Poll: Do you still play a shooter's campaign?

[Foobula]

I dont buy a game if it doesn;t have a good story (or at least one i can criticize)

 

[Wintermoot]

the campaign is the main reason I buy a shooter! (with the exception of TF2 wich only has multiplayer)

 

[ZephrC]

I personally almost never play multiplayer. Online multiplayer is just not fun for me, and all of my friends are either not into video games or really sore losers, so I don't really have a chance to play much offline multiplayer either.

As for Doom, yeah, I played it. I remember spending hours editing config.sys and autoexec.bat trying to get it to run on my poor little 20 MHz 486SX.

 

[Zipa]

Yes, and some of them like MW1 are actually really good.

 

[theriddlen]

lulz, 100% on same option

Of course, campaign first!

 

[fix-the-spade]

Campaign, that is the only reason I play most shooters.
Why?

Counter Strike,
Battlefield 2,
Day of Defeat: Source,

These games have already been made, nothing released since has had multiplayer good enough to tempt me away for any length of time. Modern Warfare 1 came close, but 2 and Blops blew it. So if the campaign sucks the chances are I'll be finished with a new shooter inside a week, Halo Reach barely lasted a day longer even with the multi player.

 

[Lost In The Void]

I don't do MP enough to buy a game exclusively just for the Multi
So ya...campaigns would the only reason I buy shooters. Can I have a poll option for that?

 

[easternflame]

I don't do MP enough to buy a game exclusively just for the Multi
So ya...campaigns would the only reason I buy shooters. Can I have a poll option for that?

Sure

 

[Riddle78]

Always play the campaign first. It's training for multiplayer. Sometimes I stick with the campaign because it's more enjoyable (Any Halo game,for example)

 

[shotgunbob]

I generally play a few campaign missions then I'll go into multiplayer.

 

[Kajt]

I usually finish the campaign before touching multiplayer, but there are a few exceptions to that...

[sub]*cough* Bad Company 2 *cough*[/sub]

 

[Nouw]

I always finish the Campaign then head onto Multiplayer. It's practically preparing you for it so I'll take all the help I can get.

It really depends on which game we're talking about...

 

[Geekosaurus]

There wasn't an option for 'play the multiplayer, rage quit and try out the single player for something to do.'

 

[Daniel Laeben-Rosen]

Campaign. To paraphrase: A good game has to stand on singleplayer alone.
Some shooters I'll give the multiplayer a go, I even enjoy some multiplayer-shooters like Team Fortress 2 and Quake Live. But normally if I buy a game at full price with my limited economy, I expect the single-player to hold up on it's own.

 

[jelock]

In all my games I always play the single player. Thats what I am more interested in. Multiplayer for me is more like a bonus.

 

[baddude1337]

Yes. In my opinion they put far more effort into the single player campaigns, especially in the Call of Duty series, which is a shame as most people play it once, some don't even finish it, and some don't even play it at all.

 

[blankedboy]

Of course I do.
Hell, I'm playing through Zeno Clash (for the first time) now, but then again it's singleplayer only... Whatever. It kicks ass, that's all I need to know.

Now it needs a deathmatch multiplayer feature...

 

[SoranMBane]

I only play the campaign. Multiplayer doesn't appeal to me unless I'm playing with friends and those friends are all in the same room with me, which is a rare set of circumstances.