Valve "probably" done with single-player games

[dsheinem]

http://kotaku.com/#!5795355/valve-proba ... ayer-games

I thought this might be of interest to folks here. I for one really hope that they don't move in this direction - at the very least not until after HL2E3 and/or HL3.

Thoughts?

[Flake]

I think it's unwise to take any options off the table when you're talking about game design, especially an option like single player.

Doing that invites a future where resources are committed to tacking on a multi-player mode that might not fit the game in question.

[J T]

Have we learned nothing from history?

"Hell is other people." -Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

If they do go through with this then they have lost my support. Sorry but I like to play single player story modes. Unreal.

[Weekend_Warrior]

Since when is Deathmatch more important than a good storyline-based campaign?

Sounds like greed to me. Because if someone plays strictly offline, single-player modes then Valve can't see any more profit from that.

Fuck them, their Steam service, and their Sony-loving asses.

[J T]

Let's not get too worked up over this. Valve isn't saying all games will be deathmatch. The exact quote is "Portal 2 will probably be Valve's last game with an isolated single-player experience". The Left4Dead games didn't have an isolated single-player experience either. You could play them single-player with AI, but you never ran through the game alone and both the multiplayer and the single player campaigns were exactly the same. Valve has also been a multiplayer heavy company for a long time now. Counterstrike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat, Half Life Deathmatch, Ricochet, and Left 4 Dead are all multiplayer games. The only games with pure single player campaigns that can't be played cooperatively are the Half Life and Portal games.

[AppleQueso]

If they do go through with this then they have lost my support. Sorry but I like to play single player story modes. Unreal.

Isn't Unreal a multiplayer game mainly though?

[Hatta]

If this is true, then I'm probably done with Valve. This doesn't bode well for HL2Ep3. Hopefully they farm it out to someone who still cares about a good single player experience.

Never played any of those multiplayer games, save Counterstrike. Still don't get what the big deal about Counterstrike was. No interest whatsoever in the others.

[brunoafh]

If they do go through with this then they have lost my support. Sorry but I like to play single player story modes. Unreal.

Isn't Unreal a multiplayer game mainly though?

Yeah, but the singleplayer mode in Unreal is actually pretty good.

[Flake]

Lol, with the extreme 'My way or the highway' mentality everyone seems to have I am surprised any of you guys can find a game to play these days!