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[mr_skulls_beer]

 this post was an eye catcher,  my name is jeremy.  i go by the gamertag  db VALIANT db.    i had the privelege of meeting invaderone along with countles others in ME3.  its been a love affair since the demo (multiplayer that is)  and im proud to say that since i started this game i have nearly replaced my entire friendlist with "ME3 players.  i dont browse BSN too often due to the negativity most topics cover but this topic motivated me otherwise.  add me for gold and plat to all that read this
db VALIANT db

[INVADERONE]

mr_skulls_beer wrote...

 this post was an eye catcher,  my name is jeremy.  i go by the gamertag  db VALIANT db.    i had the privelege of meeting invaderone along with countles others in ME3.  its been a love affair since the demo (multiplayer that is)  and im proud to say that since i started this game i have nearly replaced my entire friendlist with "ME3 players.  i dont browse BSN too often due to the negativity most topics cover but this topic motivated me otherwise.  add me for gold and plat to all that read this
db VALIANT db

Looking forward to gaming with you again for sure. I want to do that duo with you as well. I think we can kill it and have fun at the same time bro. Good meeting you btw.

[stysiaq]

Oh, man, where do I even start.

Firstly, let's just agree that the game is quite simple. It's not the mechanics, guns, or even all the kits in the MP that made me play it since launch.

When the game launched, I was hyped as a video game fan like me can be. I finished the campaign in a few days and went through all the SP forums drama. I was angry at myself for spending so much time in ME1 & 2 campaign and meeting the ultimate lackluster and the biggest video game disappointment in my gaming career. I was frustrated, a little bit depressed and I couldn't enjoy even the great, emotionally powerful parts of the Single Player.

But there was also another layer of the ME3 experience. The multiplayet. The SP writers/designers, unfortunately, bit too much than they could chew. The MP is different. At first I thought it was quite dumb. Come on, a simple Horde mode? But today I would use another word: cautious. The deal was simple then, as it is now - it was a way to shoot at things as an alien. To become a character you always dreamed of playing as in a ME game. Ever thought how an Asari Adept could look like? Here, get some. Oh, I suppose you wish there was a playable Quarian Engineer? Well, there is. You're telling me Grunt is the best ME character? Grab a Krogan Soldier.

It wasn't perfect, it was just "a taste" of the ME game I dream of, I wasn't exactly playing as Mordin Solus or Tali, but it was good enough. And addictive as hell. A breath of fresh air, when the SP forums talked about cupcakes or raised money to "Retake Mass Effect".

And then there was the BSN Multiplayer Discussion board. Now, I don't know of it translates directly, but during the USSR existance Poland was often reffered to as "the most cheerful tent in the soviet barracks". I think that it is a quite good parralel. This board was a harbor of sanity, whereas the spoiler/romance sections were burning.

On this board I didn't need to be reminded how my Thane romance worked for me, I just could express how awesome the Drell Adept is and how incredibly crappy Drellguard is (old times, I remind you). The fans' demands in here were simple and cheerful. Rather than asking for the "War Assets DLC", we just asked for a Krogan Vanguard, because hey, Wrex was a Vanguard.

The community in this game is simply great and although there are some quarrels here and there, I think we are enjoying time spent on the BSN. The people help each other out with builds, they discuss buffs/nerfs together, they mock the bugs, they make jokes. Don't forget that the "ME3 Memes" thread was originally here and bloomed until it was moved to the Fan Creations section. I still have a gif from that thread in my signature (unfortunately, I got to play with Aethyl just a couple of times, he isn't an active player right now.)

And there are the "rituals" and habits. I smile every time I see the "What did you get in your commendation pack" thread, I wait for the balance changes every tuesday, I waited for each weekend challenge. I read every balance changes thread. I sign every OFFICIAL PETITION.

Of course, what is the BSN without it's users. as a person with a quite good memory, I eventually "learned" quite a bit about certain users. And I'm not talking about the devs' threads about themselves , although I love when they (especially BroJo) get involved in discussions, leaving their mark wherever they post. But I also know these little things that you eventually get used to on the BSN, like PyroNinja42 / DuhallansXMark / IllusiveManJr thread spam, Air Quotes "X sucks" rants. I know who's a good player even without actually playing with them. I know who hates which gun, I know that if someone asks what weapon to use on the Volus, I'll probably see Annomander post saying that it should be the Claymore with an Omni-Blade. At first I played a lot of PUGs, now it's the pre-made squads mostly, quite often with players a lot better than me. There are still some players I wish I played with and didn't have the pleasure yet. There are still some humorous games I want to play., and I hope the next DLC (if it is released) will give me even more things to do. Now that I'm closer to the manifest completion (but still quite far away) each day it becomes more about the people I play with, not the credits/consumables/extraction time.

