locally is but games are really making it hard because all games that should be 4 player co op aren't. that really pisses me off
Poll: Is it Just Me, or is Online Multiplayer Ruinning the Fun in Videogames?
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The only game I play online is Team Fortress 2 and thats because another website I post on has their own server and steam group with an organised event every evening. This means I get to play with the same people where you know none of them are annoying.
Well, let's look at the most obvious example:apsham said:
Both Modern Warfare games had 5-6 hour campaigns. That just wouldn't cut it for a single player only game.
This is one of the big reasons I'm not willing to pay for Xbox Live Gold. Sometimes going online and meeting someone new is cool, particularly in the case of MUDs and MMORPGs, but there's no reason to be playing when half the people are just online to make the experience miserable for other people.
It's not multiplayer itself that ruins the fun, it's the people. Online can still e very fun, you just have to mute the other players and play a game with more balanced guns. For instance, I would suggest not playing the CoD or Halo online. They seem to have the most douches on them.
Exactly (except for the Adrien part. And the xbox live part).bloodshed113094 said:
Online multiplayer is fun, it's the community that fucks it up.
I think it's because company's are copying off each other, trying to get the best online to appeal to everyone (like COD...but that's sort of failed...) if they didn't do this, hell games might acctualy be fun. Instead of feeling they got forced out of the gaming production's rectum.
Having said that im glad at least a few gaming company's don't care about this...and acctualy listen to their fans, like Valve and Bungie. Even Obsidian, seen as though they seem to be giving original Fallout fans what they want.
Having said that im glad at least a few gaming company's don't care about this...and acctualy listen to their fans, like Valve and Bungie. Even Obsidian, seen as though they seem to be giving original Fallout fans what they want.
I mostly enjoy single player. Multiplayer is ruined when you get people that take the game too seriously. People who just play for stats, to win, or any other reason besides to have fun kinda ruin the game. I remember playing L4D for hours with the same 2-3 people and we were having fun and messing around most the time, but still getting through the campaigns...
I prefer to play local games, playing with friends is a lot more fun then playing with random people that probably all hate you.
I miss 4-player split-screen I know that some games have it still but I really think Left 4 Dead should have had 4-player split-screen.
So really, I don't think online multiplayer is killing fun in videogames, I think it's killed 4-player-split
I miss 4-player split-screen I know that some games have it still but I really think Left 4 Dead should have had 4-player split-screen.
So really, I don't think online multiplayer is killing fun in videogames, I think it's killed 4-player-split
It's the same for me only with Counter-Strike Source. I had all but abandoned the game when i found a server with a nice group of admins and regulars where fun is more important than scores and the voicechat always carries quite a pun (pun intended!).Plinglebob said:
Feels so good to horribly fail, laughing tears.
I love online multiplayer, sure I have a few negative experiences while playing live, but that doesn't stop it from being fun. I've run into maybe 5 people who were assholes online, the others are just bickering with eachother, so I ignore them. I might just be lucky, and me having a lot of friends to play online with might be a factor, but I never understood the hate for the live community. The little kids can be muted (but you're being unfair if you hate on someone for their voice, I've met quite a few children who could outplay most of the people on live), and the assholes can receive the same treatment, it's not like you're being forced to listen to them.
That's enough of that, I have fun in all of the above mentioned, but online can really bring a lot of fun, because you can only do so much in single player, and your friends won't always be around to play the games you want, so when that happens, all you have left is the random strangers on the internet.
That's enough of that, I have fun in all of the above mentioned, but online can really bring a lot of fun, because you can only do so much in single player, and your friends won't always be around to play the games you want, so when that happens, all you have left is the random strangers on the internet.
The problem isn't multiplayer. It's the attitude developers are taking with multiplayer. It seems to give them an excuse to make ridiculously short single player campaigns, as long as they also include an unnecessary multiplayer that has clearly no place in that game, having been shoehorned in. (This is coming from a person who never usually plays online.)
This right here. I know if I'm going public multiplayer on Halo 3 or MW 2 it's going to be filled with idiots, so I typically don't. For the MOST part I've had positive online experiences with Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead 2 and Red Dead Redemption.Gnoya said:
Not so much with Crackdown 2 though, every time I open my game up to other people it seems all they wanna do is kill me.
They should actually have a way to block the little brats from getting online. stupid bad parents.Ironic Pirate said:
Maybe a system where you could mark someone as a douchebag? If you get enough votes you have to play against other douchebags?bloodshed113094 said:
But then people might say anyone who beats them is a douche...
This is what I'm assuming lead to the decrease in players' manners in StarCraft. I hinted before that i played the Beta, and back then almost everybody liked to have a nice conversation and always left you with a "good job" or "good game" with only a few exceptions (one of my friends honestly being one of them, but that was because for the first two weeks of Phase 1 he thought "gg" meant "gotta go").Xzi said:
Now that the game has been released to the general public, it's no longer just the people who love the franchise, it's open to everyone.
I think what it all boils down to is your exposure to as many people who play to have fun rather than to win as possible. With local and with single player 100% is a garauntee.
Single Player.
Multiplayer gets old way too fast and i prefer to play Single Player in general for the characters and plot etc. Plus, you can get frustrated a lot more i think with MP.
Multiplayer gets old way too fast and i prefer to play Single Player in general for the characters and plot etc. Plus, you can get frustrated a lot more i think with MP.
For me at least, the quality of the multiplayer depends on the people playing it. I've had nothing but a jolly old time with COD4, great, *mostly* friendly competitive play, but I find all the 9-year-old kids and 30-year-old perverts playing Gears 2 a little disturbing. Team Fortress 2 is usually pretty good too, since you have to work as a team, and being a jerk to your teammate is not the best way to encourage cooperation.
The only thing that turns me off to online multiplayer is the fact that you have to pay for it on the 360. But that has nothing to do with anything.
The only thing that turns me off to online multiplayer is the fact that you have to pay for it on the 360. But that has nothing to do with anything.