You seem incredibly ignorant about anything NOT Battlefield. That's fine, but most of your explanations are nonsense. "L4D is a co-op singleplayer game. It'll be hit or miss because of this" is a great hand waving technique for basically admitting that I'm right. Thank you. Yes, it's hit or miss...which is exactly my point. It IS hit or miss. And while it's mostly hit, those misses are not insignificant. Saying it's "mostly a single player game" is meaningless is the actual multiplayer is precisely as I describe.
I only play on PC, and a microphone/voip/in-game chat is always used. Let's dismantle this misconception once and for all. I figured you would've understood after the comment about playing on dial-up on the MSN Gaming Zone, but suffice to say, yes, I never play online with strangers on console, and barely have since the Dreamcast.
Coop against AI is not the same as competitive FPS games. Different audience. Much more casual. See, my sentence wasn't just "hit or miss," it was hit or miss for a REASON. You can't selectively take half of a comment out of context and pretend that the other half didn't exist.
I've already stated that I've enjoyed others outside of BF, including counter-strike, TF2, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, and even Elite Force oh so many years ago.
Wishing so desperately to feel like your opinion is "right" does not magically make it so. Better go find an echo chamber for that!
"suffice to say, yes, I never play online with strangers on console, and barely have since the Dreamcast."-I have no idea what this is supposed to mean...