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Mutiplayer Mode?

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scott:
I wasn't sure what to title the thread.

Anyway, for some games mulitplayer is a requirement, such as First Person Shooters Sports and Racing titles, since competition is so ingrained into those genres. But, now-a-days it seems like most games has some kind of multiplayer component, with only a few genres holding out and staying completely single player. How do you feel about mutliplayer? Does a game require some form of a multiplayer component in order for you to fully enjoy it? Or are you completely content with the single player experience?

desocietas:
I definitely enjoy multiplayer, especially it it doesn't require a lot of effort on either player's part (drop-in play, for instance).

However, it's certainly not necessary... It's not always possible to have a friend always around who can play with you.  But with things like XBLA, it makes things much, much easier for a little pickupandmultiplay.

I guess I feel like it's a great cherry on top if it's done well.

scott:
The biggest things that bug me about Multiplayer in games are:
1) Tacked on "just because" multiplayer.
2) Multiplayer mode that detracts from the Single Player game.

Personally, I don't really care about multiplayer anymore. I've not played more than a single online session of Borderlands and played through the main campaign solo. I don't think I've played more than a hand full of co-op/ vs. matches in Left 4 Dead and I've only played a few games of Castle Crashers online. Of course I kind of burned myself out on MMOs too. Also, my 360 has really been kind of a pain for the last year and is failing to stay connected to Xbox Live. I used to play a ton of Halo 2 and got to be pretty good, but I never really got into the Halo 3 scene.

madmax:
I feel like multiplayer is put there to stop pirating a lot of the time. Games like driver have the whole (compare time. etc blah blha) but I could care less about that. fps need online, jRPG don't.

desocietas:
I have fond memories of the few times I was able to convince my brother to play co-op with me with Legend of Mana, even though the multiplayer aspect of that game sucked.  Still better than some other tacked on stuff I've seen in later games.

And with Borderlands, I've probably played no more than 20 min. solo on that game... Co-op is the only way I play it.  Same goes with the co-op Lara Croft game and a few others.  Definitely looking forward to some multiplayer Torchlight 2!

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