Weekend Debate: Your favourite online gaming moments (update)

Mine was definitely on Uncharted 2. It was a match of Plunder on the Sanctuary map, in the later stages, and the opposing team was just carrying the treasure to their base, and that would win them the match. I hauled ass across the map, picked up the grenade launcher and climbed a wall to intercept, but the treasure-bearer had travelled further than I thought and was just about to score. I had no time to get closer or anything so I just aimed across the walls and courtyard and fired a round straight for the door; the grenade shot right through the holes in the fence and hit him in the leg just as he was putting it in the chest. I fired another, and he and his mate died. I didn’t even have time to aim the shot, but it lined up perfectly.

All of my favourite multiplayer memories are from Uncharted 2, actually. Before its 1.05 update it was easily the best online multiplayer game I’d ever played.

My favourite has to be an old, old one. Back when I was in high school. I didn’t play often, because we didn’t have a good connection at home. One day, friends take me to the cyber-café, and we start an online game of Counter-Strike. I make my first round, and I’m bad. Like, real bad. I’m made fun of, and it annoys me because I’m not bad at this, just rusty. At the start of the second round, I realize I forgot to buy weapons, as well as the command to do so. So, naively, I ask. Again, everyone laugh. They laugh and laugh, but they still answer me. I then open the buying menu, and behind it, my eye catches one of my opponent, who thought it a good idea to come and kill me during my shopping.
I closed the shop, headshot him with the basic handgun (no time yet to browse something interesting), and brought the shop back up.
They all stopped laughing at the same time.
That was nice.

Repost from the other main multiplayer comp.

Multiplayer and playstation. My first thought will always be playing war hawk until the early hours of the morning with my American friends. I tried telling so many people about the game and tried to convince them to get the game, or get a ps3 and the game if they didnt already and join us but they didn’t seem to get it.
So I threw together some highlights from our weekend sessions and spread the word that way. A few days after showing the video to my friends we had 3 new ps3 owners and clan members.
Hopefully this is the right video I’m linking to, it won’t play on mobile.
http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/qkk15p/warhawk-warhawk-highlights

Recently my favourite online moment would be bumping into another person in journey. I have no idea who it was, what language they spoke, their sex etc…. And yet when we parted company I was overcome with a sense of loss. Such a memorable moment that I now crave in other online games.

I decided to use pastebin because I passed the post length limit by a long shot. ^^
http://pastebin.com/QmAxW81p
Hope it’s not a torture to read since English is my second language. ^^

My best online experiences go back to a time before trophies. Before the Dual Shock 3. Before my friend was taken from us, far too early.

The game was Motorstorm. My friend was Azadus. We spent hours, and I mean hours, playing Motorstorm. We were unable to spend much time together physically due to location, he was in Leeds, I was in Preston, so the PSN was our answer. It was a god send, it really was. Voice chat, and free online play time together.

We didn’t achieve greatness in the game, well not in the way that many judge being great nowadays, but we had the best laughs, the best nights, and days (as we worked shifts)ever. It beat any game before, and in my opinion after. Miss you mate.

Although Im really a single player type of gamer, my best online gaming moment is up there with my best gaming moments ever! The game was Payday; The Heist. I was with the 3 guys Ive been trophy hunting with for a couple years now so we all knew each other well by then, 2 of us in the UK and the other 2 are American.

We were going for the insanely hard trophy called “Easy Street” which required us to complete one of te hardest heists on the hardest difficulty PLUS to get 60% CREW accuracy! Which means ALL 4 of us could only miss 4 out of every 10 rounds we fired. Now this is one insanely hard trophy (and therefore Plat) and we were stuck on it for days. Even all our wifes n girlfriends knew about it.

After night after night of failing (and completing once but with 59% crew accuracy! ARRRGHHH!) we finally achieved it by the skin of our teeth with 61%. We were ALL screaming and shouting in utter UTTER relief and joy, even our wifes n girlfriends were cheering when we had done it and believe me my heart was POUNDING!

A gaming moment i dont think ill ever forget. Thats whats good about trophies, i can always look at my Platinum for Payday n recall our great gaming moment us 4 shared.

My favourite recent memory of online gaming would have to be playing through Dead Space 3 with my best friend, while talking to each other on mic.

The pure terror that struck us both when we realised that one of the Necromorphs was unkillable was something that I’ve never felt before in over 12 years of online multiplayer.

The other moment from the same game would be when I screamed like a little girl at something unexpected and my friend mocked me for about an hour. The second time we played through the game, he screamed at exactly the same point. We called it evens.

…and they say multiplayer survival horror doesn’t work!

