Bad Habits for Gamers

[EmzOLV]

As a fem-gamer, I hate it when girls use their wiles to cover up a lack of knowledge in games. As in, "HELLO. I PLAY GAMES KINDA SORTA, BUT I'M HOT SO LOOK HERE!" It's possible to be both good looking AND know your games, but it seems to be a trendy thing now-a-days that drives me up the wall and gives girls a bad name in games.

But guys might disagree..

No most guys will probably agree with your viewpoint, look up Ijustine and you will see a lot of hate directed her way for the portal 2 lets play for the very reasons you stated. (now equally hating people like thats probably a bit harsh, but thats another discussion entirely).

But yeah good point

EXACTLY THIS!
Ugh, it's really quite frustrating. As a girl gamer you know, I know which games I'm terrible at, but I've been playing since 6 years old, it's part of my life and I'll give anything a go. I have a reasonable collection and you know, growing up with guys just meant playing games became a solid part of my life.

When I first started seeing this guy, there was another girl who made moves on him, and she used to send him facebook wall posts of "OMG, lets totally play COD later, I'll kick your ass" and all this. I thought, well awesome she's a girl gamer that's pretty sweet.

I went on her XBOX live profile, xbox being the only console she's got and the only games she's even got registered on or having achievements for are all "kinect animals" and monopoly. I figured, oh maybe she's got two usernames, but this is the one that she keeps posting as her Live U/N on facebook, so it's gotta be this one. She didn't even have COD, MW, in fact, no FPS even featured on her games list.

I was so SO disappointed. I mean, she came across like "yeah I know how to kick it with the guys and I'm totally abusing this" but when it came down to it, there was no evidence to back it up.

There were a whole range of zumba and dance games I didn't even know existed until I saw her profile >< It just pees me off, until I realise that well, if they are that insecure to lie about the games they play or even being a gamer, then they have some serious self esteem issues going on.

 

[MasterV]

Lack of online etiquette.

There are exceptions, but that's always part of there being a rule isn't it?

 

[VanQ]

Girl logs into vent sever.
Girl: "Hi guys, what are we raiding today?"
Creepy dude "Are you a girl? You have a nice voice."
Me "Oh for the love of..."
Creepy guy has been removed from the raid. Creepy guy has been banned from my vent server.

There's always one! No matter what server I've played on there's always that one creepy dude that says that line. Every single time. I know it's not the girls fault at all and I'm not blaming them, in fact I feel sorry they have to put up with this bullshit. But for the love of all that is holy, don't say that line! It just makes you sound like a creep!

 

[Adam Galli]

All my discs are in their cases sitting on my shelf or they are in the console. My buddy has a horrible habit of putting games in the wrong case and it annoys the hell out of me. Alot of times when I go over there I organize his games.

 

[Zantos]

As i said tweaks. To get people interested in sequels you have to go further than the previous games, and no cod sp since mw has really left any impression on me. Blops mp might be the best in the world but it doesn't really matter as it will be replaced by whichever cod game is next. It just makes an endless cycle of rebuying.

I blame EA for that particular business model. They've learned from all their sporting games that people will buy essentially the same game every year if you give it a progressively higher numbered title. Now other publishers have realised this, we're doomed.

Unless my theory of the ultra-generic RPG comes true.

Girl logs into vent sever.
Girl: "Hi guys, what are we raiding today?"
Creepy dude "Are you a girl? You have a nice voice."
Me "Oh for the love of..."
Creepy guy has been removed from the raid. Creepy guy has been banned from my vent server.

There's always one! No matter what server I've played on there's always that one creepy dude that says that line. Every single time. I know it's not the girls fault at all and I'm not blaming them, in fact I feel sorry they have to put up with this bullshit. But for the love of all that is holy, don't say that line! It just makes you sound like a creep!

You know that stereotype that girls are bad at videogames, that isn't true but everyone overgeneralises it for no obvious reason. I believe this is the male equivalent, most male gamers are fine (even the MMOers), but theres that handful like this that make us all look bad.

If it were up to me we'd form an elite team of Marcus Fenix, Duke Nukem, Captain Price being led by Commander Badass to hunt them down. But something about that plan strikes me as unlikely.

 

[Wutaiflea]

My husband does all of the following:

- Leaves disks out of their boxes, frequently with stuff on them
- Leaves disks and boxes on the floor
- Stacks game boxes on the coffee table rather than in the racks
- Lets me turn on the computer without telling me he's taken out the USB extension in order to charge the controllers
- Puts things on top of disks

I really don't see why its so hard to put something back where you got it from. Grr.

