Bad Habits for Gamers

[LittleBlondeGoth]

Oh yeah, and the whole girl thing already mentioned. There's a damn good reason I didn't install Vent for a couple of years whilst playing EverQuest. And when I finally bit the bullet and started using it, there were still people surprised that the raid leader had boobs.

But the ones who were all "Tee hee, I don't know what I'm doing but I'm a girl so can I have free stuff?" really got on my nerves...

 

[Sora112112]

10) Saving after every single encounter. I do this. Whenever I get past the tiniest challenge in a game, particularly shooters, I go pause and save the game on any game that allows it. When using emulators, I do the same thing with save states, which isn't cheating because you've already proven you can pass the obstacle in question. It is cheating when you use it as a way to get infinite lives. (Die? Reload last save state).

i am the exact opposite,i don't save often enough then complain cause autosave didn't pick up the slack

 

[kayisking]

Does gaming count?
Just joking, but I guess the trolls can be quite annoying, thats the main reason I hang out at the escapist.

 

[kingcom]

PC gamer elitism.
"Grumble Grumble Skyrim* would be better if it was not on consoles, Why do we have to pander to 2005 tech whine whine "

Because console sales far outstrip PC sales and without, using the Skyrim example, the console sales of Oblivion/Fallout 3 there would be a good chance that BethSoft wouldn't be making Skyrim? Hows 'dem apples? Crunchy?

Of course not all PC gamers are like this, hell my gametime is 50/50 Xbox/laptop at the moment.
*or whatever

People who complain about elitism.

 

[Zantos]

Does gaming count?
Just joking, but I guess the trolls can be quite annoying, thats the main reason I hang out at the escapist.

I had a stoopid moment a while ago. I thought to myself "Damn these trolls around here (The Escapist) can be annoying. I'll check out some other sites, see whats going on there"

*5 minutes later*

"I am NEVER going outside again *whimper*"

 

[Phishfood]

I'm a bad one for compulsive reloading, its got me killed more times than I can count. Saying that, so has NOT reloading...ah well.

As for the discs thing - I have a habit of whatever disc is in the machine, the box is open on top. If I pick up another disc and go to put it in, theres the open box waiting for the old disc.

I think one of the WORST things a lot of "pro" gamers do is just scream NOOB at the new guy. I really can't stand when someone who is genuinely new to a game comes in and everyone is screaming at them for not knowing some wierd concept that only applies to that game. Hey guys, rather than just screaming why not TELL them how to do it? then they will be an ASSET to the team.

 

[Zantos]

When games face controversy of any kind(like other art forms have), everyone hides behind the "they're just games!" excuse.

And when they're treated just like games, and not given the same recognition as an art form, everyone shouts "but they are art!".

Game's can't be art only when its convenient. If you want games to be art, you have to stand by them through the bad times, as well as the good.

And if you don't care about them being art, and just see them as games. Then don't be so pissed when people treat them like games, and not as an art form.

Hehe, talking about controversy made me think of this that I watched the other day http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/302/Max-Effect

Incidentally, did you know that sprite contains artificial preservatives. Because I watched most of their video back catalogue, so I bloody well do now.

 

[Mister Benoit]

As a fem-gamer, I hate it when girls use their wiles to cover up a lack of knowledge in games. As in, "HELLO. I PLAY GAMES KINDA SORTA, BUT I'M HOT SO LOOK HERE!" It's possible to be both good looking AND know your games, but it seems to be a trendy thing now-a-days that drives me up the wall and gives girls a bad name in games.

But guys might disagree..

No most guys will probably agree with your viewpoint, look up Ijustine and you will see a lot of hate directed her way for the portal 2 lets play for the very reasons you stated. (now equally hating people like thats probably a bit harsh, but thats another discussion entirely).

But yeah good point

I went on her XBOX live profile, xbox being the only console she's got and the only games she's even got registered on or having achievements for are all "kinect animals" and monopoly. I figured, oh maybe she's got two usernames, but this is the one that she keeps posting as her Live U/N on facebook, so it's gotta be this one. She didn't even have COD, MW, in fact, no FPS even featured on her games list.

