Poll: Do you prefer single Player or multi-player?

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Single player all the way. Multiplayer can rot for all I care, especially when they put in multiplayer trophies/achievements. Odds are that you're going to get overwhelmingly single player on this site, as the "majority" of people who would vote for multiplayer would be terrified to show their face on this site.

There is most definitely an anti-multiplayer bias on this site. Part of the problem with this specific poll is that there's no "it depends" option. I'm one of the minority on this site that absolutely loves multiplayer, but I judge which portion I prefer on a game by game basis, not overall. This kept me from voting, and I think the majority of multiplayer gamers on this site are like that -- which further exaggerates the bias in this kind of poll. I had a topic about this a few months back, and it pretty much came to the conclusion that the people on this site who liked multiplayer judged games individually and on the merits of which portion was intended by the developers to be the meat of the game, while the anti-multiplayer people were still stuck in the mindset that singleplayer was king.

Edit: Personally, I blame Yahtzee.

 

[The Night Shade]

Singleplayer always

 

[loc978]

Eh, usually single player. Multiplayer with friends, otherwise internet trash tend to ruin the experience.

My mind... you've read it...

 

[Twad]

MP with friends, preferably in a Cooperative environment (like L4D or whatever). Coop campaign mode is very nice too.

I got no problem with singleplayer as long as the game is good and engaging.

 

[Xyphon]

As single player isn't enough to get me to shell out $65 nowadays(with the exception of Just Cause 2), any game I buy absolutely MUST have some form of online multiplayer or co-op. With singleplayer, you know what's coming after 1 or 2 playthroughs. With online multiplayer, you never know what's going to happen. Are you going to win, lose, have a tie, steamroll the enemy team, be steamrolled yourself, have a battle of epic proportions or even have a tank land on you because 4 people launched it from across the map with 18 anti-tank mines.

To me, there's more replay value in multiplayer than there is in singleplayer.

 

[Korten12]

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Please add: It depends...

 

[imagremlin]

I'm surprised. As I clicked on "Single Player" I expected to be in a tiny minority.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

I'm surprised. As I clicked on "Single Player" I expected to be in a tiny minority.

And you've been a member of this site since 2007?

 

[Lyx]

Where's the "other" option?

I prefer games that can be played singleplayer and alternatively with 1-3 buddies.

 

[MattyDienhoff]

Single player. I find multiplayer games, particularly first person shooters (which are the only multiplayer games I've gotten into in a big way), to be monotonous and lack depth. I also don't like my experience being so heavily reliant on other people, because people are unreliable and I hate wasting time playing a dozen rounds until I finally play with some people who know how to have fun, not just compete like mindless drones to get the best scores.

I also dislike the competitiveness in multiplayer FPS. It only gets worse as time wears on from the game's release. You encounter people who play a specific game to death, know all of the hiding spots and have everything rehearsed down to a fine art. To fight such an enemy you have to become like them, and I personally just don't enjoy having to try that hard because even when I win I feel more weary than satisfied.

If I play multiplayer games at all, they're usually focused on cooperative play, like Left 4 Dead. Granted, bad players can still mess games like that up, but I haven't had much trouble with that.

 

[Ladette]

Despite the massive amount of time i've invested in WoW and CS:Source, i'm a single player gamer most of the time. The only time I play multiplayer on a console anymore is when I play splitscreen with my house mate.

 

[Sebenko]

Most of the time, single player.

But sometimes, there are some things that can't be replicated with one person. Such as the howl of despair when you teamkill someone in a LAN game of Battlefield 1942, or the wails of your enemy as he realises you have six monkeylords in SupCom, or the intricate diplomacies that come from an eight player LAN game of just about any RTS (Except SupCom, because real men need only bricks and spiderbots at their side).

 

[ultrachicken]

Multiplayer always has luck as the largest factor, which is not satisfying. I don't like to be at the mercy of chance. Singleplayer, if it's a good game, then that doesn't happen so much. Plus, multiplayer always feels like I'm playing the same level over and over again, which isn't fun.

So, singleplayer.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Depends on the game really. The added dynamic of fighting an actual person can make a game way more interesting. Other times it doesn't work so well.

 

[Tonythion]

Single-player. Most of the games I get I want to know what the hell is going on. If I play with friends they are either yelling orders at me or I'm teaching them what buttons do what. (My friends are at the opposite ends of the spectrum. They are either hardcore gamers or don't play at all)

When I'm feeling competitive I play online against people I don't know. But that's rare.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Single player without a doubt, probably because im into hack and slash though!

 

[VaudevillianVeteran]

Love single player and only just recently got into multi.

 

[Cap'n Ninja]

I enjoy single player more, but the best method of playing, is single player, with someone else there as a second opinion, and moral support for the really annoying parts

 

[Azure-Supernova]

I think there needs to be a line drawn between co-op and multi-player. With co-op being PvE and multi-player being PvP. Co-op can be wicked fun (ala Uncharted 2's 3 co-op stages) and so can multi-player (as evident by the millions that play CoD online).

This being said I'm definitely more of a solo player. I like to take my time and enjoy a game, which is why I struggle with anything where the meat of the game is in multi-player. The reason I don't enjoy CoD is because I just can't appreciate it. The single player is quite frustratingly short and I never get a good handle on the game from only one playthrough.