While I do enjoy playing games online fairly frequently, I do sometimes wish the Internet never got so entrenched in gaming. As you say, it removes the emphasis on the vastly superior couch multiplayer, but I also miss when developers shipped games that were actually complete and working. You know, when you didn't need to download patches to fix the game day one, and when you bought the game and you had the WHOLE game.
This is one reason I still love Nintendo so much, because they ship games that work, and because they place the emphasis on having fun with your family and friends in the same room (if online play is even included at all). It's why I'm a little nervous that they're starting to embrace DLC with their own games--it can be done right, but it makes me nervous.







