| foxmccloud64 said: Verter,Well about my friends, first i'm going to make an analogy hope it's a good one: have you seen how ridiculous the usage of computers and videogames is always represented in TV series and movies like the worst acting?, like how it always seem like they are trying to make the most posible noise with the keyboard, trying not only to press all the keys but also pressing them in the strongest way as if they needed a lot of force to press the key, like in the old typewriters?, or when they represent videogames and the actor is moving his thumbs like an idiot pressing all butons and moving the sticks in all directions?, then you hear clackety-clac, clakety-clac a lot of times. Well my friends became better than me at various games when they started playing a lot faster and lets say agressively?, because they learned to hold the controller and the analog in a certain way as the body of the controller rested on their laps and they held the analog in different ways, it was the first time even before seeing it posted on internet, that i saw all that bullshit that made all the smash melee fights become a game of bouncing like an idiot all over the stages at super fast speed while also trying this "bait" approach to attacking and later comboing, they tilted the analogs so hard you could hear them almost as if you were tapping quickly on top of a table with a coin, a rock, or the reverse of a pen, i did the analogy with the representation in the media, because before that i literally never heard a console controller do that kind of sounds in the real world, just some hard presses of buttons here and there, but hell they punished these controllers really hard, and not only in smash they learned how to apply this thing about handling the controller in other obnoxious ways to exploit things in Mario Party and other games, tilting the analogs furiously with the thumb and the index finger while crossing the arms as if they were trying to rip it off the controller, pressing a lot of buttons at the same time when needed with the base of the palm or with the lateral of their hands, rapid-pressing the R-button so hard that you could hear that "clang" of the spring the shoulder buttons the gamecube had etc. Personally i always laughed my ass off seing the new ways they "discovered" to be better at the games handling the controllers in strange ways, but man those controllers didn't last more than a few months with that kind of usage. |
I like the analogy. And it reminds me of an old classmate who used to press the keys of his computers in a very theatrical way too, more or less like in those TV shows you mentioned. That guy also claimed he could hack anyone using a PSP, so he was mockingly called "the PSP hacker" and some other similar nicknames.
During those times, I also had a group of friends who I used to meet. We usually gathered at the place of two brothers, where there was a room where we could be playing games for hours without being disturbed. And, in order to have more consoles and games to play, those of us who had a different console than them just brought it there and there it stayed for months or even years (in fact, there's still an old console of mine at their house nowadays).
Anyway, the point of telling this is, if my friends played games like yours, I would've never ever, by any means whatsoever, brought my consoles (or at least my controllers) to their house. =P
But, at the same time, that sounds like a lot of fun indeed. Good old times...
I'm mostly a lurker now.
