Poll: Which do you prefer: Competitive or Cooperative Multiplayer?

[DrDeath3191]

There's been a lot of emphasis on cooperative multiplayer as of late. But that doesn't mean that competitive multiplayer has gone unnoticed. Which form do you prefer?

I like competitive better. What can I say? I love to crush people in games.

 

[SomethingUnrelated]

Co-operative, but competetive can be fun.

 

[ae86gamer]

I prefer co-op. I like working more with people then against them.

 

[General Thrax]

I would have to say co-op mainly because of the stratagy aspect of working with actual people. Best example is Left 4 Dead. You can't really setup a working defensive structure with the AI players.

 

[Ernie Devlin]

Co-op with freinds is great.
Being able to play a game through with someone you know makes the whole experience of playing the game so much better.
With that having been said, knowing you've owned your freind in a game is a good feeling also.

 

[Mugouth]

I voted for co-op but i like competitive play as well. I find most co-op play is competitive anyway (trying to get more score/points/kills than your team mates). Its all good

 

[Ben7]

Cooperating in competetive multiplayer

 

[Xelioth]

I like testing my skills against my friends, personally. I still like coop just fine, but competition is where I have the most fun.

 

[Vlane]

Competitive because only then people can call me "CHEATER" or "HAXXOR" if I have a 14:0 kill death ratio.

 

[Mordwyl]

Why not both? TF2 does this charmingly well.

 

[Kiefer13]

Competitive multiplayer is fun, but I feel that personally it's just not as much fun as co-operative multiplayer, provided you have competent allies. Left 4 Dead was one of the best multiplayer experiences I've had in a long time, and that's why I'm looking forward to the sequel so much.

 

[Jedoro]

I prefer co-op, it's just more fun to me.

 

[bombchu]

Co-op. I really like helping people in general... though shouting obscenities at each other is fun too! So, competitive co-op is quite nice.

 

[Kodolb.]

Co-op

But idiots could just fuck it up so easily, ruin all the fun and make it all very frustrating.

Example:
L4D Expert Campaigns
3 Pro's
1 idiot
= All Fail.

and from my experience that Idiot is usually playing as Francis :O

 

[Telperion]

I like competetive more, but only as part of a semi-functioning team. I like support roles, and rarely take the initiative to charge ahead by myself, because that usually just gets me killed without any noticeable benefit. I like to think on my feet, and not just rush ahead without any idea of what I'm really doing.

Co-op is just "okay" for me, because most of the time the people I'm trying to help are getting themselves killed, because they can't seem think on their feet. Or they like to prove how "tough" they are by charging ahead of everyone else, and soloing it to the next exit. L4D is great with friends, but like Kodolb. said: all it takes is one idiot to ruin it for everyone else. Army of Two had some fun MP moments, but I also remember having to pick my "buddy" up more often then I can recall, because he / she didn't have any basic survival instincts. Come to think of it: I had to do that quite a lot in L4D too, which is probably why I haven't played that game in a while...

 

[CK76]

Co-op for me, I like the feeling of being part of a team with friends and winning. I will say competitive can be fun, in fighting games for instance.

 

[p3t3r]

split screen co-op ftw

 

[akmarksman]

Co-Op all the way.

I was getting tired of all the messages coming from POS pukes in COD4 that accused me of cheating/hacking/modding..
Apparently being #1 in Free For All for 6 straight matches with a kill-death ratio of 7-1 or greater means Im a cheater? how? if I was cheating..would I have been killed that one time? No. I would have strived for perfection.

Im not a run in submachinegun blazing n00b. I'll use my SMGs to great effect..but im not a bullet spammer.

 

[IamQ]

I perfer Co-op, but if I could only play one for the rest of me' life I'd have to pick Competitive. It's more accecible if you don't have any friends around.