Online multi player gaming is such a great idea that I have no idea how we, as a species, survived without it for so long. It's a perfect venue for friends, separated by hundreds of miles, to come together and humiliate others together. Or be humiliated yourself of course but we'll get to that in a minute. I have a tip for this sort of thing.
A great game for multi player is one of the most popular on the market now. You may have guessed right, Halo. Now, I'm gonna guess that if you've played Halo (or any other game for that matter) online then at some point you've had someone, somewhere say something horrible about you or your immediate family. If you have I hope it wasn't me... unless you deserved it, in which case I say it's all part of the game. This last thought leads me to the reason for my gaming tip. If you party up allot on live you may be missing a great opportunity to smack talk under the best of circumstances. Like when people make fun of you or your team mates for some stupid reason in the pregame lobby. I'm talking about necessary retribution; those golden opportunities to entertain your friends by telling someone a little bit about them self. Things they never knew before, like the current whereabouts of their mother. But I digress.
My tip pertains to the way you have your speaker output set up on the Xbox. Just last week noticed a few different people who where totally unaware of this function of the party chat system. If you set your speaker output to play through headset and speakers you can hear the players in the regular game chat channel. You hear them through your TV speakers and your party members through your headset.
You achieve this setting by hitting the xbox button and selecting settings then preferences and then clicking on the voice tab. Here you will want to look at the voice output section and select play through both. That's it. Soon you will be hearing all the unnecessary comments about "those damn party chat users". Be sure to duck out of your party chat and greet them in anyway you see fit.
Please comment about your online game experiences. Let me know if you found this tip useful and if you have any others for me. Good games all.
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My usual routine when I am matched up for a game in Halo is find who all has a speaker icon next to their names and mute. There are times when I either forget or am feeling a bit righteous and deal out the crap talk myself. Generally though when I get mad, I string out profanities to the room I'm in, not into the headset.
ReplyDeleteIt was great to talk about this in class. You can go in and revise a blog post any time, so if something from class seemed right to you, go for it.
ReplyDeleteI remember back in ye olde days of Counterstrike (also the last time I played multiplayer video games online) when voice chat first came into use.
ReplyDeleteIt was funny because everyone who claimed to be 19, 20, 22 years old seemed to have the voice and temperament of a 14-year-old boy. Because that's what they were, and they could no longer hide behind the anonymity of the internet. And unless you were in a clan and could organize on the basis of existing familiarity, it served only to increase exponentially the amount of terrible language you heard on a daily basis. Personally, I'm all for that.