Why don't we ALL just be cheap, and NOBODY can have fun?

[Deku]

Does anyone play games online? Anyone here, anyone at all. There are three games I've been playing a lot lately. Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Call of Duty Black Ops, and Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm 2.

Let me give you an example of something that really annoys me.

In Naruto, you dodge an attack by pressing the right trigger at the moment of impact. The trick however, is to mash the heck out of the trigger when someone starts a combo on you, because admittedly, it IS pretty hard to time. But then there are these kids with chest syndrome. What is chest syndrome you ask? Allow me to explain:

When someone presses right trigger to block, they bring their arms up to their chest. Blocking is the same button you use to dodge. So what they do as soon as the game starts is blockblockblockblockblockblockblockblock until you swing at them. They dodge, appear behind you, and use an ultra special. Rinse and repeat. The reason its called chest syndrome is because they keep beating their chest until they dodge your inevitable attack.

It makes the game not fun, and usually makes me stop playing early. Another cheap way to play is with Itachi. When he awakens, nothing can touch him. As soon as one of these kids gets low enough to use their awakening, they do it, and they're basically invincible until they kill you.

Let me use an example that's a little closer to home. Campers. Campers are annoying, we can all agree. To those of you who may not have heard the term, it's when (usually in an first person shooter like call of duty) someone sits in a corner and watches the door, unmoving for several minutes until someone walks in, and they unload their gun on them. It's annoying, yes, but there are ways around them. It's just an example.

Now last night, I was playing black ops with my friend, and there was this guy there with a golden camo on his M16 (usually a sure-fire sign of a hacker). The M16, which is a burst fire gun, has powerful bullets, and it takes two bursts to kill an opponent, and one if you hit them in the head. This guy was killing us constantly with his first burst, he always knew where we were, and it took far more bullets than normal to kill him. THAT is annoying. So then he gets the final kill on us to end the game, and sent us a message that read, "Lulz".

So my friend said he was done, and gave me the controller (we were taking turns), and he asked if I wanted to play Naruto. I said, "No, I'm gonna play with this guy again, kick his butt, and then we can play Naruto." My friend was fine with that, because he was building a new magic deck during my turns, and continued to look for the right cards. I had an amazing game, going something around 24 and 6. I found the hacker several times with his pants down, and gunned him to shreds. Then I called in a care package, and got a Gunship! I raped the entire field, and wound up getting the kill cam on him. I sent him back the message, "Back atcha ya hacking bas**rd."

My main thing is that I'm getting really sick of cheaters and cheap players. I almost don't even want to get online sometimes. How do so many little kids get ahold of rated M games? I'm just so mad right now, I had to come and vent. I got cheaped out of Naruto in less than a half an hour, and just quit black ops because of cheap players and hackers... I'm just done for a while. It makes one really appreciate games like Elder Scrolls, where there's nobody there but you. ;)

[Keaton]

I feel your pain.  I was playing Starcraft II against a Terran player just last night and he killed one of his starting units, loaded the rest into his command center, and lifted off.  He hid in the top left corner of the map and hid there the entire game.  I have never seen this strategy used before but I'm assuming the point of it is that your opponent will think the game is glitched and surrender, forfeiting the match to you.  I stayed the entire time though and eventually he landed and I annihilated him.  Still though, I hate it when people are cheap like that.  The only way around it, it seems, is to get so good at the game that you know what people are trying to do and learn how to counter it immediately.

[Pale Dim]

I never play online anymore for this. I just absolutely despise those people so much that I refuse to even expose myself to society, and when I do plan on going back online, it's with people that I know I can trust...in private matches. :)

[Twilight Wolf]

I'm not a "traditional" FPS player -- I'm a straight-up Team Fortress 2 addict. But it doesn't matter what you play, cheap techniques exist everywhere. Irritating, sure, but I try to not let them bother me since there are usually ways around them all, and there's a great feeling of satisfaction that exists when you show them who's boss. Hackers suck, too, but they're pretty rare and usually end up banned from the server quickly, and that's before VAC bans them.

[Pale Dim]

Thats the one thing about TF2 that I like. They don't look too nicely on cheaters of any sort.

[MagmarFire]

In Brawl, at least you don't have to worry about hackers, unless you're the one doing the hacking and you're playing an opponent with the same hack. After all, if you hack, it desyncs the game and makes it pretty much unplayable for both sides.

[Deku]

That's what I like about the smash bros series. There's really no way to be cheap. ;)

It IS nice to show noobs who's boss. I recently got a turtle beach headset, and it's one of the best investments I've made into my XBox.

For those of you who don't know what a turtle beach headset is, it's like the best brand of headphones you can have for your XBox. When I put em' on, I can hear everything. It's like having the sharingan, but in your ears XD

It has increased my gameplay exponentially, and I don't know how I did so well without them. It made me realize that I've been depriving myself of an advantage that so many others have. I'm so happy with them!
*squees*

[Pale Dim]

Turtle Beach, eh? Do they have anything for Nintendo? :p

[The Glamour Nazi]

Turtle Beach, eh? Do they have anything for Nintendo? :p

Do they have anything for Nintendo? :p

Nintendo

lol.

[Keaton]

LOL

[Deku]

LOL

[Twilight Wolf]

LOL

[Pale Dim]

>_>

[MagmarFire]

C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKERRRRR!!!