I will never understand why the hell people tilt so hard for an online game. Aren’t free time activities supposed to be fun?
Offline games are mostly chill
But online games, even though people play it for fun but after sometime it gets too frustrating when you don’t get the kills
That’s why I left playing online shooting games, those made me more angry
It’s funny too because it totally depends on the game and how it’s monetized and set up as well. I had some of the most fun in games in my life playing quick play in the original overwatch with my buddies, even though I almost exclusively prefer offline single player open world games.
My skill increased dramatically with our constant playing, I switched between DPS, tank, heals and really learned the roster. Not that far off from playing N64 super smash with those same friends in college and switching to a new character when you felt like you had learned one pretty well.
I would get annoyed at losing, but it was whatever, I wasn’t trying to rank in competitive mode. I work hard enough in life and work, I’m not playing the game to work harder.
That being said, unless someone was a Smurf or hacking, I never got super mad at other players for simply being better than me, usually the characters felt pretty balanced and if we lost it was because of bad teamwork or lower skill. All characters were available to everyone, the only monetary value was skins.
Then I played overwatch 2, and immediately there were battle pass characters locked behind paywalls or engagement, and those characters were seriously unbalanced. The game was “free to play” and “pay to win” right off the bat and I haven’t touched it again, even though I put countless hours into the first game. And that sour taste I have now makes it so I refuse to play any game with a battle pass.
Then I played overwatch 2, and immediately there were battle pass characters locked behind paywalls or engagement, and those characters were seriously unbalanced.
Wtf they locked characters behind a paywall? They at least dont do that any more. I played OW2 for the first time last year and everything (playable) was unlocked.
Yeah I think that change came after a ton of player backlash and people just no longer playing it so they changed the whole battle pass setup
Real
I would still consider myself young but starting to adult (bday today :D). But in middle school and early highschool online FPS were the best. Overwatch, tf2 stuff like that. Now the most multiplayer games are helldivers and recently Deep rock but I also have a ton of single player games like modding Skyrim and occasionally playing Skyrim, dead cells, noita (I do in fact have a skill issue) no man’s sky and blade and sorcery
Now my most competition is among my friends rather than against them. Which is much less tilting
I still enjoy TF2. You can play seriously, or do some completely whacky stuff. even when you get steamrolled you can have fun. In TF2 i never minded having a good K/D or so. just going for hilarious kills, even if they only work one out of five times makes the game awesome.
Tf2 certainly was a wacky game but my account got compromised and I lost all my items around the same stop I stopped playing
Personally speaking, I think it’s addiction to the game. I played the game Enlisted for a few years and became a veteran player. It irritated me so much when I got inexperienced players on my team and I was carrying. I insulted my team mates in the chat a fair few times out of frustration. It just wasn’t enjoyable at all, yet I kept booting the game up every day.
Competitive online games really affect my mood, they make me so angry and I can’t help it. It’s unhealthy when a video game is actually ruining your day.
I just stick to singleplayer games now.
It’s the same as parents going full tilt against the ref of a kids league soccer match.
Yes. But fun is relative. When I play rocket league, I like to try my hardest. If I’m not trying hard, it’s not as exiting. So it’s frustrating when playing ranked and for example your teammate is not even trying . Maybe RL isn’t the best example because matches are under 10 minutes, so I can just start another one, but games where you spend an hour, it’s just different
IME in RL I don’t get told to KMS because I’m not trying, I get told to KMS because my teammate won’t rotate and I fail to defend a 2v1 while they’re fucking around on the other end of the field. Or my favorite, where they’ll fake rotate and then overcommit. Then I’m the one who doesn’t rotate (even though I spent 80% of the match defending because “I got it! I got it! I got it!”)
My favourite message to give on Rocket League:
IndiBrony: [TEAM] All yours…
No. It’s not mature. If you play it like a sport, then being a gentleman is very important for your fun and growth both.
Oh. No. I don’t curse. But I understand the anger a frustration
lots of online games are just outright badly designed, like having loads of abilities that literally just freeze you in place so you don’t get to play for a few seconds.
i was into overwatch when it was still an actual game and not a storefront, and my god there was sooooo much stuff that was obviously not acceptable for a game of that size and budget. I think the most egregious was roadhog’s hook that just didn’t care about time and physics, you could be grabbed behind walls and whatnot and of course that resulted in instant death too, because WHY NOT!
then you compare this to something like deep rock galactic, where it’s cooperative and “balance” is the player deciding how much of a challenge they want, and the devs specifically added a feature that lets you shout “rock and stone!” to build camraderie. You play that game and it’s just… fun? it’s just fun, it’s almost never frustrating at all, even if you get your ass kicked you just fucking try again and maybe lower the difficulty because you’re not quite good enough to take on that size of horde yet.
And stun abilities? you can have tons of them, because the enemies are NPCs and thus don’t care, and the enemies only have a select few stun abilities that can either be actively broken out of or teammates can help you out of them, plus you’re given so much warning that getting stunned is very clearly your own fault.
Gamers aren’t well adjusted people
‘Fun’ and ‘chill’ are not the same concept. Fun things can be irritating, can make you excited and go through various emotions.
Back when I still played ranked in online games, I always felt like if I didn’t have Don’t Stop Me Now by Queen playing in the back of my head… I just wasn’t in the right mood to play.
Reminds me of that time when it felt like having Epix Sax Guy playing in the background helped out with Hearthstone RNG.
