What about formula one racing? That doesn't really require much physicality. Sure it requires a fuckton of skill, but not really extensive physical fitness.Aris Khandr said:
What type of gamer annoys you most?
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That's really not metagaming -- in fact, if anything, it's the opposite of metagaming. The metagame is, simply put, the best way of playing under a given set of circumstances -- and by "best" I mean, "the way that is most likely to lead to a victory." For example, the basic meta for the beginning of a LoL match is to start out with the five players divided between the lanes. Two on bottom (ideally a support character and a ranged AD character) one in the middle (usually an AP carry) one or two on top (if two, usually some combination of melee AD, ranged AD, and/or support, if one some kind of tanky AD) and if there's only one on top, a jungler. The basic meta of TF2 would dictate that it's a really bad idea to have your entire team made up of snipers and spies, regardless of the game mode.Crimson Lucario said:
So, basically, the thing you're saying you're in favor of actually /is/ metagaming. The thing you're complaining about is more, I dunno, backseat balancing by people who need to either get better at the game or find another one.
Easton Dark said:
Oh man, that annoys me. It's especially bad in LoL, since all chat is done by typing. Guess what it's impossible to do if you're constantly typing into the text box?
It's actually playing the game. Seriously, any time I see someone raging about their team, regardless of if it's mine or if it's some idiot on the other one doing it on /all, I know their team is about to lose, because they've essentially got an AFKer.
Edit: A better definition of metagaming is using knowledge from outside the game in the game. So, for example, intentionally hitting the weak spot of a monster in a tabletop RPG when your character has never heard of the monster before, or in the LoL example, following the basic strategy I just laid out because you know the other team is going to do the same thing, and it happens to be the best way to counter itself.
Gamers who take stuff way too seriously, you know, guys who wouldn't eat for a week so they can level up and get a new spell. I played Oblivion and Skyrim until the skin on my fingers came off, but that's 'cause I was enjoying them, not because I'd turned the whole thing into numbers and statistics and calculated how many chickens I had to stab to reach Lv.50
My friends and I often times get together on weekends to play video games. Because we're all in the same room, we make heavy use of split-screen and party games. When we feel like playing an FPS, that means Call of Duty or Halo. Occasionally, we'll get someone who will comment how much Call of Duty/Halo sucks and we should stop playing. Our most common party game is Super Smash Brothers Brawl. These same people will insist we play Melee.
Seriously, people who do that shit need to fuck off. If we're playing a game I don't like, I don't ***** and moan. I sit down on my laptop or pull out my PSP and wait. It's a group of people with one TV. We're going to go with what entertains the most people at the time, and we'll never stop what we're doing so one whiny **** can have his way.
Seriously, people who do that shit need to fuck off. If we're playing a game I don't like, I don't ***** and moan. I sit down on my laptop or pull out my PSP and wait. It's a group of people with one TV. We're going to go with what entertains the most people at the time, and we'll never stop what we're doing so one whiny **** can have his way.
The ones who believe they can win a flam war by talking about your mother.
Those gamers are so pathetic they need to be thrown out of a window.
Those gamers are so pathetic they need to be thrown out of a window.
Gamers who call themselves gamers when they only play the most casual of games. I mean anything ranging from Bejeweled to CoD. I got no problem with people who want to play those games, but the label "gamer" isn't appropriate. They play games, yes, but that's like calling yourself a real bookworm if you only read Twilight and Harry Potter [footnote]no diss on HP, it's just it is kinda a "popular" series to read[/footnote].
Then there's the Snob, who refuses to play a certain game based on arbitrary criteria. Not enough guns, polygons, voice acting, or blood. I'm talking about the kind of people who would refuse to try Doom 1 or 2, because you don't have the ability to aim up and down.
Lastly, there's the drug-addicted gamers. This is more of a pet peeve than anyone doing anything wrong, but it irks me how many people are as dedicated to gaming as I am, but will still ignore blatant violations against consumers because the newest title in their favorite series is seeing another release. People who bought Diablo 3 for example, despite all the obvious signs that it was going to be shit, and yet helped Blizzard make something close to a billion dollars for releasing a thoughtlessly produced game. It annoys me greatly, because it just gives Blizzard permission to do it again, and it sends messages to other companies that they can make money by treating their customers poorly. That kind of addicted satisfaction seeking is going to warp the industry into something awful if people don't pay attention to what they are doing.
