Well, that happened.

[Melon Hunter]

Playing Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. I was on the mission to capture the Ace of Hearts, and for the first time ever, I got to the end of the mission without getting killed (and this included segments where you have to run down a catwalk with six soldiers firing RPGs at you). The Ace nearly escaped on his helicopter, but I managed to whack him over the back of the head and handcuff him for capture, and shoot down his helicopter before it can kill me or him (which would have cut my bounty in half). Congratulating myself on this achievement, I called in my extraction chopper, which promptly flew in.

And clipped the side of the tower I was standing on, with the Ace over my shoulders.

And spun around.

And catapulted me into the water around the tower, where I drowned.

What.

You, sir or madame, have just surpassed my anecdotes in both pure awesome factor and pure what factor. I think you've won.

On a side note, are the Mercenaries games any good? I was thinking of looking into them because they sounded awesome. Word of mouth might speed that up that process.

Heh, thanks for that. And yes, the Mercenaries games are good. Mercs 2 is buggy as hell (although they're gaffes like collectible items respawning, rather than game-breakers) but if you can look past that, then they're both great fun. The original Mercs has a bit of a more serious feel to it (invasion of North Korea and all that palava), and had some seriously good destruction physics for the time when it was released in 2005. Also, the missions are quite nice and varied, and every member of the Deck of 52 has a unique thrill to capturing them.

Mercs 2 is dumb fun, but still great. Your compatriots include a drunk Russian fighter pilot and a helicopter pilot with the most ridiculous Irish accent I've ever heard, and the factions include Jamaican pirates and a Venezuelan rebel faction that put the Reapers from Just Cause 2 to shame. Seriously, if you want a tongue-in-cheek sandbox, look no further than Mercs 2. It's cheaper than Saint's Row The Third, anyhow.

Cool, I'll look into them. Should I start with 1 and go to 2? Also, which one is one or two based on subtitle (I.E. Playground of Destruction)? Do they have shotguns? And, if so, do they have accuracy while firing shot equatable to a short, rifled barrel with no muzzle choke? Is it first or third person? They're on the PC, right? Not trying to bog you down with questions. I had to add more so it isn't low-content, and then figured "While I'm asking...".

*cracks knuckles* Right... I think 1 had the setting down a bit better with an actual Deck of 52, and its an actual warzone, so the military setting feels a bit more believable.

-'Playground of Destruction' is the first game.

-Yes, there is a shotgun, but the weapons are very generic, like 'Assault Rifle' (like Deus Ex: Human Revolution), so don't expect CoD levels of weapon variety.

-Acuuracy, I have no idea. Again, these are generic, non-specific weapons, so no, I doubt shotgun accuracy is more well defined than 'lethal at 10 feet or less'

-The view is third person.

-They're probably on PC, but I don't know for sure. I played PoD on PS2, and Mercs 2 on Xbox 360.

 

[Ramare]

Playing Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. I was on the mission to capture the Ace of Hearts, and for the first time ever, I got to the end of the mission without getting killed (and this included segments where you have to run down a catwalk with six soldiers firing RPGs at you). The Ace nearly escaped on his helicopter, but I managed to whack him over the back of the head and handcuff him for capture, and shoot down his helicopter before it can kill me or him (which would have cut my bounty in half). Congratulating myself on this achievement, I called in my extraction chopper, which promptly flew in.

And clipped the side of the tower I was standing on, with the Ace over my shoulders.

And spun around.

And catapulted me into the water around the tower, where I drowned.

What.

You, sir or madame, have just surpassed my anecdotes in both pure awesome factor and pure what factor. I think you've won.

On a side note, are the Mercenaries games any good? I was thinking of looking into them because they sounded awesome. Word of mouth might speed that up that process.

Heh, thanks for that. And yes, the Mercenaries games are good. Mercs 2 is buggy as hell (although they're gaffes like collectible items respawning, rather than game-breakers) but if you can look past that, then they're both great fun. The original Mercs has a bit of a more serious feel to it (invasion of North Korea and all that palava), and had some seriously good destruction physics for the time when it was released in 2005. Also, the missions are quite nice and varied, and every member of the Deck of 52 has a unique thrill to capturing them.

