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vsp · 10-30-2003, 07:46 AM

I'm not much of a social gamer at all. I'll take a good single-player game over a good multi-player game any day. Morrowind, for example, is my idea of a near-perfect RPG (minus the crash bugs, of course), whereas I wouldn't play a modern MMORPG if you paid me.

A single-player game is as good as the designers made it. A multi-player game adds complications: getting people together in one place (or on one LAN, etc.), dealing with different skill levels, dealing with cooperation/teamwork issues, the incredibly annoying split-screen effect, and the fact that one uncooperative or disruptive player can ruin things for everyone else.

That's not to say that I won't play <a href="http://www.netrek.org">a good multiplayer game</a> now and then, but it's rare for me these days. About the only head-to-head game I play with my closest gamer friend is Fire Pro Wrestling D, and usually that's in a battle royale mode where we're independently trashing six CPU bozos.

10-30-2003, 07:46 AM	#5
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	I'm not much of a social gamer at all. I'll take a good single-player game over a good multi-player game any day. Morrowind, for example, is my idea of a near-perfect RPG (minus the crash bugs, of course), whereas I wouldn't play a modern MMORPG if you paid me. A single-player game is as good as the designers made it. A multi-player game adds complications: getting people together in one place (or on one LAN, etc.), dealing with different skill levels, dealing with cooperation/teamwork issues, the incredibly annoying split-screen effect, and the fact that one uncooperative or disruptive player can ruin things for everyone else. That's not to say that I won't play <a href="http://www.netrek.org">a good multiplayer game</a> now and then, but it's rare for me these days. About the only head-to-head game I play with my closest gamer friend is Fire Pro Wrestling D, and usually that's in a battle royale mode where we're independently trashing six CPU bozos.