"That guy" in online games

[Trinket to Ride]

I play a lot of TF2. Too much in fact. Generally, I have a good time, and people are pleasent, but there's always "That guy" who brings down the mood of the whole server.

You know him. He's the guy loaded up with cosmetics. 99-100% of the time, they'll be lime green or hot pink. They'll have an unusual, and a strange professional killstreak festive weapon with at least five strange parts. They'll spend a third of their time stomping the enemy team, a third bragging about it, and a third just standing at/near spawn so you can admire their beautiful beautiful loadout. And you can bet they'll have lenny face and "[_] Not REKT [x] REKT" as binds, and you'll see them flood the chat box.

"That guy" is obnoxious. "That guy" irritates me. "That guy" needs to get over himself.

As forum sensation Dirty Hipsters put it:

Being "that guy" isn't about winning, or being super competitive and optimizing everything, it's about being a dickhead.

Who's "that guy" in your game of choice?

 

[Inglorious891]

I've seen "that guy" a few times before. Luckily I mainly run into scrubs, but it happens once every 5 games or so.

Usually he has all of his guns named after 4chan memes (usually /pol/ memes) and spouts the shit every time he gets a kill. And yeah, it's usually LOL GET REKT stuff.

Most distressingly they're almost always Demomen. And they only use the sticky launcher. And the usually they have a pocket medic.

Before you ask, "What's wrong with Demoman?", this is what's wrong with Demoman, among other things of course.

Spoiler

 

[Neverhoodian]

Actually, you pretty much described "that guy" for me as well (fellow TF2 regular here). Add "stacking teams in their favor" along with "porn/goatse sprays" and you've got the asshole cherry to top off the shit sundae.

Whenever I run across "that guy," I do one of two things:

1. Leave the server and find a different one. This is the option I go with more often. It's usually not worth the aggravation to stick around.

2. Try to take him down a peg. At the risk of sounding boastful, I fancy myself a good TF2 player. Certainly not MLG material, but good enough to score at or near the top of most pub matches. If I feel I'm more skilled than "that guy," I'll make it my goal to hunt him down. He immediately becomes Public Enemy #1 for me, and I do my utmost to gun him down at every turn. I don't stoop to his level and taunt him back or anything, I just quietly shut him down. Players like that tend not to take dying repeatedly well, and there have been times where they end up rage quitting because of me. It's rare, but supremely satisfying.

EDIT because it takes me way too damn long to compose a forum message:

Most distressingly they're almost always Demomen. And they only use the sticky launcher. And the usually they have a pocket medic.

Before you ask, "What's wrong with Demoman?", this is what's wrong with Demoman, among other things of course.

Spoiler

Oh Lawd, I busted a gut at that diagram. So true. It's why I roll Demoknight instead of proper Demoman when I pick the class (that and I suck at using stickies).

 

[default]

Well, 'that guy' in Dark Souls is almost definitely a Havel mage with Pursuers or an ultra poised-up Darkmoon Falchion spammer.

I don't mind people playing whatever (as long as they don't heal in a duel), but at least be polite. These guys will always use their bullshit damaging attacks and kill you off in a few hits if you don't know how to deal with it. Now that's fine, builds are builds and people can play what they want, but when they're enough of a fuckhead to then do the facepalm emote or point down at you dying on the ground then we're going to have a problem.

They obviously don't care about the quality of my playtime, so why should I care about theirs? If I end up facing them again I run to a safe place and leave or just jump straight off a cliff, because I don't want to play with people like that and neither does anyone else.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

I don't play team based multiplayer games but I am competitive in 2D fighting games. (Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth, those kinds of games)


That guy is...well...I'm that guy. Or rather, I go to local tourneys where all the "that guy" from the entire city gather to fight and I'm "that guy" among a group of "that guys" when it comes to my main fighting game which I take most seriously. (blazblue)


I just play a lot and like to win and take the games I play super duper seriously since I can't have fun in any other way besides being super duper serious/optimal in everything I do. I'm just competitive, I'm not a dick about it but I won't hold back and take it easy either.


