What type of gamer annoys you most?

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

people that leave their mics on whilst playing are a bit annoying.

That's a bad setup at fault.

I leave my mic on all the time, but because I know how to properly set one up, the only thing you'll hear is my voice and only when I have something relevant to say (if not, I simply shut up and focus on playing.) You won't hear echoes, my breathing or any noises from my surroundings (barring very loud noises, of course).

Then again, I went through the effort to ensure smooth communication. Most people won't.

Coincidentally, and back on topic, I'm really annoyed by 'talkers' i.e. players who never stop talking during a game. And I don't mean some banter during slower moments, which I do myself when I'm playing with buddies, but constant blabbering. Mostly about things that have nothing to do with that game. Sure, I can mute them, but that's not alway an option and sometimes there's other players in the game that I do want to hear.

And the things the 'talkers' sometimes talk about! This one time, I encountered two randoms where one was asking the other for advice because his girlfriend was cheating on him and what to do about their kid if the relationship went bust. Are you fucking kidding me? Is a game really the place to talk about pretty serious stuff like that?

A variant of the 'talker' is what I call the 'fan'.

These mostly appear in co-op games, are often young kids unskilled or new at the game and have a tendency to enter a game at a difficulty and/or player level above their own skill. So they get their asses handed to them, which may prompt a helpful and more skilled player to give out some tips. And that's where it starts. They sort of attach themselves to you and turn into a kind of Bizarro Navi: trying desperately to be your friend, constantly trying to attract your attention and acting like spoiled brats if you don't do things their way, except Navi sometimes gave out helpful info.

This may sound petty and it's only a game, but there is a time and place for bombarding me with questions and moments of intense combat are not that time. Focus on your game and when things calm down, I'll happily help you out. Or wait till we're back in the the lobby.

 

[nexus]

The type of gamer that doesn't stop hyping their "favorite game" even if it's not even out yet. They permeate online forums, and even inside the chat of other games. People like this tend to make sure you're no longer having fun, at their expense. They join your gaming community for the sole purpose of being as negative as possible, sucking away all your positive energy like a vampiric menace. They are walking, talking real-time advertisements for their chosen game.

My most recent example:

GW2 fans.
I haven't been able to go anywhere without GW2 fans spamming every board, and face-rolling every game chatroom. "I don't like this, GW2 does it better, amirite guys, who else is going to play GW2?" It got to the point where it seemed less like "not so random fans" and seemed more like a robotic algorithm of non-existent people spreading their word like a virus.

I refuse to play that game for this simple reason. I am glad the release is imminent, as this means the "flooding" will stop.

 

[TheLizardKing]

GAMER GUUUURRRRRLLL's because they think they're special for being a woman playing a game. Who the fuck cares about your gender? Just play the fucking game.

Honorable mentions: White Knights and Graphics Whores.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Probably metagamers, you know the types.

No items.

Fox only.

Final Destination.

Because fun sucks, am I right?

Because the only way to have fun is according to your definition, am I right?

On-topic: I'm irritated to hell and gone by pretentious snobs. It's a video game, champ. Get that stick out of your arse.

I'm also pretty pissed off at anybody who tells me I'm 'playing the game wrong' or I 'hate fun' when I have my own way of enjoying things, i.e. turning all the items and most of the stages off when I play Super Smash Bros.. Sorry that the thought of me enjoying myself offends you so much, junior.

I probably should have been a bit more concise.

I wasn't implying that playing the game that way was wrong, merely that I've met enough people in my time who won't play the game in any other way and look down on others who do.

this is the definition and post I wanted to say for this thread, meta-gamers who sneer at anything else being used/played and they stand high on their plateau above you with their meta-gaming.

so yeah, I'll go with that person being the most annoying...sadly I know a few of them in real life, basically every game I play is garbage, besides tf2, and every game they play is for the "leet kids". (SC2, LoL, HoN, Dota2, CS:S,etc..)

still, hilarious to absolutely smash on these people with ike and they'll be using some other "higher tiered" character. always puts a smile on my face. (sadly, I beat them using the fucking wii nunchuck+remote, while they had gamecube controllers..i offered it to them since there was only 2 controllers and one wii controller at the time.)

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

The hardcore PC elitist who is atheist and attacks people for believing in a god, laughs at consoles and there exclusives, who ONLY buys indie games because they are not AAA, happens to be European, is 15-22 years old at the time, thinks all First Person Shooters are the same and refers to them as "shooty" games, who's favorite developer ever and only them is Valve, says that they can just Mod ever Bethesda game DLC, and practically mimics Yahtzee for game opinions.

Also, people who say they are gamers and only ever buy Call of Duty only.

I don't hate you for doing one the following but if you let that cloud your common sense.....ugh.

is it sad that I can think up quite a few people right off the top of my head?

not that I hold any exclusive ire towards these people..just, it's quite easy and comes to mind when I read this.

 

[geK0]

The overly competitive ones that will rage at you in an (unranked) team game if you do anything wrong.....

fucking league...

 

[BathorysGraveland]

For me, the kind that take trolling too far. Now, unlike some people, I don't mind a little bit of trolling and griefing, you know, stupid but harmless shit. However, when you threaten to harm a woman's three kids over a video game, that shit is just taking it to a level beyond what I can accept or understand. Unfortunately, there are quite a few gamers who do take it to those levels.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I can deal with hardcore fanboys, but hardcore fanboys that say every other game sucks.
Yeah... that's not cool.

 

[StormShaun]

Gamers who think they ate pros.
And the whiny 12 year olds.

