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Back in the late 90s there was an arcade right in the very heart of downtown Toronto that, were it not guarded day and night by a dedicated phalanx of large gangstas who couldn't tell -- or didn't care -- about the difference between leaning against a wall and leaning against the very doors needed to enter their establishment, would probably have been at least as popular as the arcade just a block up the street, because they had something that nobody else had: Dungeons and Dragons: Shadow of Mystara. This game will probably my favourite arcade game of all times, and there was enough of a fallowing around that I could almost always find a group of other players to "party up" with. I played a decent fighter and a damned good cleric, but that's beside the point I'm making here.
Roughly half the time I came to play there would be this large fellow who would also be there. He never played with anyone else, and he cheated like a motherfucker. Because it was considered just plain rude to bust in on someone else's game before they were done, or asked for help, I would stand there with the other people waiting for our chance to play. We actually got busted up by the police once, after they'd shouldered their way through the loiterers out front, who insisted that "video games aren't a spectator's sport" and that we either joined the game in progress or left. But again, that's besides the point.
Did I mention that this guy was a dirty, rotten cheater? He would pick Thief every time and use the name hack to make himself invincible. Invincible, except for maybe 3 or 4 attacks in the entire game. Yet he would die, and die a lot. This guy played more than I did, more than most people I knew, and cheated, and could never get through the game without at least 4 continues. It was actually more than a little pathetic, but it gave the rest of us a little something extra to think about when we fucked up and lost against the goblin chariot or something stupid like that, as cruel as that may sound.
Now that arcade is gone -- surprise, surprise -- and so is that game, but I'll never forget that guy for as long as I live.
After my arcade days I moved on to FPS, and Starcraft. When I started playing Quake 3 it was expected that not everyone would know how to strafe-jump or rocket-jump or aim, but I've been playing with the same basic pool for more than five years now and there are a few who refuse to get any better. There is one player in particular, who I won't name for his own protection, who still can't do more than a basic walk-forward-and-shoot-rockets gaming, but he comes out every week and serves as the bottom for our barrel and never, ever complains. It's amazing to know that a person like him can exist while some whiny pro-star gamer will rip the server to pieces if his supposed "thirteen thirty-seven" rail or lg is off by 5%.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who knows people like this. Who are the worst gamers that you know?
Roughly half the time I came to play there would be this large fellow who would also be there. He never played with anyone else, and he cheated like a motherfucker. Because it was considered just plain rude to bust in on someone else's game before they were done, or asked for help, I would stand there with the other people waiting for our chance to play. We actually got busted up by the police once, after they'd shouldered their way through the loiterers out front, who insisted that "video games aren't a spectator's sport" and that we either joined the game in progress or left. But again, that's besides the point.
Did I mention that this guy was a dirty, rotten cheater? He would pick Thief every time and use the name hack to make himself invincible. Invincible, except for maybe 3 or 4 attacks in the entire game. Yet he would die, and die a lot. This guy played more than I did, more than most people I knew, and cheated, and could never get through the game without at least 4 continues. It was actually more than a little pathetic, but it gave the rest of us a little something extra to think about when we fucked up and lost against the goblin chariot or something stupid like that, as cruel as that may sound.
Now that arcade is gone -- surprise, surprise -- and so is that game, but I'll never forget that guy for as long as I live.
After my arcade days I moved on to FPS, and Starcraft. When I started playing Quake 3 it was expected that not everyone would know how to strafe-jump or rocket-jump or aim, but I've been playing with the same basic pool for more than five years now and there are a few who refuse to get any better. There is one player in particular, who I won't name for his own protection, who still can't do more than a basic walk-forward-and-shoot-rockets gaming, but he comes out every week and serves as the bottom for our barrel and never, ever complains. It's amazing to know that a person like him can exist while some whiny pro-star gamer will rip the server to pieces if his supposed "thirteen thirty-seven" rail or lg is off by 5%.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who knows people like this. Who are the worst gamers that you know?
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He said he got stuck on a screen and assumed it was because it was a Dell XP install disc. He said he couldnt accept the agreement by pressing F8.
I thought of hte keyboard I gave him, and how upon startup you had to press F-Lock to turn on the F-keys before being able to use them....
Yeah, he has bad ADD or something and makes really rash decisions.
Also, a friend of mine who refuses to use anyone but Sheik and Fox in SSBM. He loses as much as the rest of us, but it's retarded when we're trying to get decent with other characters and he simply won't try anything new or fun. Tilt tilt smash, shine kick shine, repeat until everyone's sick of it.
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"Stop using a freezing move guy!" [Me as scorpion.]
"Bah! Stop using cheap characters or I"ll get my good team!" [MVC2 (His team is Sentinel, Juggernaut, Cable)]
I'm a competitive guy, I don't care if I get my ass kicked, I'll keep playing because I like to get better. I hate Halo 2, suck at it and everything, but I'll play with my friend because he loves kicking my ass and I love practicing on him. But the worst kinda gamer is the one that gives up, gets pissed off and throws the controller, calls his opponent names and tells them 'they have no life' and all that.
