I miss community servers. Each had its own identity and you could pop in and out without being penalized. Being locked in to a 30+ minute sweatfest with people I don't know, or like, has never been appealing to me.

Got drunk and played megaman 11 with siblings, passing around the controller, cracking jokes about how megaman’s ow sound seemed weirdly gay and horny in this one. I was so bad I kept getting him hurt and it sounded like a gay porn.

My sister asks “isn’t that supposed to be a robot child?”

Me: “He’s been a child since the 80s and his voice is lower now. He’s a megaMAN now, and how dare you demean the short king fighting for your safety over his robo masochim kink and short stature.”

Brother: “yea he can’t help he was built that way. You’re a monster. Don’t kink shame”

Me and bro: -glare-

Sister (who is in a poly relationship and very much the alternachick of the family): “….what the fuck is happening here?”

Single player games are still fun when played together.

I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.

The live service model has been a plague on gaming and has basically killed every bit of enjoyment I'm getting out of multiplayer game nowadays. Shit's like having a job. You leave for two weeks and you might as well be playing a different game. Leave for a month? Maybe the game don't even exist anymore. It's exhausting.

The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.

I play exclusively on consoles, and enjoy a slower pace to gaming.

Have a huge backlog of games I haven't touched, and a few that I just keep coming back to.

Really gotten into permadeath gaming, which slows things down even more, but makes every decision and hour of gaming truly count.

Factorio, Cities Skylines, Far Cry 2, Subnautica, the Fromsoft catalogue, Mass Effect, I'll do a full play through at least once a year.

Finally playing the Witcher III while listening to the book on audio.

I get why people enjoy multiplayer games, but it hasn't been for me for a long time.

I think the last one I really spent any time on was America's Army around 2006.

I’m not opposed to playing multiplayer games. But I’m not going to be playing the vast majority of modern multiplayer titles.

Most of the time I wonder if there is even another player on the other end of modern game, or if it’s just bots

I like playing old games organized on discord and sites like game date

This is going to be extremely niche, but I find the surf mini game in Counter Strike Source to be incredibly relaxing and rewarding while also being a quasi multiplayer game. The community is quite helpful and friendly and there are almost 1000 different maps of all skill levels so there is something for everyone if you are into movement based mechanics.

I've recently been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and it's such a nice vibe. There's an in-game chat for people just going about playing their single-player adventures, generally filled with kind and intelligent people. The game is complex enough that being able to ask questions in the chat is a nice option.

Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.

I'm in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT 99 and Tribes 2 competitively. Not anymore. Life is stressful enough, and I don't want to add to that by playing competitively. I want to relax by playing story-based games. I also play a lot of games on easy mode so that I can truly enjoy the story.

I don't play multiplayer games anymore.

First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.

Second off, I'm in my 40s and my reaction time isn't what it was when I used to play Counter-Strike. You can't improve an aged reaction time nearly as easily, nor can you dedicate the time that you would need to to get somewhat better, let alone competitive. Getting repeatedly stomped isn't fun.

Third off, I don't like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. A handful of maps are expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery, storylines, and varied experiences. Doing the same thing over and over again is just boring.

Fourth off, player communities in some games are aggressively dogshit and I really don't want to interact with them at all.

I have over 1500 hours into The Witcher 3.

Sometimes I think at least 500 of those hours are just me loading into the game after a long week, finding an isolated spot on the map, and just staring into the sunset while the wind howls in my headset.

Yes, it's a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day.

Or team based PvE games where it's just trying to keep up with the speedrunners farming.

In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.

Online multiplayer games used to be fub but they have really gone downhill recently.

The most fun I have ever had in a video game was hunting a bear in RDR2 to make clothing with the pelt. It took several days but I think that's what made finding the bear so satisfying.

Don't forget all the new CoD, battlefield, and even tarkov (soon) is requiring TPM 2.0, secure boot, and actively blocking linux making it impossible to even play them.

I get it, but my favorite multi-player game is mobile suit Gundam battle operation 2. Try it. The community has really been pruned of trolls and bad actors. The game makes it more frustrating for them, but more fun with people who just wanna play giant robots. Sure sometimes you get stomped because of a whole ducking clan attacking at once, but I find the wide range of mechs with lots of different playstyles counter the stomping.

Cheating and involving money ruined multiplayer gameplay.

Single player games for life baby.

I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.

I just don't want to compete with other people. I used to play a lot of quake and team fortress, but it just feels kind of pointless now.