What irritates you the most while you are gaming?

[Zorg Machine]

When I make one of my awesome plans of how something is going to happen and it fails miserably. Like when I made the plan to headshot one guy, run up and melee the other guy and finish the last guy standing a few meters away with a grenade. at stage three of my master plan it turns out that the guy had moved closer too me when I was killing his friends so I panicked and the grenade bounced off the wall and into my face... and he walked away... unharmed...

 

[Shoqiyqa]

Who fails a raid?

Leave the small fry. WE've got to get into that portal.
No, really. Get in the portal.
Are you even at the keyboard or did you just switch to macro?
Crap.
Everyone who's in the portal, don't go anywhere yet. This clown's trying to be Rambo out here.
Hey, idiot, get in the portal.
GET IN THE DAMN PORTAL YOU FOOL!
Hey, JackSaw, why's your health dropping?
Let me guess. You ran ahead.
Okay. Jonesy's Mage, can you keep JackSaw alive until this blithering idiot here drags his arse into the portal?
Finally!
Right, clear up time.
Wipe this area, but don't go round the corners.
Er, Bob, by 'don't go round the corners' I meant ... well ... now wtf are you going?
Everyone PLEASE try to stay within healing range of the two life mages.
Ah, smeg.
Okay, I'LL kill the artillery. WAIT HERE.
One ... JackSaw, don't go that way. There's no need.
Two. Everyone to me.
JackSaw, that includes you.
Amigo, please wait for the others.
Anyone not ready to move on?
Right then. First on the right and clear at the junction. SpiderFriend, nail the artillery down the tube fast.
Where's Smit?
Smit? You joining us?
Is he afk or lagging out? Did he say anything in area chat while we were waiting for el plonko?
Crap. Going back for Smit. Third on the right, gang-bang that monkey and WAIT FOR ME.
Smit! Wakey wakey!
The heck? How did you guys get the lowbie killed? It was ONE monkey. There are six of you.
Okay, kid, give me the permit and I'll try to get it for you.
Hey, look, there goes Amigo, dying all alone because he ran ahead.
Smit, are you going to move before your subscription runs out?
It's not ANY way. WAIT FOR ME AND SMIT.
Oh yeah? And are you going the right way?
If you're going off course, you're going to have a hard time recovering the body afterwards.
Okay, Smit's back with me ... and running off on his own the wrong way.
Smit, get back here. It's a RIGHT turn at the start.
Sod ...
SMIT!!! STOP RUNNING AWAY!
You guys still okay down there? Spider, watch out for respawn.
Smit, where the heck did you go, you maniac? STOP RUNNING AWAY.
GET BACK HERE.
Oh, swell. Respawn. You guys hold out. I'll try to clear a path back for myself and captain crackhead here. Jonesy, ffs keep everyone alive please!
Everyone else, keep them off Jonesy.
SMIT, WITH ME. With me, Smit.
Okay, back with you. I'll just get this stuff and we'll be off.
JackSaw, wait for group.
...
Left here.
Down the ramp.
DOWN THE RAMP.
DOWN!
THE!
RAMP!
GET YOUR BUTTS IN HERE!!!
Do you people EVER do what the more experienced players tell you?
GET IN HERE.
Well, there goes another one.
Hey, great idea. In future, I'll just come in first and kill everything in the entire place so you lot can run around like retarded geckos on crack. It saves so much effort that way. Far easier than trying to get ADHD gerbils with fleas inside their skulls to cooperate.
YES, I *do* mean YOU.
Spider, you okay there?
Right. Jonesy, behind Spider. Jack, beside Spider. Don't let anything through.
Amigo, you out there? How far did you get?
I'm going to nail those two mages. Hold here.
Mage one down, and by 'hold' I meant 'stay' as in 'do not leave'.
Just get in the portal.
Portal.
Portal.
Portal.
While you're still alive, portal.
HIT THE PORTAL!
Everyone, get down there and hit the portal.
I've had King Quests easier than that section.
Is it just me or did JackSaw run ahead before everyone else was even in portal space?
Jack?
JackSaw?
Well, I guess he must have. Watch out for the trap at the crossroads.
Oof. I guess you hit the trap at the crossroads.
Great.
So, Spider, Jonesy and me, is it? This should make the boss fight kind of tense.
You've got what?
Okay, well, take care.
Er, Jonesy and I'll just deliver the package and ...
... well, quit from there, I guess. There's no way we've got the power to take that thing down as a duet.
Ready?
Blimey. Everybody, Dave, dead is.

 

[Mr. PIP Boy]

When noobs in battlefield 1943 steal your plane and intsantly crash right when they get in. It makes me sooo mad.

 

[Ultress]

When you have the ability to scan for weakness of enemies but when it comes to bosses that ability is suddenly not working.

Also when something has got you frustrated in a game,a person walks up and bugs you till you snap at them. Then your the asshole.

 

[Arachon]

A couple of days ago, I was playing Dystopia, rolling as a light decker (hacker). I was in the process of hacking, in Dystopia when you hack, you have to first find a Jack-in point to jack in to Cyberspace, and when jacked-in, you loose contact with the real world ("Meatspace"), viewing everything through your cyberspace avatars "eyes" i.e., if an enemy comes up behind you, you can't see him, and your meatspace body is unable to move until you jack out. This makes you very vulnerable and reliant on team-mates to not get killed. However, you still can hear gunshots and the likes at close range, so you do notice when you're being shot at.