Then there's the Snob, who refuses to play a certain game based on arbitrary criteria. Not enough guns, polygons, voice acting, or blood. I'm talking about the kind of people who would refuse to try Doom 1 or 2, because you don't have the ability to aim up and down.
Lastly, there's the drug-addicted gamers. This is more of a pet peeve than anyone doing anything wrong, but it irks me how many people are as dedicated to gaming as I am, but will still ignore blatant violations against consumers because the newest title in their favorite series is seeing another release. People who bought Diablo 3 for example, despite all the obvious signs that it was going to be shit, and yet helped Blizzard make something close to a billion dollars for releasing a thoughtlessly produced game. It annoys me greatly, because it just gives Blizzard permission to do it again, and it sends messages to other companies that they can make money by treating their customers poorly. That kind of addicted satisfaction seeking is going to warp the industry into something awful if people don't pay attention to what they are doing.
People that complain when I win because I used a tactic to destroy them in a few seconds.
Example:
Round a friends house playing some Red Alert 2 (four of us).
Get spy into one players Tech lab and get Chrono Commandos (Fucking teleporting Tanyas).
Teleport ONE of them behind one of the players base.
Use spy to take down power.
Destroy pretty much most of their base with one unit.
Get complained at for being OP.
Could have been prevented by HAVING GOD DAMN DOGS.
AND, the gamers that complain about the cost of decent PCs for gaming.
That just really annoys me when I'm playing on a 6 year old computer that cost about £200 for the base unit and about £100 on upgrades. :/
Example:
Round a friends house playing some Red Alert 2 (four of us).
Get spy into one players Tech lab and get Chrono Commandos (Fucking teleporting Tanyas).
Teleport ONE of them behind one of the players base.
Use spy to take down power.
Destroy pretty much most of their base with one unit.
Get complained at for being OP.
Could have been prevented by HAVING GOD DAMN DOGS.
AND, the gamers that complain about the cost of decent PCs for gaming.
That just really annoys me when I'm playing on a 6 year old computer that cost about £200 for the base unit and about £100 on upgrades. :/
Pretty much that. I absolutely hate people that refuse to have fun in a game. Metagamers in LoL are the worst. Its so annoying to go into a game and hit tab halfway through and see everyone using the same items to start and build.Daystar Clarion said:
How about Final Desination.SirBryghtside said:You only say that because you don't understand. No items, Fox only, Final Destination is the practice. The real fun comes when you can beat your friends with only down-taunts and Falcon PunchesDaystar Clarion said:
No items.
King Dedede only.
Up and B attacks only.
That's a laugh.
Flowcharters.
Because doing one and the same thing in the same situation for 10 years straight can apparently be fun.
And, they, never, learn.
Because doing one and the same thing in the same situation for 10 years straight can apparently be fun.
And, they, never, learn.
The noob shouter. You know the ones. You see them in League of Legends far too often. You see them in nearly every online multiplayer ever. Especially people who play Teemo on League. I've never met a friendly Teemo. The unhelpful people. The one's who shout "noob!" for every reason under the sun. If someone plays better than them, they are a "noob". If someone plays worse, they get called a "noob". You do really well and get a triple kill all on your own? You are most definitely a noob for that too. You come to help the noob caller and successfully take down a turret and kill an enemy all because the noob caller saw you coming and decided to run away? You will get called a noob for it and get told that you stole all the kills, even though they ran away rather than fight too which is why you came to help them. No matter what you do or how you do it, you will be called a noob. And so will everyone else. They won't tell you how to improve your game. They won't tell you anything helpful. They won't listen to you. They won't listen to anyone.
That's the type that annoy me the most. I'm rarely on the receiving end of the "NOOB!" shouter. But I see them so often that they annoy me all the same.
That's the type that annoy me the most. I'm rarely on the receiving end of the "NOOB!" shouter. But I see them so often that they annoy me all the same.
Playing to win /is/ fun. If you want to dick around on LoL, start a custom game. If you want to dick around on TF2, find one of the myriad servers aimed at people who want to dick around. You want to dick around on pretty much any game, find a server with likeminded people. The people who go "stop playing to win, I want to have fun!" are, irony of ironies, getting in the way of other people's fun by not trying to win.IamShmgeggy said:
I don't like people who subscribe to P2P games. There's nothing wrong with them themselves but they think they're so much better than people who play F2P games, and it especially shows when the game they're playing is going to go freemium, spewing outdated notions of what F2P means and talking about how the community will be ruined by all the new people.
