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20% gamer, 80% misanthrope.

Steamid: Copilotlindy
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Lost all your lives while playing Contra? Just steal some of mine. That goes for any Mario game, too. Got your ass handed to you by that last horde in Left 4 Dead? Here, use my first aid kit. Yeah, I know my health is just as low as yours, but just take it. What's that? Now you're being strangled by one of those stealth ninja douchebags in Uncharted 2? Worry not, I just bear tackled him and broke his neck. You're welcome.

Call me selfless. Call me a martyr. Call me a team player. Call me Jesus. Call me whatever you like. I'll be the one saving your ass.

I may not have the highest kill count at the end of an Uncharted 2 co-op match, but I will always be the one keeping my teammates alive and in the action. One particular survival match on the Village level comes to mind in which my teammates consisted of an experienced Level 40 player and a Level 1 noob. The L40 acted like he was playing single player, focusing solely on racking up kills and generally ignoring the two of us. This left me to babysit the noob, and babysit I did. The poor kid was running around on ground level getting consistently dropped by the flooding enemies. This meant I had to continually endanger myself to bring him back up. After a while though, I was having to snipe those strangly ninja fucks off of both of them in addition to reviving the noob every so often.

It's definitely a thankless job. I've noticed especially in U2 that some people never seem to extend the same courtesy.



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Another time during a 5 player Killing Floor match, one of my squadmates was attempting to reach the safety of the bottleneck we had created when he fell from our 2nd story base into a pile of specimens lingering on the first floor. I didn't think twice. I jumped down into the fray with him (losing around half my health from the fall alone) and opened fire. They were everywhere, and back-to-back we emptied our magazines into the gnashing wall of flesh until we were both killed.

I will rescue you or I will die trying.

While that may sound noble, it's actually quite neurotic and borderline stupid behavior. Again, with Uncharted 2 or Left 4 Dead, I'll always save people even if they don't return the favor, or don't share their first aid kits, or if they continually act stupid and repeatedly get killed. Sure, I'll be pissed about it, but I'll still do it. This is more masochism than nobility.

While I'd like to claim that it's just my good-samaritan nature, I'm not actually sure why I feel compelled to always be the one rescuing people. Maybe I'm like an autistic kid and it's the control that I desire. Or it could be that annoying idiosyncrasy where I need to make sure everyone is having fun or I won't have fun. Or perhaps it's just an attempt to make up for my lack of skill in other areas. I'm an above average marksman in any given FPS, but can't compete with the twitch masters.

Maybe If I can keep my teammates alive and functional, and we still lose, then I can say that at least I did everything I could.

Regardless of my reasons, saving other players is a metagame at which I excel. So if you want to stay alive, I'd best be on your team.

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Awesome!! Good to know there are other "Guardians" out there. I'm the one standing in front of you using my own body as a meat shield so you can plant the explosives in Killzone or MAG. The team is always more important than me... unless I'm playing with a bunch of douchebags, in which case I'm learning that it's best to usually just go off on my own and be a points whore.
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Good article. We could do with some more people like you on left 4 dead. I hate when people just act like your not there and wont even help.
Dude thank you for all the saves though i may never have played or may never play with i thank you for being there to help. ^.^
oh btw i might use your blog for my senior project in school, im doing it on "How Video games effect teenage minds". If i do good enough they might stop trying to band video games. Hopefully> ^.^
"He is a Guardian of the players, a god amongst men(and Women). He is selfless and asks for nothing in return. He is truly a good being of immaculate stature."

Something like that for a sentence.
@UkoShiba - Glad I could contribute to your project. One problem though: I'm 27. Maybe you just exclude that detail since you're dealing with "teenage" minds. :)
Come with you if you want to live, eh? We need more folks like you, especially in the Battlefield corps.
I've always been tempted to try an Uncharted 2 co-op match, but have never felt like my skills are where they would need to be to keep up with my team. Maybe someday I will though, in hopes that I run into a dude like you.
@TriggerRedd - You should just jump in, co-op U2 is all I play (I hate competitive multiplayer). I sucked too at first, but you get a rhythm quickly enough. A good rule of thumb is just to stick close to your team at all times, so if you do have to be revived, you aren't on the other side of the map from your team. It only aggravates me when inexperienced players (or overly experienced for that matter) play as though they are by themselves. If you decide to play co-op, then cooperate.
Alright, you sold me; I'll give it a shot sooner or later. I'll add you on PSN so that if you're on, maybe you can keep me alive. Haha.
I clicked on this thinking, I must mock this fool who states they enjoy escort missions. I'm glad to read you're actually writing about looking out for team-mates, more people need to be like you, including myself.
Its nice to see that people like you still exist in online games, and reminded me of a time in U2 when I distracted an entire enemy squad from the others in co-op. I'll add you to my PSN when my PS3 is out of the repair shop, we'll save each other's asses

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