(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As the "PSN outage" extends and tensions run high, there has been a high increase in threads that generally say the same thing. They all seem to point to one factor, that a lot of people only play games for the multiplayer.

Now, I'm alot older than some users ( I'm 27 ) and when I was a kid, if you wanted to play games with your friends you would have to go to their house, not just party up. So for me, playing offline is no problem.

Playing Offline

Although most of the popular games seem to be designed as a multiplayer game, they still contain a story mode and many games have multiple offline modes.

I recently bought the new Mortal Kombat, there's so much to do that I probably won't play it online until I finished all the other things I've started. I also have been playing the Crysis 2 and Black Ops campaigns, because if PSN was up I'd just be playing the multiplayer.

These can help take the hours of boredom away. Already completed it? well put it on the hardest setting and go back in.

You could probably find a guide right here on NGU!

Trophies

All games have these, use this time to go back and get ones that you forgot about or couldn't be bothered with. If your bored and your ps3 is your only source of entertainment, then trophy hunting can be a good sport.

When I first ever got a ps3, I didn't even have internet, trophy hunting was all I could do.

I know trophies may not be everyone's interest, but it does look cool to have a few platinums in your collection.

(Online trophies usually make up a small percentage of the total amount.)

Again, you can probably find help with trophies here on NGU.

Your ps3 can also;

Play stored music
Play CDs
Play Blue Rays and DVDs
Browse on the internet

So there are plenty of things that you can still do with your ps3, and even more things are available away from your ps3.

Live your life?

Enjoy the weather
Go play some sports
Go to the gym
Go to the cinema
Get a haircut
Do anything !!!

Life has so much to offer you, but you just won't take it.

I bought my console to playonline thats it thats all... but nice thread for some people

It's not the end of the world, like some people are saying, but online is nice. I would like to play online, along with the rest of the world :p

People buy for the multiplayer, you should have ended the thread when you said that. No one cares about boring shitty offline games or other features of psgay, i had 2 ps3s sold 1 and bought xbox, now that i've got an xbox i might sell my last ps3 because i realize how shitty it is without the network.

and we all had to go to our friends house to play games with them, i even brought my n64 memory pack and ps1 memory card to load my characters and wup sum ass, but those are the old days, no one like to go play offline anymore.

it not that important to play online but most of us did buy our Ps3's to play online and like you said games have single player modes but most of them are garbage soo i think online gaming is important lol :D

It's important .. because u could play online lool! .. btw , what if someone got all of his trophies.. all games that he had ?? so isn't it important for some.?!

I like playing offline actually.

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Great post for the people thinking of suicide, but we're in the 21st century now online gaming is huge but if your part of the Playstation network you have been unable to party up online for 2 weeks!! Come on dude 2 weeks this is taking the p!ss in my opinion Sony pull your finger out FFS!

a lot of people play offline cause they play the game for the enjoyment. its not all about the online. wheres the fun in just playing online when u didnt play the single player and diddnt get the story about the differnt places of the game. the offline is as important as the online.