What type of gamer annoys you most?

[rob_simple]

The fanboys who are so committed to their own bullshit that they refuse to hear anything bad against their beloved franchise. I can understand being a big fan of something and getting emotionally invested in it, but when you say things like 'there hasn't been a bad Sonic game in the last ten years' (I genuinely saw that on Youtube) you are beyond reason.

Also, I get really pissed off at the people who think they're brilliant because they don't care about trophies/achievements. I love them purely because I get a strange sense of satisfaction watching percentages rise, but there's always some jackass who turns up on any trophy/achievement related thread to say 'uh, whatever happened to just playing games for the sake of it.'

Yeah, because concepts like high-score tables never existed, right dickhead?

 

[Jdorty]

People that complain when I win because I used a tactic to destroy them in a few seconds.

Example:

Round a friends house playing some Red Alert 2 (four of us).
Get spy into one players Tech lab and get Chrono Commandos (Fucking teleporting Tanyas).
Teleport ONE of them behind one of the players base.
Use spy to take down power.
Destroy pretty much most of their base with one unit.

nicely done, i would have to thank you for obliterating me like that!

Sore Loser:
I would have to say the sore loser is the worst, I beat the snot out of my roommate in Soul Calibur III and he whined and bitched and moaned about it forever. Later when his ego healed he asked me for a rematch. I mixed myself a nice big mug of half and half jack and coke. Then I beat the snot out of him drunk. His excuse at the end of all of that was that "drunk people are too unpredictable"...sure dude, after my 3rd mug I could barely make out Ivy's boobs.

Addicts:
I used to play Battle Pirates on facebook, but have since quit because the game is really going into being a total cash grab. I didn't mind paying something like 15 bucks for monthly raid weekend events to get them done in a few hours. But now the game is more like you pay 30 bucks and have to play the entire 4 days and hope you have the right fleets set up that take months of preparation. So now I'm stuck with a bunch of people on my facebook that are hopeless addicts that spend hundreds of dollars on the game and are begging me to come back. Those types scare me.

I get annoyed when I lose, especially when I feel like game mechanics aren't working as well as they should. However, I attempt to never yell at my friend or say I'm better anyway after losing. In ventrilo I WILL ***** after dying/losing in LoL, Counterstrike, SC2, etc., but I still have fun and don't blame my friend, I just yell at the game. I consider myself a bit of a bitchy loser, but better than a sore loser =]

And I had to delete my myspace after all the random users I had added from those games. LOL.

 

[viranimus]

Pretty expected from me.

The type of gamer who does not acknowledge or care about the impacts of their poor decisions and how it effects every gamer, themselves included.

Such as people why bought diablo 3
People who buy online passes
people who buy CoD elite like services
People who buy ubisoft DRM titles.
People who accepted the Sony/MS/Origin/Steam TOS mods

and a whole lot of etc.

Edit: In all fairness I AM a rage filled prick.. so it is not like it really takes a lot to annoy me anyway.

 

[anthony87]

The people in my guild on WoW who tell me my DPS shite. You know why my DPS shite "guildmates"? It's because you're all fully kitted out in heroic Dragon Soul gear whereas I've only got a set from the LFR mode. Maybe I could get a set of normal Dragon Soul gear at least, but none of you fuckers who actually raid will DO the normal mode runs anymore. So kindly piss off.

.....Maybe I should just leave that guild.

Anyways, take my above mini-rant and apply it to all people who gloat about being better than you while packing massively superior equipment.

 

[Kyr Knightbane]

Probably metagamers, you know the types.

No items.

Fox only.

Final Destination.

Because fun sucks, am I right?

Wait, that is an usage of "metagamer" I am unfamiliar with. What is that type? And what do you mean by "Fox only" and "Final Destination"?

OT: I have a friend that doesn't like "medieval games". Basically anything set in medieval-like setting - most RPGs but also RTSes and so on. It's not like he doesn't like medieval times or anything, he just dislikes the games...for no other apparent reason. So yeah, I find disliking games on an arbitrary criteria annoying.