For me it’s on SOCOM: Confrontation and it’s not my favourite moment but it’s the game that brought me the most happiness online moment, why?
  It is on this game I discovered what is a community, I met my best friends. In this game I had my best laugh, my biggest sorrow.During 3 years it was the most important part of my day: I knew we were going to spend 1/2 hours together for unforgettable moments.THE LIFE +SOCOM = LOVE

Op flashpoint 1. Wearing an Arnie Skin, rolling around the island in a UAZ with Spock, Darth Maul, and Kermit the frog following us in a tractor.

Playing the last snowy level of Journey with a random player that I dont know. We stepped up the snowy mountain, getting frozen as we went up higher and higher, when my mate fell I tried to get closer to him, “calling” for him and then we both couldnt go any further, the TV screen went black, I thought it was the end…it wasnt.

I would probably have to say it was playing the Uncharted 3 multiplayer beta the first weekend it was online.

The first game I played, I got absolutely owned, I think I went something like 1-8, but eventually I got better… And then… One game…

We were 10 players in a Team Deathmatch where the first team to get to 50 kills wins. Anyway, we were playing on Airport, and I’m not much of a competetive multiplayer kind of person as you might have figured out by my previous scores, but somehow I managed to go 26-2, so I basically did over half the kills for our entire team. I might still have the replay, but then again, it might have gotten overwritten by now, because I don’t think I remembered to lock the video. Still, it was an incredible rush…

Btw, I have no interest in MLB 13 The Show, I just wanted to share my experience

Getting my ass kicked in WWE Smackdown vs Raw 2009.

Completely destroyed my online gaming experience and I have never played online again………

It would go along to ease the pain if you found it in your heart to part with one of those MLB 13 codes.

My best online moment has to be completing LBP 2 online with one of my mates. It definitely helped having a headset.

I’m not a big multiplayer guy, I like to play co-op and it’s very fun to play with friends on a couch (which is why Diablo 3 on the PS seems so appealing to me), that said, about 3 years ago or something like that, me and a bunch of close friends started playing Bad Company 2. It was so much fun.

Sometimes we would be able to be all on the same team other times we would be against each other, either way, we would make fun of each other and try absurd things while getting the job done. One time, on Arica Harbor we got a tank at the beginning and we carried it through to the end, we got about 30 kills and no deaths, some people were very mad at us.

When Battlefield 3 arrived, we tried to get into it, but something was “off”. I think it was because Bad Company 2 was a bit more “arcade” on the gameplay. Shortly after that, the modern shooter fatigue settled in and we never played that again…

Playing Warhawk, i sunk hundreds of hours into that game, which i haven’t done with any other title. Was such a disappointment when Starhawk came out and tried to be like Call of Duty. We need more Warhawk games, even if it’s a HD revamp on PS4, it’d be an instant buy for me.

Playing Blazblue against higher ranked player, winning first round and then losing two in row when they unleash their rage against me.

btw, never received When Vikings Attack! code I won in previous debate?

As great fans of the original game (We spent a whole summer playing nothing but that game with all the friends of our neighbourhood) me and my nephew both bought the renewed NBA JAM. I already had played a few games online, but never managed to win, the competition was fierce. So we finally found a moment to play our first game online against another human team. We got beaten terribly. We had no chance whatsoever. The opponent was clearly experienced. But we didn’t give up, we continued playing matches against that same team and lost another two or three times. And in the final match we got their tactics and managed to counter them effectively. We often blocked their attempts and got the better hand. In the final minutes we took the lead and when the buzzer sounded we officially won: the noobs sent the pros home. It was a great, exciting and fun experience.

My greatest online moments has to be from the days before playstation was online (unfortunatly). They are from the days playing everquest.

Nothing can beat the online play of a raid of over 50 people from different countries, backgrounds etc. Spending over 3 hours with coordinated movements towards a boss mob knowing that a mistake by anyone could cause a total wipe. Then getting into a final fight with everyone working together as a team in one coordinated attack. Tanks taking the pain, healers chain casting to keep them alive, DPS ensuring they didn’t draw the attention of the boss mob. Everyone had a specific role to ensure the job got done and you came back alive.

These were intense gaming moments especially as I played a rogue and knew that a wipe generally meant I would have a few hours of dragging corpses back to a safe zone through some of the toughest areas in the game. (this was in the day of no easy respawns, you had to get your hard earned equipment back from your corpse)

My proudest gaming moments come from Call of Duty games (for my sins). There’s 2 that really stand out, the 1st being legitimately getting the nuke emblem on MW2. All ten nukes were in TDM as I’m not a fan of most other modes and the sheer pride I felt on the 10th (actually 11th because I couldn’t use one of them as the 25th kill was the last of the round) was immense. It’s a shame profiles could be hacked so easily so anybody could get one at a few clicks of the button

My other favourite moment is getting an 8 killstreak using only my tomahawk (without Scavenger Pro) on the original Black Ops. I probably hold that in higher regard than the nukes, probably because I can actually prove this one as its still in my file share.

