| AdventWolf said: I can say this: If CoD 4 didn't have online, I would have beat the campaign in a few days. Instead, I was instantly hooked to the online and didn't touch the campaign until months later. |
Ah, but it did have one of the best campaigns ever in a shooter, and without it, you certainly wouldn't have had such a large community.
Without the campaign, CoD4 would be a much worse game. Instead, it stands as one of the best shooters ever.
In fact, a couple of the best shooters ever, had no real online mode as their main content, and the best online shooters ever, have been built as mods from other SP games.
I speak of course, of Half-Life....Doom....Half-Life 2. Sure, some of the best shooters ever have great, great online modes...but are they really as good as Half-Life?
If Killzone 2 didn't have a campaign, would it have been as important to PS3 fans? Wouldn't that have been a completely marginalizable game, like MAG, no matter how good it looked graphically?
Resistance 2 had amazing online gameplay, however the campaign was very mediocre, and thus, in most people's eyes, the game is mediocre.
Uncharted on the other hand, has no important online modes to speak of, it's all about the SP. Also, Gears 2. Sure, online gamers like to pretend games like these only matter because of their online functionality, but the truth is exactly the opposite.
We've been playing the same online mode in shooters since CounterStrike. It's the quality of the SP that counts, not how much you can tweek king of the hill.
That's why L4D has bots and local multiplayer. Because if you can't play it alone, then it is missing a huge piece of what makes a game, a game.
Despite the popularization of gaming, some of us nerds still like setting in our rooms and playing Mass Effect or Baulders Gate, alone. We like sphere grid maxing in FFX, and talking to the super frat crowd on Halo doesn't necessarily do it for us. We require stimulation only a highly programmed linear computer program can provide.
If all you like to do is play games online, you wouldn't have been a gamer 20 years ago, and you'd probably be calling people like me, a nerd. Forgive me if I look down upon this repetitive, humor based, vaguely disguised social interaction simulator almost every game provides for your crowd nowadays.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