Also those people who complain when a game has violence but little/no blood, as if gore was what differentiated between a game for kids and a game for an older crowd. The Nolan Batman movies that everyone loves so much for it's dark, gritty, mature-ness has almost no blood after all.
Also those people who complain when a game has violence but little/no blood, as if gore was what differentiated between a game for kids and a game for an older crowd. The Nolan Batman movies that everyone loves so much for it's dark, gritty, mature-ness has almost no blood after all.
I don't play to lose. Not at all, it just bothers me that people don't try to mix it up a little bit to do better. I hate seeing AD or AP carries that simply build an Infnity Edge or a Rabadons Deathcap and then do nothing to buff movement or defense. I hate seeing Boots and 3 health potions across the board when a game starts. I play to win, i just hate following the same damn build. Yeah i might not jump into a teamfight because i wanna push a lane to take an inhibitor while the other team focuses on kills. i've won countless games doing that. I hate breaking lane 13 minutes in and pushing mid. I ward baron and dragon and have teleport so i can move around the map at a moments notice. I dont use ghost and i don't use flash. I build characters that don't get 3 hit killed by a Kat or another AD player like that. Forgive my rant but i don't play to lose. I play a game to have fun. If i win, great, if i lose, great, i enjoyed it thoroughly either way.Owyn_Merrilin said:
Scrustle said:
I agree, but my biggest problem with these types of gamers is they are the reason many bigger publishers/developers refuse to attempt new and unique games without cut scenes and at 1/3 the cost. Everyone wants to make AAA titles with amazing cut scenes and graphics because of all the outrageous outcries when a game has sub par graphics, or as you said, cartoony.
I also hate the 'kid' gamers.
No, I don't mean gamers that ARE kids, I mean gamers that call EVERYONE 'kid'. You suck, kid. Stop feeding, kid. Yeah, ok, go home kid. Same gamers also love to exclaim you have no life when they lose, tell you to leave your basement, or just in general use cliched insults not in response to what you've said, but due to the fact that they're losing or don't like something you did in game.
nicely done, i would have to thank you for obliterating me like that!Bigsmith said:
Sore Loser:
I would have to say the sore loser is the worst, I beat the snot out of my roommate in Soul Calibur III and he whined and bitched and moaned about it forever. Later when his ego healed he asked me for a rematch. I mixed myself a nice big mug of half and half jack and coke. Then I beat the snot out of him drunk. His excuse at the end of all of that was that "drunk people are too unpredictable"...sure dude, after my 3rd mug I could barely make out Ivy's boobs.
Addicts:
I used to play Battle Pirates on facebook, but have since quit because the game is really going into being a total cash grab. I didn't mind paying something like 15 bucks for monthly raid weekend events to get them done in a few hours. But now the game is more like you pay 30 bucks and have to play the entire 4 days and hope you have the right fleets set up that take months of preparation. So now I'm stuck with a bunch of people on my facebook that are hopeless addicts that spend hundreds of dollars on the game and are begging me to come back. Those types scare me.
Elitists.
Fuck you and your joysticks, we all went against a few of them amirite? Oh and griefters. Fuck them and their Doritos covered fingers.
Fuck you and your joysticks, we all went against a few of them amirite? Oh and griefters. Fuck them and their Doritos covered fingers.
Boots and three potions are chosen because they work. I don't know anyone who builds just the inf edge or deathcap and then buffs movement or defense for the rest of the map. It's usually more like you get your core item and then you build other stuff that boosts the same stats for the rest of the match, building a defensive item or two if the situation calls for it. Warding baron and dragon is a good idea, and it's something that's commonly done at high level play. Pushing mid is done for the same reason. In all these cases, it's done because not doing it leads to a loss. When it comes down to it, in a competitive game like that, everything you do affects not just you, but your entire team. And that's the problem -- your "fun" gets in the way of the fun of the rest of your team. You just don't dick around like that when you've got four other people who are counting on you to pull your weight. If you absolutely have to do something silly, do it on custom games, like I said earlier. That's what its for.IamShmgeggy said: