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How many MP focused games are in your All Time Top 10?

Diablo 2... or 3... not sure which I'd pick. Maybe both, honestly.
Mass Effect 3, arguably
World of Warcraft

Honorable Mentions:
Divinity Original Sin
Overwatch

I don't consider myself to be a multiplayer guy, at all, but all of these games really got under my skin the way few do.
 
I'm not sure I could make a top ten anymore, since there're too many good games I like equally at this point, but amongst my favorites are the early Halo games, Perfect Dark (which has a great single player in addition to coop/multiplayer) and at least one of the Street Fighter games.
 
StarCraft II is absolutely there, but that's also partly on the strength of its robust campaigns. I fell in love with the competitive multiplayer (and more recently the cooperative one) in a way I never did with SC1/BW, a game I tremendously respect and love to watch but have no intention of mastering further as a player. It doesn't have WC3/TFT's customs scene by any stretch of the imagination, but the latter was a rare case of user content completely upstaging and swallowing up the main game. I've enjoyed RTS since childhood but never took any sustained interest in multiplayer ladders until SC2 came along.

World of Warcraft may or may not be there. In the past there have been phases where it was an important part of my life, and it may well be my most-played game of all time (as it is for most players who were ever involved with it on anything more than a casual basis), but when it's not in the picture it seems so distant that I could easily name a dozen tight, contained single-player experiences I've cherished more and which I think of objectively as better designed.
 
Seeing these lists makes me realize that people are really playing Rainbow Six Siege. I gave it a short run, playing maybe 3 or 4 online matches, but it really didn't stick with me (and it didn't really stick with the media either). Years ago, I played hundreds of hours of Rainbow Six 3 so I was hoping this game would bring back some of that feeling.


So, my question is this: Did something happen since launch (when I first played it) that made this game great? Is it too late to get in (as it seems like there are a lot of dominant strategies and map knowledge is essential)? I've been so immersed into Overwatch the last year that I feel like I might be missing out.
 
Starcraft
Perfect Dark
Halo 2
Arma 2

Multiplayer games that have no local options are automatically unworthy of being in any top 10 list since they will inevitably be rendered unplayable with the passage of time.
 
4/10.

– Final Fantasy XI (2002, PC)
– Unreal Tournament (1999, PC)
– Micro Machines V3 (1997, PlayStation)
– Command & Conquer: Red Alert (1996, PC)

Though not all of my time spent with them has been in multiplayer modes, these games are definitely multiplayer-focused.
 
FFXIV-Been playing consistently since 2.0 launch and looking forward to Storm blood
Destiny-Almost missed out on even checking this game out. I'm not usually into FPS, but thought it looked cool when I first saw it during E3 2014. Tried out the Alpha and the rest is history. It's truly one of my favorite games of all time.
 
Three are definitively multiplayer focused (Super Smash Bros. Melee, Soul Calibur IV, Mario Kart DS)

One has both a strong single-player and multiplayer, and I wouldn't really say it's "focused," on either (Super Monkey Ball 2). I would say that without the multiplayer it probably wouldn't have made my top 10; both the single-player and multiplayer are superb, but if the game was just one of them I probably would have found it lacking in content.

Two have multiplayer modes that some people put a ton of time into but I never did (Pokemon Platinum, In the Groove 2). The former is sort of like Monkey Ball in that it has both a big single-player and multiplayer component, but I've never been hugely into competitive Pokemon or just battling with my friends. The latter is basically just the same game but with another person in MP and I've only played ITG2 by myself.

The others (Twilight Princess which may get usurped by Breath of the Wild as I play it more, Fire Emblem Fates, Virtue's Last Reward, Elite Beat Agents) are single-player focused.

So if I had to pick a number I'd say SMB2 is multiplayer focused and the other two I mentioned aren't, which would make four.
 
whalesex said:
Seeing these lists makes me realize that people are really playing Rainbow Six Siege. I gave it a short run, playing maybe 3 or 4 online matches, but it really didn't stick with me (and it didn't really stick with the media either). Years ago, I played hundreds of hours of Rainbow Six 3 so I was hoping this game would bring back some of that feeling.


So, my question is this: Did something happen since launch (when I first played it) that made this game great? Is it too late to get in (as it seems like there are a lot of dominant strategies and map knowledge is essential)? I've been so immersed into Overwatch the last year that I feel like I might be missing out.
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Oh hell yes. Amazing game. It certainly needs a hell of a lot more than 3-4 matches to get your bearings, though. Amazing game.
 
Apart from Metal Gear Solid (PSX) and The Last of Us being my two favourite ones I don't really rank games, but many, many very good ones I can remember are competitive multiplayer games:

Black Ops 2
Killzone 2 and Shadow Fall
Rainbow Six Siege
Overwatch
Titanfall 2

I started MP games on PS360 era, so that's why they are mostly recent.
 
just Myth the Fallen Lords and Minecraft

Quake 3 and Mario Kart 64 make the top 20

Nintendoland makes the top 25

Destiny makes the top 50
 
Halo CE
Halo 5
Overwatch

and Advance Wars was always pretty MP focused to me, but I wouldn't call it an MP focused game necessarily.
 
I was going to say none, but I would put Street Fighter and KOF series up there.

Multiplayer games aren't generally my thing though, I'm not a team player in general, don't like team sports etc.
 
Overwatch and halo 3

Nothing else really. World at war would count too but its just outside my top 10
(Top 10 in no particular order)

Overwatch
Skate 3
Crash Team Racing
Shadow Of The Colossus
Half Life 2
Halo 3
Dark Souls
Mgs 3
Persona 4
Kotor 1/2
 
I don't know what my actual top 10 is, but World of Warcraft and Guild Wars would be strong contenders. I played them primarily as single player games, though.
 
Tekken 3 and KOF '98 would probably squeeze into my top 10 to 20.

edit: wait, Mutant League Hockey and NHL '94 would be up there too
 
Super smash Bros melee is definitely in my top 5, but that game has an insane amount of single player content too that I enjoyed for hundreds of hours
 
That'd be a flat zero, but then I don't really play multiplayer games. Maybe Smash 64 if anything, but that's local only.
 
No man of taste can leave Warcraft3\Starcraft custom maps out of a top 10.

WoW also gets a slot, but that's just me.
 
Top 10 of all time, none probably (though I suck at best of lists and narrowing down stuff, too much stuff I like).

Unless you count fighting games without online MP as MP focused (since you can spend the vast majority of your gameplay hours in local versus against another player). In that case:

Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha
 
I think Rocket League is probably in my top 10... though I don't really have a defined top 10.

Melee/Project M is definitely in there.
 
Not one. Not even top 20. The only one I can think of would be Halo 2 or 3. Many great times spent playing customs with buddies in high school.
 
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