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Does anyone prefer single player over multiplayer?

Single Player 95 81.20%
 
Multiplayer 12 10.26%
 
IDK 9 7.69%
 
Total:116
loves2splooge on 04 January 2010
dunno001 said:
Mr. sickVisionz said:
Local multiplayer with friends > single player. Outside of that, I prefer single player.

On XBL multiplayer is usually just me losing a match and getting teabagged or me beating someone while they call me a n***** or f***** and yanks the ethernet cord out of their system before the win registers. The combination of overly sore winner and losers has turned me off to it unless it's the rare occasion where I play with someone I actually know in real life.


This sums up quite well why I'm a single-player kinda person. Multiplayer these days seemingly has to be online or bust. Sorry, but I'm not dealing with the immaturity level from some of those kids. I drive enough of them around already!

Now, local multiplayer can be decent. 3 player Secret of Mana was good, and I'm intrigued by getting 4 people together for NSMBWii. But good local multiplayer is a dying art. So I fall back to single player.

It's not that the multiplayer is bad. It's that the people that you play with that makes or breaks the experience. If you play with people you know or people who are pleasant, I'd say the experience is superior to single player. But if you are playing with random jerks who talk smack or cuss you out, then it's not fun anymore. I still play with strangers (on ranked, player match, etc.) to help build up/test my skills since there's no substitute for human competition (and to achievement hunt. lol) but I do get immediately turned off and don't feel like playing anymore whenever an asshole ruins the fun.



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Xen on 04 January 2010

Being an introvert, I'm heavily biased toward single-player.



youarebadatgames on 04 January 2010

Single player would have to be really good to stop me from kicking other people's asses all day, so multi for me.



woopah on 04 January 2010

give me a huge single player game to sink into over a a great multiplayer blast any day. Only timesplitters and brawl have ever achieved both to a level of greatness



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chenguo4 on 04 January 2010
loves2splooge said:
dunno001 said:
Mr. sickVisionz said:
Local multiplayer with friends > single player. Outside of that, I prefer single player.

On XBL multiplayer is usually just me losing a match and getting teabagged or me beating someone while they call me a n***** or f***** and yanks the ethernet cord out of their system before the win registers. The combination of overly sore winner and losers has turned me off to it unless it's the rare occasion where I play with someone I actually know in real life.


This sums up quite well why I'm a single-player kinda person. Multiplayer these days seemingly has to be online or bust. Sorry, but I'm not dealing with the immaturity level from some of those kids. I drive enough of them around already!

Now, local multiplayer can be decent. 3 player Secret of Mana was good, and I'm intrigued by getting 4 people together for NSMBWii. But good local multiplayer is a dying art. So I fall back to single player.

It's not that the multiplayer is bad. It's that the people that you play with that makes or breaks the experience. If you play with people you know or people who are pleasant, I'd say the experience is superior to single player. But if you are playing with random jerks who talk smack or cuss you out, then it's not fun anymore. I still play with strangers (on ranked, player match, etc.) to help build up/test my skills since there's no substitute for human competition (and to achievement hunt. lol) but I do get immediately turned off and don't feel like playing anymore whenever an asshole ruins the fun.

That about sums it up. I think that's exactly why a lot of people have said local multi > single > online multi.

I'll take it a step further and say, personally, co-op > single > multi. I'm a sore loser.




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theRepublic on 04 January 2010

I voted single player. I like multiplayer, but I do most of my gaming single player. I also prefer local multiplayer over online.



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