Friends you hate gaming with (includes rant)

[The Funslinger]

I have a very good example from just yesterday. Me and friend X went to meet some other friends at someone's house to plan for a trip we're doing. After that, we decided to chill. The consensus was reached to play some of the console version of Minecraft. I was like "oh, okay. Cool." I'd never played the console version before, and I thought this would be a good opportunity to try before I buy.

Anyhow, we crack open a fresh world, which friend X names "Jack is gay" (that's me, btw). I went along with it, shrugged it off and we started playing. We all start gathering resources, one of us starts building a hut and things like that. Pretty soon, friend X runs up and kills me, being all "trololol!" No biggy. I didn't have anything that constituted a loss. Then I'd get started with something, gather something worth having, and he'd kill me again. I got some bones, and started a farm. He starts gathering things from my farm on the grounds that "we're all sharing anyway, you're not losing anything!" and gives me the seeds, but not the wheat so that if he takes any damage killing me, he can just eat bread. I get some more bones for the farm, and he kills me again. Then uses my bones to tame a wolf we found. Then just starts running up to me and punching me while I'm working so his wolf attacks me.

Then we decided to explore, and we all got in boats. He waits until we're out at sea, and then punches my boat so it breaks apart and I have to swim back. Then the ultimate piss take (as I was deciding whether to kill his wolf) the wolf glitched, and became invisible and unkillable, which he then uses for even more trolling. I kept telling him to stop, to give me X items back (which he ignored) and finally, he said the reason was because he liked my reaction.

He didn't do this to anyone else, and happily helped them with anything they needed. They're more my friends than his, he's mainly friends with one of them's brother, and he just keeps trying to wind me up in front of them. I'm getting quite sick of it.

 

[hazabaza1]

My girlfriend.
Backseat. Fucking. Driver.
Not to mention if she dies she starts shouting and getting really angry. Not good in co-op when I've had about 14 years experience and she's kinda casual. Couple of hours a week at most.

 

[Andy Shandy]

One of my friends. If he's playing something competitive, he has a tendency to go into a rage extremely easily, which is to be expected, because it happens to half the people on Live it seems, but it doesn't mean I like having my head feel like exploding after I've played something like CoD with him.

 

[Phasmal]

Wow. Sounds like that guy is really not keen on you.

Boyfriend. He is awful to play with. I love my boyfriend, I do. But he blames me/the game/fate/lag/bad luck any time he dies if we're playing together. And that makes him sound like a bad gamer and he's really not. He's the best player I know, (annoyingly so), but when he does rarely lose/die he cannot deal with it.

Oh and his brothers. They're annoying to play with in another way. Say me, my boyfriend, his brothers and their friend are all playing TF2. If they kill each other they will laugh and congratulate each other and stroke each others egos. If I kill one of them, they say nothing or say `Oh, you just got me. I totally nearly dodged that` (NOYOUDIDNT!). And the only difference between me and them is the fact I'm a girl. But that's just that.

 

[Launcelot111]

My college buddy c-sticked hard in SSBM as Roy. Drove me absolutely insane

 

[The Funslinger]

One of my friends. If he's playing something competitive, he has a tendency to go into a rage extremely easily, which is to be expected, because it happens to half the people on Live it seems, but it doesn't mean I like having my head feel like exploding after I've played something like CoD with him.

Fair enough. The friend I mentioned is like that. He knowingly acts like a troll because he thinks it's cool. Even if it was, that effect is ruined once you've seen him play Halo or CoD multiplayer for any length of time. "OMG! THAT'S SO NOOBISH[footnote]"unless it turns out I can easily win with it!"[/footnote] ONLY NOOBS DO THAT! I BEAT FIRST, THIS GAME IS SO BROKEN!"

 

[The Funslinger]

Wow. Sounds like that guy is really not keen on you.

Well, it's not just gaming, tbh. When it's just us, he's fine. We've known each other since we were babies. When we're with other people, he elects to show off by trying to make me look bad. He's basically the annoying childhood friend meme compressed into a diamond of super evil. I think he has some problem with me he won't admit, and so he just gets at me passive aggressively. Could be any number of things. Maybe because his family's poor, whereas mine's somewhat upper class, or the fact I'm better looking/do better with women than he does. Or due to the fact that since we're both sociopaths, I'm the only one he can't directly manipulate. In terms of sociopathy, he's got the whole sadistic thing that I actually lack. So it could just be he's getting his jollies off of other people's unhappiness.

