Originally Posted by
Odlov
Never got into SP, but I think it's a bit like comparing dancing to playing tennis. Which requires more skill to be great? Well, I don't know, but they are very different activities. SP is more like dancing, as there are no hard limits placed by time or opponent, and your only objective is to make something that looks cool. With tennis or MP you have to worry about the ball or opponent's foot, in addition to time limits. You can try to look good, but your creative freedom is limited by your opponent and time constraints.
As a player who has had extensive experience in both aspects of the game I think the above statement pretty much sums it up.
These two different aspects of the game are what you make of them. You can take Single Player as art and Multiplayer as competitive, or you can take Single Player as competitive (excelling above your peers, book of records, ORMO duels, etc) and multiplayer as art(Styling on your opponents, Sparring with limited time, etc).
You can take them as whatever the fuck you want them to be, but ultimately it's just a debate of what you either want to feel validated for doing or direct bias.
In the end these two aspects of the game are inevitably incomparable due to the fact they're completely different things.