Vigil Games has confirmed that Darksiders II will not include multiplayer. This wasn’t necessarily the first choice for the company, as according to Director Marvin Donald, “When we put together the pitch for Darksiders 1, we wanted it to be multiplayer then. It’s just too much work when you’re starting a brand new studio with a new intellectual property and you’re building your own technology. We’re also evolving the series into more of a role-playing game, which was something else we wanted to do from the beginning, but we just didn’t have the resources or time or money to do it the first time around and do it justice.”

Yet fans of the first game might well endorse the comments recently made by Bethesda’s Pete Hines who questioned the relevance of forced multiplayer. “If you’re doing it just to check a box or because every other publisher says you’ve got to have multiplayer, then just drop it, don’t bother, it’s a waste of time, a giant distraction and it’ll make for a worse overall game. We want the best game possible. If that’s a single player game that’s 15 to 20 hours, then make that! Don’t waste your time on features that don’t make the game better.”

What about you? Is the lack of multiplayer any great loss to the game?