I was playing Gears of war the other day and after just 1/2 hour I was swearing and yelling like nothing else. Why? Because that's how everybody else was acting. I would think my swearing was extreme, but by gears standards I was a "pussy" which means quiet. So after some time I played team fortress 2, and wow in just 5 minuets I was back to normal. It got me thinking about gaming communities. Which ones make people clam and nice, and which ones make people super ego monster-jerks.

So what I'm trying to ask here is what game has the best community, and which one has the worst. This is about the people not the game.

The ones I think to be the best are: splinter cell DA and team fortress 2
And the one I think is the worst is gears.

I was tempted to say halo 3 for worst but the annoying people are kids, so not much of a problem.

If this is already a thread i cant find it

Really? I played gears of War a lot but I never found swearing a problem. Sure people swear when you get killed or when you do really good but that would be because of the adrenaline. when you play gears you have blood all over your screen, explosions in the corner of the screen, a sniper making what ever remains of your life a misery and then you realise that the torque bow is gone and no one knows who has it. And then you get chainsawed by the COG n00b and you can't really help your self screaming fuck to the other two people in the lobby. But ofcourse swearing at people for beating you or because you lost the round is not right.

You can't say what community is the best, its like asking what country is the best or what town is the best.

if I had to tell you what community is the best I would say Halo 3 or CS:S because they are the most popular with little kids and therefore the worst.

Team Fortress 2 online really is pretty good from what I've played, which I attribute mostly to the laid back nature of the game. In all the hours I've spent online I can only think of a couple people who were really abusive or annoying, most players seem to be around to goof off and play around, a novel concept, to play around while playing a game, right?

I had a good experience with the Supreme Commander (PC) community as well. Mostly people in matches were either quiet (due to the heavy economy micro required this wasn't to fault people by) or friendly.

Strategy games in general can often have pretty good communities, although I haven't had too good luck with Company of Heroes.

Go back in time pre cs1.3, was so awesome and mature back then.

I think EVE has a very mature fanbase, although it can be very elitist.

Would have to agree with the post above me, TF2 has a great fanbase.

Well, the community correlates directly with the clientel. Half-Life 2 is more of a 'thinking-man's' game, and thus TF2 more a 'thinking-man's' multiplayer.

Halo 2's XBL community frustrated me back in the day. If you want to find a good multiplay experience, being cognicient of the 'Indie ideology' - essentially, that the newest, hottest items attract idiot support bases - is never a bad idea. Until you realize not many people play Warcraft II on BNET anymore.

Best gaming community I've been a part of was Natural Selection for Half-life. Probably my favourite multiplayer game of all time too, so ahead of its time, even today. I think communities tend to be better when people have to make an effort to delve into them.

EzraPound:
Well, the community correlates directly with the clientel. Half-Life 2 is more of a 'thinking-man's' game, and thus TF2 more a 'thinking-man's' multiplayer.

Having spent years playing various half life and half life 2 mods, I can tell you that ain't necessarily so. TF2 has a pretty nice community, but CSS, DoDS, CS and Dod all have a high incidence of leetness, annoying kiddies, and people who think that calling everybody else 'noobs' is the highest form of wit. Plus the usual casual racism, swearing, victimisation of new / younger players, general griefing etc.

TTLG, look em up! Without a doubt the best and most helpful community I've met, although the Baldur's Gate community is also grand, I mean Baldur's Gate 1 came out almost 8 years ago now and they're still making mods for it, same with Baldur's Gate 2.

Great classic games, amazing communities.

I've played many online games in my time and I have to say that EVE Online probably has the best community that i've had the pleasure of being a part of, it's the reason i'm still playing the game. I also have to agree that Baldur's Gate 2 has a great community, I recently reinstalled it, for nostalgic purposes and am having a blast playing it on lan with my brother.

Final Fantasy XI: Online had a great community. The entire game revolved around having to make friends and working as a team. Unlike an FPS you wouldn't get any points from attacking a team mate (even though you can't even if you wanted to).

Sure you had the odd arrogant pri--person, but that's in every internet game.

This is before the Xbox360 servers began though. Things might have changed since then.

I like the Homeworld (both) community, though most RTS gamers are quite normal.
I also agree with The Madman above about the Baldurs gate players, there aren't a lot of them, but they're great people. In FPS, I would consider most of the Battlefield and COD community to be good, though it's all relative.

And another small addition, I found the Hellgate London community to be quite good, even though the game is rather poor.

The low end of the spectrum would be somewhere with Counterstrike (all of them) and Halflife Deathmatch.

