i got kind of into smite recently, and it was fun, but it felt like i was playing it because i was telling myself "you should learn a multiplayer game! play smite!" and having fun just because i was invested in the current game. i never really WANTED to play it, i just felt like i should. what kind of online/multiplayer games are you into right now?
Helldivers 2 (PC/PS5, I play on PS5) and Splatoon 3 (Switch), primarily. Also periodically Rocket League (All, I play on PS5 and, though rarely, Switch).
Just Helldivers right now. Played a ton of the first one back in the day (and Magicka before that) so it's exciting to see how successful this game as been.
Rocket league is my first and only online competitive love. When I went through my recent drama I lost about 6 months of being able to play it and I'm just now back to diamond 3 in doubles. I used to be a champ
PUBG honestly, but only because I made a couple good friends on there who are about 100-fold more fun to play with than the general public. As always, my tip for online multiplayer games is to proactively make friends with the tolerable teammates.
GTA:SA multi player is all i play really but i havent played that in a month or longer, been too busy w work. Occasionally i play Eve Echoes if im in the bathroom but not often.
One time I had a housemate who got into Brood War. I knew the game well and so I went zerg 1v1 against them one time. They were either terran or protoss, can't remember.
I feigned an abortive zergling rush which they beat back easily enough but not so easily that it felt unearned and, in the meantime, I went all-in on building bases in virtually every corner of the map. I had an immense economic base that my unit production couldn't keep up with.
They took a swing at my first base and had it on the ropes but I clawed it back and then on the recovery I steamrolled the base or two they had built. They thought it was a close game right up until they saw the map and realised that I had the whole damn thing stitched up.
Good times. They lost interest in playing against me tho lol.
yeah, it's amazing how complex and interesting Brood War is. I still love playing and watching/studying the game.
I wish SC2 could have lived up to it, but they took a huge chunk of strategic depth out of the game by making it so easy to control large armies and have everything move around smoothly. And all the campaign stuff feels like lame Marvel / main-stream young adult junk to me. I feel like it could have been absolutely amazing if it wasn't designed by capitalists.
I've kept going back to Warframe for a decade now, so I'd generally recommend trying it. All the bits people actually play are PVE, and the community's generally pretty helpful. It does require heavy use of the wiki late game though.
We're several months into dominions. I'm in too many games, but I should lose some soon I typically play for a few months starting in the winter, but I might stick with it this year for longer. It's just really fun watching your little guys fight. Also as I'm finally starting to get good at the game after years of playing it, I'm having a lot of fun trying out different builds and really getting into the nitty-gritty of scripting battles.
i think they're just joshin'. i haven't played smite but i played a ton of heroes of the storm the first couple years it was out. this last year I've been playing ghosts of tabor pretty much exclusively
The only two online games I really have an interest in any more are FFXIV and OSRS, the latter of which has surprised me with how much I enjoy it. It’s a huge grind but it’s low commitment and you can pick it up and put it down at any time for however long without missing a beat. That’s refreshing in the modern digital age. The monotony is an acquired taste but I don’t mind it either. It ticks all of my autistic boxes to watch numbers go up and bars get filled, not to mention that ongoing isolation as a medically vulnerable person living in a society of Covid denial has made my mind very receptive to this simple, banal pleasure. Working slowly toward goals in a world that lets me be largely independent is nice. I don’t have to make connections with people who will disappoint/harm me to play a majority of the content, and I feel empowered to exist, unlike the real world or anywhere else I actually need to be sociable.
I have not felt the impetus to play much XIV, conversely, despite my love for that game and its world, because playing it makes me want to make friends, and I’ve been burned too much by that to continue. Maybe I’ll get over it eventually, but it is a deep trauma, so I don’t know.
To make the joke work I'd have to play some sort of online farming sim, and I don't even know if there is such a game. I play Medieval Dynasty sometimes, which has farming in it, and it has a co-op mode, so it's an online game. See, perfect joke.