Single Player or Multiplayer - which do you like better

Well, I love singleplayer much more than multiplayer. The game is capable of doing more with it, and it's always more enjoyable.

However, I play multiplayer much more because it hooks me longer for some reason. If I beat a singleplayer game, I very rarely go back to it even though it was fun. It's kind of like thriller movies. They're fun the first time you watch it, but after you know the twist ending it's boring to watch again.

I play SP 99,99% of the time.

Rarely, very rarely did I bother with the MP portion of a game in the past, but when I did, beer, friends and lots of swearing were involved. I miss those days...

Coop is also cool.

It depends on the game.

If it is somthing like Halo 3 or Call of Duty 4, then multiplayer.

But sometimes, multiplayer is just tacked on.

I always buy a game for the SP, or if at least has god AI/bots.

If not, the no game for me.

I voted both for the following reasons. All my FPS are played single player offline. However most of my game playing is done online in "Forgotten Battles" on Hyperlobby. I'm part of a dedicated squadron and I fly most every night. I never got into the 'frag fest" game. As a veteran I found point ho's and hopping and jumping to keep from getting shot to be an insult to the entire idea of combat so, I leave most multiplayer alone out side of IL2 Sturmovik and then I only fly COOPS so there's more to do than just dogfight. Dog fighting quickly turns into "air QUAKE" if there's no mission to accomplish. Soooo I need the best of both have a good time.

Da Worfster

SP.

Reason? My internet connection is slower than a snail.

i like both but multiplayer is bigger for me, my 3 fave games are dod:s cs:s and tf2 if that says anything

I seldom get a game because of its multiplayer. Everytime I do go online in a game, it tends to always be the same experience as any other game. It's typically just a bunch of rude people with attitudes killing everything that moves, even people on the same team. They are typically campers who achieved their godlike status by either cheating or by camping 24/7. All the levels tend to play out the same each round. Without any story or direction such as that in singleplayer, the online typically feels empty to me. And listening to all the kids and adolescent teens fresh out of puberty barking orders at me isn't something I can tolerate.Qixote

I completely, completely understand where you are coming from :)

Maybe this is how you MP game already, but you might find online multiplayer gaming more agreeable with a group of friends. I had a group of real-life friends that I'd play BF2 with, it was easier to laugh off the moronic adolescent behavior/attitude that you occasionally encounter. Cheating, etc can still be a bummer.

At any rate, still love LAN parties, MP COOP, etc with friends, but I'm primarily a single-player gamer as well.

[QUOTE="Qixote"]I seldom get a game because of its multiplayer. Everytime I do go online in a game, it tends to always be the same experience as any other game. It's typically just a bunch of rude people with attitudes killing everything that moves, even people on the same team. They are typically campers who achieved their godlike status by either cheating or by camping 24/7. All the levels tend to play out the same each round. Without any story or direction such as that in singleplayer, the online typically feels empty to me. And listening to all the kids and adolescent teens fresh out of puberty barking orders at me isn't something I can tolerate.Nitrous2O

I completely, completely understand where you are coming from :)

Maybe this is how you MP game already, but you might find online multiplayer gaming more agreeable with a group of friends. I had a group of real-life friends that I'd play BF2 with, it was easier to laugh off the moronic adolescent behavior/attitude that you occasionally encounter. Cheating, etc can still be a bummer.

At any rate, still love LAN parties, MP COOP, etc with friends, but I'm primarily a single-player gamer as well.

I know that the MP experience is better with a group of friends. Unfortuntely, none of my friends are gamers, so that's why I always have to settle for playing online with strangers.

[QUOTE="Nitrous2O"]

[QUOTE="Qixote"]I seldom get a game because of its multiplayer. Everytime I do go online in a game, it tends to always be the same experience as any other game. It's typically just a bunch of rude people with attitudes killing everything that moves, even people on the same team. They are typically campers who achieved their godlike status by either cheating or by camping 24/7. All the levels tend to play out the same each round. Without any story or direction such as that in singleplayer, the online typically feels empty to me. And listening to all the kids and adolescent teens fresh out of puberty barking orders at me isn't something I can tolerate.Qixote

I completely, completely understand where you are coming from :)

Maybe this is how you MP game already, but you might find online multiplayer gaming more agreeable with a group of friends. I had a group of real-life friends that I'd play BF2 with, it was easier to laugh off the moronic adolescent behavior/attitude that you occasionally encounter. Cheating, etc can still be a bummer.

