Yeah, well, I do both. And I certainly hate it when I end up with multiplayer-craving people tilting the entire gaming universe towards them and then labeling anyone who wants a story as "archaic" and that JRPG's are "oldschool stale" regardless of the title. It's tiring, it's annoying and it's an unbelievably stuck up way of thinking.
Some people just don't like games that aren't twitch orientated, hell, RPGs are mostly menu navigation games, and most of them require very little technique to kill enemies. Mostly why I lost interest in FF12, shit basically forced you to grind and the only fun/hard parts were boss fights. Also multiplayer will stretch out how long you will play a game, story really can't. Also story will often be raped so they can produce another sequel, like god of war. The original was in an era that hasn't been raped to death and had an interesting tragic ending, the GoW2 comes along and instead of Kratos holding the position of god of war against his will forever, he goes against all of the gods (and yet non of them really attack him on the way) and reaches the threads of fate, where instead of saving his family (his ONLY FUCKING MOTIVATION IN THE TWO GAMES, EVEN THO MY FRIEND SAID HE DIDN'T CARE ABOUT HIS FAMILY BECAUSE HE'S A DEMI GOD) he saves the titans and goes after the gods for tricking him. I guess he'd rather have revenge for something he could have easily prevented. Also a lot of people don't even pay attention to the story in games.
It's fine to have different tastes but I've seen way too many people just label entire genres garbage without even trying it out just because they came in on Halo 3 or something or because one singular review says that a game retreads gameplay elements from older games. Aggggh going too long now.
I have friends who do this, it's a fucking shame, you can look at a movie preview (super hero movie, meet the spartans) and know it's going to suck, but looking at a short clip of gameplay footage means nothing. I've had a friend see a video for CoD4 which contained NO FUCKING IN GAME FOOTAGE, and he was like "zomg best game ever". Not that I hate shootans, but christ, you know NOTHING about the game other than it's shinny and has guns. Also (I've already said this, but it's rage time) I've had a friend say God of war was better then God hand, when he's only seen me play God hand for all of 30 minuets, and I say God hand is better having beaten both, yet he still thinks he is right (he also worships halo and thinks it's the best game ever made).
To stay on topic, I'm also playing FF7: Crisis Core. It's like Kingdom Hearts, but not terrible and boring.
Then how is it like Kingdom Hearts?
Oh and instead of a complete derailment, I'm definitely going to pick up NMH, if not tomorrow then the next day.