The most annoying kind of gamer?

[Acton Hank]

Hey, I played M rated games when I was twelve.

 

[Doclector]

The people who send messages saying "TENTH PRESTIGE HACK ONLY 1200 MS POINTS!"

God I hate those guys.

 

[Bilbo536]

Sadly I've been friends with one of the elitist types... sigh.

Also, one I neglected to mention, fricken backseat gamers! Oh my god, stfu and gtfo.

haha you mean the people who sit behind you and say "Use ur sniper! Watch out for the guy to your left! Don't go in that room, go the other way! Use invisibility!" and so on? I have so many friends like that. It's annoying, but fun to do the opposite of everything they say lol.

Edit: Oh, and the people who do nothing but betray their team. I especially hate it because not only is it annoying in a game, but my one friend who enjoys doing this did it on my account all year, and got me a 93% avoidance rate :/. I didn't even know it was happening until I randomly checked one time. So now, if I even accidentally betray somebody, the game looks at my record and immediately gives the person I accidentally betrayed the option to boot me, which they always take.

 

[AHWaffle]

the constant mike talkers are really fucking pointless

 

[theklng]

I can't stand the Stop Having Fun Guys types who look down their noses at anyone who'd rather tinker with a game and find something that works for them rather than go to GameFAQs or some wiki and look up how to get THE MOST DPS in every possible situation. Then again, the game designers encourage that sort of shit, so it's partially on them---I prefer to play games where the player is given more freedom and the balance is better.

how exactly do you think that game designers enforce this?

When game developers create things that, by virtue of their design, give a demonstrable advantage to the player who uses them, then they are effectively encouraging people to use it at the expense of everything else in the game.

Mind you, it's easier to get that sort of design wrong than it is to get it right. But if, say, you've got a +2 Gun of Super Shooty Death, then perhaps you should design it that, say, the ammo is really expensive or hard to come by to compensate, but using the less powerful gun grants you the benefit of being able to find ammo for it as easily as finding trailer trash at Wal-Mart.

that's like saying that you encourge people to microwave their pets just because you sell microwave ovens. or, alternatively, encouraging people to shoot each other because you sell guns.

your argument also sounds as if you've never seen the inside of a game design meeting. i'll admit there are good and bad designers out there, but you can't really blame designers for what people do (see above).

 

[Antiparticle]

A lot of online gamers annoy me, including campers, ragequitters, little kids, glitchers/cheaters, people who don't understand the game and have no interest in learning, and people who've been playing the game for two years straight and play in public servers just so they can "pubstomp, lol". But I think the very worst kind of people online are griefers, they're not annoying without realising it or as a side-effect of something else they do, no, it's their main goal to annoy and frustrate the other players. I find such people disturbing and sad at the same time.

 

[Nannernade]

The kind that have squeaky voices and ***** about everything, then use the things they're bitching about, and go around making sure everyone can't enjoy themselves.

And then you mute them, and fun times are had by all.

I couldn't have said it better myself. =P

 

[tehweave]

My roommate. If he doesn't succeed at ANYTHING he will SCREAM and YELL at the television until he either gets past the current obstacle or says "FUCK THIS GAME!" and then keeps playing anyway.

I'm moving out in July.

 

[Kajt]

The people who accuse other people of wallhacking/aimbotting/homosexuality/noobiness every single time they die.

Unfortunately, Modern Warfare 2 is just full of these idiots, and you can't mute text chat.

 

[Comma-Kazie]

Well, mankind in general works too.

Alright, so has the question been changed to "The most annoying type of person?".

By extension, I suppose. x3

 

[Sunstrike]

I have to say, somehow I've had better expeiriences online that most of you guys.

In probably hundreds hours of tf2/l4d/DOW2/BFBC2/COD4/dozens of other games I've really only had 1 or 2 highly annoying dudes. Most of the people I run into are just out to have fun.

Pretty much the only dudes I'm really annoyed by are the mic spammers, and even then I only really care if A.) the game doesn't let me mute them B.)they play bad music or C.) They have there options set so as to blow out your eardrums.

I guess I was also really annoyed by the 11 year old in one game of TF2 who had a fascination with the phrase "butt plug" and would say it every other second.

Edit: actually I remembered the only type of gamer I hate. Fighting gamers who use whatever the flavour of the month character is, an the yell at you for using OP characters when you beat them with somebody who is solidly mid tier.

 

[omega 616]

Fixed that for you, might aswell go for as many abbreviations as possible, for "teh lolz".

On topic. I am not an elitist douche but those feckers, with no skill, one shotting away with the noob tube

Types who start by telling you they are not an elitist douche, then go on and confirm they are in the same sentence.

It does take no skill to walk around with a noob tube equipped and when they see a person shooting somewhere near them and killing them with an explosion.

When your in a one on one with somebody there is a little luck involved, which I can deal with.

If you get shot in the back fair enough, I should have been more cautious.