To put it another way, metagamers are players who will use the established 'best strategy' in a game, regardless of whether it's actually fair or not, all for the purpose of winning at all costs.

Pretty much that. I absolutely hate people that refuse to have fun in a game. Metagamers in LoL are the worst. Its so annoying to go into a game and hit tab halfway through and see everyone using the same items to start and build.

Playing to win /is/ fun. If you want to dick around on LoL, start a custom game. If you want to dick around on TF2, find one of the myriad servers aimed at people who want to dick around. You want to dick around on pretty much any game, find a server with likeminded people. The people who go "stop playing to win, I want to have fun!" are, irony of ironies, getting in the way of other people's fun by not trying to win.

I don't play to lose. Not at all, it just bothers me that people don't try to mix it up a little bit to do better. I hate seeing AD or AP carries that simply build an Infnity Edge or a Rabadons Deathcap and then do nothing to buff movement or defense. I hate seeing Boots and 3 health potions across the board when a game starts. I play to win, i just hate following the same damn build. Yeah i might not jump into a teamfight because i wanna push a lane to take an inhibitor while the other team focuses on kills. i've won countless games doing that. I hate breaking lane 13 minutes in and pushing mid. I ward baron and dragon and have teleport so i can move around the map at a moments notice. I dont use ghost and i don't use flash. I build characters that don't get 3 hit killed by a Kat or another AD player like that. Forgive my rant but i don't play to lose. I play a game to have fun. If i win, great, if i lose, great, i enjoyed it thoroughly either way.

Boots and three potions are chosen because they work. I don't know anyone who builds just the inf edge or deathcap and then buffs movement or defense for the rest of the map. It's usually more like you get your core item and then you build other stuff that boosts the same stats for the rest of the match, building a defensive item or two if the situation calls for it. Warding baron and dragon is a good idea, and it's something that's commonly done at high level play. Pushing mid is done for the same reason. In all these cases, it's done because not doing it leads to a loss. When it comes down to it, in a competitive game like that, everything you do affects not just you, but your entire team. And that's the problem -- your "fun" gets in the way of the fun of the rest of your team. You just don't dick around like that when you've got four other people who are counting on you to pull your weight. If you absolutely have to do something silly, do it on custom games, like I said earlier. That's what its for.

Well i'm not going to argue with you. I'm simply stating how i play a game. If how i play and have fun and do well annoys you because it's not in the Meta, then i apologize. But i will play how i play and do what i do, and i have never been reported for being a bad player or somehow being detrimental to the team. When i push a tower and an inhibitor down and take down a nexus turret when you are busy trying to kill Rammus for the ELO stats, i'm winning games by playing offense and defense at the same time. Have a good one.

 

[Jdorty]

Pretty expected from me.

The type of gamer who does not acknowledge or care about the impacts of their poor decisions and how it effects every gamer, themselves included.

Such as people why bought diablo 3
People who buy online passes
people who buy CoD elite like services
People who buy ubisoft DRM titles.
People who accepted the Sony/MS/Origin/Steam TOS mods

and a whole lot of etc.

I find I have to agree with the recent Jimquisition video in which he explains WHY it should be OK to buy games you like, by publishers you don't.

I personally didn't buy any CoD game after MW2 because of my views on the franchise and Activision, even though my friends bought MW3 and Black Ops and were playing while I twiddled my thumbs. I don't hold it against them buying it. I also think MORE people should ***** and complain about these shitty publishers and bullshit DRM, map packs, DLC, etc.

I bought Diablo 3. I didn't like the way Blizzard was handling the game or the online-only DRM. I got a 'realm down' like you would get in Diablo 2 when creating games too quickly. I immediately returned D3 got my money back for the game and haven't looked back.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Elitists/fanboys (PC, Xbox, PS, ect.); people who only like good graphics and nothing else; people who take games too seriously; gamers who don't know how to lose (accuse people of cheating); and people who like "settling" game arguments with playing games (ex. "You called me a noob, but my 'main' will pwn you!")