Mercs 2 is dumb fun, but still great. Your compatriots include a drunk Russian fighter pilot and a helicopter pilot with the most ridiculous Irish accent I've ever heard, and the factions include Jamaican pirates and a Venezuelan rebel faction that put the Reapers from Just Cause 2 to shame. Seriously, if you want a tongue-in-cheek sandbox, look no further than Mercs 2. It's cheaper than Saint's Row The Third, anyhow.

Cool, I'll look into them. Should I start with 1 and go to 2? Also, which one is one or two based on subtitle (I.E. Playground of Destruction)? Do they have shotguns? And, if so, do they have accuracy while firing shot equatable to a short, rifled barrel with no muzzle choke? Is it first or third person? They're on the PC, right? Not trying to bog you down with questions. I had to add more so it isn't low-content, and then figured "While I'm asking...".

*cracks knuckles* Right... I think 1 had the setting down a bit better with an actual Deck of 52, and its an actual warzone, so the military setting feels a bit more believable.

-'Playground of Destruction' is the first game.

-Yes, there is a shotgun, but the weapons are very generic, like 'Assault Rifle' (like Deus Ex: Human Revolution), so don't expect CoD levels of weapon variety.

-Acuuracy, I have no idea. Again, these are generic, non-specific weapons, so no, I doubt shotgun accuracy is more well defined than 'lethal at 10 feet or less'

-The view is third person.

-They're probably on PC, but I don't know for sure. I played PoD on PS2, and Mercs 2 on Xbox 360.

Well, shit. Good info. Although it turns out that the one I want more (Mercs 1) is PS2/Xbox 1. DAMN YOU (not you specifically, just venting frustration)! I don't even have a PS2! I have a PS3, but that's one of the newer ones without PS2 backwards compatibility... Also, I don't have any sort of Xbox. Again: well, shit. At least 2 has a PC release; so I'll go for it for that since I'm not much of a consoles guy anyhow. Thanks, guy/gal!

 

[Hero in a half shell]

I was teabagged for the first time ever recently on Battlefield Play4Free. I had managed to avoid it so far despite about 20-30 hours in COD MW+MW2 multiplayer and probably 50+ in BFP4F, so it was a bit of a shock,
(I've also had countless hours LANing Halo, and Medal of Honor, but no one sane teabags in a LAN match.)

Also I remember getting into a French server in BFP4F, and right at the beginning manning an AntiAir defence, which is good for racking up your score. Another player on my team came up to the defence, and purposfully stood in front of me, blocking my view so I would let him have the guns, shooting at me to make me get off (friendly fire was off, so he couldn't do anything else.) He stood there for literally over a minute, circling the AA as I turned to keep blocking my view because he wanted on it.
The best bit was the AA designates targets and locking on automatically, and his character model didn't hinder this process, so I was able to shoot away despite his dickishness.


Also this:
Modern Warfare 3 hackers on the first day. Some people are actually speculating that the hacks are ones from MW2 that still work because the game code is so similar. Now that's pause for thought.

 

[Ramare]

I was teabagged for the first time ever recently on Battlefield Play4Free. I had managed to avoid it so far despite about 20-30 hours in COD MW+MW2 multiplayer and probably 50+ in BFP4F, so it was a bit of a shock,
(I've also had countless hours LANing Halo, and Medal of Honor, but no one sane teabags in a LAN match.)

Also I remember getting into a French server in BFP4F, and right at the beginning manning an AntiAir defence, which is good for racking up your score. Another player on my team came up to the defence, and purposfully stood in front of me, blocking my view so I would let him have the guns, shooting at me to make me get off (friendly fire was off, so he couldn't do anything else.) He stood there for literally over a minute, circling the AA as I turned to keep blocking my view because he wanted on it.
The best bit was the AA designates targets and locking on automatically, and his character model didn't hinder this process, so I was able to shoot away despite his dickishness.


Also this:
Modern Warfare 3 hackers on the first day. Some people are actually speculating that the hacks are ones from MW2 that still work because the game code is so similar. Now that's pause for thought.

*comes back next day, sees one new post* Why is it that whenever I make a post, I get 100- views, and 30- posts, whereas repeat thread X gets 3,000+ views and 200+ posts? It's not like I need attention; it's just the fact that people are complaining about no one posting anything original.

