I don't know why, but I have the strong urge to troll this post and say:
"Online gaming is gay gay gay!"
However, I won't do so. Instead I will comment:
I prefer a hefty single player experience over an online component any day, however online gaming can be really fun in the proper context. I myself have 2 level 70's in World of Warcraft, which I no longer play.
That said, I've had enough online shooting when I played counterstrike for 2 years. Halo 2 kinda freshened it up for me, but meh, really.
At this point, the prospect of "online gaming" isn't selling me a damn thing. Games better have the bread and butter where it counts, in my sadomasachistic ramblings during my in-room lockage, and harsh criticisms of how games should and should not be designed.
That's why a lot of games are overrated, imo. "Online modes" still appearing as a fresh and progressive concept.
When it all comes to pass, online games will start taking queues from single player campaigns, and we'll stop having to sacrafice content in the form of story, and gamplay in our online modes, to accomidate for limitations due to latency and developer time spent in a broadening world, and the nature of the online team-mate, to leave at a moments notice because his mom wants him to take out the trash, not to mention the general ignorance of an online audience, and the audacity, offensiveness, and lack of depth or focus in their general conversations. These things are basic ruinations of our current online experiences.
Online gaming now, sucks, with a few exceptions, and usually boils down to time sinks, instead of any really interesting.
Example?
What if SMG's boards were online worlds and people were trying to complete them at the same time, bouncing around, with a single player boss killing oriented goal in mind, and you could play through the game like that if you wanted too, or not.
Voice chat would ruin the experience for me, but in some games its great. I use vent all the time for gaming/conversing.
I don't need your console war.
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor.
You're power hungry, spinnin' stories, and bein' graphics whores.
I don't need your console war.
NO NO, NO NO NO.