Of those, I think that the elitists are the most annoying.

 

[BoredWalker]

-People who dismiss all DLC because "mods can do anything better than the professional game designers can". Yes, we get that you can't afford/don't want DLC, but stop spewing erroneous information while you justify that decision to yourself.

-People who decry consoles as "ruining the games industry" (I guess those would be PC elitists).

-Ubercompetitive gamers who won't accept anything less than a win, and will rag out anyone with even a slightly negative K/D for various contrived reasons.

Gamers that let their nostalgia blind them to logic.

They think that old games are all masterpieces, and that newer games all suck. They ignore examples of crappy old games and examples of great new games.

These people make my brain hurt.

This. Oh Cats, this, I hate these people. Huurrgggkkkk....

 

[junkmail22]

A few come to mind

MLG kids : every time I play TF2 or some other multiplayer shooter some 8 year old who wont shut up about how great he is (Eventhough their the worst with 2-6 KD or something)

No one cares about KD in tf2.

 

[Fijiman]

For me it's a tie between the 18-30 year old assholes who have nothing better to do then fuck up everybody's day and the squeakers who think that they're adults just because they play rated M games behind their parents backs and know (and abuse) a couple of swear words.

MLG and "OP" gamers.

Gears of War 3 is my main multiplayer game, so I run across a lot of these types. When you join a match you always run the risk of joining a game where a full stacked team of 5 is just dominating bots or random people who don't know each other. These kinds of players tend to play like dogshit and compensate with their numbers and communication. I'll usually go like 15-3 and still lose, and they have the audacity to trash talk because one guy on the other team was completely destroying them.

OP gamers are people that say everything that kills them is overpowered. If you kill them with anything that isn't a gnasher, that gun is OP. If you kill them with the least used gun in the game, the Gorgon pistol, it's OP. If you melee them down, fists are OP. If you kill them with a gnasher you're laggy.

People like that are why I mostly stick to Hoard and Beast mode whenever I play Gears 3.

 

[8bitlove2a03]

I hate people who continue to buy the same game over and over again, since they kill the necessity for creativity in mainstream games.

And I hate people who can't understand stories in games and whose bullshit whining has lead to the majority of AAA games being as simple and boring storywise as a Stephenie Meyer novel.

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Gamers who never try anything new and throw a hissy fit if a developer makes even the smallest change to a game they like.

 

[Dragon Zero]

I especially hate it when folks care way too much about what I enjoy and play. Of course this is not exclusive to gamers, anyone with the whole "If you enjoy X then you are dumb"/"I enjoy Y, therefore I am smartest" make me want to pour molten silver into their eyes and mouth. Your personal preferences really have so little to do with your worth as a human or IQ that it is painful.

 

[Snowblindblitz]

People who complain about OP things in single player games. I operate under the idea that you don't have to use the op strategy unless you want to: it's a single player game.

Also, people who complain about ports of games that are the same as the original game. I get it when the game is actually worse. But if the game plays the same, you got what was promised. Don't be so entitled and go "I'm on PC, it SHOULD run better."

You're as bad as the graphics whore, you just hide it behind pretentious.

 

[ace_of_something]

Not much everyone has their place. If I had to pick I'd say anyone whose gamer tag has the numbers '420' in it or a drug reference ex: GreenScreen420, CronikWarrior, BluntzRgrate420 . It's really dumb to glorify your bad habits you don't see people having usernames like 'icrywhenImasurbate' or 'doesn'tbrushteeth'

I'm not a big fan of self-referential racism like 'mightynegro' (I really saw that one once).

It's not a bad habit.

How is taking a drug in a recreational manner illegal (meth for example) or legal (tobacco) not a bad habit? That's like the ur-example of a bad habit.