Both annoy me to a really bad point...it's funny seeing them like that instead of being cocky.

 

[lacktheknack]

Whoever said that "it's good that fighting game communities are misogynistic, it's the last place that line of thinking is acceptable", and anyone who embraces this logic.

They ARE aware that this argument is a lovely one for getting RID of the fighting game communities, right? It's also part of the reason that I don't play much Street Fighter anymore.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Outside of the obvious ones (Elitists, fanboys, antifanboys, etc.) two of my top annoyance causing gamer types are:

1.) Gamers who judge entire gaming communities they aren't even part of based on one small segment of that population.

2.) The "you cheated" gamers. If you're actually playing to win in a game that is based on versus competition, you're cheating or somehow playing wrong. If you use tools that a game itself provides to play but that they can't deal with because they choose not to learn, you're cheating or not playing honourably. If you find winning fun and don't comp them every second match, you're just a tryhard cheater who doesn't play games for fun. Etc.

 

[Lovely Mixture]

"I like using the Silver Knight Sword"
"The Silver Knight Sword is garbage, just so you know. You should use the Washing Pole."
".....Yeah but everyone else uses the Washing Pole, I'm trying to be different."
"Suit yourself if you like shit gear."

It's a game, not a life or death experience.

Gamers who are ashamed. Example:

I was riding home on the train next to an acquaintance of mine. He was reading the paper, and I happened to have my gameboy in my bag, so I took it out and started playing some pokemon.

He sees this, and says something like "I can't believe you're actually playing pokemon right now. I'm so embarrassed."

I'm baffled by this, and answer "Wait, I thought you said you played like several hours of pokemon last week?"

"Well, yeah. But I did that at home!"

Keep in mind, this is a person who regularly gets drunk and embarrasses himself in public, but what worries him is being seen with someone playing on his gameboy. Yeah.

That's more society's fault as a whole really. When a supposedly serious documentary on video game addiction can have the line "You should put down the video game, go out, and get absolutely hammered" then you can tell how much games are looked down upon in today's society. But yeah, it's still annoying.

It's equally that acquaintance's fault as well, if he backs down and is fearful of being labeled as such and not standing up.

I'm also guilty of it a bit, but I'm not about to tell someone else to change their habits unless they are being rude or are directly interfering with another activity.

 

[Brad Calkins]

Leavers, especially since I play LOL

 

[[REDACTED]]

Gamers who think they ate pros.
And the whiny 12 year olds.

Both annoy me to a really bad point...it's funny seeing them like that instead of being cocky.

This. I am so sick of cannibal wannabes who've never even tasted real human flesh. Posers.

Alright, now let's see if I can string together a coherent thought without being insufferably snide. Hmmm... oh! I've got one! And it's even relevant, what do you know. A subset of gamers that really annoy me are those who react to you playing a game differently from them as if you've just flossed your teeth with the entrails of Rwandan orphans. Roguelike communities seem to be particularly bad about this; I once saw a post in an ADOM forum saying that he/she considers anyone who saves their game to be scum. I fucking wish I was kidding.

 

[DarthSka]

-GIRL gamer, as in the ones that constantly make a big deal about how they play video games and that it shouldn't be a big deal. Not to be confused with a girl gamer, as in a girl that plays video games (also simply known as "gamer")

Played multiplayer games for over half of my life by now, from CS to all kind of MMOs to online RTS and back to FPS with CS:GO and TF2... Never even once I met a girl where your negative description fits. And since gaming is pretty much a standard part of my evening by now (the 1h has to be, even after work and uni) I should have ran into one by now. All girls I met online are regular gamers with whom I shared a few rockets in each other faces.

Maybe, just maybe people misuse this term or overestimate the amount of "gurrl gamers" there are...

You have a better track record than me I suppose. I've run into a good number both online and in real life. Maybe, just maybe some people have had different experiences than those you have experienced yourself.

 

[Josh Hibbard]

People who want a 'realistic game' I play games to escape reality

 

[Vamantha]

The type of Gamer I find most deplorable are the "Gamers". Basically, people who say they play video games but don't actually play.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

The raging little children who trash talk through the internet combined with bad sportsmanship. I like multiplayer because it allows me to talk to other people, and I really appreciate some manners.
"It's the internet, deal with it" is no reason to throw all good manners outside.
Examples are people in Battlefield 3 calling every weapon OP and/or the enemy a [insert deragatory word here] for using it. Spawncampers. Teamkillers. The people who play Starcraft 2 who whine that [insert race is OP] if you win from them.

One of the main reasons I liked Team Fortress 2 is because it seemed to attract mostly mature people. It was one of the most enjoyable shooters for me, until the flood of items that is.

 

[afroebob]

2 types of players really get to me. One is the 'bad graphics' elitists. Its a backwards group of people who actually ***** when a game/developer pushes to make really good graphics because they think for some reason having them makes a game less fun. I don't understand why having a game that looks better is less fun, and I know a game doesn't need good graphics to be fun but what the fuck? Seriously, what the fuck?

And also sexist gamers who don't shut the fuck up if there's a girl in a game. Unfortunately, the last time I played a game online and heard a girl talk on the mic when she wasn't either my friend I was with or someone on ventrillo was a few months after Halo 3 came out and she beat the shit out of everyone. I can't remember another time in my life.

 

[Amaror]

Well i call them "PC whiners".
Not what you would think it means, i am talking about the kind of people who ***** and moan about the mean, entitled, elitist PC gamers on this Forum.
When i have yet to see one of those elitist pc gamers on the forum