Topic: Are gamers taking it to serious ?

This has been something i have thought about for awhile now are people just taking gaming to seriously these days, I hail back from the days of the Spectrum onwards thru to the NES and to present day Gen. Back in the day gaming was just a bit of fun have a laugh with some mates i dunno if it im getting old or losing the bug for gaming it seems to me theres gamers out there that take it all a little bit to seriously.

As an example i was playing an online death match of a game and i dont profess to being any good but it can be a laugh at how long it takes for me to get killed normally not very long and pretty often. Now to my gripe playing said game dying pretty often and not long after respawns message pops up and they kicked me, i dunno why maybe lack of skill i suppose but to me that seems like they take it little to seriously. Theres many things today that bothers me about gamers and where its going it not the same as when i started.

What are your thoughts do you think its taken to seriously now or not?

And to end with what games today would you say is what gaming is really all about i would vote for Tomena Sanner and Muscle March as perfect examples of what gaming is all about, dont take themselves to seriously and just good plain old fun.

That's the problem with playing with strangers, really. You never know if you're going to play with laid back gamers or shut-ins that only care about their kill/death ratio.

As for Muscle March,it was certainly fun....for 10 minutes. I like goofy games as much as the next guy, but they need a little meat on them.

If your talking about MW2 I would be happy to volunteer to shoot you a few times for fun, and I won't kick you.

Seriously though. I agree with you; I was in a deathmatch once where the same guy kept coming for me and I kept shooting him. As it happend I was trying out the heartbeat sensor at the time, just having fun. But the torrent of abuse I got back in the lobby, for using that rig, was actually pretty disturbing. That's when I first realised people take it too seriously!

This. If I want to be guaranteed a good time I call up my friends.

I will too lol. But I do warn you, even I wouldnt want to play against myself in MW2. Not bragging or anything, but Im dang good at the game!

But on a more serious note. Look at this story!
http://www.gamesradar.com/f/jack-thompson-returns-now-called-...
Another Jack Thompson pretty much. Problem with this situation is that she isnt him and not a lawyer and this administration her in the States loves this kinda deal to start up pushing for regulation and policies for their agenda. We might just well be on the verge of a government intervention to what they think is best for us.

Games are no different than movies/music in my opinion. You sit around all day and watch Faces of Death and listen to Children of Bodom etc, you take that stuff seriously and really get into it and it could very well sway a teens thoughts as that is when they are primarily becoming who they are as a person with self interest. Games very well could do the same. That is why we have rating and it comes down the the parenting of our children to make sure they dont get sucking into things or too deep into them. Ratings are there and parents and retailers take it seriously. "They will get there hands on it somehow" saying is just plain crap. Yeah they might, but they wont be indulging in whatever it is everyday at there own home over and over making it feel right.

Did you hear about that guy that kept getting killed in Team Fortress 2 for the PC, so he tracked down the guy that kept killing him and stabbed him? lol

Unfortunately Team Fortress didn't teach him that it takes TWO melee attacks to kill someone, so he only injured the guy.

Thought that went well with this thread.

Yes. Example - DS Pokemon Games aren't as fun as the older games because of the new, competitive online battling.

Red/Blue and Gold/Silver for life.

Team Fortress players aren't bats*** insane like that guy. That story was about Counter-Strike when the dude tracked the guy over a 7 month period and then stabbed him. The knife makes you run faster in that game. Not fast enough to outrun the cops apparently, lol.

Oh yeah yeah yeah

It wasn't Team Fortress, sorry about that.

I just played TF2 a lil while ago so I must still be fixated on that (which is even worse cause then I should know there's hardly any knives in that game lol)

SOME gamers are taking it too seriously. Most gamers do take it seriously to an extent and will be bummed if they have, like, 2 kills and 13 deaths, but when you like something a lot you will be passionate like that. I may be a bit angry if some guy keeps killing me (not if I chase him down, though. Then it's my own fault.) but who doesn't? However, there are people who will literally try to kill you for killing them in a game ( http://www.hotbloodedgaming.com/2010/05/28/video-gamer-hunts-... ) or ... will simply rage out. Hopefully you get into a match with the latter.

What I think is too serious is the way people hate on others for console choice - that's just weird. I can remember people being jealous or needling people a bit about their consoles back in the 8-bit and 16-bit days, but the vitriol on the internet is just way out of hand now. I suppose we should be glad there's been no actual warfare over it yet!

On the online thing, that's not really new. I can remember people getting bent because I sucked at Rainbow Six on the PC, though possibly with the expansion of multiplayer online due to consoles getting connecting this is becoming a worse problem. It was interesting being in games with people who were actual cops/army and using the game as a quasi-training exercise, but in that case it was more that there was no chatter and they all just knew their job and did it rather than raging at people who weren't as good as them (me).

I don't often play online because I don't want to deal with random strangers for the most part (unless the game is a board/puzzle game like Dr. Mario or Yakuman Wii), but the friend matches I've had playing The Conduit with people at NL were a lot of fun and I'm already looking forward to Conduit 2 for more of the same.

And that's the only reason I played through it. I guess I've grown from the series...

dang man, i found two stabbings over CS --
http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/gamer_stabs_other_player_in...
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/counter-strike-cheater-knife-brain-skull,9955.html (warning -- contains graphic image of kid with knife in his head in what looks like surgery)

that said, some gamers taking it too seriously prompt some awesome stuff IRL, like this... that dispenser is pretty cool :3

I've clearly been very fortunate in my limited experience of online gaming.

MKWii has always been pretty good fun(mind you, no messaging/chat option there) and the Monster Hunter crowd all seem pretty friendly.

Only time I've ever had any needle was on the Pro Evo servers using a PS2, and that's mainly people disconnecting if you're thumping them.

So true, because there's a new optional feature that makes the series more fun it sucks.

Maybe it was just in my school but we used fight all the time over which was better, the SNES or Megadrive. And they were not civilised debates on the diversity of the library or the mode 7. It was more like fist fights at dawn and gang warfare.

The key phrase here is 'in my school'.

A lot of the people on these online game servers are alledgedly adults.

Competitive battling existed back in Red and Blue too, y'know. It was just over a link cable at organised play events. If you don't think the CB is fun, there's nothing in the game that demands you play it.