Sports.
I never will buy an online game for 60 bucks.
True, $70+ is becoming the new standard…
Only if you want the peasant option, the RealGamer™ edition starts at 100 plus dlc.
Luckily I’m just a lowly fake gamer so I don’t gotta worry about clout…
Ooh look, shiny skin!
Yes
A weapon skin for my goonerbait crpg female skin to use
Maybe spending 600 bucks on microtransactions?
neither, just play the game
But silly squid game fun… 🐙🥺
At least my game doesn’t have micro transactions!
Yet… Nintendo please don’t
Why would you spend any money on one, let alone play it?
Because people enjoy playing games with their friends?
You don’t have to pay to do that.
let alone play it?
Your friends are randomly-assigned ten-year-olds?
Most competent multiplayer games let you form lobbies with your real life friends? Or you can make the occasional friend online?
It’s getting real hard to not make assumptions about your social life with all this, man.
There’s plenty of coöp games that don’t make you beholden to server content rules.
And thanks for the beginning of an insult, but I do tend to spend more time with friends while we’re actually in the same room.
‘Kys’ simply means ‘kisses’ in Danish. I refuse to read it as any other meaning.
“Gentlemen, you can’t kiss in here! This is a war game!”
Boy have I got some news to share about what goes on during wars!
I know how to French kiss, but not Danish kiss. Thanks for teaching me, stranger.
Danish kiss is when you squirt cheese or fruit into their mouth beforehand
what about bavarian creme?
Only if you buy them dinner first
Is that where you do two in the pink, one in the stink?
Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher’s servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say “KYS KYS” in game if the people I’m playing with are okay with it.
That and it’s easier to make genuine connections with regulars. Nowadays for that you have to go out of your way to join a community discord or similar because nearly all multiplayer games are built to play with your existing friends.
i miss the days of shit talking in COD lobbies for hours. so funny hearing people cry about my perfect grenade throws ruining their killstreaks
Classic pre-game lobbies
So unpopular…
unpopular opinion but i like food
If a low stakes game makes you so furious that you wish for someone to die, you should not be allowed to play these games.
Agreed, they need to improve their skills enough to make it happen instead of merely passively hoping that the world improves itself.
On a side note I shouldn’t be getting comm banned for swearing on a game that’s not only rated M but also has swearing in the game.
I agree but just to clarify “kys” isn’t swearing it’s bullying
That’s why it’s a side note. Tangential but relevant.
I miss when we’d get French players on Xbox Live voice chat and playfully abuse in other in our own languages (I know enough French of that sort).
I used to love getting foreigners who’ve only learned English for weapons/vehicles that don’t translate for some reason and swear words.
You’d get “eusbdheu sjot8fb skxbfh LE SNIPER RIFLE eudbdisn fjfbdbdju kshdbdbr LE ROCKET LAUNCHER fidndjdb skejfb behdhcui SHIT BASTARD FUCK BASTARD FUCK FUCK BASTARD SHIT”
I so miss þe playful abuse between strangers in game via voice. Nostalgia for a certain time this world may never feel again, expressed on a platform that is so anti casual-confrontation most won’t understand or enjoy that time.
Only thing I dont miss is being called the n word. Odk that’s the go to for suburban kids.
Yeah, that was too much to be called by a 13 year old sqeaker.
All I said was gg 5 times
[Chat disabled for 3 seconds]
The problem wasn’t the gg, it was the two letters before and after…
Come to think about it, I haven’t been called that online in a long time.
EZ GG EZ
It took me a minute, but I just realized that your description could actually apply to two completely different slurs.
completely unfair ban, they said it three times the rule only had it twice, how could they have know?
Good thing I checked the comments before posting the Uhm Ackshually
Chat disabled for 5 seconds
Meh. Just mute people. That’s what I used to do when I played online. I understand emotions run high and people get frustrated, I’m not gonna let my sensibility and their bouts of idiocy (especially when the solution is so simple!) ruin their experience forever. And honestly, they’re probably just actual kids… I’m patient like that but I understand some people take things more to heart and whatnot.
I’ve always seen chat filters as a test in creativity. Telling someone they “misclicked when they hit install” or to “Go 0-1 irl” is way better
Or tell them the way to reset bugs in the game is Alt+F4
I mean usually that’s true tho
It’s more that it’s exhausting than anything else
I don’t want to play a game where people keep telling slurs or being toxic towards others. It just ruins the whole experience
Didn’t know that the offended wine moms of America got linked this post, sad that as an adult you can’t control your feelings when someone makes jokes on a video game
offended wine moms of America
Too fucking funny, banned!
A bit weird to use soyjak in this one, most mic munchers don’t nor can have beards as they don’t have fully developed balls yet
Who makes fake kissing sounds in online games?! And why is it a bannable offence?
Oh, it’s better to read the user agreement, there are such horrors there… Access to your PC at any time when you are connected to the network without problems…
By the way, what kind of editors do you use to create these memes? I don’t want to trust online editors or anything corporate. I hope you understand.
Use Krita
Use Krita
Okay, thanks then I’ll watch tutorials like in the good old days. :3
I didn’t make this particular one, but I usually just bash it out in a minute using Paint.
Like the material or the program?
(This was funnier in my head.)
Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they’re designed for more complex tasks.
the linux equivalent is Pinta but it is not nearly as powerful
