I was pvp hardened in Eve Online, exactly because of that I will probably never touch anything multiplayer again.

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Let's sort this skill issue out in Quake Live, Apex boy.

I get it, but my favorite multi-player game is mobile suit Gundam battle operation 2. Try it. The community has really been pruned of trolls and bad actors. The game makes it more frustrating for them, but more fun with people who just wanna play giant robots. Sure sometimes you get stomped because of a whole ducking clan attacking at once, but I find the wide range of mechs with lots of different playstyles counter the stomping.

Recently I rediscovered StarCraft 2 for me. Am I ever to reach a top ladder placement? Hell no. But the games in platinum league are fun and it is often surprising what tactics other people come up with. Especially because almost anything can work on that level when it is decently executed. No need to play the same optimal openings all the time like the pros.

Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.

I’m not opposed to playing multiplayer games. But I’m not going to be playing the vast majority of modern multiplayer titles.

Most of the time I wonder if there is even another player on the other end of modern game, or if it’s just bots

I like playing old games organized on discord and sites like game date

Only multiplayer games I still play are deep rock galactic and the occasional MMO. The former has the best online community around and the latter I can filter who I play with easily

Single player games for life baby.

Kingdom Come

Meh, I found that being good at competitive games felt more like work than fun. I play the fun way and get trounced before it could really get fun, so I switch to advance in leaderboards and maybe I could, but it just sucked because the fun stuff tended to be the less strategically wise way to go.

Even non-competitive gaming "hey, let's all get together at 7 pm to do something on the game", now I have "meetings" to worry about.

Single player is there when I want it, for however long or short as I want it, and can play in a fun style rather than an effective/efficient style.

I've recently been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and it's such a nice vibe. There's an in-game chat for people just going about playing their single-player adventures, generally filled with kind and intelligent people. The game is complex enough that being able to ask questions in the chat is a nice option.

The problem is multiplayer competition, which is comparable to gambling addiction.

I used to play on my college’s Overwatch team. I did the grind. I hit GM. I put in 5000 hours. It has forever made me despise competitive games/gaming. 2 years ago, I tried valorant for a few weeks and was immediately accused of smurfing just because I was pub stomping the lobbies.

I still have good fps fundamentals and pretty much any one I touch is trivially easy, but I stick to single player games now.

I really liked Fortnite when it was a single player zombie game. Well coop, but that was fun.