It’s always interesting when I play CoH with Margie while on a business trip. We lose the “bandwidth” of immediate verbal communication, but we’ve done this stuff with these character for so long, we know the drill, and a few quick keybinds (“Gather for Invis …” + “Ready!” + “Hey, look at that &target!”) fill in a lot of the gaps. We know our tactics, we know each other’s powers and so forth, so easy-peasy. Sure, it’s more difficult to type “HELP!” than to shout it across the room when something goes south, but the team status bar shows that, too.
Nevertheless, it’s still a lot more fun with Margie in the same room.
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***Dave Does the Game
Yes, I have always pictured you two yelling things at one of us not in the same room as you. 🙂
Yes. Usually something like, “Where’s [fill in name] going?” Or “No, [fill in name]! Invis is wearing off!” Or “I’m really getting tired of [fill in name]’s [annoying tactic].” Or “Why is [fill in squishy name] up in front?” Or …
Yes, there’s a reason I’ve never been interested in doing voice comm. outside our household. 🙂
Well. now that I’ve moved, I’ve had the opportunity to play CoH with another player in the same room. Our game-related conversations tended toward gossip about the other players/characters. Lots of joking around.
Pretty much the same as usual, but without having to stop and type all the witty comments I make privately while running with certain friends.
So Avo…you haven’t told us who your Roommate is yet.
Hmmm?
Hmmm?
Primarily because it’s nobody you know. It’s not the person I played CoH with. But if you’re interested, Krista’s a 19-yaer-old I worked with. She wanted to move up here to be near the guy she met playing Final Fantasy XI. So usually I’m in here playing CoH, and she’s in her room playing FF. Except that so far, he’s been staying here several days a week, so they play other games.
Yes, there’s a reason I’ve never been interested in doing voice comm. outside our household. 🙂
When I was still playing Dark Age of Camelot, there were those who asked why I didn’t want to use TeamSpeak for live chats.
I was playing a Druid–it was my job to keep everyone alive. I would go into “Healer’s Trance”. I could tell by character grunts of pain who was getting hurt and rarely had to look at the health bars to see the exacting details.
When things started to go south for the group–as many people began to get badly hurt– I’d begin to utter the most foul things. The more hurt the group was, the more colorful my speech would become. I didn’t think everyone would be amused by hearing me say “Don’t you dare die on my you useless son of a …”. It only got worse from there.