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I remember all the hilarious impersonations I would do in Black Ops 2 on PSN. Everyone would be cutting up.

good times

....now everyone is in private parties

Huh, weird. The menfolk have had kind of a loneliness problem for about 15 years...

Day of Defeat <3

I used to roleplay as a pirate, pickpocket, swindler, and ladies man; laughably incompetent at them all, under this username in a tiny, indie RPG called Rubies of Eventide. I was never a strong player, but I got a reputation for funny in-game banter. Playing a different kind of person enabled me to punch above my weight in social skills.

Tribes 1 still like this. Always see the same dudes. They all killers too

Shout out to my TF2 clan. You were the best friends I ever had. 🫡

Just play Mordhau. Playerbase is small enough that you'll see the same people over and over again.

This is happening to me now in squad.

I definitely feel this way about gaming online. I miss Microsoft Ants.

Had the same experience with AssaultCube last year.

CS2 still has server browser. Even I have my own dedicated server.

Runescape is a game I have nostalgic memories of meeting people on, nowadays it feels like a single player game that I'm paying monthly for...

Anecdotal, you still learn people and you can build a community reputation playing PvP in FFXIV. We don't get to choose the map, and you'll still see some people only once, but you get to know who's who. The problem is, it's not as fast as fortnite or other games. Which is a large turn off for many. But the slower (just barely slower) pace is more forgiving towards people that are middle aged and can't compete with top tier fortnite/ League of Legends, etc types.

You can still play old games! TF2 still exists (istg if I die to that one soldier nolife in the 2fort sewers 1 more time)
Also SCP:SL is gonna get a big update soon and it only has servers

This was dota in 2008 basically.

Now I'm sad.

This makes me think of the song "Wave" by the midnight.

"We are hooking up with strangers we will never see again We are not a sentimental age"

I can't say I share exactly this experience, but I did have some experiences of old that I miss.

The only non-MMO I ever played multiplayer prior to ~2013 was Age of Mythology. I never played ranked or competitive, but I did play a shit tonne of fun custom scenarios. Escape maps. Arenas. One really fun Helm's Deep map that would always slow to a crawl once a larger number of units hit the field. I'd browse through the open lobbies and find something that struck my fancy, or create my own lobby and wait for people to join. Hours spent browsing the Age of Mythology Heaven forums for scenarios and reading people talk about them.

I do mind miss those custom scenarios. The new Age of Mythology: Retold feels much more focused on the ranked mode. Which I do also really enjoy. But there doesn't seem the same culture of custom scenarios that there was back in the day.