• lobut@lemmy.caEnglish
      131·
      2 years ago

      I play MOBAs and there’s a fun mode: ARAM (all random all mid). I’m not even doing that badly and I’ll get flamed every now and again. Typically it’s from people that don’t understand their own role. Sometimes we’ll wind up winning and I’ll say gg and they’ll tell me to kill myself. I’m like geez man, it’s just a game

      • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I’m a fan of urf and TT (rip). Really they need to bring back the rotating game modes. Dominion when?

    • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      2 years ago

      Competitive is fun for many of us, and being on a team with someone ignoring the objective isn’t. Ranked/casual split sometimes helps but not often. I miss the old days of self-hosted servers when you could find a place that fit your vibe.

        • FlihpFlorp@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I’m with you here

          It’s goes both ways. When I’m playing planetside sometimes i wanna lead squads, directing people what to do where to go, watching the map to ensure victory and collaborating with other squad leaders on a larger scale

          But while that can be fun sometimes I want to chill and suicidally charge into a 1v6 against tanks on my shitty little hover bike just for the lols

          Edit: forgot to add sometimes a challenge is fun, pushing against near impossible odds, but at the same time it can frustrating so for me it just really depends what I’m in the mood for

        • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I need those teens because my friends are all bad at FPS games and it’s less fun playing down to their level. I find the challenge satisfying in a way that silly fun just isn’t.

            • Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              2 years ago

              I generally do, my point is that your statement “when they stopped being about fun” is subjective and judgmental. You don’t have to like tryhard online competitive gaming but flatly disparaging it is kinda shitty.

    • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      11·
      2 years ago

      Sometimes I enjoy some online shooters. Used to play LoL, but it became too meta, too many characters, and lost all its fun.

      But when I do play online games, it’s almost always with all the voice audio off. Every once in a while I’ll turn it on if it seems like I’m on a team that isn’t filled with shit talking 11 year olds.

  • x4740N@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    I prefer single player games because I don’t give a fuck about people and its more enjoyable for me to play single player games

      • FrostyCaveman@lemm.eeEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        You don’t use the Pause function to stare into space for half an hour wondering what you’re doing with your life?

  • Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.eeEnglish
    251·
    2 years ago

    Incidentally, this is how I play Overwatch. There’s something so satisfying about explicitly not being able to directly communicate and having to use the built in chat and ping system.

    Plus, abusive assholes can’t spew toxicity at you when you’re losing.

    On a tangent, how do so many people not understand that if you’re playing in a lobby that’s appropriate to your skill you’re going to lose half of your games? There’s always that one asshole who can’t ever lose or he word vomits all over his team.

  • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 years ago

    You can’t blame someone else’s incompetence for your failure in single player games.

    Unless it’s one of those “hold the flashlight while bronze tier NPC with gun misses 90% of shots” sequences, which is way too common in early 2010s games. Damn you, Alan Wake.

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I hate competitive multiplayer, but I like co-op. But since you have to pay to play online on console, I just stick with single player.

    • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      It’s funny because I agree with the comic, but as a woman, turning off voice chat and friend requests are the first things I do in a multiplayer game. I don’t wanna deal with being harassed by kids a third of my age for being a woman playing games. Gamers are toxic as hell, and, like you said, plenty of communication can happen through ingame actions.

      This comic got posted somewhere else, and there’s a guy in there arguing with people that turning that stuff off ruins the experience for everybody else. Must’ve never experienced a Halo/CoD lobby, lol.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    I stopped playing mutliplayer games as the ones I played were very reductive in the end.

    I stopped playing solo games, mainly Minecraft and Factorio, because I cycle between happy and depressed and if depressed the solo games would enable me to wallow in depression to the point I am not eating or cleaning myself but I’ll walk 6 hours in MC to find carrot seeds.

    Now i consume content and that sucks too.

  • YaksDC@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I want to be able to jump on a game like Baldur’s Gate 3 and try that hard fight I was thinking about and jump off again. I do not like multiplayer.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.netEnglish
    61·
    2 years ago

    I used to like multiplayer a lot more than I do now and there are two main reasons why I don’t like it very much anymore:

    1. The games themselves all use developer owned servers that are not moderated except by hard coded rules handled by the software. It’s not good enough to get rid of actual problem players and can be exploited to make things even worse by those same problem players.
    2. All I ever hear coming through the mic are sexist, racist and homophobic comments from children who’s voices are like nails on a chalkboard.

    These days my primary multiplayer game is Elden Ring. No chat system (except on PS5 for some reason) and all I do is invade people to act like a mini boss.

  • Blackout@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    I wouldnt do this if it werent for the guys blasting music and yelling racist crap. Just my experience with the casual matches.