So which do you think is better, online gaming, or offline gaming?

Just to comp[are this to the experience i have in the, basically, only game i play online DotA (a map for Warcraft III: TFT).

Online is best, more of a challenge and its real people. Ive even made friends online
And, 1v5ing the HIGHEST difficulty in the Ai version is a joke... finishing a game in 30 mintues most times.

Some games online end in 30 mins but most go for close to an hour. Online, just way more fun. Taunts are funnier, and killing someone with humor is good too

Like one time recently, an enemy was just killing some random enemys (allies to me ) and his hp dropped alot as he was taking all the hits and was stuck. He would of lived but the hero i was using has a 450 Damage, long range attack. i used it and he died it was funny as, and yeah he was pissed lol

DotA is awesome ^^

EDIT:

assuming it was you david who voted for Offline, please explain why. ^^ No point asking a question if you dont answer it yourself

I usually like to wait for a few people to give their opinions first so that when I submit mine, it blends with the croud. Otherwise if mine is the first, I'll be the main target for people to attack if they oppose my view point.

Here is my opinion:

I picked offline. Online is fun, but to addictive, to many annoying people online, and there's no story. Offline games are the greatest games out there, they are the ones that are legendary. With Offline, you can enjoy a rich and deep story line with characters - games like the Final Fantasy games, Shenmue, Pokemon, Mario series, Zelda series, etc.. are all games that are very fun whose entertainment cannot be replicated by playing them online.

Halo series, for instance, I'm sure there are many who will play the game's online mode to death but will never consider playing hte campaign. Though the campaign can be played online in Halo 3, it cannot in Halo 2, and in my opinion, that's the greatest part of the Halo games, the story, the music, the characters, etc.

I'm not saying Online is bad, I do plan to make Online multiplayer games for Vizzed someday. I just think offline is better because that's where the real adventure is. If it wasn't for offline gaming we wouldn't know the famous gaming icons such as Mario, Cloud Strife, Laura Croft, Link, Mega Man, RYO HAZUKI, etc. I like the fact that Online play can always be different depending on who your playing with or against, but still, I'd much rather play thru a game with my GF in co-op (story mode) such has Halo campaign, splinter cell games, star wars battlefront, super smash bros brawl, lego star wars, lord of the rings, etc. And of course I love the games that are only 1 player, just lately I've only been playing games when I'm with my GF.

I voted online.
The best games are ones that have both online and offline. I think anyone who has played halo online has played campaign, and most of them have finished it.
Theres only so many times you can play campaign untill you can beat it on legendary in your lunchbreak. That means you have to play online with real players.

The ultimate in video games are games where you can play online and offline to unlock stuff (battle field 2 is sorta like this), but then you can play online with your new unlocks.
Im not sure about halo3 armour, but armour is nothing special unless it gives you more health or something to change your characters stats.

Online is more sociable. People might think that some people hardly come out anymore when there playing WoW and stuff, but you think about it, they just have a new group of friends that all share a comen interest.

and NOW you understand how i played over 550 hours of WoW in 3 months!!!! I had great friends their.. sure they just wanted me for my awesome DPS but still!

Ok, here's a challenge for you 2 guys, name your top 3 favorite games of ALL TIME, be honest too

Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne
World of Warcraft
Halo 2

And none of them i enjoy playing single player as much as i do with other HUMAN players... (also WHY doesnt Halo 2 have a bot system and Halo 3 BETTER have it )

Halo 3's only disapointment was the fact that it doesn't have Bots, that is also something I was hoping for in Halo 3

And that cant use the excuse that bots are any good or decent bots cant be coded.. Look at UT series... they are some hard arse bots... not too stupid either...

What's UT? The only game I've played with Bots was Perfect Dark (n64) and it was so much fun because you could make the Bots act a certain way, adjust their difficulty, etc.

you dont know UT... Unreal Tournament, like the best multiplayer first person shooter... ever.. the whole game is based around killing... its... GODLIKE!!!!!!!!! WICKED SICK!!!!!!

Ok that makes more sense if youve played it...

I've played Unreal Tournament, I'm just not familiar with all these abreviations people use now days, UT could really stand for several different things.

Last time I've played an Unreal Tournament game was for the Dreamcast, wasn't all that impressed by the game as much as I am with other games of the genre.

alot has happened since the dreamcast... CPU's on PC's can go over 2.0Ghz now!

