Heh..
Thought this was an entertaining read that I'm in full agreement with - there are too many candy-ass gamers out there:
http://www.gdhardware.com/ed/gaming_cyn ... ss/001.htm
"Candy Ass" Gamers article mentions Quake 4
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Funny top 20.
"You might be a Candy-Ass FPS Gamer if…"
1. You hear the word float – the first thing that comes to your mind is a sniper scope.
2. You think that "strategic gameplay" means you sit in one spot and camp for longer than 60 seconds.
3. You’ve never done a rocket-jump.
4. You’re waiting with baited breath for (enter name of next-gen console here).
5. You’ve never been to a LAN party.
6. You’re stoked about the news of an XBOX 360 controller for the PC.
7. Your idea of practice is spending two hours surfing the net for an aim hack.
8. You refuse to install that "Punkbuster" thingy because you’re worried it might block Kazaa.
9. You’ve never been invited to join a clan.
10. You’re too young to vote in an election but you’ve demanded a gameplay patch from a developer.
11. You’ve spent less than fifty hours playing a multiplayer title and have decided it’s “not fair” and everyone else is “cheating”.
12. You refuse to use any weapon that carries less than 500 rounds, has a rate of fire below 300 rounds per minute, or doesn’t utilize “splash damage”.
13. You have never memorized a map or the locations of weapons and power-ups.
14. You’ve never competed in an online tournament.
15. You don’t have time to hone your skills because your geometry homework is overdue.
16. Your only knowledge of World War II is via cutscenes.
17. You’ve never hammered on your keyboard and then kept playing.
18. You minimize your game more than three times per match to type a message in Xfire, ICQ or AIM.
19. You’ve never figured out what the point of that “frisbee gun” is in Unreal Tournament.
20. You’d rather spray paint your logo on the wall than spray your opponents all over the wall.
21. (For Thresh) If you think Xfire is the name of a Chrysler product!
"You might be a Candy-Ass FPS Gamer if…"
1. You hear the word float – the first thing that comes to your mind is a sniper scope.
2. You think that "strategic gameplay" means you sit in one spot and camp for longer than 60 seconds.
3. You’ve never done a rocket-jump.
4. You’re waiting with baited breath for (enter name of next-gen console here).
5. You’ve never been to a LAN party.
6. You’re stoked about the news of an XBOX 360 controller for the PC.
7. Your idea of practice is spending two hours surfing the net for an aim hack.
8. You refuse to install that "Punkbuster" thingy because you’re worried it might block Kazaa.
9. You’ve never been invited to join a clan.
10. You’re too young to vote in an election but you’ve demanded a gameplay patch from a developer.
11. You’ve spent less than fifty hours playing a multiplayer title and have decided it’s “not fair” and everyone else is “cheating”.
12. You refuse to use any weapon that carries less than 500 rounds, has a rate of fire below 300 rounds per minute, or doesn’t utilize “splash damage”.
13. You have never memorized a map or the locations of weapons and power-ups.
14. You’ve never competed in an online tournament.
15. You don’t have time to hone your skills because your geometry homework is overdue.
16. Your only knowledge of World War II is via cutscenes.
17. You’ve never hammered on your keyboard and then kept playing.
18. You minimize your game more than three times per match to type a message in Xfire, ICQ or AIM.
19. You’ve never figured out what the point of that “frisbee gun” is in Unreal Tournament.
20. You’d rather spray paint your logo on the wall than spray your opponents all over the wall.
21. (For Thresh) If you think Xfire is the name of a Chrysler product!
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Satisfying that I don't fit any of those.
There are a few things that dont make sense in that article, not least of which is the underlying message that 'realism' and 'pure' games can't coexist (why not?)... but the overall message is fresh (for a posted article).
There are a few things that dont make sense in that article, not least of which is the underlying message that 'realism' and 'pure' games can't coexist (why not?)... but the overall message is fresh (for a posted article).
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I'm old enough to vote-Cp wrote:After you're old enough to vote you'll know what he's referring to.. :PToxicBug wrote:Yes foo, that guy is a fucking idiot though. Whats the deal with him flaming all the people who "can't vote yet" and are not "old enough to drive"? Didn't Cooller win the Q3 championship at 16?
It's true that most, if not all, "realistic" games are poorly balanced and have luck weighing in much heavier as an influential factor than in a game like Quake, simply because it's relatively easy to kill someone in few shots. Additionally, many of those realistic games have nonsense like instant-kill headshots. Headshots are IMO the most stupid thing ever invented. I bet that at least 50% of all headshots were accidental. This is especially the case in games (again almost all of them) where even automatic rifles can make headshots.Foo wrote:Satisfying that I don't fit any of those.
There are a few things that dont make sense in that article, not least of which is the underlying message that 'realism' and 'pure' games can't coexist (why not?)... but the overall message is fresh (for a posted article).
Ofcourse, realism and "pure" games can probably coexist, but it's true that in general, the pursuit for realism does take away a lot from the gameplay itself.
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Which "Guy" seems like that? The byline says it was written by the staff...4days wrote:the list is sort of funny, but that guy seems like an asshole. should've stuck to his topic a bit more instead of wandering off into slagging off realism-style games. it's not like those games don't suffer with exactly the same sort of problems.
then one of these people seems like an asshole:-Cp wrote:Which "Guy" seems like that? The byline says it was written by the staff...
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I'm of very similar opinion to the author of that article. I knew it was a sad day when CPL announced counterstrike to be the official game...
i must admit - i haven't played any fps other than quake - maybe 2 hours of unreal/cstrike combined in my life, but i saw enough to know that quake has a massively higher skill barrier than cstrike.
i must admit - i haven't played any fps other than quake - maybe 2 hours of unreal/cstrike combined in my life, but i saw enough to know that quake has a massively higher skill barrier than cstrike.