Things that are original get less views and posts than the latest (Your Avatar something something), even if you only count posts and views just calling them out on it, and saying that they wish there was something that's actually new.

That's pause for thought, eh?

On the topic of your post: Yeah. Guess what? I played everything from CS:S, to free games like Combat Arms, Cross Fire, and Parabellum, to Call of Duty games from MW1 up (Wow.), to Halo 1 (Wow!), to Battlefield games from Battlefield 2 up, online, in random games, and managed to avoid my first teabagging for over 300 hours of total playtime. Here's the kicker: it's still unbelievably rare. I come across more disgruntled dudes that are also in a hurry swerving to run over my corpse, and people shooting my body (Neither of which happen very often...) than I do teabagging. Also, all of these are on the PC. Not sure if that explains it or makes a colossal "Wait, really?"...

 

[StBishop]

All I got from this thread is you took a game waaaay too seriously and didn't leave the server fast enough.

It is not like I was in blind rage when I left. I think more people need to take games seriously, within bounds. Especially within bounds that don't extend to real life...

I didn't change my expression (Flat, stone-faced non-expression), as I pressed escape, exited the game, turned off my monitor, walked into the living room in pitch blackness, and sat down on the couch. Did I mention that I also had steady normal breathing, didn't blink, and was also speechless?"

Blind rage or not that was a real over-reaction.

I enjoy games a lot but I only get annoyed or frustrated when it's something I can beat like "Doing things the hard way" on VVVVVV but I just stop playing and come back another day, I don't turn robot and bond with my couch.

I kept falling off of while climbing the inside of a church in Assassin's Creed 2. It was so annoying. It's not like I'm even bad at the game, it was just a combination of pressing slightly the wrong angle on the joy stick making me fall and having to start over, each time getting progressively less patient and more annoyed. In the end I swore so loudly my girlfriend almost had a heart attack and I turned it off and walked away.

People can say "it's a game" all they like, but so is football. There's riots over football.

 

[Ramare]

All I got from this thread is you took a game waaaay too seriously and didn't leave the server fast enough.

It is not like I was in blind rage when I left. I think more people need to take games seriously, within bounds. Especially within bounds that don't extend to real life...

I didn't change my expression (Flat, stone-faced non-expression), as I pressed escape, exited the game, turned off my monitor, walked into the living room in pitch blackness, and sat down on the couch. Did I mention that I also had steady normal breathing, didn't blink, and was also speechless?"

Blind rage or not that was a real over-reaction.

I enjoy games a lot but I only get annoyed or frustrated when it's something I can beat like "Doing things the hard way" on VVVVVV but I just stop playing and come back another day, I don't turn robot and bond with my couch.

I kept falling off of while climbing the inside of a church in Assassin's Creed 2. It was so annoying. It's not like I'm even bad at the game, it was just a combination of pressing slightly the wrong angle on the joy stick making me fall and having to start over, each time getting progressively less patient and more annoyed. In the end I swore so loudly my girlfriend almost had a heart attack and I turned it off and walked away.

People can say "it's a game" all they like, but so is football. There's riots over football.

YES, EXACTLY! You know how it is. Especially when you add in:

Also, on the topic of "...but I only get annoyed or frustrated when it's something I can beat..." it might put it into perspective to say that I'm a (self-proclaimed) facking awrsome [sic] (video game) helicopter pilot. So there's that.

I just had a bit too much, so I calmly left the server, turned off the game, turned off my monitor, and walked away. There wasn't even any virtual or real yelling involved. I was done, so I just walked away. Seemple. [sic]

 

[StBishop]

I kept falling off of while climbing the inside of a church in Assassin's Creed 2. It was so annoying. It's not like I'm even bad at the game, it was just a combination of pressing slightly the wrong angle on the joy stick making me fall and having to start over, each time getting progressively less patient and more annoyed. In the end I swore so loudly my girlfriend almost had a heart attack and I turned it off and walked away.

People can say "it's a game" all they like, but so is football. There's riots over football.

