I'd say TF2. If you find a server with allspeak on, the madness is uncontainable. People laugh at killing each other. Wild jokes about. You listen to the other guys having fun, even though the just got uber-critical-heavy'd. I think the cartoon graphics have a subliminal effect on the players. Like it's a giant Pixar movie, so everyone is cheerier.
what is the best gaming community
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Halo 3 is probably the worst, along with Resistance, guess they're the same game really, just on different platforms.
CoD4 is quite good, no complaints so far.
I remember back when Live first came out, everyone was nice and happy, it was great, now Microsoft have made things easy and the kids have figured out how to play online.
CoD4 is quite good, no complaints so far.
I remember back when Live first came out, everyone was nice and happy, it was great, now Microsoft have made things easy and the kids have figured out how to play online.
Counter Strike: Source is one of the worst, TF2 is decent, give it time, it might get worse.
By far the best if Day of Defeat: Source. Most players are much older, and either more polite, concise, or just use less swearing and just don't act like dicks.
By far the best if Day of Defeat: Source. Most players are much older, and either more polite, concise, or just use less swearing and just don't act like dicks.
NOT Runescape. Runescape is a cesspool.
Just thought I'd throw that in there.
Lusternia and Achaea (both Iron Realms MUDs) have really fantastic communities. Best I have found in an MMO game.
Just thought I'd throw that in there.
Lusternia and Achaea (both Iron Realms MUDs) have really fantastic communities. Best I have found in an MMO game.
I think it has a lot to do with what servers you play in. I recently came back to playing TF2 after I found a good server, with players that were jolly good chaps. And I've been pretty much playing it non-stop on that server, because the experience is just that good. Although there was this one guy called "Need Dispenser here" who constantly yelled "Need Dispenser here!!" A few people were annoyed, but I was just glad he wasn't using a mic..
I haven't had a problem with CoD4 but it's also not a very social game on the PC in my experience. There is rarely much chatter in games and when there is it was benign enough which is good because it doesn't interfere but bad because it's boring as hell.
I disagree that CS:S and CS have a bad community because I think both games have such enormous and varied communities that you can't easily judge it. I've been in servers where there was abuse, annoying people, griefing, etc, however, I've also been in some amazing servers where the jokes just keep coming, the people are very helpful, and competition becomes quite fierce. If you branch out into the online community you will find hundreds or thousands of different clans and they all have their own character. The trick to CS has always been to find servers with people you like and always go back.
I always hated the Warcraft 3 community. In matches people get so protective of their score that having fun and enjoying the game always felt like it was being put on the back burner. I ended up just playing 3v3 or 4v4 games because there were fewer serious players. On the other hand the custom games community was great and I used to love goofing off in tower defense games for hours on end with generally fun people.
Company of Heroes is very elitist in my experience but not generally difficult to deal with. I was part of the Relic forums and Game Replays forums for a little while even though I didn't really play much CoH online. Both places had a very mature atmosphere even if they were a little lacking in the fun department.
I think Dawn of War could be great but I never got into the online play because it was fairly problematic when I played regularly. I think Dawn of War could have completely taken me over if it was on a system like Battle.net and I could easily get a pickup game going whenever I wanted but it always felt like there were almost no players.
Even though I only played it for a month EVE's community impressed me. Of course I never got out of the noob corp channel which was just full of helpful and nice people so I'm a bid jaded. I had a lot of trouble meeting people outside of that channel and those that I did meet were usually trying to blow me up. I ended up giving up on the game because I just couldn't find my niche. I'm sure I would have stuck around if I had joined a pirate corp but they were all asking for six months of experience so I gave up and now my character is bare so I doubt I'll venture back on my own.
I disagree that CS:S and CS have a bad community because I think both games have such enormous and varied communities that you can't easily judge it. I've been in servers where there was abuse, annoying people, griefing, etc, however, I've also been in some amazing servers where the jokes just keep coming, the people are very helpful, and competition becomes quite fierce. If you branch out into the online community you will find hundreds or thousands of different clans and they all have their own character. The trick to CS has always been to find servers with people you like and always go back.
I always hated the Warcraft 3 community. In matches people get so protective of their score that having fun and enjoying the game always felt like it was being put on the back burner. I ended up just playing 3v3 or 4v4 games because there were fewer serious players. On the other hand the custom games community was great and I used to love goofing off in tower defense games for hours on end with generally fun people.
Company of Heroes is very elitist in my experience but not generally difficult to deal with. I was part of the Relic forums and Game Replays forums for a little while even though I didn't really play much CoH online. Both places had a very mature atmosphere even if they were a little lacking in the fun department.
I think Dawn of War could be great but I never got into the online play because it was fairly problematic when I played regularly. I think Dawn of War could have completely taken me over if it was on a system like Battle.net and I could easily get a pickup game going whenever I wanted but it always felt like there were almost no players.
