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What is your opinions on SP/MP gaming ?

MentalIlness

MentalIlness

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Ok, just thought of this, well thought of it before....but just thought of it again. :/

Anyway, what "in your opinion" is the big deal about multiplayer gaming ? I mean, I have no problem with it, but I myself could actually care less about multiplayer.

For me to play online, the game has to draw me in..and even then me playing online is rare. When I buy games, I "absolutely only" buy a game for the single player / story mode / campaign.

My opinion.... Has to have a good story and or plot. Decent legth of gameplay. And if a game doesn't have that, multiplayer is just nothing to me. I don't know why, cant get over that.

Like most of the Call Of Duty games, there are a lot of people that just simply don't like them "single player" but still religiously play them online.

Does people only buy game to play with their friends ?

I'm serious though. I have played online in the past. And I just simply get nothing out of it.

Id rather play a single player game, where I can be relaxed, not in intense matchups where your "edgy" ?

I would rather play a game that I really enjoy like Far Cry 2. But the multiplayer version of that is just hideous. But campaign is "great to me".

Most of the Call Of Duty series plots suck in campaign. And I agree, but just look at how much the online aspect is played....and loved.

Will they ever be balance in this ?

Why ?
 
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Its just fun, you get sucked in trying to beat other people and of course the other team if its something like bad company 2. You need to figure out different strategies and places to go to beat these people because they adapt, you need to keep moving because noob213 is only going to get shot in the face from a distance 2-3 times before he learns where you are and flanks you, proplayer22 will adapt much quicker. You dont get that with the AI, it wont adapt or change weapons etc. All that generally applies to RTS as well, people only lose to a certain strat so many times before they adapt and again people only win so many times with a certain strat before they come across someone who can beat them.

Some like playing with friends but ive not done that in ages, its all about a challenge for me. I learned recently you can just run through crysis, like just run through using the cloak at choice moments and avoiding half the enemies, pretty easy, not much challenge.

Plus there's plenty of good singleplayer games anyway its not like multiplayer dominates the market, mass effect, fallout 3/nv, dead space are all geared towards single player and are amazing fun. Rarely do games have great single player and multiplayer, its one or the other due to the gameplay involved and probably costs as well.
 
I too buy games mostly for single player. I like a game that you can play at whatever difficulty setting you want, when you want, and without having to meet up with other players. I also like to have a good story that has a definite ending. I just do not seem to have the skill to compete with a bunch of 14 year olds in shooters, or to play against most of the RTS players on line.

The only games I have played much on line were COD4 Modern Warfare and Company of Heroes and the old Battle for Middle Earth 2 RTS because it had a lot of custom maps. I did have a lot of fun playing Borderlands co-op with my grandson who is now 13.

I absolutely refuse to play MMOs.
 
I'm opposite (most people i know are the same) only buy for multi player.

The problem is most single player games have been done to death over and over, and are not awe inspiring like the used to be in the "good ol days".

Multiplayer is something exciting that has repeatability in it. A single player game most people finish and don't play it again (a few exceptions to this rule like Half Life games, but its mostly true).

People want more for the money they spend, who wants to pay $60 for a game that last them a night worth of playing anymore?

The same goes for MMO imho, why pay a monthly fee for a single player game? Never understand why people paid money each month to kill monsters when you can do that in a single player game..most MMO don't even have good pvp in them that actually is part of gameplay/story.
 
I'm not into MP gaming myself but I think its good game developers offer it to those that are and put it into their games. And who knows... someday I may want to try MP on a particular game that comes out that I like.
 
I used to buy games for both SP & MP but somewhere around 2003 MP stopped being fun & started becoming competetive. So now I buy primarily for SP with a nod towards MP if it's co-op, LAN or I can setup a dedicated server for it. In the last 3 years i've pretty much avoided MP because it's no fun, full of whiners & exploiters with very few exceptions.
 
I get bored really fast with even the best of single player games. To me gaming is a social thing. There are a few games that make sense solo, like pinball. But you are still competing with others for high score. I prefer playing with others, it is always more enjoyable that way.
 
To me, Games like WoW, Everquest, and others like those, seem more like work than anything. Takes the fun out of it for me. Almost seems like a chore.

Shooters, are just "I'm very good at shooters" but either you own or get owned. Game over. Then the kids.....annoying, hacking, cheating.....I even bought a dedicated server for Doom 3 years ago. Finally closed it up a few months back. The wallhacks just got ridiculous in that game.

In my opinion, if I were to play online, it would be really only RTS. But seems noone takes to these like they do shooters. I dont know.

Some just like good campaign single player and some cant stand single player, but adore MP.

Shit, I bought Modern Warfare, Modern Warfare 2, World At War, Black Ops, COD 2 "all" for single player. Never been online even once with those. And a few of those ive had for years.
 
First thing i did when i bought black ops was beat the campaign.

As far as multiplayer, i bought it to play with my friends(since they were obviously too busy playing the f'ing game to hang out in real life).

As far as other games go, storyline before MP. Sometimes i would prefer there not being a MP, i get too damn competitive.
 
Malak said:
I get bored really fast with even the best of single player games. To me gaming is a social thing. There are a few games that make sense solo, like pinball. But you are still competing with others for high score. I prefer playing with others, it is always more enjoyable that way.
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Yup, agreed basically 100%.

