co-op then that would be great but just a battle mulit-player wouldn't be that great for MP3, well it wouldn't be good if they did like the MP2 mulit-player. 

Great online games play about the same in single player.Take Halo, the single player game isn't much different from the online. It's a shoot-em-up game pure and simple. But Prime is a story driven adventure games where you find pieces to a puzzle to advance. It doesn't translate well into online mulit-player.