hey everyone - great to see all of the responses to my intial thoughts...

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It is great too know that the single player game is still so well sort after ....

There is definitely a place for multiplayer and I agree with many people who have said that a games single player experience should be the main focus and the multiplayer should be the reason to increase the games longivity......

Especially with the RPG genre having such fantastic games (of which I have some)

I must have been premature in thinking that multiplayer might be overtaking single player... LOL

Thanks for all your great comments and thoughts everyone....

It is refreshing to see that the single player campaign is alive and well - and that everyone generally rates great story and gameplay above the multiplayer component of a game......

Hi Everyone - just wanting to get your opinions (and open up the discussion lines) on thought that I've been mulling over for a while to do with a trend that seems (to me) to be happening in the current (and future) crop of games.....

Now - I admit I don't play much multiplayer on-line (although I am hoping to increase in the future) and I tend to buy my games on the strength of their single player campaign....

I have noticed that many of the new games are heavily focused on their multiplayer content and this can sometimes affect the single player portion......some games now only have 4 or 5 hours of single player gameplay

Are we going to see a future of gamng where the whole game is played on-line with only a brief single player 'tutorial' to get you ready for the multiplayer portion?

I'm sure this won't apply to all types of games but the vast majority seem to be able to be played on-line in some shape or form.....

Will people miss the single player campaign if it starts to go and is replaced by great on-line experience......

Am I being too general? and do you think the studios will still turn out great, long and interesting single player games....?

(this is just my observation and I could be right off the mark)

Any thoughts or comments are appreciated

Thanks

Hi - I've been playing single player games for a while now but I want to venture into the multiplayer on-line world and I was wondering whats a good game (or games) to start with...

I don't have a mic yet but I'm thinking of picking one up in the very near future.....

I've played most of the 'big guns' - I suppose you could call them - (GoW, GRAW, Halo 3, Bioshock, C&C 3, Rainbow Six, Call of Duty 3 etc)

any thoughts or comments are much appreciated

Thanks

Hi - I hope I have posted this in the right section.......

 Just wondering - I don't have Xbox Live (yet) so I was wondering if the free AAc codec download that is needed for iPods is available from somewhere else.....

 I have read that it is only available through Xbox Live Marketplace but since I don't have access to that is there any other way for me to get it.....

 any help will be appreciated

Thanks

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