Modern Gaming Is Becoming More and More Isolated 

"Mario Kart Wii"

Halo 3

Apex, destiny 2

Only the best one. Cod 3.

Cs go . Halo . Left 4 dead .cod .day of defeat. Apex. Destiny. Battlefield. World of warcraft

We live in a different era kids can’t take the same trash talking anymore

or better yet, get rid of "lobbies" and "matchmaking", let people host their own games and implement a server browser so you can choose any server you want just like in the old times.

@@kentreed2011 agreed.

@@kentreed2011 yes pls

I think MCC might actually keep some of the players when you match make since I usually see a lot of the same people if I stay in a lobby with them. Or maybe it’s just because not many players play on the same game types as I do I’m not sure.

not in chinese servers there aren't

@@lieutenanteclipse9975 Then play in American, Oceania, or European servers friend! I hope you find someone to enjoy a game with

@@WizardDudeman man I wish. Modern matchmaking makes it impossible to choose server regions. VPNs cause too much delay and it's nearly unplayable.

@@lieutenanteclipse9975don't go to those hellscapes....

@@lieutenanteclipse9975get a better vpn

Everything is so censored now. Also with Discord.. running into big groups of people in the actual game chat is rare.

Nah fr

when most of that was happening my mom was really strict so I could t experience it😢

Real 🥀

Stop being nostalgic for trashy fps games and chatting with strangers who mostly were obnoxious 12 year olds. There’s no better time to be alive than now. Everyone has fast internet and easy acess to media, there’s a world of music, films, anime, art, videogames and even books waiting for you to discover it out there. More people need to start exploring more art and stop being slaves to nostalgia.

because a lot of games assign rating points after each win/loss and keeping lobbies would just allow one team to farm rating from the other either unintentionally or exploitatively. Im not entirely sure how complex matchmaking was in COD or Halo or "oldy" games but it was much more casual and less grindy where you feel the effect of every win and loss. Thats why games punish leavers now as well, whereas those old games just filled players midgame or played with less players.

@@benjaminjackson793 That makes sense. Yeah I do miss those days of being thrown into a lobby like that.

I think it may lead to faster matchmaking times, not exactly sure though

I loved watching let’s plays of that and the funny offensive stuff people would say when they got mad.

😂 i see what you did there

Downvote

Not mw2019 it's still active and toxic AF but I love it

You can still play the good old mw2 search and destroy, I still play it and nothing has changed it’s just hard to find a lobby at times nowadays

I mean it doesn't help that mp games are shit nowadays. I play Xbox for mostly Halo, so when the game was garbage I didn't see a need to keep giving msft 15 bucks a month when most games are f2p anyways now

@@nickguzman1734games are so much better now…

No it was not

@@ni9274 .... Yeah singleplayer games are just as good as the ones before but multiplayer took a god damn nosedive.

real shittt

@@Momozzarella identity theft is such a schizo fear. who the hell has their friends commit identity fraud LOL?

@@Momozzarella online fiends are not real life friends. just like your face books friends are not real........... real friendships only happen in person face to face with actual real life experiences ..........you only fooling yourself thinking that a relationship with a device screen is somehow connected or related to real life interactions with living beings ......

@@annabanna666I know personally my online friends aren’t real but one day I looked at my PS account and seen old online friends last logged in 10+ years ago it kinda broke my heart how quick time passed and though I never knew them it was like I wonder where they’re doing and if they’re even alive? Just makes me think back to the old days when there was nothing to worry about and I was just living in the moment. Makes me realize I don’t like my life now though everything is great but just those days won’t ever come back. Maybe I feel like I wasted my life in a way, maybe I feel like I need to make a drastic change in my life. I just don’t wanna be that guy that let nostalgia take over and I’m stuck in a loop. Sorry I been rambling on but I just been feeling a shell of myself the last few years and nothing seems to impress me anymore…

If this goes "straight for the heart" then you are absolutely not an "older gamer".... ffs

As an actual older gamer, who played Atari and Coleco. Real social video game playing is on a couch with your friends. Online gaming is not the same as playing Bond with your buddies on the same couch.

hell yeah I miss being called the n word every 5 seconds by a 10 year old who thought it was the greatest comeback of all time lmao

​@@b1bbscraz3ythe mute button exists

@@MajorasThirdEye I'm not a p*ssy, it was funny. mute button didn't work the same back then before party chat was fleshed out like it is today

@b1bbscraz3y my bad bro, I thought you were being sarcastic with your original comment 😅

And then gaming became a chore. Less about fun and more about competition. Nothing wrong with competitive play but it was never the focus.

