"Fair" gaming

[Teh Ty]

Because I play a lot of TF2, the only thing I really say is unfair gaming is either spawn camping or cheating (Straight up skywalking or sentries underground). I think that sector 8 might fix this. So far in the demo there isn;t really any n00b options. No one-hit kill weapons except the mecha suit, and you just need to stay a good distance away from it.

 

[Jedoro]

I agree with half the people here: if it's in the game, intentionally placed by the developers, it's not cheating.

 

[Bigeyez]

My answer to your question is pretty much exactly what you said

In my opinion, if it's part of the game, you are free to use it. Some things are more annoying than others, yes, but I elevate myself above it knowing that I get more satisfaction killing the grenade launcher-hogger once in CoD4 than he got on his 10 previous times killing me combined. Cheating, however, is the unfair part of gaming. Why anyone would do it is beyond me, and again, the satisfaction part springs to mind;

If it was put into the game by developers and is not a glitch/hack/cheat it's fair game.

 

[Scarecrow38]

I just use the guns I want to use. Fair vs unfair is a sinkhole that I don't let myself sink into.

At the end of the day.. it was put in for a reason. People can argue that it takes skill to headshot with a rifle (it does) but it can also be argued that if you were 'that' good, you would also be able to dodge the barrel- mounted grenades (also true).

It's much more fun to use the gun you want, and to just dimiss people who throw 'noob cannon' around as people who are frustrated with the game, not you. Which is true. Nobody likes dying.

 

[HappyPillz]

The only things I find noobish in games are hacks/glitches and situations where you do not have an even chance of winning or getting a kill(camping in the enemy span zones)If I dont have a chance of defending myself, I consider that cheap. Other things are fair, just frustrating, like the stupid grenade launchers in COD4, or when the entire enemy team camps.

 

[HappyPillz]

i hate juggernaut dammit. Its a fair perk but infinity ward have my hate for making it. A sniper shot to the freakin chest should kill someone! Thye could have made it "body armor" with a running speed decrease that would be fine. I hate pumping tonnes of death into someone to find they are fine cus they are a jugganoob. On shipment i always have it in for players that use juggernoob and martyrdom. Thats a cheap trick. Its generally recognised now in Cod4 that using juggernaut is kinda unfair.

Juggernaut is just as unfair as stopping power. While juggernaut increases your health by 1.5x, stopping power increases your damage by 1.5x. so using stopping power on an enemy without juggernaut reduces their health to .5x, and Stopping power vs juggernaut cancels out both skills. Nobody ever complains about stopping power being cheap.

 

[countrysteaksauce]

The Hackers that think "wow I'm awesome" are the ones that actually have designed the hacks. It is more a feeling of accomplishment in making the hack work correctly.
The other ones that hack are just script kiddies that are actually horrible at playing and need something to compensate for their lack of skill.