I'd have to say either the Baldur's Gate or Neverwinter Nights

neems:

Having spent years playing various half life and half life 2 mods, I can tell you that ain't necessarily so. TF2 has a pretty nice community, but CSS, DoDS, CS and Dod all have a high incidence of leetness, annoying kiddies, and people who think that calling everybody else 'noobs' is the highest form of wit. Plus the usual casual racism, swearing, victimisation of new / younger players, general griefing etc.

some of what you said it's true, but i must say i never suffered any of that in dod. And i play with irish ppl...

The best communities are the ones based on a game which involves teamwork, strategy, and anything else that involves work in order to advance. In cs, where you can be a one-man army, the community is crappy because noone needs anyone. The same for indie/lesser known/old games. Since they aren't mainstream (anymore), only real fans of the game play them. Also, since they're not mainstream, you won't see any ads for it during cartoon time, so lil kids will stay the hell away from destroying the freaking game.

tf2 & cod4
no one abused me even after a 20 kill streak

I realy liked the WoW community, there were alot of idiots out there. But in the higher levels of the most players are polite mature and modertely inteligent.

In lack of anything more recent I'll have to say the Quake 3 Excessive+ community. Same blokes and gals every night for the year I played, and hardly an asshole around. If that was a product of fewer players than your regular shooter, I don't know.

I'd say it depend on what console/pc platform your playing on.

Gears of war (on Xbox360)INFURIATED ME! Yes I'll admit. I hated that game online. I only thing I learned from played it is that only mean mother fuckers played that game upon it's release (and mastered the use of shotguns for some god forsaken reason). Who knows anymore because I don't really give two shits.

Luckily Valve released their pleasantly enjoyable Team Fortress(2)with the orange box. I enjoy the community of that game. As long as you keep good communication with the rest of you damn team.

It's fun and even if your dying constantly your dignity still remains intact.

Neverwinter Nights for me, i had a brief experience with a very great community and there dedication to the game even in 2007-8 is great, new content still being worked on and all

Yeah, I like the EvE community. People aren't always nice, but most people have a sense of humour along with their sadism, and hell, if they don't, you can kill em (did that once, to someone who was being an arse to a corp-mate. Fun times). Plus, the childish arguments are pleasantly improved by being intelligently childish arguments. Imaginative insults, a sense of humour, and smacktalking for the sake of having a pointless arguement rather than actually caring all make for fun. I've seen two guys really at each other's throats, third guy asked them to calm down and promptly got told off by both off them for interrupting a good argument, at which point the first cordially asked the second to continue, and the argument kicked up again.

The Age of Mythology fanbase was truly wonderful. Aside from the very, very, very occasional prick.

Point of Existence 2 - the mod for BF2 - and the players were also heavenly. Didn't have a single TK (not even accidental) and I thoroughly enjoyed the amount of squadwork people were willing to do. Its that sort of trust in someone you haven't even communicated with before which makes it worth booting.

I'd say TF2. If you find a server with allspeak on, the madness is uncontainable. People laugh at killing each other. Wild jokes about. You listen to the other guys having fun, even though the just got uber-critical-heavy'd. I think the cartoon graphics have a subliminal effect on the players. Like it's a giant Pixar movie, so everyone is cheerier.

Halo 3 is probably the worst, along with Resistance, guess they're the same game really, just on different platforms.

CoD4 is quite good, no complaints so far.
I remember back when Live first came out, everyone was nice and happy, it was great, now Microsoft have made things easy and the kids have figured out how to play online.

Counter Strike: Source is one of the worst, TF2 is decent, give it time, it might get worse.
By far the best if Day of Defeat: Source. Most players are much older, and either more polite, concise, or just use less swearing and just don't act like dicks.

[quote=[HD]Rob Inglis]Counter Strike: Source is one of the worst, TF2 is decent, give it time, it might get worse.
By far the best if Day of Defeat: Source. Most players are much older, and either more polite, concise, or just use less swearing and just don't act like dicks.[/quote]

This makes me sad that I just can't seem to get into DoD.

NOT Runescape. Runescape is a cesspool.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Lusternia and Achaea (both Iron Realms MUDs) have really fantastic communities. Best I have found in an MMO game.

I think it has a lot to do with what servers you play in. I recently came back to playing TF2 after I found a good server, with players that were jolly good chaps. And I've been pretty much playing it non-stop on that server, because the experience is just that good. Although there was this one guy called "Need Dispenser here" who constantly yelled "Need Dispenser here!!" A few people were annoyed, but I was just glad he wasn't using a mic..

I haven't had a problem with CoD4 but it's also not a very social game on the PC in my experience. There is rarely much chatter in games and when there is it was benign enough which is good because it doesn't interfere but bad because it's boring as hell.

I disagree that CS:S and CS have a bad community because I think both games have such enormous and varied communities that you can't easily judge it. I've been in servers where there was abuse, annoying people, griefing, etc, however, I've also been in some amazing servers where the jokes just keep coming, the people are very helpful, and competition becomes quite fierce. If you branch out into the online community you will find hundreds or thousands of different clans and they all have their own character. The trick to CS has always been to find servers with people you like and always go back.

