Oh it's a SINGLE-PLAYER game?

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.

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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

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

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- 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.
  
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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.

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- Yea, the casualness makes the overbearing immature competative BS all the more obnoxious. It was nice back when it wasn't the only way to play 60% of games because multiplayer pvp was only people who actually wanted multiplayer pvp.
  
  Though a lot of that is the online services crap. Much, much easier to find good groups when everyone isn't stuffed in to a blender before each match. Then the game gets to have a breadth of moods and not bland pvp competitors that don't want to play ranked.
  
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Try Helldivers 2

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- If it's competative or has grinding unlocks for teens whos balls got stuck dropping, it will surely dive in to hell.
  
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- 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. :(
  
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- 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.
  
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When multiplayer games want you to feel normal for winning in the game. Bad for not unlocking everything. Good only when you buy something from the store for more real money.

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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.

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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

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I prefer having a fucking PAUSE for my games. Because I have a life outside video games.

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- You don’t use the Pause function to stare into space for half an hour wondering what you’re doing with your life?
  
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Wait, one of the Reddit cartoonists knows about Lemmy.

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exo comics was here too but I think she left :(

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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.

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Cool you started uploading to lemmy! Always liked your comics!!!

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Thank you! <3

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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.

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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.

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A lot of communication can happen through actions in the game itself and chat functions are often abused. But yea, I get the point.

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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.

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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.

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mutliplayer

That typo triggered a memory of the word being misspelled the same way on the back of the LBP 2 box (small text on the top right). Muttleyplayer!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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- 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.
  
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