Poll: Do you still play a shooter's campaign?

[Omikron009]

I don't have xbox live, so I usually only get the opportunity to play a shooter's campaign.

 

[One of Many]

I always play the campaign before I touch multiplayer for almost every shooter I own. The only exception to that rule is Team Fortress 2.

 

[Shining_Pyrelight]

I only play campaign. Which is probably why I have so few Shooter games, not many can stand on their campaign alone.
Besides, I really don't enjoy playing with other people so...multiplayer has virtually no appeal to me.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Mostly only play the campaign. There are a few games that I played multiplayer in, but not many.

 

[stiffy]

Storytelling? An archaic concept in today's gaming for sure. Without that there is little to keep me going.

L4D skates the line between engaging multiplayer and story progression. I wish they'd made a cut scene for every stage. Implied story is valve specialty, but c'mon, how awesome are those intro cut scenes?!?

 

[SangRahl]

I tend to ONLY play the campaigns, as multiplayer has to compete with children, a mildly insane in-law, my wife, and the rest of real life (in that order)... and not generally with FPS games.

However, I have been able to clock some quick M/P time with AC:B, while said kids were entertained and the in-law watched on. Heck, the daughter was very helpful in piping up whenever something was amiss (sighted runner, another kill, etc.), and was supportive when I was invariably ambushed.

Now if they could just isolate mike chatter from other sounds, so I wouldn't have to dive for [MUTE] every time some dipsh*t with a very limited vocabulary joins in.

 

[Le_Lisra]

With exception of Left4Dead I haven't played a multiplayer shooter since the first counterstrike. Just don't like it. Singleplayer for me.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I only play the campaign...

Other than the odd bit of L4D, I have no real interest in multiplayer. As such, a good campaign is vital to my enjoyment of a shooter.

 

[Davey Woo]

When I first get a new shooter I play the campaign, and then I'll probably do a bit of multiplayer to see what it's like. I usually finish the single player within the first week of having the game and then stick with the multiplayer.

 

[JaffaFrost]

campaign first... always.

mostly just to get good at the game first, so I don't completly suck ass at it before I go online

 

[Master Kuja]

I usually finish the campaign before touching multiplayer, but there are a few exceptions to that...

[sub]*cough* Bad Company 2 *cough*[/sub]

Seconded this.
But then, Bad Company 2's campaign was horribly bad, so I think I can be forgiven that.

 

[MasterOfWorlds]

SO who of you did play doom?

I played all the Doom games. I grew up playing them. I always play the single player campaign before I hop into the multiplayer.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I am with Yahtzee on this one a game needs to stand on single player alone any multi player feature is just that an added feature that I may or may not choose to use.

Yeah this, there needs to be a picture here of the shelf full of guns and Energy Swords covered with cobwebs from Yahtzee's Halo Reach review (i think)

 

[Sinker]

I am with Yahtzee on this one a game needs to stand on single player alone any multi player feature is just that an added feature that I may or may not choose to use.

Yeah this, there needs to be a picture here of the shelf full of guns and Energy Swords covered with cobwebs from Yahtzee's Halo Reach review (i think)

I would if I could but I am far to old to know how to do something like that.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Why wouldn't you? That's be like buying a book for paper.

If a game can't stand on it's single player story then it can't stand at all as far as I'm concerned. I did the same as you, I played the multiplayer of both Black Ops and AC:B, not wanting to ruin the story too soon after getting them. I finished both stories and loved both of them. They both had great endings and I'm glad I finished them.

Anyone who skips on the story for multiplayer is doing everything so very wrong.

 

[Xanadu84]

I play both, and sometimes way more of the campaign then multiplayer. Unless a game is multiplayer exclusive, I usually play multiplayer components to increase longevity. I love single player games.

And despite my preference for single player, I still call bullshit when Yahtzee says that a multiplayer component can only be a supplement to the campaign.

 

[x0ny]

I always go through the campaign first, it lets me get a feel of the game before jumping into the competitive portion of the game. I never played doom personally, only my friend play it, I wasn't into shooters as much back then, because they freaked me out back then. I played Quake though, I shat myself playing that when I was 8.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

Most of the time. Battlefield Bad Company 2 was the exception. The original game's campaign was not a terribly fun time and I bought the game for multiplayer anyhow. To this day I think I've played three campaign missions in the 60 or so hours I've spent playing the game.

A game only needs to stand on the strength of it's single player if people are buying it to play a single player game. Battlefield seems a reasonable exception, being a traditionally multiplayer only affair.

I would note that there are plenty of games where I only really play the single player component. Halo is a notable example.

 

[Mike Laserbeam]

Same with Timesplitters 2, although it's campaign was shorter, but had variety in spades.

I literally could not tell you how many times I have played the TS2 campaign. I don't enjoy playing shooter campaigns as much as I used to, they often lack enough variety and are too tedious for me to enjoy them. TimeSplitters 2 was a shooter with a fantastic campaign that has never made me bored, and I've played Siberia (the first level) more times than I've had a hot meal!*
I still play a shooter's campaign but not nearly as much as I used to, however I think this is probably due to a decline in quality


*This is an exaggeration, but a much smaller one than would seem logical

 

[theironbat46]

Campaign first applies to all games I play. Halo: Reach, Black Ops, AC:Brotherhood, Gears of War. Only 2 exceptions though.
Red Dead Redemption and Bad Company 2.
Red Dead Redemption: That game is REALLY long. I wanted to play Undead Overrun. It's FUN, so sue me.
Bad Company 2: Because it Bad Company 2, online is what it does best.