Just the other day someone I know declared that they never gamed by themselves anymore and found single player gaming to be an underwhelming, pointless experience. They, like many people I suspect, bought Modern Warfare 2 with no intention of ever playing the single player campaign. Wow – for me, checking out the single player was my priority, in order to see what new dramatic situations they had created (mainly because of the epic cold war machine in Modern Warfare 1).
There was a time when I was hooked on Halo multiplayer – it was just so easy to drop into one capture the flag game after another – for a couple of hours straight. I also have done my time (literally) on an MMO. Fun times, but it’s a phase that I’m over with – probably after becoming jaded with the interactions I’ve had with strangers online. Maybe I’ll come back to online gaming, who knows. Right now for me social gaming is about playing with people you know, preferably in the same room. But that’s just for me.
I find it fascinating that people can have such wildly different views of games, and I can even play the same game and never touch the modes that keep another person engaged for weeks. It used to be that if you were into games you were into games. Now it’s a question of what kind of gamer you are and what types of games you like.
