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Thank God, inFamous Second Son won’t feature Multiplayer

onPause writes:

inFamouns Second Son will not feature multiplayer in a traditional sense which is music to my ears. Too often do we get tacked on multiplayer modes in games that really don’t add much if anything to the overall experience – Tomb Raider and BioShock 2 come to mind here.

GraveLord4501d ago

Tacked-on multiplayer is never a good idea. I'd like to see inFamous have multiplayer but only if done right.

UnrealThreats4501d ago

I would of loved to see a gta-like open world co-op, but I think SP will do for now ;)

mcroddi4501d ago

It would be neat to see but I'm sure it just hasn't worked in their prototyping.

firelogic4501d ago (Edited 4501d ago )

I don't see why people are so against MP in games. I personally don't play MP but I'm not going to go nuts if a game has an MP mode.

You can try it and if you don't like it, never touch it again. What's the big deal?

MP is usually done by a different team, and sometimes a different developer. SP and MP budgets are separate. It's not a given that if they scrapped the MP mode, they'd be able to siphon that money over to SP. If a movie has production costs of $100 million and has a $30 million advertising budget, if they decide to increase/decrease advertising, it's not going into or coming out of the production budget.

So where's the problem exactly?

You're not losing time out of SP and you're not losing money out of SP.

mcroddi4501d ago

Wait, since when are those budgets separate. News to me. Also, even if money isn't the issue, resources are. Man hours spent on a task count as such.

GameSpawn4501d ago

Some game developers split the development between two teams or even outsource completely. It has to do with streamlining the development process to get the game out quicker than if one team developed both portions.

The problem with this is continuity of development. One mode may end up more polished then the other if one team doesn't utilize the shared assets as well as the other team does. This is usually why you can have "glitchy" multiplayer yet almost flawless single player or vice versa.

OT:
Infamous 2 had pseudo online elements in the form of custom sandbox missions that got shared online. Some of these were kind of fun and I hope they bring the mission sandbox back in Second Son. I can only imagine how creative people will get with new powers, enemies, and elements.

mcroddi4501d ago

Good points but if there was no MP, the budget would not need to be cut in half to begin with.

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-Foxtrot676d ago

They really need to

Go off the evil ending off Second Son

Delsin absorbs all those powers

Revealed he’s the real Beast and John in Infamous 2 was just an anomaly created by timelines being messed with by Kessler.

Cole vs the Real Beast

gold_drake676d ago

quite honestly, i dont remember a whole lot about 2 amymore, but i absolutely hated the guy in second son haha.

chicken_in_the_corn675d ago

It would make more sense to go off the evil ending of 2 and the good ending g of SS where Cole is The Beast.

Cacabunga674d ago

Doesnt make any sense calling second son 2 as infamous 3..

OtterX675d ago

Ha, yea Delsin was obnoxious.

I wouldn't mind another new character, but somehow bring Cole into the story.

We can just pretend like Delsin never existed. :)

thejigisup675d ago

Everyone that age is obnoxious. It's been years and is like to think delsin has grown

neutralgamer1992675d ago

Until we wait for a potential new entry it would awesome to have infamous collection for PS5

RaidenBlack675d ago

Umm ... how about this?
First we get the Tushima sequel(coz its most rumored)
Then a new Resistance (need new PS SP FPS)
Then a totally new IP (new IPs are always interesting)
And then a new inFamous?

Pepsi_Man3000675d ago

resistance is insomniac I think

xHeavYx675d ago

Can we also get a complete remaster of InFamous 1 and 2?

fr0sty674d ago

Gimme a new Warhawk and MAG while we're at it.

DivineHand125675d ago

I had a great time with the second son. Never got to play the originals and hope they get remastered one day.

DazaMc675d ago

The graphics were amazing, I got the platinum on that one. Very good.

ChasterMies675d ago (Edited 675d ago )

If I had a choice between another Infamous game and another Spider-Man game, I choose Spider-Man. Sony should spend its resources on its winners.

Tacoboto675d ago (Edited 675d ago )

Infamous was such a winner its studio was given the freedom (after 3 titles + their expansions) to do a new IP with GoT, just like with Sly Cooper before infamous.

I'd welcome a 4th title even more than another Spider-Man, it'd be exciting what they could do with new powers fit for the hardware outside the limits of a licensed superhero game.

jznrpg675d ago

Spider-Man is guaranteed and is made by Insomniac so why not both as Sucker Punch would make Infamous.

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