Wondering what the vgchartz community prefers

Online Pros
More convinient
More players able to play at once
More modern games available with online multiplayer than local multiplayer
Full TV Screen to yourself
You don't necessary need friends who also want to play the game.

Local Pros
More personal
A more social experience, since you aren't going to be playing with anyone you find annoying unless your friends with someone you don't like?!?
No lag or connection issues


For me, I enjoy local multiplayer more, simply because it means I'm actually hanging out with my friends while playing. I never get frustrated with local play like I do online relatively often. While sadly local play doesn't work with many PC games I play due to input device restrictions, all my favorite multiplayer console games have local play. I still love online for the convinence, but mainly for me thats the only big pro of online over local.

local when possible

Depends on the game and the system.

Music, Mario, and Street Fighter games are much more memorable played local.

FPS and MMORPG cannot exist without some form of online capability...As the expectations stand today. Reflect back to the N64 Goldeneye and the Xbox Halo days, then sure FPS played locally was expected and a blast. Then again, Counter Strike was not too many years removed from Goldeneye.

For me, overall, I have had more fun playing local multiplay. Sure I spent 3+ years on the World of Warcrack, but I enjoyed guild chat more than the actual raids because failure in raids was a witch hunt on Vent to root out who caused the "wipe" and "give us 5 reasons why we should not replace you" type screed.

Local all the way.

Local. I finally got a system with decent online and I still don't play anything online.

Both used in the same game

depends on the game. Though I prefer online.

Local is the best; I can't get enough Super Smash Bros

i play with friends Online :D

mchaza said: i play with friends Online :D

well ofc people do that, but when I play with my friends online, they just seem different. People act differently when things are inpersonal. People tend to act like the trolls we all hate since other people are trolling them, who were probably trolled themselves. Just a big vicious cycle you tend to avoid playing local.