The day games go multi player only is the day i hang up my joypad.

I need my campaign! Plus some just don't really care for multiplayer and want a fully fledge story :)

@Tikup - if you finish reading the article, then you'll see thats the conclusion that the writer came to.

is the day I stop being a gamer. A solo experience fueled by some type of story or motivation is the very foundation of games. If games become only mindless mp matches, gaming will be dead to me. As much as I love multiplayer from time to time, I very rarely buy games solely for the online modes.

I seriously doubt that the industry will stop making single player modes in the near future if ever. They're just too important.

Yes they should!! I'm so sick and tired of all that MP crap! I love Single player and take single player over MP any day!

If they wanna do MP they should start doing split-screen again!

This is what I feel and have always felt when it comes to console gaming.
Singleplayer > Multiplayer

I dont see this happening every game need's at least some what of a story... and you basically name nuttin but first or 3rd person shooters except for world of warcraft...but I dont see rpg, fighting games,god of war,GTA type games just given up single player na not happening no time soon... lol this will never happen.. lol this is a stupid article... I dont no what I would with out single player.. campaign I need dat...

is this guy crazy? I love playing games alone and online. Playing Valkyria Chronicles now and its an amazing one person game. Anyone that things retail stores are going to close up shop and we are going to be an internet society is also crazy.

I can play a good single player game over and over and still love it just as I watch my favorite movies over and over.

MP only is when i retire from the gaming world.

uuuuuuhhh...what?
ocarina of time
metal gear solid
shadow of the colossus
changed me into the gamer i am today
dont take that away from the younger generations of gamers.
in fact, everyone should go pick up every one of those games.
plus ff7, ff10, ff6, mgs3, persona4, valkeria chron. great singleplayer games.

* i guess COD4 did change my life a bit. it was addicting that when i tried to sleep after a sesh, id still hear freakin explosions and UAVs, but thats not a good thing.

Those numbers for people having completed the SP campaign is shocking. Less than 50%? Really? I can understand people not completing the older, lengthier, more difficult games but COD4 is short and quite easy to complete (except for on the higher difficulties).

I also wonder about the amount of time people spend in multiplayer games. I expect most people only put a few hours into multiplayer. They buy a console, they buy an extra contoller, they buy a game - and they get 10 hours use out of it, don't complete the game they own and play multiplayer for a bit. I would think this extremely odd if the stats didn't say otherwise. Games that sell millions of copies only have tens or hundreds of thousands of regular players. I think that's the measuring stick that should be used.

Multiplayer is good for some quick and fun not-so-deep action and all, but I still consider it ancillary to the main attraction of the single player experience. You simply don't ever get the same isolated, story-driven richness and depth of experience like a Bioshock, a Half-Life, a Dead Space, a Final Fantasy, or an MGS with a multiplayer game (unless possibly you're talking about cooperative modes). This guy is just talking silliness, and pandering to the mentality of new so-called "hardcore gamers" whose first game they ever played was Halo.

because if your a real gamer and you came up with a headline like this... you done lost yo mind... what is wrong with you fa real...want to be and online gamer lol.. the day this happens I want touch or even look at a game and Im sellin my systems... just a stupid article... man im sorry but this wasnt called for lol...

multiplayer is great to have but if you are all really honest, we would choose single player every day of the week over online right?

Waste of time and space... I prefer campaign over multiplayer anyday. Not everyone likes multiplayer or even has the ability to play multiplayer.

I've only played one game online- Quake 3 Arena- by many accounts still one of the best multiplayer games. As much as I liked it, I realised that it was because of the interesting level design more than the fact that it was online.

The key cornerstone of creativity in videogames remains creative individuals, working on their own or in teams, to make the games, not the fact that I can kill a sprite operated by somebody across the other side of the world.

To name a few great single player games: Metroid Prime (1), Resident Evil remake, Banjo Kazooie, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Bioshock.

i love a good story-driven SP game.(ratchet:ToD, MGS4, uncharted)

if they stop the single player..then i dont think i could play games...because if you just go online in a lobby and hop in a game..nine time outta ten you will get a dumbass who yells and uses words like "owned" which will get annoying and make you want to watch tv

lol my bad I didnt even step foot inside the article of this thread just read the outline all I can say is thank god this want happen loln I need single player but i do use online 2 but it wouldnt be rite with out campaign mode...

most games will have some internet connection going forward.can't stop that.but it doesn't mean just multiplayer.

DLC,when used properly,without exclusivity,will benefit any multiplatform games.it keeps them alive as well as exclusive games to one system.but multiplayer doesn't work for all games.just like third person or first person doesn't works for all games.

leave single player alone devs.watering games down by making multiplayer just makes games less fun as previous generations.if i can still have fun playing BLACK TIGER or GALAGA or SKIES OF ARCADIA or SHENMUE by myself,and have just as much fun as multiplayer,it means single player is still a viable thing to make.

things like bionic commando rearmed were cool in multiplayer.but i still enjoyed it by myself.maybe make more 2D games like it like streets of rage 4 or snes contra 3 remake or gunstar heroes redo or double dragon reborn or guardian heroes again....stuff like that,then maybe i'll submit to multiplayer.

apocalypse..................

