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[–] pulido 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Seriously.

Aren't there enough PVP games that center around rewarding whoever puts more time into the game?

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The best times I had with any PVP shooter were always in the middle of the day on weekdays. It was always a bunch of working age guys like myself and that was the only time they had to play. Dudes were always friendly, games were always fun. 3pm Eastern hit and the fun was over, if it was Friday you were done playing for the weekendb unless you stayed up really late, even then, it was never as good.

[–] NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I blame matchmaking and the death of the server browser. Having a regular server you'd join to play for fun, rather than every game being an arranged esports sweat fest really, was the peak of FPS multiplayer.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Yep. Joining your favorite TF2 server on a Saturday afternoon and seeing that half of the server playing sandvich heavies, doing a conga line, having a full on philosophical discussion in the spectator chat, or annoying the engineers as a group of spycrabs was peak gaming

Edit : also trying to make the highest tower of players by jumping on each other (until some guy inevitably pulls up with a ulapool caber and blows up everyone)

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Being able to host your own game and tweak the rules however you like is a feature that’s sadly lacking from most console games nowadays, Halo 3 was the peak with Forge

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I think that would be insurgency sandstorm. As far as I've encountered it's really not all that busy and is not filled with kids who just got off school

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was anticipating Killing Floor 3 which was a killer PvE in first 2 games, but third one was ass during beta so they postponed it until they fix stuff. KF is one of more fun PvE games out there.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago

KF2 has some amazing animations for guns handling (and great feeling when shooting) that still hold up to this day. Such a shame that they ruined the art direction with all the shiny shit.