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I don't play multiplayer because I don't want to be cussed out by a 6 year old.
I play games to have fun. I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone.
I don't play multiplayer because I don't want to be cussed out by a 6 year old.
Or talked to. The younger, the more rude they are in chats.
Lol you're right
Hit them with the “i tapped ya mum”
Pvp games are more likely to leave me feeling angry after a session compared to single player and coop games where I'm more often ending the session happy.
I play KSP and Dwarf Fortress so I can do single player and still end feeling angry and frustrated
As an adult gamer, I have a lot less time for games. Single player games are nice because I can make meaningful progress on a storyline/etc, and even do things like finish a game and move onto the next one.
Playing online pvp games can be fun, but it usually takes a huge time investment to be good. And in the time I have to play, there's rarely a feeling of progress. Spending 1-2 hours on a single player game and I have progressed in a distinctive way. Spend that same time in League or some other multiplayer game and I have nothing to show for it except a few ranking points.
For me funnily enough it feels the opposite for me, multiplayer competitive games get right to the point in a similar way that sports do, the motivation, depth and deep mental stimulation are always right there on the surface, meeting me head on the moment I open up the game and jump in. Very few singleplayer games do that and almost none of them can come close to the dynamic and always evolving experience of playing against (and with) humans.
I hate overly competive toxic players, it really isnt needing to win that motivates me, it is the mental stimulation from competing with humans that stimulates my brain because nothing is there to simply entertain me, rather everything is there to create an emergent experience that always surprises and challenges me and doesnt waste my time trying to make me feel like a powerful hero.
I like how differently we see this and I can definitely see where you are coming from!
I'm glad I'm not the only one like this. I don't play single player games often because it seems like they're all 60+ hours long. That's such an investment in my mind. It's especially frustrating for me getting stuck on a level or boss in a single player game, because when I get stuck, that's it. I can't progress, and now I'm stressing about the video game I just bought and can't complete.
On the other hand, with multiplayer I can do a quick match whenever if I have a spare half-hour. And I like that you compared multiplayer games to sports, because that's how I see it too. I'm just there to improve my skills and test them against real people in an even match. So what if I lose? That's part of the game, I'll get them next time. Or not, I'm honestly ass at video games in general, but I like a little healthy competition, and I like reading opponents and trying to get into their OODA loop. I don't even play with mic chat on except with friends, so I don't hear trash talking, it's just that NPC's in singleplayer games don't do it for me. They feel like puppets. I get bored of that so fast. I'd rather watch a movie or read a book if I'm going to entertain myself alone without Internet.
I don't mean for this to come across as bashing single player games, tons of them look like a lot of fun. Truthfully, I'm jealous of the people who enjoy them because it seems like I'm just not wired to.
May I ask what your total play time on a multiplayer game is? Some people rack up 100s of hours on both multiplayer and singleplayer games. So, I was just curious because you said 60 hours long felt like too much of an investment, but I feel like you've probably played plenty of multiplayer games that were well over that 60. :P
I just happened to check a couple days ago and apparently I have about 135 in rocket League, but that's pretty much it for real games, everything else I've played looks sub 50 hours. I think the longest I've stuck with a single-player game is 30 hours in mad max. I did play a ton of pubg mobile when I was younger, PC/console-less, and had more free time.
It's not really the total hours that bothers me though, it's the commitment, the games that demand x amount of hours from me before I get a conclusion to the story. I hop into rl whenever I feel and think "one more round...one more round...k I've had enough for today". There's no real demand on my time.
Now I'm sure there's tons of holes in that logic, but this isn't really a logical thing, I'm just trying to explain how I feel
I understand completely and there is no need to feel like you need to explain yourself! I was really just poking at you. 🙏
For me it's really a matter of mood and if my friends are available for something co-op.
I do have one PvP pleasure though and that's Street Fighter. I can't stand anything team based, but give me two characters on screen 1v1 and I'm all over it.
I only enjoy multi-player with my wife. Our Valheim settlement and world progression is something beautiful to behold. Even vanilla WoW for me is solo or bust. I just don't like people or Discord culture.
Co-op is all I care for
I had a hard time sleeping at the end of the 90s due to some issues and I used that time to play counter strike and star craft. You didn't want to play the latter while the Koreans were around. That was beyond competitive.
They're out there. I played new world for the better part of two years all in mature, grown up clans. I think at one point we did have a 17ish year old that we all kind of ragged on but he was a good kid who eventually left for a more PVP focused guild. Recently I've been playing pax dei and the average age in our guild has got to be 50ish. We started out with a group of like 5-6 late 20's-mid 30s folks but a long the way we ended up picking up around 15ish folks mostly 40-75ish? Retired gamers are here and if you need people to gather resources, craft and just chill while you roam the world dungeoning, I can't recommend a better bunch.
I represent that remark. My son has a bunch of 30ish buddies playing enshrouded. Me and another late 50s retired guy are totally fine crafting and building and mining while they go out to pla :) Thats exactly how we phrase it “wheres the kids?, oh out in the woods playing”.
Awesome! We absolutely love y'all for it!!
My interest in anything online was gone the moment my Destiny group that came together to have fun was yelling at me because I was dying in a raid and laughed about it. Even Rocket League became too serious.
I feel this. There's enough toxic masculinity and just toxic people in online spaces before you make everything always a competition.
I would like playing with people more except I like to go slow and thorough and really savor the experience. No one else I've met plays games like that. I just end up feeling rushed when I play with others and it's not fun for me.
Teenagers have the time to really get good at these games and lack the money to buy lots of games so its natural they would focus on skill based games that you can spend a lot of time in
I mostly play video games to switch off and relax. So generally I play single player RPGs on the easiest setting and just explore the world and the story.
I do occasionally play something like PUBG if I'm after some excitement but I don't have time to master games like I did when I had no responsibilities or kids!
I have a big problem with internal validation. This makes most singleplayer experiences pretty meaningless to me. Antidepressants help, but only to an extent.
As a kid/teen, I only wanted to do online pvp. As I’ve gotten a bit older, I’ve found a lot not enjoyment out of coop. There’s still some competition, like dps charts in a raid, but it’s mostly the feeling of overcoming a challenge as a team that I look for now.
And as others have said, online coop is king. Love me some asymmetrical puzzle games.
They needed a study to tell them that?
I mostly prefer single player games myself, but I've been addicted to the online multiplayer game Enlisted for the past couple of years.
Well when I was a teenager I liked pvp games. Now I don't. I assume when they're adults some of them will feel the same, probably
I like dark souls :)
Sudoku is nice - me 40sh