A few weeks ago, David Wong wrote this excellent article about landmark moments in video games that make playing them a worthwhile experience. But if you look carefully, you'll notice something: Not a one of them was about multiplayer. In fact, though we write about gaming often at Cracked, none of us seem to have any positive opinions about the multiplayer aspect. Now, there's an easy explanation for that: We're all socially stunted, misanthropic bastards who hate our fellow man as much as we fear his almost assuredly superior physical strength.

But shit, that hasn't kept literally everybody on Xbox Live from multiplayer gaming. And you know what? Despite the fact that I honestly may never enter a match again, I look back on my history in gaming and have to admit that some of the most fun I've ever had was due to multiplayer. But amidst that drunken retrospection, I noticed something odd. Was it just the whiskey dementia twisting my memories again, or was I on to something?

Was every truly great multiplayer game I've ever played completely and totally broken?

Let me show you what I mean: