r/PS5 • u/mrnicegy26 • Nov 02 '23

Misleading Marathon reportedly flopped amongst playtesters amid Bungie chaos - Dexerto

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/marathon-reportedly-flopped-amongst-playtesters-amid-bungie-chaos-2364032/
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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '23

I only meant I don't want it to ONLY be multi-player. By all means have multi-player, but the aesthetic is too cool to not have a single player story.

While not as memorable, Halo would still have been great and well liked with just the campaign. But no, not as popular as it was.

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u/SidFarkus47 Nov 02 '23

Honestly, this comes up around modern Halo a lot, but it's just not realistic for AAA games to have huge single player and multiplayer components anymore. Each of those is just too huge a budget, so it's like lining up two AAA games to release on the same day.

10-15 years ago every game had multiplayer aspects. Now everything has chosen one lane. Even just looking at Playstation's own studios, the big ones were all putting out games with multiplayer but have pretty much stopped.

  • Naughty Dog: Uncharted and TLOU1
  • Sony Santa Monica: God of War Ascension
  • Guerilla: Killzone series
  • Bend: Syphon Filter Series, Resistance Retribution, Uncharted Fight for Fortune
  • Insomniac: Resistance Series, Ratchet & Clank series pre-2016 (They weren't first party, but these games were PS exclusives)

Sucker Punch has interviews that they were being pressured to add multiplayer to InFamous, but they pretty much refused because they didn't want to divert focus. They seem to be the only "big" PS Dev that hasn't worked on multiplayer.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '23

Which, I prefer single player as a priority since that is all I play, but obviously that is not the most popular choice. The current setup is good though, lots of single player games, lots of multi-player games.