Poll: So who actually likes Multiplayer?

[Ailia]

I enjoy co-op more than multiplayer, but AC:B's multiplayer was acutally damn fun. It's the only one I'll probably want to play a year from now.

 

[Eagle Est1986]

I like it, it's just not where I spend most of my gaming time. I just find multiplayer gets repetitive really quickly. And this is from someone currently on his 4th Mass Effect 2 play through.

 

[Jinjiro]

I love local MP in all forms - grouping up or taking on a friend is the most fun you can have while gaming.

Online multiplayer is a double edged sword - it DOES elongate a game's lifespan by a mile, however you do have to face issues like lag, hackers and douchebags on a daily basis (for most games, anyway, especially FPSes). I also hate, hate, HATE that online multiplayer is replacing local MP (sells more consoles and games...)

MMORPGs are also a bit of a double edged sword - while the social aspect of something like WoW can make a game feel like playing with friends (but not quite), the games tend to suffer losses to the 'RP' aspects, trying to make a game that will appeal to everyone.

Multiplayer is how gaming should be played, but I'm not sure we're going entirely in the right direction. The Internet is great and all (hi Escapist ) but as we all know -

 

[Kaptajn Emil Alfred Conan Swagga Benzon]

Are you kidding? Multiplayer is one of the best things ever! Ofcourse, you probably wont have an experience like the one with the Elder Scrolls games, but TF2 and WoW... Damn i love it. Beating your friends, and getting beat by their friends. It's beautiful!

 

[TheMan2203]

but only on a few games really :/ and when my connection is being a team player.

 

[Bekn]

I like multiplayer despite being atrocious at it. I, like many, get annoyed at irritating little kids with mics but that's nothing that can't be solved by the mute button.

Recently, I've found that I thoroughly enjoy the AC:B multiplayer aspect. It's different to most multiplayer games these days.

 

[swankyfella]

Online multiplayer ought to be icing on the cake of a good single-player experience. Something new to try after you're bored of going it alone. Not the other way around. That's how I've always felt.

(Unless, of course, multiplayer is the focus of the game, like L4D or an MMO)

 

[Kroxile]

I like co-op but I always considered those who play FPS games for hours on end every day to be OCD ridden, little kids, or both. Its playing the same maps. Over and over and over and over and over and over again with very little to no variation and it just boggles me how anyone with a working brain can stay interested in them for more than a couple hours a week.

 

[Mathak]

Used to be pretty SP focused, but recently Magicka has shown me the error of my ways. 4-player Magicka is like pure liquid happiness being injected directly into your spleen, especially if you have 1 or 2 incompetent people with you.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I think it depends on the game, I would never want the elders scrolls to be multiplayer but lfd is really great fun with friends

 

[Dana22]

I generaly dont even buy games without multiplayer, with the exception of ones with outstanding quality of gameplay (like Portal, or FNV).

 

[Arisato-kun]

Playing fighting games with my friends is our #1 passtime between classes. I love multiplayer.

 

[Plurralbles]

believe me, if people could actually make good AI I wouldn't do multi, but as it stands I'm forced to play with others just to avoid annoying glitches. I dont' care if you're really bad at a game... You're better than a PC avatar that gets stuck on walls.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

As long as it isn't competitive co-op, with scoring system...

I'll play anything online, really.

 

[Dimensional Vortex]

I don't really have a problem with multiplayer except for the people that are experts or annoying 9-year olds.

Worse are self proclaimed experts.

I'm not going to say I like all multiplayer nor am I going to say I hate all multiplayer, some of it can be done well and can be extremely enjoyable. Like playing CoD4 with a good friend. But others can be terrible and start to make me lament my frustrations, example: Call of Duty Online. Although I do enjoy RTS multiplayer, nothing like making an army to fight your best friend's army in an epic cataclysm that scars the playing map. In the end it doesn't matter who won, it is about the enjoyment we got of having large scale wars with one another.

 

[dagens24]

It really depends on the game / genre.

 

[beniki]

Kind of.

It's not bad, but I really don't understand the people that play a lot of multi-player. I hear stories of people racking up 20 hours a week on things like Call of Duty. Don't understand it. I get the variation in the people you play with, but it is just doing the same thing on the same maps over and over again.

That said, I remember playing an awful lot of Tekken in my more youthful youth. And that's basically the same bunch of characters just standing in front of each other. I guess my argument is invalid... but in my defence, I never played it online without someone I could see.

So with friends: yeah, I could play that stuff all day.
Faceless online masses: Not so much.

 

[dagens24]

Off topic, but sweet Darwin fish.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I hate shooters now.
The single-Player's are just SHIT. Seriously, 5 hours? And just to make space for a Mode where I play with some masterbauting 10-Year olds fightin' over who gets the Rocket Launcher?
FUCK NO!
I hate multiplayer, I miss when a Game could have a strong 15-25 Hour Single-Player and a fun Simple Multi-Player (*Cough* Duke Nukem 3d Already mastered this concept and beat it to shit*Cough*).