We have a lot of mutual friends, and I don't usually know if he will be there or not.migo said:
Single Game Elitists?
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This is sort of related I guess; but the reason I no longer play Warcraft III multiplayer is because of DotA. Every custom game in the list is a DotA game, and I just hate it. Not even a measly tower defense is available for play. Everybody fawns over it and it kills every other custom game.
Naturally, this pisses me off because there are plenty of other, better custom game types that don't get any action whatsoever. Ugh.
Even the people in the freaking chatrooms go on about it; "Hay bruh, dota?"
Anyway, I have a friend like the one you mentioned, though I suppose it's more with the entire franchise than just one game, and that's Halo. He believes no game series has a deeper narrative, richer gameplay, a better online community, stronger main character - both personally and physically of course, etc., and I can't convince him otherwise.
Tis facepalm worthy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to build a custom game in WC3 World Editor and add functions that will allow for bots...
Naturally, this pisses me off because there are plenty of other, better custom game types that don't get any action whatsoever. Ugh.
Even the people in the freaking chatrooms go on about it; "Hay bruh, dota?"
Anyway, I have a friend like the one you mentioned, though I suppose it's more with the entire franchise than just one game, and that's Halo. He believes no game series has a deeper narrative, richer gameplay, a better online community, stronger main character - both personally and physically of course, etc., and I can't convince him otherwise.
Tis facepalm worthy.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to build a custom game in WC3 World Editor and add functions that will allow for bots...
Friend of mine only plays WoW, and when not playing WoW has WoWithdrawl. He went into depression when his account was cancelled.
I've got plenty of games that I love. Some of them I will even play to the exclusion of other games for days at a time.
But one game and only one game to the permanent exclusion of others? That's like listening to Beethoven's 9th and ONLY Beethoven's 9th. Great piece of music to be sure, but there's so much you're missing!
But one game and only one game to the permanent exclusion of others? That's like listening to Beethoven's 9th and ONLY Beethoven's 9th. Great piece of music to be sure, but there's so much you're missing!
I have a friend excatly like that. Or rather HAD a friend. He and I don't talk much now due to his elitist behavior.
My cousin was one of those for Gears of War online for a while. He was borrowing Bioshock from me for about a year before he ever got to it, all because he was pretty much exclusively playing Gears of War online. Even when Halo 3 came out, we picked it up opening night and went over to his place, but he wasn't nearly as excited as he was for Halo 2, and he seemed to just see it as time he could have been playing Gears. He's over that now, thankfully, and I even got him to play through Final Fantasy VI. We still play Gears of War 2 online together, but he's gotten over his "Why would I bother playing games that aren't as good as Gears" thing. Thankfully.
I did that with Borderlands for two weeks. Then I beat it and found Lego Batman. Then I quit that because one can suffer playing with AI bricks for only a short bit of time.
I know many "gamers" who only play Modern Warfare 2. I often get asked why I don't play, which might have something to do with the fact that I HATE THE MODERN WARFARE 2 COMMUNITY! The good thing that has come from this is that Halo 3 got cleaned up, although now I get called "gay" for playing that, even if only for custom games.
Also, as a side note, I have yet to hear someone praise the game. I only hear complaints about n00bt00bers (and yes, it had to be typed like that) and boosters and crap. Only complaints. But, it's what everyone else plays, so that's what they play. Meanwhile I sit in my lonely GRAW 2 lobby looking for some co-op, but that's too "boring" for everyone. I fucking hate people. [/rant]
...Yeah.
NOTE: I'm perfectly fine with people liking Modern Warfare 2. It's people that only play that game and then ridicule me for not playing it that irk me.
Also, as a side note, I have yet to hear someone praise the game. I only hear complaints about n00bt00bers (and yes, it had to be typed like that) and boosters and crap. Only complaints. But, it's what everyone else plays, so that's what they play. Meanwhile I sit in my lonely GRAW 2 lobby looking for some co-op, but that's too "boring" for everyone. I fucking hate people. [/rant]
...Yeah.
NOTE: I'm perfectly fine with people liking Modern Warfare 2. It's people that only play that game and then ridicule me for not playing it that irk me.
While one could make a very strong case for me "only" playing TF2 the truth is that's mostly due to time constraints. I make every effort to not judge a game until I've played it for myself, and try to play new kinds of games as often as time allows.
I'm sort of like that. Given the choice I would play HL2 (Orange box) over any other game, and I would give reasons as to why I believe it is one of the best games ever made (in my opinion) however I am open to other games and play lots of them for variation.
Pretty much this. I refuse to play anything else until I finish the single player campaign in a game first. Always did, always will.joe102 said:
Although, talk to any boy in my school and they will say the only thing they play is Call of Duty.
The moment you said he mocked you for playing single player games... that was the moment I knew you had found someone "special".
Multiplayer is generally fucking about with no real overall goal, single player is where the meat of almost any game not exclusively built around multiplayer gaming is.
I say this as someone who has played tonnes of games, by the way.
Multiplayer is generally fucking about with no real overall goal, single player is where the meat of almost any game not exclusively built around multiplayer gaming is.
I say this as someone who has played tonnes of games, by the way.
You have to understand some people find a game they like and stick with it, for a lot of reason such as money, not everyone are going to buy the next 'big' game because everyone else is doing so. And it's obvious that since he's gonna be playing only one game, he will be pretty keen to defend the game fanatically.
Hell, I have friends who still swear by cs 1.6, and are not interested to try MW2 or any other competitive fps for that matter.
Hell, I have friends who still swear by cs 1.6, and are not interested to try MW2 or any other competitive fps for that matter.
I know far too many people who will happily bleat crap like "You, you're playing APB/Modern Warfare/Halo/Red Alert 3/Fallout 3? It's not Team Fortress 2, so it's shit."
I'm like it for about the first week of a new game - I'll play the crap out of it, I'll talk about nothing but it, I'll put people off for it, and then it'll be over. I pulled off 21 hour's playtime in the action districts alone (it's got to be close to 70 with social time too...) in my first week of APB, but I'm playing other things again now. I even talked to my room mate today
I'm like it for about the first week of a new game - I'll play the crap out of it, I'll talk about nothing but it, I'll put people off for it, and then it'll be over. I pulled off 21 hour's playtime in the action districts alone (it's got to be close to 70 with social time too...) in my first week of APB, but I'm playing other things again now. I even talked to my room mate today