What multiplayer experience would you love to relive?
What multiplayer experience would you love to relive?
Soldat definitely
Halo 3 custom games in 16 player lobbies full of the bros
Monday Night Combat.
No, not Super, I want to relive the original game.
LAN co-op with no online authentication or outside network connections necessary. I want it in every game.
CS:S zombie escape at its peak
dota 2 10 years ago
Modern Warfare 2 was a horribly designed mess but playing it was the last time I had a group of friends where we played long into the night and laughed hysterically at weird shit.
modnation racers
You posted it
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.
I had literally never heard of this. This looks so good.
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.
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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
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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
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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
Probably Halo 2 back when nobody knew wtf we were doing and it was in its early (and fun) discovery phase. And the Halo 2 zombie lobbies were so much fun.
none of your testicles are needed, just have fun
yeah, I also only played this a few times but it was fun. Pretty sure you could build walls and turrets too. I remember playing it on the de_rats style maps with fuckhuge titans and skaarj warlords everywhere, hiding in the mouse hole with some engineer guy while others zoomed around spraying flak at 1000rpm.
the first week of GTA Online
Battlefield 3 at its peak
Loadout it had such promise.
Metal Gear Online 2. I only dabbled in it but wish I had got more seriously involved.
Ragnarok Online
BRO COME CHECK OUT Anon BabbleCopium! OUR NEW P-SERV
No. You can't bring back my specific P-Serv that I played from 2006-2010. It was run by a guy in my hometown and some of us even across guild lines did IRL events and shit. The admin even organized a fireworks night.
The last time I was happy was around halo 3's release, everyone can make fun or whatever but it's the only thing I remember being excited for
No way. It was nonsense
getting nuked by moonveil spam from 3 angles
deathblight glitchers
Elden Ring PvP was never that good.
I have played it solo just running around the maps and trying stuff out but it's been dead for like 20 years so I never got a chance to play it properly in multiplayer.
the Anon Babble private server is full of erp trannies and it's shit (and there's only like 10 users left by now)
so many answers but a rare one: The Ship
such a cool game.
I think AC Brotherhood kinda ripped it off actually
fuck i did not mean to post that dumb image
I played this so much, I even bought two PS3s and two copies of the game and set up two TVs so my friends could play with me. Such a great game.
FEAR
Ayn Rand fans saw this and went
hell yeah
Don't think I've seen anyone mention it, Dead Space 2 multiplayer was pretty fun back in the day.
Mordhau battle royale mode during launch. Devs have since removed the mode due to a lack of players. Mordhau was the best fit for battle royale out of any game I've played largely because no firearms. You'd still get sniped from time to time by someone who found a bow but it was rare and the range and arrow velocity were modest. You could parry their shots and rush them down so the game was less about spotting the other player first compared to most battle royales.
It's not really that important but Gravity Rush 2 is a lesser experience these days without the online treasure hunts. They were fun, glad I got all the rewards before they shut the servers down
Neotokyo. Pretty hyped for Neotokyo Rebuild.
Son of a bitch I was about to post this. Back in 2013 or so I managed to get Anon Babble playing it for a few days. Barely broke flavour of the week but i loved it.
The ship was crazy but I played it a bit after it died. Just great fun
Destiny 1
Soldier of fortune 2 multiplayer. I can still hear the main menu music
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It was neat but lightning + elephant gun broke the game very quickly.
As for OP: Vanilla WoW (2004/5)
dayz arma 2 mod
I really think original MNC would have climbed in popularity over the years if they kept updating it.
I greatly doubt it. It was already tapering off by the time the title update released.
Battlefield 4 on PC on hardcore mode
I know it's pretty recent but BF1, I had a group with 3 other friends that played nightly and it was so fucking good.
crawling through poison gas
5 hour long matches, even on console
It was really fun, I spent like a 100 hours straight playing it
peak free social experience
shuts down in 2016 to go standalone
standalone only just now hit 1.0 and its not even done
I know rehosts exist of GMT that are functionally identical but they always don't have enough players to keep a social vibe going.
