Remember when we didn't have Xbox Live or PSN? Now, game developers tend to ignore the quality of their single player campaigns, and focus entirely on the multiplayer aspect only causing their games to lack an effective drive. How has multiplayer affected the quality of our games?
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Online multiplayer is back for 11 more games thanks to Insignia's XBL 1.0 replacement service running on Original Xbox consoles and the Xemu emulator on PC. Multiplayer, voice chat, leaderboards, etc. have been a monthly addition for many games from Xbox's past library thank to the team at Insignia.live! The 11 new games are now playable online once again after 13+ years.
Nah they will be tho look at rscs3 they have psn made in there emulator why not xenia bro?
Booo!! I was hoping that was Rainbow Six: Black Arrow...Boo!! again. I thought this coming to Xbox. I don't even read it I was so excited.
Talented writers can build worlds that are as wondrous as real-life. Here are the best lore-rich video games for you to get immersed in.
How'd fallout not make the list. Atleast over cyberpunk, tales , and halo. Fallout been around since what 96 98 and has 5 6 games into it. It's full of lore when you play it. I'd even add star ocean to a point.
Yes in lore. Easily missed... absolutely. Never played a game that had me loving the world and lore behind it as much as that one. Most of course wouldn't be able to experience it since it is a more difficult game.
I can't speak for all titles on this list, but by the time you get to Dark Souls III, the lore is a bloody tapestry of intricacy
Played them all. Im not saying the games on the list dont have good lore...I just think hollow knight had more lore that is hidden but present and more easily explored and accessed. The souls games have tremendous lore but theyre mostly hidden and stay that way unless you look for it and research it. The lore is not very accessible.
Crows90,
I think that's a somewhat fair assessment. For me, the Souls games are less upfront about the lore, but it does invite your fascination through NPCs, items, locations, bosses, etc. There's this kind of natural progression where the picture becomes just clear enough by doing the essential tasks, but it really makes you want to explore every inch of the world.
narration is more important than lore i'd rather watch the story and characters in a more cinematic way instead of searching for notes and stuff that's why i love sony exclusive games like uncharted and gow and hate from software games
The article was top ten lore in video games. I think they did a bad job picking games out. I know what you mean though. I just like a variety of games and genres.
Devs seem to think MP equals replay value. It can help, but replay value to me is the quality of the game. I rather not have any MP at all if the best experience I will have with the game is by myself enjoying it alone. I love a good single player story.
I agree with you. In my opinion, the integration of MP into SP in Demon's Souls was sheer genius. That along with Dark Souls don't compromise SP because of MP or vice versa due to the brilliant implementation of both together.
Yeah, most devs think multiplayer is the only way to prevent used sales or trade-ins.
There are some games that work well in SP and MP (Killzone, Resistance FoM, LittleBigPlanet, Portal 2, Journey, Demon's Souls, and pretty much any fighter, racer or sports game.) The trick is to have a gameplay mechanic that works seamlessly for both SP and MP.
There are some games that have unnecessary MP and should be SP only (Dead Space, bioshock 2)
A lot of games have great MP that doesn't work in SP (Battlefield, CoD, L4D, Starhawk, Twisted Metal). MAG and Warhawk strayed from SP and it benefitted them.
And then there are a few SP games that had MP placed in, but it actually turned out decent or good (Uncharted, Mass Effect, RDR, AC, and maybe GoW Ascension)
If SP devs want to combat used sales and whatnot, do what Rocksteady does: Singleplayer dlc and singeplayer pass (catwoman). They shouldn't waste time shoving MP into it.