Do you have a gaming group of friends?

[thesilentman]

Yeah. I play DOTA 2 with SomeLameStuff, General Twinkletoes, and blazearmoru. Just simple practice matches to have fun. I don't think that we can do the team thing just yet. I probably would throw away the match as I suck the most. x-D

Other than that, I play also DOTA with some of my real life friends as well. Now, I go into public matches with them, but in the end, we all suck. But we do have a load of fun, so that's all that matters.

 

[Tilted_Logic]

I love playing with a fun group of friends, it definitely makes the gaming experience more enjoyable for me.
All the way back from WoW through AoC, SWTOR and Guild Wars 2, to CoD, L4D and Mass Effect 3 multiplayer I've had different groups to play with for the most part. Especially for shooters, I find having a group of friends makes me less frustrated by the game: I'm actually there to have fun, and don't focus entirely on my score so much.

 

[hazabaza1]

Eh.
I've got an online mate I play Dota 2 and some other games with, and an IRL one that we do whatever other co-op games we can scrounge up but mostly it's just pubs and randoms.

 

[boradam]

Many, if not most of my friends play video games and whenever I do game with them we always have a blast. But I do like to play alone if I can depending on the games, I like both equally.

 

[Mr F.]

All my friends are gamers yet we rarely game together. We all play different games. Right now there is my MC friend building something, my runescape friend leveling fishing, my L4D2 friend shooting zombies and me posting on the escapist. My "Online" friends are all old real life friends who have moved around, right now they are either asleep or working (They aint on Skype) because they are in Aus.

So...

Yeah. I have a gaming group of friends. Some of them are actual real life friends I see on a regular basis, some of them are "Online" people. Back when I used to play WoW I would chat to the WoW lot, most of which were Serbians (For some strange reason) with a small smattering of Dutch folks and one or two people from Britain (Strange, considering I am a brit). One or two of them are now on my Skype lists and we sometimes chat, I try and keep my life separate from my gaming where possible.

Would love to meet more people and game more. I am even getting tempted to boot up WoW again, after my exams.

 

[FFP2]

Depends. Back when I used to play Bad Company 2 and ME3 MP (aka when I had Xbox Gold) I usually played with the same people. They were just people from the internet that I played with often though, not really friends. I liked it because you knew your team members well enough to understand their strategies.

I generally tend to play alone. Hate almost all MP.

 

[-Torchedini-]

I tend to hook up with a different set of people in each multiplayer game that I play. I'll start out playing alone, then get bored by the game and go off to find a clan/guild for that specific game. Over the years that got easier and easier. Sometimes I don't like having separate groups for everything. Because you need to talk to people all over again and make new friends and so on. Having a 'set' group of people that play everything sounds nice but if I stop liking a game I won't play it.
I also tend to go of on indulging myself in a thing for 2 months and then come back. Kinda like just watching a lot of movies and shows and don't play games for a while. Or read books like everywhere(on the bus, train and in school) and do nothing else . So that kinda destroys most of my short lived relations with guilds that I've been a member of.
I do play more multiplayer games than singleplayer though, playing teambased games is good fun. Some of my real life friends occasionally play the same games that I play and when that happens its a blast.

 

[Spitfire]

I used to have a group of RL friends that I'd play a lot with, but unfortunately, we're no longer friends.

There were also online friends who I used to play with, but we've either developed different interests, or we simply don't have a lot of contact nowadays, for various reasons.

There are still a couple of online acquaintances who I sometimes play with, albeit extremely rarely, though I'm not sure I'd call them friends.

 

[Razentsu]

Yup. In fact, most of my friends are gamers. We usually play games online, but we do occasionally meet up for LAN parties and console gaming.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Yup, we have a full premade LoL team, including our own Rookie (they're all his friends really, i'm just tagging along) plus I have a new ranked duo partner who is not utter shite in our Kaosu Hamoni. I have some RL friends but i'll be damned if i'm babying them through levels 1-30. My one RL friend who plays it is convinced he's the absolute best League player ever. Even though I am rather sure I surpassed him a few months ago, not that he would ever admit that since he was the one who duo'd me up to 30.

"No guys, I CAN play Vayne. I max Tumble first because you don't want the edge of bonus true damage in lane. No, my support is just crap"

*Hits team fights, runs into the entire enemy team*

"AW FAWK!"

 

[LAGG]

My IRL friends do play video games, but are all closet gamers - they make jokes about people who play games being graceless basement virgins, then go home and play games anyway.

This is pretty much the vibe with most of my friends in the music scene I used to hang with. They all play games...most probably play more than I do and spend more money on gaming hardware and such...but as soon as anyone tries to talk about it, it's snarky-hipster-o-clock and video games are uncool things for losers who aren't cool enough to do things like brew their own beer and suddenly get into things like boxing (for some reason, that's happened to like 3-4 of my friends in the past few years).

I think part of it is that they think they are hitting their twenties, and need to "grow up", and grown ups do things like watch boxing (yet have no idea whats happening) and go to casinos (and end up only playing slot machines). It doesnt matter that their grown up disguise is paper thin, just that they wear it.

Grown ups don't care about what other people think of their hobbies.

 

[Arcadian Legend]

Sure do, two groups in fact. I regularly meet up with old high school friends once or twice every week, and the college friends who moved away every month or so. Save for me, nobody in either group knows the other, just as well because I don't think they'd mix. My old high school friends have a highly competitive mindset while my college friends just don't give any fucks, most of the time.

I also used to be in a small time online multiple gaming guild with the former group and a few guys who I've never met outside the Internet. Eventually though one of the admins went rogue and deleted the site. After this, some of us moved on to other clans, others I simply never saw again, and my friends got into the big time guild TEC, which I'm pretty sure have now become ShadowLogic/The Shadowloo, who I think now mainly specialize in organizing pro gaming venues situated in Australia. Someone correct me if you know more than me on this. All IRL friends left that group long before then though, save for one who still associates himself with them.

Want to know the best bit? The guy who deleted the site was my best friend. We all gave him major grief for it back in the day but it's all water under the bridge now. He made a guild himself using remnants from the old one including myself as a starting point. Half a year later though he lost interest and the place slowly died. Afterwards, He joined TEC like the others with him and left several years later. As for me I left that stuff behind, never really cared for the whole guild/clan thing much anyway to be honest, I'm a solo player at heart.

 

[moggett88]

My IRL friends do play video games, but are all closet gamers - they make jokes about people who play games being graceless basement virgins, then go home and play games anyway.

This is pretty much the vibe with most of my friends in the music scene I used to hang with. They all play games...most probably play more than I do and spend more money on gaming hardware and such...but as soon as anyone tries to talk about it, it's snarky-hipster-o-clock and video games are uncool things for losers who aren't cool enough to do things like brew their own beer and suddenly get into things like boxing (for some reason, that's happened to like 3-4 of my friends in the past few years).

I think part of it is that they think they are hitting their twenties, and need to "grow up", and grown ups do things like watch boxing (yet have no idea whats happening) and go to casinos (and end up only playing slot machines). It doesnt matter that their grown up disguise is paper thin, just that they wear it.

Grown ups don't care about what other people think of their hobbies.

Of course they do, you're thinking of sociopaths :a

Example; you know there's at least one person whose hobby is walking around stages Justin Bieber has played, looking for hairs he dropped so they can complete their shrine, but I don't go around telling people about it. I mean they don't. Shut up!