Poll: Which do you most look forward to in a game: campaign or multiplayer?

[Samus Aaron]

COD, Black Ops is out today, but unlike many people, I'm actually looking forward to the campaign more than the multiplayer. The campaign in COD games have been consistently innovative, while the multiplayer has rarely changed anything major.

What about you? Do you look forward to the campaign aspect of games more or the multiplayer deathmatch-type games?

 

[Sleekgiant]

I really don't like multiplayer that much, I'm more about following the story.

 

[Rewdalf]

What's wrong with looking forward to both?
I mean, the Modern Warfare 2 campaign was interesting in my opinion, and the ending was quite epic, so I'm pretty excited to see what this story holds.
Multiplayer is always fun, plus all my friends are going to be contesting their "skills".
Also zombie mode. I'm saving that for Thursday when my friend is bringing his Xbox over so we can own some zombies.
Yes, I know we can just play co-op (which is fucking awesome) but he'd rather rank up on his own Xbox and I have a spare TV...

 

[DeadlyYellow]

Campaign definitely, moreso if it supports local co-op.

 

[Dcocho]

Local Multiplayer, I have Xbox Live I just like playing offline with my friends more then online.

Add AI players in the mix and its a treat 4 friends and AI's Thats the way a games got to be no?

 

[Tupolev]

Campaign. Online multiplayer is generally a faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar inferior experience to local multiplayer, and good LAN parties and other local multiplayer can sometimes be hard to get going these days (if they're even possible in a given game).

 

[Armored Prayer]

Both.

I like a good story but I also enjoy playing online. Games like CoD ans Halo do this best. Great campaign but equally great multiplayer.

 

[Delock]

Given that I don't really want my experience to be dependent on random strangers, I'd say the campaign.

There are a few select games that I've bought for local multiplayer over the years, but those have slowly vanished in number.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

campaign....although I would attribute that also to the fact that I currently live in an area where the internet connections is far too unreliable for online gaming (yes there are still major cities like that in the world, southeast asia to be specific). But also I do enjoy letting a story unfold as I play, and taking in all the environments at my own pace. Though some campaigns get quite fast and furious and you can miss it, it's just an experience I enjoy, well the 1st few moments I get the chance to play that game anyways. Sometimes playing multiplayer 1st kind of destroys that game for me, like jumping in the middle of it for a preview.

Online co-op is always awesome fun though, especially Borderlands, rainbow 6, stuff like that

 

[Reptiloid]

Never really cared about multiplayer. I've had the Orange Box for 3 years not and still haven't had Team Fortress 2 installed once. A solid single player campaign is crucial when deciding whether or not to buy a game, if it's strongly/fully multiplayer focused, I'm not getting it.

Sure, I like having fun, but fun alone isn't enough for me. I want a solid experience with that fun, and so far I've yet to come across any multiplayer games that offers this.