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.