It was a last minute choice as we were leaving the Family video. I had $20 to spend on food and entertainment for the night from my parents (a rare gift) and we had only found one movie to watch for the night. “How about we get a video game?” my friend suggested as we passed the video game alcove. Sure, what the hell. “Which one?” I asked. “Let’s get Call of Duty. The new one” she said as she grabbed Call of duty: Black Ops off of the shelf. Well this should be interesting. We grabbed it, paid the ridiculously high $20 deposit and left to get our snacks for the night.
We decided to watch the movie first and popped in Takers, a non-quite original but still very entertaining film, especially due to the appearances of T.I. and Chris Brown, including a chase scene where Chris Brown gets to show off his crazy acrobatics. After the movie ended, we decided to put in Call of Duty and play a few rounds. It really helped that the movie we had just watched had lots of intense shooting scenes. We were all ridiculously, almost frighteningly, pumped to gun each other down in a game that we all barely knew how to play.
It took a little while to figure out how to get started, but once we did, that was all that mattered for the next hour. It consisted of us all running around a level checking our radars to try and find the little red dots that represented our enemy’s (aka each other), and once we finally ran into each other we would start screaming and shooting wildly then yelling out expletives when we accidentally killed ourselves with our own grenades, or when couldn’t figure out how to aim so we would repeatedly shoot at the persons feet. One of my friends who wasn’t playing decided to take a video of us with her phone at one point during our gaming session. When we watched it back, it was a little embarrassing how into it we were. It consisted of periods of intense silence which would be suddenly broken by rounds of gunfire, which were soon drowned out by us all yelling. This cycle repeated several times.
After a while we became mentally exhausted from playing and opted to put the game away for the night. As I recall this incident, it becomes even more ridiculous to me. We aren’t gamers by any means, and yet all of our energy and focus was centered on the TV screen and all that mattered was that I got more lucky kills than anyone else, and when I didn’t, I was furious and resorted to yelling and rocking back and forth in my chair violently. It’s probably a good thing I don’t play video games more often.
This post was so funny! I have the exact same problem if I ever get involved in a shooting video game. I get way too excited, and it's hard not to, when you're being shot at! Great post, and definitely relatable for anyone who has tried playing Call of Duty.
ReplyDeleteI can totally imagine this happening. :D This is an interesting post with some nice reflection about how into the game you got. I think it's nice that your conclusion was that it's good you don't play video games more often rather than saying, "now I'm hooked and can never go back!"
ReplyDeleteNice post! good job. :)
An entertaining and helpful post. I'll try to stay away from video games...it seems pretty easy to get sucked in.
ReplyDeleteI have the exact same problem whenever I play a shooting game, especially one like Counter Strike. You get so pumped in the game, you end up either getting really excited over a kill or you get unreasonably angry when someone kills you from the back.
ReplyDeleteNice Post :)
I can totally see this happening! Granted, I'm not a huge fan of video games, I would love to play this one with you!
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy that you mentioned watching Takers. Such a "you" movie.
Nice post! since i personally am so bad at video games, i dont care at all if i die. Instead, i piss off my friends by mocking how serious they are. Which leads to them killing me more, me laughing more, etc. Watching people play in the lounge is also very entertaining.
ReplyDeleteThis post really speaks to me because I'm terrible at shooting games. I do this all the time with my little brother, who swears profusely at the screen, while I try to figure out how not to kill myself with my own grenade. Sometimes I follow him around sneakily via "screen cheating" or whatever the hell he called it, and kill him. It's awesome.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, lovely post! :)
Great post! Makes me want to wait another couple years before I get my eight-year-old son a video game system. (He's been begging.) I like Ezra's attitude, even though I know not everyone is able to be so casual when the heat of the game begins.
ReplyDeleteI like your new template! I love Totoro.
haha great story definitely sounds like something you would do. I'm not particularly good at video games either since I never play them; I almost always end up messing around whenever I'm a someones house and they decide to play video games.
ReplyDeletebwhaha. Yep, sounds like you. I'm pretty awful at first person shooters (but not as bad as Steven) but for some reason, I can do better when I can see the entire body of the character I'm controlling. Anyway, nice post!
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