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So, SR News reports that Quake 4 is switching back to being a primarily single player experience ? What with Half Life 2 doing likewise, and games which try to mix the two such as Counter Strike Condition Zero not exactly being praised, who thinks this could be the beginning of a mass multiplayer game bubble bursting ?

To my mind, the great games have always been single player.

I like online gaming, but with only a 56k i dont play much.

I just make my own servers :0D

I also enjoy online gaming, yes, I too have been called a n00b and sprayed in the head by hackers but it's a matter of finding the right server, tbh. Once you find the right server you won't be called a noob or whatever. Most clan servers will have an admin playing so then will kick any hackers.

Fair enough. Play Medal of Honour: Spearhead - objective games are AMAZING.

I've never seen any online game have the same depth as any single player game yet.

I'd probably cry, or at least be pretty upset. I think what I enjoy most is playing with Teamspeak on.

"I want a level one Evac, now!"

:0D

Multiplayer gaming bubble bursting! Not likely I'd say.

Valve are already putting allot of effort into providing for the already huge online Half Life crowd, in fact I believe they are already releasing the source engine to a few mod makers to get cracking on with the first multiplayer mods for HL2. Doom 3 has also been showing off it's multiplayer capabilities at the ECTS in London, so I'd say if anything multiplayer in games will be just as popular in a few years time as it is right now.

As for multiplayer gaming on a whole, well I enjoy it, I like the real human opposition as apposed to dumb ass A.I. in some single player games, but i always bore of online games easily. Too many retards playing, constant cheating and flaming and I'm fed up of being called a n00b because I didn't follow some natural born leaders instructions which he believed would win the game. I go online for fun, but allot of people go on to win and that's the problem. It turns online gaming into a competition sport where your not there to have a good time, you there to compete.

I wouldn't cry if it was the end of online gaming, but I seriously doubt it is.

I enjoy the interaction of Multiplayer, and the fact that I rule at MOH:S helps. There's no way the Online bubble will burst. Ever.

I'm glad companies are starting to conecentrate primarily on the single player mode over the multi-player mode, single player games in recent years have been lacking some-what, i was sorely disappointed with Quake 3, so i'm hoping Quake IV will be great :)

I hope so, I loathe online multiplayer gaming.
Was a novelty when I first tried it 4-5 years ago but I just can't bring myself to log on and play against people that are either cheating beyond belief or have nothing else to do but play 24/7 and results in my continual death/respawn/death respawn etc etc.

Single player is more interesting for me, has more of a challenge that mindlessly bunny-hopping around a map clicking the left mouse button as quickly as possible.