I always hated the Warcraft 3 community. In matches people get so protective of their score that having fun and enjoying the game always felt like it was being put on the back burner. I ended up just playing 3v3 or 4v4 games because there were fewer serious players. On the other hand the custom games community was great and I used to love goofing off in tower defense games for hours on end with generally fun people.

Company of Heroes is very elitist in my experience but not generally difficult to deal with. I was part of the Relic forums and Game Replays forums for a little while even though I didn't really play much CoH online. Both places had a very mature atmosphere even if they were a little lacking in the fun department.

I think Dawn of War could be great but I never got into the online play because it was fairly problematic when I played regularly. I think Dawn of War could have completely taken me over if it was on a system like Battle.net and I could easily get a pickup game going whenever I wanted but it always felt like there were almost no players.

Even though I only played it for a month EVE's community impressed me. Of course I never got out of the noob corp channel which was just full of helpful and nice people so I'm a bid jaded. I had a lot of trouble meeting people outside of that channel and those that I did meet were usually trying to blow me up. I ended up giving up on the game because I just couldn't find my niche. I'm sure I would have stuck around if I had joined a pirate corp but they were all asking for six months of experience so I gave up and now my character is bare so I doubt I'll venture back on my own.

I've been amazed by the niceness of the Cod4 community. I do run into the jerk one in awhile but generally people are their to kill and be killed. One guy was contently making fun of my score (usually between 25 and 28 in a 30 kills limit ffa with about half or lower deaths) while he was pulling off much much much worse scores. (9-10, 8-7, and so on) What was boggling to me was when I pointed out his terrible score he said "its just a game" but if I didn't win the round he'd say "Haha you don't win again!"
Its like last place making fun of second place in a race, yeah second place lost but last place is really bad.

One of the worst communities I've seen was world of warcraft crushrige server, a guild called "humble" ruined any type of decency the server had. Humble is known for making racial slurs, swastikas in screen shots of boss kills, general elitist behavior, and all around douche baggery.

You might find very good can communities in so called "boring" games like IL-2 Sturmoviv because they charm an "older" fanbase and "ZOMFG GORE ANT TITZ !" kiddies stay away from serious WW2 flightsimulaters.

In the time I played AoM, I can remember that they had a great fanbase. Great gane too :)

Very fucked are most of the RTS fanbases, DoW is a collection of fucktards, just hang 30sec in the ingame channel and you will understand. Also, it wasnt a wise idea to allow the player to import their own banners and badges. So, you might find yourself playing between a team of porn and swastika banner using mongos.

Cant say any better about ZH, because there are abuseable cheats in the game, so its pretty much dead and destroyed, everyone is frustrated.

Supreme Commander has a good community, but it seems to me, they just split into vannila, fa fans and fa hater.

Guild Wars is a secret Nazi operation base, without having a kickass PvP rank you never get in any PvP party so they destroy the experiance for new players because if you arent member of the highlvl PvP master race, you are just unworthy scum and the fact that many players play like they traded their brain for bullcrap and run into every danger because there might be a monk in the party that can heal 7 dumpasses at once. If some one dies, its always the monks fault.

Ps3's Rockband is pretty nice. No jerks so far. and Tekken DR Online is good too.

Indie games are the best for general online friendliness - Defcon comes to mind, as does Soldat.

I agree with EVE sentiments - it was always good natured - the community tends to be more mature and intelligent, though I stopped playing a couple of years ago.

The Escapist has the best community I've seen. :)

Other than that I'd go with Team Fortress 2.

The worst community by far was Halo 2, so much inane chatter. You would sit in the lobby listening to people just make noise. I've never really understood why people would get online to make noise. If they didn't have a headset, would they sit alone in their room going "Blah-bloo-blee-bloo?"

If you have good talking/typing skills, it's easy to make a few honest good friends in SW Battlefront. Problem is finding the right server in the first place. (Chooseyourside)

Guild Wars is a secret Nazi operation base, without having a kickass PvP rank you never get in any PvP party so they destroy the experiance for new players because if you arent member of the highlvl PvP master race, you are just unworthy scum and the fact that many players play like they traded their brain for bullcrap and run into every danger because there might be a monk in the party that can heal 7 dumpasses at once. If some one dies, its always the monks fault.

I goddam hear that. My main is a monk, and always im hearing "OMG LEIK TEH N00B MONK!" when there's smacktards in the party who don't seem to understand that I can't be in 4 places at once, nor that I cant heal that much when they've been hexed to buggery, have 6 minions gnashing their ears off and that warrior is opening a can. You'd think some people would know when running in is and isn't a good idea.
Still, if you find a nice guild in GW who aren't all fascists and are more laid back it you can find some pretty cool people in GW.