Fwa. To be honest, I don't play with other folks often aside from my siblings. For a handful of reasons, honestly.
The biggest being that I just can't talk and play at the same time. It's lame, but I don't have that ability to do both; to me, it's like trying to write one thing and talk about something else at the same time. Also, considering that we've purchased 4 headsets and all 4 have broken, we've stopped buying them. >.> It's just a waste of money, and I'm not willing to try with one of those heavy duty ones just to see if spending $100 instead of $20 will translate to quality.
The other big one is that playing VGs is cathartic for me. I like being as aggressive as I want during that time, but mixing playing with buddies defeat that purpose. There are times when it's fun - your best chance of catching me in such a mood is on a Friday night - but usually when I play during the week, it's after a day of listening to customers complain or yell or cry to me about their difficult financial situations that I'm expected to find the answers to. So I want to be mean, to the point of betrayals even, but I won't expose my friends to that, and therefore I just don't like playing in parties. That way, I can play how I need to.
On a more pathetic note, something about playing in groups tends to be linked to me losing games..... Yeah, yeah. It's about playing with your buddies, but it gets SO frustrating! Why is it that when you play with buddies, your group just HAS to run into all the people with the super special X-Boxes that allow them to survive sniping headshots, three grenades, four people shooting at them, point blank shotgun shots, AND a beat down. WITH the sword? >.>
So. You've got my main reasons. My other friends have never asked, to be honest, and I've never really wanted to fess up to it considering how selfish it sounds. Seems to be so much thought into such a simple little activity that shouldn't contradict the relationship friend involves.
I turn down many of their invites too, just so you know, and they're buddies I know in RL. I'm just a loner by nature; I don't do the whole social interaction thing very well.
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Date: 2011-02-08 06:02 pm (UTC)The biggest being that I just can't talk and play at the same time. It's lame, but I don't have that ability to do both; to me, it's like trying to write one thing and talk about something else at the same time. Also, considering that we've purchased 4 headsets and all 4 have broken, we've stopped buying them. >.> It's just a waste of money, and I'm not willing to try with one of those heavy duty ones just to see if spending $100 instead of $20 will translate to quality.
The other big one is that playing VGs is cathartic for me. I like being as aggressive as I want during that time, but mixing playing with buddies defeat that purpose. There are times when it's fun - your best chance of catching me in such a mood is on a Friday night - but usually when I play during the week, it's after a day of listening to customers complain or yell or cry to me about their difficult financial situations that I'm expected to find the answers to. So I want to be mean, to the point of betrayals even, but I won't expose my friends to that, and therefore I just don't like playing in parties. That way, I can play how I need to.
On a more pathetic note, something about playing in groups tends to be linked to me losing games..... Yeah, yeah. It's about playing with your buddies, but it gets SO frustrating! Why is it that when you play with buddies, your group just HAS to run into all the people with the super special X-Boxes that allow them to survive sniping headshots, three grenades, four people shooting at them, point blank shotgun shots, AND a beat down. WITH the sword? >.>
So. You've got my main reasons. My other friends have never asked, to be honest, and I've never really wanted to fess up to it considering how selfish it sounds. Seems to be so much thought into such a simple little activity that shouldn't contradict the relationship friend involves.
I turn down many of their invites too, just so you know, and they're buddies I know in RL. I'm just a loner by nature; I don't do the whole social interaction thing very well.