My college buddy c-sticked hard in SSBM as Roy. Drove me absolutely insane

Best advice I can give you is just to spam a long ranged attack like Fox or Falco. Chip away with little bits of damage while staying out of range of his C-stick.

 

[Launcelot111]

My college buddy c-sticked hard in SSBM as Roy. Drove me absolutely insane

Best advice I can give you is just to spam a long ranged attack like Fox or Falco. Chip away with little bits of damage while staying out of range of his C-stick.

Well this was years ago, but my list of people I played with was Pichu, Zelda, Yoshi, and Ness. I could chip all I want, but it's a little trickier to kill him. I inevitably would, but all my friend did was remain motionless and either block or c-stick in your direction.

Also, now that I think of it, my other college buddies stayed with Halo 3 long, long after Reach came out, so they would be two of the 2000 people playing at a time. They would then take a warthog, tear through the people who stuck with Halo 3 apart, and spend the next hour crowing about how they could rack up a 20/2 KD ratio against these losers because they could drive in circles with impunity. More often than not, I would just blow up their warthog just to shut them up.

 

[The Funslinger]

My college buddy c-sticked hard in SSBM as Roy. Drove me absolutely insane

Best advice I can give you is just to spam a long ranged attack like Fox or Falco. Chip away with little bits of damage while staying out of range of his C-stick.

Well this was years ago, but my list of people I played with was Pichu, Zelda, Yoshi, and Ness. I could chip all I want, but it's a little trickier to kill him. I inevitably would, but all my friend did was remain motionless and either block or c-stick in your direction.

Also, now that I think of it, my other college buddies stayed with Halo 3 long, long after Reach came out, so they would be two of the 2000 people playing at a time. They would then take a warthog, tear through the people who stuck with Halo 3 apart, and spend the next hour crowing about how they could rack up a 20/2 KD ratio against these losers because they could drive in circles with impunity. More often than not, I would just blow up their warthog just to shut them up.

I know what you mean. That same friend (I have a lot of issues with him) racked up high K/Ds by camping, sniping and going for things like the Banshee. There's nothing wrong with that, but without what amounts to one shot kills, he was utterly useless. Didn't stop him from quite seriously claiming he thought he might be the best Halo 3 player in the world.

 

[bro1667]

well, not really A friend just the type of mood they are in. As an example.

- A mate and I were playing saints row 3. He just wanted to change his player ALL THE DAMN TIME. So what do i do? hit him with a giant purple dildo when i told him to hurry up, rage quit.

- A time were another friend and i played borderlands he was just so quiet that it was not really fun playing with him, so i slowly and as politly as possible tried to act more tired so i just could stop playing with him

- Left for dead 2, no dont get me started on that. for 3 weeks we did not speak, 4 OF US!

- Just a general thing. When i buy a game to play with a friend that he already has played a good bit of, he wants to play from the start with his max level "i got every thing so screw you guy" where i just "tag along."

- Strategy games where friends just want to screw around. No, just no. When i play a rts, i play to win dammit! when we know we can win, then i will steamroll the map with the most expensive units in the game.

im not really that guy that is patient.

 

[DJjaffacake]

One guy. He's far too into COD. You know those people who send you, "OMG UR SO SUKY LOZER NOOB LOL," messages when they lose. Yeeeaaah. Worse, when you're playing splitscreen he's an arrogant dick when he's winning, and then you kill him a couple of times in a row, (he can still be winning by a significant amount at this point) he just goes quiet and if you look at him you can tell he's really angry. I think it's because he's spent so much time on it, he's got really good, so he's not used to losing. Recently, he insisted I go online with him, and 1 on 1 I owned him, which surprised me as much as anyone. But now he insists that he let me win so I'd play online more, which brings me neatly to my final point. Pretty much everytime we're both signed in, I get a message along the lines of, "COD match?" to which my brain response is, "NO, fuck off, you know I don't really like playing online, especially COD, I have never said yes to any of these. Also, you can see what game I'm playing, so you know I'm doing something other than COD." My actual response is just, "no."

