Online Gaming; Fun killer?

Has Online Gaming taken the fun out of multiplayer? Gamer Limit takes an in depth look at the advantages/ disadvantages of Online or Local multiplayer and comes up with an answer to the question. is online killing multiplayer?

[markfrost]

Online gaming can be a buzz kill when playing in public matches. I still will always prefer LAN over online, but the ability to play instantly with friends from all over is hard to hate.

[tplarkin7]

Online is too convenient.

[Trollimite]

lots of people dont have friends.

online is like an automatic friend finder

[MikeMichaels]

I think it's the same old competitive/DM types of online play that are killing the fun. It's just to easy to make your FPS (or whatever), and then just tack on a deathmatch mode, when honestly nobody is even going to play it over the permier online games (COD, KZ, Halo)

I like the trend of co-op thats currently gaining steam, but i think devs should push the boundaries ever further into 'all new' game types for online.

[edgeofblade]

I think this is why there has been a push for co-op play. Most games are more fun when you win, and for for those who meet the standards, it is fun. But for the contingent that "sucks", they are excluded from the fun, either by design or social factors.

Now, I would hope that designers and players can recognize how infantile it is to say, in effect, "because you suck, you shouldn't even play". But I know there will always be an over-competitive moron who thinks it's something more than just a game and his e-peen matters.

But when you play co-op, you play as a team inside a story you are designed to win. I've been playing co-op with friends on Halo 3 for the last few days, and it's tons more fun than playing the campaign on my own. We even converted a Halo hater who didn't "get" it before now. Put him in the game and he realized, "the story does suck but playing the game is a lot of fun".

But aside from that, YES, online vs is the bane of fun for everyone, even the person at the top who has no fun trying to maintain his position.

[chrisjc]

Some of the best nights of my life were spent running a 100ft LAN cable up two stories for Halo 1.

[miasma]

Local MP, co-op. My friends and I used to have all night parties around DOOM 1 & 2, we would hook our PS1s together and go at it forever. Lot of good times.

My wife loves split screen with me on Gears, but is very disappointed in KZ2 because we have to play separately. Same with a few of my friends...

[Andrew Wiggin]

I love split screen, I really hope it doesn't die

[Fullish]

If done right splitscreen is good, otherwise it can be very annoying.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Online is mostly fun when you play Co-op. Me and my bro tried Halo 3 multiplayer yesterday and it just wasn't fun, we didn't have a chance to have fun, we were too busy making sure we're not dead.(sounds weird but it's just my opinion).

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

the beloved Split Screen, and Split Screen Co-Op offline modes... it's a freaking shame!

Halo 3 IS still a great party game. 4 people can split screen and go online together on 1 console to play more people... what is offered like that on PS3 yet alone in another game to that extent? I know of nothing...

I also know when I had 16 player LAN parties at my house in the Halo 1 and 2 days... it was godly and the envy of all my ONLY PS2 playing friends, amazing times!

It's a shame it's going away, when friends are over we can't play anything co-op anymore, ESPECIALLY in Resistance or Killzone 2... what a buzz kill.

It gets really annoying having to trade off who's playing, insted of playing together. If it goes away, I will truely be saddened!

[MikeMichaels]

Warhawk.

...and R2 is 2players online in co-op and competitive.

[IWentBrokeForGaming]

Im not talking co-op and stuff over online, that defeats the purpose of my comment!

[ParanoidMonkey]

That's what he meant. 2 players off the same console can go online or offline in those games.

[ASSASSYN 36o]

Offline lan games sucks. I rather play online on my own screen in the comfort of my house.

[ps34ever]

yes

[Cajun Chicken]

Split screen really needs to come back, missing out on it in so many games has been a big backstep for gaming. Why not both?

[Nihilism]

i'd much rather play death matches etc with bots, always have, with rpg's it's different i guess eg diablo 2 battle.net, but i'll always avoid any fps multiplayer unless it has bots....isn't that what games are about, escaping the world, not having to deal with c0ckheads on l4d trying to direct other people where to go like they were some kind of army commando....tools