Killzone 2. Would unironically buy a PS5 for a faithful remaster but that's about as likely as rain in the Sahara.
Thanks for the time anon. Appreciate you.
definitely. It's sad because with the right timing I could see that game being a massive fotm on twitch and being able to at least keep a small player base. Throw proximity voice chat in maybe
The idea was good but the game was insanely laggy.
Also forgot to add TLoU's Factions. A TPS with a weird but innovative mix of CS/crafting/stealth gameplay
I miss Mega Man X Online Deathmatch like you wouldn't believe
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SAMP/MTA at its peak and CS:S or 1.6 as well
No other games have managed to capture that feeling of community as much as these.
It's crazy how they promised new stages and custom maps then just killed it off for the much shittier smnc.
Shattered Galaxy, loved that game
Dark Eden was fun too
Return To Castle Wolfenstein for the FPS
Halo 2, rainbow black arrow and saints row 1’s multiplayer.
Resistance 2
Starcraft
TLOU Factions
All shooters must come with a simple MP gamemode, I never played TLOU 2 since they scrapped it
enemy territory
but this time I woulnd't mention that I'm a spic so they don't kick me
Ragnarok Online
This game triggers my nostalgia like nothing else but playing some random private server just don't cut it. And I don't have patience to spend a month to farm items requires to farm exp points for a month before repeating the cycle.
The greatest game ever made, of course.
We have the same backstory.
You can still play bf1. It's far from dead.
not relive,
but i wish i had bros to play Bombing Run with in unreal 2k4 either with or without translocators
i replayed DAS2 with sotfs and did the dlc for the first time
just kinda speedracering or skipping through areas I didn't care for just breaking the game
had a great time with it, more fun than ER and my revisit of DAS3
Team Fortress 2 from 2007 to 2011.
I remember playing it with other Anon Babble bros.
I said I would never give Sony money again for shutting those servers down and I haven't since.
Never knew Bioshock 2 had multiplayer, how did it play?
I'VE GOT SKILLS TO THE GILLS
my man, was cool as shit everything you could do in that game but fucking GFWL
i had some very magical encounters in that shit
I miss old TF2 so fucking much.
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God damn it all. I hate the flow of time.
Did they involve hackers teleporting everyone into the airfield packed with weapon crates and making people fight each other?
warcraft 3 custom games
H1Z1 survival
i could consistently just team up with random people and run around on bullshit adventures
every other survival either wants you to build a base, is built around guns so you dont get to talk, or has fuck all people per server so its not as fun
i played a shitload of mnc, but somehow I feel like it was very short-lived. It's hard to recall how long was the game alive at this point. Every class was so much fun.
Try 13-14 years ago. If I remember correctly 10 years ago, venom was dominating TI, and I was already burned out at that point.
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Fuck, this was great. I've never tried another ac game after this one. Did they continue to implement mp?
I remember the last update being the St Valentine one, then the game just died
I know AC3 had it, dont know about the rest
Ubishit used to be so good
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Black Flag did as well, it's the only AC game with PvP multiplayer that hasn't had its' servers shut down. You can still find matches on PS5/PC.
The Specialists or Jaykin Bacon: Source, easily. Fond memories of being 10-15 and playing these. It's weird how diverse gaming used to be, especially within the FPS genre, thanks to mods. Now playerbases are hoovered up by games-as-experiences/services communities, except these communities are imposed and evaporate immediately at the command of the dev/sponsor. Nothing's organic anymore.
fffffffuck
Why is there no female, queer and black character, chud?
I'll even take Reach. I miss those days so much. People talked more back then too.
