Some thoughts on the multiplayer aspects of games
I have been playing video games for as long as I can remember. I’ve played anything I could get my hands on, from Tetris to Starcraft. But I’ve realised what is the most important for me when it comes to gaming. Time and time again it’s not the singleplayer games that I keep going back to, it’s the multiplayer games like World of Warcraft, Left 4 Dead 2, League of Legends and so on.
I have been playing WoW for way too many years and even if the game has become rather dull I can’t stop playing it because the social aspect of the game is too big and too addictive to just leave. Same goes for shooting games like Counter-Strike and Left 4 Dead 2. I’ve played it on my own online but it gets boring after 30 minutes, but lately I’ve been playing L4D2 with friends that I’ve met on WoW and I can’t remember ever having so much fun playing a fps game as with them. Running around killing zombies in total panic and fear and hearing them scream on Skype is something I’d do any time! Okay.. The screaming on Skype might or might not just have been me… But that’s less important…
Then there is League of Legends. The game with the worst community reputation in the world. Everyone who tried the game has met that one person. That absolute cunt that ruins the game for everyone, raging and flaming and just being an idiot! There are times where I can’t stand the game and people. Playing several games a day for weeks with people being so childish you couldn’t imagine just kills the game for you. I’ve been lucky to have 2-3 people from my school to play with, which is 1 less cunt to worry about. Of course that leaves 3 others (plus the other team) so it can still be quite annoying to play. Of course everyone isn’t as bad as I make it sound.
In the past week I’ve played LoL for several hours with a group of people, and I can’t remember the last time I’ve had so much fun and enjoyed it as much! It’s quite random that I ended up playing with this group, I started following their blog/site and got asked to play with them at some point. It is on the NA server so the time difference is quite a bitch and the latency ain’t the best, but it’s really worth it. Ud1eBy (yeah, that is actually the clan name and it’s quite hard to read what it says, but apparently it’s pronounced You Die By <Insert player name>) is a NA based clan, and although I only know them from LoL I’ve heard something about other games and platforms. I don’t really know what to say about it other than they are a bunch of great people who I’ve really enjoyed playing with, even if it hasn’t been more than a couple of hours and I do really recommend checking their wordpress blog/site!
I’m not entirely sure what this post is supposed to be about, but I think it has something to do with that for me it’s not always the game itself that’s important but rather the social aspects. I’d rather play the most boring game on the planet with good friends rather than playing an awesome game by myself.
I think that’s it for now so Mike is over and out!
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