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[Synbios459]

We've seen lots of people like those that play demos at a kiosk are just casual people that will play games now and then, but what are some things people have done that just made you go "Is that guy retarded, it's obvious he/she should do this/go there"? I'll give an example:

The other day I was watching a guy (who looked to be in his 20s) play Call of Duty 2 on the Xbox 360 kiosk he got to the part where it clearly says and tells you that you need to flank them from the right, yet he kept just shooting at the the guys in front of him despite the fact it kept telling him what to do.

I finally had to tell him to move to the right side and he was like "Oh really?" Then when he finally did, a grenade came at him and he died despite the grenade indicator. Now I realize the first couple of times you might not realize it, but I swear he died like 10 times because of a grenade and never seemed to be able to figure out to move when the little grenade icon pops up. I finally explained to him about it and he also seemed surprised about it.

Funny enough I saw another kid the next day who looked to be around 15 and he had no problem beating it, I even asked him if he played CoD2 alot and he said it was his first time.

 

[mCACGj]

I saw some guy at the Xbox 360 kiosk playing Call of Duty and he kept killing his own guys and laughing histarically. He did this for atleast 20 minutes.

 

[Raistlin]

A buddy of mine used to raise and wave his fist threatenly at his GB/GBA - it was evenly accompanied by an angry grunt :lol

 

[Johnas]

Semi-related, but I always used to lol at my friends (when I was a kid) for holding the controller out in the air to the right or left, like it was gonna help move the character or whatever.

And then the Rev came along... :lol

Also my best friend used to say "Mom, the controller's not responding!" sometimes when he had trouble with a game. I still razz him about that to this day.

 

[Red Blaster]

Couple years ago at some random movie theater arcade I was waiting for some of my buddies to arrive. Decided to pop some quarters into Tekken 4 and screw around with it a bit. About 5 minutes later some guy with a shirt that was twice his size comes by and decides to take me on. He chooses Hwoarang and only presses the left kick button, doesn't even touch the joystick once. Got two perfects on him, he calls me a faggot nerd loser and then leaves. Pretty stupid.

 

[Sweedishrodeo]

whenever anyone gets up and acts out the game while playing (ie tilting your body while turning in a racing game) to somehow aid their on screen character. luckily, nintendo made revolution to sheild these people from my prosecution.

 

[momolicious]

^ LOL @ tekken :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[MomoPufflet]

About eight years ago I was playing Fighting Vipers in a movie theater with this crazy guy. Every time he won he'd yell "YEAH BABY!!" and pump his fist at the screen. When I beat him he'd yell "DAMN IT!!" and smack the screen. And not in a "normal" way either (if this sort of behavior can ever be considered normal)-- like in this really creepy I'LL BLOW UP THIS FUCKING THEATER IF YOU BEAT ME AGAIN sort of way. I did not linger...

 

[Spencerr]

At PAX the guy in front of me playing the Zelda Demo must have been retarded. He couldn't figure out how to target or use the boomerang and it took him like 9 years to beat the plant boss.

 

[evilromero]

Fall asleep, piss on self, wake up and vomit.

 

[Deleted member 8095]

I used to go to this place called Wunderland, it was nickel arcade. I was there when NFL Blitz first came out and I was playing against this strange fellow that had a stack of football cards with him. He pick through the stack, find a couple players from the same team and place them above the joystick. Then, if he scored a touchdown he would pick up the card of the player he scored with and laugh to himself. It was very strange and somewhat creepy. Good thing he sucked ass at the game.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

Some guy kept punching me harder and harder with each goal I scored on Monkey Soccer in a game shop. It got pretty painful when it was up to about 12 goals....

 

[LakeEarth]

I did a fatality in UMK3 years ago, and this creepy old fat dude watching me play started laughing manically. I got scared.

 

[Javaman]

Me, playing Resident Evil 1 while holding a beer in my right hand and controller in the left, blissfully navigating cleared rooms before walking into the "dogs jump through the window giving you a heartattack" hallway.

 

[Red Blaster]

Another good one: I saw a guy play Time Crisis 3 akimbo style. He put quarters into both the 1P and 2P slots and then made a valiant attempt in trying to progress in the game by himself. He kept making these stabbing motions with each gun, guess nobody told him that they don't have bayonets attatched. He also did this loud as hell stepping motion with the pedals. Needless to say, he didn't get past the first stage.

 

[thestopsign]

Damn it, Lake Earth I just spent 3-4 minutes watching your avatar. WTF was that? :lol

Anyways, I fell asleep playing Lemmings once, and I was in the middle of a level I couldn't beat. Then in the morning when I woke up with my head on the controller, and I cleared the level.... Even though it was just with 3 Lemmings left. I had quite the headache when I woke up too.

