Screw the competitive spirit, I'm tired of multiplayer crap.

[The Last Parade]

dude, Killing Floor and TF2 with a dash of Dino D Day, perfect cure =)

 

[AnAngryMoose]

Quickscoping and Akimbo 1887s are not glitches, they are part of the game.

Quickscoping is more of an aim assist exploit on the console versions than a glitch or part of the game, if someone does it on the PC version then fair game to them, they actually are skilled, not just abusing the aim assist put in to help people who are using the much less accurate analog sticks. And the 1887's were just plain overpowered until the double nerfing.

I don't understand aim assist at all, and I'm a console gamer. Personally, I find that analog sticks aren't that bad for aiming, yes they can be awkward at times, but it's just about fiddling with your look sensitivity really. Aim assist is to help make the game more "accessible". Bad Company 2 lacks aim assist on console and people seem to play it just fine. Heck, what about older console FPS' like Timesplitters or even the early Rainbow Six and SOCOM games for the PS2 (and even 1)? They never had aim assist and I had no problem playing them, nor did anyone else I knew. Aim assist is really unnecessary and causes more problems than it solves.

 

[Goody]

Bad Company 2 lacks aim assist on console and people seem to play it just fine. Heck, what about older console FPS' like Timesplitters or even the early Rainbow Six and SOCOM games for the PS2 (and even 1)? They never had aim assist and I had no problem playing them, nor did anyone else I knew. Aim assist is really unnecessary and causes more problems than it solves.

And nobody complains about quickscopers on Bad Company 2 because if they do manage it, it's them doing it not aim assist like it is in CoD, and I wish the developers would realise your last point as I prefer to not use it, given the option I always remove it and play better because it isn't putting me off when I try to aim it myself.


*captcha: ormatt finding (in order to find it, I may to know what it is first )*

 

[Jonny49]

I love multiplayer. You just have to find the right games to play and the right people to play with.

Oddly enough, sometimes playing against dickheads makes the game better.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I have never cheated or used glitches, in fact I don't even know how, and yet I regularly get K/D ratios of about 2 or 3 sometimes much higher. Just today in fact I had a game where I got 18 kills to 4 deaths. Unfortunately my team still lost :'(

 

[Levi93]

I feel competative multiplayer lost its edge loonnngg ago, I play games to relax now but the competative nature of so many online games just takes my chilled attitude and turns it into rage, it was kinda fun when I went through my teenage angst phase but now I look back and think "what a total dick I was".

Kinda glad I left that phase behind me, I mean I'll still play the occasional game of COD but I really don't see how I had as much fun as I did a few year ago.

 

[thedo12]

The problem is your playing these games competitively in the first place , if you play just to have fun like I do your kd/kills don't really matter.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

I never understood why FPS did focus so much on Multiplayer. Its always the same few maps, running around chaoticly , shooting and cursing.
A FPS with a good Campaign is a great thing. A coop mode is a great thing. But it was way easier in the last years to belch out a 2 hour campaign that actually consist out of the multiplayer maps with a few script events. And people still bought that crap.
Look at games like Brothers in Arms, thats a good FPS.

 

[legendp]

I am not big on online multiplayer I much prefer single player but I really like LAN and co-op games wich seem to be non existant today (co-op is there but it is only online or on console). my internet is too slow and drops out way too much to play online. however it was great sitting down with your friends all having our own laptops and playing battlefield 2 over LAN with no internet. but now game manufactures seem to think everyone has a permanent internet connection. Most the time when I am out I have no internet because I am using a laptop and this means I cannot play newer games like BFBC2 or CODBO (zombies only, dont care for multiplayer) in multiplayer because there is no lan (ironic how the cracked versions of game's are now getting better support than the official versions?)

 

[Signa]

Spoiler: snip

It started with the release of Battlefield 2, a great little FPS made by DICE that is still played to this day, only not by the people that made it fun. Today it's only inhabited by jet bomb spammers and chopper pilots that can snipe through fog with missiles. On comes the Modern Warfare franchise, I joined in around MW2. For the first 3 weeks or so things went really well, until it happened...the grenade spam was bad enough, but to exploit glitches like bunnyhopping, quickscoping, care package glitch, akimbo 1887, the list really goes on. Turn over to today and the only thing that can be found on FPS as a whole is the noob-tubing, quickscoping schizophrenia that should never have existed. To top it off, anti-cheat software is utterly useless, in many cases (looking at you CoD) non-existent. Hacked matches are EVERYWHERE in many games, and it's lead to hacking and glitching. Even when a match is legit, must it be so horribly stacked that the team I'm on loses EVERY single time?

