this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
31 points (100.0% liked)

Gaming

628 readers
2 users here now

Sub for any gaming related content!

Rules:

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

I don't feel compeled to play any online game at the moment except if a friend asks me to play with them. Even then, the only part where I am having fun is when some weird shenanigens happen which doesn't happen at all given how sanetized and "ballanced" games are. I just want to see a funny ragdoll fly off one side of the map, or get an op weapon and listen to trash talk by the enemy team as I obliterate them (or the opposite). I want to mess around with other players and try dumb strats with my pals. Not every modern game is that way but they tend to get fewer and fewer as time comes...

top 16 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Xepher@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I started feeling this way a while back and eventually realized it wasn't the games that had changed so much, but me. Getting older really does change your interests and how much you have fun with different playstyles.

I used to not want to play games if they didn't have some form of multiplayer, but these days if I get to game at all, all I want is a quality single player experience.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Likewise, as one ages, different components of games become more or less important.

Example - used to hate sitting through cutscenes and dialogue (it was just reading back then, but I was a big reader so that wasn’t the issue), would skip whatever I could and get frustrated when I couldn’t. But these days I actually like a good story-focused game (botw, horizon), and don’t skip through it in any game unless the story is garbage.. although I love largely story-free games as well (dysmantle is the current passion - there’s very minimal story that you have to piece together, and most of it is obtained through exploration rather than quests or interaction)

I also haven’t played online in years - since my wow days (vanilla and first expansion, then gave it up, so like 2008). Other people ducking around tends to detract from the game for me, and I strongly dislike PvP because I’m terrible against humans who don’t follow specific patterns.. now I get frustrated when I accidentally buy a game that doesn’t have offline/single player content. If I could host my own servers for them though…..

[–] swnt@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Indeed. While many years ago I was playing almost only League of Legends with friends every evening after school, now I'm more enjoying the quality in note/totk, Celeste, and co. I also feel like online games aren't anymore the places where you could get to know strangers and make online friends. LoL has gotten too toxic and competitive. And Minecraft servers have a 5oo young demographic for me

[–] Sabata11792@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

Avoiding AAA titles goes a long way. There's only one or 2 good ones in a year. Everything else is a copy paste of last years game with a patch, or soulless garbage designed to sell skins to the largest audience possible.

Find a good indy neich you enjoy.

[–] Risk@feddit.uk 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You, sir, need to play Chivalry 2.

Dunno if it's still on there (and if it is, it won't be for long) - but it was in the Humble Bundle for £8.99 or however many $.

[–] Seraph@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

This is my go to game right now when I need a pick me up. But I'm also really good with a great sword.

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm... Just by the description on steam and the screeshots, it looks promissing.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I bought that bundle for this still have yet to try but can't wait.

[–] whiskers@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be helpful if you could list a few games.

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I guess TF2 is good fun... Then old nintendo games... CS when not taken too seriously/is an older version than GO... TF|2 (Titanfall 2) Halo custom games... ect

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you tried Gang Beasts?

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No. What is the game about?

(I can google but I am asking in case you have an itch to nerd out on a stranger)

[–] ampersandrew@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

It's basically physics-based wrestling, and it's goofy as hell.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best, funniest local multiplayer game I've found. Also playable online. Up to 4 players. Goofy physics-based fighting game in which you control a jellyish humanoid and control arms individually to fight. It creates some really hilarious moments as you're both dangling off a billboard, holding onto each other in a big cluster, etc... The trailer.

[–] wallmenis@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I think dunkey made a video on this... Could be wrong though. Looks pretty fun!

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Try Among Us Town of Host Re-Edited

it has more freaking roles than I can ever remember and quite a bit are OP, also very configurable by host, you have to join rooms by code though ever since innersloth upped anticheat. If it says something version incompatible enable vanilla mode in settings

I also wonder if you have tried Blockstorm, it’s pretty much high quality shenanigans