I rarely play single player, & if do, it's not usually for long.
Actually, the only game i've ever played a lot of single player in was Borderlands, & that's mainly due to becoming pretty much addicted to farming for better weapons/items, which can be annoying to do with other people sometimes.
 
different tastes i guess.
i prefer a multiplayer focused game, OP have you ever played battlefield 1942 or any of the other bf games?

the problem with single player games for me is that i never revisit them again after playing it first time through. i like games to have some replay value and thats where MP comes in. plus the feeling of playing with actual humans is something you can never get anywhere close playing SP.
 
minmaster said:
different tastes i guess.
i prefer a multiplayer focused game, OP have you ever played battlefield 1942 or any of the other bf games?

the problem with single player games for me is that i never revisit them again after playing it first time through. i like games to have some replay value and thats where MP comes in. plus the feeling of playing with actual humans is something you can never get anywhere close playing SP.
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Yea, but the Battlefield games I have played are Bad Company 2 "campaign" and Battlefield 2142 which made me literally sick to my stomach. Can't stand 2142 MP. Shit, its been sitting on my shelf for several years now, untouched. Bad Company 2, single player only for me.

I do find though. After maybe a year or two, when hardware is able to run a certain game I own at max settings, I give it another play through. Since the first time I played through a certain game, had to run low or medium settings due to hardware limitations.

I remember playing Doom 3 on a Radeon 9800 Pro. The game ran "ok" but on low settings, and I remember the flashlight not even emitting the light properly.

But now, on anything over the last few years, is capable to cutting through Doom 3 with ease. So to me, after hardware upgrades, ALL of my single player games gets additional play thru's.

Then if I upgrade the monitor, they get played through even again. Until the games I own, can be ran at extremely high resolutions, and max settings I just keep playing through the campaigns.

But MP just doesn't seem to exist to me. I have Diablo 2 and the exp and Starcraft Battlechest. I dont play them online either.
 
Unless I'm playing with real life friends or a regular group, multiplayer isn't terribly exciting for me. Even when I played D2 online or MMOs, I would do most things solo.

As for single player games, I love the CoD series (especially the original).
 
99% of the games i buy i but for the single player. Single player being PVE and MP being PVP

actually the only game i specifically purchased for MP that i can remember is Black ops

i do not count WoW as MP because i don't PVP, haven't since vanilla. its group PVE, much like Diablo 2 if you didn't dual or greif people
 
Anubis said:
99% of the games i buy i but for the single player. Single player being PVE and MP being PVP

actually the only game i specifically purchased for MP that i can remember is Black ops

i do not count WoW as MP because i don't PVP, haven't since vanilla. its group PVE, much like Diablo 2 if you didn't dual or greif people
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If you play with others it is multiplayer. PvP and PvE have no relevance.
 
I play multiplayer for the challenge. FPS games and RTS games in particular the AI cannot really challenge you beyond simply cheating, and even then theres usually a limit to what it can do. My mind naturally attempts to figure out how the AI is cheating when playing these games, and then I develop a strategy to get around it, and then the fun is gone because at that point I just feel like I'm exploiting code, rather than out-thinking or out-playing an opponent. Its all about the competition.
 
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and you would be wrong again, just like all your posts about sam turrets in the BO thread
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Well WoW is an MMO, massively multiplayer online, its in the name. Whether you PvP, PvE, or just sit in goldshire and poledance its still multiplayer.
 
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and you would be wrong again, just like all your posts about sam turrets in the BO thread
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That would be impossible.

I have developed games. Reviewed games. Operated gaming websites. Discussed gameplay with people you've never heard of that know more about the games you love than you ever will. You cannot compare to me when it comes to the knowledge of all things gaming. I am your superior.

😀
 
I buy games solely for their single player content. The last game I played multiplayer in was Call of Duty: World at War on xbox360, and I only played it there because all the guys I played with from work had it on Xbox360.

Zombie Nazis is great and if I still had a group to play with, I would.
 
ive done a 180 since i was younger. When i was younger it was all about Single player. That was before i found online gameplay. Then around 1999 i found R6 and it was all over from there,then maybe a a year or 2 ago, i started playing single player games again. Mainly because the online communities i frequent turned into a trollfest. WoW/CSS and so on on.

well that and Steam sales...because i buy a ton of games, then feel obligated to beat them
 
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I don't really like playing online with strangers, but I'll play with IRL friends. I still prefer everyone sitting around one TV though, I have fond memories of 4 player goldeneye, mario kart and F-zero on the N64.
 
Multiplayer = competition, the same reason I play chess, basketball, ping-pong etc..

Singleplayer = relaxed fun looking for a decent story.
 
MentalIlness said:
Anyway, what "in your opinion" is the big deal about multiplayer gaming ? I mean, I have no problem with it, but I myself could actually care less about multiplayer.
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As a general rule, AI opponents are predictable and playing against the AI gets boring after a while, especially for strategy games. When you play against the AI, your opponent always has one hand tied behind its back.

I can't talk about Call of Duty, but back when there were arena-style FPS games (Unreal Tournament '99, Quake 3), online multiplayer offered a very different and superior experience from that of single player to the point where the games felt less like silly, disposable computer games and more like online cybersports. Playing in a 5 on 5 capture-the-flag game with only human players on voice comm with assigned positions is an experience that cannot be replicated in single player.

In short: AI opponents are retarded.

AI can be given better aim or a stronger economy, but it will never be able to surprise you or do something original or out-think you. I have a very difficult time understanding why anyone would want to play RTS games against AI once they have a good grasp of the game.
 
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