do you ever grief people?
I'm not proud but I sometimes derive quite a lot of enjoyment from griefing ppl online; especially ppl who are taking it all a bit too seriously
of course, if anybody griefs me I will pursue them to grief them back
and teamkilling, I will follow them around until I kill them back and if they leave the game before I've had chance, I will follow them across games
so... how about you? any good examples of griefing, do you gain sick satisfaction from it or is it just basically pretty immature stuff?
― czn, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:23 (sixteen years ago) link
I've laughed so hard at myg0t videos on youtube, that I've thought I was going to be sick. Some griefers/teamkillers cd do w/dropping the racist trolling, that's pretty pathetic. Never encountered it 1st hand, just the odd prat using aimbots, or ppl getting all hissyfitty when I repeatedly headshot them (I'm a crap player otherwise so it's doubly insulting for them I guess) but most of the UT2004 servers I regularly use are adminned pretty strongly.
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Also, the servers I use usually have friendly fire set to off.
― Pashmina, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Only if they deserve it. Having one asshole be KoS and ignoring the rest of the game is pretty sweet. And yeah, I have written players names down for revenge before.
― bnw, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I don't really know what either of these terms mean.
― polyphonic, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a terrible pvper so I can't really do this very well.
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 18:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Diablo 2 griefing was pretty funny. you'd zone in and 8 guys would massacre you before the screen loaded.
― bnw, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
http://news.filefront.com/age-of-conan-griefing-video-is-hilarious-yet-infuriating/
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Griefing TKing
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 1 July 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
nope.
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
ppl getting all hissyfitty when I repeatedly headshot them
I don't grief or TK either, but I used to get this a lot. Especially on new maps because I'm much faster at learning the layouts than most people.
idiot: "you sniped me! that was cheap! you're always sniping people!" me: "yeah sure, I sniped you with a shotgun" idiot: "you must be holed up in a sniper position somewhere!" me: "no, I just don't fucking stand still long enough to get shot" idiot: "waaaah waaaah waaaah waaaaaaah" [etc., etc..]
― snoball, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 08:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I am that idiot : /
― czn, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:25 (sixteen years ago) link
especially ppl who are taking it all a bit too seriously
I am this idiot too; if I was playing against myself, I'd grief me
my gamertag shd be waaawaaawaaa
(is it true you can get to change your gamertag if enough ppl complain abt it? start filing complaints against cozeny ppl; I'm not stumping up the 800M$ points to change it)
― czn, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:26 (sixteen years ago) link
the childish riffs and ridiculous arguments that stem from pvp gaming is something wonderful in it's own right. Even just two player gaming, not on line, brings out the worst in some people.
If you can laugh it all off, and never fully expect a serious game on a public server, you're having a great time.
(thinks, Goldeneye four-player-get-togethers. Messy times after enough beer had been quashed)
― Ste, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:40 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I remember a time a friend threatened to knife another friend over a four-player game of goldeneye
he then proceeded to rip the other friend's controller out the socket, and finish the game by hunting down his (now-still) character and killing him repeatedly
― czn, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:45 (sixteen years ago) link
jeesus
― Ste, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 09:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the trash talking in multiplayer, especially offline, but not so much the griefing.
― Dy, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 10:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Although if someone went oddjob in goldeneye i'd hunt them down and kill them over and over because they were cheating bastards and deserved to die.
― Dy, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 11:02 (sixteen years ago) link
FUCKIN' ODDJOB!
― JimD, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
someone went oddjob in yer goldeneye...
― snoball, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I've just realised, is this what they say on that gtaiv radio commercial?
"Watch! As the griefers battle the noobs..."
― Ste, Thursday, 3 July 2008 10:02 (sixteen years ago) link
i am awful at video games, but good humoured about it; recently, during a few rare games of online GTA, my constant awfulness ends up just making me laugh. i sometimes feel bad though, in team games, that i am literally letting down the team.
― stevie, Friday, 4 July 2008 13:25 (sixteen years ago) link