Repetition, no matter how interesting, is tedious. Online gaming is repetition. It's grinding. It's interesting grinding with other humans, granted, but it'll never be as diverse an experience as a good single player campaign. The MMO genre actually conbines SP and MP with great results, but most of us want to overlook that genre, and go right to the lameass FPS multiplayer that is as stale as petrified mammoth shit. What was the lastest innovation in that genre, the online FPS? Besides improved graphics, that is? Nothing. Nothing that counterstrike didn't do better years and years ago.

Online shooters are like the Wii. You decide what I mean by that.

I don't get how online is more tedious and repetitive as single player. If I play the same Team Deathmatch on the same Ship map in COD4 it's always going to provide me with a different experience, because human AI is far more advanced than videogame AI. Playing the sinking ship mission in COD4 over and over I feel would be far more tedious and repetitive, because each experience would basically mirror the last. Enemies pop up at the same time, they generally cover in the same area, they have the same weapons each time. These are all things that would be unpredicatable in multiplayer.

It seems to me the only reason you think MP is more tedious than SP is probably because you're comparing them under the assumption that you spend one 5-6 hour session in SP, making it completely fresh, and 30-60 hours in MP, making it more tedious because more time was spent in it overall. However, give that single player another 5-10 playthroughs and I'm sure that too would feel mighty repetitive, since it'll be the exact same experience over and over.

@Munkeh-I just mean that if I were given a choice as to which I could keep in those games, I would choose the multiplayer. Co-op in most games would technically be considered the single player, unless were talking about Res 2's mode, which would be seperate. I don't mean all games either, but I stick by my examples.