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!

Single player rules but so does online.

I have had so many thousands of hours of fun online - with online shooters like ET: Quake Wars and Battlefield, RTS games like Age of Empires II, with RPGs like Dark Souls and Two Worlds II, and even with MMORPGs (Dark Age of Camelot back in the day was amazing).

Like the OP says, there's so much with multiplayer that is unique:
the adrenaline rush, the competition and pride, the dynamic gameplay with surprises and creativity, the competition and true challenge, the superior human AI, the social aspects like teamwork, friendship and the feeling of being a part of something bigger.

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"

Miguel_Zorro said: bananaking21 said: 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!   I do play online sometimes.  It's not like we've never tried it.  I don't have a problem with online, I just don't go as crazy for it as some gamers do.  One of my biggest pet peeves about some new gamers is that they'll release a tiny single player portion that almost feels like an afterthought to the online component.

ohh i wasnt talkig about you, but some gamers in general

and i hate that as well, honestly i dont buy games that i feel are like that, i care about online a lot, but i also love me some single player games, and i wont spend my money on an boring afterthought

Problem with online is it requires people to play.

There are only a few games out there that can provide a solid user base for a long time (i.e. Tribes).

Console online games generally die after the generation ends. so that becomes annoying. Hence if you are really into online, I stick with PC as can always find a game.

Single player is preferred by many because if a game is designed well it will not date badly, aka LoZ: OOT which gives it a lot of replay value.

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.

I didnt care for it at first, but lets be real. As you get older the idea of playing local MP games is going to go away. People move, have families, jobs. The days of people coming over to play Smash for hours on end are over. It sucks, but thats where online comes in. Ive played alot of games online this gen. COD, Bioshock2, Uno, Uncharted 2&3, Modnation, LBP, Goldeneye, Assassins Creed, etc. Its here to stay, whether some like it or not.

thats a problem i agree. also another thing is that a lot of my friends dont have the same gaming tastes as i do, my brothers dont like most of the games i love either. so online gaming is mostly where i can play multiplayer