Just join the community Discord, upload a picture of your drivers license so we can verify your age, spend one day in the Welcome Room channel and you can talk with us dude
Will give it a spin when I get the time, then. I'm a married adult now, so that pretty much means a dozen hours per year tops.
this, launch was fantastic and I ended up doing nightly ops with my outfit for years
Take be back bros
You can, kinda
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There's also something to be said about games-designed-as-systems and games-with-emergent-systems deriving from simple principles. Too many games now are balanced and tested and streamlined from the beginning of development, whereas we used to have games that developers thoughtfully constructed around a handful of base mechanics which would be elaborated into gameplay methodologies and styles by the players themselves upon release. iirc Tribes' skiing wasn't even intentional. Then devs pick up on it, integrate it into Tribes 2, and the players went further in finding the nuances.
The casual mode server browser holocaust
Maaaan this game was my jam. I think the truck was a bit overpowered but snagging a sniper rifle as a jet or using a shitty as a cloaked scout was soooo much fun. Really good vehicle combat too. The toys were pretty great as well
Damn it I meant shotty
Halo 1. I know other people prefer 2 and 3 multiplayer. But to me 1 hold a special place in my heart. 1 was magical even if the other games were better
Anon Babble is now overrun by halo babbies and gen alphas broccolis
It's so over
Literally BS2 Multiplayer and Evolve, I never really got to play Evolve since I was opposed to day 1 dlc, then I heard it wasn't very good, then it was dead, then it came back but grindy and f2p (I played 1 game here with bots), and now it's dead again.
Also hosting a massive weeklong LAN for the Moonlord update in Terraria, that was a good time.
Imagine a Concord flop 2, holy shit it would be so fucking funny.
It was during the era of shitty tacked on multiplayer modes but it was actually pretty cool. You could get some plasmids and weapons that you couldn't in the SP games. You had an smg-like auto-nailgun, there was also the Houdini plasmid that the splicers used, you could use some regulars plasmids too IIRC, I think I recall using Cyclone Grap to jump to ledges. On some modes a Big Daddy suit would spawn as a powerup and you could play as a Rosie, I think it was timed to a minute or two, as well as until you died. It had a progression system without being too grindy or locking the best weapons away from noobs. Real shame that BS2 was panned and the multiplayer was too. I think there may still be people playing on the old PC BS2.
HAWKEN, I just found this though:
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The beta and launch of Guild Wars 2. The game disappointed me, but I found a guild that I really liked. Spent a lot of nights laughing until the game slowly killed the guild and everyone stopped talking.
why don't people just play it, does it *need* to be updated? Why is it dead if it's good, why doesn't Anon Babble host a server?
What games you play boomer
Zoomers and normies have to play Current Thing because le streamer is playing it.
Third worlders have to play F2P games where they can scam people.
Those demographics are really good to bloat up player numbers in multiplayer games.
Anon Babble is mostly zoomers, normies, and third worlders so yeah
:(
fortnite
Black Ops with my friends after school. We played so much we actually got good and started playing competitive matches. Inevitably some of them started losing interest and I could clearly tell I cared about it the most by far. None of us liked Modern Warfare 3 so that pretty much killed the group.
Borderlands 2
Halo 3
Modern Warfare 2 quickscope/noscope matches
I remember as the beta was ending I realised you could still jump while using emotes, so I got everyone in the map to do /sleep or /sit and we jumped around Wayfarer Foothills until the server went down. That's what MMOs are actually about.
Hawken was a short lived very good mecha themed free to play game.
Wonder why they even bothered if they were going to can it after only a few months
Wc3 custom scene. No doubt.
online gaming before my generation (zoomers) became the majority on online games. We're such fucking retards its not even ffun anymore, take me back to 2009.
0 players
That's sad. Probably because it didn't last long enough for people to even know it existed even at it's peak
Return to Castle Wolfenstein for sure. I miss the beach servers and everyone jumping on each other pre-game to make a tower of people.
why doesn't Anon Babble host a server?
I don't know but there's still a group of diehard fans who can get a match running every now and then