I feel the definition of "that guy" differs in online games. Team based games, games where it's not 1v1 and people can make excuses, etc. so my definition I guess is more of a 2D fighter one. "That guy" in 2D fighters is just the one who beats everyone super bad. The "no fun allowed for weaker than me people" guy.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I don't play team based multiplayer games but I am competitive in 2D fighting games. (Blazblue, Guilty Gear, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth, those kinds of games)


That guy is...well...I'm that guy. Or rather, I go to local tourneys where all the "that guy" from the entire city gather to fight and I'm "that guy" among a group of "that guys" when it comes to my main fighting game which I take most seriously. (blazblue)


I just play a lot and like to win and take the games I play super duper seriously since I can't have fun in any other way besides being super duper serious/optimal in everything I do. I'm just competitive, I'm not a dick about it but I won't hold back and take it easy either.


I feel the definition of "that guy" differs in online games. Team based games, games where it's not 1v1 and people can make excuses, etc. so my definition I guess is more of a 2D fighter one. "That guy" in 2D fighters is just the one who beats everyone super bad. The "no fun allowed for weaker than me people" guy.

Nah, that guy in fighting games is the guy who does nothing but sit in a corner and projectile spams for as long as possible. Who the hell can find that fun?!

Being "that guy" isn't about winning, or being super competitive and optimizing everything, it's about being a dickhead.

 

[MHR]

Yeah that guy's a douchefag, but the trick is figuring out what you do to take him down a peg.

I met that guy on a rd_asteroid beta server a few months back. Some kind of unusual orbiting symbol hat on a soldier that was there to stomp all the Valve server noobs, and he got a couple ridiculously sick kills on me with a market gardner. Ran away with his back turned towards me while I chased him with flamethrower but then in the blink of an eye he deftly rocket-jumped himself around behind me and cracked me in the back of my head with a crit gardner. I got pretty boiled about that. A second time he did this. He faked me out by going off a ledge while I pursued him, but just launched himself back up and as soon as I looked over the ledge, he was flying at me with a shovel and I got swatted sideways before I could airblast in time. I'm pretty sure he was dominating me.

But then after that I somehow managed to step up my pyro game to a godlike level, every reflect to the face, perfect ambushes, and combined with a bit of time as soldier, I managed to dominate him and kill him again like 7 more times, killcam taunting at every opportunity. The whole time i'm telling my team "this poor guy, he must be sooooo mad that I'm grinding him into the cement this badly," and sure enough, after he finally got his revenge kill on me while playing tryhard scout, he taunted back and said "FUCK YOU ASSHOLE" and ragequit soon after. People on my team were like "wow, you called it!"

 

[moggett88]

That guy for me is the helpful billionaire in EVE online. Constantly in the chat of the new player corporation, he will give everyone the benefit of his experience...whether they want it or not.

He will shout down dissenting opinions, and if you don't follow his advice straight away 'you don't care about the game' and 'may as well not play'.

Eventually, to show there's no hard feelings, he'll give you a gift of more money than you can earn in a week of play, this trivialising all your progress so far.

I hate that guy.

 

[Charli]

Anyone who has ever played an mmo in a guild or clan knows THAT guy. Spam macros, for some reason in full end game PvP or pve gear. Talking obnoxiously about sexual themed jokes out one side of their mouth and how shit hot his know how of the game is out the other.

Yep just if you play online at all you definitely know that guy. Or his sister, that girl.

 

[Trinket to Ride]

Being "that guy" isn't about winning, or being super competitive and optimizing everything, it's about being a dickhead.

Well put. So well put, it's going in the original post.

2. Try to take him down a peg. At the risk of sounding boastful, I fancy myself a good TF2 player. Certainly not MLG material, but good enough to score at or near the top of most pub matches. If I feel I'm more skilled than "that guy," I'll make it my goal to hunt him down. He immediately becomes Public Enemy #1 for me, and I do my utmost to gun him down at every turn. I don't stoop to his level and taunt him back or anything, I just quietly shut him down. Players like that tend not to take dying repeatedly well, and there have been times where they end up rage quitting because of me. It's rare, but supremely satisfying.