I used to totally sweat the Call of Duty games back then, now I don’t even bother giving them a second glance.

Well, this is a tough one, let me think.
There’s a lot of great moments that I have by playing online games with friends or strangers, that then I became friends with. But one of my favorites should have been the co-op in Far Cry 3. Playing with 3 of my friends, it seemed that I was in a interactive movie with them. We did the entire co-op story in one sitting, with us goofing around sometimes but we did it. And because the co-op trophies of FC3 were the last ones for all of us to have Platinum on it, we stayed really happy with our accomplishment.
Another amazing moment, with 3 of my friends, was doing the Moon Easter Egg on the first Black Ops Zombies. With lots of trying and failing, in the end we did it with lots of communication and of course fun in playing the game – because in the end, games are made to have fun – . It was already quite late and when we “blow up” Earth (end of the Easter Egg), I was so happy that I waked up my parents. It should of been 2 or 3 of the morning, but nonetheless, we got what we wanted.
Well for me the best online experiences is when I play with other friends. Hope to have as many great experiences in online games in the PS4 like I did in PS3.

My favourite online gaming moment has to be when all the lads came round one night tv’s and xbox’s (say what you like but thats when I played xbox alot).there was a total of 7of us playing gears of war 2 all runni g on my route which we had no lag which was unreal. The night began sober and ended lets say worse for were its was such a laugh one n only time we got together to that really good night.

I have never really been into online gaming because I think it has a long way to go before matching the level of fun reached by local multiplayer but one game has me returning time and time again, Killzone 3. I love just jumping in and running around while trying to flank the enemy at any given chance. I prefer to play as the engineer so that I can sneak behind enemy lines in order to take their Ammo boxes and set up turrets (Whilst stealing their’s). It is an underrated gem and it should be played by everyone

My favourite online gaming experience is becoming really good mate’s with a lad called Noel from America who has become a true online gaming buddy.

I was looking for a fellow online gamer to help me with the 2 player online section of Portal 2 and although he wasn’t going to play the game again after completing it and helping some other gamers he responded to my request and agreed to help me complete the levels. Since then we have gone on to help each other complete MW2 and MW3 along with some other games and have become good friends through the Playstation community. Although I live in the UK it is difficult to be online at the same time but we have caught up where we can and have played until the early hours of the morning at times.

He didn’t have to help me but I’m thankful to him for this and am pleased to have a really good friend who although I’ve never seen can chat to and have a laugh with when playing online. Thanks to the great Playstation community as i’m sure many others have experienced this.

This is what online gaming is all about.

I don’t usually play online, I prefer local multi-player with my friends, but I do play online now and then because when it’s a good online it adds a totally new feeling to the game.

One of those times was when I played DC Universe Online. I was a super-villain on a PvP server and it was still my first couple of days but I was already getting the gist of it. As I was walking through the streets of Gotham I see two so called heroes ganging up on a fellow villain. How dare they? I do not tolarate such behavior and so I hastily joined the fight. With the forces balanced me and my colleague quickly gained the upper hand. It was still to soon to celebrate as a third heroe showed up, a heroe more than a couple of levels above us, I feared that would be our demise but lady luck was on our side and a third master-mind of crime joined our ranks.

We won the battle and each went our separate ways. We never typed a word to each other, we didn’t needed to, our fists and magic had made all the talking that was needed.
And it was great, because at that moment I really felt the MMO-ness of the game. I felt the world trully alive as I would if I was taking and stroll in real-life and someone asked to borrow my lighter. Simple favors.

I would have to say my favourite online moment was in NFS: Hot Pursuit. I was playing online in the game mode, Hot Pursuit, in which racers had to escape the cops. I was a racer and all was going well until some cheeky chap decided to ram into me (he was also a racer). I, was having none of it, so I accelerated ahead being unleashing the tyre destroyers! (In less exciting words, spike trap.) the guy drove straight into them and swerved when he did, crashing into the side. I left him for dead and not long after a message popped up that he had been wrecked. One of the most fulfilling moments I have had online. Remember,what goes around, comes around.

Playing Ghost recon, The level was the farm, everyone was a sniper except me who decided that explosives were more fun.
I positioned myself in front of the farm and at a safe distance with the night vision switched on, i pulled out my rocket launcher and fired a shot straight through the top window.
I then watched in glee as the kill confirmations popped up on the screen. every single opposing player was in that room and not one walked out alive.
I’ve never done anything like it since, Even playing domination, seek and destroy or hardpoint, there is always one or two savvy players to sit outside the danger zone.

