Poll: Are you a social or anti-social gamer?

[NoNameMcgee]

A social gamer, in my opinion, would be someone who plays a lot of multiplayer games, has friends who game, and likes to have people with them to play through a game rather than be alone.

An anti-social gamer would be someone who prefers to game alone, enjoys a singleplayer experience over a multiplayer experience, and doesn't have many friends who game.
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I would consider myself an Anti-social gamer. In the real world i'm a social person, but when I play games it's the time when I switch off from the rest of the world and just get absorbed into a singleplayer game. Multiplayer feels shallow for me with a lack of story or characters, and a singleplayer world is a well crafted and exact experience which I enjoy much more than a multiplayer game where your experience largely depends on the other players. I also have no friends who game, outside of the internet.

 

[Flap Jack452]

I always play xbox live with at least one of my friends from school, so I would like to think of myself as a social gamer.

 

[Trace2010]

Extremely anti-

it is much more fun to see how many times YOU can die (in the games that allow you to kill your allies) than the enemy.

Also, using indirect damage (a la hitting green barrels in Gauntlet, for example) and killing my comrades is pretty fun too!!

 

[GyroCaptain]

The games I enjoy in pure multiplayer are often those which depend heavily on gameplay like Rock Band, whereas I like story enough to play most shooters preferentially in co-op when other people are around. I also sunk about 250 hours minimum into just 3 RPGs, so overall I don't spend that much time with friends while gaming.

 

[A Random Player]

I'm only social because I haven't gotten a hold of a nuclear device and because I need henchmen.

 

[-Seraph-]

I'm the middle. I have plenty of friends to play with online when it comes to some of my games, but if I'm not playing those specific games I am by myself. I lock myself in my teamspeak room when I play single player as I don't like being bothered by other people.

 

[Aqualung]

I'd say anti-social. While I am a very social person and I enjoy MMO's and the like, I can appreciate a game more when I'm alone.

A.k.a. I can cry at a game when I play by myself.

 

[Insomniaku]

I'd say anti-social. While I am a very social person and I enjoy MMO's and the like, I can appreciate a game more when I'm alone.

A.k.a. I can cry at a game when I play by myself.

It varies for the most part for me as well... games that are online orientated are obviously going to be where people experience the most socializing experience (COD4 & TF2 and the like) but as you mentioned there are plenty of single player games that have a lot of depth and meaning to them, that make you jerk a tear or two every now and then... FF7,FF10, and Kingdom Hearts were all out to get me on this one

 

[Aqualung]

I'd say anti-social. While I am a very social person and I enjoy MMO's and the like, I can appreciate a game more when I'm alone.

A.k.a. I can cry at a game when I play by myself.

It varies for the most part for me as well... games that are online orientated are obviously going to be where people experience the most socializing experience (COD4 & TF2 and the like) but as you mentioned there are plenty of single player games that have a lot of depth and meaning to them, that make you jerk a tear or two every now and then... FF7,FF10, and Kingdom Hearts were all out to get me on this one

Exactly. It's harder to truly become immersed in a game when you're playing with a partner. Especially when playing with, say, my brother; we laughed our way through Gears of War 2. But I tried to play other games by myself to draw my own experience, my own feelings, from it. It's the best way to appreciate a game, really. But then again, I suppose you can appreciate Call of Duty 4 while listening to a drunk teammate yell at his mum..

 

[thousandfaces]

I am a little bit of both. Though i enjoy single player games with good story lines like Baldur's Gate 2 and God of War, i am also a competitive player and i love the challenge the human player brings to the multiplayer games, ie Halo3, Gears of War and street fighter 4.

 

[new_age_reject]

I accidentally missed 'mixture of both' after clicking social, but it really does depend on the game.

 

[Elexia]

I like gaming on my own. Mostly because I've only recently started gaming and I am lousy at pretty much most of the games I try. I do play WoW, which I suppose is a social game but I enjoy playing it on my own. I also have a wii, which is practically asking for a second controller and a friend or two over to play bowling or whatever.

I do enjoy gaming solo. I started gaming with simulators (the Sims) and low-skilled DS games, so therein lies the roots of my introverted gaming.

To me, playing a good game is like reading a book. If I play a game with complex plot with someone else, it feels like someone reading over your shoulder.

 

[DoctorNick]

Anti-social all the way baby. I hate multiplayer generally speaking, mostly due to me never running into anyone I end up really wanting to play with.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

The term is asocial not anti-social. Anti social means you go against society, asocial means you just don't deal with society. Why did I have to make this inane correction? I'm really tired.

But yes I like to talk on L4D but no one else seems to want to have a chat, its probably because I'm REALLY annoying (see above).

 

[Insomniaku]

I'd say anti-social. While I am a very social person and I enjoy MMO's and the like, I can appreciate a game more when I'm alone.

A.k.a. I can cry at a game when I play by myself.

It varies for the most part for me as well... games that are online orientated are obviously going to be where people experience the most socializing experience (COD4 & TF2 and the like) but as you mentioned there are plenty of single player games that have a lot of depth and meaning to them, that make you jerk a tear or two every now and then... FF7,FF10, and Kingdom Hearts were all out to get me on this one

Exactly. It's harder to truly become immersed in a game when you're playing with a partner. Especially when playing with, say, my brother; we laughed our way through Gears of War 2. But I tried to play other games by myself to draw my own experience, my own feelings, from it. It's the best way to appreciate a game, really. But then again, I suppose you can appreciate Call of Duty 4 while listening to a drunk teammate yell at his mum..

YES! For example: resident evil 5 is not scary at all when you have a friend backing you up.. you're right it is less immersive

 

[kaiser_what]

Most of my friends like to play MMO's, which I really hate. I suppose I consider myself to be an anti-social gamer. I just don't like playing with other people for some reason.

 

[ae86gamer]

For me it depends on the game.

 

[Squarewave]

I'm anti-social who wants to be social

If a game has a single player mode I'll rarely touch multiplayer

yet for some reason I keep playing MMO's wanting to play with other players, that is until the other players remind me why I prefer solo with the abundance of stupidity, bigotry, and overall asshatitry. Then I end up soloing all the time in them