Aww common now, Kinectimals is pretty awesome =p Not that i've played it but I can't wait to ^_^

Also take a step back and look at what you're doing, you are stalking someone's Facebook profile, posts on other people's walls and their XBL accounts.

Unless she's a total bonehead and awful person I don't understand the hate, no harm done with harmless flirting.

Anyways I've got a bad habit on trying to finish everything (Just burnt myself out on Borderlands) and I always feel the need to have the best of something (Having the best possible IV's/EV's and Nature's in Pokemon).

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Treating girls as somehow different than the rest of the community. It pisses me off and is really stupid.

I agree and it would help if people didn't make threads like; Why do people see female gamers as different they aren't special..etc

That really defeats the purpose. -.-

"Because guys love it when a girl games"
)

I don't know where they get that idea from most of the guys I know immeadiately Brozone me and have gf's that haven't touched a game in thier life. I would love to know where these men who can't resist girl gamers are....

[small]brotip: They don't exist[/small]

 

[renegade7]

Fanboys of any breed. For some reason, there are people that will fight tooth and nail to 'defend' the PS3, Xbox 360, Nintendo, or PC with some wierd delusion that if their machine of choice is not at the top of every sales chart then their world will come to a horrible end.

It's ok to have an opinion people, but it's a really stupid thing to start a fight over. The 'Console War' was just Sega's advertising campaign, it DOESN'T REALLY EXIST.

 

[EmzOLV]

Also take a step back and look at what you're doing, you are stalking someone's Facebook profile, posts on other people's walls and their XBL accounts.

Unless she's a total bonehead and awful person I don't understand the hate, no harm done with harmless flirting.

I feel I have to defend myself now - haha! Firstly, I never said I hated her (did I?!) I just said I was disappointed. I had thought "oo a girl gamer, interesting" and then:

a) when I went to add her on Live to be nice and try and bridge the iffyness, because we share a lot of mutual friends aside from my then boyfriend and we were hanging out a lot, I noticed. We're still friends on there *shrug* thats when I noticed - when I went to see what online games we could play together. Everyone does that right? I mean after her going on in person and online about all these FPS games she plays, yes, I was disappointed to find out she just doesn't really play (Kinectimals or whatever was an example - she's not even been on in months!) It felt like she was using the whole persona to guys and it just made me feel a bit like "eep"

b) I have her as a friend on FB too - because of mutual friends/hanging out. When she flirted with my boyfriend at the time, I wasn't stalking his profile, the only times I noticed was when I went to put a comment on his wall for example, or because they're both friends it comes up in my newstream. I have no time to stalk people - if they are going to cheat they cheat! Plus I'm a narcissist. I normally just look at mine mwahaha.

c) and just FYI, harmless flirting I'm fine with - I didn't say a word about it and my then boyfriend told me when she asked him out and told him her feelings and I just let it slide. What's the point getting peeved? He had every chance to dump me and go out with her and that would have just been life (even though I would have been upset)

I think I've explained a bit more now haha. I do have friends who do EXACTLY what you suggest and as soon as a girl flirts with a guy (not even their bf for example) they flip out and search out everything about the girl. I simply just wanted to patch things up because things were getting awkward in the group, and the rest just cropped up.

 

[k-ossuburb]

Letting my controllers get dirty.

Don't tell me you've never seen a few flecks of grime in between the cracks of your lovely, white 360 controller.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I mean after her going on in person and online about all these FPS games she plays, yes, I was disappointed to find out she just doesn't really play (Kinectimals or whatever was an example - she's not even been on in months!)

In the defence of the unknown creepy lady; I myself haven't played my xbox for ages just becuase I don't really like playing on their that much. I'm totally crazy about games but there isn't a record anywhere of what I play mostly (some on Steam I guess?) So that could be the case with her.

Or she could just be mental.

 

[Jfswift]

When people throw away the cases or the manuals of the game, as a collecter I hate that. There's nothing quite like the feeling of finding a rare game in the wild, only to discover that only the disc remains.

Or when people fold the spine of a book and then complain when it falls apart.

