Teaching people the basics.

[Whoolpurse]

No.. My girlfriend. okay wait, i was chilling with my girfriend until my boss called and asked for my help, I live right next door so why not? I'm gone for 2 hrs, and my girlfriend completes the last the saboteur mission. She had never played a game other than racing games.

 

[DEATHROAD]

I have the shortest fuse ever. I have no patience to teach people if they don't get it first time. But I calm down faster than I spark up so It normally ends up cool. People learn to listen first time if being taught by me.

im like that too, i can always "understand" why people might not get it, but when im acctually there my only views are: I get it,its simple,UNDERSTAND YOU PEICE OF SHIT!!!!!!!

and thats why no one asks me to help them..ever

 

[quiet_samurai]

ME: "Alright now go left....no left....god da.... left I said.... left leeeeefftt... turn all the way around, make a 180.... no not a 360...face the other way!!"

Her: *Finally faces the right direction*

Me: "Okay now go straight"

Her: "I thought you said go left?"

ME: *!!!!!!!!!*

I hate it.

 

[pierre61]

My perspective comes from the opposite end of the spectrum. I'm useless at games.
99% of my gaming time is spent sim racing, which took me a good few years to reach a level where I'm competent enough to give a good showing in most company.

My community does play some FPS games also, Red Orchestra, ARMA2 etc. and I've had first hand knowledge of both kinds of 'tutelage'. On one occasion I was on Teamspeak with just a couple of guys and one of them though it was hilarious to repeatedly spawn kill me. This just pissed me off and I didn't bother again for a while. More recently I've joined a 'boot camp' kind of team who really enjoy teaching folk the intricacies of gameplay. This is rewarding for both parties.

 

[SnipErlite]

Helping my dad learn to play Heavy Rain.

Which requires some nifty controller-dexterity.

 

[DEATHROAD]

I've had to detail; the specifics of warrior talent trees, rotations and requisite stats to several people in WoW...in detail.

It takes time, but its satisfying.

ive had to explain EVERY SINGLE basic of wow,to about 6 people,all at different times, the first of those 6 was asking me for advice while i was still level 12, we joined around the same time, the other 5 all joined at different times, last 3 i just gave up and told them every 2 levels they do ill tell them where to put their tallent points xD

explaining Spec's to a new player is so hard if u have nothing to compare it too, with the last person i did,i used Tf2 to compare points, Healing spec is like playing a medic, Tank is like playing a heavy, and dps is like playing a scout..although then they got confussed and expected wow to be a shooter..i suck at teaching

 

[TehCookie]

I can only stand teaching people who played games at least once before. It was kinda hard teaching one of my friends about the FFX sphere grid but I mainly shower her how to do it and she understood.

I showed some other ones L4D and pretty much just shoot heal, recognize specials. I just usually teach through example becuase that's how I learn the best, and when you get lost they can tell you where to go.

ME: "Alright now go left....no left....god da.... left I said.... left leeeeefftt... turn all the way around, make a 180.... no not a 360...face the other way!!"

Her: *Finally faces the right direction*

Me: "Okay now go straight"

Her: "I thought you said go left?"

ME: *!!!!!!!!!*

I hate it.

As long as they're not that stupid (which some of my friends are sadly to say).

I was trying to show one how to play Guild Wars and put her with my lvl 20 character in the weakest area, and she still died. I didn't even try to explain skills I was stuck on "WASD are your movement keys think of them like the arrow keys, W is forward..." and so on but she kept wondering how I knew which one went in which direction because the W doesn't have an arrow on it. So of course when monsters got into range I told her you can either hit C then space or click on them. Since the monsters were off screen and she couldn't turn around either she had to look at the keyboard to find the C key then hit space, and by that time she was already half dead.

 

[Fappy]

It's only really fun if the person learning is patient and easy going. Sounds like you got lucky. Some people are so dense they believe they are predisposed to failure and give little more than five minutes of fiddling with the analog sticks before they admit defeat.

Kudos on having a fiance that plays a barbarian on graph paper... we need more girls who enjoy playing characters with class features such as "illiteracy".

 

[Daystar Clarion]

It's only really fun if the person learning is patient and easy going. Sounds like you got lucky. Some people are so dense they believe they are predisposed to failure and give little more than five minutes of fiddling with the analog sticks before they admit defeat.

Kudos on having a fiance that plays a barbarian on graph paper... we need more girls who enjoy playing characters with class features such as "illiteracy".

That reminds if a time when she first started playing.

Me: Okay, if you put 2 skill points here, you can learn to read and write.

Her: Why would I want to do that?

Me: Err, so your character can read and write, duh.

Her: Yeah, but I could use those skill points and put them into intimidate, I don't need no stupid learnin's.

Me: *Face palm on the outside, super admiration on the inside.*

 

[Fappy]

It's only really fun if the person learning is patient and easy going. Sounds like you got lucky. Some people are so dense they believe they are predisposed to failure and give little more than five minutes of fiddling with the analog sticks before they admit defeat.

Kudos on having a fiance that plays a barbarian on graph paper... we need more girls who enjoy playing characters with class features such as "illiteracy".

That reminds if a time when she first started playing.

Me: Okay, if you put 2 skill points here, you can learn to read and write.

Her: Why would I want to do that?

Me: Err, so your character can read and write, duh.

Her: Yeah, but I could use those skill points and put them into intimidate, I don't need no stupid learnin's.

Me: *Face palm on the outside, super admiration on the inside.*

Hahaha that's awesome.