It's pointless and a one way ticket to get you kicked from your server or teamkilled repeatedly. Pass, being an asshole was never entertaining to begin with.
Poll: Trolls: Lulz or FUUUU-
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This. There's something really funny about reading / hearing people WTF-ing about a door being welded shut and then being pissed when they're mauled by mutants. Especially hearing it.BottleOfAwesome said:
If I'm trolling in games, it's never to do with the actual gameplay. I troll occasionally but just vocally.
It really depends on the circumstances. Normally, I don't even consider trolling. However,if someone, or multiple people, in a forum are being total dicks about a topic, I just go for broke. Case in point: a recent topic came up on youtube about Ryan Dunn's death.
So, I congratulated him on his Darwin Award. The next thing I knew, some guy had threated to force me to watch as he burned my family alive. The same guy was also using rather poor grammar in incinuating that he thought I was a homosexual, but that's to be expected of the internet. At that point, I just decided to have fun at this guy's expense. By the time I was through, I had the guy admitting that he could understand why I thought that HE was gay.
Trolling isn't a card I play very often, but I'm certainly good at it, if provoked.
So, I congratulated him on his Darwin Award. The next thing I knew, some guy had threated to force me to watch as he burned my family alive. The same guy was also using rather poor grammar in incinuating that he thought I was a homosexual, but that's to be expected of the internet. At that point, I just decided to have fun at this guy's expense. By the time I was through, I had the guy admitting that he could understand why I thought that HE was gay.
Trolling isn't a card I play very often, but I'm certainly good at it, if provoked.
Trolling games is called griefing and no I don't. In fact, I avoid those who do. If you've abandoned the point of the game in order to instead try and ruin the fun of others then obviously you need a new hobby.
Since a lot of the people I play with have no idea what fun is and think that "video games are serious shit, dawg" I do NOT hesitate to troll if I feel like it. Micspam is fun too, I once looped the intro to "Spirit of Radio" for 45 minutes before getting banned in TF2.
What if you're playing a game like MW2 where the point of the game is ruining the fun of others?Twilight_guy said:
Micspamming isn't a very serious troll as it's can easily be muted if it's bad or enjoyed if it's music I enjoy or is hilarious.
The only time I think I've ever trolled in game is when I was really mad. IRL mad. Vikings fan during the 2009 NFC Championship mad. Joined a few games of hardcore CoD and blew up my team up on spawn in a few games... felt good. Then felt like a dick.
But I've never trolled a game that I've really cared about the real community like Halo or TF2.
The only time I think I've ever trolled in game is when I was really mad. IRL mad. Vikings fan during the 2009 NFC Championship mad. Joined a few games of hardcore CoD and blew up my team up on spawn in a few games... felt good. Then felt like a dick.
But I've never trolled a game that I've really cared about the real community like Halo or TF2.
My friends and I used to go on the MLG playlist on Halo, and when we got paired up with a clan we would suck horribly and lose the game, then accuse the other team of some sort of hacks/lag/whatever and challenge them to a rematch.
We had a custom map and gametype called "MLG Slayer" and "MLG Guardian 7.0" which basically started you off facing an edge one step from falling and gave you -10 points for killing yourself. Since in MLG you usually start holding forward to get your guy moving ASAP to get to the power weapons, we usually started with a 40 point lead. There were weapons hidden all around the map, and everyone had plasma pistols and no grenades on spawn, so if you didnt know where they were, you were screwed. I'm pretty sure we made betrayals give you 10 points as well so we could quickly win the game at any point.
We pissed off a lot of MLG tryhards.
We had a custom map and gametype called "MLG Slayer" and "MLG Guardian 7.0" which basically started you off facing an edge one step from falling and gave you -10 points for killing yourself. Since in MLG you usually start holding forward to get your guy moving ASAP to get to the power weapons, we usually started with a 40 point lead. There were weapons hidden all around the map, and everyone had plasma pistols and no grenades on spawn, so if you didnt know where they were, you were screwed. I'm pretty sure we made betrayals give you 10 points as well so we could quickly win the game at any point.
We pissed off a lot of MLG tryhards.
My favourite trolling line i used daily in WoW. is now recruiting, we are a christian only guild. We do not accept DK's Warlocks, Shamans, Rogues, Minorities or shadow Priests. PST for more information. Facebook check required to verify race/religion.
I thought the point of the game was to score more points and win against the other team. That's play within the structure of the game. Your goal is to win and you work towards that goal. When you start blowing up your own team in order to ruin their game and thus ruin their fun for your own pleasure entirely outside the game rules then you're griefing.Kahunaburger said:
Look up the Escapist issue on greifing sometime, it has some interesting stories.