Same. They tend to make me angry and frustrated. I see people saying to not take them so seriously which is good advice but I just can't help it.

I can't stand competitive multiplayer. But I'm not very good at paying games. It seems to take me more than twice as long as people say it should to finish most games (I do tend to try and do everything I can on my first play through).

That said I tried playing Elden Ring multiplayer, helping people beat bosses, and that was a surprisingly wholesome experience.

I love the game play and aesthetic of fortnite but playing solo BR can be too intense and i rarely feel like doing it. It's more fun and less intense playing with friends though

I agree, I avoid PvP games and turn of any PvP element in games that allow that. Singleplayer games and MMO's that focus on PvE (even in group situations) are just a lot more fun for me. I like multiplayer games as long as you are not actively working against each other.

Recently I participated in the RuneScape 3 fresh start worlds and went for a top 100 spot on the Agility hiscores. And I just notice that I start spending way too much time on the game when I try to compete with other players.

Those games seem like they're for the hyper competitive types, and that's just not me. Back when I was in high school in the late 90s we would play the original team fortress over the lan in the computer lab. The best part about it for me was trying to come up with funny things to say in the chat.

Steep learning curve, having to wait to join a match in order to play, and not having time to just enjoy the world are my big turnoffs. I would love to run around a PUBG map with just like AI bandits and some animals

FFXIV is the only online game I will tolerate playing with strangers

I dont like battle royales

Most of the time is spent just trying to get equipment or running from point A to point B, and by the time you've spent 15-20 minutes just running, one encounter means you lose

I play CS:GO. I like it because its more constant decision making, and the shorter rounds means less time investment into a single round. But it has gotten so bad with cheaters. I have played CS for over 15 years and yet I constantly run into brand new accounts or accounts that were clearly boosted (500+ commends in each category), bought, and used by cheaters who said that "it was cheaper than rust..." The matchmaking is so atrocious, I have people at the bottom of the ranks on my team and top of the ranks on theirs; the averages arent even close. I'm not playing CS:GO anymore and if CS2 doesnt fix the cheating problem, I'm not going back.

I dislike rage games or any kind of game that damages my already fragile psychie.

:( I don't understand why people like them

Personally I can't stand the gearing up phase of BR. So boring to have to find weapons every time only to get taken out by some guy more skilled than you

I want to upvote you a thousand times. I mean, I don’t have 900 hours logged in a battle royale game, but I have tried a few.

The suckiest part to me, the bad, is how fucking long it takes to go from joining a match to the next.

I suck at these games, and that’s fine by me. I realise that being good comes from experience, and experience comes from failure. I know I need to fail one thousand times before I am decent, and I know I need to fail ten thousand times before I am good.

Therefore, if the gameplay experience is to wait two minutes to find a game to join, wait a minute for everyone to queue, wait for a minute to hit land after the drop, run around searching for anything to use for 5 minutes, run around searching for anyone to fight for 5 more minutes, and then lose the fight? I just spent 15 minutes doing nothing.

Compare that to a shooter that has a game mode in which I can respawn in 5 to 10 seconds. Much more fun.

I hate battle royales because I very much dislike the gameplay loop, but because they are popular every new shooter is a BR. Bah.

I don't really like BR games either. I'm enjoying the new fad of extraction shooters like Tarkov, Marauders, DMZ, etc. You get the risk/reward pressure but aren't forced into pvp engagement as much. Most of the time I lose because of mistakes I made, not because someone was inherently better.

Not a fan of br's. I really wish hero shooters stuck around for longer, but unfortunately overwatch cornered the market then imploded. Now we're stuck with Valo, CS, Apex and Fortnite for competitive shooters, which leaves a lot of genres of the table.

I personally am very limited these days in the PvP games I will play. I really enjoy either single-player experiences, or co-op games like Deep Rock Galactic, that new Starship Troopers game and Ready Or Not. But yeah, as far as PvP goes, I turned away from BR very early on and never looked back. That's a young man's game, if you ask me. I'm holding out hope Starfield will be great, and I'm absolutely stoked for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 as a long time vet of the original three entries.

I’ll be honest, my new guilty pleasure is Fortnite. Once they added No Build modes (and the whole Roblox-type assortment of variations), the game was less about the niche skill of building mechanics. My friend and I can play duos and have a lot of fun, as long as we don’t take it too seriously.

I had played Overwatch since the beta, but it’s really discouraging to play now for a multitude of reasons. I actually have much less anxiety playing Fornite. And I like to have a separate adventure game that is chill, if I’m not feeling the pressure of battle royale.

Its interesting you describe Apex as a rage game, it was my go-to game for a no pressure activity to switch my brain off to.

Namely because it doesn't require a lot of deep thinking and strategizing, your team just kind of roams around using "pack instinct" until you bump into some other group, and then you're either fast enough to beat them or not. And if you didn't then there's literally another match ready in a few minutes, so no harm no foul.

I only stopped playing because I couldn't be arsed to switch over to the new EA app.

But, I might have this perspective because I play a lot of heart-attack simulators like DayZ and Escape From Tarkov where your lizard brain basically always scanning for danger and the stakes are "high" by video game standards. So next to that Apex is a cakewalk even if I'm losing, but I can see how others might see it as frustrating, especially given the twitchiness.

I enjoyed the battle royals when pubg came out but then so many came out in a short time. I think the next big thing will be extraction shooters game types.

Yeah I really don't enjoy them