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Single Player Games That Might Benefit From Multiplayer – inFamous

MP1st - "I’m not one to welcome too many alterations to my favorite single player titles. But while many single-player-games-turn-multi player have ended up as absolute garbage, I have been surprised by a few that have made the transition exceptionally well. I think Sucker Punch’s inFamous series could be one of them."

Nitrowolf24444d ago

If done right, I can see it working. I do understand not every game needs MP, but if a developer can put the time and effort to make it not feel tacked (Tomb Raider, Batman:Origins) then go for it cause we might end up with something worth while like in Uncharted or The Last of Us.

Shadonic4444d ago

Exactly, I really hope that they will be able to present an amazing multiplayer with infamous that uses the whole vertical movement and stuff. I wish that we could of gotten it with Second son. ( spoilers ahead )

it could be a 3v3 or 4v4 game mode set in a smaller section of Seattle. each player would have access to one of the available powers. of Neon, smoke, the little game world thing, and concrete. each power will have its pluses and minuses. Neon gives you extra speed and longer range but takes away from your power supply, smoke isn't as fast but it can be a good balance kind of like the basic assault rifle weapon or something. the TV/game power gives you the ability to travel fast while fireing from the air but your melee is slow and its not that damaging, concrete would be very slow but very heavy on the damage and sort of tanky. New powers could be added and a sort of custom power editor for the color of the effects would be cool. It could also be tied into the alternate ending of Infamous 2 having say Seattle be a city that rival conduit gangs are fighting over. you and your friends can form your own gang or group and fight for dominance earning you extra karma and experience that can influence how well known you are to the world and unlocking group battles that depending on how powerful your group is can either help you or heavily hurt you especially if you lose to a very low group. sources can be laid throughout the map for regaining energy for your player and we could maybe add in power shards that crash down in the middle of the map allowing a player to get the chance to use a karma special that enemy players still have a chance to avoid.

What do you think ? Srry for the long post I've just been holding this idea in for about a month.

ForgottenProphecy4444d ago

I was thinking something like that but more of a GTA open world type thing. Like have 8-12 players running around on the map free roaming.

You can lose karma by killing idle players, and you can gain karma by killing hostile players who initiated a fight with another idle player. Your clothes will be dark colors with bad karma and light colors with good karma for easy recognition.

If done right, I'd really like to see that.

Shadonic4444d ago

yea I had just added something similar to that but more of a gang control thing of a huge city kind of like with planetside with your clan/ gang of conduits and matches being the decider if you lose influence in one area or not.

TopDudeMan4444d ago

I think almost any game can benefit from co-op but I'm not a huge fan of competitive multiplayer.

CrossingEden4444d ago

Infamous would have a great multiplayer if done right.

BitbyDeath4444d ago

Yea, a stealing powers MP game would have been awesome.
Would make it kind of like Highlander, 'there can be only one'.

joab7774444d ago

Wow!! Brilliant idea. Seriously. Everyone has regenerating health, and a particular super power...and u have teams. Maybe if u work together or accomplish a task, u r able to steal someone's super powers for a period of time.

AT THE VER LEAST...and it is so rarely done, a Resistance 2 style co op would be brilliant. U have teams of 2-6 players with different roles like tank, healer, dps. And there are also skill tress that u eventually unlock. There could be gear drops too to create ur own super hero. You have like 8 dynamic maps that spawn certain enemies at certain times. It changes each time u play. And as a co op team, u work together to level ur character up. I would play it for a month or two for sure.

Its so damn pretty and the powers are so amazing that I hate how short it is. I almost want an mmo in this world or something so I can play this every day and level up.

Flutterby4444d ago

Why not turn it into an mmo like that abortion of a game elder scrolls online cos that seemed to work well /s

Keep Mp away from the amazing single player games please unless they don't have any impact at all on the quality of the main game.

Omegasyde4443d ago

^^^This.

Very few games pull it off well - While other games screw it up.

Hicken4444d ago

If you put it that way, ANY game might benefit from multiplayer, provided it's done well. But every game doesn't NEED multiplayer, nor do I think it should be put in every game.

Particularly if a good singleplayer is the main focus. Why pull resources away from the main draw?

Nitrowolf24444d ago

Thing is, I'm not sure i've seen a game with good SP turned trashed with the addition of MP. In most cases the SP is great and as normal as usual, but MP are typiclaly tacked onto games. SuckerPunch seems liek a studio that wouldn't just pull resources away for the sake of making a MP. It's not just looking at a game and saying "oh this would be cool with MP", it's looking at the developers to. People said the exact same thing with Uncharted and The Last of Us, yet they've both proven it can be done if the studio puts enough care. Tomb Raider MP sucked because, well, the devs didn't seem to care to much about the MP and decided lets just tack it on.

I don't believe any game could benefit when you look at the devs.

Hicken4444d ago

True. But in those cases where a crappy multiplayer is tacked onto a game with a solid singleplayer, it's easy to argue that the time spent there could have been better spent improving the singleplayer.

The time Naughty Dog spent developing the multplayer aspect of The Last of Us(which was pretty good, by the way), could have been served to enrich the story that much more, could it not?

Omegasyde4443d ago

Bioshock 2 comes to mind as well as Farcry 2, Batman: Origins, Mass Effect 3...

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-Foxtrot674d 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_drake674d 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_corn673d 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.

Cacabunga672d ago

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

OtterX673d 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. :)

thejigisup673d ago

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

neutralgamer1992673d ago

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

RaidenBlack673d 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_Man3000673d ago

resistance is insomniac I think

xHeavYx673d ago

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

fr0sty672d ago

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

DivineHand125673d ago

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

DazaMc673d ago

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

ChasterMies673d ago (Edited 673d 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.

Tacoboto672d ago (Edited 672d 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.

jznrpg672d ago

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

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