Bleszinski: Japanese developers shouldn't ignore multiplayer "in a disc-based market"

**admartian** · 05-13-2012

Originally Posted by Equinoqs

Fuck multiplayer. It can be fun in the right game, but I'm sick of its dominance over the minds of developers.

THIS!

I effing hate that everything needs MP tacked on.

This is why I'm not so excited for GOW Ascension.

MP can go screw itself.

**Naxi** · 05-13-2012

Originally Posted by Kauldron

Actually I read the entire interview which is not posted in the OP's source. Even where he tries to talk on how to improve Uncharted's multiplayer. It is over on NeoGaf.

If a game is built specifically on the single player experience, personally, I wouldn't want the devs wasting time and resources on putting in some multiplayer component.

Having multiplayer doesn't westernize the game, it depends on how it's done.

**Dennis Dyack** · 05-14-2012

Originally Posted by Naxi

Having multiplayer doesn't westernize the game, it depends on how it's done.

Exactly! To say yes or no unequivocally to multiplayer is short-sighted.

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**lordAlucard** · 05-14-2012

No? iit'll either end up being rushed or just put in for the sake of it like Binary Domain and even The Darkness should have never had MP. If there isn't a need no studio should be pressured to do add MP.

**Soldier 95B** · 05-14-2012

If you don't like multiplayer aspects added to a game, don't play it. Nobody is forcing you to play anything other than single player.

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**admartian** · 05-14-2012

Originally Posted by Dennis Dyack

Exactly! To say yes or no unequivocally to multiplayer is short-sighted.

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Which is why I wear glasses.

**lordAlucard** · 05-14-2012

Well... we could ignore it but how much of it is wasting space or even cutting down on the single-player experience?

**TDbank24** · 05-14-2012

I think any game that would suite multiplayer should have multiplayer if done right and only if the single player is the key focus. Tacked on multiplayer to a single player driven experience is always the worst.

**Versus** · 05-14-2012

I think more games could at least incorporate Co-op. I've always thought that FFXIII could have had a co-op option so you wouldn't have to rely on stupid Ai all the time.

**Fon** · 05-14-2012

I think Vanquish did excellent because it was focused solely on single player. If it had multiplayer then the single player would of suffered in some way. This mentality of having multiplayer on everything is annoying.

**Soldier 95B** · 05-14-2012

Originally Posted by lordAlucard

Well... we could ignore it but how much of it is wasting space or even cutting down on the single-player experience?

None.

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**DarkNemesis** · 05-14-2012

MP is overrated and does not make a game better or sell games.Mass Effect,Bioshock and Dead Space all added it and no one cared.If it is not Halo,Gears or COD people do not even play online.How often do people beg for MP in a game and then complain about how it is not as good as COD? Then you have the people who get obsorbed by COD and ignore other games.FYI MGS4 sold because of the SP and not the MP.

**Blacksite** · 05-14-2012

Originally Posted by FonFahbre

I think Vanquish did excellent because it was focused solely on single player. If it had multiplayer then the single player would of suffered in some way. This mentality of having multiplayer on everything is annoying.

Yes, but if multiplayer was utilized in such a way that it makes the gameplay more interesting then people wouldn't be complaining about it. To be fair, the single-player experience only really suffers when developers don't work with longer development cycles to accommodate for the extra workload.