Comments on: Why Are Multiplayer Games So Forgettable?

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:37:50 +0000

I never really got prestiging either. It’s fun to get more and more powerful, but what’s the point if you’re going to keep resetting yourself?

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:34:11 +0000

It’s more from a gameplay perspective than anything else. Multiplayer is built around repetition and that tends to make the individual experiences blend together.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 02:28:12 +0000

Yeah, it’s not that they’re not exciting it’s just that all the matches start to blend together after awhile.

By: TheDreamCasters

TheDreamCasters — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 21:01:16 +0000

This is mainly one of the reason I’ve never understood the prestige system most multi games have. Honestly, I don’t have enough interest in multiplayer experiences to stick around for multiple “prestiges”. It just doesn’t hold my interest long enough. I also agree that they’re experiences that are fleeting, and can be fun to return for a short spurt of fun, but never quite like singleplayer. A good singleplayer experience to me has the similar effect a a book does; they later let you wander the trails of nostalgia, and give you an experience you wish you could forget just so you can re-live it.

By: Walters

Walters — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:21:21 +0000

Weird…this is the first I’ve noticed of multiplayer being forgettable! Then again, I hung out with people who played Call of Duty and Battlefield a lot back in college, and when in club we’d always play stuff like Smash Bros or Street Fighter to get things going. So maybe it’s because I was in that bubble that’s why.

By: mherrera697

mherrera697 — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:00:53 +0000

I agree I used to play multiplayer games all the time because they were fun, but after a while I missed the feeling of completing a game and moving on to a new game and having to experience something new and exciting.