How many plays multiplayer in FPS games?

[Kien]

I always thought it was pretty much a waste of developers to add multiplayer capability to common FPS games. Q3 has a SP part but it's just for training, it's purpose is MP. But common FPS like Farcry, Wolfenstein, FEAR, Painkiller, NOLF etc, how many people playes more than the campaign in such games? :confused:

[Damien_Azreal]

FEAR and Painkiller, the MP portions of both games got a lot of play. FEAR's MP became popular enough that Monolith released the MP for free download titled "FEAR: Combat".

Painkiller's deathmatch was used in many professional gaming tournaments and is still played to this day.

But personally, I'm a single player gamer. I play games for the solo experience. That's what I enjoy... and always have. The only way I'll go online is co-op.

[Danule]

f.e.a.r. has great MP infact its my favorite mutli player. im talking about fear 1 though

[Conan of Cooma]

I don't even play the campaign anymore, there is no longer much innovation in SP games. It has to be something striking to get me to play SP. Personally, the games that would benefit from MP are the ones that don't have it, such as the GTA:VC and SA, Prototype, Undying, etc.

That's what I loved about Duke3D, the SP gameplay was so new and out of this world. It was to Doom what Doom was to Wolf3D. Then you could take those elements and play against each other. Some of my favourite MP sessions involved RPGs and teleporters. Aaah, those were the days.

These days the MP in campaign games is either divergent from the SP game style, or so similar it's painful.

[Hudson]

Just depends on the game.

[Jeff]

I don't play multiplayer, but I do play using bots. That's not really multiplayer since you're not playing with actual people.

[Wamplet]

I don't play any of the games you mentioned because i prefer multiplayer FPS games, so the "waste" of them hashing in some crappy deathmatch or just not making an enjoyable multiplayer experience at all means they don't get my money.

[Hudson]

Some games I play(ed) are SP/MP games, and I play both. Examples:

- F.E.A.R.
- Battlefield : Bad Company
- Resistance : Fall of Man
- Resistance 2
- Killzone 2
- Call of Duty : Modern Warfare (PC only)
- Call of Duty : World At War

Some are strict MP games that I love to play:

- Left 4 Dead
- Battlefield 1942
- Battlefield : Vietnam
- Battlefield 2

Upcoming games:

- MAG
- Battlefield : Bad Company 2

It's all about the game and how it's played out. If it interests me, of course i'm going to play it.

[Phayzon]

I dont play too much online multiplayer, in the last 3 years or so Ive just played Call of Duty (4,WaW,MW2) and Halo (1 on PC and 3). LAN however I do quite a bit of with friends. Really depends on the game, like the upcoming Battlefield and new Medal of Honor I plan to play online.

An older 360 title, The Outfit, had possibly one of the most fun multiplayer experiences ever in my life. Shame no one playes it anymore :(

EDIT: Oh yeah, forgot about L4D :p

[dan2091]

The only way I'll go online is co-op.

Well, Co-op is still multiplayer so this is one reason to play games online too. It's a shame that not all developers put effort in making co-ops games anymore.

I love Duke Nukem 3D, every episode, every level. But it's more fun when you're not alone. Duke3D has been amazing for co-op.
Having spent all my life playing single player in many games, you have no idea the fun you can get playing with a lot of friends, and not only co-op, capture the flag and deathmatch which are other forms of multiplayer. It is fun, indeed.

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory was a great team based game. Unfortunately, I had stopped playing ET and when I came back servers were full of bots. :(

It's all about playing with friends, being interested in making new friends, and have fun obviously. That's what makes MP fun to me.

[0marTheZealot]

I pretty much only play CS/CS:S. I might try other FPS games for a couple weeks, but they never hold my attention like CS. Probably because they never progress beyond pub-smashing and that gets pretty old fast. I much prefer competitive playing and there is no shortage of that in CS.

