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Turning dreams into gold one jot amp scribble at a time Home Bio IT CAME FROM NETFLIX Subscribe to feed We Don t Need No Multi Player Posted by Josh Feb 14 The same night I picked up Mass Effect 2 for my wife I also picked up BioShock 2 I m a big fan of the first game for a variety of reasons I covered in my review I ve put in a few hours already and am eager to play through more of it but there s an aspect of the game that strikes me as somewhat perplexing I don t mind the notion of playing through scenarios set in the tumultuous civil war of Rapture that broke out on New Year s in 1959 On the contrary I think it d be

ascinating to see Rapture when it had more rational people in it than spliced up foamy mouth quasi zombie Splicers However since this setting is being used for multi player it s unlikely much time would be spent looking at Rapture since if you get distracted you re likely to wind up face up on the ground with some kid from Albuquerque teabagging you while the respawn timer counts down I still might try it out but the inclusion of multiplayer into a shooter that was strictly single player up until now just strikes me as odd I know the BioShock games are powered by the Unreal engine and it s developed for multi player environments and I have no objection to multi player in and of itself I used to play Counter Strike on a regular basis and every once in a while I blow the dust off of Team Fortress 2 to make sure my skills haven t atrophied entirely But the multi player of BioShock 2 at least on a concept level feels a little tacked on I m not entirely sold on the idea and I d rather get back to playing through the story I think that if you want to really capitalize on a multi player environment with an established single player franchise the best move is likely to spend the time and resources developing a separate game that focuses entirely on that experience rather than tacking it onto a single player game I mean Mass Effect doesn t have any arena or deathmatch play but then again if BioWare were to develop a multi player environment for that universe I d pray to the gaming gods that it would be less like a multi player shooter and more like an MMO Seriously Think about it A Mass Effect MMO Filed under Gaming RSS feed for comments on this post TrackBack URI 3 comments Comment by Chuck on February 14 2010 at 11 00 am I haven t cracked the Bioshock 2 MP yet I do know that you could maybe do something great with co op stuff in that game Something either with two characters making their way through Rapture or something that works with a tweaked LFD formula c Comment by John the Great on February 14 2010 at 11 44 am Chuck Maybe one of you plays the Little Sister I m enjoying the game My only complaint is how short the game is and how annoying some of the Little Sister missions can be Nothing is quite the pain as dying repeatedly and having to do the same defense over and over again Comment by Amanda d Adesky on February 14 2010 at 2 31 pm My issues with multiplayer sections being tacked onto every single game these days I m exaggerating but only just is the same problem I have with buddy games that rely on AI for your partner character Wasted opportunities for local co op I m sick to death of having to play with aforementioned kids from Albuquerque when I cannot even play these games co op with my husband who is sitting next to me on the couch patiently awaiting his turn to play Personal pet peeve I know but damn it it s not entirely invalid Name required Mail will not be published required Website About the Alchemist Aspiring novelist freelance writer gamer occasional web developer occupational hazard Recent Posts We Don t Need No Multi Player The Way To Her Heart IT CAME FROM NETFLIX Starship Troopers Plowing Forward Game Review BioShock There Ain t No Such Thing As A Free Post Evil Will Always Triumph Because Good Is Dumb Oh Just End Already Games People Play IT CAME FROM NETFLIX Flash Gordon Categories Comics Current Events Fiction Gaming How To Maintenance Netflix Notes Opinion Podcast Politics Reviews Uncategorized Cloud o Tags Abby adventure badass Battlestar Galactica BioWare blizzcon Canned comedy Comics drama Escapist fantasy Farraday Fiction films FOX GameX Gaming horror How To jovian Maintenance Marvel mmorpg modern Music Netflix Notes personal Politics rant Reviews sci fi Star Trek steampunk supernatural tabletop television The Project thriller video warcraft work writer s block writing Wayback Machine February 2010 M T W T F S S