Gameplay Focus and Purchasing Decisions

Yeah, obviously bots won't play a good game, but you don't feel as much of a sense of competition when playing with strangers, and I appreciate that.

I think the main thing for me is that I just don't have the patience to play the same thing over and over again for long periods of time. I can play arcade games and such, but I rarely play them 7 times in a row, and that's what sitting on an online game server for hours feels like to me. It's just not that fun. I like getting a game from time to time, but I'm usually done in 40 minutes and only get into it now and then.

I agree, playing with strangers sucks.

That's why I find friends and communities that are good: so I don't ever have to play against random assholes, unless we all want to gang up and kick some strange ass.

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Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

Except that AI bots still act like AI bots. The experience (of stuff meant for multiplayer like deathmatch) is better with real people even if you don't know them or communicate with them because of the added realism of the enemies' movements and strategies.

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I don't mean to say they play the same, I just get the same (non)satisfaction killing a nameless bot as I do fragging an online stranger.

I prefer online multiplayer, particularly on PCs. There just so much value to be had with PC FPSs. Several games ive played regularly over the span of YEARS. It helps that alot of the people I play with online are related to me or I know outside of the computer. Nothing like getting a Battlefield2/TF2 squad of uncles, cousins, neighbors, and old college buddies and bringing the serious pain.

I get lost in console single player games here and there, but the life of those games are very limited. Sure I will replay the really good ones every few months/years, but I will always come back to my PC Battlefields and TeamFortress.

I really dig console online multiplayer for fighting games, as most of my friends outside of the computer absolutely suck at them.

As far are FPSs go - Console online multiplayer is a nice bonus but its really not even close to PC multiplayer yet. The small player caps on consoles is just horrible. That wont change either until they offer up dedicated servers. BF2 has been offering 64 players at once and rumor is Battlefield 3 is going to up that to 80 to 100 players at once.

There's wasn't a choice on the poll that accurately reflects my purchasing decision, so I went with the first choice. My purchasing decision primarily depends on the type of game I'm looking at. For example, I don't expect nor want a game like BioShock to have any multiplayer modes, so its single-player is what makes it for me. In contrast, a game like Halo 3 would have to have both single-player and multiplayer aspects for me to consider it a worthy purchase.

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Originally Posted by Destro777

As far are FPSs go - Console online multiplayer is a nice bonus but its really not even close to PC multiplayer yet. The small player caps on consoles is just horrible. That wont change either until they offer up dedicated servers. BF2 has been offering 64 players at once and rumor is Battlefield 3 is going to up that to 80 to 100 players at once.

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Frontlines should have 32 players on the 360, but the game isn't that great.

All depends on the game --
I love puzzle games like Tetris and Puzzle Fighter online, and online fighters are usually a treat for me, but the majority of games I really enjoy are single player affairs. The newest exception to this rule has been Street of Rage 2 online co-op which has been a blast playing with a friend of mine.

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Originally Posted by Ammadeau

Frontlines should have 32 players on the 360, but the game isn't that great.

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I actually have my eye on that game. Its made by the Desert Combat team if im not mistaken after DICE gave them the shaft after BF2. What makes you say its not great? I thought it wasnt out.

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Originally Posted by Tsubaki

Probably not gonna be popular by saying this, but I think people who are mp gamers aren't really gamers.

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The only reason you prefaced that that with "probably not gonna be popular" is that you know how retarded that comment is.

I miss the days of couch gaming. I haven't quite caught up to online gaming yet, bummer is I probably won't. Personal projects always eat up that particular bit of time and money it would take to get into it.