What type of gamer annoys you most?
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I kinda have to disagree with you there.Aris Khandr said:
If you've ever seen the SC2 and fighting game scene, you might reconsider.
Do you think differently of poker tourneys?
Is that a desperate plea to make people think that poker is a "legitimate pastime?"
What about chess tournaments? Is that the same?
Oh and to OP: I can't stand gamers who think that all mainstream games suck.
Are poker and chess really trying to claim that they are sports? Because if so, yeah, they're not sports either.DoctorSun said:
It's an awful term, I wholeheartedly agree.Aris Khandr said:
Sport implies physical activity... the term just isn't meant to be releated to video games beyond simulation.
But video game tournaments are growing in popularity, and there is a fair amount of money behind the bigger ones. Maybe some day they will be big enough to get broadcasted on live television?
Probably not.
It should not be named e-sports though, in fact I wouldn't even think it needs a general term. There isn't a term for competetive board game play is there?
I have a friend with a similar issue. He won't play borderlands because he doesn't like cell shadingPaulo Belato said:
I don't know if this is a common thing (and god do I hope not). But, I have this friend, who, will buy a game. For about a week, he plays through it, and says all good things about it. Not to mention, the week before, he looks up every walk-through, story summary, and anything imaginable for this game he is getting next week. He then returns the game, gets full price, and buys another and does the same thing. He than forgets everything good about the game and insults his previous choice in any way he can. He also, looks up everything for games his friends have, and pretends he has played/beaten it on a different console, or if it is an older game from an older console he doesn't say that. It just bothers me someone could experience ANYTHING like that.
Those teenage girls who find it cool to take pictures of themselves holding their controllers over their boobs and dub themselves "Gurl Gamerz~". I think you know the type.
There's a few hanging around at my school who keep telling me that COD:BO is waaaaay better than those crappy Portal 2 or Psychonauts games I play. Cuz those games are for kids!!
Yeah, no thanks.
There's a few hanging around at my school who keep telling me that COD:BO is waaaaay better than those crappy Portal 2 or Psychonauts games I play. Cuz those games are for kids!!
Yeah, no thanks.
Gamers who complain about social issues in games. Like the whole Laura almost getting raped things, or the whole gamer girls thing bleh I say
I wouldn't entirely write off televised videogame tournaments, if for no other reason than South Korea. Plus MOBAs are actually pretty entertaining to watch at high levels, even if you don't play them yourself -- something that every other attempt at turning gaming into a spectator sport has failed at.Fishyash said:
I agree with you, though. What ever happened to "competitive gaming" as a term for what we're calling "e-sports" now? It's the term that was used back in days of Quake tournaments with huge prizes, and it was a lot more accurate than trying to call videogames sports. I'm just as annoyed that people call chess and poker sports, honestly. Just because it's played competitively doesn't make it a sport. It all smacks of people who are embarrassed by their hobby trying to get it "legitimized." Look up the fight to get chess recognized as an Olympic sport some time; the advocates for it have pretty much admitted it. Gamers are doing it for the same reason.
All elitist. Let it be PC, Xbox 360, PS3, etc.
People who only play COD and Madden. I mean come on, there are more games out there. What also pisses me off about these gamers is that they act like those two game series only exists and when I mention some other game, they look at me all stupidly.
Graphics whores. God forgive the game for not looking realistic enough.
Girl "gamers."
People who only play COD and Madden. I mean come on, there are more games out there. What also pisses me off about these gamers is that they act like those two game series only exists and when I mention some other game, they look at me all stupidly.
Graphics whores. God forgive the game for not looking realistic enough.
Girl "gamers."
The ones who would spam flash grenades, use sniper rifles, and tell you to stop camping in a small map in Counter Strike: Source.
It's a good tactic but just not giving the other team a fighting chance and forcing them to camp is just sad. How are you suppose to counter that?
It's a good tactic but just not giving the other team a fighting chance and forcing them to camp is just sad. How are you suppose to counter that?
I'm probably going to catch some flak for this.
I've got beef with people who throw themselves into harangues as soon as they hear you've installed Origin. I have. It doesn't make a corporate tool out of me; it makes someone who wanted to play Mass Effect 3 legitimately out of me. I don't agree with EA's decision to start their own goddamned online store and digital delivery service, but I wanted to see my Shepard's story through to the end - as shitty as it may have seemed.
Installing Origin does not equate to inviting Satan into your lives. If you give in to piracy as a means to supposedly give EA the finger, you're just proving EA's own point. Your only decent recourse is to not download or otherwise pay for the game at all. I wanted to play the damn game, so I paid. In more ways than one, I'm aware of that. I'd do it again, too. Not for EA's sake, for BioWare's. A dev team this talented deserves to be fed.
While I do agree with Jim Sterling on the sad truth of temper tantrums getting us more than any kind of civil discussion, I still think it isn't the right direction to head in. We should be able to make our dissatisfaction visible and understandable without having to resort to buying cupcakes or contributing to an outside charity. BioWare should be keeping a closer look on what its audience wants and work its way towards that - corporate meddling be damned. Heck, the first Mass Effect's runaway success would have been enough to pull the company out of hot water! They didn't need to set themselves up for acquisition by EA!
I also have a chip on my shoulder for a certain type of Diablo III player. The type who rages, threatens and makes demands while in the community's forums, and who acts all nice and civil while in-game. Far be it from the likes of them that they get called out for their disruptive behaviour in a message board, after all. It's much easier to gussy yourself up for when you're actually playing a game you profess to loathe with every fibre of your being...
