Gaming campaign mode vs MP modes poll!

[Metalhead]

What are your favorite video game modes?

 

[MildredHubble]

When I can actually find the energy to play a video game, I prefer the main campaign or story mode.

Online multiplayer scares the heck out of me. I am so fearful that I will find myself in the midst of a multiplayer game that I will even disconnect from the internet to avoid it.

I once bought a game that I didn't realize was an online multiplayer game only and I was running round the map not realizing that people were trying to communicate with me. I had less than zero idea what I needed to do. I think I locked the game in a cupboard somewhere in the end!

I didn't realize that a Star Wars game I got was online only. I think it was a Battle Front game. I don't really like Star Wars but I thought it would be fun and I was completely confused when there didn't seem to be anything to do beyond running round shooting at NPCs.

 

[Angular Chap]

Single player campaigns all the way!

The idea of online multiplayer never appealed to me, but I figured “don’t knock it til you try it” and tried to get into Battlefield 2, but turns out multiplayer is definitely not for me.

I do have very fond memories of Goldeneye deathmatch way back in the N64 days though. Good times with proximity mines!

 

[MildredHubble]

Battlefield

That's what the Star Wars game was I think lol! I did play the online version of Star Trek Voyager Elite Force a very long time ago, but that was maybe a decade before everyone had headsets and the thing I fear the most (beyond being basically rubbish) is the chat features and having to deal with loads of people talking. I kinda play a videogame to escape conversion.

 

[Angular Chap]

I did play the online version of Star Trek Voyager Elite Force a very long time ago

I played that as well, but funnily enough I only ever chose to play against bots!

 

[MildredHubble]

I played that as well, but funnily enough I only ever chose to play against bots!

Thats how I started out with it. I was actually very good at playing it and I could wipe out all the bots in seconds. My favorite weapon was the phaser rifle, I remember hitting the alt button to use the most powerful attack but at just the right cadence to avoid it losing power.

We didn't even have an internet connection when I first started playing and when we eventually did get one I got curious about the MP Holomatch. So I tried it out and I had a bit of a reputation after a while of being one of the better players, particularly at sniping (in the bell tower in the wild west map)

There was a chat feature I remember, but you had to type. I didn't mind that so much as people just used it to say hi when they saw a familiar player.

Sadly I stopped playing for a while and when I got back to it everyone was using cheats. All the legitimate players left. You would spawn in and immediately get hit while other players were bouncing around as they had adjusted the gravity for their player. They were performing impossible moves with such precision that you just knew there was no way they weren't assisted.

All the players I remembered were complaining and the chat became toxic and racist. So that ended my interest in online gaming really

I never really played online after that.

 

[Misery]

I've spent way more time in multiplayer games than I usually like to admit. I'm an expert at fighting games... which means thousands of hours of experience, 99.99% of which is against other players... and I used to be really into MMOs (before Warcraft).

But these days I will always choose pure solo for the most part.

I stopped playing fighting games for the most part when they sorta ran out of challenge, and games that require actual communication (fighting games dont require any) are just freaking awful these days. Have been for a long time.

I seriously have trouble understanding what anyone gets out of a game when the experience of playing it is anger and screaming. But some games (like League of Legends) are just that and nothing else. Well, okay, a LOT of games.

The fact that I dont like shooters, combined with the fact that most multiplayer games seem to be shooters, also doesnt help. I mean really if it's not Doom (the old ones), Wolfenstein 3D, or Hexen, chances are I have no interest.

According to Steam the last time I played an FPS was in 2020, and it was Superhot, so that sums that up.

 

[Judge]

-Solo. Autistic person, autistic gamer.

 

[MildredHubble]

I'm an expert at fighting games... which means thousands of hours of experience, 99.99% of which is against other players...

I've seen people do crazy combos on fighting games that I could never hope to do. I don't often play fighting games, but I have a Neo Geo MVS system that has some and I just can't make it past the first round lol!

That's also possibly because the settings of the arcade board are stuck on a high setting and since I'm using a multi cartridge its difficult to change that. But still I've seen videos of Japanese players on the highest setting blitz through the entire game without getting hit once!

I'm always impressed by that level of skill and reflexes.

 

[Misery]

I've seen people do crazy combos on fighting games that I could never hope to do. I don't often play fighting games, but I have a Neo Geo MVS system that has some and I just can't make it past the first round lol!

That's also possibly because the settings of the arcade board are stuck on a high setting and since I'm using a multi cartridge its difficult to change that. But still I've seen videos of Japanese players on the highest setting blitz through the entire game without getting hit once!

I'm always impressed by that level of skill and reflexes.

Honestly it's the only type of multiplayer game I'm good at. I eventually hit a level of skill where I just stopped losing to other players. When even tournament pros cant stand up to you, it gets boring, and I lost interest at that point. Which can sound impressive, but unfortunately being stupidly fast is like, my only actual skill. Not very useful in the real world. I mean I guess I could dodge unexpected cats or something, but that situation just never seems to happen.

In terms of other games, well, put me in a competitive FPS and I can show a whole new meaning to the word "failure". There's a reason I dont play those... cant aim, cant actually hit anything, never could. Cant hit any side of a barn from inside the barn. No sense of tactics either. Like, my strategy in pretty much everything is just a berserker rush, I dont know how to do anything else. So I'm no use in a team even if I were to take an interest in one. Dead weight.

Watching others play those is just mesmerizing. Lots of impossible-looking head shots and such. I dont understand how anyone can do that. It can look fun too, but it's the genre I really cant join in. Like seriously I'm so bad I can ruin everyone else's fun, and I dont want to do that.

 

[MildredHubble]

Honestly it's the only type of multiplayer game I'm good at. I eventually hit a level of skill where I just stopped losing to other players. When even tournament pros cant stand up to you, it gets boring, and I lost interest at that point. Which can sound impressive, but unfortunately being stupidly fast is like, my only actual skill. Not very useful in the real world. I mean I guess I could dodge unexpected cats or something, but that situation just never seems to happen.

In terms of other games, well, put me in a competitive FPS and I can show a whole new meaning to the word "failure". There's a reason I dont play those... cant aim, cant actually hit anything, never could. Cant hit any side of a barn from inside the barn. No sense of tactics either. Like, my strategy in pretty much everything is just a berserker rush, I dont know how to do anything else. So I'm no use in a team even if I were to take an interest in one. Dead weight.

Watching others play those is just mesmerizing. Lots of impossible-looking head shots and such. I dont understand how anyone can do that. It can look fun too, but it's the genre I really cant join in. Like seriously I'm so bad I can ruin everyone else's fun, and I dont want to do that.

Star Trek Voyager EF was the only game I was actually good at. I'm not even sure how I got so good at it. I suppose running round in not matches helped me improve with aim and avoiding getting hit. I did hit a point with the bot matches where I would just sweep through and dispatch all the enemies like I was Neo in the Matrix or something.

I've never been able to replicate it. I'm extremely clumsy too in FPS games these days. I get through the campaign mode eventually but quite often its because I've found a little flaw or glitch where I can hide and hit the enemies but not get hit myself.

Back in the Voyager EF days after a while we'd stop playing and just chat for a bit and maybe mess around with the physics of the game so we could use rocket launchers to fly around the map and reach bits you weren't supposed to. That could be pretty hilarious at times. Then you'd get a player spawn in and start shooting and we'd have to explain that we were just having a nice chat.