Online or single-player?

[Kyriakos]

I used to play online - particularly AOEII, SettlersIII, other strategy. But by now it's single-player. Most recent online one I played was Among US.
I might try the new AOEII or Project Zomboid.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I played City of Heroes and World of Tanks until my eyes bled, years ago. I played multi-player Company of Heroes and World in Flames a lot, too. I really soured on the entire multiplayer experience. City of Heroes had a great community and was great fun to play with strangers. The "competitive-cooperative" games, otoh, where you play as a team with strangers, were awful. The games were good; the people were mainly awful. I think I had good experiences teaming up with strangers in World of Tanks, World in Flames, and Company of Heroes maybe once every 100 games. It was pathetic. I haven't played any multiplayer games in years, and any time I see an interesting game with the label "cooperative multiplayer" on it, I immediately strike it from my list of things to keep an eye on.

 

[Kyriakos]

I played City of Heroes and World of Tanks until my eyes bled, years ago. I played multi-player Company of Heroes and World in Flames a lot, too. I really soured on the entire multiplayer experience. City of Heroes had a great community and was great fun to play with strangers. The "competitive-cooperative" games, otoh, where you play as a team with strangers, were awful. The games were good; the people were mainly awful. I think I had good experiences teaming up with strangers in World of Tanks, World in Flames, and Company of Heroes maybe once every 100 games. It was pathetic. I haven't played any multiplayer games in years, and any time I see an interesting game with the label "cooperative multiplayer" on it, I immediately strike it from my list of things to keep an eye on.

I still remember a few nightmare online AOEII games. Eg when the other person on my team decided to just do nothing. But that is still decent when compared to comedic extortion attempts (and civil war) in some other games

 

[dusters]

I play multiplayer games with a single player option.

Like Hearthstone is single player, but you can play a game mode where it is 2v2.
Or card game Across the Obelisk which is 4 players vs PC, but you can control all 4 toons yourself if u want.
Or Warcraft Rumble which is mostly single player, but there are guilds and guild events/raids will be added soon.

If I imagine a game to play with @Kyriakos, it could be literature history trivia game

 

[PhroX]

I played City of Heroes and World of Tanks until my eyes bled, years ago. I played multi-player Company of Heroes and World in Flames a lot, too. I really soured on the entire multiplayer experience. City of Heroes had a great community and was great fun to play with strangers. The "competitive-cooperative" games, otoh, where you play as a team with strangers, were awful. The games were good; the people were mainly awful. I think I had good experiences teaming up with strangers in World of Tanks, World in Flames, and Company of Heroes maybe once every 100 games. It was pathetic. I haven't played any multiplayer games in years, and any time I see an interesting game with the label "cooperative multiplayer" on it, I immediately strike it from my list of things to keep an eye on.

That first sentence is me exactly. I had something like 12k battles in WoT before tiring of it and CoH...wait you referenced both games with that abbreviation....City of Heroes was a game I sunk a huge amount of time into. Of all the many MMORPGs I tried, it was the one that I kept coming back to and the community was a huge part of that. Could always find good people to play with. I think the game's design, with it not really having the endgame of other MMOs, helped with that. You pretty much had the have a casual attitude (which doesn't necessarily correspond to how much you play) to really get into it long term as there wasn't anything for "serious hardcore players" to do, so most of the obnoxious people didn't stick around..

These days I'm single player outside of the odd multiplayer game with friends. We've been doing a bit of Helldivers 2 recently, and it's a lot of fun when you've got people you know on voice chat, but I'm not interested in playing it with randoms.

 

[Gorbles]

Both? Any? All?

I don't have the time to be as competitive in multiplayer circles as I used to be (and was never super successful regardless haha), but I got decent at Overwatch, a MOBA few folks have heard of (Heroes of Newerth), and way back in the day, CS (1.5 / 1.6), Quake III Arena and all sorts of local MP fun in various RTS games (AoE / AoE II, WC3, Dawn of War, CnC 3, Red Alert 3, SupCom, you name it).

At the same time I've played the living hells out of so many single-player games. The Arkham series, SP campaign modes for all my favourite RTS games, Hades, LEGO games, and of course Civilisation (never really got into MP there - it was always an SP experience for me).

I also grind away at mobile games. I wouldn't recommend them because they're overwhelmingly gatcha-based, and I basically don't spend money on any of them, but it's fun to have something to just chill on the sofa with (I'm usually not on the Switch) - Marvel Future Fight and Diablo Immortal are my current two, and I try not to have more than two (and even then, I only play MFF daily - I dip in and out of Immortal).

 

[Gori the Grey]

The very thing I love about Civ is that I can take as much time as I want with a turn without annoying anyone else.

Single player only ever

 

[Kyriakos]

The very thing I love about Civ is that I can take as much time as I want with a turn without annoying anyone else.

Single player only ever

Some games indeed are very difficult to play online in the first place... First-person shooters and 1-hour strategy games fit the role. But at some point I would like to play online games again

 

[Plotinus]

Single-player all the way. I play games to get away from human beings. I don't want them in my games!

 

[lymond]

I'd say I'm single player all the way. I toyed around with some Civ IV MP a long time ago for a spell, and a bit of pitboss. I played AOEII - one of my first video games - but never MP. I'm def not good with real-time multiplayer. I tried a bit of MMPORPH stuff but def not my thing.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

If I want to meet people I am going to go outside. If I want to get away from people I am going to stay inside. Therefore by definition my stay at home entertainment should be designed for an experience that precludes other people.

 

[EgonSpengler]

If I want to meet people I am going to go outside. If I want to get away from people I am going to stay inside. Therefore by definition my stay at home entertainment should be designed for an experience that precludes other people.

...writes the guy posting on a conversation forum.

 

[Kyriakos]

Single-player all the way. I play games to get away from human beings. I don't want them in my games!

Competitive gaming is pretty interesting, at least in some genres.

 

[PPQ_Purple]

...writes the guy posting on a conversation forum.

I am a software engineer. The internet counts as going outside for me.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

The only game I play somewhat regularly online is Halo: The Master Chief Collection and I always come in last place. I'm so bad at the game that one time a player on my team went out of their way to keep killing me (and I kept getting betrayal prompts to kick the player out of the game).

I am currently playing Fallout 76 which is supposed to be multiplayer but that game is more like a single player game where you may occasionally see another player running off in the distance.

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

My foray into online gaming was Call of Duty 1 and Battlefield 1942 like 20 years ago. And that was it. Sometimes used to play while I was waiting for the wash to get done or something, but eh, I grew out of it. I just don't have the dexterity of most players (which mostly meant being real good at holding down LMB and waving the mouse around...)

 

[Core Imposter]

I am a care giver. Multiplayer is no longer an option. That actually led me back here.

I played SMAC back in the day via emailing turns. Those games were run through Apolyton.

 

[Narz]

I don't really play any games against a computer opponent anymore.

 

[REDY]

My foray into online gaming was Call of Duty 1 and Battlefield 1942 like 20 years ago. And that was it. Sometimes used to play while I was waiting for the wash to get done or something, but eh, I grew out of it. I just don't have the dexterity of most players (which mostly meant being real good at holding down LMB and waving the mouse around...)

Same. The last multiplayer game I played regularly was Americas Army more than 20 years ago.

Since then I played some one-shots like brawlhala or rocket league, usually random chosen game between friends on weekend. But thats like once per year.

 

[Core Imposter]

I don't really play any games against a computer opponent anymore.

AI getting too tough?