Insomniac finished with single-player-only games

It would seem, given this news, that I am through with Insomniac.

Well, R&C:UYA and Deadlocked combined singleplayer and multiplayer pretty well, if they can pull that off It would probably be alright

I really don't think this is a good decision. Multiplayer is always fun with friends and family, but I'll choose single player over mp any day.

Good lord folks, if you don't like multiplayer then you don't have to play it. I rarely play MP, but I don't whine about it, since most games still have decent single player campaigns. I've been gaming for 30 years and never have I heard as much ceaseless whining, b*tching and complaining as I do from gamers these days. I don't know if it's because of the younger generation having an overbearing sense of entitlement or what, but it makes me almost embarrassed to associate with gaming.

This shit is why Call of Duty needs to die. Multiplayer is NOT the awnser!

Insomniac, Wat r u doin? Insomniac, stahp

one more developer that I can cross off the list of who I will buy games from.

I really hope other developers don't jump on this bandwagon. Saying that games NEED a multi player aspect forces a game designer to think multi player when they make the games.They could have the best idea out there but it won't be released because the higher ups won't clear it unless they think of some way to force MP into it.

The less flexibility you give the people making games the less innovation they can come up with. It is like telling the a painter to paint something but they can only use one type of brush.

I see this is their first PC game and since I only play singleplayer games and don't care about if there is multiplayer included, I doubt I will have any further interest in their games. There are far too many games out there for me (with a giant backlog nonetheless) to need to go with something that is only somewhat appealing.

Doesn't matter, haven't bought a single game they developed and their focus was consoles anyways, so no harm done to PC gaming.

Bye bye, EA doggie - of course this goes hand in hand with the news from DICE where they say that EA is innovative after EA said they want to innnovate.

Recently EA said there's no future in singleplayer, so this news post here was no surprise and simply a matter of time, coming from another studio on EA's leash of course.

Let's hope this helps to sink that ship (EA) faster.

Aw, man, this is not good for people like me who don't care for MP at all. The only games I ever have played with MP is Demon's and Dark Souls. This may be another step in what I fear greatly. I sometimes(actually, most of the time) hate the whole digital boom..

The thing is, it IS possible to have games where MP doesn't come at the expense of the singleplayer (eg. Red Dead Redemption) but it's just that most devs will not take the extra time and effort required to do it. Maybe Insomniac will be one of the good ones like Rockstar...but from listening to this guy talk, and if R&C All 4 One is anything to go by, I'm not hopeful.

idiot

as long as you're not forcing people online to play single-player ala Diablo 2 or the new SimCity then I really couldn't care less what your focus is.

Online gameplay would be amazing. if the bulk of people who play mp games weren't the mix of either completely mute people who don't like to speak during a game, or the complete gobsheits who talk utter nonsense. 

I fully jumped on board in the early xbox/ps2 days (socom was the place to be) but once this gen launched (for me anyway) people turned into retards online.

It is extremely rare that I touch the MP content on a game in the last couple of years, possibly because MP is no longer region locked - we all demanded that the regions be unlocked, and for me, it ruined it. 

I think half the problem with MP is that games get released at different times in different regions and by the time the UK is online, everyone else has already become gaming gods on whatever title it is, making your first few hours online horrendous.  EA also don't help the situation by letting you purchase your way to better kit on a lot of their titles. 

The last R&C game insomniac released was awful, and was ruined by the mp content. If they have truly walked away from R&C being a single player experience I'm sad to say I'll be letting the franchise go. 

MP should be included in a lot of games for those who want it, but if its at the expense of SP then I'll pass

Mabey I'm in the minority now, but I play SP to relieve stress, MP just generates it - is 35 getting to old for gaming?!? (after all I have been playing since the Amstrad days...)

As long as there is a single player componet, and a co-op componet, On-line mulitplayer does not really have much of staying power beyond 6 months at most. Other than a few games On-line MP has a very short lifespan.

Seems these developers are in it for a quick cash in.

I guess they're ready to get out of the game business, then.  Once you go online-only, you die very quickly.

Why?  Very few games with online actually get played.  Most people just play COD or BF3 online.  Well, at least on consoles.  A far wider range of games get played online on pc.  PC gamers don't stick to just one game.

What recent Insomniac game has been single player only anyway? The Resistance games had robust campaigns for an FPS and multiplayer and co-op.  Ratchet and Clank all 4 one had single player, couch co-op and multiplayer co-op.  Fuse seems like it is a slightly more serious sort of Ratchet and Clank game (from the one original trailer I saw).  Thus I am guessing and hoping it will have single player, and online and couch co-op.

Those CEO's are so down to earth, they really know games!! They know so much what's good for us... Grats, I think they couldn't destroy an industry faster than they did... Gaming is already dead. Time to move on!

Well I would say that forced multiplayer is a form of DRM and what is eeven worse its a platform for constant dlc milking and money grubbing. He sees just $$$. There is no more to it.

R.I.P. Insomniac.

The Witcher disagrees with this.

EA approves of this.

Gamers?  Ehhhh, not so much.

i dont play well with others i much prefer a single player game never liked to have to rely on other people to play a game but sadly it seems like thats the way every developer is thinking these days i feel as though single player campaigns are going to suffer

Well, so long as the focus is where it should be, I'm fine with this.

PEOPLE, stop thinking that social gaming is a phase, if that was the case, online console gaming wouldn't be as popular. This IS the future, I even think more things will be more social IE: televisions and shows integrated with social networking. That is not the say that a single player experience will die out. I doubt they will remove the single player option, but they will most likely not make single player only games.

Considering how games have been coming out in the last few years, people won't notice much difference. Single-player games selling for $60 and lasting all of two hours. All people want is a good campaign and the option to do it co-op. I don't understand why that's always been such a hard concept.

its okay, we still have Dark Souls sequels to look forward to.  single player games aren't done yet..

At least they're not scrapping single-player campaigns all together; they're still gonna make a 'FUSE-ion' (haha pardon the pun) of both Multi and Single player. So I guess it's still all good. :)

This just makes me even sadder for the future of gaming. 

YEAH!! We would just LOVE having another boring social game that I'll probably sell after 10 minutes of play time over an amazing single player experience any day of the week! 

I think taking single-player only games off the drawing board completely is pretty stupid. Also all the people bitching about games becoming multiplayer only must not know a damn thing about the game industry since all MP only games (except for MMOs and F2P games) have die out years ago because publishers made devs shoehorn in unneeded single player in to games that should be multiplayer only. Example Battlefield 3

Wow. Making a worthy single player experience should not have to warrant extra development for multiplayer.

ugh..insomniac might be a great studio but i think their prespective of how the industry works and how to respond to it is very very dubious. why can't just try and do their own thing isntead of running after the ever illusive moneys? the money will come after..

i think they were in the right track with resistance 3, but resistance was plagued with a brand name that (sadly) no one cared anymore.. this is quite tragic..this new game that they are making looks so generic..