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by Lizard_King 09/20/2007, 7:44am PDT |
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But I'll take your word for it.
Zseni wrote:
I'm just saying: liking a game because people don't know how to play it means that you're probably bad at video games.
Yeah, there's definitely room for The Ultimate Smear in this one, although I would say that is something really more applicable to single player games. If you find yourself passing on a lot of major single player games because the curve is too much for you, then I would say you need to do some sucking at video games soul searching.
But I really think multiplayer is altogether a different animal. Perhaps things have changed radically since Counterstrike first burned me off of anonymous online multiplayer, but it seems to me that past a certain point in an online game's evolution, the mid to upper ranges of skill become overpopulated with people who don't mind winning, over and over again, with lowest common denominator tactics. You know, the video game equivalent of the tennis net drop shot, over and over again. Yeah, it's legal, and yeah, you won fair and square. But I really don't want to play you anymore, and in fact my outlook on the entire game has soured.
Plus, with the full, rampant popularity at undefined skill levels that you get in new games/beta, you get chaotic environments with all kinds of players doing crazy shit that you didn't know could happen, possibly for the first time. I imagine TF2 would be the ultimate upper end of that experience as opposed to a mere rocket jump. It may be the only reason I get Halo 3 on launch: so I can enjoy the thrill of killing and being killed online for a little while before the 13 and below demographic runs it into the ground. |
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paney arcraed's reaction to Team Fortress 2. by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/18/2007, 2:31pm PDT 
Oh wait, they actually did post about it. by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/19/2007, 4:55pm PDT
So is he saying that he only likes games until people are good at them? NT by Zseni 09/19/2007, 5:26pm PDT
You like them better once X game's version of bunny hopping kicks in? by Lizard_King 09/20/2007, 6:22am PDT
Re: You like them better once X game's version of bunny hopping kicks in? by Zseni 09/20/2007, 6:54am PDT
I'm not sure playing a video game and becoming a monk are analogous. by Lizard_King 09/20/2007, 7:44am PDT
Obligatory Monty link by Entropy Stew 09/20/2007, 10:35am PDT
Re: Obligatory Monty link by Lizard_King 09/20/2007, 11:44am PDT
Lizard_King, you've already won this argument. You don't have to keep respond NT by Last 09/20/2007, 12:20pm PDT
Put LK and MC into a particle accelerator and you'll get something interesting NT by Entropy Stew 09/20/2007, 12:35pm PDT
So, games are more fun when played with opponents of similar skill-levels? by Jerry Whorebach 09/20/2007, 2:09pm PDT
Re: So, games are more fun when played with opponents of similar skill-levels? by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/20/2007, 2:19pm PDT
Re: So, games are more fun when played with opponents of similar skill-levels? by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/20/2007, 2:40pm PDT
Re: So, games are more fun when played with opponents of similar skill-levels? by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/20/2007, 2:56pm PDT
Re: So, games are more fun when played with opponents of similar skill-levels? by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/20/2007, 5:51pm PDT
Yeah. by Lizard_King 09/20/2007, 8:14pm PDT
Heaven forbid either of us has to admit to sucking at video games :( NT by Jerry Whorebach 09/20/2007, 9:18pm PDT
Good thing I'm awesome at video games so I don't have to. NT by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/20/2007, 9:19pm PDT
Re: Obligatory Monty link by Zseni 09/20/2007, 9:07pm PDT
Re: Obligatory Monty link by Jhoh Clbbl O_____O 09/20/2007, 9:18pm PDT
Re: Obligatory Monty link by Zseni 09/20/2007, 9:51pm PDT
Re: Obligatory Monty link by Kered "Hooftothehead" G'slorp'durrr 09/21/2007, 12:00am PDT
Re: Obligatory Monty link by Bananadine 09/21/2007, 3:06am PDT
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