I think of myself as a cheerful person, and I try not to get angry or whine too much (like a true Krogan).  I love some parts of the humour that the MP spawned. Every now and then I try to make some kind of joke, I even did a couple of bad drawings (my most dry ME3 joke is in the works). My BSN activity is practically a part of my game, although it doesn't give me unlocks. I just sincerely hope that at least some of the "N7 operatives" out there enjoys it as much as I do.

I have an IRL friend who plays ME3 as well, although he played the third of what I did. Still, we talk a lot about the game, we get excited about the upcoming content, I give him (as a more experienced player) advice. So iI guess that it ties me even closer to the game.

The fact that ME3 is a game I can play for a few hours or even 20 minutes makes that my main source of entertainment when I have some spare time. It's something I can do when I have less assignments during the week, or when I have nothing better to do beore I go out of my house.

You ask us about our reasons to play ME3, INVADERONE. So there it is: the MP is a part of my day and I don't see how it may change any time soon.

[TazMonkey2011]

I play for fun like everyone else has said. I do not care what place I come in because to me it doesn't matter... to use a football analogy, even the third string Ravens QB holding the clipboard gets a SuperBowl ring this morning, so what does it matter what I score as long as I contributed.

Some of the best times I have had are when playing with my friends but at the same time I have found you can have lots of fun in a PUG as well. I have enjoyed learning from others as well as teaching some rookies as well recently.

I have not ever been a big fan of Multiplayer ONLINE but I think BioWare got this right and they need to keep it up because this is down right addictive.

[dysomnium]

I see your wall of text, OP, and raise you a wall of answers!

INVADERONE wrote...
What do you play ME3 Multiplayer for? 

I've been on Xbox LIVE since December '05 and have made a lot of neat online friends, but I've always plateau'd at what most players consider, "good," on games like Halo 2, Call of Duty, Soul Calibur, etc. Competitive, player vs. player games, mostly. For some reason I've always been much better at single player games than most people I've met. I prided myself in being very talented at the Spec Ops missions in Modern Warfare 2, for example. Friends of mine who went to MLG for Call of Duty asked me for their help. Something about this kind of gameplay is just more fun to me. Mass Effect 3's multiplayer, at first (when the demo came out), seemed like the worst thing in the world to me, but that's because I was unaware of its learning curve, as well as the way the manifest really worked and could make a huge difference in-game. After playing through Campaign in Mass Effect 3, I had several friends urging me to give it a shot, and so I did. Then I noticed that I was quite good at it, and very quickly surpassed several of my 'ocassional' friends.

INVADERONE wrote...
What has kept you playing this game?

I've always enjoyed RPG's and collecting everything I can in them, Mass Effect being one of my all-time favourite series. As soon as I realized how quickly I was teaching myself this game, I started exploring different playstyles a bit. In RPG's or action/adventure games that allow you to focus more on weapons vs. powers or supernatural abilities, I'd always been the shoot 'em up kind of guy as I always found that to be the most effective. I hated trying to balance this power with that power to deliver the most effective method of such-and-such ailment to an enemy or two. Why bother with such tedious things when I can just pull out a hand-cannon and blast its face off? So, even from ME1 I was all about the soldier class (DAT IMMUNITY POWER, ermahgerd). ME3MP entirely changed the way I view all RPG's the moment I picked up the Human Engineer, especially when I got my hands on a Carnifex. ME3MP can be fast-paced, and they did an excellent job of not making you focus on mixing and matching powers from a list of fifty-twelve different abilities on a confusing power-wheel or pause menu. Nearly all thought on this is planned before the gameplay even begins. I love strategy. This is strategy. As I mentioned previously, I love collecting things, and maxing out this manifest will generate so many hours of gameplay, it's wonderful. BioWare has done an incredible job of sticking with the community in constantly polishing this diamond that was once in the rough (not saying its perfect, but that makes me happy, because once something is perfect, it gets boring, no?), and I'm excited to see this unanticipated hit keep evolving around the community as it has for the past year. Now, just because I'm good at something doesn't mean I enjoy it, and just because I enjoy something doesn't mean I'm good at it. But, I thoroughly enjoy the relaxed nature of ME3MP's gameplay, and have a lot of confidence in my ability, but what I truly enjoy is learning and expanding my ability (not just in video games, but 'tis relative), and not only as this style of gameplay is right up my alley, but as it is constantly expanding and there are others out there who leave my 'skill' in the dust, yet are willing to teach, it's become a combination of relaxation and brainteasing/puzzling, and directly feeds my inner-completionist. On top of that, a lot of the people I meet are really cool. Speaking of which...

INVADERONE wrote...
Have you ever made any real connections through it?

