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This is the reason I don't play games like Rock Band anymore...
The group of friend I played with used it for purely competitive reasons, ruining the fun of Rocking out in a band. Xbox-live is even worse because then you add internet annoyniminity.
Now, I love competitive games as long as its obviously expected. However, there's always that dick who turns a cooperative game into a competitive one to impress his brain-dead girlfriend who isn't really paying attention. Boring.
The group of friend I played with used it for purely competitive reasons, ruining the fun of Rocking out in a band. Xbox-live is even worse because then you add internet annoyniminity.
Now, I love competitive games as long as its obviously expected. However, there's always that dick who turns a cooperative game into a competitive one to impress his brain-dead girlfriend who isn't really paying attention. Boring.
I'm with Yahtzee on this one. I love co-op, particularly with friends, but I usually pass on competitive modes.
Interesting to actually get a deeper explanation about this subject. I can understand not enjoying competitive multiplayer, sometimes I just don't feel up to trying to trying my hardest to ruin another player's enjoyment of the game.
And with that, all the idiots who didn't realise that he's a comedian, stopped being as big idiots.
I personally don't view Co-op as Multiplayer at all. You'r both experiencing the story together aren't you? That goes for guild questing in WoW as much as L4D too in my books.
Also, who else can't get the hilarious image of a scrawny teenage Yahtzee (with a smaller trilby) in rugby shorts being pummeled by burly kids, out of their heads?
Also, who else can't get the hilarious image of a scrawny teenage Yahtzee (with a smaller trilby) in rugby shorts being pummeled by burly kids, out of their heads?
Wait... someone's played System Shock 2 multiplayer? Since 1999? Wooooow.
Anyway... I like "Team Fortress 2" because the fact that I'm pretty bad at that kind of game in general does not mean that I can't have fun with it. Whereas I don't play "Left for Dead" much because when I bumble (and I do, often) it generally means that my entire team gets killed. And then they get all blamey about it. And kick me off the server. Doucheba... anyway.
So I think the type of game is important, not just whether it's competitive or not. That's what I'm basically saying here.
Anyway... I like "Team Fortress 2" because the fact that I'm pretty bad at that kind of game in general does not mean that I can't have fun with it. Whereas I don't play "Left for Dead" much because when I bumble (and I do, often) it generally means that my entire team gets killed. And then they get all blamey about it. And kick me off the server. Doucheba... anyway.
So I think the type of game is important, not just whether it's competitive or not. That's what I'm basically saying here.
I don't mind competitive multiplayer, I don't even know them and I will probably never meet them. So who cares about them? When I'm playing online competitive with friends it's completely different because we always joke around.
However, I've always preferred co-op more than competitive; Resistance 2 co-op was heaps of fun for me, the Special Ops mode from MW2, Nazi Zombies in WaW and BO. I love playing all of these co-op games with friends, because online people will camp, noob tube and knife you from 5 metres away, AI, however, don't do this.
However, I've always preferred co-op more than competitive; Resistance 2 co-op was heaps of fun for me, the Special Ops mode from MW2, Nazi Zombies in WaW and BO. I love playing all of these co-op games with friends, because online people will camp, noob tube and knife you from 5 metres away, AI, however, don't do this.
I, too, love team driven or co-op multiplayer. I'd much rather assemble a team of humans and pit them against the toughest AI in almost any game. It's just more fun that way, for me, because I'm less focused on winning but more on enjoying and working with my teammates.
You count yourself out too early, mate.Diadaladh said:
It depends on how many people are involved in the competition to me. In a game like Reach, I'm usually fighting alongside 11-23 other people, so I just sit back and blast away whatever gets in my sights. When it gets to be more one on one like Blazblue or Street Fighter online, I'm much more likely to get stressed out.
While I feel the same way, how on earth does that reconcile with statements like those regarding Borderlands?
I do play competitive multiplayer occasionally, but more often I like to play co-op with friends. Even playing competitively, I have a lot more fun with friends, instead of random people. In fact, basically the only reason I play with randoms occasionally, instead of always bots, is just because bots have rather poor tactics... The unpredictability offered by other human players makes for a much better challenge. So I don't play for bragging rights or anything, I'm just not that competitive. I just play for the game experience.
But I do agree, co-op is more fun, and playing with friends is more fun still.
But I do agree, co-op is more fun, and playing with friends is more fun still.
Well said Yahtzee! I feel exactly the same way about multiplayer. It was one night that I was playing CoD: MW2 with my mates that I realised everyone is just so up-tight about winning that it's just not worth playing for someone like me who doesn't really care. Although I still hate losing because everyone gives you shit about it...