You ever take a game too far?

[garfield15]

(Secretly, in my mind, I murder those guys who use Magneto/Storm in MvC2 and purposely screw with you to make themselves feel better but that's not what I mean )

We play video games. We like video games. Sometimes we like video games too much. Sometimes we take a video game too far and our emotions take the better of us and we act like we're on the school playground again. Ever have one of those moments where the other guy/s was just....so annoying that you forgot that "it's just a game?"

I had one recently. Ugh, I did something so stupid today. Well stupid for me personally too.

You know that dancing game Pump It Up? I'm not crazy hot at it, but I'm better than the average player. But if there's one thing I hate, it's those guys that come and like act all crazy emotional and over-the-top and act like the game is their life and try to get super high records and stuff. So I resolved to only play the game for fun and maybe get a little better at it. Never for records. I never wanted to look as silly as those guys.

So, for some reason the machine had been restarted, and all the old records were erased. They all came back later, but there was this one song which nobody seemed to be able to beat again (It was one of those really long like 5 minute songs). So I foolishly tried to really, really beat it. I had been trying for a while. And just one day, I decide to be nice and let this friend I know play with me. Through the song, he gets tired and switches with one of those "game is for REAL" types I just mentioned. So what happens? I fail out, he beats it and gets the record I had been trying so hard to get.

Now, for a 20 year old like me (that looks like he's 17 *boastboast*) playing with high schoolers, the mature thing to do would be laugh it off, do a "you got me" and call it a day. I mean, it's just a game. But nooooo, something just snapped or something inside me and I just went all pissed off-face and was all "don't talk to me" and ignoring them. Now I realize I was so out of line there. I'm way better than that. I feel so dumb at myself now and I really feel like I need to apologize (to my friend. Not the other guy. He's kind of a jerk normally). It was just so immature of me.

 

[big_j_ny]

At a gaming party with all my close buddies.......let's say **** gets ugly.

When the games that are played are MW2, ME2, Halo OSDT, and L4D2........we take it all the way. Money is involved, pride is involved, lives are at stake, lmao j/p

But trust me, an entire room shakes when you have 3-10 college students in one room playing these games.

 

[PriestTimeTraVelX]

At a gaming party with all my close buddies.......let's say **** gets ugly.

When the games that are played are MW2, ME2, Halo OSDT, and L4D2........we take it all the way. Money is involved, pride is involved, lives are at stake, lmao j/p

But trust me, an entire room shakes when you have 3-10 college students in one room playing these games.

THIS but switch the shooters for fighters, and yeah, you haven't lived till you've seen someone get knocked out by a gamecube controller thrown across an apartment while still plugged into the Wii... all cuz they lost epically

 

[KamenRiderKira]

You ever play DOTA?

....Yeah, I've only been here like a month to finish my education and really, when the guys I know play it, they play it for real. Like when they're serious, you better get the hell out, cause a fuckin' **** storm is about to rain upon the ...less than average players who work with very serious players, and you might be unfortunate enough to see the carnage that'll happen if they lose.

 

[KR:isTiNe]

yes.

when I was in highschool, I started playing this online game... Ragnarok online...
it was really fun.. I was playing with my brother and his friends.
most of my items were given to me. but some of them were actually hunted by me.

but this one time, I decided to play in an internet cafe, which I never played at before, coz I think I was waiting for someone that time and I had nothing else to do.
after I played, usual routine, I log-out, erase my password, reset my username.

after that, I went on with my usual day.

then it came, January 04, 2004 (I think).
when I logged in, my character had no armor! my weapons, my zeny, all gone! even my inventory in my kafra was swooped!!!
it was my first time being hacked! at my very first online game!
yes. I let my emotions get ahead of me, after all, I still am a girl....

I cried. real hard for my lost items....

after that, it took me 2 years to even have the nerve to look at that game again.

talk about being hurt. :sweat:

 

[KamenRiderZheneraru]

i do too.

i played Philippine ROSE Online (i know, it's too childish). i spent tons of cash for that game. but the game's sponsor (?) shut the game down. darn. good thing it has private servers. :thumbs: but i want my money back...

i also play Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne with my friends. especially the custom maps (Defense of the Ancients [DOTA], X Hero Siege, etc.) This game involves money at some point, where we bet on which team will win.

 

[MetalSymphony]

Ask the combined 7 controllers i've smashed playing Call of Duty games online (3 due to CoD4, 3 due to World at War and 1 for Modern Warfare 2).

 

[garfield15]

Geez, according to this thread, CoD is like life or death or something.

Who needs real war when you just have an online match?

 

[big_j_ny]

Ask the combined 7 controllers i've smashed playing Call of Duty games online (3 due to CoD4, 3 due to World at War and 1 for Modern Warfare 2).

Was this by yourself or were you using these controllers to knock out your opponents IRL :laugh:

THIS but switch the shooters for fighters, and yeah, you haven't lived till you've seen someone get knocked out by a gamecube controller thrown across an apartment while still plugged into the Wii... all cuz they lost epically

I only told you the "weaker" extremes of how we all game.

Whenever we pull out Street Fighter, Tekken, Marvel vs. Capcom, etc...........it's a bloody war zone. Especially when we do tag matches, you'll get a real life ass whooping by your tag partner if you don't get ur **** together and lose the thing.