I was thinking to myself this morning; I have considered myself to be a gamer my whole life. I have eagerly waited, as no doubt many others have done for birthdays and Christmases to get new games and consoles from the NES through to the N64, from Mortal Kombat 2 through to Lylat Wars, but for the past couple of years I have found myself sticking most of the time to the same on-line sports simulations.
It started with Mario Strikers Charged for the Wii that I somehow got addicted to and moved onto the FIFA games on the xbox 360. I have tried playing other on-line games such as World of Warcraft and FEAR on the PC, but I never connected with then and there is something about playing sports against other people on-line that really clicks with me. for the Does this make me a complete arsehole in the eyes of the on-line community?
I wonder this because it seems to be a badge of honour to have played more games than others and be knowledgable across a wide plethora of titles. Don't get me wrong I went out and bought games like 'Bioshock,' 'Super Mario Galaxy,' 'Fallout 3' and even downloadable stuff like 'Super Mario RPG', 'Megaman 9' and 'Braid' but most of those titles I have barely touched when at one point I would have played them to death. I just find myself wanting to play a quick game of on-line soccer and I feel slightly ashamed to say it.
I know that 'Madden' fans have this reputation in the States as being fanatical, beer swilling, sausage eating airheads that spend hours and hours just playing Madden and Madden alone. They sweat over their rankings, stats and enter leagues where they can win real-life money. I listen to Podtoid semi-regularly and listen to Reverend Anthony et al rip ten bells of piss out of Samit because he likes his NHL, NBA and Baseball games. I can't help but wonder if this is how the entire gaming community approaches people like me?
I suppose I can say that I am as knowledgable as anyone else when it comes to retro games. I am 27 years old and experienced playing Mario Bros, Duckhunt and even games like Megaman 2 and 3 when the games were brand spanking new, I remember the launch of the SNES, N64, Gameboy and Gamecube. My first ever console was actually an Atari 2600 with Defender 2 and Galaxian.
My tastes have just changed I suppose, but not only that so has my lifestyle. One of the rare games that I bought and played to death recently that didn't have a soccer ball in it was Resident Evil 5. I completed the game in about 5 days, playing after work. One of my colleagues also had the game and wanted to play a co-op mode on-line. I had heard that the co-op was pretty damn amazing, but despite this I felt that I just couldn't be bothered.
I think it is all to do with that quick 10-15 minute buzz that a sports game can give you when played on-line. The fact that every game is different because people use different teams, tactics and approach it in different ways. Even the abuse you get when you win or lose is something that makes me smile. I can do all this, fit in my house chores and even manage to sit and watch a movie with my fiance. So am I an arsehole or what?
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I told you it was because you whined about it in public rather than settling it in private with the website's staff. I never got a response.
After you're banned from the c-blogs eventually as well, and whenever you head to your next website, and ask there "why was I banned from Dtoid?"
I'll go ahead and tell you now. It's because you don't listen.
If you actually READ my blogs before jumping all over my timing of them then you'd see that there are some valid thoughts in there- rather than THREE of you guys posting up to give me a verbal.
Are your writing to win an argument?
Do what you do man. Its your Dtoid as much as anyone's. But you've got guys from the community telling you, from some experience with the site, what the cool etiquette is for the community.
If you don't want to gel with the way the community operates (When people have tipped you off on the etiquette), why do you want to post here?
But for your own sake, space out your stuff. If for nothign else, than to give people time to mull over your writings and to appreciate what you do.
Yeah, I'm kind of a jerk about people not joining the flow of the conversation, and retreateding tired concepts. Do you realize that someone posts a "What's the deal with the Wii?" article here at least once a week? If someone takes the time to either visit our forums or do a search for the topic, you'll see that its kind of a super-old topic. in my opinion at least.
We give you advice. You fight back and call Tubatic opinionated: if you knew him, you'd know he's the most fair and partial member here.
Now I can clearly see why you're chain-banned from forums
Let's be honest. People say this when they think they know better than others. Does this, or does this not, sound like something an asshole would say? You keep on asking people if you are one, well seriously think about that.
When you have more than two articles spanning the ENTIRE front page you're hogging the spotlight. Just because you're posting in the lull period in the middle of the night when nobody's on, it doesn't change the fact that you have 3 articles right on the top of the page. Some people spend countless hours on their articles. The C-Blogs are a relatively slow moving area and that's how it should be, because if it moved fast nobody would have time to read much.
It's not fair that just because other people aren't pushing out articles every five hours that you think you should. If everyone acted like you all the really great and thought provoking articles would be pushed off the page to be replaced by quickie-articles. If you want to have a lot of quick-fire discussion, go to the forums.
Why should I actually bother to do that? farting around closing opening and repasting blogs. You forget that although I am not new to the site I haven't really done that many blogs- and when I'm up and about (in the UK) you're in bed. I'm just laying some thoughts down.
I'm not arguing with anyone at all, but I do think you're trying to provoke me into some sort of reaction
See, what trolls do is purposely push people's buttons, then ask why they're the ones who are arguing
If I went into a movie theater and screamed "FIRE!", and then in the parking lot people asked me what I did it, would I ask them why they're getting so defensive about it? Of course not.
What am I supposed to take away from this "article", that you like sports games and wonder if I think you're an asshole for it?
First, tt doesn't matter what anyone thinks of your gaming habits. Second, this is article is sloppy and borderline incoherent with grammatical and spelling errors all over the place (ie "for the Does this make me a complete arsehole"). If you want people to read your thoughts at least take the time to revise them.
Maybe the 5 hours you spent posting 3 blogs could have been better used tightening up this one blog, and people wouldn't be ripping into you as much.