Poll: How do you feel about team games and microphones?

[itsoutthere]

That's probably not the catchiest title but still...
What I mean is when playing a team game such as Rainbow six Vegas or Left 4 Dead where tactics and teamwork are incredibly important how do you feel about microphones?
I personally always have mine on for those games and pretty much refuse to play a game where more than half my teammates don't have a mic.
It doesn't make sense to me to play a game like that and not talk.
So I figured I'd ask your opinions...
How do you deal with people who don't wear microphones in these kinds of games?
Do you wear a microphone?
Also it should probably be noted my experience is with the xbox live community
Are things different in the Pc or Playstation online communities?

 

[Happy Toki Toki]

mic's are all fine, till some kid with no testical's starts playing mario music and squeeling orders at people like some kind of ADD infested super spaz.

at that time its either *mute* or "please dont talk"

 

[D_987]

If you have mature team-mates, Microphones are a necessity.

 

[roblikestoskate]

i think mics are a must for an adaptable team, but i've seen far too many noisy mics

 

[coldfrog]

If you are super-serious about the game then yes, you will need one. For instance, if you want to have any success in the big World of Warcraft raids (where you can have 40 people at a time in some of them) you simply NEED to be able to talk. Another place is something like Team Fortress 2 where a good team needs to be able to communicate immediately as every second is another second the spy is sapping your equipment. However, if you are like me and just want to kick back and not worry too much about the serious stuff, then who cares? It can be fun to gab with people if they are mature and interesting, but not necessary.

(I should note that I used to be that guy, but I grew up and realized hey, it's just a game, you know? Plus I don't have that kind of time anymore. If I want to be serious about a game, I'll play a board game.)

 

[LewsTherin]

Mics are good if your WPM isn't in the range of Insane to Godly.

 

[Sir_Montague]

mic's are all fine, till some kid with no testical's starts playing mario music and squeeling orders at people like some kind of ADD infested super spaz.

at that time its either *mute* or "please dont talk"

If you have mature team-mates, Microphones are a necessity.

Agreed and agreed.

 

[Nivag the Owl]

mic's are all fine, till some kid with no testical's starts playing mario music and squeeling orders at people like some kind of ADD infested super spaz.

at that time its either *mute* or "please dont talk"

If you have mature team-mates, Microphones are a necessity.

Agreed and agreed.

I used to find it so bloody funny playing Counterstrike Source, when you see the fully geared and protected authorities running around with the voice of a 3 year old.

 

[Good morning blues]

I love team-based games, and microphones really add to it. The problem is that on the Internet, everybody just lone wolfs it all the time and nobody ever uses the microphone properly. I'd love to have a team actually working together using voice chat in a game like Red Orchestra but apparently that's just too much to ask for.

 

[D_987]

I love team-based games, and microphones really add to it. The problem is that on the Internet, everybody just lone wolfs it all the time and nobody ever uses the microphone properly. I'd love to have a team actually working together using voice chat in a game like Red Orchestra but apparently that's just too much to ask for.

On games like Left for Dead you can usually find a good team with microphones.

 

[Good morning blues]

I love team-based games, and microphones really add to it. The problem is that on the Internet, everybody just lone wolfs it all the time and nobody ever uses the microphone properly. I'd love to have a team actually working together using voice chat in a game like Red Orchestra but apparently that's just too much to ask for.

On games like Left for Dead you can usually find a good team with microphones.

Maybe so, but that's because there's only four people and the strategy consists of "keep together so you don't die alone, maybe warn people if there's a zombie behind them or something." I'm talking about games where team co-ordination is going to have a big effect on how the game plays out.

 

[Mr. Purple]

On Xbox with games like COD it makes it seem almost essential to use a mic, especially with friends, but on the ps3 and with lesser owned titles, it becomes less and less necessary because no1 else uses them. :/

 

[samsprinkle]

I can't play shooters when people aren't talking. COD4 is probably the exception. I do well enough there that on deathmatch type games I can get by. But on my favorite shooter of this generation of consoles thus far(RSV2) team chatter is a MUST.

 

[Fightbulb]

If you are super-serious about the game then yes, you will need one. For instance, if you want to have any success in the big World of Warcraft raids (where you can have 40 people at a time in some of them) you simply NEED to be able to talk. Another place is something like Team Fortress 2 where a good team needs to be able to communicate immediately as every second is another second the spy is sapping your equipment. However, if you are like me and just want to kick back and not worry too much about the serious stuff, then who cares? It can be fun to gab with people if they are mature and interesting, but not necessary.

This.

Also, I have to say that I often don't bother with a mic in TF2 (on Live), because 90% of the time there's no one talking anyway, and I don't want to be that one guy who keeps discussing tactics with himself.

 

[Dubiousduke]

It's tough to get enough people on a team with mics, but when it happens, it can work really smoothly. providing, of course, that nobody is goofing off.

When I started using a mic for Tribes 2 everything got so much easier. No more typing to tell the flag cappers that their ride was there, no more frantic typing to tell where I died and by whom. Unless a game has a quickchat function (Counter Strike, for example) a mic should be a priority.

 

[Good morning blues]

It's tough to get enough people on a team with mics, but when it happens, it can work really smoothly. providing, of course, that nobody is goofing off.

When I started using a mic for Tribes 2 everything got so much easier. No more typing to tell the flag cappers that their ride was there, no more frantic typing to tell where I died and by whom. Unless a game has a quickchat function (Counter Strike, for example) a mic should be a priority.

Actually, mics have the advantage over quickchat in that somebody might actually listen to what you have to say over a mic, whereas everybody filters out every piece of quickchat with that one moron spamming requests for a medic.

 

[mattttherman3]

I am replying to this so I don't have to make up my own damn thread, if you cannot spare 20 bucks for a mic, refrain from playing games which have more than 1 person on a team, because if you win on a team with no communication, it is either luck or the other team is absolute trash. If you don't have a mic and you are playing any team game, you have no place there, get out!

Here is an example, I was just playing annex in gears of war 2, on the flashback map with the train(name escapes me), my team had 5, the other had 3, and we lost on the last ring, it was in the middle where the train crosses, I was providing support from behind with the lancer and get chainsawed, then the other 4 members of the team decide to capture the circle together and get hit by a train, then the other team just have to capture it with no resistence after the train went by, and they did, and we lost.