Tuesday, May 15, 2018

The Future of Single-Player Games (part 2)


With so much focus on multiplayer video games, a lot of developers are adding sub-par singleplayer modes to at least seem like they care about the gamers who want to play alone. Developers have learned from EA, a giant in video game development that owns the license to the Star Wars universe. The infamous Star Wars Battlefront online multiplayer game received a very negative backlash from gamers when EA didn't include a singleplayer mode at all. Yet despite this incident, singleplayer games are clearly not the focus of most large developers. Few remain dedicated to making singleplayer only games, though some developers such as Bethesda Softworks (Skyrim, Fallout), Santa Monica Studios (God of War), and Naughty Dog (Uncharted, The Last of Us) excel at it. However, many critically acclaimed singleplayer games such as Dishonored 2, Prey, and inXile's Torment: Tides of Numenera all saw extremely disappointing sales. There are interesting trends emerging for these types of solo experiences, and traditional styles of singleplayer games from past decades are disappearing fast. What is changing?

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