So I was jacked in pretty close to our spawn, and admittedly, I'm relatively new at this, haven't learned all the ropes yet, but at this time, I was doing all right. All of a sudden, I notice that I'm being shot at in meatspace, thinking "oh crap, I'll die" I quickly jack out, side-step and turn around to face my attacker.

It turns out it was one of my team-mates who probably thought since I was new I shouldn't be allowed to hack, so he had shot me with his machine-pistol a few times (side arm) to scare me out of the way, and promptly took the jack-in point for himself. For a while I considered shooting the "superior" decker in the head, but knowing that the action would probably get me a lot of flack from the rest of the team, I simply moved on to killing people in meatspace.

 

[avelmen1889]

Hy 6 nyear old cousin demanding me i let him play/. and when i do he talks so much i wish i could just throtle his little ignorant throat

 

[Rusty Bucket]

People trying to talk to me. I'm in the zone, dammit!

 

[NoriYuki Sato]

2) when my mother interrupts me

muy agreed me amigo..every few minutes, and always in the middle of a firefight, or a boss fight...never any other time..except when your pissed at the game cuz the spot is too damn hard, and then you un-pause, and die in 3 seconds...over....and over again

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

Any interruption, especially when my mother comes and tells me to complete my homework/chores.=[
That, and when my computer starts to lag JUST as an enemy appears on my screen on online play. I feel like smacking my mouse against my desk every time that happens.

 

[Sipo]

8 year olds online who tell me to F off and shit like that. I jus wanna go to their house and kick em in the head

 

[Sun Flash]

When I'm watching a cutscene, with my luck, critical to the plot and my mum tells me to pause it to ask her opinion on what to wear.

FFFUUUU-

 

[Undercover]

People who use their mic (too often they are screaming little kids, even in 18+ games), and people who don't use their mic (it's really hard to win team games when noone communicates).

I agree WHOLE HEARTEDLY. I don't even bother using a headset unless I'm playing with other grown-ups who actually like to use, oh I don't know, TACTICS.

It also drives me batshit when someone has their headset turned to full sensitivity, and I can hear every goddamn thing going on in their living room, which usually involves the aforementioned screaming little kids, or even worse, some dipshit hick from the Southern States yapping to his wife about what to have for dinner, "Ya'll think we shood hayave southern frahd stayk, or shood we hayuve southern frahd chikin?" etc. when it would be reeeeally nice if yjr rest of us could hear the bad guys coming.

One of many many reasons I agree with yahtzee that multiplayer generally SUCKS. I play co-op, period.

I'm not going to over-quote here, but I also can't stand it when my hands get all sweaty too, especially when I'm playing an FPS and need to run like hell It's kind of a love-hate thing, because if the game wasn't intense, you wouldn't be sweating, right?

There's little things like knowing damn well you just nailed a bad guy but the game decides that you didn't, then said bad guy shoves his gun down your throat... (I'm looking at YOU CoD4 on 'Hardened', nevermind 'Veteran')

 

[LaBambaMan]

I'd have to say people who play RTS games online but know they have very slow connections and will lag a game like a *****.

Another is people online in Civ4 who do nothing but build up the biggest army and kill everything. Defeats half the purpose of the game.

 

[Undercover]

Nazi Zombies mode. I'm just not a fan of being paired up with a bunch of jerk-offs that wont revive cause they need their precious points.

Good to know I'm not alone.

 

[awsome815]

People killing me. For me it breaks immersion and makes me feel dissapointed. After about 3 deaths I get aggravated.

 

[jaammiie]

The title is sort of self explanitory. What things happen when you are gaming that right and truly piss you off? For me, it's a toss up between two things...1) When my hands get sweaty from gripping the controller and 2) when my mother interrupts me (and only me, never anyone else) every ten minutes to do completely assinine chores.

So let's hear it, people of the Escapist...What ticks you off while gaming?

I agree with you 100% with point 1 there, bloody annoying.

 

[Undercover]

Also, when people make fun of my gamertag.
Sorry I didn't pick p3nis or shadowdarksouldeath or something.

ilovesalt = way cooler.

HA! My gamer tag for the longest time was ILikeSoup, didn't catch much flak for it, most of my online gaming buddies were you know, POST-pubescent...

Quick question, as a girl do you ever get hit on while you're trying to save the world from online evil? I'm just curious as to what kind of pathetic attempts some guys might make. If you could quote some, that would be even better!

/not hitting on you
//easily old enough to be your fath- I mean older brother...

 

[jaammiie]

RRoD anyone. Fucking, annoying. Especially at the beginning of the Summer Holidays.

 

[Zarthek]

Americans ages 10-16, that ALL sound exactly the same, and insist on calling me 'dude', or accuse me of 'stealing their kill', when they haven't even touched 'their kill'... Most prominent in Halo 3 and CoD 4.

Not all of us are bad, only the idiots... which is most of us adolescent American teenagers, damn them


OT, Team killers when host doesn't care, glitchers, noobs, idiots, and Xbox fanboys who bought a PS3, a mic, and Killzone 2 just to tell us off (seen it happen).

BTW if anyone thinks of a fanboy scenario that is more idiotic than that let me know


Edit: Usually PSN is more mature than LIVE.. but there are exceptions