Just saying you can do that to solve your problems (you did say you only meet annoying people on live)Indigo_Dingo said:
Underaged children with Microphones.
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That's good as long as your friends don't see "the good in everyone" and invite them to all the custom games I do. Since I usually end up winning they scream "OMG *£$&! YOU !"(%*^*&) *%&^&%$ £*% ARGHHH I AM BETTER THAN YOU!" yeah that has stopped me playing halo with most of my friends now.Indigo_Dingo said:
I played alongside someone last night that didn't get the message that "Shut the hell up" meant "Stop saying 'Johnny? Johnny? Johnny? Johnny Johnston? Johnny?'"
What's worse, is that he kept shooting me (COD4, so friendly fire off) saying "Why did you die? Why did you die?" and then asking me how many kills I had. Even when I had the scoreboard brought up (he had 4 kills) he claimed he had 18 kills (so far in that game, only 15 kills had been taken by our team) and said that he was calling in a helicopter, but I couldn't see it because it was invisible.
I've got nothing against young kids playing games, or people playing games that are aimed at an older age band. I just cannot stand it when they feel that voice chat is mandatory in every game.
/rant.
What's worse, is that he kept shooting me (COD4, so friendly fire off) saying "Why did you die? Why did you die?" and then asking me how many kills I had. Even when I had the scoreboard brought up (he had 4 kills) he claimed he had 18 kills (so far in that game, only 15 kills had been taken by our team) and said that he was calling in a helicopter, but I couldn't see it because it was invisible.
I've got nothing against young kids playing games, or people playing games that are aimed at an older age band. I just cannot stand it when they feel that voice chat is mandatory in every game.
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Being underage myself I don't have much too say on this subject except for the fact that I hate it that most adults are prejudice and think that all kids blab and make annoying comments for the entire game. while I do talk considerably more than the adults in the game I also make an effort not to be annoying. I have met some pretty annoying kids on Live and I wish that they would stop ruining the name of the underage gamers
Team Fortress 2 does pretty well in filtering out the idiots. You still get a few, but not too many. Finding a few good servers and sticking to them helps a lot. Especially ones with overly-fascist admins who take zero crap. Makes the game go a lot better.
That said, inspired idiocy is sometimes alright. I'm willing to forgive a lot of bull if it's funny.
That said, inspired idiocy is sometimes alright. I'm willing to forgive a lot of bull if it's funny.
yeah the voices annoy me, but what annoys me most is this kids can kick my arse at cod4, i'd like to think this is because i have a job and also a life and therefore can't spend days practising until i know ever inch of the game back to front. however i fear the real answer is they just have much better reaction times and reflexes than me and my old bones.
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The voices annoy me a lot, I don't actually have a 360, but my friend does, and when we play Halo 3 online, it's a really good stimulation to help me kill the other team.
Also, in TF2, the kids with the voices actually are usually the better people, believe it or not...and they know that and boss everyone around :[
Also, in TF2, the kids with the voices actually are usually the better people, believe it or not...and they know that and boss everyone around :[
This is all easily solved by a simple voice-pitch check, and I think it should be made mandatory in all games supporting voice chat, particularly those on Xbox live.
When you make a Live account, you're required to read a block of text in a loud, clear voice, and if your voice is high pitched or squeaky, you're denied access to voice features in game. Obviously, you need to allow re-tests, but make it a monthly thing, or something, so they can't just keep trying until they get by.
Furthermore, if you speak above a certain pitch in game, you should be muted for a day. It's as simple as that. *shrugs*
When you make a Live account, you're required to read a block of text in a loud, clear voice, and if your voice is high pitched or squeaky, you're denied access to voice features in game. Obviously, you need to allow re-tests, but make it a monthly thing, or something, so they can't just keep trying until they get by.
Furthermore, if you speak above a certain pitch in game, you should be muted for a day. It's as simple as that. *shrugs*
it really shouldnt be pinned on little kids that they shouldnt be playing. i know tons of rad little kids that are just as seriously into the game as the rest of us. i mean sur eyou'll run into a whiney kid every now and then but i know some older people that are just as annoying as that whiney kid. age really has nothing to do with it. and you cant help what your voice sounds like so... its not their fault. =] so we all need to chill out and realize that its really more of a person by person basis, not a group.
Usually nothing bad really happens on PSN when i'm on. But there have been some instances where my friend has befriended a squeaky 12 year old and i hate him for that but usually (and surprisingly) the 12 year old isn't too bad just has a bit too high of a voice.