 

[Date of Lies]

I was playing mercenaries in RE4 and died at a really high score right before the time was up and I elbowed my wall twice really hard and it made you huge dents in it. We live in an old house :lol

 

[velvet_nitemare]

Before i moved to the states,i had a friend I played Winning Eleven with everyday and he played normally...except when i somehow manage to be one-on-one with his Goalie...then he'd thrash his legs out,toss his controller in the air and lunge at the screen.

 

[xaosslug]

I saw some guy at a Xbox 360 kiosk in BB playing Kameo and ENJOYING himself, big effing grin plastered.

:lol

 

[LakeEarth]

Damn it, Lake Earth I just spent 3-4 minutes watching your avatar. WTF was that? :lol

I get asked all the time, twice this month already. Its cool, just don't ask me what he says in the end :lol

 

[ghibli99]

14 years ago in college, SF2 was huge... some guy was playing and he got beat. That was only round 1, and he started walking away. People told him he had another round (in hindsight, this was funny, since everyone knew he wasn't going to last unless his opponent gave him a courtesy round... he didn't, BTW :lol). So, he walks back and proceeds to play the next round. Of course, he loses. He slams his hand on the buttons, drops a loud F bomb and then whips his head backwards abruptly in disappointment. He didn't realize someone was standing right behind him, and he whacked this guy right in the face. He turned around totally stunned, and the guy who just got bonked PC Genjin-style started cussing and yelling at the guy for being an idiot and for being a total loser of an SF2 player. The guy kinda hung his head and left the student center. That was pretty entertaining.

 

[GaimeGuy]

I get asked all the time, twice this month already. Its cool, just don't ask me what he says in the end :lol

I've always wondered what he says. :|

 

[arne]

Anyways, I fell asleep playing Lemmings once, and I was in the middle of a level I couldn't beat. Then in the morning when I woke up with my head on the controller, and I cleared the level.... Even though it was just with 3 Lemmings left. I had quite the headache when I woke up too.

I fell asleep playing Rainbow Six 3 and woke up about 5 minutes later aiming straight up into the sky shooting my gun. I guess that's not really that stupid, but it sure was amusing.

Damn it, Lake Earth I just spent 3-4 minutes watching your avatar. WTF was that?

See also: Radiohead - Just, music video. brilliant.

 

[CB3]

One of my Friends was very confused about the N64 Control. I swear to god he grabbed it with his left hand under the D-Pad And Stretched his thumb to the Analog Stick. He never held it any other way

 

[belgurdo]

I saw some guy at a Xbox 360 kiosk in BB playing Kameo and ENJOYING himself, big effing grin plastered.

:lol

Yeh dude enjoying games sux

 

[Outlaw Pro Mod]

He never held it any other way

That would be like someone walking down the street on their hands with their legs wrapped with a jacket and people not questioning it.

 

[Wario64]

Whenever I let someone play one of the Mario games on the GBA (or PSP.....), they never understand how you're suppose to run and jump at the same time. They always have one thumb on either button but never position their thumb so that it covers both buttons. It always annoys me...I never bother to mention it since they're just playing it to pass the time but it makes me crazy every time.


And kids pumping in quarters after losing their credit within 20 seconds in Time Crisis 3. $1 to play 20 seconds, come on kids...learn to shoot

 

[SpeedingUptoStop]

When he was a little kid, My brother used to bash his head against gameboy screens when he lost. :lol Dumbass.

 

[xaosslug]

Yeh dude enjoying games sux

i was kidding.

 

[ghibli99]

One of my Friends was very confused about the N64 Control. I swear to god he grabbed it with his left hand under the D-Pad And Stretched his thumb to the Analog Stick. He never held it any other way

:lol I had a coworker who did the same thing. When I showed him how to correctly use it (analog + Z), he looked at me like, "What an a**hole, telling me how to use this thing." He eventually got it right... and now he's one of my best friends.

 

[Kabuki Quantum Lover]

People chew on the controller/controller cords. I wait there thinking, "Good, keep biting you fuck, good. Go right ahead. Big bites, you fucker," so I could see the newspapers in the morning "SNES KILLS TEENAGER".

 

[Stinkles]

Semi-related, but I always used to lol at my friends (when I was a kid) for holding the controller out in the air to the right or left, like it was gonna help move the character or whatever.

And then the Rev came along... :lol

This does make me imagine a light bulb going off above Miyamoto's head while watching a chick play a driving game.

 

[Finaika]

One stupid (and irritating) thing that some people do at my local arcade who obviously don't know how to play games is whenever they play fighting games they just mash the buttons & rotate the joystick wildy and when they eventually lose the match they still kept playing on sitting there mashing the buttons thinking that they won the match. They don't know that the other person is actually playing against the CPU at this time aghhhhhhhhhh

 

[Ristamar]

I used to go to this place called Wunderland, it was nickel arcade. I was there when NFL Blitz first came out and I was playing against this strange fellow that had a stack of football cards with him. He pick through the stack, find a couple players from the same team and place them above the joystick. Then, if he scored a touchdown he would pick up the card of the player he scored with and laugh to himself. It was very strange and somewhat creepy. Good thing he sucked ass at the game.

