Do you think the internet ruined or improved socialization between people who play video games?

[RandomUser]

This is slightly off topic,
I just wanted to say that online made me realized that I was actually the worst player out there, because when the family and I played back in the days, like the N64 days, we all played together and I was the best player of them all, even if I didn't occasionally win at times. Also around my relative, I was very good at playing games. Which lead me to believe I was a very good player, perhaps the best there was.
Also I did like playing co-op mode in Mario Kart Double dash, man you could punch the neighboring Kart drivers and make them spin out. To bad something like that isn't available online.
Now... we rarely play games together anymore .

 

[Deleted member 668561]

Actually it's the mirror opposite for me.
I and me brother are frequently 100%ing games.
We don't play on one console no.

He plays on his own 360 on his own telly and I bring a small telly + me RGH.
Together we're on his couch playing the same game.

It's an oldie pic from ~dec last year?
100%ing RDR together.

We're both no fans of multiplayer.
Co-op we do but we syslink the consoles or we go into private servers.
But that's incredibly rare.

fucking system link lobbies lmaoo, good times

i've been using the internet and computers since i literally can remember, at first it improved socialization, now it seems that socializing is kinda dead,

you can't jump on consoles nowadays and literally get a whole 18 person lobby raging and shit talking trololol


not like it used to be playing 360, ps2,etc

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[jimbo13]

No, I think it's akin to a prostitute.

Gets the job done, provides a placebo for interaction without any of the healthy mental aspects.

On a sidenote I think the coordination and reflex aspects are gone from modern gaming to, Grandpa's video games had this concept called "game over" most modern games you can continually play through without improving.

 

[UltraDolphinRevolution]

Outsmarting someone in a game is a thousand times more rewarding than against a CPU. We could argue whether online gaming with unkown people is "socializing", but there is no question that the internet has made gaming more interesting.

 

[osaka35]

Local co-op all the way. it's really the only way to do it, unless you're playing private servers with friends only, or can remove the silly people.

online co-op was a pipe dream for me, living on bad dial-up in the early 2000s. I wouldn't get proper internet until university. First time trying online co-op resulted in a left-4-dead where my teamates were killing each other/me and screaming their heads off. definitely set my expectations of what online matches are like. I'll play matches online occasionally, but avoid chat like the plague. because it is. After hearing some of the incredibly racist and sexist things when i try and dip my toes in again, no way am I going to interact with that on a regular basis. bunch of edgelord 12 year olds who don't understand the horrific things they're saying, just like they're getting attention and "fitting in".

So no. no, i don't think online is a good way to improve socialization.

but my experiences aren't everyones, so hopefully mine is a rarer experience and I just have terrible luck.

The internet started in 1982, although the world wide web only became public available in 1991 (after being designed in 1989).

People think of the internet as youtube/facebook/etc but they are only content.

remember google video? remember 4-lane? how does a polar bear know what apples is?

 

[smf]

remember google video? remember 4-lane? how does a polar bear know what apples is?

I have a vague recollection about google video, it didn't last long. Never heard of 4-lane.
I don't know how polar bears conceptualize anything as I'm neither a polar bear or can communicate with one.

Remember altavista?

I'm not aware of any method that polar bears use for documenting their history, but we do & I kinda wonder why they don't teach internet history in schools.

 

[Bladexdsl]

ruined it for sure turned everyone into trolls.