Online shooters - too much stress?

[GuerrillaClock]

On the one hand, they are stressful, but then I suppose so is every competition. Hell, it's no more frustrating than being a football supporter.

On the other hand...

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[Robert632]

i personally prefer singleplayer to online, as i tend to have slow reactions, and probably average to semi-decent aiming. plus i just naturally prefer platformers.

 

[itsnotyouitsme]

If anyone here has ever played Gunznline before you'll understand this a bit better.
In reality, when i play i game, i progressively get better by progressively wanting to kill things. The only real dick portion of mmo is the other players. Not so much about how much better they are then you, but rather how much they complain when you are better then them. It really makes you take a step away from your computer when the whole server is shouting that you are a hacker, when the real hacker is behind them with grenades. While playing the game itself is fun. When you kill and get killed it's all fun and games. But when people start doing the same depressing thing they do in real life, which is blame how bad they are on others, it pulls the game into a sad, gritty, realism.
On the other hand it's good this way, instead of getting a new game, get laid instead. fun.

 

[Carlston]

Once upon a time, there was a guy who gamed for fun.

Then 6 months ago, he got XBOX Live and everything changed.

Suddenly, gaming was no longer something he did to relax, it became competitive. He spent hours and hours getting destroyed in Halo 3 and COD4 only to keep coming back, learning the games, learning about people's online behaviour and getting slowly but surely better.

There were so many frustrations in online gaming... host advantage, bad connections, lag, cheating, the knowledge that some people would always just have faster reflexes and better aim than him...

He put a lot of work into getting better, then realised he wasn't having fun anymore.

No game of MW2 was satisfying to him unless he got a huge KD ratio and frustration would set in when that was not achieved.

So he reinstalled Fallout 3 and went back to the Capital Wasteland.

As the relaxing, gorgeous vistas and soothing sonics of the Capital Wasteland washed over his eyes and ears, making his heart feel warm and at peace, he remembered the reason he enjoyed gaming in the first place, to escape form the harsh, competitive reality of life.

And so he decided to stop giving a shit about his KD ratio, realised what a twat he had been and repeated the mantra to himself: 'It's only a game'.

My question to you, fellow Escapists, is do any of you share this experience with me?

Have you ever just gone 'fuck it', and decided that competitive gaming was just too annoying to get bothered about anymore?

Or do you relish the grind, the frustration and sense of achievement after finally getting better than other people?

COD4... oh where people complain of the maytr noobs, because charging in and shooting people in the legs with a shotgun is realistic next to not charging and having a plan. If you play competitive play America's army, one good hit your out the rest of the 15 minute game.

Other than that, play COD4 and the like and understand it's not a real shooter....its a charge frag fest, use weapons people hate and get the kills and smile knowing you got one.

Hell I marty'd 6 people once, should I not be using the skill? Hell no, they shouldn't be charging like tards!

But NEVER take it seriously...unless you make money being a progamer

 

[Avatar Roku]

Once upon a time, there was a guy who gamed for fun.

Then 6 months ago, he got XBOX Live and everything changed.

Suddenly, gaming was no longer something he did to relax, it became competitive. He spent hours and hours getting destroyed in Halo 3 and COD4 only to keep coming back, learning the games, learning about people's online behaviour and getting slowly but surely better.

There were so many frustrations in online gaming... host advantage, bad connections, lag, cheating, the knowledge that some people would always just have faster reflexes and better aim than him...

He put a lot of work into getting better, then realised he wasn't having fun anymore.

No game of MW2 was satisfying to him unless he got a huge KD ratio and frustration would set in when that was not achieved.

So he reinstalled Fallout 3 and went back to the Capital Wasteland.

As the relaxing, gorgeous vistas and soothing sonics of the Capital Wasteland washed over his eyes and ears, making his heart feel warm and at peace, he remembered the reason he enjoyed gaming in the first place, to escape form the harsh, competitive reality of life.

And so he decided to stop giving a shit about his KD ratio, realised what a twat he had been and repeated the mantra to himself: 'It's only a game'.

My question to you, fellow Escapists, is do any of you share this experience with me?

Have you ever just gone 'fuck it', and decided that competitive gaming was just too annoying to get bothered about anymore?

Or do you relish the grind, the frustration and sense of achievement after finally getting better than other people?

You see, you're problem is that your doing it wrong. Playing online doesn't have to equate to playing competitively, join me, Fishy, and Birras online sometime for a game of knives only and you'll see what I mean.

