I don’t get this.
I was playing PVP games in 1993. On the Internet.
I played my first offline video game in 1983.
Most video games I play today are offline on my phone, with a few PVP games in the browser on my computer.
What does being a millennial have to do with any of that?
Earliest game I played over the net was probably Diablo followed by an addiction to Ultima Online. Still ended up on WoW for a year and then swore off MMOs ever since
I still play pvp games mixed in regularly with single player. Chivalry 2 is cathartic and some CoD from time to time.
For single player I like paradox stuff and open world survival crafts. Satisfactory and automatic are also like crack.
Thanks for listening to my Ted talk that no one asked for.
I swore off after ultima online, summer 99 and thankfully never picked up WoW. Then only very very casual console gaming into the millennium and nothing else until 5 or so years back when I started playing multi-player Civ V with group of friends. Now I probably have played more hours of Civ V than any game since Diablo 1 but I’m also 40 and have 3 kids lol. Time is a circle apparently.
Actually, the first PVP game I played was NetTrek in 1990 — forgot about that one. We generally didn’t start calling them PVP games until 1993-ish.
I spent a lot of time on MUDs in the 90s too…. They generally had mobkill and PVP zones.
Don’t act like a d-bag. Most kids before 1998 didn’t even have internet at home, and most kids in the 90’s were console gamers. Not PC.
Also, no, I’m not full of shit. US census data shows 18% of households had the internet in 1997, and if you don’t remember that most kids and teens around were gaming on consoles then you either lived under a rock, or you’re on here right now lying about your age.
Well younger kids do seem to be more obsessed with multi-player. I can’t get any of my kids to play single player games.
I also think he’s wrong but he is talking about young millennials. I’m a young millennial. I was born in 1993. This post is not about you.
That’s my point. The post could easily apply to me and I’m not a young millennial, or a millennial at all. There’s no correlation.
Ah gotcha. Honestly I think what the poster is referring to is comparing himself the boomers/alphas… fortnight, Roblox etc etc being so wildly popular
I’m not sure why they think this is a younger millennial thing.
Probably bias from irl experience. Maybe their work friends don’t play video games, so they assume that most people who play online are gen z.
Young millennial here … did this guy forget about League of Legends? We definitely played competitive online games, in fact, we were the very worst and most toxic 😌🏆
Are you confusing something? OP is claiming OLD millennials (born in the early 80’s, basically) prefer single player games.
You’re saying you’re a younger millennial that played LoL.
Well I have a few things to say to you. Older millennials were already adults before LoL existed. Like 25+ already.
LoL was just an offshoot of player created games made in a much older game called Warcraft 3.
Back in the WC3 days, some strategy pvp games existed and were popular, but they weren’t very similar to how it is now. Particularly that there would only be like 3 other players and that there was no mics.
When I say popular, they were still far from the norm. The average kid/teen gamer didn’t play them. Hell, in 1997 only 18% of US hoyseholds even had the internet.
A real millennial would call it an STD
I think about 10-15 years ago, I first heard about it. I think it was changed because they realized some things that were STDs were not actually diseases but infections. More of a pedantic difference I guess. I could not tell you what the difference is between a disease and infection.
Interesting take. I’m Gen X, and when online play came about it was amazing after so many years of singleplayer games, or games that your opponent had to be physically present to play on another controller next to you. So to reject online play to me seems…odd.
That said, I think online and always-online have done a lot of damage to gaming, from DRM to loss of physical ownership to loss of good singleplayer storylines in triple-A games.
That, and your total lack of ownership of online-only games. The constant treadmill of, “Oh, did you have fond memories of playing Game X? Want to play it again? Too bad, Microsoft/Blizzard/EA/Activision/whoever turned off the servers so now your disc is tantamount to a coaster.”
An old man yelling at clouds I may be, but you know what? I stick a cartridge into my Nintendo and the fucker just plays. Every time.
The main issue for me is that the amount of time I would have to put into a game to get good enough to not get shit on in pvp kills the enjoyment. I played a ton of destiny 2 and was still solidly mediocre at pvp. My first 2 games of Squad I don’t think I got a single kill. Pubg was just miserable starting out. Never gonna touch warthunder.
You’re absolutely right. If you don’t have time to invest in getting good at multiplayer, pvp can be frustrating at best. I’ve got thousands of hours invested in my preferred game and I’m pretty damn good, I’m very competitive, but even I quit a game occasionally because of other players.
Despite the gaming community’s constant rhetoric that “nobody cheats, git gud kid, learn how to aim”, cheating is rampant. From players that abuse aim assist with devices like the chronos max to just good old-fashioned aimbots, they can ruin anyone’s game, even mine. And even I quit games when players are so obviously using artificial aim assists that it’s just not fun, and popular FPS shooters are the prime targets for cheaters. Even if you are good, there’s more than enough people willing to wreck your game.
I love couch co op and single player. Online is great im sure but I despise that it has taken over gaming, ruined GTA
Yep. The preference for online-only games like PUBG, Apex, or others where it has removed fun, deep, single player campaigns like GTAV that used to be the hallmark of a good game has definitely done serious damage to the gaming we used to know.