Closest online comrades you've had.

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

While we've all got plenty of stories about the retards we've been teamed with online, being a sentimental fellow (at least my RL friends say so) I truly cherish and start to think about someone I'm teamed with who demonstrates a friendly social manner and reliable tactics. Perhaps because such a thing is uncommon; if not chatterbox tools they're usually curt, businesslike and limited to the communications necessary for a pick-up team.

Recently I've been doing lots of group runs with my SWTOR guild, and was pleased to find one particular guy who was not only knowledgeable (more so than I am) and helpful, but funny without being rude. A miracle find for sure, but that's probably what me feel so good and warm about it that I made this thread.

So how about you? Have you ever made a friend or guild mate online that you felt you could always rely on in battle, MMO or otherwise? They say that nothing draws a bunch of people together than slaying a big difficult beast together as a team requiring each other's support... assuming the battle plan eventually works.

What? They don't actually say that? Well, I do. So there!

 

[MHR]

I had one guy in GW2. He was skilled enough with a warrior thus bringing the DPS to supplement my engineer and was always online and always wanting to do whatever. It got annoying at times since we would always be too polite and considerate with each other always only wanting to do what the other wanted to do. One of those cheesy "you first," "no, you" "no, I insist" moments in a doorway.

Then he got married. Typical.

 

[Rayne360]

I met an amazing person on Second Life and found out we liked a lot of the same games and we game pretty much nightly or whenever we can. He is always the healer and I the tank when it comes to MMO's.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I had one guy in GW2. He was skilled enough with a warrior thus bringing the DPS to supplement my engineer and was always online and always wanting to do whatever. It got annoying at times since we would always be too polite and considerate with each other always only wanting to do what the other wanted to do. One of those cheesy "you first," "no, you" "no, I insist" moments in a doorway.

Then he got married. Typical.

I had the opposite problem - my guy became so depressed after his relationship ended that we never co-op'd again.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

I had clan in the first Killzone. M.G.S. clan, we were all named after metal gear characters. I was Ocelot.

It was a lot of fun, we made each other laugh.

Did end up basically harassing this poor girl named Mandy however, but ah well. Younger stupider person back then.

 

[Raven_Operative]

Back when MAG was still in its prime, I joined a small clan of about 16 people. Most fun I ever had. By the end of the first month, we all knew each other on a first name basis, and were throwing inside jokes around left, right and center.

Oh man, so many good memories from that time... races with the one other knife crazy guy in the clan to see who could get the most kills (using the knife only), sniping asshattery with the rest of the group, massive bunker defense operations with everyone communicating seamlessly, while cracking jokes when ever someone f'd up a shot... So good... Too bad that game died, as our clan never really pieced itself back together after that.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Back in the days of yore when dial-up internet was a "thing" and not "whats that noise coming from your computer?" there was a clan of us who would play Q2 online but also met once a month for LAN's. We varied in number highest attendance was 74 I believe... 74 screaming maniacs playing games of the Quake era and 64 player Q2 tournaments, Diablo runs, even DOOM matches for grudge settling.
Those were the days. We still speak on occasion and the LAN happens once in a blue fucking moon, but I haven't seen most of the core crew except on facebook. God we're getting old.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I don't really bond with people online easily (or offline...) being a solo player but League of Legends changed that for me thanks to a number of people playing just being the most toxic scum I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. With a desire to never be in such a team again you end up clinging to the better people, now I've got quite a few good friend who I play a lot of different games with regularly.

We have a constant Skype group going with around 15 of us coming and going as we want, offering to play games, sharing stories, images, videos and doing anything else we feel like. We're all just good friends at this point hanging out in a text log, it's a really nice thing.

We've gone from online companions to real life friends, we're the closest group I've ever been a part of.
In fact, one of my friends might even be coming to my city to meet me and some of the others in our group soon.
Can't wait to meet him in real life.

 

[Denamic]

A wow guildmate I met some 7 years ago. At the time, he was still around 14 years old or so, and I didn't much like the guy. Too young, too loud, too childish. Then we started playing Left 4 Dead with some other guys, then some other games, and so on and so forth. Eventually, we were gaming bros. Then I gave him a beta key to Dota 2 and we've been playing it ever since. Even though I've never met the guy, I've known him for longer than any of his current RL friends.

 

[Phasmal]

I met quite a few people through WoW.

Particularly, my old guildmaster was always a great friend. Best tank ever, and always willing to help you get the best out of your build. Seemed to know everything there was to know about games, funny but kind of a no-lifer.

So naturally we've been dating for nearly 5 years now. My exact type.

But, discounting my boyfriend, who I did indeed meet that way- I still have friends from that old guild.
Our off-tank is a good friend and occasionally visits us to have a drink or play cards, still games with us even though we've all quit WoW.

 

[CaptainMarvelous]

... kind of a blend, but my offline friends and I tend to game together but we gradually collected more friends as went because whenever we loaded up L4D there was always 2-3 of us actually online. I think they stick around because the military strategist is always being circumvented by the dude with the grenade-launcher or the one guy who only used melee (personal favourite: "The witch is weak to chainsaws, I'm sure, I saw it on GameFaqs"), but yeah, I once wound up playing a game with the exact same style of nonsense bullshittery that I had with my friends with entirely new online people. Was pretty cool.