Borderlands games have Online Coop which rocks

E-Sports integration since 2012-13 has been one of the biggest pitfalls for gaming, I think devs blindly listening to youtuber and pro's suggestions also played a role in killing modern gaming tho

I stopped playing competitively because it’s what killed gaming for me. Trying to be good and playing ranked games felt like a chore. Now I just want to play for fun.

​@@SuperDidact exactly you would spend so much time in online games vs a single player game where you can play a little bit and still make good progress but the problem with a lot of multiplayer games these days is they all feel the same there is no uniqueness I play Skyrim because it is something you can turn on for a little bit and go back to what you were doing.

Competativeness is no reason to remove sociability. Sure some people may still be quiet. But Just having a Persistent lobby is enough For people to get together. The longer you play with the same people The greater chance you have of doing so again. Especially If they are talking too. RN its literally play a round, then By. never see you again.

My pc headset broke 6 years ago, and ive never bothered to get a new one. Not due to social anxiety, but finding it not worth dealing with the toxicity of most players anymore.

@@riddell26 Maybe you're not a gamer

​@@Goosewitdajuice317 tbh only guys who do speak in the games I play today are grown men.

@@tbc1880 I find a lot of them are dads too lol, but not all

@@Coltara maybe you are not a normal human

The esports push has really hurt gameplay for regular lobbies unfortunately And it's ironic as now that e sports is shown to not be profitable most of the companies left, just leaving a sweaty destroyed mess in their wake

​​@@jjcoola998i don't think esports hurt it as much as the youtube boom. Everyone wants to be a youtuber. Gaming youtuber were some of the biggest during the beginning of youtube. Being very good at game will attract an audience because people like seeing high skilled gameplay they themselves can't replicate.

i really don't get e-sports, they have fancy team shirts with their team logos and do these fancy entrances as if they were real sports players, except they just to go sit at a PC to play overwatch or csgo super seriously, it just makes them look like neckbeards

@@SnrubSourcethe same can still be said for any athlete, what are any really providing to society other than “ooooh good at throwing ball”

@@cyn1103 yeah but that's actually stuff involving large physical movements

Well Bungie continued that for a while until their devs started getting death threats in response to not bringing a piece of destiny 1 armor into destiny 2

@@gamechip06 continued what exactly? I never really got into destiny

totally agree, there are not enough people singing the praises of split screen in this comments section, there going on about how much online gaming has changed I'm still sad that split screen is gone, almost like gaming lost a part of its soul by going all online.

Fuck yeah. The best time I had in games was me and my smaller brother split screening every game.

Dude I miss having noscope deathmatches on cod splitscreen, when it was 3 people one dude would get a bigger screen and we'd always be jealous

another one is the Total War series removing chat PERIOD... makes me so mad to see people have accepted this because "muh toxic chat".. my friend may as well be a bot tbh.

yeah online gaming was the start of this downfall

Get into VR gaming, like Contractors. Everyone practically has a mic integrated in their HMD.

So true

Modern gaming sux and they don’t get it

I understand exactly what your talking about! I finally get off work and want to play something and no one is on or have stopped playing games because reasons. So I just end up frustrated at random doing stupid shit. But it's their time to play the way they want. So I guess it's cool they get enjoyment.

The only modern games were i could team up with random people and have a great time nowadays were Evil Dead the game and doom eternal.

Play deep rock galactic and just start talking to people

21?? you just a kid, you can't understand us 30+ yo

​@RobouteGuilliman972 oh shut up. Let him have his memory's

Ong bro I’m glad someone was able to explain this feeling 🥀

That community is so wholesome!@@ureyesrbleeding1

It’s definitely what you make it. I came back to OSRS about 8 months ago because I missed the social aspect of Runescape. I had been playing tons of single player games. Joined a clan, participated in clan events and chat, made friends, started doing raids, made even more friends, who I raid w/ all the time in VC. Definitely is less social than it used to be though. I do miss those days. But you can certainly still strike up a convo with most people!

very true! probably wouldn't have stuck with it had i not found a friendly clan with a discord server to chill in. nice music by the way.

