| Miyamotoo said: Again, Metroid Prime Hunters was DS game so I can just imagine quality of online play on DS back than (today MP online on Switch would be much stronger), but despite that game was more apealing with that online mod. Fact that Metroid never sold on MP, doesnt mean that good online mod wouldnt made MP4 game more apealing. Guess what, Nintendo never before had online shooter and than they made Splatoon. No one said that MP4 need online to be big, but fact is that with addition of good online MP4 would be more appealing game in any case. Games that have more content, mods, online...are more appealing than they would be if they have less of all that. You talking about focus, than why Splatoon that is online focused game also had/has single player campaign!? You actually have some people that dont care about online too much that bought Splatoon mostly because single player campaign, so despite its online focused game it can be apealing to some people that dont care about online too much. That's a point, wider appealing of game. I said different experience compared to Splatoon not CoD, and offcourse that CoD multiplayer and potential MP4 multiplayer wouldnt be same because they have different settings, stories, worlds, weapons, mechanics... |
The game wasn't more appealing it became one of the weakest Metroid games out there that's the point it shoots down the whole notion you're trying push Prime's current design just doesn't work that well with MP this is why Federation Force was created to try and have offshoots that have different design approaches. Guess what Splatoon is completely different from what you're suggesting and all other shooters much like Smash is to fighters and MK is to racers.
MP and more modes doesn't make a game more appealing you're pushing a fantasy were everything is equivalent across the board as a number of games are simply not designed or geared toward MP and are better off with out it and the are a tonne like Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Deus Ex etc... they still have a tonne of content and even more than most games that have MP and many modes as their single player campaigns are heavily focused and all the content goes into that. You meeting the odd few people who bought Splatoon for single player doesn't discount the vast majority who bought it for MP either.
If it's not different to COD in experience why would people bother with it when COD is already around it's exactly what Jim Sterling touched on with his analogy that would not increase userbase nor is it guaranteed to increase appeal like you say.
