i find most of them to be pretty easy.

Multiplayer games will always be frustrating if you′re not stacked up against people of your skill level. The other day I went to my friends house and we decided to pull out the old PS2 and play some Tekken Tag on it, but first he wanted to play some Naruto: Ultimate Ninja 2, a game I had never tried before.

Needless to say I got my ass handed to me and I never beat him once, so we switched over to Tekken tag, we had originally planned to play it co-op, but by then I was itching to kick his butt after he beat me every time in his game, so I did, and I never lost once, of course he hadn′t played a lot of Tekken so it was equally frustrating for him to try and beat me in that game as it was for me to try and beat him in his Naruto game.

We ended up just playing the co-op arcade version of Tekken Tag for the rest of the day.


As for online games you can′t just switch to co-op that easily and you have no guarantee that everyone will be equally skilled on the playing field. So they will be frustrating for as long as you are not amongst the best. I tried playing battlefield 2 online back when that was new but quickly gave up to the hordes of super elite BF2 players who spent all their day on the game. I just went to enjoy some single player instead and I haven′t looked back on online FPS games.

When I played MP FPS back on my 360, I found that the number one thing you absolutely have to do to have a better time was to memorize each and every map. Every hiding spot, every flank, where the usual choke points are, etc. You may have already done that, for all I know, but it's what I learned when playing those games. Good reflexes and precision aiming are a big factor, but even if you have both of those talents, not knowing a map inside and out will guarantee you will play horribly. Even I, somebody who has terrible reflexes and could hardly ever win in an even firefight, improved vastly as I began to understand where I was going.

The biggest problem with multiplayer games?


They involve other people.

wouldn't know. I have never played multiplayer any thing over servers just with my friends on my console and the only annoying thing is when one of them will grab the sniper riffle equivilant and sit some where the whole match. kind of like how it was for mortal komba when som one would use the same move over and over. its not cheating, but you are a jerk when you do it.

This.

I have good days and bad days, sometimes I get top of the team every round, sometimes I get 3/20 k/d.

The one thing that stays constant is that I just don't get frustrated. If I die like 20 times in a row, I'm not going to throw something, I'll just be like lol I svck, and spend the rest of the match trying to cap objectives or give out ammo or health or something, so that at least I'm being useful to my team.

I wish I had your patience. You've got no idea how many times I've used Modern Warfare 2 as a frisbee or how many controllers I've broken. :rolleyes:

This is why I play about 1 or 2 matches of MW2 a day. (Black ops can go die in a hole). I tend not to get that angry from that because im still in relaxed mode and not super competitive game mode. Though I tend to stick to single player games more than anything.,especially Fallout. :fallout:

Yeah I am like that, that is one of the reasons why I quit playing online games. I swear when I was playing War Hawk I had someone shot dead, only for me to be dead, and they suddenly disapear and apear again. I figure out that it must be lag on my part, and I HATE IT! Nothing I can do because where it seems I live, we have bad connection for high speed internet and nothing can be done about it. Tried 3 companies so now I just play with my son and get my butt kicked that way.

Lag was an issue using 56k, is today, and will always be.

If it's frustrating you, either you're playing too much or it's not for you.

It's strange that games would cause stress of any sort. I thought the point was fun?

It was fun till I couldn't hit even one person LOL. Had a technichian come in the other day got 1 meg faster he said, but life to busy right now, so haven't had time to check it out.

This thread and your post reminded me I need to check it out when time permits, maybe I will have my fun back again.

I like multiplayer games because I'm apparently not an unsociable cretin like the rest of you.

I can't stand single player games, though. AI is too predictable.

I have Counterstrike Source and Teamfortress 2 as my stapled of shooter goodness, it's all I need. I haven't bothered playing any new FPS games religiously, none of them have a new concept. I play CSS for the mods, and Teamfortress 2 for the skill level. Assuming I can find a good server, which I have on multiple occasions. I was at one point good enough to go pro (as a medic, and was asked a few times), but the pro league in TF2 is so small. Also adds too much pressure, I do play these games for fun.

What I like about TF2 is that if you're getting hammered again and again, then you've got 8 other classes to choose from, and one of them is bound to suit your playstyle.
Plus if all else fails then Pyro + W + M1.

Though I have to admit, I get more frustrated with TF2 than any other game, [censored] soldiers and demos and their [censored] explosives.

Coming from a Networking students perspective. I am MUCH more angry towards single player games that have these problems. Where hitreg isn't happening due to poor coding or something in the like. Nothing makes me rage against a videogame more than it being poorly done.

As for online, I understand how the network is influenced and how it works when you play a game online, and because of this, I never really get angry or fault a game because something gay happened because either the host is laggy, or the servers are way overloaded.

My thing with online games is that I play them because the offline is not challenging. For example I can clear most FPS on Veteran/Hard/Legendary, whatever, or in Mortal Kombat I can beat the expert tower all day.

I go online to find people who are at my skill level or stronger. Yet I rarely feel like I do. I feel more like people have better gimmicks as opposed to more skill.

Ha didn't know so many of you were MP haters. I like all kinds of MP games. I love the random element that playing other humans brings.

I don't get mad about losing, it is a game after all. I have the occasional rage, but it all part of the fun.

This isn't always the case, as tonight in a match of Modern Warfare 2 my shotgun fired exactly as I died, yet nothing happened. On my screen the muzzle flashed as he killed me, on his killcam nothing happened.

I too find many multiplayer games frustrating. That's one of the reasons I prefer co-op modes over competitive modes. It's much more relaxing (to me) to play Left 4 Dead 2 than to play Modern Warfare 2.

Well, that's bound to happen quite often due to online latency. In reality, he was indeed faster on the trigger than you, though because of the slight delay caused by latency, you were able to get a "phantom shot" off even though on his screen, you were already dead. The same thing would have happened on his Cam if you squeezed it off a half a second faster than him.

A possibility, or he may have pulled the trigger well before I even started to due to connection differences. Depending where in the world he was, it could have a delay of a full second or more.

Last FPS I played I was the only one there not running cheats.
Everyone else had all this auto-aim & shoot through walls stuff running.
It ruined the game.

I'm only frustrated because I can't get my gold live membership at the moment (exams).