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Voice Communication & Gaming Etiquette
Goldberg's Pants writes "The BBC have an interesting article on XBox Live, regarding the voice communication used in the game. Some interesting insight into the culture, and politics of the players."
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Rule 2: No player's digital representation may have an ass for a face or have the face of Ben Affleck.
A more reputable online news service, Penny Arcade, has their own take on voice communication in gaming.
The Strip: "So, Com?" - Enjoy!
No sig for you. YOU GET NO SIG!
Don't bitch at me if I happen to frag them for camping, though ...
TWW
"Encyclopedia" is to "Wikipedia" what "Library" is to "Some people at a bus stop"
I'd like to see this with CounterStrike! No, I don't play the game, I think it's retarded and dull, but can you imagine the interesting voice communication?
CS'er 1: Oh-em-gee! Oh-em-gee! Oh-em-gee!
CS'er 2: Dubbleyou-Tee-Ef???
CS'er 1: Jay-zero-zero wallhacksor! Yur mother is a fag!
CS'er 2: En-zero-zero-bee! Es-Tee-Ef-You! Jay-zero-zero just sucksors!
Hate me!
Wow. The gramar in that article was so bad I almost went blind reading it. I don't think I've ever seen such an abuse of bad paragraphing before!
Now I get to hear that 13 year old screaming in his pre-pubescent voice "take that faggot! I owned joo!" while I play against him. They should include, by default, a voice modulator that drops them a few octaves so they at least SOUND like they are males.
Actually, I see this as the beginning of the end for gamers, like me, who used to be fairly swift at both running around in FPS games while launching verbal taunts with the keyboard simultaneously. Nothing felt sweeter than to blow someone to pieces, send them a notice saying you did it, and keep strafing simultaneously.
With voice communications, there's no additional bonus for multi-tasking. Any idiot can curse when they die...only the swift can pun with the best using a keyboard and a mouse. And as an added bonus, swearing up a blue storm on the keyboard happens much more rarely.
What I'd really like to see would be a voice-transcription add-on so that you could give your teams commands and see them appear, as text, on the screen, rather than hear them live. That'd would be sweet.
Oh, how I love being the commander in a public game of Natural Selection (linkie linkie). It usually goes something like:
Okay team, build those two infanty portals!
Nice, now build this armory!
NO, DON'T ALL HUMP IT AT ONCE! THE SKULK RUSH IS COMING! THE SKULK RUSH IS -- OH DEAR GOD, NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!
On second thought... maybe I don't enjoy it as much as I thought. =P
Put away that ipecac syrup and induce vomiting with this choice quote from the article:
"I have had the privilege of having been graced by an angel through Live," wrote Ico on one of the Xbox Live forums.
"It was the golden gate to my soulmate," he added.
Sorry if this ruined anyones upholstery.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
I used to run a Q2 server. People would log in, spend hours chatting, then get pissed off at me when I shot them.
"Less talking. More fragging," was my customary response.
OK, in lew of my blunder I went the extra mile and found:
1) A working link.
2) And a bonus interview with the creator.
Please forgive my unl33tlinkingness.
The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies. -Chomsky
One night my friends and I were really, really bored. We were sitting around playing Mech Assault when it was let known that the host's roommate had a huge collection of pr0n movies on his laptop... After lugging the aging laptop nearer to the Xbox and turning up the tinny speakers, we had a fine old time. We got booted a few times, but it was probably the most productive thing we did that night.
Hey, I think I played on your server :) Then again, it probably happened on more than one, as I played it for 8 hours a day for the first six months.
My favorite response to the in-game chat was in this strip.
However, how many people do you know do that?
r den hose/snowblower/car/house/computer. Because there's no need to, people like things the way they're used to them, and because it would get ridiculous. Emacs notwithstanding, most people like things to be separate because it makes them more accessible, easier to manage, more flexible, and more reliable. Just think of how much more it takes to get one of those TVs with a built-in VCR fixed than it does to get just a regular VCR fixed and you'll see why modular (separate) is better.
How many people do you know that want to wait for their computer to boot to make a phone call? How many do you know that want to have a phone call interrupted because little Johnny just crashed the computer? Sure, things can be combined. Why not make every appliance and piece of furniture into one thing? A big stove/fridge/phone/sink/couch/television/radio/ga
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