Me and my friend play heavily modded gmod all the time it's really fun.

The gaming industry has lost its core objective, to make something fun.

This right here, this is it

Dude I spent hundreds of hours on flatgrass bigcity and all the other classics. God how I miss those sweet sweet days. Games didn't have to look good, it was about the community!

"In a time where games look & plat better" your joking right. Yeah some games look pretty but besides their graphical fidelity, dumbed down gameplay/combat mechanics etc they dont have much to offer. Games back didnt releasess as broken as today games. Not to mention there was a whole lot less censorship, but as soon as activist and casuals showed interest into gaming like everything else that goes mainstream; got fucked.

We got old, dude. Let's take that in consideration as well haha Even if it was like before, I wouldn't be engaging in conversations the same as before

@@focabox5594 fair point

@@focabox5594 old or not, the "social" aspect of modern gaming is an objective downgrade compared to the 2000s

if you want that same feeling maybe FF14 will be up your alley. I have never been into MMO's but FF14 has that vibe of "let's make new friends" as everyone there is so easy to talk to.

We got older and an important thing that people forget is that online games have moderated chats you can't talk about stuff freely there are consequences. People don't comment on chats because they might get banned

boy were you lucky.

There is GTA V Roleplay / FiveM. You could talk to anyone there as like different characters

You're totally right. I've never actually role played in GTA fact but I've watched plenty of videos on it and definitely seems like something I could get into. . Last night I was streaming rocket League and someone that was watching asked if he can play with me and me and him played about five games together and at least I personally had a great time

Or, get a hobbie that actually involves people

@@Masterdesstruct OMG! do people not play games anymore?! i always knew id be the last one

​@@TMNCurtlesonTwitchtruly, we are alone lol

Which is funny since one of the first BRs got up there in part because of proximity chat.

You probably are tbh

good

oh wow playing without friends feels lonely, who woulda thunk it.

@Andy I think because people were just bored and chatted to pass the time, nowadays I'd just use my phone while waiting

Yeah multiplayer these days doesn’t feel nearly as “fun” as back then. Today I play to grind passes and ranked ladders, back then I would just make friends

@@Arrrash i cant consider my self as a ''gamer'' because there is only 3 games that i play for my whole life and that is lol, quake, and cs i remeber back in 2009 i would finish my school start cs on community servers and speak with other people it was a blast i wasnt even focusing on gameplay just on speaking with those guys whole fucking night and u know what that thing doesnt exist anymore in cs its only a few words whole game, that is same for lol back in the days lol was very good healthy fun community... 2023 experience in lol is /mute all all the game because its just toxic i dont know if u can understand me but before was better so much better i dont know what happend its sad

@@virus4721 For me it's just how the way the world works nowadays. It's something not the developers can fix nor the people could do. As a Gen Z who grew up playing in this age, I find the sweaty/ competitive nature of games the "fun" aspect. The solution to this state of gaming is either just accept it and have fun or find other games to play (me personally I recommend SCP: SL as it brings the feeling of the early days more than any other online game I have played).

HAAAAAAAYABUSSAAAAAA

I pretty much exclusively play single player games anymore lol competitive multiplayer isn't fun anymore

Exactly! I've also made alot of friends on the game in the community servers!

Xbox 360 and ps3 were the peak of gaming.

Can confirm this, hop onto a community server in TF2 nowadays and there are plenty of people in voice chat

People still Play Battlefield 3

And if I remember, I think most Xbox 360 console came with the crappy mic that always broke but im not too sure. It came with one when I got the halo reach custom edition

@@FightCainremember that ear thing would come off or the part you put over your head would snap.

oh yea Gta 5 days :))

PS5 tried to do something with it by adding a controller microphone Which kinda helps but most people still don't wanna use it

I remember seeing the party chat icons on MW2 and BO2 lobbies and we would call them pussies and talk shit hahaha while they couldn’t hear us. Turns out we were right to do it the whole time 😂😂

Yesss I remember they started changing it in ww2.. only in search and destroy was party chat not allowed

back when you had to turn off party chat to play search

It’s crazy how we legit had 2 groups of people we quick scoped with. Total of 8 of us, only 4 were like us irl friends. The other 4 were legit random guys from live lol, 2 were grown ass men and the other 2 were like late teens. We were like 13-14 our selves

Games like RSS Siege are great for private chat as it’s a small squad thing. But games like Black Ops either felt alive or absolutely dead depending on where everyone was forced to chat.

