gaming in person VS online gaming

[lisalover1]

I would have loved to have you as my teacher. Most of my teachers think electronics are evil, and the cause of all wrongdoing in the world, so we're not even allowed to bring in cellphones. I've been busted for playing my Neo Geo Pocket Color before during break.

how exactly do they punish something that isn't illegal?

They make their own rules, apparently.

[ZeroAX]

They make their own rules, apparently.

Private school? I love them. My cousin went to one. They banned boys from wearing shorts having long hair or having an earing. Girls were also banned from wearing shorts.


BUT the owner was a huge basketball nut so he'd bring the best young basketball players from the entire city for free, even though their IQ level dragged the class behind.

So my cousin's school was the only school in Greece that managed to have bullying (it's doesn't exist in most schools. at least in the form it exists in other countries. good students have their asses kissed here instead of beaten up)

[Pichu]

IMO, Local is better than Online, always.

Too many assbags online that dryly insult you and just can't have funand you just can't have the same feeling as huddling around a console, and staring at the tv while your friend watches your controller so he can predict your combo, then proceed to kick your ass with the appropiate counter, then, pizza.

[ZeroAX]

IMO, Local is better than Online, always.

Too many assbags online that dryly insult you and just can't have funand you just can't have the same feeling as huddling around a console, and staring at the tv while your friend watches your controller so he can predict your combo, then proceed to kick your ass with the appropiate counter, then, pizza.

besides with local multi you can always do tons of other fun stuff once the gaming is over.

[noiseredux]

I don't have ANY gamer friends "IRL". My wife will play House Of The Dead with me or a few other games once in a while. But I have no realy way to co-op otherwise. I play 99.99% of my games by myself.

[Pichu]

IMO, Local is better than Online, always.

Too many assbags online that dryly insult you and just can't have funand you just can't have the same feeling as huddling around a console, and staring at the tv while your friend watches your controller so he can predict your combo, then proceed to kick your ass with the appropiate counter, then, pizza.

besides with local multi you can always do tons of other fun stuff once the gaming is over.

One of my favorite parts. The "aftergame".

[ZeroAX]

I'm happy we racketeers agree. Most of my friends agree as well, but that's probably cause they too grew up in an age where there was no internet gaming (too slow connections).


I wish modern kids would just give it a chance. I can understand it's not easy to get 32 people together to play a multiplayer game (oh I forgot, most of them are console players, make that 16 people ) but it's not that hard to get 4 people to play fun games like Wii Sports, SSBB, Mario Kart and LBP. Those games are so much fun, even non gamers will like them.

[GSZX1337]

I don't have ANY gamer friends "IRL". My wife will play House Of The Dead with me or a few other games once in a while. But I have no realy way to co-op otherwise. I play 99.99% of my games by myself.

THis is pretty much what it's like for me, except I don't have a wife.

[Gamerforlife]

My only real problem with online gaming is how it's just being forced down everyone's throat now. Every singler player game has to have a multi-player online mode and you can rarely get all the achievements in an Xbox 360 game without paying for a Xbox Live gold account so you can get online and get some stupid achievements that just reward you for the fact that you are actually playing the game online with other people rather than rewarding you for doing anything skillful. In my eyes, this is basically just achievements being "sold" to you rather than being given to you for having some skills

I hate the sheep like mentality of reviewers too. It's like someone made some cosmic law that all reviewers have to penalize a game for not having an online mode now, which is like saying that all games must conform and be the same. If you want to complain about the game industry lacking innovation, take a good look at video game reviewers and realize that they are the ones to blame because they force every game developer to have to conform to their stupid rules about what all games should be like.

[HellHammer]

By far, I like gaming in person. I grew up with Nintendo and in arcades. I hardly ever played anything that didn't support 2 players. Co-op is one of my favorite aspects of video games in general. When N64 was announced with 4 controller inputs, I was ecstatic. StarCraft LAN parties, 3 player Secret of Mana, NBA Jam, SF 3rd Strike, Golden Eye multiplayer, etc, etc.

So when I realized that I was genuinely losing 'hangin out time' with some of my best friends to World of Warcraft, I became concerned. They had entire days reserved for WoW every week and logged months worth of game play...each alone in a separate bedroom.

One friend in particular, who was once a very outgoing and a singer for a local band, basically replaced his whole group of 'real life' friends with his online pals. He even started talking about them as if we actually knew them, referring to them as if he went out and actually did something with these people. Soon after, he stopped going out unless he needed food.
Another friend stopped hanging out regularly after Halo 3 came out. Xbox Live provided him with enough entertainment and interaction that I think he felt he didn't need 'real' friends nearly as much.

I've become convinced that it's purely a psychological issue. I mean, I'm sure there are many things to blame, maybe bad parenting, emotional state of mind, substance abuse, or something. But honestly, the 'online escape' that people become obsessed with and addicted to is a pretty scary 'real life' changing ordeal. Online gaming seems to encourage this behavior in certain people.