With the exception of one, all of my friends are online focused gamers. I enjoy playing online but I much prefer single player games over online games. The majority of my friends think it's crazy that I enjoy single player focused games like fallout, dragon age, uncharted, and more, and i think its even more crazy that they aren't willing to give such excellent games a chance. They are content to stay with cod and madden, their loss I guess. Like I said, I do have the one gamer friends who is a single player gamer like myself (coincidentally also my only fellow ps3 gamer friend. Trend?) but even he questions some of my choices. Probably my most questioned games are:
-Demon's Souls. By far the game I have to defend the most to my friends. They dismiss is quickly because of the seemingly generic fantasy elements, and for whatever reason my friends seem to take exception to the setup of a hub world then several other worlds branching off. Plus it doesn't help that the few times my friends have played it they've ended up rage quitting:P
-Borderlands. Some of my friends dismiss it because of the art style, one friend said the guns weren't realistic (no shit, I tried explaining to him how that was pretty much the main selling point of the game, but he just didn't understand the appeal). Usually the complaint I hear when friends play with me is that the objectives are bad. Honestly, this is true, and I will cut them some slack and say that by just hopping in for some co-op it's hard to understand that the objectives of a game don't necessarily need to be the goal.
-Metal Gear Solid 4. Some time ago me and my good buddy had a gaming marathon. We took one of the days of our semester break and went to his place, set up two 42" HDTV's and devoted the day to about 8 hours or so of gaming. Out of all my friends he is probably the biggest gamer, but he definitely falls into the category of a "cod and madden" stereotypical guy gamer. So I figured I'd introduce him to most of my favourites. He absolutely loved uncharted and uncharted 2 which was refreshing to see, but when I started playing MGS4 his response was frustrating. He went bananas for the graphics even though we had just been playing uncharted 2, but when I started playing he kept criticizing my slow stealth style of playing. Then we reached the first big cutscene on my save file. At this point he had gone back to playing cod on the other tv, and i was due for a break so I figured I'd sit back and watch the cutscene. About ten minutes later my friend finally started watching what I was doing. He got a chuckle out of the fact I had set the controller done, noticing the fact that I'd been watching that cutscene for at least 10 minutes. I pointed out that if I remembered correctly, this cutscene was about an hour long. He thought I was kidding. Needless to say, when he finally wrapped his head around the concept of an hour long cutscene, he had pretty much decided not to give the game a chance.
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