DayZ ... (Not xp, but toooons of vantage)

I played so much halo 3 back in the day you'd probably recognize me. So much fun. So many friends made. Man how things have changed. I get the old people now lol

"more friends online" "online friends" That's the most pathetic thing I've ever heard. No such thing as, "online friends".

@@Freakazoid12345 I beg to differ. I had a group of friends from the Netherlands that I spoke to and played with daily for almost ten years. I’d been on virtual tours of their towns, taken them on tours of mine, I knew their parents, even helped them with their classes in university on occasion. They called me when they wanted to talk about something they were going through, I listened when a lot of others didn’t. I loved those guys and gals. I hate we all lost touch but that’s life. Prick.

@@Freakazoid12345 How old are you? Having online friends was absolutely a thing. I had dozens from 2006 - 2012, a lot of us spoke every day. Then Twitter and social media got big and it slowly died. Being social is now more about getting followers and saying likable things in 140 characters or less, and being a detached persona, rather than having conversations that actually communicate interesting information.

@@spankyspork5808 lol, you're defending somebody calling other people a, "prick" because they have no friends and can't tell the difference between fantasy and the real world?

​​@@Freakazoid12345you can’t even relate to those era. Dude are mad to you because you’re devalued his international pal akind to an ai.. the price of being an adult in modern era is losing friend from younger age doesn’t matter it’s obtained online or not. i don’t care how old you’re now, and if my guess are correct 8-20, I double dare ya to be in your 50’s and let us see how many pal you’ve think will be loyal you when you finally reached that silver age. P.s btw I’m still alive when you’re being considered an old man by someone your age now 😂😂😂

you need balance, you need sun, time outdoors, exercise, using your brain for some creative pursuit other than gaming and you need social time

You got an IG man? Looking to connect with some fellow older gamers even if you’re in a transition of getting out of it or at least putting gaming on hiatus

I agree. I had a huge addictive personality with gaming. Once i started making a balance for it , and put more important stuff first, my life has been better now. Its like a relationship you don’t want too let go. But it’s necessary that you must

@@chadwellington2524facts chad

@@chadwellington2524let him live his life

Diablo 4 is possibly the best couch coop game ever.

RIP to dad man! Blessings to you man.

Dude I grew up in that Era was like 13 14 around that time so I know it all too well gaming these days is fucking trash

Random strangers somewhere else in the USA * I fixed that for you

Dude u play games u already a nerd and a introvert guy according to society 😂

​​@@vitadude5004 I love Skyrim because I find online games nowadays are playing like their life depends on it

​​@@vitadude5004 well it has got better over the years before they thought all gamers had no life and don't do anything besides game which is true for a short portion of gamers but I believe the majority of gamers do have work because gaming is expensive to get set up and unless you got a job and depended on someone your going to be wasting a lot of time on that without any of your bills being paid.

@@vitadude5004 dude what year are you living in? There’s like a 50/50 chance someone you met played games

@@vitadude5004 everyone plays games now. There’s not nearly as much of a stigma around it as there used to be.

Erma God nostalgia gasm . Sorry and thank you.

Sry but I was annoyed by you people back then because even before you took the place away from someone with a mic. Some listened and showed that they understood what we said which was fun. But no talking was unfun still

​@@AbuHajarAlBugattidid you misread? They took the fun road not the boring road...

what fairy tale world did you live in? for me it was psychos, sqeakers and people with loud music in the background. voice chat was a mistake.

That makes no sense. You wouldn’t get Banned from voice chat for anything you said in a public lobby for the most part. Now where you get banned is voice messages and texts. It’s an automated system. I doubt some dude scrolls through every single report, unless it has a description

Why should people get banned for harassment on a game. Just mute or block them. If I can go up to your face and say almost anything I want without openly threatening to kill you, without being banned, why is it that way online?

