VeeKaChu
September 21st, 2007, 02:40 PM
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/21
Still playing as the doctor in TF2, which is to say that I'm still healing whenever the situation doesn't call for a burst from my fully automatic syringe gun. It's my job to bump that Heavy Weapons Guy from merely unstoppable up to "demonic," or make that Pyro invincible long enough to turn the enclosed space your team is defending into a hellish kiln. And, should my protege go down, I can usually pop back to base in time to find some other blunt instrument. The class is bad news, even minus the chaingun. I can't bring myself to play as anything else.
This has all got to be a part of some recognized psychological profile. I place greater value on enabling victory than actually securing it. Now, this may be related to the fact that I can't actually secure victory, so perhaps I've ginned up this ethical structure to account for my considerable failings. Also, according to the system, even when my opponents win I have acted in a virtuous manner. It may be that I'm completely psychotic, maybe that's my profile.
It can be difficult in a jumble of teammates to know who actually needs health, and since this game's method of healing is not passive - physically dropping medpacks, or simply radiating health - flipping my reticle over a leaping flea circus to find my patients does not produce joy. When I think about performing sweeps like that with an analog stick, I immediately think about not performing them, playing some other game instead. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/09/21)
I like the shot across the bow of FPS play on consoles, because personally, I've never found a shooter yet on any console that was half as enjoyable as the most mediocre FPS on a PC....
Still playing as the doctor in TF2, which is to say that I'm still healing whenever the situation doesn't call for a burst from my fully automatic syringe gun. It's my job to bump that Heavy Weapons Guy from merely unstoppable up to "demonic," or make that Pyro invincible long enough to turn the enclosed space your team is defending into a hellish kiln. And, should my protege go down, I can usually pop back to base in time to find some other blunt instrument. The class is bad news, even minus the chaingun. I can't bring myself to play as anything else.
This has all got to be a part of some recognized psychological profile. I place greater value on enabling victory than actually securing it. Now, this may be related to the fact that I can't actually secure victory, so perhaps I've ginned up this ethical structure to account for my considerable failings. Also, according to the system, even when my opponents win I have acted in a virtuous manner. It may be that I'm completely psychotic, maybe that's my profile.
It can be difficult in a jumble of teammates to know who actually needs health, and since this game's method of healing is not passive - physically dropping medpacks, or simply radiating health - flipping my reticle over a leaping flea circus to find my patients does not produce joy. When I think about performing sweeps like that with an analog stick, I immediately think about not performing them, playing some other game instead. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/2007/09/21)
I like the shot across the bow of FPS play on consoles, because personally, I've never found a shooter yet on any console that was half as enjoyable as the most mediocre FPS on a PC....