The worst gamer is a poor sport, who won't learn how to play.
Hey... I used to be one of those guys.
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Really, I just can't stand poor sports in general. I'd rather lose against a mature opponent than win against a poor sport any day of the week.
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
Oculus: TheBigDookie | XBL: Dook | NNID: BigDookie
I fucking hate that game because of this kind of crap.
And I thought GameFAQs was bottom of the barrel
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My first experience with D&D at a game store involved a balding, middle-aged man screaming in tears, and hurling a hardcover Players Handbook full force at the DM's head for temporarily removing his psionic powers or some shit. I have more than once been physically threatened by a sweaty, 350lb. manloaf after beating them in a game of Magic. I have been screamed at in womanly voices for suggesting that Horus was indeed stronger than a greater daemon.
I don't play those games anymore.
EX: At a recent lan party, I convince everyone to play some Supreme Commander.
"OMG This game sucks! It takes so long! I don't know how to do anything!"
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"Hey! Let me hop into the gunner for Warthog!"
"Fuck you man!"
And then my own team member power slides into me.
Later; same thing happened, but I had a rocket launcher and when he came to power slide into me, I blew both our asses the hell up and he and all his chums kept sending me harassments about being a 'faggot' and such.
I also hate anyone who decides how good of a player you are based on what class you play. I am great with my Necromancer in RvR in Dark Age of Camelot, especially in the Labyrinth but one of my guildmembers has to be a complete asshole and continue to go on rants at how bad I must suck because I play a Necromancer. One of the Guild officers yelled at him, and then he starts yelling at the officer. Fun stuff. :roll:
God damn egg arty.
His egg rollout move is so much damned fun
sometimes I go into practice mode just to keep doing that move over and over and over
Sometimes we get lucky and beat him(it takes 2 to win against him, and even then it's a great deal of luck)
We are about 3/4 of the way through, he has one maybe 1 minigame and he is INCREDIBLY pissed about being in last place. He was already complaining about quitting and not wanting to play anymore. I think he was like 1 more minigame away from crying and never touching a Gamecube anymore. Fortunately, a game popped up that he actually enjoyed, and we finally forced him to finish the game.
He is also the type of person who will thoroughly enjoy outkilling you in Halo 2 by like 40-2 and taunts you after each kill. I also recently played Fifa with him and he quit and threw down his controller after the second game we played because I was beating him 2-0.
Final note, he has 3 Xbox 360 controllers, and they all show signs of anger-inflicted damage. :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:
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The PA group I played CS:S with was full of the former. Ok maybe we weren't that bad, but none of us were certainly pros except Thorgot. And he's a great sport. I'd say average people like that are way more fun to play with than pros. They don't take themselves seriously, they don't whine. They meet up and just have a good time with whatever happens.
I had a lot of fun. I might catch more games if they still play.
Also hate most of the Halo 2 community. Christ man, go through puberty at least before insulting me, jesus.
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A friend of mine and I play SSB:M against each other endlessly - 3-5 days a week, 1-4 hours a day, we're almost always playing it. Of course, in and amongst that, each of us gets into slumps. He's a better player than I am - I'm getting better because of the practice, but he's got the headstart, so he tends to win more often than I do. That doesn't bug me, and hey, it shouldn't; I'm learning. Every once in a while though, you'll lose 10-15 games in a row, make stupid mistakes again and again (things like ->B instead of /\B because you tilt a controller when things get intense, or assuming you have jumps left to help get you back onto a platform when you don't, and by the time you react it's too late), it gets unbelievably frustrating, and I just want to stop. So I do.
Granted, that's not losing a time or two and getting pissed off about it, but it's still quitting to a certain degree, and in those instances, I feel it's justified.
Anyway, the worst type of gamer as far as I'm concerned is the showoff who isn't really that good. There's a guy that goes to my school that's asian, and he's intentionally playing off of it to the greatest extent that he can. He professes that people can't beat him, "because he's asian", and he's always doing things like DDR in front of crowds of impressed non-gamers. It's annoying as hell to see him playing better than I can at something (I'm not a DDR guy), but not playing it that well (I've watched a lot of DDR), and making a huge deal out of it.
Eh, I don't have to deal with him personally very much, so it only bothers me when I want to use the DDR machine or something.
Also, my friends and I set up LAN parties at my school, and we run Halo Trial, StarCraft, UT2k4, mostly things we can spawn or demo, because we need to be using software in a legal manner to use it on school machines. There's a few people that always show up, or that take things way too far, that everyone there ends up hating. The guy who teamkills in an 8 player Halo Trial game, repeatedly, and then pretends it was a mistake. The guy who never stops talking to himself about what's going on in the game. The guy who uses in-game trashtalk in real life and makes big deals out of insignificant kills, gloating and showboating about "that mad snipe" he "dished out on the noobzor".
Shudder, at least there were a lot of good folks that came out to those nights.
