Saturday, November 19, 2005
My Moment At The TopEver since XBox Live took off, I've never reached the top of a scoreboard. Fact is, the Brits (and Europeans) don't really stand much of a chance in such an accomplishment. Because the Americans are so much better at games ? Far from it, they can cheat and talk shit in a different league, but most of the best players I've encountered are Brits. No, the reason why this becomes mission impossible is because of the headstart American gamers get thanks to the difference in release dates. That was, until recently, with the arrival of Star Wars Battlefront 2.The original Battlefront game had no scoreboards, but I loved playing the game online - especially as a co-op game with friends where we could have a good laugh with no "I wasn't breast fed as a baby" trash talking twat to spoil the atmosphere.Battlefront 2 was one of those rare occasions where we actually got the game at the same time as the Americans, but to be honest, I wasn't thinking too much about the newly added scoreboards. My friends picked the game up too and we picked up where we left off with the last game. A bunch of competitive games and a nice helping of co-op that we always enjoyed. Of course with a new game comes new features which we were eager to try out - especially the different hero characters.After a couple of days of playing and loving every moment of it, I decided to take a look at the scoreboards and see where I and all my friends were. I was happy to find that I was actually first on the main board !I was quite happy cause it was like my shining moment where I was actually ranked top on a game I loved playing. I decided not to post on the forums I go on about it and boast, but it wasn't long before the guys started noticing and I got a few pats on the back for it. Which was cool cause like I said, its always usually so hard to do.I continued playing and found that some guys were catching up pretty fast - which pushed me to play even more. But over the following week, the whole achievement just went from being pretty chuffed with myself, to just not being bothered anymore. Why ? Because in the space of a week, my gamertag seemed to have become the most hated name ever. I was looking across forums and people were accusing me of cheating (which is real rich coming from Americans) and generally giving me abuse.I didn't bother registering and replying, because I know I would have just ended up spending most hours of the day, jumping from retarded forum to retarded forum, defending myself and no doubt have a friends list full of friend requests from complete wankers desperately wanting to challenge me with their clan of super nerds. I had a few threats telling me I was going to be hunted down online until I was beaten and one American geek even threatened to fly over here and hit me (sure you know where England even is on the map you stupid cunt ?)In the end, I just wasn't enjoying the game anymore and it was just easier to let the fuckin idiots get to the top of their precious board. But for any of you fuckin tossers that were born as a result of a session of drunken animal anal sex, I'll play the game exactly how I want and if thats mostly co-op with my friends and not fuckin pathetic "we're lords of the universe" nerd clan matches, well tough shit ! Thank Christ for the gamer points idea on the XBox 360 when it comes out. A nice way to compete with friends and not have every 40 year old virgin geek and 14 year old spotty nerd threatening to wear their Yoda costume and then come and use the Force on me. Twats.
posted @ 5:38 pm
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