If you hate the damn game so much and if Blizzard ruined Diablo 3, in your opinion, then stop grinding. Stop posting supposedly witty comments showcasing your immaturity while simultaneously telling me you can't fucking wait for the Paragon system to be implemented! Make up your damn mind, alright?
And finally, I have it in for certain elements of the multiplayer-only crowd. On most days, you'll hear valid arguments concerning the apparent superiority of MMOs or team-based shooters. or at least arguments anyone could consider to be respectable. They're more engaging for some, playing against another human is more thrilling than leaving it to an AI, team-building and the elaboration of tactics are a fun metagame in their own right - yeah, sure. Valid reasons all over.
What gets my goat is when a multiplayer enthusiast devolves into what I'd call a "multifag". "You played Myst? Oh, LOL, you fucking geezer, get off the server. You can't aim for shit and your sentry placement sucks. GTFO."
Y'know, comments like these. I have nothing against someone who'll tell me he can't connect to a game's offered experience if there isn't some sort of human element or an MMO's sense of scale - but don't you dare spin evocative single-player campaigns or games as the sort of stuff only pathetic tryhards would enjoy.
Good single-player campaigns are like good books. They stay long after you're done with them. Good multiplayer runs are more easily repeated occurrences. The whole of them is memorable, but you probably won't remember what went through your head each and every time you fired up 2Fort or Granary.
I've got beef with people who throw themselves into harangues as soon as they hear you've installed Origin. I have. It doesn't make a corporate tool out of me; it makes someone who wanted to play Mass Effect 3 legitimately out of me. I don't agree with EA's decision to start their own goddamned online store and digital delivery service, but I wanted to see my Shepard's story through to the end - as shitty as it may have seemed.
Installing Origin does not equate to inviting Satan into your lives. If you give in to piracy as a means to supposedly give EA the finger, you're just proving EA's own point. Your only decent recourse is to not download or otherwise pay for the game at all. I wanted to play the damn game, so I paid. In more ways than one, I'm aware of that. I'd do it again, too. Not for EA's sake, for BioWare's. A dev team this talented deserves to be fed.
While I do agree with Jim Sterling on the sad truth of temper tantrums getting us more than any kind of civil discussion, I still think it isn't the right direction to head in. We should be able to make our dissatisfaction visible and understandable without having to resort to buying cupcakes or contributing to an outside charity. BioWare should be keeping a closer look on what its audience wants and work its way towards that - corporate meddling be damned. Heck, the first Mass Effect's runaway success would have been enough to pull the company out of hot water! They didn't need to set themselves up for acquisition by EA!
I also have a chip on my shoulder for a certain type of Diablo III player. The type who rages, threatens and makes demands while in the community's forums, and who acts all nice and civil while in-game. Far be it from the likes of them that they get called out for their disruptive behaviour in a message board, after all. It's much easier to gussy yourself up for when you're actually playing a game you profess to loathe with every fibre of your being...
If you hate the damn game so much and if Blizzard ruined Diablo 3, in your opinion, then stop grinding. Stop posting supposedly witty comments showcasing your immaturity while simultaneously telling me you can't fucking wait for the Paragon system to be implemented! Make up your damn mind, alright?
And finally, I have it in for certain elements of the multiplayer-only crowd. On most days, you'll hear valid arguments concerning the apparent superiority of MMOs or team-based shooters. or at least arguments anyone could consider to be respectable. They're more engaging for some, playing against another human is more thrilling than leaving it to an AI, team-building and the elaboration of tactics are a fun metagame in their own right - yeah, sure. Valid reasons all over.
What gets my goat is when a multiplayer enthusiast devolves into what I'd call a "multifag". "You played Myst? Oh, LOL, you fucking geezer, get off the server. You can't aim for shit and your sentry placement sucks. GTFO."
Y'know, comments like these. I have nothing against someone who'll tell me he can't connect to a game's offered experience if there isn't some sort of human element or an MMO's sense of scale - but don't you dare spin evocative single-player campaigns or games as the sort of stuff only pathetic tryhards would enjoy.
Good single-player campaigns are like good books. They stay long after you're done with them. Good multiplayer runs are more easily repeated occurrences. The whole of them is memorable, but you probably won't remember what went through your head each and every time you fired up 2Fort or Granary.
Gamers who think that retro games are all shit because they don't have a deep storyline, a gritty super-serious narrator and, because of that, they think that they were shit. You can't compare games like in the NES and SNES days to games today. They are 2 COMPLETELY different things made in a COMPLETELY different state of mind.
this.. soooo much this! There are really many people who judge the games way before they even have played it..ForgottenPr0digy said:
If you've ever been on a game with next to no online community--like I was recently when I was trying to get the level 50 achievement in Ass Creed Brotherhood--you'd be aware of the kind of people that hang out in an old online servers.
It's like Mad Max/Fallout in there; bands of level 50 raiders pray on the lower levels or sometimes battle against each other. They essentially use the game's version of the noob tube to farm points and frustration off other players.
I did end up with a lot of time to consider how to make a multiplayer with balance, also I ended up with really blood shot eyes.
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I feel like I have a fued with the OG-Fallout fans. F3 was a great game in it's own right. Just because it dropped the ball on some aspect of the canon doesn't mean no one can like.
It's like Mad Max/Fallout in there; bands of level 50 raiders pray on the lower levels or sometimes battle against each other. They essentially use the game's version of the noob tube to farm points and frustration off other players.
I did end up with a lot of time to consider how to make a multiplayer with balance, also I ended up with really blood shot eyes.
EDIT:
I feel like I have a fued with the OG-Fallout fans. F3 was a great game in it's own right. Just because it dropped the ball on some aspect of the canon doesn't mean no one can like.