:lol

 

[ghibli99]

When you're playing DDR and "pranksters" stand behind you and mash the down arrow while you're playing. Yeah, you're cool, man.

I also think people look silly when they're standing off to the side pretending that they're playing along with you.

Males who ParaPara'd also made me hate that game with a passion. So lame. When people discovered those ParaPara videos and mimicked them, the writing was on the wall for that game... cute when girls did it, though.

My bottom lip seems to disappear under my top lip when I play IIDX for some reason... makes me look like I have a massive overbite.

Semi-related, but I always used to lol at my friends (when I was a kid) for holding the controller out in the air to the right or left, like it was gonna help move the character or whatever.

I'm guilty of this... variations include ducking in lightgun games or trying to "see over a crest" in driving games or "leaning left/right" to see around corners in FPS games.

 

[Open Source]

playing DDR

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[Mario]

The other day I was watching a guy (who looked to be in his 20s) play Call of Duty 2 on the Xbox 360 kiosk he got to the part where it clearly says and tells you that you need to flank them from the right, yet he kept just shooting at the the guys in front of him despite the fact it kept telling him what to do.

There are definitely a lot of people that seem oblivious to anything outside of the core action.

When we were engaged in usability testing of one of our PSP games, a test subject was trying to perform a certain function inside the level editor. Despite the fact the function was listed at the top of the (6) button guide help to the right of the screen, he just couldn't "find it". His subsequent comments to the testing facilitator included phrases along the lines of

"I'd like to do X, but I don't seem to be able to"
"It should tell me how to do X"
"Its really a pity, as I want to do X and the editor would be so much better with that"

After going on about trying to do this for 15 minutes, the facilitator pointed out the button guides in the interest of moving the testing along, to which his response was

"Yeah, I guess I could have read that. But you don't want to have to read" :/

 

[gimz]

Dodging bullet while playing FPS game

 

[ArcadeStickMonk]

People chew on the controller/controller cords. I wait there thinking, "Good, keep biting you fuck, good. Go right ahead. Big bites, you fucker," so I could see the newspapers in the morning "SNES KILLS TEENAGER".

#1 - 5v ain't ever gonna kill anybody

#2 - The rubber cover on an Atari joystick is damn tasty.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I'm guilty of this... variations include ducking in lightgun games or trying to "see over a crest" in driving games or "leaning left/right" to see around corners in FPS games.

Revolution is for yoU!

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Yelling at or kicking arcade machines in public places is always perferred.

 

[Andrew2]

One stupid (and irritating) thing that some people do at my local arcade who obviously don't know how to play games is whenever they play fighting games they just mash the buttons & rotate the joystick wildy and when they eventually lose the match they still kept playing on sitting there mashing the buttons thinking that they won the match. They don't know that the other person is actually playing against the CPU at this time aghhhhhhhhhh

I see that all the time.

As for the stupid things, to simpily put it, smoking. Anybody that goes to an open-air arcade and one where smoking is permitted would tell you its irritating when your playing a game and the other person is smoking. Not only is it distracting, its downright shameful and disrespectful.

 

[Raiden]

I beated my friends who held the N64 controller with its left and right handle, i also called them retards, does that count?

 

[ToxicAdam]

When he was a little kid, My brother used to bash his head against gameboy screens when he lost. :lol Dumbass.

I did that playing Pokeman Pinball .. .and broke my screen.


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Same kind of idea, I hated when assholes would punch an arcade machine (often times knocking off all the quarters that people put on the ledge).

 

[momolicious]

umm, what rage makes you want to bash a handheld into your face/head

 

[Ash Housewares]

Dodging bullet while playing FPS game

it works in real life, why not in games?

 

[Starfire]

I was at a ocal EB checking out a Dreemcast Kiosk (a week before the system launch), and these little kids were playing Sonic Adventure. One of them got frustrated and proceeded to throw the Dreamcast controller down, only it hit the shelf beside it, knocking down nearly every game off the shelf, then they both just walked out of the store without picking anything up. My parents would have beat me had I done anything that irrisponsible. When EB\GS employees complain about having to babysit the kiosks, that time always comes to mind, and I can perfectly understand their frustration.

 

[Tony HoTT]

There was this guy who played MGS3 not knowing what the prruuwu sound was.

 

[emomoonbase]

Some fat kid at this mall playing some light gun game and was holding the gun all sideways and darting back and forth like he was really dodging bullets and every time he shot something he would yell "take that bitch! in your fucking dome!" and then when he died he let out this scream like he was burned by acid or something and throw the gun at the machine and walked away.

 

[Kevtones]

Wario Ware makes everyone look stupid (in a good way)