All of the world's worst people are playing XBox Live on Saturday night.
It’s Saturday night. Gos and I just get back from a rehearsal dinner for a friend’s wedding and I’m still a bit restless. So, having just beaten Red Dead Revolver, I figured I’d give the multiplayer a spin. Up until this point, my sole online gaming experience is pretty much limited to a few games on Steam and Ultima Online back in the day or meeting up specifically with friends and people I know over Live. I play a hell of a lot of TF2 and, for the most part, people are pretty decent.
So imagine my shock and surprise when it takes approximately two minutes before I’m called a “nigger fag” by some squeaky-voiced 13 year old who proceeds to berate my supposed lifestyle choices and imagined skin color.
Up until this point, I wasn’t using the headphones and this was all coming unsolicited through my television speakers. So of course I reached for my headset and asked what the kid’s problem was. And to my amazement, people started defending the kid and repeating his accusations of “nigger fag”dom.
So that was infuriating and awful. But when it got downright depressing was when another kid joined who sounded like he was probably black. Once the kid spoke, everyone forgot about me and started spewing the most hateful, awful, racist shit I’ve ever heard in my entire life. I couldn’t believe it. I heard the black kid telling someone what they were saying and the kid’s dad hops on and starts playing and, to a degree, trying to verbally fight back against these horrible racist hillbillies. They jump on him even worse. Telling him to go back to Africa, that they should find him and hang him from a tree.
Is this what online gaming on an XBox is? Why and how does anyone put up with this? It’s enough to make me go back to my PC games and never look back.
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Yes, that’s generally what it’s like. But, don’t imagine that PC gamers are vastly superior, if voice chat was as easily available, like it is on XBL or PSN, it would be the same. Generally, I’ll either start a party and play with people I know (you can set it up so you only talk to those people) or I just turn off the chat altogether.
We should play some Red Dead Redemption online sometime, i haven’t beaten the game yet but I’ve played some online.
Yeah, what Matt said. Set up a friends list and just play with them. It will make things so much easier.
i’m going to get that game soon enough hutch, then i’ll call you all sorts of names and at least you’ll know where i live.
Are you really shocked to learn that some of the worst human beings on the planet congregate on xbox live every saturday night? Spend enough time on there and you’ll be arguing to bring back the draft.
I got the game for father’s day. Let’s play.
Wow. This guy is incredible:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbrS1zNxdw
We should get him over to Israel. Maybe if he could just convince the Israelis and Palestinians that we all suck dicks, it’d be OK.
Online gaming really is the worst when you’re not playing with friends. I mostly play sports games online, and for some reason most of the people I play don’t even bother with the headset so I’m not even concerned about the ridiculous bickering and trash talk. It’s the in game behavior that kills me. There are literally two possible outcomes to each game:
1. My opponent repeatedly exploits a glitch to beat me.
2. My opponent quits prematurely because I’m winning.
It’s such a waste of time.
1. My opponent repeatedly exploits a glitch to beat me.
2. My opponent quits prematurely because I’m winning.
It’s such a waste of time.
This is the reason I stopped playing sports games online.
I stopped playing street fighter 4 because all i ever fought was ken, and a drunken monkey can win with ken with little effort.
Jay said:It’s the in game behavior that kills me. There are literally two possible outcomes to each game:
1. My opponent repeatedly exploits a glitch to beat me.
2. My opponent quits prematurely because I’m winning.It’s such a waste of time.
So, what you’re saying is we need a TheScrabbled sports video game tournament. FIFA anyone?
If that can actually happen, I will go buy FIFA right now. I should have it anyway — next to hockey, soccer makes for the best sports video games. Baseball games are alright, basketball games are only good if they’re NBA Jam/Hangtime, and Football games are unplayable.
FIFA is my game of choice. I generally am only subjected to my online video gaming law #2 on that game. It’s not glitchy like NHL.
I’m down for FIFA whenever.
hutch, you just hate football. Madden is crazy amounts of fun, two years ago it was the only video game i played. I’d play entire seasons in 2 days. Hockey/baseball/basketball seasons are too long.
I don’t think I’ve ever played a soccer video game before.
Why can’t we go back to the days of the Beef Server. Where we made fun of people by simply changing our usernames.
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Ryan said:hutch, you just hate football. Madden is crazy amounts of fun, two years ago it was the only video game i played. I’d play entire seasons in 2 days.
If I wanted to play a game where 95% of it was deciding what to do next (or waiting for my opponent to decide what to do next) and only 5% of it was actually doing anything, I’d play chess.
FIFA Soccer 10 apparently has more modes, teams, league play etc…So I’d probably prefer that…it’s been out longer too so it’s probably cheaper.
Well, as it so happens, I just found three giftcards to gamestop in the middle of the sidewalk the other day whilst walking to Mr. Softee (YES. WE HAVE A MR SOFTEE STAND). Turns out, between the three cards, I had a little over $25. So I bought that fucker. FIFA Soccer 10, bitches. Get on it.
I am going to throw some serious FIFA ass whoopings on all of you.
I haven’t played FIFA since FIFA ‘94 on the sega genesis, so I’m sure I’ll suck but soccer games don’t tend to frustrate me as much as other sports games.