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.
I understand the “lonely” feeling, it’s why I love single player games that have NPC parties, or NPCs in some form living about. As minimal as it is, even the NPCs in enshrouded add just enough life to make it not totally lonely. I was never a fan of the games where you’re the only living thing that isn’t an enemy or animal.
Cool you started uploading to lemmy! Always liked your comics!!!
Thank you! <3
Single player game it’s an experience like a book or a movie.
A lot of communication can happen through actions in the game itself and chat functions are often abused. But yea, I get the point.
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.
Stopped playing multiplayer games when they stopped being about fun. I hate everything being a competition or a race to the finish line to get to the next grindy shitwaste of time. I’m here to have fun, not help you get epic loot as fast as possible.
Interesting, I have quite the opposite of a problem. For years now, I’m trying to find competitive multiplayer (fps) games which reward skill alone but to me they all feel too casual, are dead (afps) or are too slow (tac-shooters). The earliest multiplayer games were the most competitive ones, it got more casual when an industry formed around video gaming to appeal to more people. There are tons of multiplayer games with a completely casual environment. Im thinking of genres like couch-coop, survival-craft, social deduction, some city builders or maybe even Nintendo games. Maybe take a look at those.
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
I’m a fan of urf and TT (rip). Really they need to bring back the rotating game modes. Dominion when?
Try Helldivers 2
If you can get it work and don’t care about installing the virus nProtect it is fun. At least until the in-game store upgrades to cash only next year.
If it’s competative or has grinding unlocks for teens whos balls got stuck dropping, it will surely dive in to hell.
Lmao. Check the recent videos about that exact toxicity growing in the community there too.
When any multiplayer game gets sufficiently popular the absolute worst scumbags seem to come out of the woodwork to play. Helldivers 2 was much better when people had a hard time getting in and only the patient (or assholes that didn’t log out) were playing.
I’m going to mention a curse word here, but I even watched that happen with star citizen. The community was really great for a long time, then it got more stable and more playable as a typical game and the toxicity started growing and growing. People suck. :(
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.
Competition can be fun. Though competition against a bunch of teens who do nothing but play after school is terrible. Having vs competition be the entire game sucks, because it’s one note. It’s gogogogogo why are you walking five feet away from my plan!?
Fuck that. Fuck off with your objective nannying. I want to have fun.
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.
There are difficulty levels in single player games. Besides, if you’re good and enjoy the competition, just play ranked if you want to go against similar skill as the designers intended.
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.
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
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.
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.
I prefer single player games because I don’t give a fuck about people and its .ore enjoyable for me to do things on my own
I prefer having a fucking PAUSE for my games. Because I have a life outside video games.
You don’t use the Pause function to stare into space for half an hour wondering what you’re doing with your life?
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.
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:
- 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.
- 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.
I’ve been playing Helldivers 2 without voice enabled, and the tagging/marking system works well. There is a sort of a response wheel as well.
I saw dunky playing that the other day and I’m kinda interested. But I couldn’t tell if it was like tarkov with pvp or if it is solely pve. If it’s just PvE: I want it. It looks visually like if Star Wars and Terminator were in the same universe.
It’s purely pve with no plans for pvp
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.
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 if walk 6 hours in MC to find carrot seeds.
Now i consume content and that sucks too.
Wait, one of the Reddit cartoonists knows about Lemmy.
exo comics was here too but I think she left :(
I wouldnt do this if it werent for the guys blasting music and yelling racist crap. Just my experience with the casual matches.