And for people who say that Live has pubesent 12 year olds, you've never heard a server full of 11 year olds using the voice changer on either the highest or lowest setting so you literally can't hear them. I tell ya it's horrible, those rare times make Live look like a tea party.
And for people who say that Live has pubesent 12 year olds, you've never heard a server full of 11 year olds using the voice changer on either the highest or lowest setting so you literally can't hear them. I tell ya it's horrible, those rare times make Live look like a tea party.
I only play a few games online, and the one I play the most is Team Fortress 2. I must admit that every now and again there is the high pitched annoying kid that pisses me off.
I'm 13 and my deep is probably a bit deeper than some my age, but I hate when someone with a high pitched voice comes on and keeps on asking questions...particularly questions like what an ubercharge is.
I'm 13 and my deep is probably a bit deeper than some my age, but I hate when someone with a high pitched voice comes on and keeps on asking questions...particularly questions like what an ubercharge is.
I love how certain personages are trying to make the "squeeker" problem platform-specific. It ain't. It's been a problem since the inception of voice chat in games, crossing platforms and genres with, er, gay abandon.
That being said, developers really do need to be more conscientious about including easy-to-use mute features in their voice chat... as it handles the squeeker, the sewermouth, the mic-spammer, and the moaner very well indeed. Oh, yeah, and it'd be ideal if the system tallied the number of players muting an account and implemented an automagic warn/ban on voice accounts passing a magic threshold, say 60% of unique opponents muting the fool, rather than relying on post-game manual feedback.
-- Steve
That being said, developers really do need to be more conscientious about including easy-to-use mute features in their voice chat... as it handles the squeeker, the sewermouth, the mic-spammer, and the moaner very well indeed. Oh, yeah, and it'd be ideal if the system tallied the number of players muting an account and implemented an automagic warn/ban on voice accounts passing a magic threshold, say 60% of unique opponents muting the fool, rather than relying on post-game manual feedback.
-- Steve
/applauseAnton P. Nym said:
Amen. You've got the kids who yell, but you've also got the people who (it seems) are chewing on their mics, the guys who mumble between static from breath, and of course let's not forget the guy with music or a child in the background, screaming every few seconds. halo3 takes a step in the right direction here by letting you mute someone with the push of a button, but your ideas there are the kind we need to implement
Don't you have to be 13 or above to sign up to website forums now because of child protection?Lioklian said:
As for on topic. Yea it is annoying, but thats because I'm in my mid-twenties and I don't want to play kids just like I don't want to go out and see kids in the pub.
Shhhh, don't use too many capital letters or the Mods might hear you.nightfish said:
In reference to games and that annoying voice in them... I think that little people honestly don't know how irritating their voices are. In addition to that, the general mental process at that age isn't really capable of true cognitive thought; taking advice, accepting being wrong, weighing actions against consequences, etc.
I know when I was 13, I was annoying as hell. I played CS all day (thank God I didn't have a mic), and thought I was so cool for "beating the system" that wanted you to be a certain age to play certain games. The problem is, age rules are in place for a reason, I don't think people should even be allowed to surf the internet until they're at least 16. I don't believe that playing Doom caused Columbine, but I do know that kids tend to be very impressionable and ignorant of good advice. Between the taking myspace too seriously, predisposition to being bandwagoned, and overall lack of life experience is enough to make it a bad idea.
However, the first thing that goes through little kids' minds is "I have to rebel because I'm a big kid, and I know what is good for me, unlike everyone else who already got over being a little kid!"
Of course, you shouldn't just think of the children, you should think of yourself; the gaming world would be better off if the gamers stuck in their respective age groups. The little-uns can play Runescape and WoW, while the big-uns shoot each other in the face and brag about it in "big-boy" voices.
Who am I kidding, all the little-uns will just hate me for this post, and I will have accomplished nothing. However, most people avoid big paragraphs, so I may just be ignored.
Get into piles of crap for it.
Speaking as one of those "fascist" admins on a TF2 server, SpikeTheRediculous got it right, I honestly don't mind the pitch of a voice. There are those who are young who act mature and those who are old who act immature - the gist of it is that if you are being a dick no matter what the pitch of your voice, it will be by order of magnitude: warning, kick, record Steam ID, permanent ban - though there have been times I have gone right to ban basicly because I was in a bad mood from having to tell people to stop breaking the server rules.Slingback78 said:
I actually had one person who wanted company for his misery tell me "What do you mean no swearing? The game is rated M!" There was more after that, but as you can see from my order of magnitude you know what comes next.