Games are increasingly becoming connected experiences, even those where players mostly play by themselves. Game consultant Mark Cerny recently said that the prevalence of the internet means that traditional offline experiences might be going away.
“I believe the traditional single-player game experience will be gone in three years,” said Cerny. “Right now you sit in your living room and you’re playing a game by yourself – we call it the sp mission or the single-player campaign. In a world with Facebook I just don’t think that’s going to last.”
“We’re already seeing the wall starting to crumble a bit,” he said. “Demon’s Souls, even though on one level it’s a single-player game, as you’re walking through the world you’re seeing the ghosts of everybody who died in that world via the internet. You can leave messages for them. They can leave messages for you. There’s actually a boss you fight in that game which is controlled by another player. We’re talking five, 10 years out. I believe three years from now, if you aren’t doing that, you are being criticized in your reviews for your lack of innovation.”
Source: Eurogamer