I have got one hell of a moment when I just installed CS, join the server and got the headshot! BOOM.
After that I always try to find somebody spawning the enemy base so I could do the same. Did this 2-3 times, but my own blood spatter on screen, unpredictable and spontaneous, that I remember.

The only series I’ve really played online is Killzone 2 and 3. My most memorable moment by far was when me and 3 buddies (one from Scotland and 2 from America) took on a head to head clan challenge from Red Eyed Rangers, the number one clan in the world… and won 6-1! Nothing more satisfying than beating the best

Back in the early BF3 days, I drove my tank into the water and it bounced all over the place, from end to end of the map. People were laughing, calling hacks and I kid you not, there was literally no kills for about 2 minutes as everyone was watching my tank fly. Good ol’ 2011 .

Mine is an evening in July 2008 , playing Guitar Hero III . I played a Co-Op with a lady in Germany. We went on to play every day , that turned to chat etc . A year later she moved here , and now we are man and wife ! Yes , been Happily Married for over two years now !

While I am not much of a MP gamer, I did have a wonderful time playing Burnout Paradise with the OPM Forum guys, a few months ago. Especially when we all ganged up at the Wildcats Stadium, for some stockcar Destruction Derby mayhem. Not only that, but it also got me my final Online Trophy for the game, so I could share the joy of getting one of my very few platinums, while getting smashed to bits by seven other cars, including several of the Official Playstation Forum Community managers, which was fun!

Even (or rather, ESPECIALLY) if you’re not much of a MP buff like me, the OPF fun-nights are really enjoyable, and allow you to experience some MP without the regular extreme competition. (Plus, nothing beats driving your car sideways into Lord Ross or Envisager)

If I am honest I have to say I don’t play that much online however my favourite online experience was when I picked up an axe and threw it at yappadog when we had the psblog showdown on when Vikings attack. Since then I do dabble more but I prefer ATM playing with a mate in the same room.

All online gaming moments rock. The days when gamers were seen as a bunch of losers sitting in their darkened bedrooms with no friends are well over. Now you can sit at home playing with or against people from all over the world…how cool is that?

My favorite moments are any occasions where you are beating an American…even though they seem to be beating me far more often…

GRAW2 is probably my favorite online game, as it was also the first one I got any good at.

i play alot of games online and sure there is alot of funny moments but for me nothing beat playing far cry co-up with my son .. the look on his face whenever i’m down and asking him to revive me ..is amazing & it really hits me with joy & happiness

Dont know if its too late but another one is playing for hours and hours on one of the only online games i play which is Warhawk. Greatest online game ever.

When will you guys announce winners?

@Fred

Is this debate ever going to get read/judged by your good self Sir? Just always thought it ends on a Monday is all.

think Fred starting playing online when started this debate and forgot about us

Funny, this weekend debate is now officially running until after the mid-week Store update. Maybe it should be renamed to Week Debate to cover it more accurately?

But seriously, these ‘weekend regulars’ seem to become more of an afterthought as times go by. Every week one of the ‘default’ posts (debate, playlist, overview) gets skipped or delayed. As I can fully see why you all are WAY too busy doing other stuff, maybe it’s time to make a selection of regular posts that actually DO appear regular?

Not trying to be cynical or anything, just realistic…

I’ve not seen Fred post on here since the weekend so it’s quite possible that he is off work at the moment. Could be ill, could have a personal issue to tend too.

He will be back, so let’s not get ahead of ourselves claiming SCEE and Fred don’t care. He put this comp up for all, he’ll respond when he can.

awesome fred,. thanks for the lowdown. I have been checking the blog religiously all week and i must say i think ill miss it 8) 5+ posts today has kept me going through the work day.

Oh excellent. Thank you very much Fred.
Will also be buying the Vita version now.

Has given a ray of light in what has been a very bad week so far. Thank you again.

Congratulations to the winners. A brilliant competition/debate..keep up the great work guys =D

How do we know whose won?

I can’t see any well done replies like normal

check the top of the post buddy.. Fred has updated

Pretty much everything about Metal Gear Online 2, TSNE, Survival, Tournaments, Instructing, it was a fantastic game.

I won! This is the first time so a huge thank you to Fred for picking me and also to Noel who not only helped me with Portal 2 (see my post) but has now helped me to get a MLB 13 code.

I’m hoping it has an online mode and Noel gets it so I can play some further matches online with him.

Keep up the great debates Fred

Congrats matt

Thanks buddy. I’m surprised if i’m honest, wasn’t expecting my post to win.

meeting friends online on phantasy star portable 2, good memories Is there any word yet on a western localization of phantasy star online 2 vita? please bring this over to UK!!