So be proud, people of the internet, for with the exception of the few, you have created a modern mentality that not only accepts but praises the idea of cheating. It's lead me to a personal (note: PERSONAL) decision. After 9 years of online FPS gaming, I will be boycotting and completely ignoring any multiplayer designed games. The only game I will be purchasing this year is Skyrim and that's it. To mingle in multiplayer games like Black Ops or Battlefield 3 will just leave me brain damaged, as obviously, according to the internet, I'm "not skilled enough" to keep up with this wave of glitching and stupidity that litters the online community. I don't expect anyone to clean up for one person, and I do not feel any enmity towards those that somehow find losing matches to cheaters fun.

Do I consider this a rant? Probably, because I know nobody cares about the decision of one man. The world isn't going to change simply because I think differently, nor will the world try and incorporate me for the same reason. For whatever reason I am compelled to write this, I suppose someone will read and realize there's more to games than t-bagging someone you just hit with a rocket launcher, or more to life than hacking the latest Call of Duty match. Or maybe I'm just ranting.

100% agree with you man. Though I suggest your try the PC versions of TF2 and UT'04/UT3 before you write them off completely. They are both completely different games than the ones you mentioned, and I know on TF2, you'd be hard-pressed to find a jackass ruining the game for more than themselves. I've noticed a certain lack of patience in the UT community though. The game certainly is fun despite that.

I was just thinking about some of the games I LOVED on the PS2, and games like them just don't exist any more. Does no one want a new Jak and Daxter? How about that Zelda-like Neopets game that I played randomly and found it to be awesome? The last big-budget adventure/RPG I remember on the 360 was Too Human, and we all know how well that one went over.

 

[HalfChance]

I play halo sure but apart from that I play rpgs and single player shooters. Until GoW3

God of war 3 is already out....

Think he meant Gears of War 3.

 

[Cypher10110]

snip

I, and everyone of my friends, also feel this way. You're not alone dude.

However, please do consider the following;
"That what the ancients called a clever fighter is not only one who wins, but excels in winning with ease."

The games that once seemed perhaps simple are now more complex, and as the games grow, there is bound to be growing pains. No game is perfect, and a perfect game today will not be the perfect game tomorrow.

If you cling on to the rules of the past, you will find you will be out-maneuvered. Perhaps you have merely outgrown crouch-behind-cover-and-shoot FPS. Ever considered graduating to Quake, Unreal Tournament, or Warsow? Completely different game, where skill is all.

If only there were a game in-between. (I guess TF2 but fuck do I truly loathe that game)

Keep carrying the flame brother, but do not forget to adapt to the infinite circumstances of the battlefield. Perhaps the spirit you seek lies in a genre most unexpected. Such as arena-based team battle titles: Monday-night combat, Bloodline Champions, Defense of the Ancients, Heroes of Newerth, or League of Legends... and I am sure more are coming as the success of the first few paves the way for imitators and innovators.

TLDR;
To be still while the world around you changes is to stagnate. Change is inevitable, try as best you can to adapt my good sir. There are always noobs to pwn, but pwning the noob within, is the never ending battle. Not every battle is fair, if you cannot even the odds, then you are best suited taking the battle somewhere where you stand a fairer chance.

(Oh, and if anyone knows of the holy grail of multi-player gaming... please, do tell. I'm in dire need of a skill-matched competitive game that is both a scaling challenge and fun.)

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Studies have shown that multiplayer games actually lead to more stress and anxiety usually while single player games reduce said levels.

This is so very true. My GF always knows when I'm playing multiplayer... instead of the usual quiet contented calm of my single player gaming, she hears thumps, guttural growls and swearing

I am a very calm person most of the time but in multiplayer I do get very pissed, miracle of sound has a point. Co-op and single player for the win!

I hear ya. I'm a calm, easy going dude but get me on a multiplayer shooter and I turn into Kratos with a splinter in his toe.

 

[Legion IV]

Yes its so funny when ppl cant accept that they suck and are a pathetic human

Being bad at a game makes him a pathetic human?

Huh. Funny, I always thought it was the opposite.

Not exactly, being a pathetic human is a racial skill, it comes in 90% of humanity, just like you try to attack the opposite group to make your position better and feel better

bro you gotta walk outside for a minute and get of the computer. Think you might have some internal issues you gotta solve here. 90% of humanity is pathetic? But am sure your ok right? I shouldnt complain thuogh i guess, you just gotta grow up and you'll learn how utterly silly the words that are coming out of your mouth are.

 

[m.zajac]

Turn over to today and the only thing that can be found on FPS as a whole is the noob-tubing, quickscoping schizophrenia that should never have existed

Did you ever play Unreal Tournament or Quake a while back? 10 times more hectic back in the day than it is now. I'd consider it almost slow paced..

 

[Tetranitrophenol]

The only multilayer I play now is Starcraft 2. Very hard for someone to cheat there. As always there are people that find a way, but once you understand how to defeat a 6 pool ( and the like ) there aint much they can do to cheat.