When you are playing a game by yourself, will you do voicechat with friends, or just focus on the game at hand?

It really depends on the game for me. When I played MW2 I used to talk to some friends, but almost none of my close friends play xbox so they don't talk to me there. I usually just bring my laptop and stick to msn for that.

if i want to talk to anyone i can use my cell phone. thats it.

I've done it a few times. 
 
I'm more prone to actual chats when multiplayer is involved, though.

I only talk to my close friends that I know personally...I hate talking to people who I have never met or seen their face.

i'll talk to people if they want to talk.

When I'm on Xbox Live and playing a single player game, I have friends that will constantly ask me to join chat with them.   I don't join because I know I will get distracted and not actually catch any of the audio that is going on in the game and it typically matters that I focus.

The reason I have a TV by my computer is so I can play every game while still being on skype with my broskis. XBL chat is so fucking horrible, I couldn't use that shit. I felt like a deaf old man when on there because I didn't catch a word of what anyone said. 
 
That said, in atmospheric games I might turn skype off/volume down, it feels wrong to have people belching and bragging about their WoW achievements when playing HL2. 
 
Oh yeah, talking with random people online is mostly retarded (I'm talking stuff like MW2 and the likes). 

C, I'll chat with people if I'm playing carelessly.

Unless I am actively playing a game with my friends, i don't talk to them.  And since Endwar dried up, I haven't played with my friends. 

B and C. I do love party chat, but during dialog I pay attention. 

If it's a multiplayer game like Halo or Call of Duty, yeah I will accept their party chat invites. But if I'm playing Single Player Campaign, you best be leaving me the eff alone haha.

If we're talking about playing a game online and talking to someone who is not playing with me... that never happens.

Nope, not unless they're in the game with me.

Maybe if I've got someone beside, watching me play, but otherwise naaaaaaahh. 
 
No matter how many times I edit it it still sounds kind of creepy when I read it back O.o

One of the reasons I love XBL is because of the party system that allows us to do that sort of thing. Now granted, I'll unplug my headset during a cutscene, but I do enjoy talking to my friends during gameplay segements.

Vent is always open on my pc and we are always talking. Sometimes when we are not gaming me and my e-friends will watch Cops. Its pretty legit.

If I'm playing a video game with story I don't really like to talk unless the person is in the room with me. And I don't really do that with my friends mostly the girlfriend that sits beside me and watch / talk.

If there's multiplayer or nothing interesting is happening in the game I'll chat with friends over Xbox Live.

If I am playing by myself in single player, then no I will not chat with anybody.  If I am in multiplayer, I will chat with the people I am playing with/against.  Other than that, I don't voicechat.

Generally A, but if it's an mmo, i'll be my usual chatty self. ^^

It depends. I find it crazy when my friends play Bioshock while in a party, because I feel that is a game where you need to hear everything. But, I'm fine with playing Gears of War single-player in a party. Obviously, when it's multiplayer, I usually don't mind. 

I leave voice chat disabled. Can't stand it.

I don't like to talk to people when I'm playing a single-player game because I like to immerse myself in the experience.  It's partly the reason I also don't like to play games that CAN be played co-op that way if I care anything about the story.  I'll usually play the single-player first by myself, then play with other people later.

now i'm in a very peculiar situation... you see when i'm on my xbox there's rarely a time where i'm not voice chatting. and i often question the chatting system, when i'm having freinds yelling at how the other team are noobs down my ear, when i'm playing a really heavy single player game.
 
however when i play my other consoles i often sit there thinking, now if there was somebody else to talk to i'd get through this boring dungeon/level without thinking too hard.
 
it's one of those cases where, the chatting helps forget the slower parts of a game, yet become detracting at the more serious(or unserious in the case of say brutal legend) deeper and more interesting side.

" Nope, not unless they're in the game with me. "

No.  I don't even use voice chat in multiplayer.

I usually have one or two friends online whenever I get on, so I'll just start up a private/ party chat with them and either play whatever single-player game I have, or get together and play a little Call of Duty/ Madden/ whatever else.

A, all business here.
 
Only when I play with my cousin or a good friend I actually use the mic, otherwise meh, fuck em.

I'm absolutely atrocious at multitasking. If the game requires a certain amount of concentration I'll focus WAY too much on the game and I'll have a difficult time putting together a logical and coherent sentence. I can't even talk on vent while using WoW. More often than not, I'll find myself jumping around Dalaran. After about two hours I'll realize what I'm doing and attempt to do something. Only for the process to continue.  
 
Edit: changed a few words to make it easier to understand. 

It all depends. If I'm going through a video game single player for the first time I really prefer to focus on the happenings of the video game.  
That and usually my friends just beg to play Left 4 Dead or something subsequently distracting me altogether. 

Sometimes. If it's my first playthrough in a single-player mode then no, I won't chat. But if it's the second time around I will chat with my friends.

I only ever talk on L4D2. No other games really need much co-ordination.

Strictly business.

I usually stay away from party chat as it gets too distracting although I'll dabble in private chats when I'm playing a multiplayer game. That being said, I listen to podcasts a lot while I play games provided that the story isn't particularly important or I'm on my second playthrough.

I hate talking while playing. I always play worse.

If I am playing a single player game I do not want to talk to anyone. Lately when I play an RPG or some single player story focused game I go on xbox live and just put myself offline.