I love how people are crying for gaming to be accepted by everyone and potentially included as an art form. Please tell me how games can ever be 'art' if there is no story? Sorry folks, but Call of Duty, Halo, and Gears of War aren't exactly artistically inovative or varied.

But art is objective, so I'm going to stick with the fun and longevity side of things. Maybe I think all of you are a bunch of a$$ holes. Maybe I don't want to play with any of you. Maybe I just want to play by myself or with my friends. You know, not everyone enjoys pairing up with or against a complete stranger who more or less isn't going to play the way you want to. Not to mention the harassment that goes on around nowdays in online games. No, I will have nothing to do with any of it. If I want to play with someone else, I'll invite a good friend over, cook up some good food, and play to my hearts content. Online play will never, NEVER, beat a decent co-op.

And what if I don't want to play with anybody? Oops, everything went online. Guess I can't game anymore. Please, all I want is a good story and some intense action. While the latter may be found in an online only game, you will never find a story with the likes of MGS4 in an online only game.

Okay so it's been a while and I want to get back into 'Generic Online Game.' Crap, now I'm getting destroyed. Ugh, I'm sure all of you know the feeling when you hop into a game that you haven't played for a while and you just get totally destroyed. No, I would rather play a campaign with difficulty options so the game is actually FUN for me.

Okay, so now I've honed up my skills again and I'm kicking butt left and right. Wait a minute, another hit game came out. NOBODY IS ON ANYMORE. That is the most terrible feeling in an online only game when you hop on one day and it takes you half an hour to find a game. With a single player story, you can play anytime you want. 20 years into the future the story will still be there, while the players may not.

KEEP CAMPAIGNS IN GAMES FOR A LONG TIME TO COME...

Single-player shouldn't disappear. I already hate it when a game goes the MMO route.

I don't want to play glorified MMOs. I don't want to be forced into the battlefield with every random idiot online just to experience whatever attempt at a narrative the devs made. It becomes so much harder to suspend belief when you enter a public forum of players talking about Starbucks and new iPods during battle. Just imagine if Final Fantasy had stopped with XI.

This is another example of selective journalism. They show strong numbers for online games, sure. But they leave out the numbers for millions of gamers without online access or interest in competitive online gaming. Also, not every game type lends itself to online play. As always, we need a balance between game modes offered.

If singleplayer stops then i stop. I like a multiplayergame now and then but, there is no replacing a good singleplayer experience.
It's like playing through a movie.
No multi can make you experience that.

Should games go all online? No

Signed

A gamer who has bought over 20 games in the past 12 months and not played online for over 14 months (I tried COD4 once and got bored).

Online is all well and good but TBH I find no appeal in every game being deathmatch and capture the flag.

I think there's a very good trend going on with the direction of how games are being played. More and more it's becoming a group activity, and the more we feed this concept the more we shed the idea of the fat nerd sitting in a damp basement.

Scraping the concept of single-player for co-op sounds great to me. Always having the ability to join a friend or vice versa without sacraficing story or gameplay sound great. So I'm all for it. Fable, halo, gears, left 4 dead etc.

Imagine mass effect with 4 player co-op. It'd be an absolute blast.

Im not gonna bother reading the rest of this. This is why some games have been bad eg. Halo 3. They focus far too much on multi player what is the point paying £35 for a multiplayer game ? if it was just that then id expect to pay £20 or so and i like games that tell a story the reason why almost every game now has multiplayer is to get the casual gamers in i hate the way most of the gaming industry is at the moment

YES! OF COURSE THEY BLOODY SHOULD!

proves the flaws of this arguement

Are we at a point where we have too many authors in the gaming press/blogworld? It seems daily we have these useless articles that some author feels compelled to write something to fill up some space and things of this nature pop into their head.

It often seems like they have good space that needs an article instead of a good article that needs some space.

would give up gaming if the individual gaming experience is killed off.

Take any game like Uncharted and have the ability to invite people to play as the enemy. It can be a mix of computer controlled and user controlled enemies trying to take out the Hero. when a user character dies you'll take over another computer controlled character. It would definitely add to the difficulty and be fully optional.

Since early december to early january I was playing single player only. (Until I got Left 4 Dead) Single player is the main experience. Multiplayer is the longevity

ok before i even bother to read this article i’ve got to say , you’ve got to be fu&^ing kidding me, Dead Space and Fallout 3 were 2 of the best games i bought last year, among many other great single player games….Far Cry 2, Crysis warhead…i’ll quit while im ahead…but the single most DISAPPOINTING game of the year was Left 4 Dead for me, it was repetitive and boring. I played Counterstrike Source for so long it was unbelievable, but i spent much more time playing games like Final Fantasy and Diablo 2 back in the day, and the games that i always get into on an emotional level are the single player games…you know the ones with a STORY. I’m over death match based wanna be unique multiplayer games…oh and i hate mmo’s. Whatever happened to sitting down and playing a game for hours on end to escape, not log in and match up with some f^%^&wits to play a game where your team messes it up 4 you, not for me, sorry 4 long post, i luvz my single player games

There are some of us that don't waste time online in groups running around SHOOTING at anything that moves...