What multiplayer experience would you love to relive?

The first time I played Ragnarok with my friends.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl

This is basically just a timeline of my life:

Kirby Superstar

Mortal Kombat Trilogy

Goldeneye/Perfect Dark four player splitscreen

Battlefield 1942 for the first time

Garry's Mod when it was still free

Leveling first character in WoW

Friend and I playing hide and seek in literally any multiplayer game (especially Call of Duty, Rainbow Six Vegas, and GTA4)

Thievery UT.
A mod that turns Unreal Tournament 99 into a multiplayer Thief game.

Easily the best multiplayer experience I've ever had. The tension in the gameplay, the banter, the figuring out new strategies for each map, the rivalries...

Made me realize small communities are way, way better for multiplayer games.
Sadly I think no one in Anon Babble ever even played this, even at it's peak, it only had around 200 players, and that's before I started playing.

Makes me wonder how many cool games I'll never get to try because they're lost to time.

Max Payne 3

Take me back.

youtube.com/watch?v=BLErNuXmj3s

I had literally never heard of this. This looks so good.

youtube.com/watch?v=Ghyh7dyY9Yg

Whats your nickname and or when did you first join?

I never played it but I would have liked to try Arkham Origins's multiplayer

gmod before everything but TTT and DarkRP died.

Splinter Cell 3 versus was good shit. Though I guess it was also full of frustrating shit that would make me mad if I played it again.

youtube.com/watch?v=PhuhWsCT2GE

It was pretty sick. Especially when we had clans and like 8+ players per match. The thieves are all dead, you're the last one alive vs all the guards and pull off an insane clutch... Really couldn't explain to you the adrenaline this game could create.

peak lockdown Warzone. You just had to be there

It wasn't bad. Kind of reminded me a bit of the spies vs mercs multiplayer from splinter cell.

mmorpgs in general

avp (via xfire)

cs1.6 deathruns and bhops

Unreal Tournament, no contest

TF2 back during the late 2000s/early 2010s.
It was fun, it was stupid, it was basically a chatroom with guns and good music (frag radio). There were stupid sprays and outside of a couple of tryhards nobody cared. It was wonderful.

Planetside 2

Agreed. The early days of TF2, before all the loadouts started making the game an unbalanced mess, were legit an insanely fun experience. Don't think another team/cooldown fighter will ever touch it. OW was also pretty okay at the beginning, before they shat it all up with new heroes that completely broke the careful design balance.
Marvel Rivals is literally just slop.

cs1.6

Is it that dead now? Last I played was just under 10 years ago I think and even then a lot of servers were still healthy and up and running. It'll be a sad day when 1.6 truly dies.

I really liked lol in season 1

No meta

Most of us didn't look up guides and improvised everything

People rarely flamed in chat

We regularly discovered interesting champions we had never seen before

the early days of cyber cafes, when the internet was still a tool and there were lan parties

nothing will ever beat the high of peak Runescape

when the remaster dropped i got to briefly relive the heydays of starcraft/brood war custom maps online.
i'm extremely grateful for that.

Modern Warfare 2

PSO local coop
Playing with my friends from high school until 4 am. Or the Gunbound experience of playing with my friends until 4am.

Defcon

Jelly Battle

If you weren't there, there's no way you could understand

this
mcc is fucking diluted that it's literally does not compare to back in the day, halo infinite is trying too hard and is still an unworthy imitation

another picture for the slag family album

WC3 The Frozen Throne custom games
~18 years ago

You posted it my guy.... Bioshock's multiplayer was actually FUN.
I also kiiinda miss Dead space 2's multiplayer even tho it wasnt that good

Elden Ring invasions, February-March 2022.

People had no fucking idea what they were doing, or what kinds of spells or items even existed. It was pure chaos and it was fun.
It went to shit when JewTubers started sharing OP builds. They spread like wildfire in the game.

