Need Help Escapist With Roommate Gaming Situation

[Last Bullet]

I'd say "misplace" the disc, but they'd probably know it was you. Hopefully. If that plan DOES work, I wouldn't take advantage of it and play. I'd get the hell out of there.

If PC gaming isn't an option, I guess you could try Borderlands like a few others have suggested. My sis isn't a gamer at ALL, and she was bugging me to play it with her.

Power to you for not, like... losing it already.

 

[Kuilui]

My advice is to save up for another tv and console so that you can play on it as much as you please, because it is all yours. The less morally right answer is to buy a pitbull and train it to attack them whenever they aggrivate you or get a firearm. Nothing says piss off like a 12 gauge. I'm kidding about the last two things of course. Sounds like your screwed unless you can save up and get your own stuff.

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

Wow seems like the reletionship me and my brother use to have.
Heres a idea, offer to pre-order black ops for them then give them halo reach. Meheheheheeh.

Well i have nothing else to say to you but if they want to play that game let them play it, does it really matter anyways?

 

[Kollega]

The question is: who's paying for the Internet? If you do, just stop for a month, that'll force them to discover something else. There's also the possibility of showing them what exactly Activision did to Infinity Ward. And if nothing helps, just add some sleeping pills in what they drink, and when they're knocked out, drive them off into the forest and leave them there.

 

[T_ConX]

The problem is my two roommate hate anything non-MW2.

I have Alan Wake, Dragon Age Origins/Awakenings, Valkyria Chronicles, Dead Space, Batman; nothing work with them.

Blasphemy! What kind of 'Gamer' could hold such positions?

...they are insomniac potheads...

Ah yes... The Stoner Fratboy Class. Never even knew FPSs existed until Halo came out. Thinks a restaurant is the best place to find a dedicated server. Can't tell the difference between WRPGs and JRPGs. Just one of the many types of cells that make 'The Cancer That is Killing Gaming'.

Sadly, members of this barbarian caste do not respond well to persuasive arguments, so your out of luck on that front.

Short of hoping that they'll suddenly acquire some good tastes, I would recommend putting in an anonymous tip to local law enforcement concerning their herbalist indulgences.

If your looking for a less... drama-filled way forward... you could use the parental controls to lock them out of the console. I assume you own the PS3 in question.

Or, better yet, you could join THE PC MASTER RACE, and leave those those console kiddies to their little war-games.

 

[munsterman]

So here is an update on my situation:

1) Played Dragon Age in front of them, killed everything, did as CountFenring suggested. Their response was "When you get done with this crappy World of Warcraft knock-off I'm gonna play a real game." *FacePalm*

2) Roommates are quiting cigarettes and pot "forever" (or at least until someone offers up a bong). SO that helpful... FML.

In light of these current developments I have decided to get a TV and just set up the 360 in my room to get those out of the way. Maybe by the time I'm finished with my back log Black Ops or Halo:Reach will be out and I can switch out the PS3 for 360.

 

[gristledemon]

um wow i feel for you dude i really do, that would drive me insane. i assume getting your own TV/game system is not an option? sadly i cant really say.... i never bother with MW1 or 2 so i cant really guess what they would like.
the beat them over and over idea does work, you gotta be good tho, usually they will team up on you first and if your not good enough to still destroy them they will somehow think that 2(or 3 or 4 etc) people being required to beat you still counts as them "winning", its rather sad. basicly if you are going the with beating them at it till its no longer fun be warned, it is a looong road.

 

[wolf92]

Seeing as murder is illegal, there's nothing you can really do

 

[squid5580]

Seeing as murder is illegal, there's nothing you can really do

Here now!!!

It is only illegal if you get caught.

 

[vallorn]

just take the console away from them or "accidently " lose/permanantly ruin thier MW2 disk.

or as other people suggested. mess with thier interweb connection while thier playing. (for better results get a Mobile internet dongle (i would recomend 3's MiFi router) and hook up your console so it looks like its only thier game thats dieing.)

please note that i eas only cured of Halo:CE syndrome (single player only. never touched Xbox Live) by one of my friends gouging a ring on the disk with his thumbnail.

 

[maddawg IAJI]

So they have there own little idea of gaming and they enjoy themselves. No point in trying to change them. My brother loves MW2 and Skate 3 and rarely plays anything else for too long. You gotta let them find things they like.

 

[Meggiepants]

Sounds like it's time to find some new roommates. Seriously. This would be one of those deal breaker things.

I might mention to them that unless they can't figure out a better time share for the video game system that they are going to have to look for a new roommate. But only do this if you are serious about moving.

 

[Digitaldreamer7]

Buy your own TV, Move your console into your room. cheaper then getting new roomates

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[Theron Julius]

Do you have a good gaming computer? If so get them playing TF2 or Counterstrike.

Also tell them that their complaints about BC2 are bullshit. It's not easy to make good graphics over all that terrain. Above that graphics are pretty meaningless. They're the last quality of a game that you should pay attention to.

 

[Peabob]

This is the biggest non-problem ever

 

[The Undoer]

Chase him with a pointed stick? I'd suggest easing him out, but if BFBC2 Didn't work I dunno what will, and graphics won't let him get into a PC version of TF2...

Direct him here so we can point and laugh?

 

[wolf92]

=

 

[fanozelda9]

ask him politely
if he says no, then performe a sweet chin music on him,followed by a sharpshooter

If this doesn't work, you have no other choice than to get new room mates.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I just finished doing my Coop (Extended Internship) this summer now I have a few weeks to beat my backlog of games. The problem is my two roommate hate anything non-MW2.
I have tried everything:
I have shown them Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - response "graphics suck for online in that game".
I bought the new BlazBlue game the only fighting game one of the ever liked - response "I just don't like the new game". He was better at the old game than me and only quite because he had tests to study for.
The only success I had was getting one of them to play Limbo but he beat that in an afternoon and won't look at anything else online because they are all just "short flash games".

I have Alan Wake, Dragon Age Origins/Awakenings, Valkyria Chronicles, Dead Space, Batman; nothing work with them. I have to either play when both are gone/asleep (not likely as they are insomniac potheads) or I get like 10 minutes of play time then they kick me off the game so they can play MW2 online for the next 1-2 hours.
O Great Gods of the Escapist help this mere mortal.

well it sounds like your trying to play on one console or something

in that case, whos console is it in the first place? who owns the tv? if its not theres then they dont have the justification to kick you off. if it is, just hide their pot and stuff outside somwhere so they spend hours looking for it.

i know that its a money thing, but me and my 3 roommates avoid this by working and we bought our own tv's so none of this had to happen.