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So, what’s it all about then and why do I do it?
Well first of all when you play an On-Line game that you have never played before you do tend to slowly wander around looking at stuff, a bit like introducing a new fish to a tank, it used to make me laugh watching a new fish coming out of the bag and then looking around all worried as all the other fish float up to him, normally the fish will quickly swim to the bottom and find a corner or a hiding place to sit in, it would then stay there just venturing out now and again for a quick look around.
and naturally that hiding place is a typical spot for the big fish in the tank to find food and then i’m afraid your F@@@ed.
LOL, there you have it, next time someone or even yourself arrives on a strange map one day, remember the fish, of course there is the fact that you have never kept fish before in which case you will not have the slightest clue what i’m banging on about, for those of you who fit this bill I have a message: “Get Some Fish”.
So, here we are, we have learnt that every time we run around this corner some Bastard shoots you in the head, one shot, finished, its very frustrating because he is the one that that is laughing at you and calling you a Camper, but yet, he’s there every time, who is the caper her? the Camper, or the fool who call’s him the Camper?.
Anyway we don’t want to cry over spilt milk, so we get to know our environment, by the way, I find PC games a form of escape, there is nothing better than to get stuck in to a good game that takes your imagination away, for example, when i played Half Life 2, I was Gordon Freeman, when I played Startrek Accademy, I was Captain Kirk, I Love it.
you may laugh but games really are getting that good that you can loose yourself for hours, and I think it is a good thing, i really do, my wife thinks i’m childish and i need to grow up but what does she know, she’s never slain the dreaded Rankor monster on the Planet Tatooine, she’s never flown a Starship through the Batara Nebular, and she’s never waged war against the Harkonen eighther.
Anyway, lets get back to the point, you slowly get to know where to stand and not to stand, but you are still having difficulty keeping the mouse straight once someone appears in front of you, this is normally down to sheer panic, even if the enemy has his back to you and doesn’t know your there, these victims can be even harder to hit because you are so excited that you end up drilling bullets into the wall in front of him in the shape of his silhouette, then of course, you’ve given the game away, he strolls up to you as he hears your gun going ”Clink” “Clink” “Clink”, by this time you have switched to the smoke grenade because you have gone and pressed the wrong button out of sheer terror.
From the other players point of view at this stage, he thinks that you are taking the piss, as he strolls up to you he sees you launch a smoke grenade at the floor and start to do this weird jumping and squatting movement.
Back to you, the player now, you are caught between a chair and the doorframe, you cant see because the smoke is everywhere, you are shrieking at the top of your voice shaking your mouse and stabbing the buttons on the keyboard (which has now collapsed at it is on a special pull out tray), your wife has charged into the room to see if you have hurt yourself, whilst you are shouting “SOD OFF”...”OH Now LOOK”......”YOU PUT ME OFF” (while the enemy is stabbing you with the lowest form of weapon in any game, the pocket knife.
Yes, i’ve been there, and recovered and still persevered.
at one point, going back in the early days of playing Counter Strike, I managed to kill a victim in a type of Mexican stand off, leaving me with about 10% health only to find that my associate threw a flash bang that hit me on the back of the head, hence, killing me.
There is no doubt about it, I suppose you could call me a camper, as I have got better at finding my way around it just means that I know the spots to run and wait for the guy who is going to venture round the corner, just as the enemy did to me earlier in the blogg, one difference though, I will not criticize a camper.
As far as I am concerned you should never camp at any enemy spawn point as that is just plain cheating, but, camp hostage’s, camp bomb sites, I ask you, in the real world we do not have bomb sites marked out for us do we?.
In the real world we wouldn’t leave the hossies on their own and run off, would we?
So, i’m sorry to all you Camper haters out there, I will use this to my advantage, I will sit with hossies, when you come to take them I will “share my bullets” with you, I will sit at the bomb sites, when you come to lay them bomb I will “pepper your ass”.
So there you have it, it all goes back to being lost in the game, I play the game as realistic as I can, as realistic as the real world.
I can give you one more piece of information which can be treated as a Scientific evaluation if you like, I went paint balling with a fellow member of our Clan who takes the micky at campers, guess what he did all day?
He Camped, Why? Because he didn’t want to look like a modern art painting.
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