UT is not what it used to be on Dreamcast, but you really have to be interested in that style of game play... you have to be able to kill without a purpose... or... well with the purpose of winning a game... not to save a life... protect an innocent or find the truth as most of us are used to doing these days... In UT your just proving that your better than the rest.. ^^

My top fav games (series)
1. Halo
2. NFS
3. Any decent RTS game

UT is really UT2004 right? UT was UT on dreamcast, theres UT on xbox too, but its UT3 or something, was pretty crap.
UT dosnt appeal to me, its barley realistic. Although halo isnt, it is at the same time.

Online is way better. The thing about AI is that it is a program. Computers are beatable because they have a proram. But sometimes... humans aren't

the UT series on PC starts with UT2003, 2004 and now UT3. UT3 is new, and i think itll be awesome... new weapons... machines... just.;.. cool big spider things..

Your right John, AI is useless sometimes.. because programs have flaws... programs cant learn and can ONLY do whats within their programing...

Not every game out there is a first person shooter though. There are plenty games that aren't and don't require extremely intelligent AI anyway, like the Final Fantasy series.

Yeah... most RPG's dont because in FF you are also restricted ALOT by the programming... dodging attacks is luck based and not skill like in FPS games... RTS games need a pretty average AI but basically in RTS games you do the same thing every time... you start up, you have to secure extra resources. you have to build defence and manage offence. You need to build power and attack your enemys based upon your knowledge of their deffence.

Originally posted by Davideo7

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Not every game out there is a first person shooter though. There are plenty games that aren't and don't require extremely intelligent AI anyway, like the Final Fantasy series.

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Well... true, but thats just the risk i am going to have to take for a down and dirty good ol' time!

i believe UT isnt expected to be realistic... otherwise it'd be known as RT instead....

I voted for online gaming

i voted this way because even tho some of my favorite games are offline games like super mario world. I have the best time playing online games, the experience is so much better for me.

Well, in a way, both. (However I'm not voting for offline gaming) In some circumstances, you just want to play alone and have time for yourself, other times or other people prefer to be on TeamSpeak in 30-player raids against massive dragons where there's always a Leeroy Jenkins in the middle to add humor. Depends on which game, which community, and which genre.

Definatly online, so you can taunt your enemies and make em mad

Yeah, but keep the voice chat off, it's mostly tweens swearing up a storm at you when they lose and that can hurt your ears.

Text chat can be insultive to, aswell as.. you know.. that other thing..

Oh man NOTHING is more offensive than a squeaker! (CAD Ref. #20060821)

I could read all the slander and insults in the world and still have my vision... some times... to a squeaker you can lose your hearing and often become disoriented and dizzy... Playing Online with prepubescent retards in NOT the way to play...

I have to agree with you Davideo, offline gaming offers so much. Most of my favorite games are offliners. My favorite video game series is Legend of Zelda (it was the first NES game I played when I was like 3-4 years old). I have played EVERY one since, and loved them ALL.

I do play some online games, but rarely. My favorite being Crimson Moon.

I had problems playing RE:OB after they closed the servers.
I can't even play without someone to help guide, let alone brainless NPCs/AI

Posit/Negat:

- Online -

+ Talk to friends
+ Spend time with sick friends
+ Spend time with long-distance friends
+ Learn faster/easier about the game and tips/tricks
+ Smart players, Helpful Players
- Hackers
- Flamers, Spammers, Cyber-bullying
- n00bs (Not newbies)


- Offline -
+ Better Storyline
+ Better Graphics
+ No Lag
- Brainless AI
- loneliness

Continuing your list, Ben:
(key: +=Pro, -=Con)
ONLINE
+More depth
+Better value
+Usually never ends
+Meet new people
+Kill boredom
-Interrupts life (school, work, etc)
-People posing as women to make a fake relationship
-Annoying a**h***s on voice chat (Not you, leeroy, not you)
-Some monthly fees(sometimes)
-Can lag depending on your computer
-Sometimes pointless
-In shooters, there's always that one asian who can wipe the floor with your face

OFFLINE
+More user-friendly
+Sometimes shinier
+No lame hackers
+One-time payment
-Once all content is acquired, boring.
-No "update patches"
-Sometimes repetitive as hell
-Usually spawns 30 unneccesary sequels
-Split-screen multiplayer is LAME

i like online games but i live in a place that only gets dial-up, so it limits my play.

