Good Experiences Online

[Corkydog]

I just got off Black Ops on PSN. My last two games were free for all, and I was on an unprecedented hot streak. I was zipping around the map, racking up points, pulling off some wild tomahawk kills, and having a lot of fun.

But the point of this thread is that the other players started to notice, and they all kept saying, "Damn, got killed by Corkydog again...man that dude's good, he's all over this map!"

The positive comments surprised me, I'm more used to bitching about lag or OP weapons. What was cool (for me, probably not them) was that the positive reinforcement helped my game. I focused more, and played better, which prompted more praise. I topped the leaderboard in both games by a hefty amount, which never really happens for me.

So here's my question. What good online experiences have you all had recently? The racism and immaturity get a bad rap, but I think we don't focus enough on the good times.

EDIT: For clarity, this isn't a "I pwned the whole other team" thread, it's more of a "The people I was playing with were cool"

 

[aLivingPheonix]

For me it was probably in MW2. I was playing with a friend, and we were in GW, and got grouped with some cool guys who were really good, and dominated the other team like 10000 to 3500. So we stuck together for about an hour, and won nearly every game. I got like 3 levels, and 2 perks upgraded to Pro.

 

[FlyAwayAutumn]

I like friendly competition. It doesn't happen a lot but I like playing against guys who are like "You guy's are pretty good, nice game" and I'm like

Even a simple "GG" makes me smile. I've gotten a few recently.

I've brainwashed my friends into being more humble, they used to say

"Fucking no life"

now they say "Dammit he's so good. It pisses me off"

At least now they admit when the other person is better.

 

[King of Wei]

Not very recent (3 years ago )but still one of my favorite moments. Back when I owned Armored Core 4 I was playing a 1 Vs 3 match against some random people. The 3rd was spectating while the other 2 were struggling to keep up with my design. I managed to bring both of them down to critical statue and the 3rd guy says "Do you actually need help with this guy!?" Ended up losing the match to the 3rd when he stepped in but the experience of surviving that long with a stick of a craft was awesome. One of the few games where I got a solid rep so it's got a special spot in my gaming history.

 

[Manicotti]

While I played WoW, I helped found and maintain two separate raiding guilds during the first half of WotLK raiding (T7 and T8) - not at the same time, of course. But a lot of the same people were in each of them, and we were some of each other's best friends in and out of game - even on an off night of raiding, we didn't blame each other for failures and didn't lose resolve or camaraderie. And being on a new and tiny (and now mostly dead) server, we were kind of mini-celebrities for our various antics and trade chat comedy. And I still keep in touch with several of them despite having since stopped playing. Cheesy? Sure. But it fits the question, so there.

 

[dakorok]

Early on in my TF2 days, I found an awesome server filled with people who weren't total douches. Needless to say, as a newcomer, I enjoyed this haven of rationality, and I've been playing there ever since.
Best group of gamers ever. We even started our own Minecraft server.

 

[Alorxico]

I used to play World of Warcraft, and the "used to" is because of the above mentioned immaturity and racism.

I started playing WoW as a way to keep in touch with one of my old college buddies, but they she had a baby and canceled her account. I was considering quitting when I wandered into IronForge one day and found it swarming with Horde. I raced to the King's Throne room and, though massively out leveled, helped defend the King as best I could. While waiting for the Raiders to return, I got into a conversation with some of the higher level players. Two were parents who originally started playing to keep an eye on their kids and ended up taking over their kids characters when they lost interest, and one fellow was a grandfather who played because it was the only way he could keep in touch with his grandchildren now attending college overseas.

After the Raid was over, I thought I would never hear from these three again, but I was wrong. They would occasionally send me items they could not use or didn't need or that they had made to help me. One of the parents even joined me on a few dungeons to complete story-lines in which I was interested.

Sadly, though, the immaturity of EVERYONE else ruined the game for me. Once I hit Level 80, I started playing the Battlefield games (capture the flag, territories, etc) because I thought they would be fun. Now, I had never played these games before and only had the sort of gears you can (1) buy, (2) get from single player quests and (3) were gifts from my friends. I didn't have any of what Yahtzee calls "items with blue names", so I was horribly under-powered and under-geared.

I was called horrible names and was kicked out of several parties. I was upset and told one of my friends about this, and she invited me on an Epic Level run of a dungeon to get some better gear. Her Guild Master, who was organizing the run, was fine with me tagging along and hold back, until other members of the party threatened to leave because I was in the party. The Guild Master kicked me out of the party and told me not to come back until I had better gear.

Instead of grinding myself stupid for gear, I simply quit. I played WoW for fun and it wasn't fun anymore. Still, I had found some nice people and I will always remember my interactions with them fondly.

 

[theonlyblaze2]

A few years ago on Halo 3, my team was getting our collective asses handed to us, due to an unfair team balance. It was me and three people on my side versus a whole FUCKING team! We lose a good fifty lives, each trying to work alone. I think "fuck this" grab my mike and say "To the beach!" I show up at the beach and my whole team is their. We work out a plan to collect the sniper and shotgun in two teams of two. We make a break for the weapons and actually collect them. We then meet in a cargo container in the base. The score is now 80-20 against us. We decide to go out in a blaze of glory, since there is only five minutes left. We break for the door in a tight group. A rocket comes flying at us and the guy next to me hits the ground with the gravity hammer, knocking the rocket off into the sky. Our sniper takes out their rocketeer. I collect the rocket launcher. Then shit got real. We just start killing everything that moves. Five minutes late the score reads 81-99. We get bumped back to the lobby. We figure the other team will do the classic "You fucking modder n00bs!" Instead they start speaking Spanish. Then suddenly, one of the guys on my team starts yelling back in fluent Spanish. The other team instantly shuts up and leaves. Our team of four then goes on to win the rest of that night's games. I was gonna friend request them but my hardrive fried out on me. A perfect end to a perfect night.

 

[TerranReaper]

A few days ago, I was on a League of Legends team that had players that each could do very well on their own but was ABSOLUTELY terrible at teamplay. Needless to say, by the 30 minute mark, the team-kills (Not teammate killing teammate, the amount of kills your team has accumulated) for us was 6-37. After a lot of dying, our tank rallies us and tells us to play defensive in order to drag the game into a war of attrition. After many near game-ending fights and the enemy team becoming impatient, we begin to get the advantage and push back, while their team breaks down into a similar state where we were at before, disorganized and arguments. Eventually we win, after an hour and 10 minutes. It was well worth it and was an epic comeback.

 

[Skyline16]

in MAG, i have a clan that always plays together
sometimes we group up with other clans as well
and those are my best experiences, especially steamrolling teams in sabotage in 4 minutes