Does anyone prefer single player over multiplayer?

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dunno001 said:

Mr. sickVisionz said:
Local multiplayer with friends > single player. Outside of that, I prefer single player.

On XBL multiplayer is usually just me losing a match and getting teabagged or me beating someone while they call me a n***** or f***** and yanks the ethernet cord out of their system before the win registers. The combination of overly sore winner and losers has turned me off to it unless it's the rare occasion where I play with someone I actually know in real life.

This sums up quite well why I'm a single-player kinda person. Multiplayer these days seemingly has to be online or bust. Sorry, but I'm not dealing with the immaturity level from some of those kids. I drive enough of them around already!

Now, local multiplayer can be decent. 3 player Secret of Mana was good, and I'm intrigued by getting 4 people together for NSMBWii. But good local multiplayer is a dying art. So I fall back to single player.

It's not that the multiplayer is bad. It's that the people that you play with that makes or breaks the experience. If you play with people you know or people who are pleasant, I'd say the experience is superior to single player. But if you are playing with random jerks who talk smack or cuss you out, then it's not fun anymore. I still play with strangers (on ranked, player match, etc.) to help build up/test my skills since there's no substitute for human competition (and to achievement hunt. lol) but I do get immediately turned off and don't feel like playing anymore whenever an asshole ruins the fun.