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Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters?
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Brandon Erickson has an interesting post about an experiment on players' emotional reactions to killing and being killed in a first-person shooters (FPS) with a group of students who played James Bond 007: Nightfire while their facial expressions and physiological activity were tracked and recorded moment-to-moment via electrodes and various other monitoring equipment. The study found that "death of the player's own character...appear[s] to increase some aspects of positive emotion." The authors believe this may result from the temporary "relief from engagement" brought about by character death. "Part of this has to do with the intriguing aesthetic question of precisely how the first-person-shooter represents the player after the moment of death," says Clive Thompson. "This sudden switch in camera angle — from first person to third person — is, in essence, a classic out-of-body experience, of exactly the sort people describe in near-death experiences. And much like real-life near-death experiences, it tends to suffuse me with a curiously zen-like feeling." An abstract of the original article, "The psychophysiology of James Bond: Phasic emotional responses to violent video game events" is available on the web." Obnoxiously this alleged scholarly research is not available for free, so we'll just have to speculate wildly what it says based on the abstract.
You might enjoy dying in normal games, but imagine if http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1803224/'>this spreads to your local LAN game.
liqbase
Yea not if it's a fucking spy and my medic just got uber. Nothing zen-like tends to follow that.
Like when someone sticks me with a plasma grenade, and I chase them down and take them with me. That's satisfying.
For example, spawning on a grendade that kills you about 0.5 seconds after you come back usually elicits the following response: "&%#! you mother #@%!$&, that was bull$&#!"
"Life's short and hard, like a body building elf." -- The Bloodhound Gang
I enjoy dying so much that a few times in college, when dying in a Counter-Strike game, I picked up my monitor and threw it. I was smart enough to throw it on my bed, however. My roommate was kind of scared of me.
Abaddon: An Xbox 360 Indie game
With a crappy game like 007 Nightfire of course I'd be relieved as well if could take a moment and not have to play this crap.
Well for me, it's travelling towards the light, then seeing all my long-dead friends and relatives.
The searing heat is a bother though. Wish they'd install air conditioning.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
stop the presses!
Monstar L
When I take out 20 guys before I finally die :)
:p
That way I can use the voice chat to rub it in their faces after the fact
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
Still a classic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8pR1rZZHEs
I have ruined at least one mouse in Q3A because you have to click for respawn only after one second delay
(clicks before are ignored).
Hey, man! Fucking SPOILER warning, ok!?
I always find it hilarious if I am resurrected in the middle of a firefight in Battlefield 2. Just last night, the following happend to me:
There is a MEC manning the machine gunner position right next to the train wreck on Karkand. I manage to move around and get behind him, so I rush up on him and slice him with the knife. 1 kill. I then run around the other side of the concrete barrier and slice up a sniper who had been laying next to him on the other side of the fence (and somehow didn't see me.) 2 kills. I whip out my assault rifle and pop another MEC running down the bridge straight in the face with two three-shot bursts. 3 kills. Load up the grenade launcher attachment on the rifle, and take out a group of two MEC running next to each other across the bridge. 4 and 5 kills. By this time, four of my squad-mates have joined me in trying to cap the point...and I get sniped. Exhilarated, I sit back for a second...5 kills in a time span of ~30 seconds...I'm quite pleased with myself.
A medic revives me, only to have me instantly die from a grenade. Well crap, it happens. I spawn literally in the middle of a firefight near the large concrete ramp, in that little town square...end up getting teamkilled (i forgave the guy because his grenade got 2 MECs as well). I get rezzed, and get sniped. The same medic comes back and rezzes me. I take one step forward, and blow up a claymore. I respawn right next to the tracks this time, and before I can even move I get killed by an artillary strike.
I never took more than a step after respawning before I got taken out again. This went on for a total of 7 times. I had to disconnect from the game, I couldn't stop laughing:-)
Spawn camping bothers me...these kinds of things humour me.
Living With a Nerd
I prefer to be a suicide bomber. I love playing urbanTerror as you can bumrush a room with a grenade in hand. if they kill you when you enter the room they die as you drop the grenade and it bounces over, if you make it to them they die.
It's great. I love it when people get really pissed because I do it to them over and over because they cant pick a new spot to camp.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Not me!
After this camper gets shot in the head, I like to watch the angry guy who I fragged like 4 times shoot up my dead body in rage and stand statue while he types something obscene.
I then usually quip, "Not dead yet! Go back and shot me some more!"
I think my youngest was 12 when I did those, I recorded her singing "Grandpa got dismembered by a shambler" and "I saw Mommie Fragging Santa Claus" and posted MP3s.
The ex freaked out over the second one; it had someone in a Kenny skin getting fragged with a sample from South Park saying "you bastard!" The future Evil-X was not amused. "That better not be one of MY kids!"
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Yeah, but nobody ever said they'd be virgins of the preferred gender.
If government were a product, selling it would be illegal. - P.J. O'Rourke
...death is survivable...
Best line I read today
I saw the Sign, and it opened up my eyes
but then you lost me somewhere after alliance wipe and before cliff.