single player games vs multiplayer online games question

Tend to enjoy both Single Player and Multiplayer, those that do not. Well is a preference.

And the argument of once beaten for SP only holds for games focus being the telling of a story with no focus on core gamplay/ modes, (challenges/ post-game content)

To this day however players that solely want that heavy emphasis on story over gameplay is lost on me. Quite a lot actually, and that's no disrespect to those that want that experience. When I think of my favorite SP games, they have value to be replayed, because the gameplay is enticing.

As so, noticed games that focused on 'story' as the sole form of praise have not been looked back at fondly after the zeitgeist period. Bioware games are good examples of this. I get the impression Dragon Age would have made a better Netflix series or novel set.

It's worth noting that most multiplayer games become replaced by some new version every couple of years, and they're often dependent on network play.

SP all the way for me they don't make MP games that I enjoy anymore in the gaming industry.

Online multiplayer games typically don't respect your time.

They are filled with fluff to keep you engaged, but reward you with very little.

I prefer to play a variety of games and I don't want one that will be a huge time sync with little payoff.

Depends what you play dood.

Stating a game gets replaced is typically the same for Single Player when one thinks of a large group of Gamers being unwilling to go back to older graphics and gameplay functions.

I know a few that refuse to consider the retro CastleVanias, simply because "they're old". While Lords of Shadow (streamlined garbage) has em' HD graphics and won a lot of people over simply for being 'new'.

Online I slightly agree. But many of the best online multiplayer games still have connected servers. Look at Quake Live, Dark Souls, World of Warcraft, and Team Fortress 2. One cannot rely on a online feature to remain open without community servers. But quite a few are still going, well past a decade as well.

Then factor Multiplayer is not just online (Fighting games, split screen local, Beat em' Ups, etc)

Single Player games are much more immersive. I find that I cannot relax and play at my own pace with multiplayer.

XCOM does both, focussing on Single Player campaign of a unique kind of depth and complexity with almost infinite replayability, but the online pvp is not bad AT ALL. Unfortunately you need the same DLC loadout as your partner, but now that it is on the PSNow service I can stream the zero DLC version exclusively for mp. I love online 2d brawlers, specifically Streets of Rage 2 (megadrive/genesis collection) and Final Fight (capcom beatemup bundle, but more impressively the remastered, ggpo Double Impact edition on the PSNow service/PS3). However, by far the most emotionally affecting experience Ive had was my time with Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (via the cinematic mode of my PSVR headset). It's a tough call: as the question stands, id have to edge it to online, but if u include story based offline AND replayable stuff such as xcom (the procedurally generated Enter the Gungeon also comes to mind), then i would vote offline.

Your friend probably enjoys online multiplayer more for the intense, fast placed gameplay with the benefit of socializing through voice chat. Recent games' addition of perks, skills, experience, etc serve as ways to keep the player invested as a distraction from doing the same things over and over in 30 minute intervals.

Gamers like me, prefer either single player or LOCAL multiplayer. Every time I try to play a multiplayer game online for the first time Payday: The Heist, for example), I inform everyone that I'm new. But as soon as I do, some idiot jumps on mic chat to angrily berate me, blaming me for actions of other (silent) players, not believing the other players when they side with me, and quitting the match after everyone else votes against kicking me from the server.

Or other times, such as in Rainbow six siege, when I play as a character with an action that benefits other team mates (dropping shields/ammo packs etc), my team mates get impatient when I can't figure out why clicking my middle mouse, no matter how long I hold it, doesn't just drop the thing like it should. The animation cancels around 20 times before I actually leave the item for my team members.

None of this happens when playing around the couch with friends.

In terms of single player however, if your friend believes the only thing Single Player has to offer are linear, cinematic experiences like Uncharted and Dad of Boi, those are not the single player games I'm into.

When I think single player games with great amounts of replayability, I think of A Hat in Time, Hitman: Blood Money/2016/2, Dishonored 1/2, Over the Hedge (yes, I'm serious), Lego Star Wars 1/2, Lego Island Xtreme Stunts, Serious Sam, Max Payne, Burnout 3/Revenge/Paradise, Ratchet and Clank - Going Commando, Dead or Alive 2/3/5/6, Soul Calibur 1/2/3/6, and my all time favorite RPG, Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines. As aged as that last one is, nothing in my mind has ever surpasses the amount of immersion that game gives me.

This is where Halo wins. Great story, great mp. I do like a decent co-op mp like cod zombies but player bases die to quickly every year or the players absolutely suck.

Single player for me most of the time.