But what I'm really upset about is that people aren't communicating and cooperating and being respectful of each other and working together and being social and pushing back the alienation and playing and finding joy.

I'm so fucking isolated these days. This is the closest thing that I have to a social outlet. And so many people in multiplayer games just have no interest in communicating or working together, or have no interest in, like... playing in a way that supports the team and works towards a cooperative goal? Like they're playing by themselves, in a multiplayer lobby, and I absolutely do not understand it and I hate it. I don't understand why people play multiplayer games when they don't wan to play with people.

  • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    I don't understand why people play multiplayer games when they don't wan to play with people.

    Because people are annoying and many times most of the content is online only. Back when I played GTA 5 I always played in a solo lobby because I could do missions or glitches or roam around without dying

    A lot of games also do not offer any alternative ways to way to communicate. It’s either voice chat or rage typing on the chat. If the game is half decent you might get markers or call out menus.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Tribes vts or whatever it was system was such a good idea and it's one of those things i look at and think "why isn't this the norm?" You could hammer out a lot of relevant game information with just a few key presses, you could use it across language gaps. : (

      • SUPAVILLAIN@lemmygrad.ml
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        4 months ago

        Lorez has been trying to neuter VGS as of late iirc. Removed just about any punch-in from any of their games still using it that could be sarcastically hammered out because the one-trick "i only play snipers"-type obstructions got huffy that their shit "me-hanzo-or-throw"-assed "lul i can clutch this 1v5'-type plays were getting slagged.