9 Overused Video Game Criticisms That Make No Sense

6. "No Multiplayer = No Sale"

There are many people out there who simply won't part with a full retail price tag for a game that doesn't have multiplayer features, and that's damn depressing.

The last decade-or-so has seen multiplayer aggressively shoehorned into an increasing number of single-player games, and the results have proven predictably messy. Fallout 76 was of course a colossal stinker, while Red Dead Redemption 2's online suite hasn't exactly set the world on fire.

Last year God of War proved the viability of entirely offline, single-player experiences, and for multiplayer-minded gamers to wilfully shut themselves off from that completely is just...baffling.

Is a game's worth entirely determined by the hundreds of hours you can pour into it while repeating the same core gameplay, over a more strictly curated - and yes, far shorter - core experience?

Spend your money how you like, sure, and wait for a sale if you don't feel like spending £45 on a 20-hour single-player game, but writing off sans-multiplayer titles entirely makes no sense at all. And yet, there are those who do it.