Mass Effect 3
Halo 3
Uncharted 2

I miss my brothers in arms

Kino

early LoL
overwatch season 1/2
tf2 in 2009

yeah souls pvp has a tendency to fall off
the issue is not even just the games' popularity but also the formula of

putting so many downsides against invaders that eventually both sides need the same sort or generic op build to win

almost all avid coopers are just brainlessly melting the area and wanting to 3v1 invaders because theres no incentive to do coop normally

often no incentive to invade other than purely intrinsic isnt anywhere as bad but doesnt help either

this kind of stuff is why ds2 (and would be ds1 if not for some silly details) was relatively more shielded from the pvp getting so much worse. I started playing sotfs this week and i still had found a lot of fun normal and casual pvp/invading/cooping, even people who play for nothing but coop and pvp were acting way more interesting than in ER

Aces of spades, the original browser game not the steam goyslop

That game before every map was the giant hallway or stairway to heaven was so sick. RIP.

spending entire games talking to everyone using nothing but voice commands bound everywhere on my keyboard

We need to go back

crysis 2

BFBC2

Souls would be fixed if invasions were random with random builds and weapons and spells. And by not warning the person being invaded. And by making it 1vs1.

We'll never build stealth tunnels ever again. Or dick shaped outposts.

Same. I fucking loved killing people with the whirlpool trap. Bioshock 2 is the best in the series.

this too fuck. Hate how Gmod is just a hangout for bullied faggots to play a psycho simulator. Shits retarded

try to open gun store

20 niggers with guns and masks

HUDH GIVE US UR PRINTER NOOB

headshots me

didn't even set up one fucking fall

FEAR multiplayer. Barely anyone played it but it was fun as fuck. It was hilarious that the most broken weapon were your bare fists

Crysis 2 mp was so fucking good. Holy fuck I wouldpkay that the entire fucking day.

Gears of War 3. Never touched another after that cause they all looked gay. Also Crysis 2 multiplayer. Shit was good.

Bloodline Champions
Savage 2

oh yeah it was kinda fun

It's funny how Mass Effect 3's multiplayer was so great in comparison to the shit main game.

Team fortress 2 MARIO_KART

SC-BW UMS around 2005-2009 was comfy I played the hell out of every custom mode there was and every variation and take on the defence mode.

Never the same post sc2

I miss when you could be silly in online games. now it's just "must win to keep MMR up!" "must play meta" "report anyone teabagging" "no customer sprays" "using the frying pan is an instant ban"

bioshock 2 MP with an active PC playerbase

what a dream

I fucking hate jews and their licensing horseshit so fucking much

I think the first mmo you play will always be special.

runescape
command and conquer renegade
UT2004 rpg mod servers
half-life 2 zombie master
warcraft 3 footman frenzy
gotham city imposters (not really but it was kinda fun)
for honor before the chink expansion
the last of us factions

multiplayer games are dystopian when you think about it, the companies take it all away from you after a few years and you can never go back

Metal Gear Online

Aces of spades

browser game

You're misremembering it. The original was based on the voxlap engine and had no browser version.

The original Crysis mp

og CoD 4. I swear even MW2 somehow didnt compare.

stick arena

Doom 2016.

Its like Halo but better.

CS:S on local server

mega comfy shit

couch gaming with the bros after school

Old wakfu, both alpha and beta version.

Killing people on the roofs, taking their gun, then killing them at spawn along with the camping snipers was so cash. The seethe in chat that you took their precious gun off the ground was the cherry on top

There was this modded UE2004 Server i found once and never again.

