Have you ever had one of those nights?
A night of gaming, matters not where, and things just do not go well. Luck is not with you. The strategies are intrinsically flawed and everyone’s out of ideas. The mob pathing just won’t cooperate. The health and mana/energy/spell-juice is sluggish on the regen.
The bottom line is … you and your group are getting your collective asses repeatedly kicked.
Over and over, it’s like banging your head against a brick wall. It’ll feel so good to finally stop, whether that be via victory or via giving up. We don’t usually call it “giving up”; we usually call it “this game is stupid and/or fucked.”
Of course, we’ve all had those nights. Was a rhetorical question, but I had one of those nights recently and it was a headbanger of consecutive failures. I’m not sure how many times and how many different ways we worked on this mob: different combos of players, different loaded skills/spells, everyone had at least 12 ideas of how to win, and every attempt started a fresh argument over whose ideas to try.
Please God, if I am to be killed someday in a horrific accident or crime, let it be now so I can be done with this.
Finally, someone declared the game stupid or fucked, the rest of us are stupid and fucked too btw, and we all logged … not on speaking terms.
Nothing serious. The next day, we all had a fresh batch of cockeyed ideas and strategies that we had mapped out while at work. It’s like getting paid to play!
If you haven’t logged off at least once completely annoyed with a game and your mates, you’ve been playing it too safe.
Call me anti-social, but one of my favorite things about Guild Wars is that I’ve been able to treat it like a 1 player game for the most part. I grab my henches and bounce, and when we wipe, I’m the only one who gets to bask in the failure. Once I get to a high enough level for one of the arenas, I spend a level or two there, and getting pissed off at those people is like getting angry over a round of Counterstrike.
With WOW, there were definitely some quite nights on vent, where no one wants to talk for fear of saying something like “So we just really really suck right?”. Some nights on the PVP servers, just getting into BRS could hours if Alliance had a really strong prescence in BRM. I imagine my guildmates logging off of vent and then weeping quietly in front of their monitors.