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Fighters: when he looses, he makes the ol "I can beat you up in real life" claim.
any adventure/puzzle game: if he hits a section/puzzle he can't solve in more than half an hour he quits or gets very angry.
once, while playing wind waker, he couldn't get past a section and he bent an oven rack in half.
I'm sure I come off as elitist, but I'm really a casual gamer. The last game I've bought is NCAA 2007 and my girlfriend bought me Guitar Hero II last week, so.. ya.
I guess he wasn't technically, but its an unfair and asshole thing to do, and he knew it.
Also DDR Fans who think any DDR song ever made is too easy. These kind of people made In the Groove, which has quite a few songs that are so hard (Diffculty 13. Out of 10. Yes I know that makes no sense) that I'm convinced the people that can beat it have no life.
Really. Just fuck you all.
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Anyone who throws one of my controllers. Bring your own controller if you are going to pull that shit you whiny faggots.
People who don't give a game with even a modest learning curve a chance. That's another big one that pisses me off.
My girlfriend is probably the biggest offender in that arena. The thing I don't get is she loves old PS1 games with tank controls, like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil... Thank God for Tomb Raider Legend, it finally taught her to play a game with modern 3D roaming controls. She won't, however, touch Resident Evil 4. The second she found out you actually have to aim your weapon that was it for her, she put it down and refused to ever play it again.
He'll always come up with an excuse, however retarded, if you beat him, in anything.
I also, love the gamers who repeatedly call everyone a noob when they die, or for any reason at all. They're so bad, it's hilarious.
hahaha I sure as hell wasn't in that community but I think I know what you mean.
Anyway, I have problems with anyone that uses pwn, owned, weaksauce, lawl, or any other stupid shit. People in WoW that gank constantly have got to be the worst ever. Whenever I'm out helping my low lvl friends or my brother that just started to play and has no idea what he's doing, if anyone fucks with them or if I see some other lowbie getting fucked with then it is on
Examples:
A large portion of Diablo II players. Mostly the low level hunting PKers and scammers.
The Halo and Halo 2 players who do nothing but endlessly complain/brag and have those high, grating, my-balls-haven't-dropped voices.
There's hundreds more, but you get the idea. I also really hate people who take games so seriously that they incessantly gab about it and, if you don't play whatever game they worship, they either crap all over you for being stupid or continue to discuss it even though it's obvious you don't care.
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This is why I don't play public games on battle.net anymore.
Also idiots who don't listen to the party leader in any mmo and do whatever the heck they want. Leads to a lot of frustration.
My friends and I were a big part of creating that community, right about up to 2001, really. It got big in California first (of course) and then Texas. We even heard the Cali people were pissed at us for talking the game up so much.
We got out when it started getting stupid. When the people that would go on to make In the Grove started playing, and shit. They sorta missed the point of the game...
So me and a couple friends who play starcraft (broodwar, of course) play 3-way matches when we hang sometimes. One of them is a novice who I tend to avoid in favor of attacking the other good guy most of the time. So anytime one of us good players finishes off the other, we turn our focus on the remaining guy and he fields a brief defense before (regardless of outcome) the guy is angrily like "fuck it" and surrenders, complaining about not being able to control his shit and units costing too much. I know this guy could get better if he would stick it out awhile, but he just doesn't seem to think there's any hope.
And I should mention that this behavior is in fact unrelated to winning or losing, since I once saw him get off to a good start, following up by finding the enemy expansion, killing the units on guard and ripping the base up with minimal losses. That's when his "fuck it" reflex kicked in and he angrily conceded. I can understand him not enjoying being a noob but it does get irritating.
I was once playing a Diablo 2 game on Bnet, doing quests in a public game. Me and this sorceress (I was some melee class) had navigated the barracks and found the smith (big melee demon guarding quest item). After a brief battle we (mostly me) had reduced its health to a sliver, that's when it killed me. I revived my merc and kindly asked for a town portal back to the area, I got no answer. After several minutes the punk finally did open a portal, and I returned to find that, rather than running a short distance and creating a portal, the dude (presumably) had very slowed chipped away the remainder of the smiths health (the sorc wasn't doing a whole lot of good getting there either) and looted him. So okay, this is D2 and looting is pretty free and easy, but I wished I could have been there if just to save a lot of time. So then I jog over to the quest item and sorc grabs it first. Ok, this is D2 and anyone can bring it back to town so I suggested it be returned for quest completion. After some pacing and probably inventory shifting: "Asshole has left the the game".
Goddamn leech. I guess the 100 gold for a portal scroll wasn't worth spending so I don't have to find and beat a deadly monster again.
Super-jumpers (Halo 2) on live are a pain in the ass as well. I was playing live splitscreen with a friend once and some dude on my team got atop the building on acension to snipe people. I had the banshee so I tried to kill him myself for being a bitch, but I guess space airplanes don't go that high and he could simply step back to make me miss. So I went back to murdering with impunity (we had the rockets most of the time).
It was funny when he went into EB Games and asked if they sold mod chips, though.
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