After seeing another thread where someone asked about two-player co-op PS3 games, I got to thinking. PS3 has had MANY chances to have some great 2-player games if not co-op, and for some reason these games completely don't have it in favor of online play. Here are the games I have right now and their offline functionality:
Resistance: Has co-op and it's awesome. Set the bar very high (Not to mention it has up to 4-player fragfests on the same system, too)
Motorstorm: Absolutely no offline multiplayer functionality. Why? At least having a 2-player race with the bots would be fun, but there's nothing there at all.
Oblivion: No multiplayer functionality, but not like it would work with it anyway.
Rainbow Six: Vegas: The only other game I have with co-op offline. It's okay, but the game is just too slow after a while and makes me want to go to sleep. It has some normal multiplayer offline, also.
Call of Duty 4: It has some offline fragfests, but no co-op capability with anyone else at all, online or offline. It would have been nice, but its amazing online capability makes it good enough.
Ratchet and Clank: No multiplayer functionality at all. Up Your Arsenal had some, but it's not a big blow here.
Guitar Hero 3: Actually, I forgot this game has co-op. However, I don't have the money to go out and buy another PS3 guitar in order to play its co-op. Online is lag-free during songs and good for co-op, though.
UT3: Now, THIS is the one that really gets me. No co-op, no offline multiplayer for a game that is all about fighting against others. This game is completely useless if you don't have online (and, from what my brother told me, the netcode makes online just as useless).
So, there you have it. Only three games with decent offline functionality and two that should have, by all means, had some (Motorstorm and UT3). I've heard that the framerate may suffer because of all the detail, but I don't think that's a good enough excuse. If Gears of War could make a kickass co-op adventure with the best graphics ever on 360, then these other games should have at least been able to have something.
What does this trend tell me? That game developers seem to think offline is a thing of the past and anyone that plays PS3 in the first place must have no friends. Well, I do, and it gets frustrating when we try to play something together only to find that it's not possible. This growing trend seems to tell me that offline multiplayer gaming is a thing of the past and that developers are completely switching their focus to online. Looks like those 7 possible controller slots of PS3 will never be put to any use.
Also, I apoligize for overusing the words "functionality", "co-op", and "offline" (not to mention the phrase "at all"). I made myself sick when I re-read this post.
Resistance: Has co-op and it's awesome. Set the bar very high (Not to mention it has up to 4-player fragfests on the same system, too)
Motorstorm: Absolutely no offline multiplayer functionality. Why? At least having a 2-player race with the bots would be fun, but there's nothing there at all.
Oblivion: No multiplayer functionality, but not like it would work with it anyway.
Rainbow Six: Vegas: The only other game I have with co-op offline. It's okay, but the game is just too slow after a while and makes me want to go to sleep. It has some normal multiplayer offline, also.
Call of Duty 4: It has some offline fragfests, but no co-op capability with anyone else at all, online or offline. It would have been nice, but its amazing online capability makes it good enough.
Ratchet and Clank: No multiplayer functionality at all. Up Your Arsenal had some, but it's not a big blow here.
Guitar Hero 3: Actually, I forgot this game has co-op. However, I don't have the money to go out and buy another PS3 guitar in order to play its co-op. Online is lag-free during songs and good for co-op, though.
UT3: Now, THIS is the one that really gets me. No co-op, no offline multiplayer for a game that is all about fighting against others. This game is completely useless if you don't have online (and, from what my brother told me, the netcode makes online just as useless).
So, there you have it. Only three games with decent offline functionality and two that should have, by all means, had some (Motorstorm and UT3). I've heard that the framerate may suffer because of all the detail, but I don't think that's a good enough excuse. If Gears of War could make a kickass co-op adventure with the best graphics ever on 360, then these other games should have at least been able to have something.
What does this trend tell me? That game developers seem to think offline is a thing of the past and anyone that plays PS3 in the first place must have no friends. Well, I do, and it gets frustrating when we try to play something together only to find that it's not possible. This growing trend seems to tell me that offline multiplayer gaming is a thing of the past and that developers are completely switching their focus to online. Looks like those 7 possible controller slots of PS3 will never be put to any use.
Also, I apoligize for overusing the words "functionality", "co-op", and "offline" (not to mention the phrase "at all"). I made myself sick when I re-read this post.