I often fantasize about that, but rarely am I ballsy enough to try it. Doing it well can reign in their ego a bit, but if it backfires you can make it even worse. I'm not quite at that confidence level yet.

 

[Artaneius]

You would of hated playing Quake and Unreal Tournament then. If you didn't dedicate your life to the game and get good you lost by a shit ton each game as deserved. The whole point of getting good is to be better than others and pwn them. The good thing is that there was no other games that were online at the time, so casuals and noobs had no choice but to die forever.

 

[AnthrSolidSnake]

That's typically when I temporarily dedicate my time to doing nothing but killing him so much that he starts spamming meaningless, half-thought insults until he eventually leaves to go masturbate to make himself feel better or something.

I've been playing almost nothing but Titanfall as far as online games go, and that game seems to be pretty full of those who win a match or two with a high kill score, and do nothing but brag about it for 15 minutes straight, until someone better than him (and usually a bit more humble about it) comes along and stops all over "that guy's" team. It more often than not ends up being hilarious to see "that guy" whine before he disconnects.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I was a competitive Quake 2 player back in the day. I optimized the shit out of my UI using the console (without resorting to wall/waterhack cheats and no aimbots either). I was damn good and almost, ALMOST 'that guy'. Custom avatar (Dark Trooper from Star Wars Dark Forces), damn near perfect railgun shots, rocket placement, and a murderous beast with a chaingun in close quarters. I had a laser gaming mouse (one of the first) with multiple buttons (yea I know its standard today but back then it was new and rare). so many funky keybinds including a customized zoom.
I ruled Quake 2 and had a bit of an ego about it. In massive DM tournaments I averaged top 3, mostly 1st or 2nd. One on One I was deadly up until a few guys came into my local tournament. And they put me in my place. One millisecond ahead of me every step of the way, I was blown away how good these damn people were. And it humbled me, made me remember that no matter how good you are, there is at least one person better than you.

 

[Mister K]

Well, I don't know if my example fits, but still:
In MOBAs this guy picks carry character (i.e. character designed to literally stomp over enemy teams in late game, but is very, VERY weak in the beginning) when team doesn't need one already. This guy demands that everyone would let him solo (to get all the exp). This guy dies every 2 minutes and calls everyone a f****ot and a noob for not helping him when he demanded to play solo.

Screw this guy.

 

[happyninja42]

I remember a particular "that guy" in TF 2 as well. He was this obnoxious kid, who liked to talk himself up. The funny thing was, in one match, he kept begging the flag carrier to let him take it. We were stomping the other team, so it wasn't a really big deal, as we had dominance of the entire map basically. But he kept whining and begging and begging to let him cap. So they did, even though he was never the guy to actually grab the flag IIRC. But he was trying to get the achievement for capping all 3 flags in a match. And at the end, he had the nerve to be all braggy in the chat "Yeah punks, you've got ME to thank for that victory. I'M the one who won this! Yeah!" And I'm just rolling my eyes, considering how badly he had to beg better players to let him do it.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I've seen "that guy" a few times before. Luckily I mainly run into scrubs, but it happens once every 5 games or so.

Usually he has all of his guns named after 4chan memes (usually /pol/ memes) and spouts the shit every time he gets a kill. And yeah, it's usually LOL GET REKT stuff.

Most distressingly they're almost always Demomen. And they only use the sticky launcher. And the usually they have a pocket medic.

Before you ask, "What's wrong with Demoman?", this is what's wrong with Demoman, among other things of course.

Spoiler

Ok, I haven't played TF2 since it went free to play (massively butthurt about paying money for it). and I always mained Demo/Scout because they were the funniest to me.

And more to the point, Demo is black. That is relevant to my interests.

