Open world singleplayer games have been selling like crazy. Linear ones, not so much. And that is the crux. If Titanfall 2 had been an open world sandbox modeled after Ubisoft's Far Cry games it would have sold way better than it did. A singleplayer game that is only several hours long is an extremely hard sell in the modern market. Really they're passion projects that are subsidized. Either you're subsidized by a hardware manufacturer or the game publisher attaches an extremely popular MP mode to your game to help drive sales.
I still think that if Titanfall 2 didn't come out in between Battlefield 1 and CoD Infinite Warfare it would have had above average sales. The campaign and multiplayer are both excellent and word of mouth would have likely carried it if people weren't already busy with other games. Open world wouldn't have changed things, it was always being sent to die being an FPS released in between the 2 biggest FPS games on the market.
WWII had a very good campaign overall. The French Resistance mission was a particular highlight. It also fully ditched elements such as regenerating health, which was refreshing. Its predecessor from Sledgehammer, Advanced Warfare, was exceptional. These games are made by people who worked on series like Dead Space. Sledgehammer is basically the parts of Visceral that made Dead Space 1, and left during the development of Dead Space 2. You think they wake up in the morning and say, "Yea, I'd rather work on a Battle Royale mode than the singleplayer expreriences I joined the games industry to make"?
That sounds interesting and a nice change from the modern and future warfare games. I doubt Visceral would prefer to ditch single player experiences but I can't say the same about Treyarch. It's odd to me because the Black Ops 1 campaign was a blast and Black Ops 2's was one of the best in the series but 3's was such a drastic drop off that it made me feel Treyarch just wanted to move in a different direction but was afraid of backlash.
It's buried and covered over with grass on it now haha it's not coming back
Ghosts was fun, don't care what anyone says. IW's mp problems are a result of it being blops 3.5 imo. Activisionhsouldve let infinity ward make the map they wanted to instead of copying blops as a base.
Truth be told, a Deus Ex branded multiplayer shooter would probably sell better than a proper Deus Ex game. (Project Snowblind started out as a Deus Ex multiplayer game, didn't it. incidentally?) It didn't succeed, but when you look around, the writing is on the wall. Just look at something like Rainbow 6: Siege. Game is HUGE compared to the relatively niche classic Rainbow 6 games. Deus Ex has never been a huge series. Cerebral, slow paced singleplayer games don't have that kind of pull. Multiplayer shooters? Huge market for them. A lot of SP fans historically like to talk about "tacked on" MP that "nobody wants" but popular multiplayer drives sales like nothing else.
They've been dabbling with this in the form of Call of Duty: Online for China.
Yeah, the BR seemed to be a huge hit.
There are some missions you can play solo and you can do zombies with bots.
I was just thinking of the PR after Red Dead's release about it being the second biggest game launch of all time.
On the contrary Visceral are the ones experimenting on COD MP. They're thinking like a COD developer.