I've made some awesome connections through ME3MP. A lot of the people I've added from ME3MP over the last several months spill over as my teammates or rivals in other games (SoulCalibur V, Call of Duty, Halo, Guitar Hero, etc.), and their cooperative attitude helps me with my desire to learn, improve and educate on many of the games I enjoy.

INVADERONE wrote...
What is your "FUN" meter when playing this game? Or better put what do you consider a "FUN" game for you in ME3 Multiplayer?

First and foremost, I enjoy a challenge. That is the most singularly fun aspect of ME3MP for me. However, playing solo gets very boring very fast. I love being able to say, "ERMAHGERD, LOOK WHAT I JUST DID!" or, "Dude! Dat was cray! Awesome job!" I love watching other people play, especially when there's humour involved. When I'm in a voice-chat with the other players in my game, I have the most fun when they're having fun. When people laugh, I laugh. When other players get frustrated and 'rage', or when they claim expectations of me and express disappointment in me (basically value the success of that game over simply playing with me), I start losing interest or getting frustrated myself. So, if you're a bronze player in need of a 'wood' difficulty, or if you're a Platinum PUG-star, I'll always have fun playing with you if you can laugh at your own mistakes, and at mine. I also love receiving constructive-criticism. Emphasis on 'constructive'. If I'm playing with someone and they say, "Hey, you should really try blah blah blah instead of yakity yak, because..." I'm entirely up for trying it. I will have fun attempting to implement it, whether I fail at it or not. But when people tell me to do something simply because it's what they would do, I, again, lose interest. It's all about cooperation and having no expectations. And honestly, I think the funnest game I've ever played was when three of my friends and I played as the four available types of Krogan on Glacier Hazard/Cerberus/Platinum and all of us got sync-killed by wave 3.
...that, or the time I played as a Human character and the other three players were Krogans and kept headbutting me in a corner between each wave. How obnoxiously delightful! 

[Colonel Sheppard]

I got bored with ME late last summer when I maxed my manifest and started doing a lot of gold and platinum solos as something fresh. Then I took a month break. Then the challenges came out, and it renewed my interest because I was trying various characters, guns, and ammo types. At this point, I feel I've pretty much exhausted my experimentation with characters, powers, guns, and ammo. I'll probably take a short break till the new DLC comes out.

You can either play to satisfy an addiction or to satisfy a curiosity. I know people who never strays from the Harrier (boring) and never try different kits or solos because they're playing just to satisfy an addiction. I've played enough multiplayer games in my time to know not to play for the addiction. Playing for addiction leads to disenchantment when the available player population decreases. This applies to all multiplayer games.

[shards7]

Good read!

I have enjoyed this game as my favorite game since the first day of ME1 release. Same with ME2.

After the amazing campaign of ME3, it was multiplayer time. It was tough, even the bronze from the start. I played with (who is no longer) a friend whom I thought was a brother to me, and we started or fight against the foes in multiplayer. That friendship dissolved, a very dark time indeed, and I started playing 100% with pugs, trying to survive.

I played as a krogan soldier one pug game, as some people went down, they described it as "diving down into the grand butthole of Satan" in order to revive them on one of my first gold matches. I played with them for a good time until one of them went into the marines ( I am so proud of him) and many months later, the other went to other games.

After they left, I got better. Soloing a lot of gold pre-platinum days. I picked up new friends, like a player named Das Student (I named my Turian engineer after him) and Alice Beagle....great players. Das was a regular silver/ gold player and now only plays platinum, he got very good very fast, and I am so proud of him. Smart kid.

Fun meter....ok I thought I was not playing this game anymore because of a few things. A maxed manifest, platinum solos and I made it on the solo platinum hall of fame. Thought I was done. But no...never! I have never enjoyed this game more.

A few months ago, I played a good 5-6 U U Plat games with invaderone, and after I though I was a great player in my own right, I learned so much that night. I passed everything I could learn from him, watched him and Caine's videos, passed it all down. I brought a good few bronze players into gold and platinum games, I enjoy the times fantastic players like Manbearpig invites me into games every so often, ensightful to play with AshenEarth when we did our all Paladin run, and always waiting to see new fun videos from people like you (invaderone), caine, hardcoresalmon, n7 link and his insane fury, stentron ( bsn topographer), sirian and all the like....

I love this game. My son loves it that I "kill monsters " for him.

I love this game.

I love this game.

I will be on closer to 10 EST. gt is Shards7, anyone wants to play I would love it!

Because I love this game.

[MetalDeggial]

- I started playing the multiplayer component because I simply loved all things Mass Effect. But as time passed, I started wondering why did I keep playing the game, when there was so little content and such predictable AI. New DLC was just more of the same.

