I'm not so much of a rage quitter, but I will have times when I just quit with a "eh, today's just not my day" feeling, especially if it's hopeless for the team I'm on anyway. I also don't cuss at the screen, but will have moments when I say "come on!" or "that's a load of crap" when I get killed. Battlefield 4 is pretty notorious for this. And those are just the things I say. In my mind, during the first few initial seconds of getting killed, I'm wishing that person to go get terminal cancer or go die in a fire, only to think "no, no, I wouldn't wish that on anyone." And there are times where after getting knifed in the back (generally regarded as a humiliation kill), I wish I had a genie that whoever did that would have their... *ahem* privates melt off in a boiling puddle of goo. I never actually say these things and I quickly dismiss them in my head, but for those first few seconds of intense frustration, they're there, even though I would never truly wish those kinds of things on anyone.
As Lord knows and is my witness, I've totally train-wrecked other people's plans and have done plenty of the same thing to them, so yeah, it's just the nature of the beast when gaming in multiplayer scenarios. Although I do wonder how many times I've gotten other people to cuss or smash things as a result of what I've done. :P
As someone who has played Engineer but mostly mains Sniper, I can totally relate. Spy is honestly my worst and least favorite class and despite watching plenty of YouTube to learn better ways to play the class, nothing I do really seems to work all that well.
Not sure if you specifically played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, but that was the one that had the Tactical Nukes that blew up everything, killed everyone, and automatically allowed your team to win regardless of whether they were losing or what the winning conditions were. If one of those was in the process of going off, I often just quit and it got even worse and resulted in a lot of angry people if it suddenly resulted in a host migration. There was honestly no point in hanging around once those fired off, and very often the person who did it had already just done a massive blow to your team with a chopper gunner or AC-130, and chances were pretty good you had already died at least a few times to their nonsense. Forcing them to wait through a host migration was often a satisfying way of getting back at them, but... it's not the most honorable thing to do. :P
I also agree that a lot of Call of Duty's ultimate kill streak rewards (dogs, nuke) are insane and stupidly unrealistic and are an absolute pain to be faced with, but using them yourself is a gleeful guilty pleasure. Most of the time I try to be a good sport about these things, but there are moments when I've had it and just pull the plug before it gets any worse.
I haven't played a CoD game since the original Black Ops (save for a Black Op II free weekend that I barely used), so I don't know if they've gotten better or worse regarding these things. I'd still say it's pretty unlikely I'd return to that franchise, though, since I've met a lot of... rather not-so-pleasant individuals on it.





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