Weekend_Warrior wrote:This is why I don't play single-player campaign games when other people are over - if they're not annoying the piss outta me with questioning my every move, then they're busy asking a hundred questions about the game, like... "who is that?," "what is that used for?" and "Can you do this/that?" Sometimes I may not mind, depending on my mood. But most of the time I just want to play the game... not try to explain every last detail of the game to someone else WHILE I'M PLAYING IT!
This.
The one exception is the rare person who can actually watch a video game and enjoy it as though they were watching a movie. Granted, this does not exactly work well with just any title, of course...
wow you should help me out im stuck at the last battle for days now. And i been holding it off because of frustration.
MrPopo wrote:One of my friends was finishing her first playthrough of Chrono Trigger and sent me her zsnes save so she could beat it at my place. I had to try very very hard to not tell her how to properly beat the final boss.
AznKhmerBoi wrote:wow you should help me out im stuck at the last battle for days now. And i been holding it off because of frustration.
MrPopo wrote:One of my friends was finishing her first playthrough of Chrono Trigger and sent me her zsnes save so she could beat it at my place. I had to try very very hard to not tell her how to properly beat the final boss.
I'm going to assume that you're at the final form. The core is the enemy on the right. The left enemy is immune to magic but has only ~2k health. The middle enemy is vulnerable to everything and does the majority of the damage in the fight, but has less health than the core. You can't expect to harm the core unless one of the bits is dead.
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Weekend_Warrior wrote:This is why I don't play single-player campaign games when other people are over - if they're not annoying the piss outta me with questioning my every move, then they're busy asking a hundred questions about the game, like... "who is that?," "what is that used for?" and "Can you do this/that?" Sometimes I may not mind, depending on my mood. But most of the time I just want to play the game... not try to explain every last detail of the game to someone else WHILE I'M PLAYING IT!
This.
The one exception is the rare person who can actually watch a video game and enjoy it as though they were watching a movie. Granted, this does not exactly work well with just any title, of course...
Both of these. That, and the fact is I don't see the point of playing single player games when others are over.
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im at this form right now, but yea thanks for hit though gonna need it
MrPopo wrote:One of my friends was finishing her first playthrough of Chrono Trigger and sent me her zsnes save so she could beat it at my place. I had to try very very hard to not tell her how to properly beat the final boss.
[/quote] I'm going to assume that you're at the final form. The core is the enemy on the right. The left enemy is immune to magic but has only ~2k health. The middle enemy is vulnerable to everything and does the majority of the damage in the fight, but has less health than the core. You can't expect to harm the core unless one of the bits is dead.[/quote]
I had a friend who would do that, who would laugh whenever I died and repeatedly say I suck when I couldn't make it to stage 4 in Do Donpachi Dai Ou Jou without dying once. I guess it made him feel better about his own shortcomings to slander someone who has spent a lot of time with the game. I'm not a pro by any means, but damnit at least I put many hours of practice into it.
Even worse is when that so called "backseat gamer" sucks at games in general, so when you hand him the controller and say "Here, you try it, Mr. Expert," he either declines (which is most annoying, since you can't even humiliate him to get revenge) or plays and gets his ass whooped 4x worse than yours received. This same guy throws the controller after he loses in an RPG.
I guess I could see how game heckling would be fun. But it should only be justified if you are better than the player at the game he's playing. Then I could see it as a motivational tool to prove him wrong by improving your skill.
NintendoLegend wrote:The one exception is the rare person who can actually watch a video game and enjoy it as though they were watching a movie.
This is me. I love it when people I know are comfortable enough to let me watch them play games at length, because it lets me experience ones I'm interested to see but know I probably won't be playing myself (Mass Effect comes to mind).
I also really love being the "extra eyes" for someone playing a scary game. My best friend growing up and I played through RE: Code Veronica for Dreamcast this way. There were a few times he was a little too unnerved at the controls to notice a key glittering somewhere which I wound up spotting instead. It was a perfect match actually, because he as the leader was open to making the game experience a true joint effort, which might also be a rare quality in a gamer.
But judgmental backseat gamers definitely exist. I can feel their eyes on me every time I'm sucking at a game in an arcade.
BogusMeatFactory wrote:If I could powder my copies of shenmue and snort them I would
I'm not a backseat gamer at all, I hate when people do that to me so I just don't do it back. When somebody is playing a game that I might know like the back of my hand, it might get a little frustrating at some points watching them but I hold my breath and let them have their experience with it. If they ask for help though, sometimes I'll give it to them.
However, do you guys ever get annoyed when you're on the sidelines, and there's another backseat gamer in the room? This is definitely one of my good friends, whenever we've got a big group playing, if he's beaten the game and somebody else is playing it... he constantly points out what to do and where to go if they can't figure it out in like 10 seconds. He'll go as far as to explain "why you need this item", or "why you need to make this decision" in a dialogue or something too, so he just spoils crap everywhere to an extent. I almost think this is more annoying than being told to do if I'm playing a game, so in this case you're just watching somebody else completely ruin another persons experience with the game, lol. Terrible. I think there's even been a few cases where I was finally like "Dude, just let them play the game".
gonna need it 
