Unless you're as competitive as a heavyweight boxer, playing online can be extraordinarily frustrating at times. There'll always be someone out there that's spent that little bit longer learning the intricacies of Call of Duty's maps or the ins-and-outs of FIFA's five star teams, and so you'll inevitably slump to regular defeats. The upshot is that when you're the one demonstrating such know-how in front of an inferior opponent, it can be the best feeling in the world. As such, inspired by Sony's end-of-year PlayStation 4 multiplayer competition here in the UK, we want to know about your greatest online feats.
The platform holder entered the online space in North America in August 2002, with the PlayStation 2 Network Adapter. This actually pre-dated Xbox Live by a couple of months, though the Japanese giant's option was much less robust; while Microsoft developed a centralised account system that worked across multiple games, the PlayStation maker actually put a lot of this responsibility on publishers. This didn't deter development, however, with around 80 titles supporting the accessory over the course of the console's life, including commercial hits like SOCOM: US Navy SEALS and the technologically impressive Final Fantasy XI.
And this experimentation paved the way for the PlayStation Network, which launched alongside the PlayStation 3, and has gradually become one of the most used online gaming services around the globe. The evolution of the platform also happened to coincide with an increase in broadband subscribers, which was required to connect. The ease of access, coupled with better developer understanding, ushered in a mini-multiplayer boom, with all of the biggest brands scrambling to add competitive or co-operative options to their games. Now, with several years of online memories under your belt, we want to know which feats you remember most fondly.
Was it the first time that you Prestiged in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare perhaps, or the time that you utterly decimated your opponents time and time again in Pandemic Studios' class-based PS2 masterclass, Star Wars: Battlefront? Maybe it's a specific round in SOCOM: US Navy SEALS, or the frightening amount of time that you spent playing Battlefield 3? From co-op titles like Borderlands 2 right through to brawlers such as BlazBlue, we want to know which of your online multiplayer achievements still stand out. Ponder your very best bouts, and then join our lobby to tell us all about them in the comments section below.
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The very first time I played battlefield on my brothers ps2. I had never played online before. I hopped in a helicopter loaded it with c4, flew it up loaded with my team, hopped out and blew them up. It was devious, fun, and the first time I experienced online play.
I dont play online multiplayer games the reason being by the time I usually get the game no one is playing the game anymore that I know and I hate grouping with random people.
I got a nuke in Modern Warfare 2. It took me forever to get one but my sniper rifle couldn't miss
It has to be said, this year's New Years eve involved some drunken games of Towerfall and Sportsfriends that were pretty epic. The fact that nothing got broken during Johan Sebastian Joust is amazing in itself.
I don't play too much multiplayer, but co-op Outland, LBP2 and Journey are my best on-line experiences on the PS3
Aside that I have very found memories of playing all afternoons Crash Team Racing with friends on the PS1 times.
@ferrers405 - Beat me to it I was going to say Journey. I'm not a big online gamer but the way it was handled in that game was awesome...
Diablo 3 would be my second choice. Not for any feat really but for being one of the few games to pull me away from it's single player.
I remember one time I was playing Journey with some random stranger. When we got to the end at the mountain, instead of walking forward to finish the game, we actually decided to mess around in the snow. He then taught me how to fall to the bottom of the level by pushing me while i was meditating. We then used teamwork and managed to climb to the very peak of the mountain.
I remember thinking how incredible it was that we managed to do those things without being able to properly communicate with each other.
The only game I play online is Tekken Tag 2, and I don't want to remember any of it, not even matches with my Tekken friends.
However, last night I beat Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One with my best friend offline. We started our session about a week after I got the game, but we constantly got busy with school and now he's in college, so we couldn't beat it until recently. That game is just awesome when you have friends, and I enjoyed every bit of it. I loved that feeling we had when we got to the final boss, and the satisfaction from beating it, after taking about 40 minutes to win. That's gonna stand in my favorite gaming moments for quite a while.
Would have to be when i killed a member of the rockstar game's staff during an online session of GTA 4 on the PS3.
Let's see...getting my first Tactical Nuke in Modern Warfare 2 was a major highlight. Pure ecstasy. Also managed to "no scope" someone while I was hit with a flash bang, so you could say I was really, really surprised when that happened. I could also bring up a lot of Nazi Zombies rounds where my three close friends and I made it in the 30+ range on multiple maps with insane feats of luck. My favorite sessions were when I was the last one alive and I would circle the map over and over trying to kill dozens of zombies by myself. THAT was intense and exciting, and sometimes I managed to do it!
Other than that, locally playing all of FUSE and Scott Pilgrim with those friends was a ton of fun as well. Can't think of anything else at the moment though.
Pulling whole teams of relativity new players back from the brink of destruction in Mass Effect 3 co-op. I'm bragging like a twonk, but I loved every second of that mode.
Not a huge multiplayer person, but I really enjoyed Killzone 2's offering as well, back in the day.
For me I'd say, beating Jetstream Sam in Metal Gear Rising on Revengeance difficulty after taking no damage in less than a minute. It still didn't give me a bloody S rating, but whatever.. I was just glad I could stop restarting that level after 5 hours of trying. Likewise for the last boss in the game.. Seriously that soundtrack was the only thing keeping me going. So awesome.
Also the time I won against 3 red phantoms at once in Dark Souls 2.