- Because of the above, I stopped playing recently. Not enough variety in objectives and classes to keep playing a co-op multiplayer game with such basic AI. If it had PvP, I'd still be playing. Will wait until the next DLC and just do weekly ops.

- No real connections have been made. Heck, no connections at all.

- Fun boils down to seeing people do interesting stuff and back me up. But that almost never happens, so the game was pretty much a repetitive grind, with me going apes**t over the enemy while everyone else kept getting mauled. Yet another reason to stop playing.

Modifié par MetalDeggial, 04 février 2013 - 06:37 .

[N7Dropout1]

What do you play ME3 Multiplayer for?
[/list]Because it's a fun game despite its flaws. I enjoy the challenge of the matches, enjoy slaughtering the mobs and working as a team to get things done.

What has kept you playing this game?[/list]I have some RL friends who play it and this community has helped keep it going. People are passionate about it. The challenge system has given me incentive to try new kits and weapons and become a better player.

Have you ever made any real connections through it?[/list]Obligatory Korean model joke.

What is your "FUN" meter when playing this game? Or better put what do you consider a "FUN" game for you in ME3 Multiplayer? (All answers to this is fine. Even if you are all about score that is cool as well as everyone has their season in this game)[/list]
Fun game = everyone trying to actually win the game. Not seeing teammates die in the first 5 seconds and bleed out. The best games are everyone working hard and as a team with similar scores. I will rage at missile glitcher, box of shamers, hydra map cheaters and assorted douchebags who leech, die and don't gel, etc.

[LightRobot]

 I play for fun, like most players I think !

Fun and challenge

Not really, I find it hard to communicate with other players, most of them don't even talk, but some can be fun when we succeed in understanding each other.

I have the great chance to have both my older brother and younger cousin playing this game, so most of the really fun games I had were with them because we can just be silly and stupid and talk about anything ( in the same languafe which is really easier !)
So yeah I guess I get the most fun out of a game when I play with people with whom I can have a laugh , do really stupid things like light melee banshees over and over again, heavy melee brutes shouting : aaaaahhhh-krogan style, shooting ourselves with our missiles, stealing primes kill and rubb it in the face of the fellow soldier ( for fun of course), those kind of things.
It's also good to have a team that plays together, support eachother and so on... if I get that I'll have a real good time regardless of if we lose or fail.

There's a reason this game is cooperative !

[DarkFaerie316]

I play for fun and for the friends I've made while playing this game. There are a couple of those I now chat with outside of me3 and we've become quite good friends. But I mainly play just to get together with my pals and chill for the afternoon/night. Oh and to see how far I can get with the challenges lol

[longgamma]

What do you play ME3 Multiplayer for?

Mostly unwinding after work

What has kept you playing this game?

This is my first multiplayer experience, I am happy to have discovered BSN around the Earth DLC and it really helped in improving my game and the general banter here is fun most of the times.

Have you ever made any real connections through it?

No

What is your "FUN" meter when playing this game? Or better put what do you consider a "FUN" game for you in ME3 Multiplayer?

I play a lot of pug games, and have come across some really good players and some really bad (I mean selfish) ones. But on the whole, I love pug games and the quality is not as bad as people here would make you believe. Even if it takes me 25-30 minutes to complete with a set of middling players, who cant bring in top notch gear, I will stick around and do my best to help them out,

[Sn1p3R XxPr0Xx]

INVADERONE wrote...
We you INVADER!! I've played with you quite a bit and you changed my perspective on the game itself. So I thank you for that. Thanks man! 

WARNING! A LOT OF TEXT!

Hi everyone,

A little story for all of you. So as some of you know I have a channel and I post vids to help as many people as I can with the harder difficulties, builds and try to at least make some challenge videos for entertainment and fun. Throughout all of this I have met some very skilled players as well. Although it has been fun gaming with them I dont always enjoy playing with them all the time as it mostly boils down to racing for top score. Even when Im not trying which is like 99% of the time. God forbid I am leading and then there are the excuses and server crashes etc. This is not how I like to game EVERY game. 

I started out in this game as a Bronze player and then stood in silver for a very long time. Why did I stay in Silver for a long time? Because I met some really good people through this game way before doing the vids. We'd look forward to gaming with each other and talking about our days and lives. What drew me to ME3 as opposed to me continuing ranking up on Halo Reach was because the people I met in this game were real. 60 year olds gaming and kicking butt. Executives, business owners, college kids, artists, desginers and many other types who would get together in the evenings to run some biotic runs and never, do I remember us looking or caring about score. Those were the best games of my ME3 gaming career. 

Come present time and when I try to mix those gamers from the Silver days who dont get to play often with the "elite" it becomes an impatience fest. Although I enjoy all my buddies who play at higher levels I do enjoy the "people" more that play this game. After a long day of work and bull and everything else....I get on my xbox and play with a few friends who just want to have "fun", connect and just unwind, laugh and chit chat while stomping marauders in the face or meleeing a Banshee's saggy....ummm..things till she's no longer annoying us with her wailing.

