Comments on: Prototype Multiplayer Scrapped

By: akram

akram — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:57:44 +0000

Look at all the 30+ yearolds bitching about not liking co-op good for you just cus you get beat when you play on line by everyone. the fact is our right it is a grate game the way it is the olnly problem is that once you beat the game all you have left to look forward to is free play… whopty doo lest jump arownd and fly off buildongs and blow shit up for 40 horus straight how fun…! fucking boring as hell. give me Multi player please to relive my bordom! i paid 60 bucks for a gam i dont want to have to sell it after i beat it cus it is boring as hell when our done. how sick would it be to team up or go head to head with othr alexes flying and taging Pc alexes allover the map clearing out the city ith a buddy! that would be sick doing chalenges with your best frind who can kill the most fly the farthes Ext… point made. game sucks after you beat it without mulit go cry about single player to the vid game gods no one cares about you opinion if you dont want multi it dosent have it so shut up.

By: crewdog

crewdog — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:30:03 +0000

Although I was dissappointed that there was no MP, the gameplay makes up for it. Try the game out b4 making a conclusion about MP. I would rather have the game all to myself anyway.

By: GeoDude

GeoDude — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:34:49 +0000

(Loads 9mm pistol.Points to head) Later Dudes! (Pulls Trigger)

They just took out the feature that would make this game sell out in every shop! Even if there was only free roam MP it wouldnt be that bad.

By: king

king — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:17:07 +0000

YOU GUYS R STUPID, IVEN IF YOU DONT LIKE MULTIPLAYER YOU CAN PLAY BY YOUR SELF BUT DERS PEOPLE LYKE ME HU LOVE MULTIPLAYER, COZ AT DA END OF DA GAME WHAT DO U DO? HAVE YOU ask’d UR SELF DAT

By: wolfie

wolfie — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:55:34 +0000

I’m disappointed that it is not MP,but I think that would make experience and gameplay worse. So I’m kind of glad that they took it out. I would like to see MP player on it later though. I hope people still buy it even though it isn’t MP.

By: Briar

Briar — Fri, 29 May 2009 01:06:42 +0000

Just thought and chime in that I thought the game sounded like it’d be a fun game to play…in coop. I mean it probably will be a lot of fun in SP, but it lost a lot of its appeal to me when I learned there’s no coop :(. Guess I was kinda hoping for another (hopefully better, especially performance wise) Saints Row 2, as that was alot of fun in coop.

By: Jose

Jose — Tue, 26 May 2009 00:34:58 +0000

MP is a very big deal,i bet a lot of people wont buy the game if MP isnt in it

By: Velion

Velion — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:42:51 +0000

I think MP would be a great thing in this game but just like graphics multilayer dose NOT make a game. You can always talk with your friends while playing. You can see what there doing and things like that. So im dissipointed that MP wont be in it but its not that big of a deal.

By: Velt

Velt — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:29:04 +0000

I have to say…

Without Co-op, this game lost 90% of its appeal to me.

There aren’t enough co-op games in this world, and I’m pretty disappointed that the co-op has been removed from the game.

By: kuddles

kuddles — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:23:44 +0000

I can understand the notion of leaving out co-op or multiplayer. With two-person co-op, there is so much that would need to be taken into account including balance issues, level design, story, etc. It’s why most co-op games either have a poor story or is one of those open-ended games.

And some games just don’t need multiplayer. Look at Condemned 2 as an example of a great singleplayer game being forced to shoehorn MP into a setting that doesn’t ask for it because so many people insist upon it.

I know developers like Ken Levine have publically stated things like how he regrets many of his past decisions to cater to those insist that games need multiplayer before they are willing to purchase it. The result is that the single-player campaign isn’t as strong as they wanted it to be because so many resources had to be diverted to making multiplayer maps, and yet the game still is left competing against the more robust games that are multiplayer-focused, so all that hard work goes underappreciated. It makes sense, you see so many games that could have used a bit more polish instead have all these multiplayer maps created, and all it ends up with is the servers being empty two weeks later as everyone goes back to Halo or Counterstrike anyways.

By: minus

minus — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:26:13 +0000

You say that Mo, but how would you explain an MMO such as Tabula Rasa? Or Planetscape? Or even BF2?

Games have had co-op since the dawn of time.

It may be that one of the systems it was being developed for couldn’t handle it and an executive decided to drop it all across the board? Who knows?

By: Mo

Mo — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:17:15 +0000

Smart decision. Technically, co-op is incredibly difficult to pull off in a shooter, let alone co-op in a gigantic city where (literally) hundreds of things are changing at every moment. That Crackdown was even able to do this is a wonder to me.

Co-op and multiplayer of any form is challenging to code, and increases the complexity of testing dramatically. And Jim, while it’s acceptable to release “rough-around-the-edges” co-op for PC, the console manufacturers just wouldn’t have any of that.

It’s a shame and all, but it’s a decision that most developers aren’t brave enough to make.