for consoles. This game pretty much shows it. I saw the ads, I’ve looked into it. It looks pretty cool. Neat universe, cool set up, and I thought “Hey, maybe it’ll be like crimson skies on xbox”, and that I’d have a reason to buy a PS3.

aaaaand then I looked closer. There is no single player game. There’s a reason why I play console games instead of computer games. Graphics has nothing to do with it, automatically working has a little more to do with it, and mostly it has to do with the fact that it’s more difficult for $#)(*&’n idiots to invade my gamespace. Let’s be honest, there are loads and loads and loads of idiots. The percentage of the population of video game players who are idiots is probably greater than that of the ratio in the real world. I may be one of them, sure. But at least I have the good graces to KEEP IT TO MYSELF AND NOT INVOLVE OTHERS.

I like single player games because I’m not relying on other people, they’re not relying on me, and I can meander about on my own pace. No one’s getting angry with me for not doing things their way. Enter the world of multiplayer, where for whatever reason that the fates decreed, every idiot gets an equal voice. Or at least, an equal volume. Multiplayer games on the internet = not fun for me. When I want an idiot screaming at me because I messed things up for them, I’ll go back to working at kmart thank you very much.

When I want to feel badly about my skillset because someone spends way too much time doing this one specific thing, I’ll go back to grad school thanks.

Until then, all video games I buy will have to be PRIMARILY single player games. Also, let’s face it: the story is better for single player games. Multiplayer games have no plot. Think of any unreal game. No plot. Think of that “awesome” FPS shooter that MS put out a while ago…no plot. Think of that warhawks game…no plot. This means, for those idiot video game players out there, that they’re paying $60 to a company to make sure there’s a great multiplayer video game experience. They don’t need to make it good, they just need to make sure that the controls and graphics work. Congratulations, you made a game that looks better than an atari game, but not surprisingly isn’t as fun to play. Why are idiots rewarding them for this? When I want to play with other people, I’ll take up sports or something.

And, considering my relatively lazy antisocial behavior, that isn’t going to happen any time soon.