My first multiplayer game was Modern Warfare 2. I began as a complete noob being destroyed every match. But I just couldn't get enough of the game! I still remember when I got my first nuke. I was on kill 24 and there was only 15 seconds left in the match. My heart was pumping, I was terrified that I might miss my chance! A guy came up behind me and in all fairness should have killed me but for whatever reason he couldn't land a shot and I spun around and knifed him. 11 seconds left in the game and I called down my nuke! Definitely one of my most memorable multiplayer experiences. I miss that game shame the multiplayer is only filled with hackers anymore.
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My group of friends loved to play zombies! For a couple months we would hop on every single night and play. Loved those moments when we were all frantically running the lap around the map with no ammo and finally using a grenade were able to get a max ammo! Our best was level 41 on Kino.
I love that tactical nukes in MW2 are several people's number one moment. That's still my favorite online game ever. How about a remaster of that on PS4?!
My most memorable PlayStation multiplayer was actually local play with Time Splitters 3 and 3 friends. We would set up ridiculous custom levels like capture the flag on the largest map, all machine guns for weapons, one hit kills with friendly fire on, and maximum bots on the enemy team. Probably my favorite moment from all of that was when my friends heroically drove across the map in the Jeep, managed to "capture the bag" and drive all the way back across without dying in the constant barrage of bullets. Right before getting back, the driver jumped out, said to my friend in real life "I work alone." and fired one shot into the bag holder's head, taking the bag, and scoring the winning point himself. We laughed for so long, I can't even tell you. There were so many epic moments with that game.
I also remember getting sick of playing slow in CoD MW, setting up with light machine guns and all, and finally saying "Screw this, I'm the juggernaut, Bitch!" Equipping instead the Juggernaut perk, extra sprinting, and a Scorpion. I proceeded to run directly at people shooting and knifing them to get about 7 kills in a row my first life with the new setup. My two friends in the room were pretty impressed too, hah.
The original MGO from MGS3 and the KZ2 multiplayer were both epic as well. Recently I've been playing on the couch co-op in Diablo 3, which is much fun.
Call of duty ghosts. The opposing team were all grouped together on a rooftop so I sniped them, for some reason they all grouped together again and again and again on the same rooftop so i just kept sniping. It was quite hilarious.
AW just a week or two ago.. came into a HC search and destroy room down 1-3 on my least favorite map by far Greenband.. in the 4th round all my teammates left me to be slaughtered. Well turns out on my own 1v6 I came back and won!,Lots of lols and fist pumps anyways as I came back overall from a 1-4 deficit. Idk if that would be my best but it was recent and I got a kick out of it.
Getting into division 1 of NHL 14 PUTTINGME IN THE TOP 3% of NHL 14 gamers in the world.
I really enjoyed playing Rock Band online, i had the keyboard
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Battlefield Bad Company 2. Someguy killed me by camping at the top of the stairs in a house. And I knew just the thing to do. Got my granade launcer and went to the neighbouring house. Brought down the walls of the house I was in and then went for his. He was like "the hell is this cold brezee is coming from? (it was a snow map) My back? OHHH ****!!" when I brought his walls dawn. It was amazing.
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Having the same multiplayer as on PC on a console, A.K.A. playing BF4 with 64 persons and two commanders online. That is multiplayer done right!
Back when I used to play Smackdown vs Raw in high school, my friend and I used to tag up online all the time, and were usually very good.
However, on one occasion, we went up against two insanely good players, both of whom slaughtered us. At any time, they could have pinned us and won the match, but due to their cocky nature, I was able to get some reversals in, along with my tag partner who did the same whilst knocking the other guy out of the ring. I hit a finisher on one of them and pinned to win the match. It was truly our greatest match and one that I've remembered for years.
Aside from that, probably a lot of times when I used to play Warframe that I would carry the team, especially one session which left me as the only remaining member of the team, having to kill thousands (yes, it literally ended up being over a thousand) of infested before completing the mission. Took a hell of a long time.
@Bobbytheb Wow! I think the highest we got on Kino der Toten is...34? 36? Most of the time it had taken us 4-6 hours to get to that point and it was really late, so we gave up. lol If we kept going on some of them, we might've gotten to somewhere around 38, but we usually ran out of ammo during a long round and couldn't get a Max Ammo. I hated that! lol
@Cowboysfan-22 I don't care what people say...that game had so many unbalancing issues and suffered from other problems, but I had SO much fun with it. I even think the unbalanced stuff (people that ran around with knife-only classes and Commando, OMA noobtubers, etc.) made it more fun in a strange way. It was always so satisfying to kill people who used those annoying classes. I think I put 16 days of time into the multiplayer, which is kind of a lot. ._.
Getting the 3rd time out of 350 in driveclub was pretty neat.
Online I mostly play battlefield and have infinite moments of awesomeness. One that comes to mind was being a sniper alone in a little house, picking them off from a distance, after a while they started coming for the revengekill, which I was totally expecting so I kept relocating and shooting them while they were movinv to my last known position, landing some pretty epic headshots on running targets and getting a massive killstreak
@Cowboysfan-22 they allready did several remasters, its called black ops (2), mw3, ghosts and advanced warfare
the first time we beat VOG in destiny,
lots of intense action, and lots of fun banter with my 5 teammates, followed
by very loud cheers when we took down atheon.
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