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Foreword: This is not a doom and gloom thread. Please keep that kind of talk elsewhere.
Long ago, when Guild Wars first launched, one of the things that the playerbase was informally told was that should Guild Wars fold, ANet would allow the game to be playable in an offline method. While that might unsettle some, for me, it inspired confidence in ANet's attitude toward the players when it was still fledging. That in the event of failure with their experimental online game, if it didn't do well, your investment would not be totally thrown away. While I somewhat doubt that holds true anymore, at the time it was worth a lot.
Now, shortly after Champions launched, that idea came back to me. This is not something spurred on by the recent news of Atari's attempts to shed Cryptic. Rather, now just seems like an opportune time to bring it up.
While Champions has been crafted as an online game, it seems that from a gameplay standpoint, it would transition nicely to a single player and multiplayer standpoint. After witnessing how well a game like Borderlands does in a single player and multiplayer setting, it really reinforces this notion for me. The elements are there, the world has some life to it (especially Vibora Bay). While the sense of community would be diminished, Champions has always been heavily solo-friendly and even, debatably, solo-centric outside of the final lairs.
Of course, I know nothing about the server architecture and what would be required to make the game function in a single player/multiplayer means. If it is possible, though, how well would this be received? The Costume Creator alone is reason enough for many people to want it. I think it'd do well, if it were technically feasible to run it in a small server, personal server, or single player mode.
TLDR: If it were technically possible, would you enjoy Champions in a single/multiplayer/small server scenario?
Long ago, when Guild Wars first launched, one of the things that the playerbase was informally told was that should Guild Wars fold, ANet would allow the game to be playable in an offline method. While that might unsettle some, for me, it inspired confidence in ANet's attitude toward the players when it was still fledging. That in the event of failure with their experimental online game, if it didn't do well, your investment would not be totally thrown away. While I somewhat doubt that holds true anymore, at the time it was worth a lot.
Now, shortly after Champions launched, that idea came back to me. This is not something spurred on by the recent news of Atari's attempts to shed Cryptic. Rather, now just seems like an opportune time to bring it up.
While Champions has been crafted as an online game, it seems that from a gameplay standpoint, it would transition nicely to a single player and multiplayer standpoint. After witnessing how well a game like Borderlands does in a single player and multiplayer setting, it really reinforces this notion for me. The elements are there, the world has some life to it (especially Vibora Bay). While the sense of community would be diminished, Champions has always been heavily solo-friendly and even, debatably, solo-centric outside of the final lairs.
Of course, I know nothing about the server architecture and what would be required to make the game function in a single player/multiplayer means. If it is possible, though, how well would this be received? The Costume Creator alone is reason enough for many people to want it. I think it'd do well, if it were technically feasible to run it in a small server, personal server, or single player mode.
TLDR: If it were technically possible, would you enjoy Champions in a single/multiplayer/small server scenario?
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Positives: Done right, a modding community could make Champions Offline incredible. I mean the game is already incredibly flexible - imagine what a dedicated mod team could do with it? One that obviously wouldn't be restrained by things like "profitable", 'good taste' or even 'logical' >.>
I also spend enough time costuming that that, by itself, would probably have me keeping it installed for a long, long time to come.
Negatives: Two big ones:
1) CO's content is by and large MMO-Standard. That is, "go here, kill this". That is OK enough if you've got people to chat with while you do it; or when the game is new... but for a fully single player game? Yeah that would get farking old. It's not like it's a sandbox style game where there's tons of ways to alter the world - you'd have to mod in all that kind of stuff if you wanted it.
So in order for COffline to work for me, there'd need to be beefy mission creation tools and plenty of people willing to use them. (Think original NWN community for example.)
2) I like most of the CO playerbase who I've talked to. I admit, I've not grouped a lot or anything; but I like the idea that I could if I wanted to. It'd also be kind of sad not having anyone to admire my costumes <;_;> Yes, I am that vain dammit. So while I wouldn't call other people essential to my enjoyment of the game, it's a significant factor when combined with A.
That said, I'd honestly, totally pay Cryptic 50 bucks for a standalone game with a similar level of customization built around single player campaigns in the Champions universe. Like a 20-40 hour RPG basically, with some content creation and mod tools <. .>b That would be awesome. (I'm actually thinking kind of like "Freedom Force"... but better <@_@>b)
But I agree with Avalance, it would be eerie.... *unlesssss :rolleyes:
I suppose you could have the game boost the number of npc bots spawned in your vicinity to make the city feel 'bustled' :rolleyes:
even better .. have bot skins be 'player submitted' for download, like SPORE does with it's creatures .... that would be sweet as heck. could have random 'suited' heroes doing thier bot-thing around you .... could save favorites...
... ya I know ... wishful thinking.
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A few people have commented that the game might seem a little eerie and unsettling without having other players around. But personally, I think my immersion into the gameplay experience would sometimes be improved tremendously without the mass quantities of copyright copycats, prostitute costumes, and zone chat spam covering everything from real-world politics to Grond jokes.
In summary, love online. Offline is better than no game at all.