Don't get me wrong games are still fun but like when you play online it gets so competitive with pointless name calling, yelling, and swearing. What happened? Games were meant to played with friends to have fun with and just laugh and enjoy it. Question to everyone is what happened to that?
What happened to games being fun?
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That's why I tend to only buy games that focus on single player (with the exception of the Halo series).
I've seriosuly never gone online on GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, Saints Row 2, or any sport games.
I've seriosuly never gone online on GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, Saints Row 2, or any sport games.
I AGREE!!
When I go online, everyone on my team is yelling at me for killing an enemy that was theirs to kill: "KILL STEAL!!".
Everyone gets taken up by the scoreboards and ranks to the point where the fun is lost.
When I go online, everyone on my team is yelling at me for killing an enemy that was theirs to kill: "KILL STEAL!!".
Everyone gets taken up by the scoreboards and ranks to the point where the fun is lost.
Nothing has happened to it, obviously you have lost friends.
Me and my mates always have lan parties and have a ball picking on our mate in starcraft because he is fat irl and is generally the guy who gets picked on.
We download hacks for counterstrike and don't tell our fat friend and he thinks he's really bad.
We all team up on him on dota when ganking, even when the other guys are on the same team as the fat guy, they help us out..
Man we are dickheads...
PS. Online games have always been terrible if you want to have fun. It's all about feeding your obsessive compulsive disorder trying to top the charts. Been like that for ages.
Me and my mates always have lan parties and have a ball picking on our mate in starcraft because he is fat irl and is generally the guy who gets picked on.
We download hacks for counterstrike and don't tell our fat friend and he thinks he's really bad.
We all team up on him on dota when ganking, even when the other guys are on the same team as the fat guy, they help us out..
Man we are dickheads...
PS. Online games have always been terrible if you want to have fun. It's all about feeding your obsessive compulsive disorder trying to top the charts. Been like that for ages.
Depends on the game really.
Like for example tonight, I just had a fight in Demon`s souls in 4-2. I started heading up toward the entry way of the zone and there stood my opponent. It was a hilarious fight because we were both heavies. Massive plate armors. He fought with a large and long sword and I fought with the massive Dozer Axe In a narrow corridor where half of our swings were negated by the walls. We kept charging and retreating each other, and even healed at the same time. I managed to win just barely simply due to having more stamina to get 3 swings in a row in while he was down. Best mirror match ever~!
After the fight the guy sent me a message telling me how funny the fight was and that he really needed that.
So it depends on the game, it depends on the people and depends on the circumstances.
Might I suggest either not getting so worked up over a video game, or try playing games that aren't centered around pure competition, or find a game with a community that can deal with a little levity immersed in all the seriousness.
Like for example tonight, I just had a fight in Demon`s souls in 4-2. I started heading up toward the entry way of the zone and there stood my opponent. It was a hilarious fight because we were both heavies. Massive plate armors. He fought with a large and long sword and I fought with the massive Dozer Axe In a narrow corridor where half of our swings were negated by the walls. We kept charging and retreating each other, and even healed at the same time. I managed to win just barely simply due to having more stamina to get 3 swings in a row in while he was down. Best mirror match ever~!
After the fight the guy sent me a message telling me how funny the fight was and that he really needed that.
So it depends on the game, it depends on the people and depends on the circumstances.
Might I suggest either not getting so worked up over a video game, or try playing games that aren't centered around pure competition, or find a game with a community that can deal with a little levity immersed in all the seriousness.
Stole my answer.efeat said:
But yeah, anonymity applied to someone with pent up aggressive emotions will produce an asshole. Can't really change it unless you take away some of the anonymity or heavily regulate online. Or let people run their own servers.
When people thought that having the highest multiplayer rank meant you were some King of the World.
Well, online gaming has grown exponentially over the past decade or so - you combine this with the fact that the overwhelming majority of people are just competitive by nature, and the result is what the OP already mentioned; childish behavior exhibited by people who happen to take their game of choice way too fucking seriously. I'd have to elect HoN as being particularly notorious for this issue - it's fucking ludicrous how worked up people get over that game.
Simple, there are too many to list. But three random ones are...
It is promoted through peer influence. One person is angry and starts screaming round a multiplayer match about how everyone cannot keep up with his leet skillz and his team members are newbz. This influences others over time and the behaviour spreads.
Another is how some gamers have become addicted and start to dissasociate from their real life priorities and replace them with their virtual ones and when these priorities are not fulfilled they react in a way that is not dissimilar from something going wrong in their real life.
Finally there is what I believe to be the most virlent culprit, persistent stats and the desire to maintain them. They are a social status and the unlocks and ranks that come with persisten stats generate a single minded drive to aquire them for a higher status or image. When they cannot maintain these stats be it an unfair situation in a game to it simply not going their way resulting in negative scores, they get angry because they associate their worth with that of their avatar.
(These are oppinions and not proven facts)
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I forgot to mention...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
It is promoted through peer influence. One person is angry and starts screaming round a multiplayer match about how everyone cannot keep up with his leet skillz and his team members are newbz. This influences others over time and the behaviour spreads.
Another is how some gamers have become addicted and start to dissasociate from their real life priorities and replace them with their virtual ones and when these priorities are not fulfilled they react in a way that is not dissimilar from something going wrong in their real life.
Finally there is what I believe to be the most virlent culprit, persistent stats and the desire to maintain them. They are a social status and the unlocks and ranks that come with persisten stats generate a single minded drive to aquire them for a higher status or image. When they cannot maintain these stats be it an unfair situation in a game to it simply not going their way resulting in negative scores, they get angry because they associate their worth with that of their avatar.
(These are oppinions and not proven facts)
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I forgot to mention...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_disinhibition_effect
Odd as this may sound, if you want an enjoyable online experience, then play Demon's Souls. People on there are unusually freakin nice. It's almosy scary......kwfang said:
Um, I usually have fun online regardless. I care less about the verbal/social experience as opposed to what actually happens to my avatar in game. I get really immersed so games like GTA4 online are very fun and intense for me.
You're on the wrong servers. I play Half Life on the Turtle Man Clan server and the Allie Cat's Revenge servers and we have a blast. 
Heck, Allie is 72 years old and she gets down and has fun just like the rest of us, whooping us when we suck at the game.
Heck, Allie is 72 years old and she gets down and has fun just like the rest of us, whooping us when we suck at the game.
It all went downhill when most multiplayer was done over the internet and not locally. Sure, you only got that little square to deal with but you still managed and everyone had fun. When playing with random people, remember: 95% of people suck, and online is no exception.
I know various people who go online, and when they lose, they start to get incredibly pissed off and start yelling, and of course the other people online with them enjoy this and continue to wind them up... and I have to question why they keep going online at all.
I believe it's because of achievement, since we have so many people (me included), who sometimes forget to have fun in a game just to make some achievements.
