XD I have been there, or around there. It's not like Chernobyl. The interstate goes right past it.

Are you in denial about the other three?

Over here, we're all odd so you would be an oddity here if you were normal.

Anyway, this thread reminds me of the following scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbu5H65tMJ4

I used to play multiplayer games when i was a student and for a while after. But lately i only play single player games. I like to immerse myself in stories and worlds.

No, your not the only one. It seems the play similar games, too.

I need a game with a story, and i really like playing CooP with friends. But I cannot stand any of the multiplayers. I don't like them, they are meaningless and boring in my eyes. Only fun multiplayer was the one in "Outlaws" -> Catch the fool with the chicken mode. Mainly because you had to reload your weapons manually. Like in reality. If you forgot it, you're dead.

Oh, and I really hate "autoaim" This "feature" allowws total skilless players to play shooters, too.

The last really good game i bought recently was Dragons Dogma: Dark Arisen. t has a bit of Gothic feel, because the graphic is very similar. Tales of Zestria is another good game. If you like any of the Tales series. Play some of the old ones on simulator. In these games another person can take over a second member of the party in combat. It's a bit of Coop.

Two games from this series is a must play: "Tales of the Abyss" (PS2) and "tales of Vesperia" (XBox 360). It'slike not having played FF XII. And don't ever buy "Tales of Symphonia" on PC. This port is a total mess. The game itself is good, so play it on the dolphin emulator.

Just because it can run doesn't make your nose a leg.

Considering that I'm so lonely that I've been found talking to myself on some places in this forum, I can assure you that you are not alone.
...just me.

Yea, I agree. Do you know the most useless games in existence?

Evolve, Titan Fall, Star Wars Battlefield and Tom Clancy's Rainbowsix Siege.

I don't even know why they exist. No story, no sense and only stressfull game play against each other, without any goal to get to.

I think, the publishers are making the biggest mistake in history of gaming, producing multiplayer only games, without giving any thought in new features for these modes. Ripping of the single player, and replacing it with nothing, delivering only half the content for full price. And hiding the rest behind expensive season passes.

In my humble opinion, they are killing multiplayer games at the moment. Not that I am very sad about this. ;)

I must be a point and click purist! The closest I came to a FPS was Outcast and I did the trick where the shots that hit me didn't cause any damage. Point and click forever.

Nope i hate MP as well and im tired of the AAA devs trying to shoehorn every gamer into the MP category. It shows an amazing lack of creativity to me that they're saying "Hey, YOU make the stories. We'll just sit over here and collect money. Yay!". True, they give you the environment in MP but the stories aren't the devs anymore, it's YOUR own story. And yet the devs want YOU to think that the devs own these MP games by putting them behind hefty DRM or paywalls.

Nope, not for me.

As a classic FPS gamer, I definitely look for more singleplayer games than multiplayer. The original Bioshock was especially made for SP and it really shows! Then the sequel came out and since more focus was on MP, the SP experience really suffered.

I think either there is no such thing, or if there is, then most of us are oddities in our own little way. :) Don't get tied up in a label. Games are for entertainment, and entertainment is watching and/or participating in something which generates any number of positive and/or negative desired and/or undesired emotional responses either alone or with others. Ultimately a good gaming experience is one that generates emotional reactions in us that we find more pleasurable and less unpleasurable whether we are doing it alone or with others. If we're not enjoying a game experience it is because we don't enjoy the emotions we're feeling whether they are the result of the game itself, or the result of communications/feedback etc. from other players in the context of a multiplayer game.

So there is no right or wrong way to game other than that which the individual finds enjoyable and entertaining. The labels and judgment of others hold no merit other than what we allow it to have. Of course not. The majority of games have single-player mode of some sort in them if the entire game itself isn't single-player only. Look at Skyrim and the other Elder Scrolls games for example, or Fallout or any number of other RPGs. Most of these games on the surface sound like they _would_ be multiplayer games, but most of them tend to be massive single player experiences. The Witcher 3? 200-400 hours of single-player fun.

People play different types of games to get different types of experiences, to feel different types of emotions that meet an internal need. It might be the thrill of the kill, or it might be enjoying some top notch acting or voice acting, getting deeply entranced by a good story and the characters, or it might be by extending your goat tongue and attaching it to a lawn chair and swinging it around your head like a windmill and killing innocent bystanders while you laugh profusely like a 14 year old school boy. Whatever it is that generates the fun and enjoyment for you - do that. If it is a single-player experience then enjoy that experience. If it is gaming in a multi-player context, then try to enjoy that too.

If you play single-player only games alone and prefer and enjoy the games but end up feeling lonely - that's an entirely different problem however, and multi-player gaming may or may not help with that.

I like both single-player and multi-player games, however the majority of my gaming tends to end up being single-player in the end because I strongly prefer to play multi-player only with people I am close to and know really well who are friendly and fun to game with. I avoid online multiplayer games which one tends to encounter others displaying childish unsportsmanlike behaviour, verbally aggressive conflictual behaviour, anger/rage/tantrum players etc. I just can't handle that stuff. I abhor cheaters and refuse to play with anyone who cheats or on any servers where cheating is observed to be taking place.

So, I mostly play single-player games and self-orchestrated multiplayer games with carefully selected players. I stick my neck out of there into the black morass of the Internet for some games from time to time, but usually duck back in before it hurts. :)

GOG control to gamer Tom, can you hear me gamer Tom?

You’ll find many GoGers are the same way. I treat gaming as a solo activity, and despite what some seem to believe, that’s not unusual.

If multiplayer is appropriate and the gameplay is strong enough, a story can just get in the way. Problem is publishers don't seem to know when its appropriate. SimCity in particular is a franchise which was slapped with multiplayer features without understanding why it was popular in the first place. The sense of isolation was key to the series. There was a good Jimqusition on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ERNj1uG5Q

Personally, I find that the ideal situation is to find somebody (ideally in real life) that also plays games similar to those I enjoy and talk to her about those video games.