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....