Poll: A question for the online shooter community?

[WanderingFool]

Always play SP before MP. One is to allow me a chance to get use to the controls, the other is because if I go with the MP first, ill possibly never play the SP.

 

[Geekosaurus]

Well developers know that a games lifespan is in its online multiplayer. Why shouldn't they focus on that? Just look at the Left 4 Dead games - they essentially have no single player campaigns.

Hmmm while that is true, I Think also single player promotes the form of story telling other than games. Really anyone can make a multi-player game filled with everything. Though part of the multi-player is still reliant on a bit of story telling. Backgrounds of characters, why you are fighting etc. Plus, some people (I prefer) like a good video game story. I didn't play halo for the multi-player, I played it for the story and the Universe. I got Call of duty games (not black ops... yet) for the story, it seemed interesting and unique story telling.

Oh yeah, I totally agree. My favourite games, and my favourite moments in games, are all single player games. It's probably because I was bought up on games before you could play them online. But I expect to see more and more games focusing on online multiplayer rather than offline single player.

 

[Geekosaurus]

I think we're gonna see a lot more games focusing on multiplayer rather than single player.