I think this is why a lot of my YouTube subscribers are constantly surprised that I respond to all of their messages so quickly and why I actually game with Bronze to Gold players to help them level up to Platinum. I have been a community leader in the past and enjoy meeting new people and just getting to know all the different kinds of people out there and just appreciate who they are. 

This is the reason that although I play other games like Halo 4, COD and various other games that I am doing playthrough's on...I still come back mostly to ME3 because of the people I have met in the game.

If you are all about the challenge...that is awesome. I have done that as well and mostly done I think everything there is to do in this game and still thinking of doing more. The thing is....when I turn on the xbox and we play...I could care less if I end up on the bottom of the leaderboard as I have nothing to prove anymore in this game. What I care about is that you had fun. I have been an open book to all the people that I game with here and again if anyone wants to play a few games just for fun and run interesting builds and non op kits to just try something new. Well... I appreciate that just as much as I appreciate a tough level 1 platinum run. 

I just wanted to say that I appreciate all of you guys who I have met and have actually taken an interest on who I am and not what people "think" I am about. I also appreciate all of those who have spent their hours being such good new friends through all of this. Many of who I have actually met in "real" life because of this game. 

Overall...the question is. Why do YOU play this game? Is it for fun or you just want to be the latest and greatest prideful elitist who can outscore everyone and thats what you are all about?...Which is also cool as every game needs all those types. Me.... I play for fun and truly enjoying the people I am gaming with regardless of the outcome as when you come into my lobby I dont see you as an opponent. I see you as a team mate and a most of all a "real" person.

So here it goes.

• What do you play ME3 Multiplayer for? 
• What has kept you playing this game?
• Have you ever made any real connections through it?
• What is your "FUN" meter when playing this game? Or better put what do you consider a "FUN" game for you in ME3 Multiplayer? (All answers to this is fine. Even if you are all about score that is cool as well as everyone has their season in this game)

[HYYP]

quick question: is there a way to find out the names of players of the last game?

I have terrible memory and immediately forget their screen names and then how to contact them ?

[Miniditka77]

RedJohn wrote...

I love this game, also the fact that it brings me a HUGE amount of possibilities to try with different builds, loadout etc etc etc etc. 

This is why I play the game, mostly.  The main attraction of Mass Effect for me has always been the variety of different playstyles - which is one of the reasons I love Bioshock so much too.  In my opinion, the biggest reason for the success of multiplayer is that it has taken that variety and run with it.  In a SP campaign, you don't have quite as much freedom to change playstyles, or to change them as quickly.  In ME3 multiplayer, you can completely change playstyles every 15-30 minutes (depending on how fast you get through games) just by switching classes.  Krogan Firesmasher (TM pending) one game, Drell Space Karate the next game, Salarian with a big sniper rifle the next - that's what makes this game fun.

EDIT:  And no, I haven't really made any connections playing the game.  There were a few guys I'd play Silver with when they happened to be on, but they have moved on to other games now, so I don't really do that any more.

I consider a game to be fun when we get extraction, I contributed a lot, and it was challenging, but I didn't have to burn all my consumables to do it.  I know getting a extractions is not a big deal to a lot of people here, but I probably only get extraction 70% of the time on Gold (all XBox PUGS), so it's important for me.

Modifié par Miniditka77, 04 février 2013 - 06:59 .

[Sn1p3R XxPr0Xx]

HYYP wrote...

quick question: is there a way to find out the names of players of the last game?

I have terrible memory and immediately forget their screen names and then how to contact them ?

recent players list is your best bet

[Sn1p3R XxPr0Xx]

My gamer tag is not my name for anyone who's interested. My actual gamer tag is:
Equestrian Nads. No joke. Well the gt creation was a joke with a friend but its real

[INVADERONE]

AtR Sheepdog wrote...

I see your wall of text, OP, and raise you a wall of answers!

INVADERONE wrote...
What do you play ME3 Multiplayer for? 

I've been on Xbox LIVE since December '05 and have made a lot of neat online friends, but I've always plateau'd at what most players consider, "good," on games like Halo 2, Call of Duty, Soul Calibur, etc. Competitive, player vs. player games, mostly. For some reason I've always been much better at single player games than most people I've met. I prided myself in being very talented at the Spec Ops missions in Modern Warfare 2, for example. Friends of mine who went to MLG for Call of Duty asked me for their help. Something about this kind of gameplay is just more fun to me. Mass Effect 3's multiplayer, at first (when the demo came out), seemed like the worst thing in the world to me, but that's because I was unaware of its learning curve, as well as the way the manifest really worked and could make a huge difference in-game. After playing through Campaign in Mass Effect 3, I had several friends urging me to give it a shot, and so I did. Then I noticed that I was quite good at it, and very quickly surpassed several of my 'ocassional' friends.

