Vault101 said:
Twilight_guy said:
Doing anything too much is unhealthy. That's obvious. It's especially a problem with games though since people have become addicted to them
funny considering MMO's and other online gameplay types (like ME3 "unlock'em ALL!") apear to be the most "addictive"
[quote/] as if any other obsession, separated from the world from the world. Aside from that extreme case, Playing games alone exclusively means that a person is alone for longer and has less time to interact with others.
playing games...watching TV, reading, browsing the internet there are tons of "unhealthy" and "unsocial" activities that alot of people do..hell even facebook
[quote/]In excess, that can be a bad thing even if it doesn't reach an unhealthy level. Being a hermit doesn't make you a bad person but it does limit your life p[potential and solitary activities in excess become being a hermit. That's my point is that,[b/] bashing any multiplayer and praising exclusively single player is a step below saying human interaction is bad. There has to be a grey area.[/b][/quote]
hahaha what?
are you honestly trying to tell me playing with wane_ker69 is some kind of "healthy" social interaction?..hell depending on circumstance I wouldn't even class it as social interaction...its more like having an AI around that is programmed to be a twat
I play single player games [b/]because i prefer them[/b] because they are [b/]fundamentally different[/b] to multiplayer games, and no its NOT because I don't have any freinds before you jump on that . Its because I prefer them that way, I'm not bashing multiplayer I can understand its appeal but its not for me...what I am raging over is some peoples idea that online=better which is ridiculous
and did it occur to you some people may not have freind who play games? or play the same kind of games?
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Okay, stop right there. I will not be involved in another hissy fit argument because someone pissed me off and they got pissed off and then the whole thing explodes.
I poorly worded my reply since your OP stink of single minded zeal and that pushes my buttons. Let me reiterate now that I am calm.
Firstly, the important point was "I'm mad because people don't understand the implications of 'everything is multiplayer'. We're moving into an age where even your toilet is hooked up to twitter (whoo joke stealing!) and connectivity is become ubiquitous. That's what 'everything is multipalyer' means. It doesn't mean the big mean corporation is going to take out your single player campaign, it means your Facebook is going to be full of posts saying that you beat level 1-1, 1-2, 1-3, and so on."
People need to stop sounding the death-con alarm over the idea of multiplayer. People think that a comapny is saying X, and it's not. There are many thing that 'multiplayer' means beside deathmatchs and cutting out single player content. There are too many people screaming like chickens with their heads cut off because a company is going to hook your game up to Twitter and call it multipalyer since people multiple people can see your progress. The basic concept of parts of the game are changing and that means that multipalyer doesn't mean what it did and I'm tired of people all assuming it means something it may not. It's like people asking "how will a horseless carriage move, they're trying to take our horse and our livelihood!"
Secondly, the kind of single minded devotion to kicking your heals at the idea that twitter will access your game is a problem. We live in an increasingly connected world. We live in a world where cell phones and plentiful and cheap and people instant message each other while waling down a sidewalk. Whether or not you approve or sue this access to technology, its undeniable that humans and society are becoming more connected. The problem is when you resist this whole idea and try to work for a less connected world, or a world where only the things you want happen. People need to live in the real world and the real world is full of cheap disposable interactions. Games are going to reflect that. Companies are going to try and work with that. Society will change to try and deal with the changing world. The loss of the idea of a truly isolated and single player game will be part of the future, as was the decease in the popularity of the arcade with the rise of home gaming and as was the loss of the proto-arcade and its mechanical games. Things change and sticking your head in the sand is not the answer.
People may not even see it yet, but they are set in there idea of what constitutes single player or multiplayer or any number of things in a game. They predict doom and gloom when someone says something will change and they misinterpret. People need to be open minded and that means accepting that maybe the twitters and the bookfaces are going to change the world and games. Maybe they won't maybe publishers are just blowing smoke up our asses but I don't move to fear as soon as hear something is changing, I reason about it and try to see what it means and there are too many people who haven't put two seconds into even trying to explore what this could mean.
This whole topic stinks of hearing something, immediately going to fear and then immediately going to anger.
And now I'm angry again. That means I probably said something stupid. I gotta learn to be a Vulcan one day.
