First Person Shooter Communities

[404]

Anyone else bothered by them?


I have been playing Call of Duty and Halo games since 2007.


They are all great games and all, but the communities are the worst.


If you are really good then you must absolutely be a hacker, no excuses. If you are just one bit more than a casual gamer you will instantly be called a hacker.


If you are new or just not so good at a game you will be flamed and hated for the entire lobby to finish, after that some other assholes will flame and hate on you.


Asking questions? Don't even bother. After hours of googling (which you do before asking dumb questions, right?) you realise there is no solution indexed on Google. So therefore you ask for help, but what do they give you? Flames about how you should've googled it.


They need to realise that there are noobs in this world.


I'd like to hear your experiences with First Person Shooter communities like the official communities for Call of Duty and Halo (or any other game if you'd like).

TL;DR

I dislike FPS communities

 

[Jourdy288]

Quite frankly?


I hate big gaming communities in general, they're very anti-newb. Not n00b, a person who won't learn, newb, a person who is going to learn.


They tend to be so stuck up.

 

[SavageMind]

Sounds like complaints from a hacker....lol. JK. I loved playing Doom, Quake 2, HL and BF1942. After that I played some MW4. Since then I'm annoyed with the scene. TOO many yo-yo's who ruin the online experience. It sucks to get roasted by some jack ass who spends 80hrs a week on the game with all the bonus crap and I get if i'm lucky 30 min a night. The game devs spend more time trying leveling the playing field and morons ruin it. I actually have a rack server in my home running 2 virtual machines and I gave up hosting because I spent more time cleaning house then playing. Now its wasted on TeamSpeak and Media services. Truly a sad sight. :blink:

 

[WizardStan]

The extent of my dealing with any sort of gaming community consisted of the arcade at school which had 20 PCs setup specifically for Counterstrike, and Armegatron, neither of which I've been a part of now for about 7 years, so it's entirely possible many things have changed.


While I've heard stories about really bad online CounterStrike behavior, being able to turn around and actually punch an asshole in the face probably kept things more or less civil.


When I first started playing Armegatron, I would get comments like "that was so stupid! Why did you do that?" to which I'd respond "because I'm an idiot: I've been playing online for all of about 30 minutes" and that was usually enough to settle things.

 

[404]

When I first started playing Armegatron, I would get comments like "that was so stupid! Why did you do that?" to which I'd respond "because I'm an idiot: I've been playing online for all of about 30 minutes" and that was usually enough to settle things.

I usually just ignored them, but then they started to go for more "annoying" methods which I could not mute or ignore.


"The Follow Method", following someone and shooting so they will be found on the mini-maps/radars.


Sadly, I can't kick or block users...

 

[DaMummy]

could be because youre playing COD and halo?


if youre gonna play the current gen fps, at least go with battlefield where its not infested with 13 year olds as gaming seniors

 

[404]

could be because youre playing COD and halo?


if youre gonna play the current gen fps, at least go with battlefield where its not infested with 13 year olds as gaming seniors

I do play battlefield as well, but I do like the other games too. But they are infested with "Noobs, Hackers and assholes (oh, and the casual gamers)".

 

[Stradian]

Try the steam communities (Team fortress, counter strike, etc). If you like to have an addiction similar to COD, try Battlefield. I recommend Class games like Team Fortress or C&C renegade as it will become more then just mindless shooting.


EDIT: BTW, when you get off of consoles, and go for the pc games, you will usually receive a better online experience.

 

[Jourdy288]

You know, Terraria's pretty newb friendly IME.

 

[Tom`]

I used to play a good deal of Cube and a bit later Sauerbraten, and those were some pretty good communities back then. I don't know about now, since I haven't played regularly in a few years, but I do wish someone would port the OpenGL ES version of Cube to the Pandora.

 

[Caine]

If those communities bother you so much then why do you participate in them?


Many game communities tend to be rather immature. That's what I like about these boards, the large majority are adults and most kids around here know how to behave properly.

 

[404]

If those communities bother you so much then why do you participate in them?


Many game communities tend to be rather immature. That's what I like about these boards, the large majority are adults and most kids around here know how to behave properly.

That's exactly why I left them.

 

[moz]

The only FPS that I play regularly is TF2, the community used to be really nice and mature, until the game became free and the 12 year olds invaded. Such a shame, I really like that game.

 

[404]

The only FPS that I play regularly is TF2, the community used to be really nice and mature, until the game became free and the 12 year olds invaded. Such a shame, I really like that game.

Somehow I meet alot of 6-10 year old's in every shooting game now.


I have completely stopped online games for now. Instead of online I am having lan parties with my 'nerd' friends on Quake III Arena.


It's old, but the community with your friends are good.

 

[sporkbox]

A lot of FPS gamers I've had the displeasure of meeting are nothing but FPS gamers. Anything that's not FPS or military-oriented "sucks" or is "kiddy". Then there are the arguments between mouse and kb vs dual analog, when it comes down to how the game was designed.


It's a genre that's been stuck in a rut for over a decade. I'd like to see more first person adventures that don't focus so much on combat, but exploration and puzzles. Basically, what the Metroid Prime series was like. In the mean time, I stay far, far away from FPS gamers and their ilk. They're too charged with testosterone and are wanna-be adults.

 

[FRZ]

I don't even like FPS. Third person adventure games FTW!

 

[WizardStan]

I'm a fan of the first person isometric RPGs. Need to be more of those.

 

[Caine]

I'd like to see more first person adventures that don't focus so much on combat, but exploration and puzzles. Basically, what the Metroid Prime series was like.

The original Deus Ex was also a good example of what a FPS adventure can be. Too bad so few games even attempted to follow in its footsteps, let alone succeed.


FP shooters have been stuck in the land of the innovationally challenged for many years now. The entire branch seems to think that better graphics alone make a better game, while more often then not exactly the opposite is true.