If you could only pick one, which would you rather have?

This applies to every type of online gaming imagineable, even MMORPG' s and poker.

I' ve never been into multiplayer gaming BUT if I HAD to choose one, I guess I' d go with Online gaming. DISTANCE gaming with no weirdos coming over to me humble home ;)

Plus I can pull the plug on an online game anytime I choose without having to hear lots of fuss and muss around me.

Both have their merits, but LAN playing does it for me. That' s ' cause cost is not so much an issue (with LAN, that is)...and the people are local (duh), so you could actually go to meet them for LAN parties and stuff like that...

Having the ability to play over distances is not such an attraction, but the year-long financial obligation for something like XBOX Live! can be a bit too much when you have a family to support.

Otherwise, I will just play by my lonesome, a co-worker, or with a neighbor friend (in the same room, on the same XBOX).

I am currently working as a beta tester (we beta test really crappy computer games) and we have a mega LAN set up in the office, and it is super laggy. I think online owuld be better because that means I wouldn' t have to drive across town to work.

I like online and lan both so I guess I really can' t answer this question. They both have really great positives about them. There' s nothing like running into the connecting room to verbally assault your foe, but I do love my online matches.

Lan is good for if you have more than four friends and you want to play against them you can with lan, but online is good for if you don' t have many friends and you want to play against others. I give the nod to online