@@jamesonm.7925 i agree

@@jamesonm.7925 because that's not all people do online. The person that made this video forgets that swatting, the term "doxing" booting (ddos attacks) and even "sim swapping" a form of account hacking and identify theft all originated from Xbox live and that era of the gaming scene in north america and europe. It was toxic and people calling you named isn't the only thing they did, if you beat them or muted them and didn't speak to them they'd boot you offline, try and dox and swat you (literally putting your life at risk over video games) they would try and hack into your account, again all of this over fcking video games. There's a reason games like elder scrolls and other single player RPG games are still massively popular and sell tons of copies, because they are single player games. Lets be real if you went to a bar and every time you went there someone called the the n word and slashed your tires and the staff did nothing about it you would never go back. Yet this video wonders why online gaming died, well it died because people killed it. Xbox refused to do anything about people hacking for a long time, they refused to hire competent moderators, the refused to listen to complains even when they came with video evidence of people breaking ToS. So people you guessed it, refused to use their onlinr services the way they were meant too. I still play online gamed from time to time but I never talk to people, if I do it's people I know in real life since they don't have holy grail of anonymity that all 16 year old edgy kids need to feel powerful over a kinect mic. Sorry but it should have been moderated better too many crappy people at a party will mean all the cool ones will just leave and never come back. Thr healthiest online scene I've seen is actually people from South America particularly in Peru who run local and online based street fighter and king of fighters tournaments but basically since they know toxic people will fck it up in order to register you not only need to be invited by a existing member with high reputation, but you also must fully verify your identity in the real world so your Facebook page, ig, your id all that if you wanna play on their servers. They don't allow randoms into their lobbies (yes it can be a bit cliquesh) but because of that they don't have a problem with a-holes online. Who would have guessed that Peru out of all countries figured out how to fix the online issue?

Bruh stop with that bs, most "harrasment" back then wasnt even harrasment. 99% is trash talk was just players in a lobby trying to come up with the most out there and edgy insults a trash talk they could come up with. People who ened up crying or complaining were always just told to leave if they cant handle people just messing around and not genuinely meaning anything they say.

Zombies was 100 percent my experience for something like this

Zombies is hosted always lol just met some peeps not too long ago for Der Eisendrache EE got to the boss fight and got clapped destroyed was fun got laughed at since I was completely lost on how to do the Easter egg steps on that took like 30 shots from my bow upgrade 😂

I just played Revelations and finished the easter egg with a friend at his house dual tv multiplayer BO3. Its still awesome.

should try deep rock galactic then

I still play CW zombies. Had a ton of fun with that one beating all the bosses. Usually just three of us played.

I met a friend online in person me and her got involved also. What a way to meet.the rest of he friends online but fun also

​@levichicwown9760real shit the giganerds that play that game nonstop will remind you of the good old days 😂

I feel you... And may the spirit of Mikael Åkerfeldt lift us!

@@LunaVictoria9 ah, a fellow cultured fan of Opeth I see, good to see you out here in the wild.

‘96 here💪 Last great generation Before Gen Z🙄

Same here was born in 94 and had the best gaming experience growing up til my end hs days. I can admit I do miss when people aren’t so easily offended… online gaming.

Same here was born in 94 and had the best gaming experience growing up til my end hs days. I can admit I do miss when people aren’t so easily offended… online gaming.

So true im 35 now but the days with the mw3 lobbys and stuff was fun i actually learned english much better cause of it

@@Wheyooo Same. I played Star Wars games a lot back then, AvP, sometimes L4D2. Much harder to come by nowadays. This sucks. :/

thats true for real life as well.

Yes, they want your only source of fun and relief to be buying skins.

Even worse than cold profit. ESG.

@@KopperNeoman correctamundo

@@user-kp3eq1uj8e and they want you to be addicted to the grind or earning in game currency and higher ranks

We all know who they are as well. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, friends. Be ready for turbulence. You are living it.