 

[ButanicXpandA]

Yes indeed I know the feeling, I can't play more than about 10 games of halo 3 a day because even if you kicked ass in the last game, you have to do it all again in the next anyway.

And getting killed during a lagspike is cheap and mega stressful.

 

[spm1138]

Heh. I assume anyone who has any natural skill at fps games has that phase.

TF2 is a great antidote for it.

 

[Katana314]

Even though I'm really good at my favorite games, Team Fortress 2 and Call of Duty 4, I agree with you. I've actually thought about what it might be like to make a multiplayer game that loses concepts such as a K ratio, or that if one person gets a kill, another person loses. I've actually wondered about what it would do to introduce NPC enemies in multiplayer environments.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Once upon a time, there was a guy who gamed for fun.

Then 6 months ago, he got XBOX Live and everything changed.

Suddenly, gaming was no longer something he did to relax, it became competitive. He spent hours and hours getting destroyed in Halo 3 and COD4 only to keep coming back, learning the games, learning about people's online behaviour and getting slowly but surely better.

There were so many frustrations in online gaming... host advantage, bad connections, lag, cheating, the knowledge that some people would always just have faster reflexes and better aim than him...

He put a lot of work into getting better, then realised he wasn't having fun anymore.

No game of MW2 was satisfying to him unless he got a huge KD ratio and frustration would set in when that was not achieved.

So he reinstalled Fallout 3 and went back to the Capital Wasteland.

As the relaxing, gorgeous vistas and soothing sonics of the Capital Wasteland washed over his eyes and ears, making his heart feel warm and at peace, he remembered the reason he enjoyed gaming in the first place, to escape form the harsh, competitive reality of life.

And so he decided to stop giving a shit about his KD ratio, realised what a twat he had been and repeated the mantra to himself: 'It's only a game'.

My question to you, fellow Escapists, is do any of you share this experience with me?

Have you ever just gone 'fuck it', and decided that competitive gaming was just too annoying to get bothered about anymore?

Or do you relish the grind, the frustration and sense of achievement after finally getting better than other people?

You see, you're problem is that your doing it wrong. Playing online doesn't have to equate to playing competitively, join me, Fishy, and Birras online sometime for a game of knives only and you'll see what I mean.

Sounds like the kind of thing me and my buddies like to do too... definately up for that! gamertag: miracleofsound

 

[MiracleOfSound]

On the one hand, they are stressful, but then I suppose so is every competition. Hell, it's no more frustrating than being a football supporter.

After the Ireland v France match the other night I would tend to agree with you there.

 

[Avatar Roku]

Once upon a time, there was a guy who gamed for fun.

Then 6 months ago, he got XBOX Live and everything changed.

Suddenly, gaming was no longer something he did to relax, it became competitive. He spent hours and hours getting destroyed in Halo 3 and COD4 only to keep coming back, learning the games, learning about people's online behaviour and getting slowly but surely better.

There were so many frustrations in online gaming... host advantage, bad connections, lag, cheating, the knowledge that some people would always just have faster reflexes and better aim than him...

He put a lot of work into getting better, then realised he wasn't having fun anymore.

No game of MW2 was satisfying to him unless he got a huge KD ratio and frustration would set in when that was not achieved.

So he reinstalled Fallout 3 and went back to the Capital Wasteland.

As the relaxing, gorgeous vistas and soothing sonics of the Capital Wasteland washed over his eyes and ears, making his heart feel warm and at peace, he remembered the reason he enjoyed gaming in the first place, to escape form the harsh, competitive reality of life.

And so he decided to stop giving a shit about his KD ratio, realised what a twat he had been and repeated the mantra to himself: 'It's only a game'.

My question to you, fellow Escapists, is do any of you share this experience with me?

Have you ever just gone 'fuck it', and decided that competitive gaming was just too annoying to get bothered about anymore?

Or do you relish the grind, the frustration and sense of achievement after finally getting better than other people?

You see, you're problem is that your doing it wrong. Playing online doesn't have to equate to playing competitively, join me, Fishy, and Birras online sometime for a game of knives only and you'll see what I mean.

Sounds like the kind of thing me and my buddies like to do too... definately up for that! gamertag: miracleofsound

I know. You're already on my friends list. We've played together before.

 

[Acaroid]

Once upon a time, there was a guy who gamed for fun.

Then 6 months ago, he got XBOX Live and everything changed.

Suddenly, gaming was no longer something he did to relax, it became competitive. He spent hours and hours getting destroyed in Halo 3 and COD4 only to keep coming back, learning the games, learning about people's online behaviour and getting slowly but surely better.