Also, anything by EA is ****** because within a few months, booster packs/DLC comes out with much better guns/load-outs and ****s over the vanilla players. **** EA man, seriously. BF2 was one of the worst examples of this. It plain sucks getting killed by some loser faggot who spent 10 bucks to get the special forces commando unlock, who you know just blows at the game but has better equipment than you because he stole his daddy's credit card. Gets my blood boiling just thinking about that.

[peoplessi]

Most games don't have a good MP mode. It's not like you can take the SP assets and attach DM on top of that, then expect it to be great. It needs more. A great cooperative game is really what makes me comeback to the game. Borderlands is a good example, but so is Diablo II/Titan Quest etc. Good RTS games usually have good MP portions, something to do with the genre. Games like Company of Heroes, Dawn of War (II), World in Conflict(!) etc. Most of those work great in MP, although it might be a pain to get a even match. Racing games, basically any one of them works better against humans than AI, there's no question about it.

Quake Live - weekly, good skill based FPS
RtCW, Enemy Territory(ETPro) - weekly
CS/CSS - rarely, but I have played them both
Call of Duty 4 - rarely, bit more often when it was released
Left 4 Dead (2) - both are MP only games basically, if you want to get most out of them

Cooperative side of MP games hasn't really been exhausted yet, and I think that was the market Borderlands was aimed for. I think there's room for more :)

[Conan of Cooma]

Yeah, we need more co-op. I remember playing through the entire Quake 2 in co-op in one run. Damn it was fun. And tiring.

[Jiminator]

i first discovered MP with serious sam:se. Not a game known for MP. First coop then DM. DM was awesome. still a bunch of rabid fans playing it, although most everyone else has moved on. Then there was L4D. had lots of great times with that, first expert then lots of VS. Just have to watch stuff like that, as it is too easy to get sucked in. :)

[fast-1]

I play multiplayer it's unpredictable, but some times if you play single player games they got more of a story and you get a start and an end. If you play multiplayer you just get action no story.

Some single player games have bots that act as it's multiplayer.
like, Resident Evil, Deus Ex 1, Unreal 2.

[prophecy holder]

One of the best FPS online experience I had was with Cs:s zombie servers.

[ZuljinRaynor]

Also, anything by EA is ****** because within a few months, booster packs/DLC comes out with much better guns/load-outs and ****s over the vanilla players. **** EA man, seriously. BF2 was one of the worst examples of this. It plain sucks getting killed by some loser faggot who spent 10 bucks to get the special forces commando unlock, who you know just blows at the game but has better equipment than you because he stole his daddy's credit card. Gets my blood boiling just thinking about that.

The only one that might count is the P90 for the Anti-Tank class. Otherwise, the SF weapons where in no way clearly superior to the originals. If you just got pwned by someone who happened to have a SF weapon, there is no telling they suck or not. Nothing cheap about those guns. Maybe you just sucked?

It was worse in 2142 but still not really.

[0marTheZealot]

The only one that might count is the P90 for the Anti-Tank class. Otherwise, the SF weapons where in no way clearly superior to the originals. If you just got pwned by someone who happened to have a SF weapon, there is no telling they suck or not. Nothing cheap about those guns. Maybe you just sucked?

It was worse in 2142 but still not really.

Pretty sure it's not me because I've played CS/CS:S at a high level for a long time. You can tell how much a player sucks/doesn't suck by the way he reacts, how he moves, how he reacts. Most of BF2 comes from better weapons in the booster packs, not actually learning the game. It makes enough of a difference to kill the game for me.

For the record, I've played in several leagues in CS/CS:S, including pay-to-play, and even winning a couple seasons in CEVO-A and making it deep in the playoffs in CEVO-M. CEVO-M is basically professional caliber, at that point, it just becomes a question of whether or not you want to play 40 hours a day or not. We just played for fun, not as an actual job.

[Conan of Cooma]

CEVO-M is basically professional caliber, at that point, it just becomes a question of whether or not you want to play 40 hours a day or not. We just played for fun, not as an actual job.

40 hours a day?

[Thief]

Because sarcasm/exaggeration couldn't possibly exist on the internet, right?