INVADERONE wrote...
What has kept you playing this game?

I've always enjoyed RPG's and collecting everything I can in them, Mass Effect being one of my all-time favourite series. As soon as I realized how quickly I was teaching myself this game, I started exploring different playstyles a bit. In RPG's or action/adventure games that allow you to focus more on weapons vs. powers or supernatural abilities, I'd always been the shoot 'em up kind of guy as I always found that to be the most effective. I hated trying to balance this power with that power to deliver the most effective method of such-and-such ailment to an enemy or two. Why bother with such tedious things when I can just pull out a hand-cannon and blast its face off? So, even from ME1 I was all about the soldier class (DAT IMMUNITY POWER, ermahgerd). ME3MP entirely changed the way I view all RPG's the moment I picked up the Human Engineer, especially when I got my hands on a Carnifex. ME3MP can be fast-paced, and they did an excellent job of not making you focus on mixing and matching powers from a list of fifty-twelve different abilities on a confusing power-wheel or pause menu. Nearly all thought on this is planned before the gameplay even begins. I love strategy. This is strategy. As I mentioned previously, I love collecting things, and maxing out this manifest will generate so many hours of gameplay, it's wonderful. BioWare has done an incredible job of sticking with the community in constantly polishing this diamond that was once in the rough (not saying its perfect, but that makes me happy, because once something is perfect, it gets boring, no?), and I'm excited to see this unanticipated hit keep evolving around the community as it has for the past year. Now, just because I'm good at something doesn't mean I enjoy it, and just because I enjoy something doesn't mean I'm good at it. But, I thoroughly enjoy the relaxed nature of ME3MP's gameplay, and have a lot of confidence in my ability, but what I truly enjoy is learning and expanding my ability (not just in video games, but 'tis relative), and not only as this style of gameplay is right up my alley, but as it is constantly expanding and there are others out there who leave my 'skill' in the dust, yet are willing to teach, it's become a combination of relaxation and brainteasing/puzzling, and directly feeds my inner-completionist. On top of that, a lot of the people I meet are really cool. Speaking of which...

INVADERONE wrote...
Have you ever made any real connections through it?

I've made some awesome connections through ME3MP. A lot of the people I've added from ME3MP over the last several months spill over as my teammates or rivals in other games (SoulCalibur V, Call of Duty, Halo, Guitar Hero, etc.), and their cooperative attitude helps me with my desire to learn, improve and educate on many of the games I enjoy.

INVADERONE wrote...
What is your "FUN" meter when playing this game? Or better put what do you consider a "FUN" game for you in ME3 Multiplayer?

First and foremost, I enjoy a challenge. That is the most singularly fun aspect of ME3MP for me. However, playing solo gets very boring very fast. I love being able to say, "ERMAHGERD, LOOK WHAT I JUST DID!" or, "Dude! Dat was cray! Awesome job!" I love watching other people play, especially when there's humour involved. When I'm in a voice-chat with the other players in my game, I have the most fun when they're having fun. When people laugh, I laugh. When other players get frustrated and 'rage', or when they claim expectations of me and express disappointment in me (basically value the success of that game over simply playing with me), I start losing interest or getting frustrated myself. So, if you're a bronze player in need of a 'wood' difficulty, or if you're a Platinum PUG-star, I'll always have fun playing with you if you can laugh at your own mistakes, and at mine. I also love receiving constructive-criticism. Emphasis on 'constructive'. If I'm playing with someone and they say, "Hey, you should really try blah blah blah instead of yakity yak, because..." I'm entirely up for trying it. I will have fun attempting to implement it, whether I fail at it or not. But when people tell me to do something simply because it's what they would do, I, again, lose interest. It's all about cooperation and having no expectations. And honestly, I think the funnest game I've ever played was when three of my friends and I played as the four available types of Krogan on Glacier Hazard/Cerberus/Platinum and all of us got sync-killed by wave 3.
...that, or the time I played as a Human character and the other three players were Krogans and kept headbutting me in a corner between each wave. How obnoxiously delightful! 

Woa woa woa...you play Soul Calibur IV? I still play this game here and there. A lot of people dont know this but I was on the top 10 on the leaderboards on the game the first three days it came out. I no lifed it. Literally took days off of work and I was the guy who made Ashtaroth fun to play. You had to hear all the laughs when I would rock Ashtaroth but then the tears for understimating him. I dont have my skills up to par now but I'd be down to play a few matches with you if you'd like. I have been playing it here and there with another friend of mine. I hear V is not that great but I am rocking IV for sure whenever I find anyone who wants to game. 

