Topical Tuesday: Rage

[Ironic Pirate]

Why is the Escapist so insistent on things that make us angry? "What do you hate the most?" "What sets you into a rage?" Why not be happy? Talk about things you love and things that make you happy and forget abut bad things.

Things that make me angry? People who linger on little things that piss them off instead of focusing on all the good stuff.

It's just the most recent topic. Next week it'll be "Games and Waffles, a history of Violence" or something.


I hate, hate hate, fucking DESPISE non-regenerating health in games. People say "Oh, it'll encourage exploration...". No it fucking won't, it'll encourage me screaming and leaving the game me backtracking for five minutes, past all the bodies that already faded (denying me even the satisfaction of observing my handiwork) in search of a health pack I may or may not have seen five minutes ago. Turns out, the game doesn't let me go back that far anyway, and I have to spend another five minutes getting back to where the fun is. Where I'm promptly killed by a stiff breeze. Fuck.

 

[Devil's Due]

I rage in multiplayer games that become too competitive such as StarCraft 2 and MW2 where people seem to try to hone their skills for weeks on end to get the "perfect" attack that no one can counter because they feel it's their destiny to be the top player for such games, plus the millions that try to follow them.

I like having fun in games and multiplayer games where I can kill still and relax. Sure, losing sucks and I'll get pissed after many loses in a row, but most games I don't mind such as Gears and BioShock. It's the games where people take it WAY too seriously. I don't think I need to quote any stats about how people take StarCraft series seriously, unless you want all the links to StarCraft tournaments, deaths from playing the game for too many hours straight, etc.

 

[andy_wolfe]

one thing that has really gotten under my skin lately, is the control schemes for modern RPGs. i seem to recall it started (for me) with sacred 2 fallen angel. console action RPGs where you click on an enemy and sit back and watch the fight. dragon age did it as well, ruined the game for me. what happened to press button: slash with sword, press other button: block. now it's watch people fight on screen and heal them occasionally. WTF man!?
it tends to muck up the immersion, you're not playing the character as much as just leading them to their next big fight scene where you get to have another action packed adventure in sitting and watching.
i think it comes from WoW where it makes sense to have a control scheme of that sort, on the pc you have a whole bunch of buttons for quick tabs 'n'at. and a mouse for clicking a thousand things on screen in rapid succession. but i really doesn't work as well on consoles where your button options are limited.

 

[Erana]

Whenever someone makes a comment that can be responded to as, "That's your opinion. Opinions can't "true" by their very nature." Or, "Just because you said, 'In my opinion,' doesn't mean you aren't just being an asshole and you shouldn't have said that in the first place." Or how about, "If you don't know what you're talking about, then for heaven's sake, don't talk about it. That's just plain slander!"

I also hate it when people repeat things that everyone on this site has heard over and over and over multiple times in an individual thread when the OP asks specifically for one to not post it.
Like, say, the anti-mac sentiment. I don't need to type it out. You've read it, heard it, and possibly said it at least thirty times.

And on the other hand, there's Henry, the bunny that lives in my back yard. I'm going to go say "Hi" to him and be happy now.