Poll: Local or Online?

[haruvister]

Local, fo' sure. Gallons of booze, tons of scran and a bunch of friends to shoot in the face. What's not to love?

Perhaps games developers aren't so keen - one copy per four gamers, or one copy each? - but online just isn't the same; too often it's about camping and kill ratios, rather than having fun.

 

[Novajam]

Local. Co Op game + bottle of coke + chips & candy = Great Saturday night in.

Huge pain in the ass to get online working (for me at least). Usually involves 18 phone calls and a game of "Kick the router".

 

[MisterDevil]

i rather online with my friends.

 

[ace_of_something]

online because hearing everyone shout racist slurs and homophobic comments gives one a smug sense of moral superiority

 

[stompy]

Online, becuase I have no real friends.../jk

I do prefer online though, because it's a lot easier to get my friends all playing online at the same time. I don't mind local, but I prefer online is all.

 

[Dictaternutz]

I definetly prefer Local, sure there's screen looking, but I'd rather that than a random person calling me a fag and cheater for doing what I was supposed to.
(and on a side note, I hate how most games popping up sacrifice solo play in favor of online cluster****s, *cough*halo3*cough)

 

[Faroese-alcoholic]

Local defnit..

most people that play games online (or at least where I play), are the type of people who spend every waking moment of their life playing games.
Which is annoying when you want to unwind and play, that you get your stress levels up, when some #&% can shoot you in a fraction of a second from 3 miles away..

Plus, I like being able to sort out who I play with, which I'm not when I'm playing online.
And theres nothing better than smearing verbal torment in the face of someone, who you won a game over, face to face.

 

[jamesworkshop]

LAN party is the best my house has 3 decent computers always linked up then one guy brings a laptop 4-way diablo 2 co-op or unreal tournament nothing like trash talking opponets only 6 feet away

 

[astaldodhol]

Last weekend I fused those two together it was fun.
I prefer LANing to anything, but it depends on who I'm with, last Easter we held a LAN, invited all our friends, had a giant projector used for Guitar Hero and movies. Laned for the whole Easter Holidays.
This was in a giant hall aswell, and we all slept there Best fun I've had at a LAN.

 

[gothic_dragon]

LAN all the way
Food, friends and the ability to show off your kick ass rig, much more fun than yelling at randoms online.

Its also good to be able to inflect physical punishment upon the person that killed you or screwed the plan up.

 

[Gxas]

I played 3v3 system link on Halo 2 with my friends. It was basement vs living room. By far the best time I have ever had with multiplayer.

 

[Baby Tea]

Totally depends on the game.

If I'm playing Co-op: Local
If I'm playing adversarial: Online

 

[NiceGurl_14]

I'd have to say online probably because I don't exactly like to leave my house which means that I don't have many friends in RL.

 

[Chickenlittle]

I prefer local, but with multiple consoles(LAN). This allows us to play with no lag, but allows for 16 players. Unfortunately, this is a thing of the past.

Online is great, but the lag and the nutjobs make it annoying sometimes.

 

[Lemony]

Local because I'd rather play with friends than random idiots.

Agree, games like BF2 play more fun with more people however you can't really play Spore online right? However some games can play more than 1 way. WoW - Online game with Ventrilo added = fun however also with friends IRL is also fun albeit not as wide of a community.
-Call of Duty 4: Fun to play online alone with others because the game is so fast paced but also fun to play with others for same reason (just need enough people)