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Topic: Which is most important to YOU! - Local or online multiplayer - short answer essay.....

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Richard

Hate Local multiplayer, get a blinding headache from all those other screens while trying to concentrate on your stupid letterbox size playing area or worse just a quarter of the screen. Just horrible. Give me online everytime.

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Maxime

Well if you answer that way, Corbie, I would say nearly the same thing. The 1 player experience is important, especially when we get older and we don't necessarily have enough time to play with others on a regular basis. Although I guess I would choose local over Internet ^^... especially if we're stuck with friend codes.

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mrmicawber

Vendetta wrote:

Seriously? In this generation it's a flat-out atrocity that we should have to choose between either.

What does this mean? Of course you choose, how is that an atrocity? I am not even asking about choices, but preferences. Prefernces are not atrocious.

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Modern_Legend

__Richard wrote:

Hate Local multiplayer, get a blinding headache from all those other screens while trying to concentrate on your stupid letterbox size playing area or worse just a quarter of the screen. Just horrible. Give me online everytime.

I have a big tv for my wii so i think i have like 13-15 inches squared for my own box and same for others on a quarter of a screen. Before my tv was much smaller and i still didnt care. theres just something about playing with my buds when theyre next to me that beats playing with them when they arent even near me. And isnt thinking of only ur space on screen a tad selfish

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Outrunner

Online. My bros and friends don't play games and I can only play multi with my internet buddies.

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grenworthshero

Local! If I want to play with random people I don't know, I'll just play one-player. That's what online feels like to me. As machu said, there's no substitute to battling four of your friends in the same room. How many of you actually have more warm fuzzies remembering playing some guy in Zimbabwe than beating your friend in Goldeneye ten years ago?

Besides, screen-peeking takes every game to a who' nutha level

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Mabbit

Well I live with a 14 year old sister who will basically only play pikmin and virtually no other game and I live 30 minutes away from any of my friends and I DO have a cousin to play games with, but since his parents are divorced, he's only around half the time. So as you can see, I can almost NEVER play multiplayer. But the bad thing is that most of my games are best multiplayer (I.E. Brawl, Mario Kart, GH World Tour), so i have to find a second multiplayer source, so I usually turn toward online play

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JoeDiddley

I would rather local but online is better than nowt when your friends don't live nearby
I don't even have 2 wii remotes. The rare times that I get a local multiplayer game it is with the gamecube controller

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Kid_A

I think online should be used mainly for sharing and downloading user created content. I really like games like LittleBigPlanet that have that feature. I also like how on Professor Layton you can use the Wifi to download new puzzles every week.

Granted, online multiplayer lends itself well to games like Mario Kart or Call of Duty, but the MAIN fun from those games, to me, comes from the local multiplayer. I think Online multi should be a bonus. I don't like how some shooters now like the Conduit have ONLY online multiplayer and no splitscreen.

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Noire

I would much rather play alone, but if I have to choose between local and online multiplayer then online is much more important to me. Either I have no one to play with, or the people I do have to play with I don't like very much and they make me play Super Smash Bros. Brawl over and over and over again. It's also good because I'm a really terrible loser, so if I'm playing alone online I can get as pissed as I want without annoying others.

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Vendetta

mrmicawber wrote:

Vendetta wrote:

Seriously? In this generation it's a flat-out atrocity that we should have to choose between either.

What does this mean? Of course you choose, how is that an atrocity? I am not even asking about choices, but preferences. Prefernces are not atrocious.

What does this mean? Ok, I'll play along and assume you're as dull as your response makes you sound - but I don't believe it, personally. I guess you just love to draw people into conversations on your terms and tonight, I'm the mark. Ok, I'll play the role, but I don't plan on making it a habit.

What I meant, and by "meant" I mean "stated obviously to anyone with even basic comprehension skills," was that in this generation of gaming consoles and supporting game programming technology, we, as consumers, should not be presented an exclusive choice of online versus local multiplayer in any given game. All multiplayer games ought to have both options. That they don't is an atrocity.

Much like having to explain my original response.

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mrmicawber

That is game design opinion vendetta. THis is a general preference topic. As you can see from answers here, some people PREFER online or local over the other, some like both the same, and some want only SINGLE player.

That is what I am asking - your preference. If someone cares not a flea for online, or is not hooked up to online, it would not be an atrocity to them.

I am not lookinf for 'marks', just discussion. Sorry you find me dull, it is the way of my race.

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Vendetta

At the risk of incurring the jeers of the community, I will state for the record that I have nothing against you and, as I stated above, I don't believe you are dull.

I see the other answers, and have no problem with anyone who loves or hates, cares for or is agnostic towards myltiplayer. To each his own, right? You asked for preference, and for my part I answered that I would prefer - and greatly at that - to not have to sacrifice one sort of multiplayer for another. And, to reiterate my position, I say again that it is an atrocity that this generation's consumers should be forced by certain games to make that choice.

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longtimegamer

@Vendetta - Yep. I agree. Better to have both. I like online, but it's fun to play in the same room with others when you can.
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I have a family that isn't really into games. And I always disconnect from online. So I like the moments where someone wants to play with me, even if its only a game like Wii Sports.

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mrmicawber

I am cool with your answer, I just did not understand your first one. Because if a game does have local and online, you could still prefer one and not the other. But never mind, I understand what you meant now, you like both, and you like there to be both.

IGN: The holiday Wii lineup looks thin for the hardcore crowd. We see this. Gamers see this. What, if anything, is Nintendo planning to address it?

Oh good, I am neither a gamer or hardcore. Saves me from having to be IGNorant.
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odd69

I dont know anyone in my area to game with so basically i'm a lone gamer kinda like corbie, but online helps me meet other gamers. when i do have friends over we always play a multiplayer game so they both even out for me. Playing online has been a great help for me and you can always find a challenge too especially if you are playing a competitive game. I play my share of single player games though (thats why i love rpg's so much)....i'd say both are important to me.

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Kid_A

__Richard wrote:

Hate Local multiplayer, get a blinding headache from all those other screens while trying to concentrate on your stupid letterbox size playing area or worse just a quarter of the screen. Just horrible. Give me online everytime.

Not all multiplayer games are splitscreen, you know
Have you ever played Brawl or LittleBigPlanet? Or Boom Blox? Or Wii Sports? Or pretty much every multiplayer game ever that isn't a FPS or Racing game?

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Adam

I agree with Vendetta that there should always be both, but if I had to choose I'd choose local play every time.

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Rally

I'd rather have online. Local is 60 feet away, but if your friends have your friend code and vice versa, they have internet connection, and they go online, It would be like you and your friends are playing 10 feet away, even if you're Japan for vacation and your friends are in someplace else.

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