Answer me this.

 When people buy a game, are they more likely to start playing the singleplayer or the multiplayer aspect of it first?

depends on the game

In most cases though, you would pick?

First thing I do is look go through the options menu.  Then turn it off and play another game instead.

The fuck?

We are doing research, This can be for single player focused games with multiplayer or a multiplayer focused game with singe player, doesnt matter.

I don't play a game after I buy it. Normally just put it in the shelf and wait for the next one.

The fuck indeed. 
 
 
I almost always start with the single-player.

Single player. It's like the tutorial before you go into multiplayer.

Keep em coming.

" Keep em coming. "

Yeh but then i penetrated her so hard my dick came out of her back. She was never heard from again.

Riddle me this, Batman!
 
But single player, always.

Single player, always.

The first thing I do is take the instruction manual out and read page 8 and then page 17. Then I take the disk out of the case and throw it out the window, snap the case in half and watch scary movie 2 on DVD. Obviously sometimes depending on the game I'll watch police academy 4 instead.

" Riddle me this, Batman!  But single player, always. "

Single player 4eva!

Singleplayer, hands down.

i make waffles

Singleplayer... i just prefer it because it actually has,what is it called...plot, yeah thats right...in most cases anyway.

Singleplayer, and should've been a poll.

Almost always single player, except Halo and some reason I did it with starcraft lol.

" Singleplayer... i just prefer it because it actually has,what is it called...plot, yeah thats right...in most cases anyway. "

Single Player?  

SIngle player.

Thank you for your participation everyone. DISMISSED!

Single player mostly.

Always check the options first. 
 
Then single-player. 
 
And then maybe, just maybe, multi-player.

I play multiplayer for about an hour then hop right into single-player and go through that.

I usually always play single player first. Not only does it teach me the controls and how to play the game, but people like to sometimes discuss the story of a game in multiplayer, and I'd rather finish it first to avoid spoilers (in the rare instances when I don't have everyone muted!).

Did anybody, ANYBODY, think of the popular English comedy podcast when they saw the title.

call of duty multiplayer. bioshock 2 single player.  
 
Most cases single player becasue thats what the focal point is, but there are games that are very muliplayer based. 
We all know this though

" In most cases though, you would pick? "

I usually play the first level or tutorial of the campaign to get my bearings, then jump straight to multi-player.

I always play the single player first and then once I complete the game I move on to the multiplayer action.

Depends on the game. I usually go for Singleplayer but I bought Battlefield Badcompany 2 and dove right into multiplayer. 

It truly does depend on the game for me, but I'd say more often than not I play the single first. If I'm hyped on the multiplayer aspect of a game, I'll normally jump into that first, then play some of the sinplayer at some point later.
 
For example;  
 

• I've played 80+ hours of Halo: Reach multiplayer. I didn't play any of the campaign until nearly a month after release and that was for about an hour and a half to get a certain daily challenge -- still haven't played anymore of it.
• In my beloved Blur, I played the multiplayer exclusively for a few months before I decided to play the single player. (I was enjoying the multiplayer so much, I nearly forgot it had a single player mode altogether.)
• With Motorstorm: Pacific Rift I nearly played all of the single player events (and some DLC events) before I ever touched the multiplayer. And that was quite awhile because it took me a long time to get to the last race events in the game.

Single player, always, even if I bought the game for multiplayer.