Call of duty MW3 has AI chat monitor that bans you if you say "bad words" 😂😂 They also implemented a very aggressive and easily abused chat and cheater ban system that salty players taking FULL advantage off. I've seen player getting chat bans despite not saying anything on the mic. Things like this have and are completely k*lling the social aspect of playing videos games on console. Banter and trash talking is a HUGE part of gaming without it, most games become dull.

Yeah theres 100 platforms for interacting now , xbox live is not the only place to be social. Reddit has 100s of million users.

Aww man, my friends and I had those 12 hour Halo sessions too haha! It was like a social gathering thing too with drinks, snacks, chatting, maybe some cards or something. But yeah, one of my best game experiences was beating a co-op beatemup type game on the PS1 sleeping over at a friends house when I was ten. Simple bonding experience between two young dudes. The other greatest experiences were on an online game called Akanbar where you chose to join one of three Realms and then competed against the players of the other Realms for dominance of the land... My two mates left the 'goodguy' Realm to become warriors in the 'neutral' forest loving hippie Realm and then we declared war on them because one of their Chieftains smeared excrement in our Senate buildings after lockpicking their way in, and we had this weird understanding where we tried not to attack each other while fighting in the same location as part of large opposing gangs of players. Good times. A lot of young people today are actually missing out on some of the best kinds of gaming experiences.

In fighting game tournaments, shittalking is just par for the course. It has a social aspect to it, this isn't limited to videogames. Sport games also have this. But shittalking has to be fun, people would feel if someone went to far and react immediately to it. It's basically a harsher form of banter. Don't get it why this is discouraged in video games? A mute button is suffice for this issue.

It's ok to talk shit but most ppl talk about personal stuff outside of video games just to hurt others.

@@Wesmoen Yeah but this video is made to complain about everyone using the mute button.

that was always the case, you used to just go at it in the lobby and send the most hilarious messages back and forth. nowadays, everyone is such a pussy that if you call someone "gay" in a message, youll be PERMANENTLY BANNED for "hate speech"...its boring and oppressive.

trash talking is part of the fun tbh

I never liked trash talk, I was a soy boy and just didn't get satisfaactio being called a moron for missing a kill or whatever.

its still like this now, in smaller indie shooters or pvp games, ill come across the same people or a guy will teabag or shoot my body and then ill target him for the rest of the game and do it back to him its all ego tho

Lol mw2. It’s funny tho. To me cod is still the same with people talking. More likely every other match you’ll get a talkative person or two.

@@strawberrysherbet96 yes and in ranked its usually 2-4 mics on at all times from randoms

Hopefully they don't screw up CS2

I agree that CSGO hasn't changed much.

Nothing gold can stay 😔🥀

Well you can also just you know send them a friend request and ask to play again. 😂 But that's too hard? Weird gamers are so toxic that nobody's talking to them. Maybe don't be assholes online. That's the issue.

⁠@@ErinBunny24well said no one ever mentions that people nowadays treat gaming like a real life skill instead of a game which has turned a lot of people off from talking in general cause it’s more peaceful to sit in silence then to deal with some asshole kid backseat gaming you

​​@@ErinBunny24You're literally only going to spend 5-10 minutes with anyone and that's literally not enough time to start a conversation and by the time one potentially might, the game dissolves and you'll never see them again. Is it still possible? Sure. But matchmaking was a net negative that made it harder. I've had much more social interaction on games that used server browsers or maintained parties between games. Granted, not being an asshole helps but I doubt that's a majority of the issue

"toxic" this "toxic" that, tf2 lobbies everyone will call each other slurs and beat people to death with signs that have pictures of 9/11 and yet everyone is still having a good time. If you want a safe space videogame might i suggest valorant where you can get banned for having the wrong tone of voice? If you prefer a more petty, catty crowd.

Not gonna lie, but the "never gonna see eachother" isn't as good of a point for this problem. That's because it was *even* harder in the past for people online to meet eachother IRL, than it is today. And yet today, people are more antisocial than back then. It sucks real bad. Like come on guys, is there ever a reason not to have fun with others and be friendly? ❤ Even if you don't make friends. I agree with @LilDuckie23 , I think toxicity of people nowadays is the real problem.

True. You and the homies all summer gaming playing halo and cod. The gaming industry is completely sterile and soulless now. We lucked out.

