Game companies have definitely done their best to try and make multiplayer gaming more and more lonely. I settled in quick to single player cause at least I could have fun and not simultaneously be lonely and dominated by some hyper competitive toxic game matched tryharding BS.
Donāt be silly, if you want to get dominated by another random person in tf2 then you need to first buy bot immunity
What. Havenāt seen a single bot since a few of hosters were imprisoned and fined gigantic sums.
Pretty solid. Explains why i stopped liking online-games which i was so damn passionate about 20yrs ago.
Beside being unable to compete with the youngsters š
For me other than the lack of time itās the toxicity, if you have say one hour to play, do you really want to listen to some no-life cunt who has been playing all day screaming at you because they are tilted as fuck and need to blame everyone else but themselves? Well I certainly donāt need that shit in my life.
Honestly there second someone starts talking during a game I just go and mute them. 99.9% of the time itās really annoying. Once in a while you get someone who actually knows what theyāre doing and talking about, isnāt a dick, and actually gives good advice or help. But that happens so rarely itās not worth it
Adding a bit of an anecdote, Iām not good at games but when someone (be it friend or foe) is leagues worse than me I give them advice
For example Iāve been getting back into planetside and this level 7 was trying to kill me as an infantry unit with a rocket launcher (anti tank weapon, canāt one shot infantry) so even with my crappy aim I dispatch him without so much as a nick to my shields. So I send him a direct message that the rocket launcher is for tanks and he should use his LMG for infantry battle
Basically help your newbies
Oh rightā¦ I totally forgot about the toxicity. That also was very different āback thenā. Even though we werenāt much less anonymous. Being decent and honourable just meant something.
We even played in a league with one player who sucked major ass and brought us down. But she had so much fun and thatās what counted. Noone cared. Winning was great, but having fun and having a fair competition was greater.
I donāt listen to any cunts in online games, voice chat is off. For some reason the kids these days think you canāt play a game without a headset and mic on. I donāt even own one of those dumbass headsets. I can still be competitive in FPS games without any of that too.
I remember playing TacOps back in the day. Some Sundays were literally just me team speaking with the guys (and some girls) while sipping a beer and casually playing our doing team practice. I learned a lot about the different international cultures before I set my own feet out of the country.
You can still still be competitive, you just have to be a bit clever about it.
I recently started playing mobile shootersā¦ in an Android emulator with a mouse and keyboard. Destroying touchscreen kiddos with a proper input device never gets boring.
Some games are even smart enough to detect the mouse and keyboard and only match you with other players using external input devices, like CoD Mobile. Thatās one of my favorites because itās basically CoD: Greatest Hits. All the best maps from the old games are there. And new modes come out every week. Itās so much better than modern CoD; takes me back to the days of playing CoD4 and MWII on the Xbox 360 when I was a teenager.
You know itās not really competition when you give yourself a massive advantage, right?
You know that youāre a grownup cheating to beat children, right?
You know thatās sadder than playing a fair game and losing, right?
Right?
You know that what Iām doing is not only allowed by the CoD Mobile developers, but they even made an official emulator for this very purpose? Google āGameloopā.
Regardless, I play games to have fun; so knock it off with the guilt tripping. The players know that Iām using a mouse and keyboard. They donāt know how old I am because in-game mic usage is rare these days. Iām playing within the rules. Not my fault that theyāre using the touchscreen or plugged in a controller instead of a mouse.
If it bothers you so much, then just stick to ranked and youāll only get matched with other mouse and keyboard players. But again, I donāt give a fuck because Iām having fun again, just like I used to when I was young. Mobile gaming in an emulator rekindled my interest in gaming overall.
I donāt even want to be competitive, but stat tracking forces the issue. When you found a regular hangout place for a some team based game, you didnāt need to worry about tracking every kill. You could just be helpful to your team in ways that K/D ratios canāt track like throwing yourself at the opposite team when theyāre chasing your team member who has the flag for instance. Just not being a ragging asshole could get you a positive reputation.
This basically describes my experience with counter strike pre-1.6ā¦ like 1.3 thru 1.5, circa 2002-2005. Lost thousands of hours of my youth negotiating knives-only rounds and doing stupid totem pole camping on de_dust while 1 guy on the other team tried to AWP everybody. Am I old?
I am a bit younger so chicken & waffels and a few other CS:S servers were that for me. Also Day of Defeat Source was underrated.
Also, the minigame serversā¦ The mini games people came up with!
1 person shooting cubes at platforms whole others had to stay up, The prison, Piratewars, Multigames (the original fall guys), Prop wars, The one where there were like different power ups behind walls and then have different abilities.
But also battlefront 2 was like that for me. SMD clan with its almost mythical figurehead. Glitching servers, shooting the shit with other people trying to find new glitches. Those were the days.
While matchmaking is good for some games like Rocket League, it has really broken a ton of communities. I think thatās why there arenāt really "clansā anymore, because people arenāt together enough to organize.
Great, the loss of community now extends to video games as well
we have successfully urbanized online games. the days of a small town feeling in new online games are over
I donāt think urbanised is a good word to describe that alienation. The urbanism movement has as one of its key goals the creation of more vibrant local communities. Itās more like suburbanism.
what i meant by āurbanizedā is that these days, playing online games feels like living in a big city where there are a ton of people but itās hard to feel like you know everyone. you can still make a group of friends and find ālocal communitiesā, but i think thatās distinctly different from the feeling of a small town where you know a lot of the people there.
all that being said, there are advantages to living in a big city instead of a small town. in this context, that would look like faster matchmaking times, making it easier to find a full server, etc. but i still wish games gave you the option of picking a community server. i miss having the option of joining custom servers and getting to know the locals.
The urbanism movement exists to help remedy some of the downsides of urban living. One of which is social alienation and isolation as a result of the scale and diversity of cities.
No, it exists to fix the problems caused by car-dependent suburbia. Inner cities can have problems too, but a lot of those are created by cities wanting to support suburban commuters rather than the local community.