3. Allying yourself with one console
Truer words are seldom spoken
Even if you’re lucky enough to have more than one home console, you’ll still always pick one that’s your favourite. You’ll always buy multi-platform games for it, even if other versions have additional features. When a “which is best” argument erupts you’ll always jump to defend your console or brand of choice. What’s strange is that you can often see the objective merits of the other platforms, but you’ll still always follow your favourite platform religiously.
2. Shifting the blame
How did I not kill the guy right in front of me? Must have been the lag
Because it’s never your fault you lost a game. The AI is overpowered and is cheating. My team were rubbish. There’s too much lag on the servers. My cat ate my controller. There’s always some kind of convenient excuse explaining your loss. You’re obviously too skilful to lose in a fair fight, so it must be the lag right? It just has to be.
1. Unnecessary aggression
Never cross a gamer scorned
I’ve only had a fast enough internet connection to game online properly for a few years or so (damn you England and your shoddy internet.) In spite of this, I’ve had my mother’s sexual decency and my own sexual preferences questioned on numerous occasions. Not to mention the fact that I am apparently a Nazi. Twice. It hardly seems like you can move an inch in an online arena without some over-psyched meat-head taking an unnecessary amount of offence from your actions. A lot of online gamers tend to be very aggressive, but which came first? The chicken or the egg?
Any other odd gamer behaviours you’ve noticed? Let us know in the comments below.