​​​​​@@0nzer0I simply stopped playing modern games at this point (with a couple of exceptions) I went back to my good old early 2000s games and a lot of them are still alive and fun so I am happy (:

​​@@kentreed2011 Alot of indie games are really good too. But that's probably because indie developers adopt alot of the older game styles than modern AAA games. Plus, since indie games are smaller teams, they are much more in touch with their community than corporations, so they can much better tailor their games to their audience. I play almost nothing but indie games. Particularly rogue-likes because of how difficult they are.

​@@avaliausd. I love playing modded Skyrim it is one of those games that you will always come back to.

​@@kentreed2011 The 2,000s games I used to play either are not an option because I no longer have a PC. Or, are for a gaming system which no longer works. For me I started gaming when the Nintendo Entertainment System was only a half decade old. For me games from the 2010 era are what I have been playing mostly. DS/3DS games, Xbox One games etc. I was just thinking about Warcraft 3 custom games today though.

We (us under these comments) gotta come together and play with each other

@@martavionhamilton3634 This is a brilliant idea, but how? I'd LOVE it.

stuff like that is why i don't like and fear the thought of growing up

@@joecobb4604 it might be easier said than done, but don't be afraid of it. It's not worth being afraid of honestly. Life has hard seasons sometimes, and even though it can be rough trying to adapt to how life changes, finding the upside and doing our best to embrace whatever position we find ourselves in is key to peace, joy, and growth in any circumstance.

@@joecobb4604 We'll all end up growing up, but I do get your point. I wish I'd never grown up, lol.

Fax

Those automated systems should be gone. Half the fun is talking shit, insulting each other and then laughing about it and becoming friends. If we really don’t like it there’s mute and block buttons. We don’t need a babysitter system banning people for being mean.

This

I wasn't unfortunately

@@Zonatedjaguar90there will be your generations equivalent to these old gaming days!

@@athelstanrex There won't, that's the hilarious part.

​@@athelstanrex nope

​@@athelstanrexthose old days will never return to form, ever. The closest thing we can look forward to where the gaming experience will feel fun like that again is when VR and haptic suits are common place like PC, Xbox, Playstation, and Nintendo are, but even that that will still be a completely different experience.

Yep, you can even go back to old forums and read discussions about how the downfall of LAN parties, split screen and gaming cafes makes online gaming feel lonely. About how hard it was to play with friends since you were always playing against randoms. All this during the "golden" period talked about in this video. There's two sides to every debate, and the fact is now that kids can make parties and discords with their friends, they're having a great social time even when their friends aren't playing the same game. It leaves us oldies in the dust who learned to socialise with randos, but that's okay, the kids will always know how (and where) to socialise. We did it to our senior generation when we moved to mobile phones and social media, now it's our turn.

@@MisterFoxton the simple realization is that it's constantly getting worse...

@@ano_nym There's pros and cons to the advancements, but I like to think more positively that it is just changing into something that doesn't suite you as well as the old system, because you adapted your preferences to the old system and old way of doing things. If kids today went from being able to chat with only their friends to having to speak to each other knowing random people could interrupt or join their conversation, they wouldn't like it.

@@noahspielman7506 as said in the video, that was still possible, and people did. Like Ventrilo and TeamSpeak, after that Skype. But I get your point. I would say that some things are objectively worse though. Take the monetization for example. These days you don't really get anything by actually doing stuff in game. Like complete x to get skin y. Everything is sold, these days through battle passes, a few years ago in loot boxes.

I think more people are less social these days. When 360 was huge, it was also new. So people were eager to chat with new technology. Later I think Internet Culture became more popular and forums were a new trend. You can find a reddit for anything and keep it strictly on topic and remain ultra anonymous. I am not sure if people care much about a online persona anymore. Gamertags and Gamerscores used to be a big deal, but no one really cares about that stuff anymore. Everyone prefers anonymous more and more. Chatting online multiplayer works for strategy games, but pick up and play people will just listen to spotify and game.

Try co op games like ready or not, older games that have a community, obscure PC mods with a good community, and VR games like Breachers. Good fun communication on general game chat is still out there 👍

People just didn't realize how dangerous talking to people online could be back then. I don't think its a social issue, I think people are just less naive than we were back in those days and aren't willing to risk being swatted or doxxed because you talked some smack online. Kids/younger folks are taught how seriously dangerous the internet can be now and it completely stops most people from experiencing the good types of communities. Basically, a few bad apples spoiled it for everyone.

