A part of me misses salty messages and CoD game chat, but then as I got older it just made me feel bad.
I've basically put down one of my favourite games because it just bums me out.
Either rubbing your nose in it when they win, or hurling abuse when they Los, win quitting and rage quitting... its just not cool. It doesn't have the same air as the shit-talking in person when I've been to LANs or events where I can tell its all in jest.
I suppose that's the blessing and the curse for how personal fighting games are.
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Trash talk used to be fun, back when it was more lighthearted and not meant to be taken seriously. I remember playing GRAW 2 and listening to the back-and-forth between all these nerdy old married guys until their wives made them get off, and it genuinely made the game more enjoyable. Then we squeakers started flooding XBL en masse. Squeakers who, being young and dumb, lacked tact and took every insult personally. I mean, it’s not like that kind of vitriol didn’t exist early on, but it’s just gotten so much worse over time.
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[quote]Then we squeakers started flooding XBL en masse. Squeakers who, being young and dumb, lacked tact and took every insult personally. I mean, it’s not like that kind of vitriol didn’t exist early on, but it’s just gotten so much worse over time.[/quote] I can't even really blame this on kids anymore. Besides, that's just the way kids are. They've not matured enough to really grow out of it. I don't play consoles anymore either, and I don't think kids are as common on PC. I've had people who must have been in their twenties and over giving me shit because I don't play by their rules. I mean, damn, remember all the For Honor morons chatting shit about people who didn't abide by their code of video game ethics... I'm not particularly soft-skinned and I get that things can be tense (that's the fun of it!), but shit, why they gotta put a downer on a perfectly good match by being a little -blam!-?
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[quote]I've had people who must have been in their twenties and over giving me shit because I don't play by their rules.[/quote] Because those kids (like me) were, for lack of a better term, raised in that environment. I was in, like, third grade when Halo 3 came out. The “you suck” messages I got from the 20-somethings back then were vastly different than the shit I get now, and the shit I get now is a more vulgar version of what I got from the other squeakers of old. The gaming culture’s just changed. The nerdy dudes that went to LAN parties and played in unfurnished apartments after getting back from their IT jobs were replaced by the mom-got-me-an-Xbox-for-Christmas generation. Then those kids grew up, something something Minecraft, and now the landscape’s completely different. The idea of just playing a laid-back game is practically nonexistent at this point.
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Minecraft is the highest selling video game! So... it's hard to say that the idea of a laidback game is nonexistent.
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I think you’re missing the point. We were talking about online gaming; specifically, games with some sort of competitive PvP mode like Halo or CoD or Bungie’s latest franchise, DanCity. That last one, especially. When’s the last time you played a match in the Crucifix that didn’t completely fog up your screen with sweat?
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The last time the screen was clouded with laughter. My first ever go at Mayhem. However, I concede your point.