I haven't had much multiplayer experience. MU Online, SWTOR, some shooters. Now I'm playing Demon's Souls (thanks to the kindness of a stranger, by the way), which is multiplayer lite as I understand it. No names, no chatting, no trading, no interaction of any kind - all you do is read messages of varying obliqueness left from other players scribbled on the ground (and write some in turn). You can glimpse other players as phantoms now and then, but that's about it. Social interaction is mostly funneled into cryptic messages you choose to believe or not.
So far it's been one of the most positive multiplayer experiences I've ever had. I started out mistrustful of everything I read (attack this, you need to be this levelled to do that, jump off here) and learned to be more trustful of hints and advice from strangers since. I've blindly jumped off cliffs and ledges because some random passerby scribbled "treasure ahead", and it's always been true - I've also refrained from doing the same in other places because of "it's just a fall". Other players mark the spot where it's safe to stand while you time your sprints through dragon-infested land. Always spot-on. And when you get ill advice, there's always a message of "liar" scribbled next to it.
So generally speaking I'm learning to trust players more and more because of the general good will I've experienced in just a few days of playing. The experience is obviously helped by the fact all messages are pre-rendered and there's no chatting, so worst case scenario someone politely states something that's not true. But even then for every one of these there're so much more stating the truth and correcting liars. It's really quite a refreshing experience from the grammatically horrid, insult-prone, noob-endangered multiplayer I'm used to. Like, wow, so many nice people out there, taking their time to help out just because.
Arriving to the point of the thread (TL;DR), have your experiences with multiplayer been positive, negative or just meh? Care to elaborate if you want.
So far it's been one of the most positive multiplayer experiences I've ever had. I started out mistrustful of everything I read (attack this, you need to be this levelled to do that, jump off here) and learned to be more trustful of hints and advice from strangers since. I've blindly jumped off cliffs and ledges because some random passerby scribbled "treasure ahead", and it's always been true - I've also refrained from doing the same in other places because of "it's just a fall". Other players mark the spot where it's safe to stand while you time your sprints through dragon-infested land. Always spot-on. And when you get ill advice, there's always a message of "liar" scribbled next to it.
So generally speaking I'm learning to trust players more and more because of the general good will I've experienced in just a few days of playing. The experience is obviously helped by the fact all messages are pre-rendered and there's no chatting, so worst case scenario someone politely states something that's not true. But even then for every one of these there're so much more stating the truth and correcting liars. It's really quite a refreshing experience from the grammatically horrid, insult-prone, noob-endangered multiplayer I'm used to. Like, wow, so many nice people out there, taking their time to help out just because.
Arriving to the point of the thread (TL;DR), have your experiences with multiplayer been positive, negative or just meh? Care to elaborate if you want.