If end up getting blasted by a shot gun, atleast I had to be in your cross hairs.

Grenade is a little luck if you get a kill, semtex is the same maybe even luckier and get it "stuck" but I am still okay with it.

Noob tube is called that for a reason, just aim in the general dicration and fire and forget. It doesn't do anything except make there K/D look better.

MW2 is the worst for it due to danger close, there is no counter for it. Blast shield takes away the extra damage that it does, it still has a bigger blast radius and still one hit kills.

 

[Danik93]

What's the most annoying 'type' you see around multiplayer games/the internet/maybe even real life?

Personally I think it's a tie between the 'OMG LOL hackkkz XD meow XD' type people... or those people who think they're 1337 gamers because they listen to DotA by Basshunter all day...

Vi sitter här i venten och spelar lite DotA....

OT: The whiners!! i hate them!!!

 

[ffs-dontcare]

- Morons who type in leet speak.
- MMO elitists who loathe WoW and all its players.
- 12 year old kids.
- Girl gamers who often feel the need to point out their own gender.
- The part of the WoW community which has completely malformed the end-game experience into something it shouldn't be at all, and spits on anyone who disagrees with them.
- Also, people who come into WoW (and any other online game) expecting to get away with treating people like crap... and they usually do, due to several factors.
- People in WoW who choose female Night Elves and Draenei mostly or purely because "they're hot".
- People in WoW who link Recount in instances for TRASH MOBS. What the hell?
- People in WoW who spam duel requests for no reason.
- People in WoW who actually believe there's such a thing as a bad talent build. If you innocently ask them for advice on your talent build, they'll just tell you to head over to the class forums and re-spec to one of the four or five "recommended" cookie-cutter talent builds that were specifically crafted by Elitist Jerks.
- People in WoW who constantly over-emphasize numbers and constantly throw around words like "Elitist Jerks", "simcraft", "BiS", etc.
- People who rage and lash out for no reason.
- People who won't shut the fuck up on their microphone.
- "Halo and Gears of War are the best games ever!!!11! Homeworld 2 and Starcraft suck monkey-nuts!!21!eleventy LOL wuts Monkey Island? Graffix makes the game hurr!1!1!!!!!!11one1!!"
- Gold sellers, although I doubt that they actually count as gamers in the first place.
- Anyone who cares about e-peen in the first place. If you show yourself to care about e-peen, I will automatically consider you a lowly gorilla and that will not change until you grow up.
- People who lack observational skills. If the map glitches and causes us to lose due to a serious bug, at least one of the players will get blamed for it and if he's particularly unlucky a bad reputation will be spread about him. I had this happen to me once in Starcraft, because a map glitched and caused it to throw up a "you lose" message showing who was apparently responsible. My name came up, and if the other players had quickly looked in my corner of the map they would've seen that it was a map bug and not my fault. Also, it was a mere 1 or 2 minutes into the match and I was very experienced with that particular map. But nooooo, they yelled and swore at me before rage-quitting because they're not very intelligent.

 

[KimberlyGoreHound]

1. The kind who thinks anyone better than they are must be hacking.

2. The kind who screams into a headset when they kill someone, or die, or get frustrated that someone's camping, or lose the match, or win the match, or scratch their scrotum, or take a drink.

(the following especially in WoW [well, other things too, but I have the most experience with them in WoW] raids/instances/etc):

3. The kind who acts like DPS is equivalent to penis size.

4. The kind who begs and pleads for a piece of gear, even though they don't deserve it.


Most of these are found among young gamers, the ten year olds who had mommy or daddy buy them a big-boy game like Left4Dead. However, they can also be seen with stupid, often narcissistic teenagers with delusions of grandeur.

 

[In7ernal]

meh you can get pass every gamer with mute or something else ! Most annoying type are the hackers in MW2 ! Can't remove them , can't play with them ... no way !

 

[WanderingBiscuits]

I would definately say its XBL players who take the game too seriously. Heres an experience i had, I was playing Halo 3 when i first got my xbox and my very first online game i came in second place. So i gave a sigh over the microphone and almost immediately after the guy ranked number one hops on me saying "DONT FUCKIN COMPLAIN, TAKE YOUR BEATING LIKE DA FUCKING NOOB YOU ARE". What a jackass.

 

[daubie]

I fully appreciate this thread greatly. I despise all those loudmouthed talentless 12 year-olds who think they're god's gift to gaming. The little brats don't respect gaming at all. It's one of the major reasons I still don't play on xbox live.

I also hate mindless followers of games like Call of Duty or Halo. I enjoy playing these series as well, but they're both past their prime now and are just performing fan service. I loved the original Modern Warfare. It was pretty, intuitive, and well written. However, sequels can ruin a good idea.

 

[WakeTheDead1]

the ones that see anything other than COD as inferior gaming

also the ones who shout and swear online at people they dont even know, when its clearly some squeaky little american obnoxious kid who would get beat down in the real world