At any rate, still love LAN parties, MP COOP, etc with friends, but I'm primarily a single-player gamer as well.

I know that the MP experience is better with a group of friends. Unfortuntely, none of my friends are gamers, so that's why I always have to settle for playing online with strangers.

I'm strictly SP-only, for two reasons - one is security related - i'm basically just really paranoid about my nice new PC

the other is the terrible feeling that if i started gaming online, i'd really get into it, and if i really got into it there'd be no getting out of it, so that would get me into real trouble in my life and i'd just be totally out of control - if you see what i mean...

jfsebastianII - Good point, I'll address that first. Many of the online gamers tend to be the ones whose lives revolve around gaming and have no social life or life outside of gaming (although for most this is not true). I compare it to Soma - it doesn't really make you think that much, absorb anything, you just sit there idly playing and repeating the same set of tasks over and over and slightly adjusting them. Sure, it's just awesome every now and then with friends, but for the most part when you keep on playing multi-player you eventually become so good at it that it's second nature, and you're not really doing anything besides clicking buttons.

I started out gaming with single player, and then spent years and years on multiplayer games like Halo, Battlefield 2, Team Fortress 2, Wolfenstein Enemy Territory. Eventually most games will wear out (except MMOs, which will take over and perhaps ruin your life if you get involved with them), and in retrospect I feel like I wasted pretty much all that time - I didn't gain anything from the game like I often do with single player games. No story, no higher thinking, no exploration...so essentially, I think its nothing more than an efficient way to kill time. At the same time, I've had plenty more memorable experiences a) playing single player, sometimes with friends and less so b) playing multiplayer with people I know in real life. But playing multiplayer consistently online with people from across the world - it hasn't really given me anything that memorable. Some nice acquaintances, but not much else.

Single player games that are original, with a nice plot, great immersive environments, open ended gameplay that requires one to make decisions and use their brain, non-repetitive gameplay, and a positive mood - they're works of art that don't have as much replay value, but have so many more benefits when you play them. I've arrived to this conclusion after years of multiplayer gameplay that I believe I just threw away doing absolutely nothing worthwhile. It can be addicting, often fun, but I don't feel like I got anything out of it - compared to a campaign which can be just as enjoyable and give you something valuable.

So back to what sebastian said - online gaming can be pretty malignantly addictive, and I can personally attest to that. Stay out of it for extended periods of time - once a game starts to get boring, move on before you get so involved in it that it becomes routine. For instance, I find myself trying to relive those special multiplayer moments that seemed so frequent when I started playing Team Fortress 2 but now occur once in a millenia; I keep on playing and playing just for those times when it all just clicks. But that's just stupid, it's lost its value, time to move on. Maybe I'm high or something, but this is what's on my mind at the moment, and I might as well disseminate it all.

multiplayer owns all mainly because you can talk to anyone. when your playing against the computer its like your playing nobody.fizzlegloop

i think that's true if it's a bot match, which is why UT games now bore me, but in terms of a well-constructed SP experience in FPS, RPG or whatever, you're playing against the developers, who are (i hope) real people - that's the way i see it anyway

I guess we're talking shooters? I tend to prefer single player over multiplayer for the story and the single player world interaction. Multi-player is generally an afterthought for me. Outside of playing with friends and family, I don't spend a lot of time playing online anymore. There was a period where I was really into multiplayer, but that was back in the Quake 3 days. Day of Defeat and others were pretty fun.

In other genres, it's fine depending on the aspect of gameplay. In MMOs, it's quite fun to get together with other players to raid, or just to have people online to chat with while doing the daily grind. Pvp is also fun, as well. But even in MMOs, I tend to solo when I can.

Multiplayer by a long shot, RTS games which is what I am mainly interested in explains it all, but even with FPS's, Mutli is more fun.

Most PC game i go straight into MP

all other systems like ps2, psp, xbox, wii....i buy solely for the SP

Sp. Mp can become quite repetitive. Danili0

People don't play multplayer because they suck, and they get owned.McJugga

No grown ups don't play multiplayer because of the attitude you just displayed. Now I was paid to carry a rifle and kill people with it for 4.5 years. If any of you children would like to step outside your electronic sandbox there are men and women out here that could show you that you've no real idea what you're talking about when you think killing hapless spawners is somehow a legitimate accomplishment.

Da Worfster