 

[LittleBlondeGoth]

Oh yeah, and the whole girl thing already mentioned. There's a damn good reason I didn't install Vent for a couple of years whilst playing EverQuest. And when I finally bit the bullet and started using it, there were still people surprised that the raid leader had boobs.

But the ones who were all "Tee hee, I don't know what I'm doing but I'm a girl so can I have free stuff?" really got on my nerves...

 

[Sora112112]

10) Saving after every single encounter. I do this. Whenever I get past the tiniest challenge in a game, particularly shooters, I go pause and save the game on any game that allows it. When using emulators, I do the same thing with save states, which isn't cheating because you've already proven you can pass the obstacle in question. It is cheating when you use it as a way to get infinite lives. (Die? Reload last save state).

i am the exact opposite,i don't save often enough then complain cause autosave didn't pick up the slack

 

[kayisking]

Does gaming count?
Just joking, but I guess the trolls can be quite annoying, thats the main reason I hang out at the escapist.

 

[kingcom]

PC gamer elitism.
"Grumble Grumble Skyrim* would be better if it was not on consoles, Why do we have to pander to 2005 tech whine whine "

Because console sales far outstrip PC sales and without, using the Skyrim example, the console sales of Oblivion/Fallout 3 there would be a good chance that BethSoft wouldn't be making Skyrim? Hows 'dem apples? Crunchy?

Of course not all PC gamers are like this, hell my gametime is 50/50 Xbox/laptop at the moment.
*or whatever

People who complain about elitism.

 

[Zantos]

Does gaming count?
Just joking, but I guess the trolls can be quite annoying, thats the main reason I hang out at the escapist.

I had a stoopid moment a while ago. I thought to myself "Damn these trolls around here (The Escapist) can be annoying. I'll check out some other sites, see whats going on there"

*5 minutes later*

"I am NEVER going outside again *whimper*"

 

[Phishfood]

I'm a bad one for compulsive reloading, its got me killed more times than I can count. Saying that, so has NOT reloading...ah well.

As for the discs thing - I have a habit of whatever disc is in the machine, the box is open on top. If I pick up another disc and go to put it in, theres the open box waiting for the old disc.

I think one of the WORST things a lot of "pro" gamers do is just scream NOOB at the new guy. I really can't stand when someone who is genuinely new to a game comes in and everyone is screaming at them for not knowing some wierd concept that only applies to that game. Hey guys, rather than just screaming why not TELL them how to do it? then they will be an ASSET to the team.

 

[Zantos]

When games face controversy of any kind(like other art forms have), everyone hides behind the "they're just games!" excuse.

And when they're treated just like games, and not given the same recognition as an art form, everyone shouts "but they are art!".

Game's can't be art only when its convenient. If you want games to be art, you have to stand by them through the bad times, as well as the good.

And if you don't care about them being art, and just see them as games. Then don't be so pissed when people treat them like games, and not as an art form.

Hehe, talking about controversy made me think of this that I watched the other day http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/302/Max-Effect

Incidentally, did you know that sprite contains artificial preservatives. Because I watched most of their video back catalogue, so I bloody well do now.

 

[Mister Benoit]

As a fem-gamer, I hate it when girls use their wiles to cover up a lack of knowledge in games. As in, "HELLO. I PLAY GAMES KINDA SORTA, BUT I'M HOT SO LOOK HERE!" It's possible to be both good looking AND know your games, but it seems to be a trendy thing now-a-days that drives me up the wall and gives girls a bad name in games.

But guys might disagree..

No most guys will probably agree with your viewpoint, look up Ijustine and you will see a lot of hate directed her way for the portal 2 lets play for the very reasons you stated. (now equally hating people like thats probably a bit harsh, but thats another discussion entirely).

But yeah good point

I went on her XBOX live profile, xbox being the only console she's got and the only games she's even got registered on or having achievements for are all "kinect animals" and monopoly. I figured, oh maybe she's got two usernames, but this is the one that she keeps posting as her Live U/N on facebook, so it's gotta be this one. She didn't even have COD, MW, in fact, no FPS even featured on her games list.

Aww common now, Kinectimals is pretty awesome =p Not that i've played it but I can't wait to ^_^

Also take a step back and look at what you're doing, you are stalking someone's Facebook profile, posts on other people's walls and their XBL accounts.

Unless she's a total bonehead and awful person I don't understand the hate, no harm done with harmless flirting.

Anyways I've got a bad habit on trying to finish everything (Just burnt myself out on Borderlands) and I always feel the need to have the best of something (Having the best possible IV's/EV's and Nature's in Pokemon).