/rant

 

[Esotera]

My housemate has a superpower where he can turn any brilliant game into the most mundane experience known to man. The first thing he commented upon seeing GTA IV was how good and original the dialogue between all the characters was, and he just has this horrific habit of exploring absolutely every aspect of a game (reading the codexes, doing all the side missions, looking all round the level, running off after getting slightly damaged in combat to stock up on potions, etc). These are all absolutely fine when playing individually, and I do a lot of it, but it's so boring when you're doing multiplayer.

Also, another of my housemates was unemployed for a while and racked up about 150 hours of Final Fantasy 13 within a few weeks, whilst playing it on a pretty loud volume. I didn't play with him but had to play in the same room, and by the end I was legitimately ready to kill him until his game hilariously crashed on the final cutscene.

 

[Jedoro]

My best friend. Dude prides himself on trolling people in games, but he rages so hard when anything bad happens to him that I find myself wanting to punch him.

 

[him over there]

Oh, that would be me whenever me and my friends play Kirby Air Ride. Nuke people, take their stuff, incapacitate them for sometimes minutes at a time.

 

[BernardoOne]

The ones that say that my controller is better when i beat them at PES.

 

[Vault101]

I don't have any freinds to game with

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Friends that I've introduced to LoL, and when they get roflstomped by a champion they're unfamiliar with/aren't playing against properly just say "That champ is broken", or "noob champ". Like complaining about how Blitz's rocket grab is so OP because they keep standing still in front of a bush that Blitz is in.

I just grit my teeth most of the time, but I guess I should maybe take time to explain what they're doing wrong, in a nice a way as possible.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Whenever my group of friends and I try to beat any L4D campaign on Expert we always get to the last level then spend countless lives just instakilling each other in the saferoom. It's funny the first 5 times but when we get to number 35 it's beyond tiresome DX

Playing League of Legends duo queue is also hit and miss we're either having a blast owning noobs left and right, escaping impossible ganks (Gaters gonna gate!) and just generally having fun or we're silently hating each other for totally missing that gank and just being generally shit...

Protip: never lane together with your friend, go jungle/top and just gank frequently. It's more likely that you'll have fun that way ^^

Plus 3v3 is funny as hell with friends, bitches see my totally underpowered but still awesome Evelynn, they hatin'

Not sure if Ranked duo is more or less rage-inducing than Unranked... It's more structured but people care way too much about their ELO. But you won't get some of the assholes in Unranked who don't get the lane they wanted and decide to throw themselves at towers in recompense.

Nor will you get really weird team compositions.

If you have ban rights and you forget to ban someone like, say, Kassadin prepare to get destroyed by both his unpunishable tower dives that take off three quarters of your health and your teammates harsh words of assholeism.

Wonder if people actually listen to what they say sometimes... Screaming "OMG NOOB TEAM" 50 times is hardly going to make them listen to you or even motivate them to try and win.

Same with "stop feeding" how pray tell do you expect them to simply stop feeding? They tried tower hugging and that didn't work. If a lane is struggling tell the jungler to gank them instead of trying to failgank mid for the 50 billionth time

 

[The Wykydtron]

Friends that I've introduced to LoL, and when they get roflstomped by a champion they're unfamiliar with/aren't playing against properly just say "That champ is broken", or "noob champ". Like complaining about how Blitz's rocket grab is so OP because they keep standing still in front of a bush that Blitz is in.

I just grit my teeth most of the time, but I guess I should maybe take time to explain what they're doing wrong, in a nice a way as possible.

I swear to god that grab is evil. Not OP, just evil. Not knowing wtf people can do was so bad during my first few months of LoL.

"Right so what can this Alistar guy do?"

"uhh he's got a headbutt and stuff"

"oh coo-OH SHI- WHY AM I UNDER THEIR TURRET NOW?!"

"yeah that's his headbutt"

I didn't make his life easier by choosing the most interesting (and therefore harder to play most of the time) Champions instead of the most accessible... Plus I can't play a carry to save my life so me swapping between Vayne, Fiora, Ashe etcetc because they look cool wasn't good for his sanity.

Your friends say much about Darius if they're raging about Blitz? The genuinely OP Champion of the moment (well pre-nerf anyway)

 

[Rednog]

I don't have any freinds to game with

Sadly, I'm in the same boat.