• Hey Guest. Check out your NeoGAF Wrapped 2025 results here!

Casual Gamer? Typical Live User? Lemming?

So I'm playing RR6 on live a few minutes ago and a guy named ***** ***** joins ... He is 0/0 and doesn't know doesn't ready up for the longest while the other6 people are sitting there ready.

Later during our race he says "Hey, how come the race hasn't started yet?"
I for some odd reason a) remembered he was newbie and b) was feeling nice
so I went ahead and explained to him that he needed to "ready up in a timely fashion so he could join matches"

Next match he joins in...And since I was nice enough to talk to him once he continued to talk to me... Later he revealed that he purchased a Premium bundle with 10 games...As we raced he continued to talk and give me his expert opinions on games. Then he told me the $1100 that he spent was "smarter" than the people who preorde.red in advance (and didn't get their systems) and people who lined up for it. He also described why NFS was superior to RR6 and PGR3 and how EA is the world's best software company...

All the while he seemed to have trouble getting ready for races and kept asking why his take off was too slow. When I explained to him that you have to rev just below redline and then go whenthe announcer says go he asked me "where do you learn this stuff" and i told him it's printed at the bottom of the screen between races and stuff. Aboutof 15 matches with 6 others who were probably growing weary the constant jabbering he was still having problems with basic RR gameplay elements (which seem pretty straight forward to me)

By the way he talked I thought the dude was a young teenaged kid..but turns out he was much older than that (30s). He said he wasn't a hardcore console gamer and gets all his info from employees in game shops mostly. I checked his achievements and it looks like he played all 10 games but almost no progress beyong the beginning of each game...

(He did however diss the core pack saying anyone who buys core pack "knows jack shit about games and a good gaming value" :lol )

Anyways what is this type of person? Casual gamer? Typical live user? What?
 
Pedophile.jpg
 
10 games @ $60 + a $400 360 = $1 grand. If he got this off ebay, he got a sweet deal and he didn't have to stand in line or wait for a preorder that never existed. So I agree with him there.

I try to test things out so I don't look like a complete dumbass when I jump on-line, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and take some newbie ridicule. So I give you props for helping him.

Sounds like a typical recreational gamer to me. He'll never get "high score", but seems to have fun in the journey.
 
Cmon guys, he is obviously new to gaming, give him a chance...

At least you had a "normal" converstion with him and not just the usual xbox-live-dissing...
 
Jerkface said:
Typical XBot.

Nah, he sounds like a dickhead.
I wouldn't say that. He didn't seem to be acting like a jerk or anything. He was just misinformed and had his own set of opinions, regardless of what we may think of them.
 
TerryLee81 said:
Cmon guys, he is obviously new to gaming, give him a chance...

At least you had a "normal" converstion with him and not just the usual xbox-live-dissing...

That's kinda what I thought. If all newbies were that polite then the (gaming) world would be a perfect place.
 
Why is it necessary to even categorize him? Does everybody need a "casual" or "hardcore" label?

I mean, Christ, "lemming?"
 
At least he didn't call you a fag or use the famous xbox live racial slur that starts with an "N".

He seems like somebody that is just getting into the whole online thing.
 
I helped him and calmly explained everything to him but after our matchs some other guys who were listening in sent me messages telling me I shold have kicked him...

Usually I'm silent during online play. Did I do the right thing in helping him? Should I have booted him? Was he pretending to be clueless to annoy us? I dunno, I guess I hope I helped a true newbie and gave him a reason to get better and try online gaming more often.
 
I've played several people like that

Especially in Phantom Dust, Rorschach and Dead can attest to this

We talked to someone who sounded just like Vin Diesel

Great times
 
sportzhead said:
At least he didn't call you a fag or use the famous xbox live racial slur that starts with an "N".

He seems like somebody that is just getting into the whole online thing.

The funny part is I'm black but people on live usually call me asian racial slurs... guess it has something to do with my gamer tag...
 
ddksanrokumaru said:
I helped him and calmly explained everything to him but after our matchs some other guys who were listening in sent me messages telling me I shold have kicked him...


I usually wait for those type of people to joing games, and kick them. Those are the assholes.
 
Top Bottom