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Mass Effect 3 does not need multiplayer.
Dear video game industry,
Stop shoehorning multiplayer into single-player games.* I'm serious. Quit it.
Sincerely,
Me
* - And this includes co-op. For strange reasons, some people seem to think that "muliplayer" and "co-op" are two different things. They are not. Co-op, especially if it's forced co-op,** is just as bad, if not even worse. If a game forces me to play with a crappy AI partner because the "real, intended" way to play it is with two people, then yes, that is forced multiplayer co-op shoehorned into and pretty much ruining what should have been a single-player game. Hell, for what it's worth, if they're going to force multiplayer into a single-player game anyway, no matter what, then I'd rather it be a distinct multiplayer mode for deathmatch or whatever (or like Portal 2's co-op), since at least with that I can totally ignore it rather than having it blatantly right there, shitting up what should have been the single-player.
** - I'll make a distinction here between that and something like Left 4 Dead, where the multiplayer is the main focus and always has been from the start, and what single-player there is with the crappy bots is the tacked on bit. I'll also make a distinction between this and something like ICO or Half-Life 2 Ep 1 & 2 or Enslaved (which I still haven't played yet myself, though I hear it's pretty good) or whatever, where there is an AI controlled character following you around, but there is (thankfully) no multiplayer. No, I'm talking here about games that should have been single-player, where every previous game in the series (with the possible exception of an outlier here and there) was single-player, but now there's some retarded multiplayer/co-op tacked on because "at least some multiplayer/connectivity is required in all our games from now on" or whatever idiotic shit.
Dear video game industry,
Stop shoehorning multiplayer into single-player games.* I'm serious. Quit it.
Sincerely,
Me
* - And this includes co-op. For strange reasons, some people seem to think that "muliplayer" and "co-op" are two different things. They are not. Co-op, especially if it's forced co-op,** is just as bad, if not even worse. If a game forces me to play with a crappy AI partner because the "real, intended" way to play it is with two people, then yes, that is forced multiplayer co-op shoehorned into and pretty much ruining what should have been a single-player game. Hell, for what it's worth, if they're going to force multiplayer into a single-player game anyway, no matter what, then I'd rather it be a distinct multiplayer mode for deathmatch or whatever (or like Portal 2's co-op), since at least with that I can totally ignore it rather than having it blatantly right there, shitting up what should have been the single-player.
** - I'll make a distinction here between that and something like Left 4 Dead, where the multiplayer is the main focus and always has been from the start, and what single-player there is with the crappy bots is the tacked on bit. I'll also make a distinction between this and something like ICO or Half-Life 2 Ep 1 & 2 or Enslaved (which I still haven't played yet myself, though I hear it's pretty good) or whatever, where there is an AI controlled character following you around, but there is (thankfully) no multiplayer. No, I'm talking here about games that should have been single-player, where every previous game in the series (with the possible exception of an outlier here and there) was single-player, but now there's some retarded multiplayer/co-op tacked on because "at least some multiplayer/connectivity is required in all our games from now on" or whatever idiotic shit.
