Multiplayer or Singleplayer?

what do you like more?

Ive posted the same question in Ps3, x360 and Wii forum.

post your thoughts/opinion.

[couldnt create a poll because I have made one allready]

I far prefer singleplayer games. I don't really like other people very much. Especially not whiny-voiced pubescent Americans, who seem to account for 75% of all online communities on the planet. When playing online with friends, I usually enjoy myself a lot, but I just can not play with people I don't know.

The only exception to that rule is, for some reason, Team Fortress 2. I don't know why, but it's also part of what makes me love the game.

I usually get a lot more out of single player games, and all of my favourite games, except TF2, are single player games.

i mostly play single player. sometimes i dabble in multiplayer (mostly tf2 and cs:s), but i prefer to experience a game instead of just playing for fun. and multiplayer is just for fun, at least for me. but with a single player, it's like watching a great movie; a great single player moves you emotionally and stimulates you intellectually; it's an experience not available in multiplayer.

and you can roleplay in single player; i like mmorpg, but you can't really roleplay in an mmorpg; you can play as an elf or a dwarf, but it's just not the same; i'm still me when i chat with other players; i can't pretend to be an elf and speak elven; that would just be too dorky.

While i do enjoy certain multiplayer games, i don't buy multiplayer only games. I love a good single player campaign and the multiplayer is a bonus. Nothing beats a good story line, great gameplay and some eye candy. Rattlesnake_8

WEll said!!!!!!

For me SP > MP, however, MP is still fun.

I always enjoy a great single-player game. I can play the game at my own pace, pause the game when needed, don't need to interact with other people, and can become immersed into the game's environment and story.

Competitive multiplayer games, or MMO's, take up far too much time to be honest (for me anyway). Battlefield 2 for example was alot of fun, but I never had the time available to sink hours into that game just so I could rank up very far. There are way too many other games I'd like to play than spend all my time with one.

However, multiplayer COOP through single-player campaigns (Serious Sam, Gears of War, Rainbow Six Vegas, etc) is VERY fun, as well as playing some MP at LAN parties (Unreal Tournament for example) :D

A really good single-player game is just as good, if not better, than a multiplayer game.

For instance, Oblivion is an excellent singleplayer game, and UT is an amazing multiplayer game.

you can play as an elf or a dwarf, but it's just not the same; i'm still me when i chat with other players; i can't pretend to be an elf and speak elven; that would just be too dorky.fireandcloud

Sad thing is: some people actually do that. Lol, I can imagine meeting a dwarf in an MMO and the guy starts talking like Gimli... That's just sad.

[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]you can play as an elf or a dwarf, but it's just not the same; i'm still me when i chat with other players; i can't pretend to be an elf and speak elven; that would just be too dorky.artur79

Sad thing is: some people actually do that. Lol, I can imagine meeting a dwarf in an MMO and the guy starts talking like Gimli... That's just sad.

lol. yeah, imagine if there's a star trek mmorpg - everyone would speak klingon. *shudder*

They should just include story in multi-player. Make the fights have a backstory, let people advance on the maps and make them bigger. Let everyone go through a tutorial that teaches you how to hook up with team mates and play with them so everyone knows what certain gestures mean so you don't even have to talk. What I mean by that is for example when someone goes up against a door and chooses the "On me" gesture, people know he's going to bust through that door and they come and back him up. Then people have to give everyone points for cooperation at the end of each match or something, and people with high cooperation scores are put into games with and against people with about the same scores. I day-dream all the time about fantastical games. :P I gotta win the lottery so I can make all these games I can't stop thinking about! Nobody else seems to be willing to do anything different from what's known to bring in the bucks.

Edit: Err, yeah, I forgot: I like single-player more. But if they'd just do something original with multi-player, make it less about running around for no reason like an idiot, shooting everything that moves, I'd like multi-player more.

what do you like more?

Ive posted the same question in Ps3, x360 and Wii forum.

post your thoughts/opinion.

[couldnt create a poll because I have made one allready]

killerfist

I love MMOs and online shooters, but what I really love are single player games with an involving story and characters. RPGs are my first love and will probably always be my favorite.

Depends really on the quality of the game. I tend to avoid games that require other players to get the full experience (for example, in BF2142 you are very limited in what you can do offline, in a game like UT3 that is completely the opposite) and this includes for the most part MMO's since they won't let you play offline (and in most cases, you wouldn't want to play that kind of game by yourself, since the gameplay itself is not very good)

The only MMO I play is WoW simply because of the people I know that play it. If they quit, it would be very hard to justify paying for even occasional play (I don't pay to play every month)

hmm seems I was wrong from the beginning. people do still care alot more about singleplayer and prefer it over multiplayer.

I thought nowadays its kinda the other way around because alot of devs focus more on mutiplayer and end up with a mediocore-good mutiplayer and a crappy singleplayer experience.

hmm seems I was wrong from the beginning. people do still care alot more about singleplayer and prefer it over multiplayer.

I thought nowadays its kinda the other way around because alot of devs focus more on mutiplayer and end up with a mediocore-good mutiplayer and a crappy singleplayer experience.

killerfist

That's the problem, and COD4 comes to mind. Great single-player experience but over in a flash. Then the multiplayer is same-old and I ended up playing it less than the single-player. Hell, I think I re-played the AC-130 round more thanI played multiplayer. Handing out that much raw damage is just so much fun...

Dunno. At times multiplayer is more of my cup of tea, while other times I just want to play with myself. I mean wait.... that didn't come out right. :|CommanderShiro

lol

more people should share their opinions!

Multiplayer by far. Every once in a while I'll play a single player RPG like Oblivion or Witcher, but other than those, I really only play multiplayer.

Single player campaigns, complete with closure, is what gaming is all about to me.

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[QUOTE="fireandcloud"]you can play as an elf or a dwarf, but it's just not the same; i'm still me when i chat with other players; i can't pretend to be an elf and speak elven; that would just be too dorky.artur79

Sad thing is: some people actually do that. Lol, I can imagine meeting a dwarf in an MMO and the guy starts talking like Gimli... That's just sad.

I far prefer singleplayer games. I don't really like other people very much. Especially not whiny-voiced pubescent Americans, who seem to account for 75% of all online communities on the planet. When playing online with friends, I usually enjoy myself a lot, but I just can not play with people I don't know.

The only exception to that rule is, for some reason, Team Fortress 2. I don't know why, but it's also part of what makes me love the game.

I usually get a lot more out of single player games, and all of my favourite games, except TF2, are single player games.

mfsa

The feeling is the same about snotty UK players