Single Player Gaming - Dead?

I am definetly on edge more than playing a single player game, but thats just the nature of real human competition, playing a real human gets the blood pumping a lot more than some AI. What really screws with me is voicechat, I am not a trash talker,Ifeelout of place talking to random people,put a headset on me and I have no clue what to say. Very rarely do I ever see a random group ever working well together, so I find voice chat without friends almost pointless. Now with a group of friends for sure, or with you guys if we set up a team or something that would be cool but for the most part I just stay quiet unless spoken to. Also I do find the people online to be scary, not in the am intimidated scary, more likethis is sad for the human race scary.

dvader654

EDIT: I just thought of something else, I think we feel the same way, when I am online I lose that sense of patience or calmness I can have when I play alone. Sometimes I like to take me time, sometimes I just want to play my way, when online I feel I lose that and it does change the way I play.dvader654

To be fair, BioShock was brought up for some reason and repeatedly cheap-shotted in the Halo thread so Frederick went completely over the top. Now single player is dead.

The fact BioShock was a main topic of discussion in the Halo thread was bad to begin with. Two very different games on the same system. Showed insecurity. Metroid would have made more sense. And Killzone is the Halo-killer. That's the comparison.

What if we have two different types of gamers who aren't even trying to understand each other anymore? Just elementary things like maybe Frederick is Australian, so he defended BioShock. If I'm trying to understand Frederick, I'm certainly going to try to understand Jeff. Someone is asking Ask GameSpot the best year for video games. GameSpot and Jeff are saying, "1998, no contest, StarCraft, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time, no need to say more." Have you read Jeff's MGS review? Jeff's a great reviewer who is very different from some of us.

appleater

Hey, listen. I got a right to be upset. I haven't played a truly awesome single player game in TEN YEARS!

Nah, single player will always be strong, I find multiplayer a weak spot for myself personally.

I also feel that theirs on a few things you can do with multiplayer untill it gets boring...

A few game modes here and their... co-op campaigns aswell... but nothing too thrilling.

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To be fair, BioShock was brought up for some reason and repeatedly cheap-shotted in the Halo thread so Frederick went completely over the top. Now single player is dead.

The fact BioShock was a main topic of discussion in the Halo thread was bad to begin with. Two very different games on the same system. Showed insecurity. Metroid would have made more sense. And Killzone is the Halo-killer. That's the comparison.

What if we have two different types of gamers who aren't even trying to understand each other anymore? Just elementary things like maybe Frederick is Australian, so he defended BioShock. If I'm trying to understand Frederick, I'm certainly going to try to understand Jeff. Someone is asking Ask GameSpot the best year for video games. GameSpot and Jeff are saying, "1998, no contest, StarCraft, Half-Life, Metal Gear Solid, Ocarina of Time, no need to say more." Have you read Jeff's MGS review? Jeff's a great reviewer who is very different from some of us.

The_Frederick

Hey, listen. I got a right to be upset. I haven't played a truly awesome single player game in TEN YEARS!

C&C Tiberian Sun, Bioshock, Clive Barkers: Undying, Half Life, Beyond Good and Evil, Oblivion, Morrowind are all examples of games with decent single player modes.

I don't think you've been playing the right games.

C&C Tiberian Sun, Bioshock, Clive Barkers: Undying, Half Life, Beyond Good and Evil, Oblivion, Morrowind are all examples of games with decent single player modes.

zeus_gb

Ehh. They were ok.

If it were, I would stop gaming.

Single player games are usually the ones that provide the greatest and most thrilling gaming experiences.foxhound_fox

True indeed.

Don't get me wrong....I enjoy playing muliplayer ever now and then. But if there weren't any single player games that would mean that there wouldn't be interesting stories. The main reason why I play video games is because I enjoy the stories. It's almost like an interactive book.

While I don't think single-player games will ever fade away completely, there is one thing that bothers me....

Some games seem to have level designs that try to cater to both single-player and multi-player, with the emphasis usually on the latter. It feels almost as if the initial focus of some games' development is catered towards the multi-player aspect, and then exported and adapted for the single player game with tweaks here and there (enemies, story, level geometry, etc) as an afterthought.

Anyhow, it seems as far as FPS goes multi-player is not only expected, but is a given. Why? Anyone remember a little game called Metroid Prime? The level design was not at all condusive to multi-player and it was a much better game as a result. Imagine the accommodations to the environments they would've had to make for it to be so.

But it's probably as bad as it's going to get.....there's always new single-player games out there.

Single player and multiplayer modes should be completely separate in my opinion, as far as level design is concerned.

Single player and multiplayer modes should be completely separate in my opinion, as far as level design is concerned.

nopalversion

Yeah...I think GRAW for example did a very good job there.The MP also plays a bit different which is also a good thing,becase you can play with 4 people on one console and the controls would be a bit too tricky to explain to a friend who´s a 1st timer.

SP = Simulation MP= Arcade...strange but through that it was one of the most addicting Shooter ever.Got a bit of both.And most important : Both are GREAT.

Hey, listen. I got a right to be upset. I haven't played a truly awesome single player game in TEN YEARS!

The_Frederick

Ten Years, huh?.....well then you know what, here is my advice.....Give up gaming altogether.

If you haven't had a great single player gaming experience in 10 years, then Gaming obviously isn't for you....I would think that after 10 years someone would figure that out.....either that or you're looking at games released prior to 1997 through major rose-colored eyes.

Personally I would consider games like God of War II, Okami, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Company of Heroes, Resident Evil 4, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Half Life 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Knights of the Old Republic, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Beyond Good & Evil, Mafia, Metroid Prime, GTA: Vice City, Eternal Darkness, ICO, GTA3, Baldur's Gate II, Deus Ex, Planescape Torment.....just to name a few....to all be excellent single player game experiences that have released in less then the 10 years you say there hasn't been a truly awesome single player game.

I won't miss single player gaming if they make MMOs that have proper stories. Oh and some of the most popular games in history have been multiplayer only (see CS, Battlefield series, a little thing called World of Warcraft). On the PS3 they're discussing starting in Home and accessing games through that. Really it's a good thing. You know if you have friends. Can we remember what those were? No? OK maybe single-player is important.

No, it won't ever die.

Ten Years, huh?.....well then you know what, here is my advice.....Give up gaming altogether.

If you haven't had a great single player gaming experience in 10 years, then Gaming obviously isn't for you....I would think that after 10 years someone would figure that out.....either that or you're looking at games released prior to 1997 through major rose-colored eyes.

Personally I would consider games like God of War II, Okami, Zelda: Twilight Princess, Company of Heroes, Resident Evil 4, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, Half Life 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Knights of the Old Republic, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, Beyond Good & Evil, Mafia, Metroid Prime, GTA: Vice City, Eternal Darkness, ICO, GTA3, Baldur's Gate II, Deus Ex, Planescape Torment.....just to name a few....to all be excellent single player game experiences that have released in less then the 10 years you say there hasn't been a truly awesome single player game.

Robnyc22

Of the ones I've played, they were alright. Not particularly great.

Exactly, anyone that says there wasn't been any great single player games over the last year alone should never open their mouths about games ever again.

dvader654

The past year in gaming was... pretty bad.