Really annoying gaming things your friends do?

[Sectan]

I really only have 1 friend I play online with and we meld pretty good. Although he has a terrible temper. He doesn't mind getting killed, but when really stupid things happen he'll throw his controller into the air "WOW HOW DID THAT HAPPEN."

 

[KefkaCultist]

My f(r)iend, the only person I game with 97% of the time, is the complete gaming antithesis of me.

Here's the list of everything he does that annoys me:
-skips cutscenes
-doesn't care about plot
-rage quits
-has gaming tourettes
-never reloads in shooters
-has short attention span and checks facebook/youtube/etc. while playing a game
-makes shitty excuses for why he sucks
-refuses to listen to advice on how to become better
-has shitty taste in games (he liked Too Human and disliked Shadow of the Colossus... -_-)
-eats all my food (okay, not really gaming related, but it is really annoying
-has no strategies other than running into combat
-will not take time to explore areas because he just wants to beat the game rather than experience it
-and finally (I think), he always attempts trolling people online, but always comes out of it looking like a moronic asshole.

I seriously don't know how he's my friend sometimes lol.

 

[bliebblob]

This one friend of mine switches his current game like every other day. One day he is a hardcore WoW player, the next he uninstalled it "because it's dumb" and starts playing modern warfare all day. Than 1 week later he decides modern warfare is boring and buys dota. 3 days of intense dota playing later, he's suddenly all over WoW again. So he starts a guild and whatnot and than after a week he suddenly completely stops again and goes back to modern warfare. and so on...
He does the same with character toons, servers, and accounts within the same game. On WoW he had like 17 "main" toons spread out over 12 servers and on warcraft 3 he made a new profile like every 6 hours.
Ofcourse he can do whatever he wants but it annoys me because
A) It makes it very hard to play together. Like you're trying to have a chat with a honeybee that keeps zipping from one flower to the other.
B) He denies a lot of it. Like when he "quits" a game and I ask him about it he's like "Huh? Oh yeah that old game, naww I barely ever played it." And I'm like "Dude... According to steam you played it for 5000 hours in the last two weeks." And than, 2 weeks later, he's playing it all day again even though he says he doesn't. -.-

 

[Hides His Eyes]

Actually I have thought I would quite like to see TES enter a period equivalent to the Renaissance or the 15-1600s, and include guns. I think it would be really cool. I doubt they will do it as it would be too much of a departure, but I don't think it would necessarily be bad.

As much as it would be awesome to have assult rifles (especially in an arena) I am going to say NOOOO!!!!

It would unbalance gameplay to an almost rediculus level. Maybe you could bring the Dwemer back and have them be all Steampunky. Or maybe you could give the high elves fire crackers (would give them reason to be arrogent). But large scale industrialisation of Nirn.

Wouldn't work unless it was done over the corse of 2-3 elder crolls games.

OT:

My friends refuse to accept that a PC can be more powerful than a console. Even if I show them the specs. Other then that though many play COD CONSTANTLY!!

SO yeah steriotypical things yet they still do them

It wouldn't unbalance it because Bethesda would build the game with it in mind. A mod introducing guns into Skyrim would unbalance it.

Anyway I would like to see it happen simply for the sake of originality and creative exploration, and to give a sense that the world of TES is moving forward. And yeah, the Dwemer coming back and steampunkifying things would be great.

 

[Hides His Eyes]

My friend Alex has this obsession with trying to link game series, or modernize them. Take Skyrim is a great, and recent, example. He spends two hours reading the wiki, and then decides that Fallout and Skyrim are set in the same universe because of an in game book that mentions gods bringing men and mer to Nirn from another planet. After hours of me telling him "It COULD be possible, but I'm very, very, very, very doubtful" He makes me out to be the bad guy. Claiming I was the one who kept arguing.

