Online games with your favorite Off Topic hangouts

[PlanetJosh]

Guild Wars is still a place I go for general chat like about college, hobbies, current news and other things. If there's something big happening in the real world I'll head over to the city Kamadan in district 1 and see if players are talking about it. In Guild Wars 2 I usually go to Lion's Arch in the Ferguson's server for off topic chat.

For a while I was chatting in Elder Scrolls Online and way in the past it was games like America's Army and the Unreal series (the first, second and third ones.) So wondered if others like chatting OT stuff in online games and the favorite cities or areas. This subject has probably been done before but hopefully not any short time ago.

 

[Sulaco]

I actually hate it. I mean, isn't that what forums are for?

When I log into a game, I want to be playing that game, not hearing a bunch of people talking about anything and everything else.

I suppose if I was playing one game all day, every day, for months, or bogged down in an MMO with mindless grinding and other chores to do, perhaps its a way to break some monotony.

But as a general rule, if I'm playing a game, I want to be immersed in its world, not hearing random strangers talking about their day.

 

[Markbnj]

I liked it better when there was no global chat in most games.

 

[DigDog]

quake.
people tend to be older and more accomplished.

 

[Red Storm]

The first time I experienced this was in Day of Defeat Source. I became a regular at one server (eventually joining the clan), and the other regulars would be there to play as well as hang out and laugh and joke and talk about whatever. It was quite fun.

Now the same thing happens on a TF2 server that I play on. I think it works well for multiplayer FPS games.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

Neverwinter Nights had the perfect gameplay for keeping in the action while also carrying on a lengthy conversation. That game is where I learned to type so incredibly stupid fast...haha

 

[DaveSimmons]

I actually hate it. I mean, isn't that what forums are for?

When I log into a game, I want to be playing that game, not hearing a bunch of people talking about anything and everything else.

I suppose if I was playing one game all day, every day, for months, or bogged down in an MMO with mindless grinding and other chores to do, perhaps its a way to break some monotony.

But as a general rule, if I'm playing a game, I want to be immersed in its world, not hearing random strangers talking about their day.

Yep. If I'm not playing the game then why am I there instead of playing something else?