[Highlander_77]

Originally posted by gekko
Anyone who has ever complained about a game being too short, really can't with online. It's multiplayer, but it's multiplayer with anyone, at anytime, where you still get to use your full screen, and you can play different people constantly.

Take MotoGP, game came out in June for Xbox. Came out in October for Xbox Live beta testers. Some of us (myself included), raced daily, for about 5 hours a day, almost all day on weekends, and it kept up for months, until the first glitch was discovered. Practice makes perfect, we were the top 10 players in the world. Some of them are still playing it to this day, and we're all going crazy over MotoGP 2's release. That'll keep me busy until I leave in August. Can you play a single game that much offline? Doubt it, it would get very old, very quickly.

You can literally own one game, and play it for months. It's a different experience when you play against different people.

Look at GoldenEye, how many people liked the multiplayer there. Now imagine being able to play full screen, against anyone, anywhere in the world. You can constantly be challenged playing against the best players in the world, something you will only do online. Everyone you play against has a different play style, and every game is different. Mario Kart Online, another example. People would race that for months and not get sick of it.

The competition is something you can't get offline. MotoGP was all about getting to the top of the scoreboard. We blew away the times the developers thought were possible. If you think you are good, you'll be put in your place when you go online. It's the highly competetive enviornment that attracts a lot of people, and others like that there's always people to play against.

If you get into online, you'll be hooked.

Eh, I don't have time for that anyway...which may be a big part of the reason why online gaming doesn't appeal to me much. Hell, it's all I can do (more really) just to keep up with all the single player games I want to play...most of which end up sitting on my shelf un-beaten for months, if ever.