Is it Possible For There To Be an FPS Game with No Online?

It seems like now every single first person shooter game needs to have online in order to really sell copies or become really popular. Everyone rages about Modern Warfare 2 online without even paying attention to the story, same thing is starting to happen with Halo, which has an amazing story. No dont get me wrong I love online FPS games, there fun and add alot of competition, but im just wondering If its possible for there to be an FPS with no online that can sell copies. Hell, i wouldnt be suprised if Half Life 2: Episode 3 has an online mode of some sort. What do you think?

I never played Doom 3, Half Life 2, or Crysis/Warhead online. Same goes for Bioshock. The only online game I play is Battlefield 2 (2005) and that's family/by invitation only. At least with family and friends only, the behavior is halfway civilized.

Of course it can be done but I doubt it will be at this point. It's just a sign of the times. Plenty of great first-person shooters were made before online multiplayer really hit big (on consoles anyways) but offline multiplayer has been a part of shooters almost since the begining. Now that consoles have embraced online play and gamers have in turn embraced the opion to play online and look at it as a major purchase point and reason to keep playing the game, it's going to be a part of probably every shooter from here on out. That's not to say people dont play the campaign or enjoy the story they tell but as far as actual play time, that mode is such a small part of the game. Most shooters have anywhere between 5 to 15 hours of story mode but people can play multiplayer for months or even years. You could make the argument that people could play a great story for months and that may be so but if given an option people aren't going to play the same predictable campaign over and over again when they could be playing a multiplayer mode that is always different and always challenging. It's a great way to get a lot more out of a game.

IMO, I think somebody should design a sand-box FPS. For example, you could take a city like New York, have an alien invasion or another country attacking, and you'd be a Navy Seal running around the city in different vehicles, completing missions, and clearing out the enemy. I know this sounds very basic, but it's just an idea I've had for a while. Rather than making every single FPS so linear as they do now, I think it's time to open it up to the sand-box style.

Cant think of a better example than Bioshock 1.

All the STALKER games have multiplayer, but everyone really just buys it for the single player.

Cant think of a better example than Bioshock 1.

All the STALKER games have multiplayer, but everyone really just buys it for the single player.

XaosII

Yeah, but then they really ruined it with Bioshock 2. Online multiplayer that really doesn't look that good. Should have kept it at 1 game..imo, but I'm getting off topic.

There isn't much of a point to adding online to many of these shooting games as while people might like the single player mode, it seems most will just play that game online for a week, or less, then move right back to COD, or Halo, or Killzone, or you know, just the really great online shooters.

I doubt Valve would include online gameplay for the final episode of 'Half Life'.. But stranger things have happened

Half-life, Stalker, and Mirror's Edge (i know it didn't sell much, but i loved) were all FPSes i bought for Single player. Tell you the truth, i bought MW2 for the Singleplayer after buying COD4 for the multiplayer and finishing the story. believe it or not, everyone didn't look at the popular FPSes for their Online, just some of them got hooked on that also.

Fallout 3?

Cant think of a better example than Bioshock 1.

All the STALKER games have multiplayer, but everyone really just buys it for the single player.

XaosII

Half-life, Stalker, and Mirror's Edge (i know it didn't sell much, but i loved) were all FPSes i bought for Single player. Tell you the truth, i bought MW2 for the Singleplayer after buying COD4 for the multiplayer and finishing the story. believe it or not, everyone didn't look at the popular FPSes for their Online, just some of them got hooked on that also.

Aslyum_Beast

I kept hoping that Halo woud break off it's multiplayer into a second series all by itself. Being someone who has read the books based on Halo and who enjoys the story that they provide, I was very let down when Halo2 came out and was basically 90% Multiplayer, 10% Singleplayer. The first game struck a pretty perfect balance between the two so it was sad to see Halo2 take the franchise in that direction.

Of course it paid off in spades and Halo's multiplayer is, for many, synonymous with online console gaming. But for me, I wish there were two teams. Story teams who would tell Halo stories and a separate multiplayer game for the people who mostly like that sort of thing. "Halo Tournament" and "Halo: Proper storytime" in other words.

But alas, it wasn't meant to be. Not to slight the story elements in H3 or ODST which were good of course.

I kept hoping that Halo woud break off it's multiplayer into a second series all by itself. Being someone who has read the books based on Halo and who enjoys the story that they provide, I was very let down when Halo2 came out and was basically 90% Multiplayer, 10% Singleplayer. The first game struck a pretty perfect balance between the two so it was sad to see Halo2 take the franchise in that direction.

Of course it paid off in spades and Halo's multiplayer is, for many, synonymous with online console gaming. But for me, I wish there were two teams. Story teams who would tell Halo stories and a separate multiplayer game for the people who mostly like that sort of thing. "Halo Tournament" and "Halo: Proper storytime" in other words.

But alas, it wasn't meant to be. Not to slight the story elements in H3 or ODST which were good of course.

ZZoMBiE13

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I kept hoping that Halo woud break off it's multiplayer into a second series all by itself. Being someone who has read the books based on Halo and who enjoys the story that they provide, I was very let down when Halo2 came out and was basically 90% Multiplayer, 10% Singleplayer. The first game struck a pretty perfect balance between the two so it was sad to see Halo2 take the franchise in that direction.

Of course it paid off in spades and Halo's multiplayer is, for many, synonymous with online console gaming. But for me, I wish there were two teams. Story teams who would tell Halo stories and a separate multiplayer game for the people who mostly like that sort of thing. "Halo Tournament" and "Halo: Proper storytime" in other words.

But alas, it wasn't meant to be. Not to slight the story elements in H3 or ODST which were good of course.

JustPlainLucas

Wow. You perfectly summarized my entire point in two short sentences. I really need to be less verbose. ;)

Wow. You perfectly summarized my entire point in two short sentences. I really need to be less verbose. ;)

ZZoMBiE13

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I kept hoping that Halo woud break off it's multiplayer into a second series all by itself. Being someone who has read the books based on Halo and who enjoys the story that they provide, I was very let down when Halo2 came out and was basically 90% Multiplayer, 10% Singleplayer. The first game struck a pretty perfect balance between the two so it was sad to see Halo2 take the franchise in that direction.

Of course it paid off in spades and Halo's multiplayer is, for many, synonymous with online console gaming. But for me, I wish there were two teams. Story teams who would tell Halo stories and a separate multiplayer game for the people who mostly like that sort of thing. "Halo Tournament" and "Halo: Proper storytime" in other words.

But alas, it wasn't meant to be. Not to slight the story elements in H3 or ODST which were good of course.

JustPlainLucas

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Wow. You perfectly summarized my entire point in two short sentences. I really need to be less verbose. ;)

JustPlainLucas

If they did it well I'd love something like that. I really miss games that were all about the single player experience. A good story like one of the Eric Nylund books could easily be co-opted into a lengthy, and memorable,camaign. I hope Reach has an interesting story, but only time will tell. I still miss the Chief but Noble team has potential.

If they did it well I'd love something like that. I really miss games that were all about the single player experience. A good story like one of the Eric Nylund books could easily be co-opted into a lengthy, and memorable,camaign. I hope Reach has an interesting story, but only time will tell. I still miss the Chief but Noble team has potential.

ZZoMBiE13