I miss singleplayer :(...
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I too wish there were better single player campaigns out there, for those times when I don't feel like dealing with the immature 12 year olds that are a big part of the xbox live community.
I love multiplayer - when I have a good match. When everyone on your TEAM plays as a TEAM and communicates and has a good time.
Unfortunately more often than not, I get a team of mutes, or the one person who does talk is a total a-hole and spends the entire game complaining about what his or her teammates did wrong, or just bashing people for no good reason.
Also, the ranking system for most games seems to pretty much suck. I rarely find a match where both teams are pretty much equal in skill level. Gears of war 2 seems to be really bad at this.
I love multiplayer - when I have a good match. When everyone on your TEAM plays as a TEAM and communicates and has a good time.
Unfortunately more often than not, I get a team of mutes, or the one person who does talk is a total a-hole and spends the entire game complaining about what his or her teammates did wrong, or just bashing people for no good reason.
Also, the ranking system for most games seems to pretty much suck. I rarely find a match where both teams are pretty much equal in skill level. Gears of war 2 seems to be really bad at this.
I'm first and foremost a singleplayer gamer, but I have played and am playing the occasional multiplayer game. Mostly this amounts to playing Halo with RL friends at LAN parties, and I used to play some MP RTS (Spring/C&C Generals ZH) as well. But even then I generally played with people I knew (to some degree, online only). But in general I still play SP mostly. I think one of the most telling things is that I have Guild Wars now, and I was all too pleased to discover that other people are only encountered in cities or in your party, not in the wild - I've only ever played with other people if the game itself forced me to. I've never traded, or even carried on a conversation of more than 3 lines. It's an MMORPG, but I play it like a single-player RPG. And I'm glad this option is available.
To me, some of the biggest attractors in a game are background world, storyline and immersion (which is why I'm a big fan of the Half-Life games, which have all these in spades), yet MP offers none of that. In fact, now that I think about it, I've only ever played much online MP with games that offer no proper background world and/or solid storyline (Spring speaks for itself (if you know it), and Generals' world/story is a joke). So I guess for me MP is a distraction to hide the glaring flaws in the background.
In that vein, yeah, the propensity of MP games these days is..... disturbing. A game cannot truly be a good game without good singleplayer (excepting games that were designed to be purely online, e.g. Counterstrike).
To me, some of the biggest attractors in a game are background world, storyline and immersion (which is why I'm a big fan of the Half-Life games, which have all these in spades), yet MP offers none of that. In fact, now that I think about it, I've only ever played much online MP with games that offer no proper background world and/or solid storyline (Spring speaks for itself (if you know it), and Generals' world/story is a joke). So I guess for me MP is a distraction to hide the glaring flaws in the background.
In that vein, yeah, the propensity of MP games these days is..... disturbing. A game cannot truly be a good game without good singleplayer (excepting games that were designed to be purely online, e.g. Counterstrike).
I feel much more at ease knowing that I'm not just being misanthropic (well, no more than normal) by not playing Multi-player. I hate the 13/14 year old kids who will shoot you dead before you even have your bearings on an MP map (sorry for the flagrant stereotyping) just to have your teammates whining that your dead. I'd much rather have a decent campaign to complete in Single-player.
On the achievement side of things, well I'm not too fussed about achievements on the whole, however on a game I particularly enjoy playing, I do try for the achievements and get very annoyed when I can't get them all because the game wants me to do something I hate by going on multi-player. Well no dice, I'm not gonna do it.
On the achievement side of things, well I'm not too fussed about achievements on the whole, however on a game I particularly enjoy playing, I do try for the achievements and get very annoyed when I can't get them all because the game wants me to do something I hate by going on multi-player. Well no dice, I'm not gonna do it.
I never really got into online Multiplayer.
While I'm a big Fighting Game Fan and do enjoy local MP in Games like Contra and such, I've always focused on the SP experience.Thinking about it only one of my favourite Games even HAS multiplyaer.
While I'm a big Fighting Game Fan and do enjoy local MP in Games like Contra and such, I've always focused on the SP experience.Thinking about it only one of my favourite Games even HAS multiplyaer.
I agree.
I don't like that people were complaining about Bioshock having no multiplayer.
Well doi, it was a game based entirely around a story.
So they brought multiplayer into Bioshock 2.
I just don't see why Multiplayer is necessary in so many games.
Look at Assassin's Creed, Fallout 3, Bioshock...all great games, no multiplayer.
Games can be amazing if you dedicate all of your efforts to single player gameplay and story.
I don't like that people were complaining about Bioshock having no multiplayer.
Well doi, it was a game based entirely around a story.
So they brought multiplayer into Bioshock 2.
I just don't see why Multiplayer is necessary in so many games.
Look at Assassin's Creed, Fallout 3, Bioshock...all great games, no multiplayer.
Games can be amazing if you dedicate all of your efforts to single player gameplay and story.
It's awesome to see all the replies, i was beginning to feel like the only who misses the days where SP was the focus of a game. One of my favourite games of all time is probably Deus Ex, and i loved how much the SP was the core importance of the game. There was a MP also, but really it was more just an extra or icing on the cake. These days it seems to be the other way around, as though the SP is complimentary 
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watr u talkin bout that u miss single player. most games only have online multiplayer and single player so if u wanna play by ur self jus unplug ur internet and play by urself man. i miss splitscreen multiplayer
It annoys me too. Split-screen multiplayer is great, but I really dislike the anonymity of online multiplayer. I like to play with my friends, basically. Plus, single-player games tend to be much more immersive, and multiplayer games with stories as good as single-player games are quite rare.
Nah, single player is still great, its good to know that you can pause the game at anytime and relax, eat or go to the loo without the worry that you will come back with a pre-pubescent kid tea baggin your corpse or your base crumbling under the weight of a zerg onslaught. Its much more relaxing and immersive with the scripted events and the fact that you dont have to play at the best of your game all the time.Chaosut said:It's awesome to see all the replies, i was beginning to feel like the only who misses the days where SP was the focus of a game. One of my favourite games of all time is probably Deus Ex, and i loved how much the SP was the core importance of the game. There was a MP also, but really it was more just an extra or icing on the cake. These days it seems to be the other way around, as though the SP is complimentary