Another issue I have is that he always wants to modernize things. He said "Hey Ryan, wouldn't it be great is the next elder scrolls game was set in an industrial area!?". My response was "No Alex, I think that'd mess with it's fantasy setting too much. I feel that the fable games tryed this, and it worked to some extent, but I think they suffered in the long haul because of it. They seemed to rush into it too fast, not leaving room for much industrial styled progress, seeing as they'd crammed it all into fable 2".

He then tryed to convince me that Skyrim HAD to become modernized because of the fact that, in Skyrim, they had created windmills, lumber mills, grinding stones, etc. I attempted to explain to him that these things had probably been around for quite some time, and were just not showed in game, which he refused to accept. I also told him that his idea of the next Elder Scrolls having guns wouldn't work because ,aside from the game play issues I think it'd bring, it'd be *way* too far a leap for the world to suddenly have created guns, seeing as these games tend to take place 100-300 years apart each.

Sorry if way too much to read, I tend to get a bit carried away. Anyway, do any of your friends have similarly frustrating habits?

That first bit about Fallout and TES being set in the same universe is hilarious!

Actually I have thought I would quite like to see TES enter a period equivalent to the Renaissance or the 15-1600s, and include guns. I think it would be really cool. I doubt they will do it as it would be too much of a departure, but I don't think it would necessarily be bad.

If I am in the same room as my brother when he's playing any kind of strategy game or god game, like Total War or Civilisation, he gives a non-stop, moment-by-moment commentary on what he's doing.

How would TES going into the renaissance make ANY sense? it is it's own world it is NOT Earth, whos to say there even is a renaissance?Plus TES with guns makes it a fallout game , minus the apocalypse . JUST NO !

I think it's reasonable to expect a world that is more or less equivalent to medieval times in terms of technology, to progress to become a world more or less equivalent to Renaissance times... ?

And guns (especially the kind of early firearms I have in mind) would not turn TES into Fallout, what the hell gives you that idea? It would be TES except you could have a gun instead of a bow if you wanted (it would be more expensive to maintain and stock with ammo, and would be useless for stealth, but would be more powerful).

 

[Popeman]

They hit me when I beat them in multiplayer witch it means I get hit a lot because they suck i'm not good but they suck.

 

[TehCookie]

The only annoying thing my friend does is when we plays games she never learns. I'll buy a new multiplayer game and the first few rounds she'll kick my ass. After I learn the game I'll learn her strategy and beat her. Then I'll be winning every round and she doesn't try anything different. We play MvC3 often and she still runs straight at me every time mashing buttons. That worked until I learned keepaway moves. Now she runs straight into them with no attempt to dodge or block. Actually I just think she has a problem in dodging in all the games she played, she usually just takes the straightforward constant attack approach.

 

[srm79]

When the only fucking games they play are FIFA and CoD, and dismiss everything else as "crap" or "gay" without having ever so much as seen, never mind played it.

 

[Captain Booyah]

Joining everybody else with the friend-who-doesn't-pay-attention. Especially worse if it's something like BioShock, which you're probably not going to get a great deal out of if you're not listening to the story and looking around you. It's genuinely painful to watch someone skip every cutscene, and run about everywhere, shooting everything that moves, and everything that doesn't move, and the camera's having a seizure, and oh, God, kill me now. What do these people have against narrative? Seriously, what possesses them to skip so much dialogue??

I HOPE YOU PLAY ASSASSIN'S CREED ONE DAY, MOTHERFUCKERS!

 

[darkcalling]

To all the people with friends that skip cutscenes. I guess I'm lucky. My cousins used to do that but they grew out of it when I wasn't looking.

Most annoying thing my gamer friends do hmmm...

Well one simply can't seem to talk about anything but Battlefield 3, while I couldn't possibly care less for the game.

Many of them beg me to get a gold subscription to live but I just don't get enough entertainment out of multiplayer to justify it.

And my roommate complains to me every time LoL nerfs someone despite me barely even knowing the game exists.

Otherwise they're not that bad.