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UltimateUnknown on 04 May 2013
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Otakumegane said:
UltimateUnknown said:
Otakumegane said:
UltimateUnknown said:
Otakumegane said:

Call of Duty is designed to be a skinner box or sorts.

It isn't really the shooting that gets at you it's the competitive nature that's different from a game like Sta

 

If things such as as that, which aren't even real, gets to someone so badly then I think they are better off not playing competitive games because, they are all more or less like this (just as you said). A game of competitive pokemon can also be annoying if you are predicting the other guy's moves perfectly and you know he's gonna make that switch, and then he just decides to not do what was obviously the best option for him for whatever reason and knocks you main wall out, leaving your team defenseless.

Anyway, if a person gets easily frustrated or has anger issues then they are better off staying off competitive activities in general, not just COD, or multiplayer, or video games. I thought it was rather common sense to stay away from things that make you feel bad, but it seems nowadays people keep coming back for more punishment. Not saying it's you since you said you play co-op which seems like a lot better option.

Again, I keep saying that single player/co-op Nintendo games tend to be pretty good alternative experiences.

Ah yes, but in Pokemon you distinctly know that it's a Pokemon controlled by you that's doing the fighting and all that at least that's what the wildly stylized nature of the game telling you.

COD you're shoved into 1st person, and then given the most graphically "realistic" setting they can muster out of the hardware, then once you die they show exactly how and when you died.

It's just the way that the 2 games and designed to how you project yourself. Pokemon are similar to tools. COD you play as an avatar of yourself. 

I personally think it's even more annoying in a game like Halo or Battlefield where you never really know how exactly you died and what exact loadout your opponent was using so that you can counter them, but that's beside the point.

I think the point is that any competitive game, be it COD or Pokemon has the potential of making you rage, some a bit more some a bit less. Ultimately if something is making you rage, then it's best to just stop being involved in that activity.

I will as I have said before though definitely back up the point that children should not be allowed access to online games like COD, which have absolutely horrible communities. I am amazed how parents can even allow their 13 year old children to talk to random strangers online and just hand them an 18 rated game without even checking the content in it. You wouldn't let your children talk to any random stranger on the street, then why on the internet. That part just baffles my mind.