09-17-2009, 02:43 PM
Hmmm.
I dunno.
I think I've always been like this.
I think it comes down to whether or not you're a "gamer". They might be 12 year olds on summer break with all the free time in the world but they aren't gamers because they don't take the game seriously and therefore tend to ruin it for those who do.
People like me are gamers. Doesn't matter if I have 15 minutes or an entire 72 hour three day weekend. If I'm going to game, I want to do it with people who can get their game face on. I don't necessarily care if someone sucks as long as they're a gamer and therefore are going to be making an effort to not suck. What I hate are non-gamers who suck joining up into my games and are apathetic about improvement, or are simply sucking on purpose because that's their particular method of having fun -- by doing really stupid stuff.
I mean sometimes I want to do silly crap but usually I can't bring myself to stick with it if I can't also make it work in a reasonably competitive fashion. The gamer in me refuses to lose consistently just because I wanted to try some humorous theme.
Maybe as you get older you tend to become more of a "gamer", and maybe this comes from learning to appreciate the free time you have, but I dunno. I probably still have the pages of notes I took while playing my first PC game ever: Starflight. I've always been a gamer.
I dunno.
I think I've always been like this.
I think it comes down to whether or not you're a "gamer". They might be 12 year olds on summer break with all the free time in the world but they aren't gamers because they don't take the game seriously and therefore tend to ruin it for those who do.
People like me are gamers. Doesn't matter if I have 15 minutes or an entire 72 hour three day weekend. If I'm going to game, I want to do it with people who can get their game face on. I don't necessarily care if someone sucks as long as they're a gamer and therefore are going to be making an effort to not suck. What I hate are non-gamers who suck joining up into my games and are apathetic about improvement, or are simply sucking on purpose because that's their particular method of having fun -- by doing really stupid stuff.
I mean sometimes I want to do silly crap but usually I can't bring myself to stick with it if I can't also make it work in a reasonably competitive fashion. The gamer in me refuses to lose consistently just because I wanted to try some humorous theme.
Maybe as you get older you tend to become more of a "gamer", and maybe this comes from learning to appreciate the free time you have, but I dunno. I probably still have the pages of notes I took while playing my first PC game ever: Starflight. I've always been a gamer.