Even though I only played it for a month EVE's community impressed me. Of course I never got out of the noob corp channel which was just full of helpful and nice people so I'm a bid jaded. I had a lot of trouble meeting people outside of that channel and those that I did meet were usually trying to blow me up. I ended up giving up on the game because I just couldn't find my niche. I'm sure I would have stuck around if I had joined a pirate corp but they were all asking for six months of experience so I gave up and now my character is bare so I doubt I'll venture back on my own.
I've been amazed by the niceness of the Cod4 community. I do run into the jerk one in awhile but generally people are their to kill and be killed. One guy was contently making fun of my score (usually between 25 and 28 in a 30 kills limit ffa with about half or lower deaths) while he was pulling off much much much worse scores. (9-10, 8-7, and so on) What was boggling to me was when I pointed out his terrible score he said "its just a game" but if I didn't win the round he'd say "Haha you don't win again!"
Its like last place making fun of second place in a race, yeah second place lost but last place is really bad.
One of the worst communities I've seen was world of warcraft crushrige server, a guild called "humble" ruined any type of decency the server had. Humble is known for making racial slurs, swastikas in screen shots of boss kills, general elitist behavior, and all around douche baggery.
Its like last place making fun of second place in a race, yeah second place lost but last place is really bad.
One of the worst communities I've seen was world of warcraft crushrige server, a guild called "humble" ruined any type of decency the server had. Humble is known for making racial slurs, swastikas in screen shots of boss kills, general elitist behavior, and all around douche baggery.
You might find very good can communities in so called "boring" games like IL-2 Sturmoviv because they charm an "older" fanbase and "ZOMFG GORE ANT TITZ !" kiddies stay away from serious WW2 flightsimulaters.
In the time I played AoM, I can remember that they had a great fanbase. Great gane too
Very fucked are most of the RTS fanbases, DoW is a collection of fucktards, just hang 30sec in the ingame channel and you will understand. Also, it wasnt a wise idea to allow the player to import their own banners and badges. So, you might find yourself playing between a team of porn and swastika banner using mongos.
Cant say any better about ZH, because there are abuseable cheats in the game, so its pretty much dead and destroyed, everyone is frustrated.
Supreme Commander has a good community, but it seems to me, they just split into vannila, fa fans and fa hater.
Guild Wars is a secret Nazi operation base, without having a kickass PvP rank you never get in any PvP party so they destroy the experiance for new players because if you arent member of the highlvl PvP master race, you are just unworthy scum and the fact that many players play like they traded their brain for bullcrap and run into every danger because there might be a monk in the party that can heal 7 dumpasses at once. If some one dies, its always the monks fault.
In the time I played AoM, I can remember that they had a great fanbase. Great gane too
Very fucked are most of the RTS fanbases, DoW is a collection of fucktards, just hang 30sec in the ingame channel and you will understand. Also, it wasnt a wise idea to allow the player to import their own banners and badges. So, you might find yourself playing between a team of porn and swastika banner using mongos.
Cant say any better about ZH, because there are abuseable cheats in the game, so its pretty much dead and destroyed, everyone is frustrated.
Supreme Commander has a good community, but it seems to me, they just split into vannila, fa fans and fa hater.
Guild Wars is a secret Nazi operation base, without having a kickass PvP rank you never get in any PvP party so they destroy the experiance for new players because if you arent member of the highlvl PvP master race, you are just unworthy scum and the fact that many players play like they traded their brain for bullcrap and run into every danger because there might be a monk in the party that can heal 7 dumpasses at once. If some one dies, its always the monks fault.
Indie games are the best for general online friendliness - Defcon comes to mind, as does Soldat.
I agree with EVE sentiments - it was always good natured - the community tends to be more mature and intelligent, though I stopped playing a couple of years ago.
I agree with EVE sentiments - it was always good natured - the community tends to be more mature and intelligent, though I stopped playing a couple of years ago.
The Escapist has the best community I've seen.
Other than that I'd go with Team Fortress 2.
The worst community by far was Halo 2, so much inane chatter. You would sit in the lobby listening to people just make noise. I've never really understood why people would get online to make noise. If they didn't have a headset, would they sit alone in their room going "Blah-bloo-blee-bloo?"
Other than that I'd go with Team Fortress 2.
The worst community by far was Halo 2, so much inane chatter. You would sit in the lobby listening to people just make noise. I've never really understood why people would get online to make noise. If they didn't have a headset, would they sit alone in their room going "Blah-bloo-blee-bloo?"
If you have good talking/typing skills, it's easy to make a few honest good friends in SW Battlefront. Problem is finding the right server in the first place. (Chooseyourside)
I goddam hear that. My main is a monk, and always im hearing "OMG LEIK TEH N00B MONK!" when there's smacktards in the party who don't seem to understand that I can't be in 4 places at once, nor that I cant heal that much when they've been hexed to buggery, have 6 minions gnashing their ears off and that warrior is opening a can. You'd think some people would know when running in is and isn't a good idea.
Still, if you find a nice guild in GW who aren't all fascists and are more laid back it you can find some pretty cool people in GW.