Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for?

iamericandre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• snownyte@kbin.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What turned me off from multiplayer games was the entitled obnoxiousness of the other players. Playing with others is cool for a few minutes, but if you run into several shit players, ruins everything. This is when the whole "if all you find are assholes, you must be one yourself" rhetoric does not apply when it comes to multiplayer games. People just choose to be bastards.

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  • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is when the whole “if all you find are assholes, you must be one yourself” rhetoric does not apply when it comes to multiplayer games.

    it’s the internet in general.

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• caut_R@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since publishers are allergic to dedicated community servers nowadays, I’d argue there‘s just no feeling of community anymore and hence it‘s worse or at least different than it used to be. You just get matched with random people you‘ll never see again and that makes it easier for people to be unhinged pricks.

  I think I‘ve spent hundreds of hours on an militia only server (uk2 or sth?) in cs1.6 in the past and hundreds on a back to karkand (or so?) rush only server in bf3 back in the day. I recognized a lot of names on these servers every time I played.

  With how multiplayer games work now, I also try to avoid them.

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same. I play games to enter a relaxation state after a ling day at work. Playing a 45 minute cutthroat CS2 match with my friends where I have to be at attention constantly, while they’re all screaming at each other for being bad, isn’t exactly my idea of relaxation…

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• cyborganism@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh yeah! I used to play Unreal Tournament every day for hours. Also played Wolfenstein Enemy Territory a lot in the past.

  Nowadays these games just don’t appeal to me anymore.

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• Konraddo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same. It’s enough to team up with people at work so there’s no desire to do the same at home. I also don’t find grinding as much fun anymore. It used to be a fun way to spend time as a kid because we had too much time. Now, I don’t even pick a game which doesn’t have basic QoL features implemented.

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I love MP but I can’t bring myself to play due to how incredibly obnoxious it became.

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