It was the pve horde survival mode but with xp and gun upgrading, and pretty much infinite waves with enemies scaling up too. By the time i joined it was complete madness with like 2000 enemies per wave and people had flak cannons firing full auto with 6x the pellets (and rainbow projectile trails)

I came in a complete noob, not leveled enough to get a single kill because enemy hp scaled as well but the people on the server were super chill and started letting me get the last hits so i could level up too

Mass Effect 3 and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood/Revelations

Crysis 1 and 2's mp slapped. never got around to 3's

Puzzle Pirates at peak population was one of the best MMOs I've ever played.

a big shiver went down my spine ohh the memories ... Anon
ro2 at its peak ... i miss it too
i think im about to cry
that was probably the TOMA mod backported from tactical ops: assault on terror (Counterstrike version from modders of Unreal tournament ) it also had the killing spree announcer sounds etc was very neat

Infantry Online during its peak population

bazz my hotwife

I'd like to relive the early-mid 2000s MMO era but with about 5-10 more years of age/maturity and not being dirt fucking broke so I could actually play and experience them.
I also miss pre-pay2play Heroes of Newerth.

by the way you can still play it some tight knitted community is still running events etc something savemetal gear online, have also no fear t hey have servers for beginners/returning people too

Just this. It was so much fun. And because it was a smaller, more niche game, you kind of knew most people. Or at least knew of them, and all the big clans. I'd say there were tops around 1000 regular players during its heyday, which made it comfy as heck. Great action, too.

Modern Warfare 2 launch month.
World At War launch month.
Battlefield 3 when private servers came to Xbox 360.
I don't even play CoD or any online games anymore.
I already had the best experiences.
You could say nigga and no one cared.
Take me the fuck back.

halls of the hall of the fallen

Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was peak
Multiplayer games with friends during coof pandemic were also great, we spent hundreds of hours playing wow, nu-cod:mw, DRG and many more

2003 Enemy Territory or 2008 TF2

Based, I loved bioshock multiplayer.

Got any info bro? I'd give a testicle to play MGO again.

Never said the name was perfect

Zombie Panic Source

I'm this guy and I absolutely agree about the smaller communities.
The game I posted may have had a peak of around 1000, but often the player count was 250-500. I made some friends from that game that I'm still homies with to this day. One of them is coming to my wedding next year, and we live in different countries.

Bohan

Standard

20mn

It's sad no one even remembers this game. Super monday night combat was fucking dumb. I really think original MNC would have climbed in popularity over the years if they kept updating it.

Proudly played through the entire DS2 in offline mode. Never touched the PvP garbage.
Stopped playing before the DLC(s?) came out. Might give it a go some day.

command and conquer renegade

Oh god this was good.

Basically a mini C&C skirmish but every unit was controlled by someone in first person

Raiding NOD/GDI structures to place C4 on the control panel inside, just like the commando in the main games

Clusterfucks of mammoth tanks and orcas everywhere

Ah, yeah. I preferred just ladder 1v1, but there were definitely some fun custom games, too. Enfo's was fun af.

Battleforge
Chivalry
Guild Wars 1
Bloodline champions
LoL beta and s1
Sc2 wings of liberty

mid Flux or feed

It was certainly a precursor to the modern trend of popular vidya shootan.

Literally any fucking source game when custom maps, stupid sounds, HLSS clips, and fun game modes were the focus of the game and overshadowed all compfag shit. Order of priority:
1. CS:S Surf Maps and Zombie Mods
2. TF2 pre hats
3. HL2:DM Minigame maps
4. Anything DoD
Garrys Mod honorable mention as well for zombie survival and pre tryhard DarkRP (2008-2009), even if everyone involved with facepunch were (are) a bunch of egotistical faggots

Wolf ET
NWN

Crystal Chronocles/ 4 swords adventure 4player coop with gba to gamecube link cables.
Ds3 pvp on release when the game was active was the best soulslike pvp to be put out.

Half-Life 1 with mods.
You guys think mods are a big thing now? Half-Life 1 had so many huge mods made for it. Nothing made my day like checking planethalflife everyday and seeing a new mod release. What a magical fucking time to be alive.

You really don't the game was so barebones then

bad company 1

Shadowrun FPS

rock band with my buds

playing full squad ranked dota with my friends and insulting eachother for being retarded at the game until 5am for an entire summer like 10 years ago, truly peak fun i dont think i will ever surpass that