No online co-op in campaign for The Last of Us, what's in store for multiplayer?
- Posted June 28th, 2012 at 10:43 EDT by Adam Dolge
- 8 Comments
We’ve known for some time now that The Last of Us has an online component, but what that means has remained a bit of a mystery. While it’s still a bit foggy, we now know it will not include online co-op for the main campaign.
Speaking with Gaming Examiner, Neil Druckmann, game director, said “We are supporting multiplayer with The Last of Us. However, we can say that it is not co-op within the main campaign.”
So what does this mean? It’s likely we’ll see some kind of co-op mode that’s outside the regular campaign, perhaps something that runs parallel. It’s hard to tell if The Last of Us would make for a good online competitive romp, but we wouldn’t put anything past Naughty Dog.
Let us know what you would like to see from the multiplayer now learning there will be no online co-op in the main campaign. Check out our E3 preview, in case you missed it.
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Soldier 95B |
Solder_95B- 11:50am EDT - June 28th, 2012
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Well, nobody is making you play the multiplayer. It's nice to have options.
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RDSglobe
- 9:29am EDT - June 29th, 2012
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I agree in the most part. A competitive multiplayer experience wouldn't make much sense in a game like this. But what would be interesting to see would be a co-op mash up between a survival/horde mode with randomly generated locations to keep things fresh. You get that same tone as the single player, but a variety of outcomes and situations to play through with a friend.
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Soldier 95B |
Solder_95B- 12:53pm EDT - June 29th, 2012
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I love it when people don't WANT options, lol.
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casamyr
- 11:39pm EDT - June 29th, 2012
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It's not that people don't want options. but it seems to me now, that the days where developers concentrated on strong single player experiences are quickly going away to splitting your dev team to working on both a single player and multiplayer experience in order for people to buy your game. And I think that is an indictment on the players demanding such a thing and then complaining that the 'story for the single player is not very good'.
Besides, I don't think every game needs to have a multiplayer component and Last of Us is one of those games, where the narrative of the experience is what drives the player forward.
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