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bananaking21 on 04 April 2013
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Miguel_Zorro said:
bananaking21 said:

here is the thing, i love single player games, i really do. i love a good strong story, epic set pieces and awesome characters. but i also love online gaming, i love the rush of it all, the competition with other real people, needed to outwit or out skill others to win, the huge maps and the more dynamic gameplay. 

i love online multiplayer, yet some gamers and i don't want to generalize, but some gamers who been playing for a really long time mostly, dismiss online gaming, they just don't care about it. if i got a nickel for every time i head someone say " i don't care about online" i would have a million bucks. some people just seem to dismiss it, even though there are a lot of games that provide very different experiences.

another thing i noticed is that reviewers dont seem to care much for it, when readying a review about a game that focuses mostly about online, for example CoD, i see a lot of reviewers talking A LOT about the single player, and rating the game more on their single player experience than their online one, yet the game is mostly about its online experience. 

when a game has a traditional single player, reviewers seem to mostly care about it and really dismiss the online aspect of the game, even if its more important to the actual game. 

so im just wondering, why do a lot of people do this?

It's what we grew up with.  Younger gamers now grew up in the social networking age.  They're used to Facebook, being online with friends in general, and so on.  They're into things like cross-game chat. People who have been gaming "for a really long time" grew up without online gaming.  We like what we became accustomed to in our defining years.  Many reviewers fall within this age bracket - older than the average gamer.

People like me grew up with single player.  The only multiplayer was local, with friends.  Playing against strangers online doesn't have as strong of an appeal for me as playing against my friends in the same room.

Another aspect is that many of the gamers online are younger and often annoying.  Listening to some 16 year old boy (who sounds the same as a 12 year old girl) yell racial and anti-gay insults every time I shoot them gets boring quickly.

i been playing video games for about 16 years and i only stated with online gaming in summer 2009. at first i actually dismissed online, and didnt even want to make a PSN account, though my brother did make one and i tried it, fell in love with it. my point is, i am one of those gamers who just played single player games for generations, i started off way back with the SNES. i still play and love single player games but i dont get why some gamers just dismiss it completely without even trying it. and why dont you just mute the players? thats been a major complain in this thread but i dont understand why people just wont mute them!