• 8Aug 09

  The online video game mentality

  I have an xbox 360. I try not to be biased to any system, its just that my friends happen to have it, and there are certain games that I love to play like Halo 3, Left for dead, and the multi-platformers COD 4 and WAW. I have had my system for a year now, and I am happy to report that it has not yet broken down. However, there is one problem that I have.Its the online. I decided to go online for the first time, and I am unhappy to say that I had little fun. There were people in Call of Duty who would camp with their snipers and kill me wherever I went, and two seconds after I spawned. There were four straight games where I couldn't garner a single kill. While playing splitscreen earlier I did well, but I had no idea online would be so competitive! i was always being called a noob, being teabagged in Halo every time I died. In L4D I'd play with people who knew the maps, the best spawning points, the best shortcuts, and the best camping spaces. I would play and I would just get owned. When everyone online is so good, it is just no fun for everyone else. It is intently disheartening forcasual gamers to get beat down like that. Online gaming takes hours of work and dedication. Most people dont get through those initial stagesof work untilit becomes fun. I constantly show my friends Halo, but when they cant do anythingagainst me or online,they hate the game. At least in Super smash bros, the inexperienced can pick up a kill by button-mashing. I've never seen that in Call of Duty, Halo, or any next-gen game. I think this mentality, and culture,of online gaming is getting out of hand. Especially those peoplewho have kill/death ratios of like 10/1. Doesn't the game get boring at some point?? I think close games are more fun, and sometimes it can be more fun when it is less competitive.What do you think?? I think the object should be interactivity and to enjoy oneself

  • Posted Aug 8, 2009 5:09 pm PT
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• 5Jun 09

  older generations and video games

  okay, so a long time ago I had a playstation 2, which was kinda fun. My favorite game was Star Wars Battlefront. I loved the intensity of all the battles. I loved the movies, and I thought it was pretty freakin' awesome that I could control the characters. My parents thought me playing that for an hour or so every day was a little much, and they continuously put away the PS2 so I couldn't play it. The reason wasn't homework or anything; I would get it done. Then I got a game called Black Hawk Down, and it was pretty freaking awesome. i know the terrorists randomly running across the street is pretty freaking stupid, but it was my first real shooter, and I loved it. After a few years or so, one of my friends finally brought over a 360, and we played Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4. At this point I finally decided that I wanted a 360 no matter what. I spent money for the 60 gig one, but I've only used like 12 up to this point. I overloaded myself with gory, amazing games. Like L4D, Halo 3, Gears 2, Fallout 3, Call of duty 4 and WAW, and Bad Co. I did have games like Madden, Force Unleashed, Burnout Paradise, but those weren't as fun. That was kind of my warmup. now let me get to my parents.
  
  They've always been against all video games past scrabble. My mom loves that game. (I dont consider it a video game) She spends so long on her computer, I think its over 5 hours a day. I on the other hand, dont watch tv except for the occasional John Stewart. I dont watch tv because the commercials always ruin my train of thought. I only spend 20 additional min. on facebook a day also. What drives my parents nuts is every day after school, a few friends of mine spend like an hour doing games in the basement. My parents hate this. They say I'm wasting my time! I do a lot of stuff besides video games, like play tennis and cello, but they focus on this small hobby. My dad is kind of against all types of artificial entertainment, so I understand his position. However, my mom thinks that because I play Call of Duty I'm going to join the army or something, or drive my car the way I do in Battlefield. If I sit down to watch a baseball game for 3 hours, its no big deal to them. But an hour of Halo 3 drives them crazy! I want to ask what it is about older generations and video games.(anyone over 40) They've accepted all other mediums of art but this. I ask if they want to try a video game and they will not. Do they assume that its only a kid thing? That it's below them? Video games are great, they should be as valid as a tv show.
  • Posted Jun 5, 2009 11:48 am PT
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