[INVADERONE]

Wow. You guys all have really cool stories.

[dysomnium]

INVADERONE wrote...

Woa woa woa...you play Soul Calibur IV? I still play this game here and there. A lot of people dont know this but I was on the top 10 on the leaderboards on the game the first three days it came out. I no lifed it. Literally took days off of work and I was the guy who made Ashtaroth fun to play. You had to hear all the laughs when I would rock Ashtaroth but then the tears for understimating him. I dont have my skills up to par now but I'd be down to play a few matches with you if you'd like. I have been playing it here and there with another friend of mine. I hear V is not that great but I am rocking IV for sure whenever I find anyone who wants to game. 

I have IV, but I mainly play V. Honestly, V is amazing. It's so much more in-depth than previous generations of SC. I was never amazing at either, but I learned a LOT on V (Alpha Patroklos is my main, the progeny of Setsuka from IV) so I could probably apply a lot of that to Setsuka on IV. My Gamertag is 'dysomnium'. Add me, man! I'd definintely be up for some SoulCalibur. Also, Astaroth is still pretty beast in V, so I would recommend SCV, for sure.
P.S. Top 10 at release? Props, man. As fighting games go, SoulCalibur is no joke, and that's definitely above my caliber of skill.

[KiraTsukasa]

AtR Sheepdog wrote...

INVADERONE wrote...

Woa woa woa...you play Soul Calibur IV? I still play this game here and there. A lot of people dont know this but I was on the top 10 on the leaderboards on the game the first three days it came out. I no lifed it. Literally took days off of work and I was the guy who made Ashtaroth fun to play. You had to hear all the laughs when I would rock Ashtaroth but then the tears for understimating him. I dont have my skills up to par now but I'd be down to play a few matches with you if you'd like. I have been playing it here and there with another friend of mine. I hear V is not that great but I am rocking IV for sure whenever I find anyone who wants to game. 

I have IV, but I mainly play V. Honestly, V is amazing. It's so much more in-depth than previous generations of SC. I was never amazing at either, but I learned a LOT on V (Alpha Patroklos is my main, the progeny of Setsuka from IV) so I could probably apply a lot of that to Setsuka on IV. My Gamertag is 'dysomnium'. Add me, man! I'd definintely be up for some SoulCalibur. Also, Astaroth is still pretty beast in V, so I would recommend SCV, for sure.
P.S. Top 10 at release? Props, man. As fighting games go, SoulCalibur is no joke, and that's definitely above my caliber of skill.

I had SC II for GCN. I basically dropped the game due to everyone I played with did nothing more than button mash. No elegance in some people, I swear.

[INVADERONE]

KiraTsukasa wrote...

AtR Sheepdog wrote...

INVADERONE wrote...

Woa woa woa...you play Soul Calibur IV? I still play this game here and there. A lot of people dont know this but I was on the top 10 on the leaderboards on the game the first three days it came out. I no lifed it. Literally took days off of work and I was the guy who made Ashtaroth fun to play. You had to hear all the laughs when I would rock Ashtaroth but then the tears for understimating him. I dont have my skills up to par now but I'd be down to play a few matches with you if you'd like. I have been playing it here and there with another friend of mine. I hear V is not that great but I am rocking IV for sure whenever I find anyone who wants to game. 

I have IV, but I mainly play V. Honestly, V is amazing. It's so much more in-depth than previous generations of SC. I was never amazing at either, but I learned a LOT on V (Alpha Patroklos is my main, the progeny of Setsuka from IV) so I could probably apply a lot of that to Setsuka on IV. My Gamertag is 'dysomnium'. Add me, man! I'd definintely be up for some SoulCalibur. Also, Astaroth is still pretty beast in V, so I would recommend SCV, for sure.
P.S. Top 10 at release? Props, man. As fighting games go, SoulCalibur is no joke, and that's definitely above my caliber of skill.

I had SC II for GCN. I basically dropped the game due to everyone I played with did nothing more than button mash. No elegance in some people, I swear.

I will have to pick up V then. I didnt hear too many positive things but one always needs their own point of view on things anyways. Hope its fun.

Anyone up for some ME3 Plat runs?

[Gornok]

I play the game because it interest me... I love the fact that Mass Effect finally got a MP and that the multiplayer is co-op... Like the fact that the enemies which I hated throughout the previous ones are here for me to hunt and take out. I like the variety of weapons and kits which to attack my enemies with.

I continue to play because at this point, I haven't found any other which holds my interest. Although there are the CODs and Halos... this game and its mechanics keep me here... although I do wish that some adaptations could be made to make it more interesting. Or that I wish that the challenges were indeed, challenging, overall its still a great game.

