The Death of Multiplayer Campaigns

Multiplayer games used to come packaged with incredible Campaigns, but over time the quality of those campaigns got worse or they just stopped existing entirely, so let's talk about it in another episode of MACRO THOUGHTS! Enjoy!

The Outro song is "Bone Theme" by Michael Wyckoff

#campaign #multiplayer #titanfall

[thechargingturtle]

"For example, let's look at... Halo 3" and the crowd went wild

[TerminalAgressor]

The campaign in apex would be locked behind a 2000$ collection event

[griffith_the_king]

Titanfall 2 was really cheap on steam and I bought it and played the campain, and OH. MY. GOD. that was a completely new experience.

[riichobamin]

3:36 that "Trust me" hit right in the feels 😭😭😭

[magnumon]

ONE REASON ALONE WHY THE TITANFALL STORY IS THE BEST STORYMODE TO EVER EXIST:
it is not only a GREAT story with wholesome characters, but it explains the multiplayer playstyle PERFECTLY! it shows you the movement mechanics and you lean to master them, you get EVERY single titan class so you can find out which class you like the most and you really learn to love titans as a whole (the moment when blisk shreds bt and you escape with the smart pistol is HELLA good) and the people that are saying "but it is short, i am nor gonna pay for a shorter story than the others" god are they stupid because in my opinion it is WAY better to have a BLAST of a campaign with a lot of fun for a shorter time than a campaign that has the same amount of content but tries to go loooong ways to get your playtime above 30 hours

[dontask]

To be fair, one could argue that Helldivers 2 is one massive campain in of itself.

[TinyBearTim]

I don’t think people understand how much easier and cost effective it is in most cases to just make animated shorts / trailers than making a full blown campaign

[tetrasparks]

8:20 "Maybe one day we'll get the Overwatch 2 campaign"
Don't tell him, let him keep his hope

[azap]

Just wanted to say I really enjoy this new editing style. Makes it feel much more conversational and I like how you occasionally choose to implement yourself in the background footage.

[cto]

The day after the Overwatch 2 pve gets cancelled 😭

[Nominal-Lettuce]

4:00 Fortnite actually does have a campaign, it’s just in the save the world mode which is completely different and not many people play.

[Sarcastican_]

I do understand what you mean. It feels like AAA studios nowadays are cutting back content to focus on multiplayer, and still failing to actually deliver on the multiplayer.

There's also "The Death of Campaign Multiplayers": when singleplayer campaign-focused games had a bonus gamemode (Uncharted, Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, Last of Us, etc). What it all boils down to is companies wanting to avoid taking risks. Things like COD Zombies wouldn't be possible if the devs thought "this would be a fun spin-off mode" and the higher-ups said "go ahead". They hid it at the end of the campaign, but it was still the most talked about thing.

[gamingzilla]

I think one game that does it quite well is Exoprimal, where in the game the actual online matches serve as the campaign missions which all the players experience together. And sure the story is pretty bad and mostly runs down to collecting written logs which are read out to you, but some of the online missions where you are accompanied by a story NPC is a really cool idea that I think could be expanded upon and made to work for some modern titles

[Solo]

I think one cool story thing that Apex could do would be live events. Like for example when a major map change happens (for instance when Maggie blew up part of Kings Canyon) how incredible would it be to actually be playing a match when something like that happens? Or for the season 13 trailer when Newcastle led the defense against the big sushi monster. That would've been a great LTM!

[icy]

This is why I think Baldurs Gate 3 was a breath of fresh air. It was an amazing story with all the gear that you don’t even have to pay for. They made an old school move and it worked. Hell it won game of the year

[Moetheboi]

I want a campaign that has lots of people working in it at the same time- not like helldivers 2, but where a lot of people try to complete multiple objectives against ai on a gigantic map (not open world, multiple battle royale sized maps). An example would be the shadow siege event that revealed mwiii

[iBridgee]

Single-player stories are becoming a rare gem in the world of gaming.

[RadiantCalf]

This is quite literally my favorite macro video now. And I am split between Halo 4 and Battlefield 1's War Stories + Intro

[leo]

i'm so lore deprived that i genuinely get mad when I remember respawn won't allow us to load in apex maps by ourselves just to explore and appreciate the details

[harmoen]

It seems like multiplayers and campaigns are just separate games now. We've had some really awesome multiplayer experiences and some really awesome single player experiences recently, just not any that are in the same package.