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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: deadplayer on 28 Jun 2009, 09:26
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Quote from Top 10 Reasons Why Single Mode is Better Than MMOs (http://news.mmosite.com/content/2009-06-24/20090624042826332,1.shtml)
Reason 1: Engaging Storyline
Without doubt, a solid storyline is definitely the main selling point of a single-player game (mainly single-player RPG games). Most single-player games feature intact world view, gripping stories and intriguing plots, which however are unavailable in online games. Everyone loves games with depth. But with plot twists after plot twists, their storyline has gone so far to make the gameplay at the boring end of the spectrum. That's how come the dev team behind Online version of some series has being blasted by huge fans of its stand alone versioin.
Reason 2: Dazzling motion graphics and stunning visual effects
Many of you will throw a fit once a game can't run smoothly on your computer. Even though the gameplay sucks and the plot makes you want to cry, you will still get hooked to this game. For what? Here is the answer: for its dazzaling graphics and stunning visual effects. Yes, you are a geek who cares nothing but awsome graphics. Games will be fun enough only if they have super cool visual effects.
Reason 3: Freedom
How much better would it be to do whatever you want while you are playing a game?
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Do you guys play Single Mode more?
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The two best games I've played in the past five years were Left 4 Dead and Resident Evil 4. The former has, effectively, about as much story as the original Mario Bros, the latter has one of the worst stories ever committed to paper.
If I want a good story, I'll read a book. Video games are for fun gameplay.
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Okay, as someone who doesn't play any MMOs (used to play WoW but gave it up at level 50something) and very much appreciates a great single-player game, I have to say that article is absolute trash.
The author's English is atrocious, which makes his already flimsy arguments even less convincing. I could go through every point explaining how it's terrible, but I don't have the energy.
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I play more single player because I suck at multi. Good days are the ones where my kills is close to my number of deaths. You should see my efforts at TF2 - I've been seen to get an über, charge into all of the enemy troops packed in a cluster, and get one kill.
Yeah, I'll stick to single player at easy, if you don't mind. That's not frustrating.
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Reason #7 is priceless. I love Baldur's Gate but I'm pretty sure it never nourished my soul.
Playing a single-player game will be the best way to learn something every day, something you'll never learn in your real life.
I've learned from video games, but it's mostly trivial stuff like the fact that a pavise is a type of shield. Oddly enough, I think I learned more by playing primitive old MUDs and MUSHs than I ever learned in single player games, since there was other people playing to interact with and oftentimes you could ask staff about why they designed things the way they did directly or chat about coding into the wee hours of the morning. It's also the first place I ever consistently communicated with people from outside the US.
Oh, yeah, and this one:
In the online world, you will meet various types of complicated people whom you know nothing about. There’s possibility that they will influence and even destroy your life.
I'm considering using that as my sig.
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I mean, I like sp games a lot more than MMO's, but yeah, he hasn't given a single good reason why they're better. I mean, this is about as shitty as an editorial can get.
Maybe I can try, at least as far as it applies to me. For me to really enjoy a game, I have to be fully invested in the world that exists in that game, or absolutely engrossed by the gameplay offered. I can't be invested in the worlds of MMOs; because while they are expansive and detailed, they go on without me and often have other players doing things which remind me of the outside world. And I have yet to find an MMO where the gameplay is satisfying enough to keep me interested for more than a month. I also don't generally play any multiplayer games of any kind unless I can play them with someone I know. I own two copies of Left 4 Dead, but I rarely play it. It's still one of my favorites, I just don't play it very often because somehow most of my friends didn't buy it.
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I think the biggest reason this article is a piece of shit is that it's just a blatant one-sided argument that turns into worshipping single-player games around when he says "RPG games will teach you life philosophy..." Actually it starts before that but I couldn't pass up using that quote. He's turning fun, irreverent games into some sort of holy grail that greatly benefits the mind, soul, and generally improves your life skills even if you have no human contact while playing them.
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I play MMOs and I play Single Player games.
Y'know what? I like good games.
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to be honest, it's more than likely the guy who wrote that article is getting paid by at least one of those game makers. the only other thing could be that it's entirely satirical. getting down to the last few reasons, i have a hard time believing that anyone could really say those things with a straight face.
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I can't believe any web site that clearly depends on ad revenue would actually publish that crap. I stopped reading the article as soon as I hit "stingy jew".
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I'd play a tf2 single player episode where you are the spy.
I like COD4's storyline better than it's multiplayer.
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COD4 has a damn good storyline.
But after playing through it 2 or 3 (or in my case 10) times, I hit the multiplayer. And I'm in love with it.
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In the case of COD4, I had the computer to run it, but not the internet speed needed to run the multiplayer.
I went to someone's house to play it, multiplayer was a ton of fun.
Went back home, played a bit of single-player and I was miffed by the fact I couldn't play online, but I didn't really mind.
In the case of Halo, though, I really, really couldn't be fucked playing the single player through a second time after Legendary. Multiplayer ended up being a fuckton more fun.
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Y'know what? I like good games.
This.
I play more single player because I suck at multi. Good days are the ones where my kills is close to my number of deaths. You should see my efforts at TF2 - I've been seen to get an über, charge into all of the enemy troops packed in a cluster, and get one kill.
This as well. When Goldeneye first came out, our dorm floor in college would have tournaments running nearly around the clock. I am still yet to get double digit kills. I once had a score of 2 kills, 93 deaths. No joke.