There were so many frustrations in online gaming... host advantage, bad connections, lag, cheating, the knowledge that some people would always just have faster reflexes and better aim than him...

He put a lot of work into getting better, then realised he wasn't having fun anymore.

No game of MW2 was satisfying to him unless he got a huge KD ratio and frustration would set in when that was not achieved.

So he reinstalled Fallout 3 and went back to the Capital Wasteland.

As the relaxing, gorgeous vistas and soothing sonics of the Capital Wasteland washed over his eyes and ears, making his heart feel warm and at peace, he remembered the reason he enjoyed gaming in the first place, to escape form the harsh, competitive reality of life.

And so he decided to stop giving a shit about his KD ratio, realised what a twat he had been and repeated the mantra to himself: 'It's only a game'.

My question to you, fellow Escapists, is do any of you share this experience with me?

Have you ever just gone 'fuck it', and decided that competitive gaming was just too annoying to get bothered about anymore?

Or do you relish the grind, the frustration and sense of achievement after finally getting better than other people?

Oh wow I play FPS in clans etc and I dont get the frustrated....at all, i enjoy playing, yeah somedays I suck and might swear at the rego in CSS, but you know at the end of the day it is just a game and who really cares XD

 

[Mr.Black]

I play MW2 competitively, not to the point where I'm in some crazy clan full of nutjobs and we do clan wars or whatever. I play because it's fun, and I want to be good. FPS is about the only genre I get serious about when playing (well, RTS to a point as well).

 

[PharunBanere]

Yeah. I totally understand where you are coming from. I remember when XBOX first got live, and I had Halo 2. At first I played it for fun, with friends. But, as time went on, I noticed that I was becoming more and more obsessive with it, almost having some psychological need to beat the snot out of anyone I played against. Then the 360 came out, and I didn't have the money to buy one, and that indirectly cured me. But, now I have a PS3, and MewTwo, and It'll probably happen again.

 

[CerealKiller]

Everytime a thread like this starts it seems that the problem isn't in the genre of the game itself but in the people.It's just happens that some people doesn't like playing against others,they instantly take it seriously when the opponent is human (and not someone they know) instead of a bot.

I say just forget about those games,play singleplayer,play platform games,adventures.

It's quite unfair saying that it's the game's fault somehow.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Once upon a time, there was a guy who gamed for fun.

Then 6 months ago, he got XBOX Live and everything changed.

Suddenly, gaming was no longer something he did to relax, it became competitive. He spent hours and hours getting destroyed in Halo 3 and COD4 only to keep coming back, learning the games, learning about people's online behaviour and getting slowly but surely better.

There were so many frustrations in online gaming... host advantage, bad connections, lag, cheating, the knowledge that some people would always just have faster reflexes and better aim than him...

He put a lot of work into getting better, then realised he wasn't having fun anymore.

No game of MW2 was satisfying to him unless he got a huge KD ratio and frustration would set in when that was not achieved.

So he reinstalled Fallout 3 and went back to the Capital Wasteland.

As the relaxing, gorgeous vistas and soothing sonics of the Capital Wasteland washed over his eyes and ears, making his heart feel warm and at peace, he remembered the reason he enjoyed gaming in the first place, to escape form the harsh, competitive reality of life.

And so he decided to stop giving a shit about his KD ratio, realised what a twat he had been and repeated the mantra to himself: 'It's only a game'.

My question to you, fellow Escapists, is do any of you share this experience with me?

Have you ever just gone 'fuck it', and decided that competitive gaming was just too annoying to get bothered about anymore?

Or do you relish the grind, the frustration and sense of achievement after finally getting better than other people?

You see, you're problem is that your doing it wrong. Playing online doesn't have to equate to playing competitively, join me, Fishy, and Birras online sometime for a game of knives only and you'll see what I mean.

Sounds like the kind of thing me and my buddies like to do too... definately up for that! gamertag: miracleofsound

I know. You're already on my friends list. We've played together before.

'blush'

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I was thinking today how it would be nice to have a 'fun' gamemode in COD.

In this lobby you could play against other people but just for fun, without keeping track of all your stats.

It would be handy for when none of your buddies were online for a private game or when you were just having a bad night and screwing up your ratios.

 

[Hexenwolf]

I'm competitive, but relaxed about it. Basically, I always strive to be the best, to have a huge Kill/Death ratio, etc, but when I don't get them, I don't get mad.

 

[TheWerewolf]

I only play to have fun... So the only online shooter I play is tf2, which, if it odes cause too much frustration, i jus t quit and go play something else.