I'm from Canada so I throw out the French version of the manual. Make no mistake, I always keep the case and the English manual, but sometimes I ask myself "Why am I throwing this out?" but then I remember that I don't speak French. Still, it feels weird of me to throw it out, because despite the language, I am still throwing out a manual.

I do throw out those sleeves that come on top of games, and I made a topic about it once and someone ate me out about it. IMO, those sleeves take up too much space, make my games inconvenient to access, offer nothing extra to the design of the game, and create inconsistencies in my library when looking at them from the side.

If they flipped about sleeves, they'd hate me, I usually launch the box / cd case and put games in a binder (although I always keep the manual).

 

[EmzOLV]

In the defence of the unknown creepy lady; I myself haven't played my xbox for ages just becuase I don't really like playing on their that much. I'm totally crazy about games but there isn't a record anywhere of what I play mostly (some on Steam I guess?) So that could be the case with her.

Or she could just be mental.

That's what I had thought. It's weird, I'll log on facebook and in my main newstream there will be "So who's online tonight?! Add me *tag here* lets kick some ass on Black Ops!" and then I'll play that same night for like, 8 hours from 6pm - 2am and she won't have been on.

Maybe she's blocked me in which case I take it all back!!! hahaha!

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

That's what I had thought. It's weird, I'll log on facebook and in my main newstream there will be "So who's online tonight?! Add me *tag here* lets kick some ass on Black Ops!"

Yeah that's kind of wierd :<

because there are so few of you that are actually like so many of us.

I don't have a beard and viking hat if that's what you mean. Although somtimes that would be satisfactory.

 

[AbstractStream]

Getting too used to Quicksaving, Save-Anywhere, or Auto-Save.

It will just make you angry at games without it.

>_>

I kinda prefer save points, myself.

Ditto, because then when a game doesn't have quicksaving, somewhere in my mind I assume it does. That being said, if I get killed or something I'm thinking "oh no worries." and then I check and I'm basically waaaay back at the beginning again.

 

[S3Cs4uN 8]

How quickscopers (this mostly applies to CoD) think they're better than EVERYONE and that they're retarded (I will backup the retard comment)
Ok say quickscopers say they are more skillful than you when you use your assault rifle or SMG. Yet the quickerscopers CONSTANTLY ***** about the fact the snipers aren't powerful. So if they were truly skillful why aren't they able to get headshots all the time? One last point.
Ever been in a private match quickscoping lobby?
The host will always set the health to minimum so you get one shot kills anywhere on the body once again defies the arguement that quickscopers are skillful.

my brother on mw2 or blops on xbox live constantly get challenged to quikscope matches with 12 year olds

 

[DugMachine]

Maybe not a habit but when I lived with my parents they always told me to pause online games. When you can't. I would ask for 5 minutes so the game can end and I can go to the lobby but they don't get that in online games even if you pause everyone keeps moving and scoring/killing.

I also don't like lending my games out and they come back in horrendous conditions. It's usually a game I don't play anymore and could care less about but I pride myself on my flawless disks and they always say "It was like that when I got it!" Sigh

 

[S3Cs4uN 8]

PC gamer elitism.
"Grumble Grumble Skyrim* would be better if it was not on consoles, Why do we have to pander to 2005 tech whine whine "

Because console sales far outstrip PC sales and without, using the Skyrim example, the console sales of Oblivion/Fallout 3 there would be a good chance that BethSoft wouldn't be making Skyrim? Hows 'dem apples? Crunchy?

Of course not all PC gamers are like this, hell my gametime is 50/50 Xbox/laptop at the moment.
*or whatever

Oh good old PC gamers. "Pandering to you simple consoletards means the PC never gets any exclusives". No Mr PC gamer, the fact that you torrent so many of your games that it becomes completely uneconomical to release just for PC does that.

Note, I am not saying this is true of all PC gamers, I have a pretty decent gaming PC myself for which I buy games. However this is definitely true of all of the militants that I know.

i will say I do pirate games but only one that are no longer available in my country.
(baldurs gate 2 , nwn 1/2, Hearts of Iron III, Supcom FA)