First off I believe that online is the most important part of a console/gaming machine right now( with the exception being portable gaming devises( and even that's beginning to change now)). I don't always have people to play with and online gaming helps me unite with gamers whom I already know or help me find new friends.
I usually don't buy games without online, as they aren't worth $50, $60 or sometimes the $70 games now a days cost. I'll make occasional exceptions, like Twilight Princess and Bioshock, but at least Bioshock is going to keep throwing new stuff at me through downloadable content, while Twilight Princess I probably won't touch for years but will eventually play through it again. So yes, online is important.
I agree. I'm actually holding off my Wii purchase due to the fact that it has almost no online funcality. ( And I'm not going to flop down $300 just to play Zelda). Online for me in that retrospect is extreamly important.
Online is very important for replay value, and downloadable content like Cashed said.(us wii owners dont get that though).
I mean, playing with people across the country as opposed to playing with the normal 4 friends. Totally not fun.
I think your viewing the scope of gaming and the possibilities of online enhancement is a little to narrow. Lets look at the PC for example, you don't just have the added single player and mulitplayer matches. You have community creations such as maps, games, mods, fixes, skins, and tons of other stuff. Let me just put it this way if you purchase either Half-Life 2, Morrowind, or Oblivion you could conceivably play hundreds of games for free. also don't forget that you can flex those creation muscles on content as well.
The internet is limitless, and with the online capability, so is your game. Just when you think your done, here comes the company with something to convince you to blow the dust off of your game's case.
While I'm not going to pass up on the classics like Zelda and Mario just because I can't go download something or play with people half way across the globe, being able to get online with a game definitely persuades my purchase.
But like Volrec already said, online is crucial for replayability. What'd Halo 2 come out like 5 years ago? I'm still xbox living it up!
Basically play Morrowind on XBox then play Morrowind on PC WITH mods. Totally different game.
I agree.
You are a ****ing moron if you think XBox has no online games. Not being a big Halo fan (I've seen FPSes done 1000 times better on PC, sorry guys, especially online) even I know it's an epic game.
The more I play Warhawk the more I realize it would sucked as a single player game. Just the epic combat, stories, fire fights, it's all so much better knowing there are actual people on the other end.
Off topic, but I thought that Warhawk's single player looked awesome. I mean the amount of ships that was promised to be on screen at once would have been a sight to see.
The reason I say most is because of Bioshock, that game was a hit, even without online multiplayer. People liked it because of the concept and artistic quality. This is why RPGs exist, as they focus more on the story and ideas behind a game.
Just because a game focues on a compelling story and gameplay does not exclued it from te benfits that the internet can bring to it.
On the other side of the argument, there is Gears of War and Halo. They would be nothing without online play, seeing as how Gears of War's story mode is basically a bunch of huge men shooting the **** out of locusts, cussing as they get injured, and whooping as they watch blood scatter everywhere after chainsawing a locust to death. It doesn't focus on character development, unlike many RPG games, but people still love it for what it is(including me).
There was character development in Gears, but at the same time story isn't the most important aspect with gears. However, I don't think Gears and Halo would be nothing without online play. I believe that they both respectively have enough going for them to elevate themselves as great games.
due to the lack of epic online games for xbox........
No, online is only important to games with good multi-player.
Both of you are ignorant of gaming world.
There is one thing that the internet brings to gaming that is the most important feature.
Can anyone take a guess?
Patches. Its nearly impossible for someone to build a game that has no glitches or bugs. Some bugs can cause games to crash before completion. With the internet there is no longer any excuse for company's to not update their software a fix or update to repair an issue.
I'm looking at you Nintendo.
p.s. Co-op play is on the rise, expect that to shape the future of all single player games to come.
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