Posted: 1/21/2008 7:15:50 AM EDT
Anyone else stuck playing on the single player missions on your Xbox360? We live out in the country so no cable. We have satellite internet but the upload is slow. Download is equal to cable but because of the slow uploads, I cannot play online. That's why I get pissed when I shell out $60 for a game and it's single player missions take like 4 - 6 hours to beat.On the up side, I can walk outside and shoot my AR15 or handguns. 
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| Since the first time I went online w/ SOCOM 2, I've spent maybe 10% of my gaming time offline. With Warhawk being released as online-only, I think you're only going to see more titles being developed for online and a little cookie thrown in for single player. But, you get to shoot at your house and that is damn cool. |
I would honestly trade my broadband for being able to shoot in my backyard in an instant! |
About 80% of my gaming is alone/offline so a good single-player campaign is important to me. One reason I'm pissed at Microsoft for staying with DVD... I HATE that games keeping getting shorter and shorter in order to save space. I want a big, long experience damnit. I finished Gears on hardcore in one go in only 6 hours over the Christmas holidays. And that was going slowly and carefully.  Longer = better. Why I really look forward to sandbox games, and RPGs that get out of the same old done-to-death medieval/fantasy genre and do something interesting (i.e. Mass Effect). It's not that I'm not into online, just that I only enjoy a certain few games online; thus far Unreal Tournament, Halo PC, and COD4 PS3 are the only games that have gotten significant amounts of competitive online play. I tend to get tired of competitive online pretty quickly, so unless a game has rock solid, rewarding gameplay, I'll only go online for the coop. Not bad or anything (I'm actually rather good, if I do say so myself), I've just done the whole deathmatch/CTF/what have you thing to absolute death over the years and find it repetitive. Coop rarely gets repetitive unless it's a super-linear game, so if a game includes coop it always piques my interest. |
The future of gaming is online. I want game makers to continue to put more and more focus on the online portion of the games. Like you said living out in the country has its pros and cons. But since 70% (or more) of the US population lives in metropolitan areas it sort of makes you country boys the minority. |