Yes, it's a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day.

Or team based PvE games where it's just trying to keep up with the speedrunners farming.

In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.

I'm in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT 99 and Tribes 2 competitively. Not anymore. Life is stressful enough, and I don't want to add to that by playing competitively. I want to relax by playing story-based games. I also play a lot of games on easy mode so that I can truly enjoy the story.

Got drunk and played megaman 11 with siblings, passing around the controller, cracking jokes about how megaman’s ow sound seemed weirdly gay and horny in this one. I was so bad I kept getting him hurt and it sounded like a gay porn.

My sister asks “isn’t that supposed to be a robot child?”

Me: “He’s been a child since the 80s and his voice is lower now. He’s a megaMAN now, and how dare you demean the short king fighting for your safety over his robo masochim kink and short stature.”

Brother: “yea he can’t help he was built that way. You’re a monster. Don’t kink shame”

Me and bro: -glare-

Sister (who is in a poly relationship and very much the alternachick of the family): “….what the fuck is happening here?”

Single player games are still fun when played together.

The live service model has been a plague on gaming and has basically killed every bit of enjoyment I'm getting out of multiplayer game nowadays. Shit's like having a job. You leave for two weeks and you might as well be playing a different game. Leave for a month? Maybe the game don't even exist anymore. It's exhausting.

I have over 1500 hours into The Witcher 3.

Sometimes I think at least 500 of those hours are just me loading into the game after a long week, finding an isolated spot on the map, and just staring into the sunset while the wind howls in my headset.

Don't forget all the new CoD, battlefield, and even tarkov (soon) is requiring TPM 2.0, secure boot, and actively blocking linux making it impossible to even play them.

I used to play mostly shooters online.

Somehow, living next to a country which is invading one of its neighbours, and seeing a bunch of actual real war footage from real wars on the daily basis, made me reconsider if shooters actually qualify as "fun" these days.

I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.

I miss community servers. Each had its own identity and you could pop in and out without being penalized. Being locked in to a 30+ minute sweatfest with people I don't know, or like, has never been appealing to me.

If I wanted to be the target of homophobic insults, I could just do it to myself in front of a mirror, though granted, I can't really emulate the voice of a 12 year-old so it's not quite the same experience bouquet.

Beyond that, multiplayer is almost like working - you're supposed to relentless keep at it, on somebody else's timings even if you're in a guild: done it in EVE Online and WoW and, frankly, for the experience of work I have real-life were I actually get paid for it rather than the other way around.

Then there's the whole creepy monetisation shit - I'm not really interested in the constant sales pressure, especially when it's "buy this or else you're handicaped vs those who did" (EA is still in my shit list since they did it with a DLC in one of the older Battlefield titles), especially nowadays when I've managed to mainly remove advertising from my life.

So I just stopped doing multiplayer a decade ago and pretty much avoid it like the plague.

Maybe I'll try Guild Wars 3 if it's in the same style as Guild Wars 2 (which came out before the monetisation era).

Competitive multiplayer games are a big no, but I love cooperative multiplayer games. I'd much rather play one of them with a friend or two than play something by myself. I couldn't tell you the last time I've actually beaten a single player game, I tend to get bored and lose interest half way through.

I thoroughly enjoy single players games. I like being able to explore the world at my own pace, make my own decisions, and draw my own conclusions. It's like reading a book, if turning the pages involved solving puzzles and beating monsters. Relaxing, if you're good, challenging if you're not.

Cooperative games are a close second. I like PvE, it means that I get to help my friends. The objective isn't rank and competition, it's winning together. It's why I like Starbound, Minecraft, and D&D.

Genuinely? I despise PvP. It's the trash talk and the aggressively competitive assholes who have nothing to do with their time. I hate dealing with people who like to hurt strangers by humiliating them. Who the hell enjoys that?

This is going to be extremely niche, but I find the surf mini game in Counter Strike Source to be incredibly relaxing and rewarding while also being a quasi multiplayer game. The community is quite helpful and friendly and there are almost 1000 different maps of all skill levels so there is something for everyone if you are into movement based mechanics.

Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.

And even these games are way better as single player games.

It’s also making my move to Linux gaming way easier.

I sometimes miss counter-strike, but i lack atleast the time and the people to play it on a level where that game is fun and probably the reflexes.

I personally mostly use video games as a means of an escape from real life. And to me multiplayer pulls to much of real life back into games and it can be unenjoyable.

Cheating and involving money ruined multiplayer gameplay.

I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.

I used to be pretty good at the usual stuff like COD, CS, Battlefield… but each game got fucked up in its own unique way. Stuff became just too sweaty and annoying, all the while the sense of community faded. COD back in the 360 days was fun. Now it’s just annoying.

These days, I’m fully single player. It’s just not worth the price of modern games to deal with all the multiplayer bullshit.

I just don't want to compete with other people. I used to play a lot of quake and team fortress, but it just feels kind of pointless now.

Online multiplayer games used to be fub but they have really gone downhill recently.

The most fun I have ever had in a video game was hunting a bear in RDR2 to make clothing with the pelt. It took several days but I think that's what made finding the bear so satisfying.

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

The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.

I play exclusively on consoles, and enjoy a slower pace to gaming.

Have a huge backlog of games I haven't touched, and a few that I just keep coming back to.

Really gotten into permadeath gaming, which slows things down even more, but makes every decision and hour of gaming truly count.

Factorio, Cities Skylines, Far Cry 2, Subnautica, the Fromsoft catalogue, Mass Effect, I'll do a full play through at least once a year.

Finally playing the Witcher III while listening to the book on audio.

I get why people enjoy multiplayer games, but it hasn't been for me for a long time.

I think the last one I really spent any time on was America's Army around 2006.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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.