@@Shmandalffear isn’t a good reason to remove a feature. Don’t give out your address. The servers should obscure IPs. If someone can (wants to) hack past a basic level of defense, they’re probably a very rare sociopath and would be outing themselves. There’s no reason to get rid of the party and open chat system. You can walk out into any public place and have “open mic” and someone can follow you home and get your address and stalk you or swat you. It’s no different. Sick of these tech companies thinking they know what’s best for everyone. It’s in the terms and conditions, they’re not liable. So let us chat and if someone is worried they can turn it off. Don’t just remove it for everyone…

try holdfast nations at war

Hey, why don’t you list some of the games you play and platform here and maybe you can link up with other people in the comments who feel similar?

@keplerbeer well they acts as a proxy for socialization for one.

That’s actually cool. I didn’t know it worked like that, but even Splitgate was pretty silent when I grinded it

If you play some games using cloud play I know it will put you in both party chat and game chat for whatever game it is on console which is interesting. I know for the very little amount of time I spent playing Elder Scrolls Online, I know it does that.

Man i miss splitgate. The only BR i actually enjoyed

You have a father of culture buddy. I bet you love your pops huh? Good dude. Pc is where its at. I console game because I don't know much about pc but I once upon a time had a pc good enough for Counter Strike and Team Fortress 2. Damn good games.

@@momsspaghetti4064 Yes, he's a great dad! He was ahead of his time when it came to the PC/Internet back in the 90s. He still keeps up with the latest technology trends. Now currently an IT Director. Even though his reaction skills isn't as good like it once was when it comes to FPS games, we still do play co-op every so often. Mostly digital card games and turn based games.

@@zeliph hell yea man.

Yea, a lot of people just watch videos or listen to music while playing solo, instead of getting on the mic

Do you mean smartphones? Cell phones have been around for decades.

@@MG-wk2eh no cell phones bro im 27 now and smart phones werent even that common when i started high school most had cell phones

@@perseus3115 Smartphones didn't become common until 2011/2012ish, but mobile phones were common for a decade or so before that. I'm 30 so I was a teenager in the 2000s, you had a mobile phone for texting, calling, and taking (shitty quality) pics/videos, but you also had instant messengers on the internet like MSN/Windows Live Messenger, I think AIM was more popular in America, at least based on the online friends I had the time.

@@MG-wk2eh yeah right lol im 33 from NYC and i remember everyone had Black Berries and Sidekicks... it was literally the same as everyone having smartphones now

I sometimes had that in Left 4 Dead 2. but much less nowadays. Still one of the best if you ask me though. I've also played Jedi Academy a lot for this reason (apart from being a SW fan :D).

Correct. Wokeness has destroyed communication

Good observation I noticed the exact same thing myself. I tie it all back to how desensitized our brains and neurotransmitters have become cause of how much stimulation and easy cheap dopamine access we have. Back before social media and lots of evolutionary leaps in technology things were alot more “primitive” in terms of socializing the way they just simply SHOULD BE. Cheap dopamine has always been arounr cigarettes, booze, porno mags yeah sure but not on any kind of scale today where little Timmy can stare at high speed 5G internet porn in a VR headset while having Mcdonalds DELIVERED to his house puffing on a 5% nic vape. Things have changed so much in the world and culture in regards to how much dopamine we have access to that we just have all become desensitized to alot of stuff it seems now, hard to find excitement, shock or surprise these days.

It wasn’t like a switch flipped, but I think over time less and less people went into game chat

I really miss those days… I constantly think about them as my golden years. Which is weird because I’m only 21 years old but haven’t had any friends for 3 years. I fondly remember the constant laughs and jokes and wish I could go back to when gaming was a whole community both with gamers and the people that made the games.

Hell Let Loose is pretty good with that. Communication goes pretty far in that game and you will often have people fuckin around role playing like they're some yankee on the front line lol. Especially on the trucks at the start of the match as you drive to the battlefield, had quite a few hilarious conversations. Closest I've seen in a modern game to that old school kinda vibe.