Yeah that can suck, when I first started playing online games (dreamcast and phantasy star online), I had a dial-up connection and I was only able to play at night when no one was using the telephone (or when I'd ditch school and no one else was home ).

Our internet is shared with many computers (6 active at once, or less), but even thou I run a cable, most people run wireless, I find it hard to play online. And thats with my 6mbps connection.

Online gaming is better just look at Resident Evil Outbreak File#1 and File#2.

I enjoy a good aggresive chat. It would be like playing with my buddies. We always taunt each other. Some times i just enjoy calling out noobs at some games and yelling out "F*** your face" when i rape kill somebody

I'm going to have to go with offline gaming myself. I'm an RPG type of person and games like WOW, Everquest, and DII Don't do it for me. Although I probably will play DIII when it comes out, but only if it's free.

I was addicted to DII about three years ago and just recently started playing it... again. I recently quit playing it again because I remembered why I left the first time.

I hate the race. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. The race for good s***, or in DII "Godly EQ".

I can't deal with that. If I'm playing online I don't want to deal with a bunch of trading pricks only interested in swapping s*** for better s*** so they can say their dick is bigger. I'm sure this is not everyone online, but I just don't get into it. I play video games to take a step out of this world, I don't need a game where people try to implement the same traits as this one.

I play games like Oblivion or Morrowind. Final Fantasy games are great too and I love classics like The Legend of Dragoon and Super Mario RPG (which, by the way, just became available in the Wii's virtual console).

At the end of the day I can always find a good game to play offline with my own friends or by myself. I think if I were to play Online I would waste way too much of my time because I have books I want to read and college to tend to... plus I already have a 9" penis.

Right now the two online games that are consuming my time are:

Conquer Online
Brawl

I am taking a short Maple Story break until an interesting patch comes

Originally posted by mas27

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Online gaming is better just look at Resident Evil Outbreak File#1 and File#2.

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...You know they took both of the servers for that down (In america), right?

but still, it was awesome for an online game.
(Except for the lack of any form of ingame chat >.<)

I wish the servers were still up...

Speaking of online games' servers, there's obviously going to be a website that'll make a patch or hack to make new servers for RE: O

I think the Online is better than offline becuase you can vs. more Intellegent players that are actually alive and they can talk back, and you have people and friends to talk with. so online would be better for me.

im not really sure which to choose
online is cool with seeing people all around the world and stuff but (and im not saying anyone here is)you can get some real noobs. aka people who show off all thier upgraded stuff, peopl who are bad temperd beacuse u beat them etc

offline is cool cause you can play the story of the game either alone or with friends, or like halo 1,2 and 3 you can just sit back and kill each other to kill some hours. but you just dont seem to get as much thrill out of it after about the 3rd or 4th time of completing the game.

so im not sure

i picked offline cause ive had much more fun playing offline games then online ones.
no hackers, no flamers, no cheaters (unless im cheating ), no n00bs, better value BECAUSE its one time payment, etc.

i disagree with iBOCK3, plenty of offline pc games have updates/patches. console games NORMALLY didnt need them cause the games were actually finished instead of released early to please online players and get their monthly subscription fee (cough, wow, cough)

im a rpg gamer. if there was a good online rpg i'd try it.
but only if it didnt have monthly fees. im not paying $200+ per year to play a game...

I prefer online gaming. Now if only I had an Xbox Live account so I could do some real online gaming.

online if its this site others.... not so good

I would have to say I prefer offline gaming rather than online gaming.

I voted offline, i don't enjoy paying out cash every month for essential the same game that has a major patch every 6 or so months. Also I tend get very agitated with online games.

Online gaming on xbox live ftw =) every game is unique and its fun to kill and teabag friends knowing they are too far away to hurt you XD

I like online gaming better than offline gaming...

I prefer Offline gaming. I really think this windows live login busniess is ruining offline single player games, I mean.. What happend to the good old days where you installed a game, ran it and was not prompted to sign up or have an internet connection before you can play.

i personally think online is goo, but when you lose a connection, it helps to haveoffline games

I prefer online play because offline doesn't last forever in say Halo 3 for example. You would then have to get more money to buy a new game.

However, offline doesn't have the hassle of setting up network connections, and being at the mercy of the lag from other people.

I still say online.