YES, EXACTLY! You know how it is. Especially when you add in:

Also, on the topic of "...but I only get annoyed or frustrated when it's something I can beat..." it might put it into perspective to say that I'm a (self-proclaimed) facking awrsome [sic] (video game) helicopter pilot. So there's that.

I just had a bit too much, so I calmly left the server, turned off the game, turned off my monitor, and walked away. There wasn't even any virtual or real yelling involved. I was done, so I just walked away. Seemple. [sic]

Yeah. Like I said, it's not like I'm bad.

It's like when you are riding your bike with shopping bags on the handles and your knee get's caught.
It's a silly mistake that you shouldn't have made; but as soon as you make it you know that (depending on the bag) you're either about to lose your shopping or eat pavement.

But it's worse when it's someone else's fault, like for example when you get a bad call from a referee in any sport ever, or as in your example, someone's cheating.

I learned very early to just instantly disqualify anyone who cheats in my mind, it came about through people cheating in card games and monopoly etc as a child. I am far too competetive and cheating makes me so mad that I'd rather have missed out on fun than play a game against someone who'd cheated in the past and might have cheated again. Then I learned to just claim winning by default either verbally or internally and I became a much more easy going person.

 

[Ramare]

I kept falling off of while climbing the inside of a church in Assassin's Creed 2. It was so annoying. It's not like I'm even bad at the game, it was just a combination of pressing slightly the wrong angle on the joy stick making me fall and having to start over, each time getting progressively less patient and more annoyed. In the end I swore so loudly my girlfriend almost had a heart attack and I turned it off and walked away.

People can say "it's a game" all they like, but so is football. There's riots over football.

YES, EXACTLY! You know how it is. Especially when you add in:

Also, on the topic of "...but I only get annoyed or frustrated when it's something I can beat..." it might put it into perspective to say that I'm a (self-proclaimed) facking awrsome [sic] (video game) helicopter pilot. So there's that.

I just had a bit too much, so I calmly left the server, turned off the game, turned off my monitor, and walked away. There wasn't even any virtual or real yelling involved. I was done, so I just walked away. Seemple. [sic]

Yeah. Like I said, it's not like I'm bad.

It's like when you are riding your bike with shopping bags on the handles and your knee get's caught.
It's a silly mistake that you shouldn't have made; but as soon as you make it you know that (depending on the bag) you're either about to lose your shopping or eat pavement.

But it's worse when it's someone else's fault, like for example when you get a bad call from a referee in any sport ever, or as in your example, someone's cheating.

I learned very early to just instantly disqualify anyone who cheats in my mind, it came about through people cheating in card games and monopoly etc as a child. I am far too competetive and cheating makes me so mad that I'd rather have missed out on fun than play a game against someone who'd cheated in the past and might have cheated again. Then I learned to just claim winning by default either verbally or internally and I became a much more easy going person.

Huh, good story. I'm like that too. Hacker? Leave. I don't want to leave? Well, I certainly don't get bent out of shape. Usually not even a tad frustrated. In fact, every time I take down a smug bastard mortal cheater, it feels so good. Guess what? I make a list of people who are quite obviously cheating that I've beaten. I lost exact count at around 120. I also keep a separate list of those that I've made ragequit. It numbers exactly 27. :3

For more insight, perhaps I should quote the whole excerpt, and not a part from it:

Also, on the topic of "...but I only get annoyed or frustrated when it's something I can beat..." it might put it into perspective to say that I'm a (self-proclaimed) facking awrsome [sic] (video game) helicopter pilot. So there's that. Still, though: (let it be known that[footnote] Late edition clarification[/footnote]) in any moment that we were both simultaneously not in helicopters or tanks and shooting at other helicopters/tanks, that I ruined his ass, and that's how I know for sure he wasn't cheating.

That last part is the main reason why I got frustrated period. Still, when it was time to leave, I said nothing, on-line or otherwise, and just left. Even when I do get frustrated, I don't ragequit. I don't hold it in either, though; if you knew me and were hanging around you might later see me playing a rather visceral game like Prototype, Assassin's Creed, or a Grand Theft Auto title, and taking perhaps a bit too much enjoyment from my wake of violence.

Quote of the day:

"Don't get angry! Just carbomb someone's virtual grandmother!"