• Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
    52·
    2 hours ago

    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.

      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 hours ago

        Don’t be silly, if you want to get dominated by another random person in tf2 then you need to first buy bot immunity

        • ma1w4re@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 hour ago

          What. Haven’t seen a single bot since a few of hosters were imprisoned and fined gigantic sums.

          • asudox@discuss.tchncs.de
            2·
            1 hour ago

            I haven’t seen any bots for 2 years now. I no longer play on casual servers. Community servers are more featureful and more fun.

          • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
            2·
            1 hour ago

            Lol I don’t follow the situation very closely, I’m just lamenting the state of modern gaming

  • GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 hours ago

    This basically describes my experience with counter strike pre-1.6… 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?

  • atmur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 hours ago

    One of the last good public multiplayer experiences I had was DiRT 3. Simple lobbies, small player count, people randomly joining and leaving and everyone was chill. You’d occasionally get that guy who was stupidly good, perfect lines through every corner, and the entire lobby would try so hard to keep up. Loved it.

    One time I stumbled into a lobby where the host was “hacking” but instead of cheating for an advantage, he was selecting weird car class and track combinations for the entire lobby. Stuff that the game wouldn’t normally allow. Shit like trailblazer cars on rallycross circuits. So much fucking fun, one of my favorite memories from that game.

    That must’ve been what, 4, 5 years ago? DiRT 3 released in 2011, so…oh my god DiRT 3 came out 13 years ago…

  • rc__buggy
    5·
    60 minutes ago

    Quake ]I[ was the last real multiplayer game.

    Fite me.

  • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 hour ago

    So this was definitely not my experience in the pre-matchmaking era of online multiplayer. Possible case of rose-tinted glasses?

    I agree that matchmaking has problems, but going back to what was there before are unlikely to be a net positive I think

  • ArgentRaven@lemmy.world
    31·
    50 minutes ago

    Anecdotal, you still learn people and you can build a community reputation playing PvP in FFXIV. We don’t get to choose the map, and you’ll still see some people only once, but you get to know who’s who. The problem is, it’s not as fast as fortnite or other games. Which is a large turn off for many. But the slower (just barely slower) pace is more forgiving towards people that are middle aged and can’t compete with top tier fortnite/ League of Legends, etc types.

    • robolemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 hours ago

      But with raid and dungeon finder, guilds mean almost nothing and everything is just about grinding as fast as possible. I quit wow after matchmaking ruined the intimacy of raiding with a good guild.