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I don't mind a good multi-player game, I've played GTA4 online more than any other game this gen. My problem is games like Battlefield are fun but it gets repetitive real quick.
Single player games 'can' be good or great. Multiplayer games have that same potential. Even games with both single and multiplayer have the potential. It all depends on how much time, money and effort is put into it.
Bioshock/Bioshock Infinite - good single player games.
Borderlands, Left 4 Dead - solid multiplayer games
Halo, Call of Duty - well developed single and multiplayer games (even if CoD is the same thing over and over).
Nobody has ever criticized single player games.
At the end of the day, it's a value issue, that's all.
The game industry is becoming more "top heavy", with a concentration of ressources going to a few mammoth AAA franchises, who are thus able to offer the total package of SP, competitive MP and now often coop.
Thus at the price games are, it is normal for the consumer to be tempted by these titles than by a single minded, average length, if fun, SP game like DMC: Devil May Cry for instance.
But when SP games come out that really get the message across that they are offering considerable value and length, like RPGs for instance, they do well.
If its single player.I'm fine with but why is it soo short.I totally did'nt get my money worth with bioshock infinite.At least aliens had a multiplayer that sort of worked.I say if its just single player make 40+ hours.