Whats the point of playing the campaign for FPS's anymore?

[Midnight Crossroads]

I play it to get acquainted with the game's mechanics before jumping into multiplayer. None of the CoD games had story lines I can recall that well, but it's tradition that I beat them on veteran before jumping into multiplayer.

I would hate the FPS genre if it didn't have single player. It's just something to ease myself into multiplayer. It gives me a chance to learn to get a feel for the controls and find out which weapons do what and how they act. For me, it's preferable to joining a match full of five year veterans that kill you before you can even figure out which button lets you sprint. Day of Defeat has a ***** of a learning curve because of this reason. Even America's Army gave you a small tutorial before shipping you off to be killed in five seconds.

 

[Quellist]

I guess because i play games for story. I admit i dont play a lot of FPS but i treasure those few that have a good story. Multiplayer FPS has no interest for me at all, i'm more the cooperative type than competitive, if i want multiplayer i play MMO's

 

[No_Remainders]

Well...

You know, you could play them so as to not have an entirely biased opinion?

OT: Metro 2033. Play it.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

The single player gives the developers a chance to make some great set-piece gameplay that just wouldn't happen in a multiplayer. Although this only works if the designers actually put some effort into the singleplayer, recently the single player campaigns have been neglected over multiplayer, since that is the current major selling point today. Hence why single-player campaigns are now usually only about 5 hours long.

Its when the campaign uses gameplay mechanics and situations that you cannot implement in multiplayer that the campaign then has a point, as it is adding new experiences and challenges to the game.

 

[srm79]

I do believe the Resistance games are pretty story driven. Now cue someone who actually has a PS3 and played them for more than a few hours at a friends house coming to correct me, I assume.

I got the original with my PS3. Great gameplay, great story but fuuuuuck that was one hard game.