Why do people buy singleplayer games?

I think i will be renting a lot of games this year.

As i'm just not the person to play the story more than once.

Can't justify 60 bucks for a game i will play for a week.

I don't necessarily play single player games by choice,I love RPG'S so I gotta go with how the game was made. But I really wish they would start adding co-op as an "option" in my RPG, that would rock. As it is, I'm almost always on party chat in an RPG with someone else playing the same game, I'm social, I want a social type RPG!

I think Borderlands did it perfect, though thatwas "very RPG lite"

I think it comes down to how u appreciate your games. I remember playing The Legend of Zelda OoT more than a hundred times and that game doesnt have multiplayer. I remember the first day I got Majoras Mask I played through it beat and then played it again to collect everything. I also LOVE my multiplayer games, the thrill of mowing down enemies and having a challenge again and again its pretty bad ass. Like I said you just have to understand and respect each game for what it is and either love it or hate it...In my case I love both why not have your cake and eat it too?? lol

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Pdiddy105

I know!

I buy games for the single player mode and sometimes hang around for multiplayer if it is good. I bought gears of war for the single player and loved the multiplayer, bought gears 2 and liked the single player but hated the multiplayer. If not for the single player I would have never purchased it.

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frankeyser

I know!

I buy games for the single player mode and sometimes hang around for multiplayer if it is good. I bought gears of war for the single player and loved the multiplayer, bought gears 2 and liked the single player but hated the multiplayer. If not for the single player I would have never purchased it.

Yeh. Gears 2 had such laggy multiplayer. If the game host wasn't in my country (Canada), the game was pretty much unplayable.

Notice how every game you guys have spoken about have been RPGs...

Coldzboy

Notice how wrong you are based on the fact that AC II is not near being an RPG...

[QUOTE="Coldzboy"][QUOTE="travisstaggs"] No not really Assassins Creed 2 is similar to sandbox style more then anything and so is the first one. Not everyone likes multiplayer stuff some people would rather have a long nice story rather then a multiplayer game that more then likely you will get tired of quicker. Anyways from reading some of your post theirs no reasoning with you, have a nice day.

travisstaggs

same thought here... if you actually think that doing those kind of stuff is having "heavy RPG elements" then you might know pretty much nothing on videogames... it's called Action/Adventure game dude...

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I don't understand what you're getting at...

Coldzboy

I understand, I bought Mass Effect aswell, but it was 20 bucks. But to me 60 dollars is alot of money, actually it's alot of money to ANYONE, and if you say it isn't then you're a liar :\

It isn't and happens to be I'm not a liar... If I can afford it and I WANT to afford it then it is not a lot of money, do not generalize on this based on yourself

Just rent it, beat it, and return it. I'm getting annoyed reading about people wishing they never bought a certain singleplayer game for $60. And with the lengths of campaigns these days on average, it's not even worth it.

Coldzboy

The whole game game playing franchise is built off of the postion of man putting his intelligence against the machine. People buy single player games because they either want to engage a story or because they collect games that dont involve multi player mess. I dont want to waste my bandwith on xbox live crapola! For me its about the story and I dont necessarily want to share it with no one.

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[QUOTE="mitu123"] I'm trying to say that not every single player game should be just rentals, I would never rent Mass Effect. But I can see that those who complain about length and replayability should research the game before buying it, that's why rentals work a lot too.

Metal-Recon

I understand, I bought Mass Effect aswell, but it was 20 bucks. But to me 60 dollars is alot of money, actually it's alot of money to ANYONE, and if you say it isn't then you're a liar :\

It isn't and happens to be I'm not a liar... If I can afford it and I WANT to afford it then it is not a lot of money, do not generalize on this based on yourself

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Pdiddy105

apparently it is..........

honestly I own TONS of single player games. and I dont just beat them and then trade them in or something. unlike the TC, I'm not a big fan of online multiplayer games. I enjoy the single player modes of games like Saints Row2, GTAIV, Project Gotham Racing 3&4, Conan. Even after I beat a game (which isnt that often really) i can go back and play it again. Not EVERYONE is just a fan of COD and Halo. It is actually fun to play games to enjoy the story (not just playing online multiplayer matches over and over again). The trick is to NOT pay $60 for single player games, u buy them used for like $20 or something.

There are people who like to make a collection...

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Talldude80

apparently it is..........

honestly I own TONS of single player games. and I dont just beat them and then trade them in or something. unlike the TC, I'm not a big fan of online multiplayer games. I enjoy the single player modes of games like Saints Row2, GTAIV, Project Gotham Racing 3&4, Conan. Even after I beat a game (which isnt that often really) i can go back and play it again. Not EVERYONE is just a fan of COD and Halo. It is actually fun to play games to enjoy the story (not just playing online multiplayer matches over and over again). The trick is to NOT pay $60 for single player games, u buy them used for like $20 or something.

I buy a certain "few" singleplayer games because they are so epic that I will want to play again, such as Mass Effect, and I like them because usually I start to get very bored with online.

some games I just need to have.

Let us hope that developers continue to strive to make great single player experiences. It used to be that multiplayer was added on later as almost an afterthought to some games (and this is still true). Nowadays , in some cases, it is reversed with single player getting overlooked in hopes of major appeal online.Chalkan

Such as MW2.

because i hardly play games online that is why. why do i care that you care if i make a thread that says "man why did i buy this game!"

Just rent it, beat it, and return it. I'm getting annoyed reading about people wishing they never bought a certain singleplayer game for $60. And with the lengths of campaigns these days on average, it's not even worth it.

Coldzboy

I hope you realized you just bumped a three year old thread....

And I buy SP games because of the replay value.