Just wondering what the forum members here on this website think of online gaming (the online gaming community, DLC, etc.)
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Just wondering what the forum members here on this website think of online gaming (the online gaming community, DLC, etc.)
If it weren't for Live my former college roommate and I wouldn't be able to play games together anymore. If it weren't for my former college roommate I wouldn't ever play games online.
I don't play games online anymore because of the general community of online gamers nowadays. The community, for the most part, consists of the following:
1. Players with ludicrous skill levels who will dominate any casual player. (This is common amongst the "hardcore" online gaming crowd.)
2. Players who constantly swear for no reason, use racial slurs, and put down other players at the slightest mistake. (Can be avoided by muting the player(s), but still, it is just plain annoying.)
3. Players who cheat or use cheap tactics to win. (Self-explanatory.)
I'm primarily a single player gamer, but when I do get online I only play with actual friends so its always fun.
Yeah, working my way into a decent clan would be the only alternative to playing exclusively with actual friends.
I'm more into single player and split-screen multiplayer than online. I don't like supporting fee-based online gaming like Xbox Live Gold so most of my online playing is on PC.
DLC can be very annoying, the whole nickel and diming people for little things. I'll buy a proper sized expansion pack as DLC if the price is right but that's about it.
I only play online with friends, so in general it's great fun. As far as DLC goes, I love it when it's a full fledged add-on or upgrade to a game. I hate paying for a 100kb download that unlocks shit that's already on the damn game disc. I'm looking at you, Capcom.
Sega Channel was the only good thing to come out of online capabilities for videogames.
I don't pay for DLC, I save up points by using Bing's rewards and selectively buy DLC or new XBLA games.
No sir, I don't like it. I don't buy full-price, new release games. So by the time I get my hands on a game, the online scene is either dead or full of bad-asses.
Since I didnt "grow up" with online gaming I find it very hard for me to get into it. I wish it would have stayed pc only. Online gaming coming to consoles was pretty much the demise of console gaming to me. Yes I know PS2 had online capibiilties but I dont consider PS2 to be a console where everyone was playing games online with it. I never did and I feel I didnt miss anything but with PS3/XBOX 360 era you have to be online of course. PS2 was the last "old school" console where you didnt have to be online.
I've never played an online game in my life, and never will. Online games are evil.
I never got into online gaming. It's really not my cup of tea.
As I prove over and over with every post people online are arseholes. Why would I pay to play with them?
This is one thing that seems to be somewhat better with PCs . . . aside from the "bad ass" issue, there at least tends to be long-lasting online support for most popular games. (and a few that get enough support to merit aftermarket servers once the official ones die off -there's still active online play for X-Wing Alliance via Errant Venture and a pretty nice graphical upgrade pack too)Quote:
Originally Posted by j_factor
Unlike classic Xbox live games which are totally dead.
That said, I'm personally not that into online gaming, at least in terms of actual activity (whether I'd enjoy it if I was more active, I'm not sure -or how time consuming it would be for that matter), but I do like the atmosphere of local multiplayer (be it LAN or split-screen).