Princess Tzelda said:
I've hever really understood what makes Multi-Player modes so great. (pardon while I channel Yahtzee) I've always prefered to play alone because you need to really think to solve the in-game puzzles. If you play multi-player than one of three things happens;
A)you are the ball and chain dragging the person who has logged 50 hours on a game new to you.
B)THEY are the ball and chain to your 50 hours.
or C) you are equal and begin to compete to the point where someone rage quits.
other games that offer mulit-player force one player to sit dead until the first player dies or remembers that they are not playing alone and decide to tag you in, example, Donkey Kong on the SNES. this is also a game that the three scenarios above can be applied to because there is a counter that tracks how many levels the person controlling DK has beat and how many the person with Diddy has beat. sorry, lost my train of thought.
anyways, my point is that multi-player makes no sense when so many games have content unlockable only in the single player mode. why would someone want to play with a person who's spent THAT much time on a game that they( the friend) has never heard of?
I'm very curious what others think about this.
You're mistaken, it does make sense. It's sometimes fun to play with other people. Strategy games, for one. AI can be hellishly predictable, and eventually any sense of challenge will decay.
Though there are four things I don't like about multiplayer:
a)It can sometimes feel like an obligation rather than a use of my free time to spend as I see fit.
b)People whining and quitting when they're losing. Low frustration tolerance or something.
c)Nasty behaviour in general. Noob hating, that sort of thing.
d)Connection issues.
I would play more often if these weren't such an issue.
