The CivFanatic Forum Vs Counterstrike Forums

MrSparkle

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I have spent the last hour going through utter crud on various Counterstrike forums local to me. None of members there had the mentality over the age of 12. The quality of conversation and topics discussed here at Civ Fanatics.

Usually all Counterstrike ppl talk about is "This person cheats! No he doesnt, yes he does, no he doesnt, yes he does x10" So I wondered if the intelligence of a person has a direct colloration with what games they play.

Maybe mindless 1st person shooter games rots the brain and make ppl incapable of intelligent conversation. Where as games that require some thinking (ie CIV 2 and CIV3) actually expand one awareness.

So keep the philiosopicial discussions going! I find conscructive arguments for both sides of topics here without petty name calling. Rock On!:goodjob:

PS. pls forgive any spellin mistakes, i am tired and could not find the spell checker
 
hehehe, well, it looks like it doesn't it :)
Hey, i play CS myself since b.5 and yes, namecalling and stuff can be really anoying.
Played civ since, well, civ :) Started on Atari ST, then Amiga, then PC played almost every version.

Love both games 100%
But many CS players seem to bee 14 year old crybabies... And many Civ players seem to be older players. Probably because civ has an apeal level of 0.001% on first sight, and most younger players go for gfx, and civ lacks bigtime in that sence (eventhough civ3 looks nice, its ugly compared to most RTS if not all recent RTS games).

I play CS in a clan full of older people (25+ age) i'm 27 myself, oldest in clan is 34, but when playing you can most of the time guess within 15 minutes who the 13+ infantminds are :) It's always those, YOU CHEAT, THEY CHEAT bla bla, let's have fun and knife teammates and shoot at their heads with my gun idiots...

I must say i visit CS forums rarely for this reason, i get enough, YOU CHEAT/HE CHEATS in the game already... I visit this forum on an almost daily basis.
 
I also play CS.

And I don't visit any CS forums.

But a lot of the CS players are very immature (present company excluded) I was playing on one server....the admin wasn't doing well.....so he killed everyone one at a time. I mean....come on...how mature is that?

Most of the CS Admins are stupid punk asswipes. And there are a lot of younger players there to.

I just love when the guy keeps buying flash bangs and throws then at his team mates as soon as the round begins....I REALLY think that is mature.

Anyway...I have to go to work.
 
Bunny hopping WAS/IS cheating and yet so few CS players on the numerous forums realised that...

Playing CS online is okay...but online at an internet cafe lan where all the machines are the same and people can't cheat without being caught and beaten up does the game come into it's own.

Every week at university on a Tuesday we play for 5 hours at Reality-X in Durham with at least 1 all-nighter in term...I prove myself there and have the all important notebook to take down the scores :D


The problem is CS generally is the level of cheating (which is major even at these lan competitions according to some people I respect who have done the circuit for CS and Q3) and the variability in peoples computers and connections thus eliminating true skill from the equation. The forums reflect these issues in addition to people wanting to say "I OWNZ U"...with CIV it does reflect the same because it is predominatly a single-player game where being BAD can often be extremely good fun! Getting killed in CS in under a minute and watching for upto 4 minutes for the next round doesn't lead to people enjoying themselves in the main with the OWNZ U brigade in town.

Proof that civ2 multiplayer wasn't immune to the nasty OWNZ U brigade is evident in how eyesOFnight treated people and the alligations of cheating etc that surrounded much of that gaming. As a player of multiplayer only on a few occations my greatest gripe was the silly settings people would ask for (especially x2 movement to aid their nasty diplomats about).

In one case I remember a game setting I and another dude got tricked onto playing...the map was VAST but very, very thin, but VERY VERY LONG! Thus distances between players was immense...the german player basically a briber player who had chosen the settings went along the republic, demo route without building any army...
I hadn't realised till a bit into the game the shape of the planet and so I had a large empire and army with nowhere to go being stuck on a puny continent! The other player withered on his own. Eventually my forces met the Germans and immediately invaded...however the player brided my units and cities I captured easily as the distance between our empires was huge...me and the other player united (but basically it was me vs the germans) till the other player resigned and I eventually saw it was futile to continue as another large invasion of my units (which had to travel such a vast distance) was eventually bribed and THEN he was WLTK day pop-booming...I couldn't match that as my lands were poorer (I had so few hills).

We did play again 1 vs 1 on the world.mp map...since I knew his position I was able to storm his empire in a turn with my crusaders and knights, REVENGE WAS MINE ON A NASTY PLAYER.


Summary:
civ2 mulitplayer and CS have the same ugly traits on the forums, the fact that civfanatics does nicely is that is mainly a single-player game OR cooperative (succession games or democracy games) OR GOTM (the winners of which have been modest and we all know that certainly for civ2 it depended on how much micro-management they wanted to put in pop-booming and caravaning etc).

Plus the nasty people seem to like apolyton more... :p
 
Just wanna tell u my experience,i used to go to cybercafe to play starcraft,i got lots of friends there.But u know ppl normally go there to play CS.I knew some friends who often goes to cybercafe,sometimes when i go there,those friends always beg me to lend them money to play,they keep on begging me after so many rejects.. they behave so cheap,after school they will just go there to hang around borrowing money if they cant they will just looking at ppl play ,there is a great difference between intelligent ppl and moronic ppl.First Person Shooter sucks!They had no regard for human life.And i think many cs players i know are all useless ppl who waste parents money to go there almost everyday?In the end?they scored poorly in their exams.......they didnt score as bad before exam i know...
 
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