 

[zelda2fanboy]

There's a kid in my class who mentions video games every other breath, regardless of who he's talking to.

When the teacher asked what he did over the summer, he replied "Played video games".

When I asked what his favorite game was, he replied "Saints Row the Third". (This one wounded me a bit)

When the teacher asked what his favorite color was, he replied "Purple because it's the color of Saints Row the Third".

When our Bible teacher asked him what his favorite verse was, he replied "The one from Fallout 3". I had to inform the class that it was Revelation 21:6.

He sat next to me the whole day and every few minutes I had to listen to his most recent amusing anecdote about the Combat Shotgun (Fallout 3) or the Fart in a Jar (Saints Row the Third). Even during a pretty rigorous basketball game during P.E., he raised his voice to inform me of how great Saints Row the Third is.

It got to the point where the Bible teacher (A man who doesn't even play video games) had to tell him to stop mentioning Saints Row the Third.

I still hear "Saints Row the Third" when I'm trying to sleep at night. Dear Lord, make it stop!

[sub]Saints Row the Third... Saints Row the Third... Saints Row the Third...[/sub]

Also he asked me what my favorite Xbox 360 game was and I told him it was Assassin's Creed 2. He asked if it was good, I told him yes, and he said he'd go out and buy it after that day. I felt like I had done well, carefully guiding a lost young soul towards the right path in light. I really felt like a father figure to him.

The next day he told me he bought it. I said "Sweet, how'd you like it?".

"I'm gonna trade it in tonight. The graphics suck.".

I.. But... You...

I couldn't even formulate a response. I just walked away.

Whatever type of gamer he is, that is my answer.

That made me laugh because I've known people like that... and if I were still in school, I'd probably hang out with people like that. *shrugs shoulders* Hey, it passes the time.

 

[ace_of_something]

Not much everyone has their place. If I had to pick I'd say anyone whose gamer tag has the numbers '420' in it or a drug reference ex: GreenScreen420, CronikWarrior, BluntzRgrate420 . It's really dumb to glorify your bad habits you don't see people having usernames like 'icrywhenImasurbate' or 'doesn'tbrushteeth'

I'm not a big fan of self-referential racism like 'mightynegro' (I really saw that one once).

It's not a bad habit.

How is taking a drug in a recreational manner illegal (meth for example) or legal (tobacco) not a bad habit? That's like the ur-example of a bad habit.

Because of someone enjoys it then it is not a bad habit.

Apparently you're using a different dictionary for the word habit and bad than me. Bad doesn't have to do with enjoyment level it has to do with a detrimental effect. I love eating hamburgers that doesn't make them any less bad for me. Conversely I hate going to the dentist. That doesn't make it any less good for me.

With that I'm done de-railing the thread.

 

[RandV80]

The unapologetic misogynist hordes that have been cropping up as of late seemingly outraged by the notion of change.
I can only hope that the day when disgusting troglodytes like them are finally ostracized from the community is coming soon.

I know it's been a long time coming, and stuff like that fiasco with what that girl quitting the 2d fighting tournament over abuse is horrible, but I've been really getting the strong impression that much of the gaming community has been over compensating these days. Like a college freshman taking his women's lib classes very seriously in a misguided effort to try and impress the opposite sex.

As for worst type of gamer... I'm not sure if I can pick one type out but I hate the way most game communities form, most typically found among MMO's. Take a game at launch and everything's fresh and new. Give it a few months, and the community will have determined and documented the best/most optimized builds, as well as inventing a whole new game language full of acronym's (I have a non-gaming related pet peeve with over use of acronym's) to the point that a lay person dropping in on the conversation will have no idea what's being discussed. To me a big part of the fun in these games is figuring out your own builds and strategies, and I'm generally quite good at it. So to me it's a big pain in the ass when you join a community and they already have everything figured out. In a single player game I can ignore this but when there's an online component many will expect you to follow along.