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SvennoJ on 04 April 2013
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bananaking21 said:
SSJGohan3972 said:

I feel like the majority of gamers who have been gaming for multiple years (across a few gens or maybe literal decades) game not because other people in their life do (or not only because of that) but because they actually enjoy it. There are exceptions of course but many online focused games are less about fun gameplay/story, etc. and more about competition - which can be fun for some people (quite a few people) but is not fun for everyone.

Basically it's a preference thing, not everyone is going to enjoy the same things you do, that's something you have to just get over. You are in good company however as online gaming is very popular and only growing in popularity - across all forms of gaming really.

You can probably tell that I don't really enjoy multi-player(especially online) but I recently played Dungeon Defenders which was a blast and much better multi-player than single player for instance.

of course not everybody is going to enjoy online gaming, it would be ridiculous of me to think that everybody should like what i like. but my thread is about people who just wont try it out, and why reviewers seem to ignore it more often even though its very popular. 

i can understand why a lot of people wouldnt like online gaming, i personally dont like all online games of course. but what i dont really get is why people just wouldnt try it out and go complain about it as well.

for example i read that quite a few people on here have already dismissed destiny because it has this focus on connectivity and online, and they are doing so without even knowing how it will work, just because it has the word "online"

I did grow up with local multiplayer and lan multiplayer. Then I used to play online a lot from 1998 to 2007. After that I sorta lost interest. Shooters were a lot more fun in lan setup although I did play plenty games online with Counter strike, HL death match, Unreal tournament, Joint operations: Typhoon rising, etc. I played Everquest for almost 4 years, WoW for almost 3.

Yes it can be a lot of fun when you have the time to dedicate to it. Playing regularly with people you know is fun, but I don't have that kind of time anymore with kids growing up. Meeting up with friends is pretty much impossible now. So nowadays I do dismiss online features. It already takes me a couple of weeks to finish the single player campaign, plenty exposure to one game. If the online is integrated with the story like Dark Souls or Journey then it's fine. But jumping into an online game of for example Killzone once a week is zero fun. I rather play something new, got more games then time for anyway.

Sure I still try it now and then. FC3 co-op missions were a nice idea, though frustrating to play with all the bugs and people quitting as soon as it didn't go smooth as butter. Why do people say they like the challenge of online play, then quit as soon as they die once....
NFS most wanted was fun online, bar the waiting for people to get to the next challenge part. (yay for hurry up relocate timer)
Competitive shooters I don't care for anymore. I guess i grew out of those, played them enough when I was younger.

Anyway what I'm getting at is that it is more of a time issue. To enjoy playing online you need to either have a lot of time to invest into it, or have a set time that your friends are available too.