Fun games that you can easily make friends in?

I have always been attracted to social games where you could have fun playing while at the same time communicating with strangers via text or voice. Ive found amazing friends through games like MapleStory & Left 4 Dead 2, where communication was always open and encouraged. You could join any game on any server and begin talking to the players. I really miss that, and modern games ive been playing lately like Destiny 2 and BF1 are really strict with stranger-to-stranger communication, which, I love and enjoy! These restrictions make me feel lonely, and my friends irl dont really care for gaming so I'm looking for games where its easy to partner up with strangers and communicate along the way.

Excluding games like Second Life (which I dont see as "games" really), please recommend to me games from the past five years that still have a [large enough] community. Whether we can do co-op, PVP, or just explore the world together doing mini-quests all while talking, id love to find my next escape. Thank you!

The guild wars 2 community is very friendly.

@ jiggly do people actually still play gw2 anymore? I have the original and wasnt sure if I should download it because I wasnt sure if anyone actually played.

great info

Yeah they do, I'm having a good time in it. I only started it a few months ago, but I see a decent amount of people.

Overwatch is another.

@GTR12: how does Overwatch communication in-game work? Is it limited?

Its voice chat and/or text/typing, its only within your team, so 5 other people, but it works. Also just realised, you never mentioned discord, get it now.

I just got Discord but so what? How do I find games that I can make friends with using it? Thanks!

Every single game you play has some sort of discord, even singleplayer games, just search for servers on the app or even just google "[game] discord server" your bound to find heaps.

VR Chat maybe , idk. It doesn't require a VR headset either despite its' name.