The sticky launcher was always shit in my mind (don't know if it changed in the years), and I always used the regular 'nade launcher.

your image shows me that people dislike him, but not saying why. I'm sorry, but I do have to ask why does he breed such contempt.

 

[Headsprouter]

I also play a lot of TF2. "That guy" is anyone who says "thanks" after every kill. Not actually typing it in chat, but that would be new level of obnoxious, I'm talking having a keybind to the character voice command, or simply hitting 1->2 or whatever the number combination might be.

I fugging want to strangle those people. How up your own arse can you possibly be?

Most distressingly they're almost always Demomen. And they only use the sticky launcher. And the usually they have a pocket medic.

Yup. The only respectable sticky launcher-wielding demoman is one with the Resistance, because the Resistance can't spam effectively.

 

[giles]

Ok, I haven't played TF2 since it went free to play (massively butthurt about paying money for it). and I always mained Demo/Scout because they were the funniest to me.

And more to the point, Demo is black. That is relevant to my interests.

The sticky launcher was always shit in my mind (don't know if it changed in the years), and I always used the regular 'nade launcher.

your image shows me that people dislike him, but not saying why. I'm sorry, but I do have to ask why does he breed such contempt.

Has been ridiculously overpowered since forever (only very recently nerfed). He has always dealt twice the damage of other classes for no good reason. The sticky launcher is literally the best primary weapon in the game bar none and he gets it basically on top of another good one, while other classes get a shitty secondary.
The only way the community managed to "balance" him is via class limits and map selection. His design, just like the Sniper, is fundamentally broken because he is not subject to the core damage fall-off mechanic that defines combat for other classes. Competitive TF2 has always revolved around protecting and playing off your Demoman. He defines the game.
Source: I have played competitive TF2 for 2 years.

 

[rosac]

I mained scout, demo and pyro, and as all three, demo only annoyed me with spam blind fire (I used the loch and load most of the time, 2 pipes to destroy a sentry is unreal), especially as a scout.

That said, it was so worth it when crit a cola got pimped up, I could dodge everything, blast him twice with my scattergun then run away

OT: I was that guy once. Basically I got mowed down by a heavy a few times, switched to pyro, axtinguished him 3 times, taunted after the 1st and 2nd (the third I axtinguished him whilst he was jumping for the water in 2fort, he was aaaangry about that)

 

[Catrixa]

I play a lot of Magic: the Gathering, so That Guy is usually the dude with an Ok-to-decent home brew who thinks his deck is The. Best. and drags it to a tournament to display his awesomeness for everyone to see. If he beats someone just starting out/has a cruddy deck, he'll be sure to inform them that their card choices sucked and show them all of his, so they can be properly put in their place. If he beats someone with a tier deck (one someone took a high level tournament with, or one that has been performing well), it's because his deck is either super amazing (and he doesn't actually know the tier deck is a high-performing deck) or because his deck is actually better than all the decks the professionals play (if only he had the time from all the sex he's constantly having to go beat a pro tour!). Of course, if he gets beaten by a tier deck, it's either "You just copied that thing from the internet. You have no creativity. At least I have some ability to play this game without having to look it up!" or "Well, no wonder you won, your deck has at least a billion rares in it! God, this game is so play-to-win!" Of course, these things really only make him That Guy if he tells his opponents these things in a tournament setting. Bringing your extremely competitive deck to an extremely casual setting kinda makes you That Guy, too (once is fine, but being as competitive as your surroundings is important outside of sanctioned tournament events).

I also play a lot of WoW. That Guy is the tank/healer/DPS who has to "teach" everyone else by letting them die/pulling mobs for them in dungeons (leading to them probably dying). If the party wipes a few times because of this, That Guy won't actually leave, but he'll berate everyone else into either leaving or, rarely, voting to kick him (people take a surprising amount of verbal abuse before voting to kick someone, I've noticed). His excuse as to why he doesn't need to stop? He's the top DPS. It doesn't matter what his role ought be, he needs to stay to "teach," because he's top DPS.