There are a few which I made connections with, that I enjoy playing the game with, that I could have debates with and not feel the need to mute their mic from all the bull which they say...

[dysomnium]

INVADERONE wrote...

KiraTsukasa wrote...

AtR Sheepdog wrote...

INVADERONE wrote...

Woa woa woa...you play Soul Calibur IV? I still play this game here and there. A lot of people dont know this but I was on the top 10 on the leaderboards on the game the first three days it came out. I no lifed it. Literally took days off of work and I was the guy who made Ashtaroth fun to play. You had to hear all the laughs when I would rock Ashtaroth but then the tears for understimating him. I dont have my skills up to par now but I'd be down to play a few matches with you if you'd like. I have been playing it here and there with another friend of mine. I hear V is not that great but I am rocking IV for sure whenever I find anyone who wants to game. 

I have IV, but I mainly play V. Honestly, V is amazing. It's so much more in-depth than previous generations of SC. I was never amazing at either, but I learned a LOT on V (Alpha Patroklos is my main, the progeny of Setsuka from IV) so I could probably apply a lot of that to Setsuka on IV. My Gamertag is 'dysomnium'. Add me, man! I'd definintely be up for some SoulCalibur. Also, Astaroth is still pretty beast in V, so I would recommend SCV, for sure.
P.S. Top 10 at release? Props, man. As fighting games go, SoulCalibur is no joke, and that's definitely above my caliber of skill.

I had SC II for GCN. I basically dropped the game due to everyone I played with did nothing more than button mash. No elegance in some people, I swear.

I will have to pick up V then. I didnt hear too many positive things but one always needs their own point of view on things anyways. Hope its fun.

Anyone up for some ME3 Plat runs?

Your Gamertag same as BSN profile?

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

Actually, I'm realizing that this game's life in my machine is one of the longest of any game I've ever played, coming up will be a year.

I've only played a handful of games longer, and those are usually epic games like Fallout: NV.

I played a few online games before this one, but none for any real length of time.

I did manage to plug away at Call of Duty: World at War long enough to actually place in the middle scores as a sniper in team Deathmatch (usually with a very good kill to death ratio, but not all that many kills.) That was quite an accomplishment, given that the game had been out for years, and I had never played a multiplayer, before.

But it was pretty frustrating, too. And there were hacks and cheats in almost every second game.

I actually preferred the coop modes. They were a lot of fun, but at any given point in time, there were at most 1 or 2 people playing in the two highest difficulties.

One of the most rewarding experiences I had online was a duo with a random gamer on the highest difficulty. I don't remember the name of the mission, but it was the one where you storm a bombed-out hospital, in the Russian campaign. It had an epic turkey shoot that we were only able to survive by using a fixed MG while my partner revived me every 10 seconds, while hidden behind cover.

It took about an hour to advance our way through the whole mission. I never found anyone playing that difficulty again, and maybe twice ever found anyone playing Hardened.

So playing ME 3 multiplayer is pretty rewarding, by comparison. I had participated in every weekend up before losing my internet connection for 3 months, and I was pretty sad about that.

But after coming back, there was a tonne of new material, a new challenge system, Volus!  (they came a little later.)

Most of the friends I had been playing with before were gone. I guess there was the possibility around December that I was going to stop playing, for the most part. It would become a once-in-a-while thing.

It was actually BSN that spurred me on. I had had many laughs reading in the forums, and kept posting in here after my gameplay slowed down. Over time, I got inspired to try challenging myself with the higher difficulties and challenges that I never thought I would really bother doing.

Then, I posted a thread about how I had accidentally soloed Silver (still one of my favourite moments in ME 3) and sort of expected a bit of "Oh, you soloed Silver, how quaint," but it wasn't that way at all. People were really encouraging, and I decided to throw myself into it a bit more, and start working towards playing on Gold habitually, and getting a Platinum extraction (not solo, not a masochist) and a Gold solo (I guess I'll do 2, for the challenge's sake.)

Still working on most of that. I like playing as support characters, and stealthy characters, too. So doing good DPS is a bit challenging, but I think the Huntress may be where I'll actually start to put bigger scores together (I've only just used her for the first time, but if I can break my habit of using TC to increase DPS with my gun, I'll do much better with her.)

I also have a feeling that if I can get my Paladin up to VII or VIII or so, and replace my Carnifex X on my casters, I'll rack up a lot more OSK or TSK headshots on Gold.

I'm also just starting to play with some of the people I've gotten to know on BSN, so that has significantly renewed my interest in playing more, as well.

And I am determined to master playing the Volus. I'm getting much better with the Adept, still experimenting. I occasionally even place third with him!

(At last, my long-winded posting style has a thread to match!)

Modifié par Jeremiah12LGeek, 04 février 2013 - 08:38 .