Argh, stop watching me!

[Momiji]

Are you the type of person who seems to do worse playing games when other people are watching over your shoulder? I have learned today that I cannot play shmups effectively at all when people are standing right behind me watching.


Discuss.

[Goldenboko]

Whenever my brother watches me play Halo I go on a killing spree! With that said thats only happened twice xD

[Bunny]

I cannot stand when people are behind me at any point. I can handle it if they are sitting right beside me watching or infront of me watching. But behind me is just out of the question.

[Jessweeee♪]

Only with Solitaire S:

I don't mind when, say, my family watches me play video games, because whenever they pop in, it just happens to be during a loading screen, so they think I am crazy and just staring at a blank screen. Maybe if they watched more, they'd see that I am actually playing a super neat game.

[Shoeberto]

My room mate this past year would watch me anytime I played video games and it annoyed me to no end. But I think it's just because I didn't really like the guy to start off. Most of the time I don't care if anyone watches me.

[Vermachtnis]

I don't like to be watched either. But if they insist on watching me I try to be entertaining and do stuipid stuff. After watching me play KoF 2006, my friend wanted to know how he kept beating me. When I told him I don't use those cheap moves playing against people cause it isn't fair he gave a strange look.

[o_O]

I like playing video games with friends watching, and I like watching friends playing video games.

I hate it when people I don't know watch me play though. :p

[Madame Adequate]

Doesn't bother me in itself. It bothers me if someone's standing over me watching, because they're standing over me, not because they're watching.

[Yar]

People watching me play games annoys me to no end, but what drives me absolutely insane is when people try to tell me how to play my games.

"You need to get the..."
"SHUT THE HELL UP! LET ME PLAY MY GAMES!!!!:mad2::mad2:"
"But you need the..."
"I'LL PLAY THE GAMES THAT I BOUGHT THE WAY I WANT TO PLAY THEM. WHEN YOUR PLAYING YOU CAN PLAY HOWEVER YOU WANT. LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!!!"

Then feelings get hurt and relationships are destroyed. But what's even worse is that people are telling me how to play my game! :mad:

[Evastio]

I usually don't mind people watching me. Unless I'm doing really badly or doing something insanely hard (like how I spent weeks trying to defeat boss battles on Intense Mode with Marth).

[Tasura]

I seem to do better when people watch me play, I was stuck on a boss on several occasions and couldn't beat them, then people watched me play and BAM bosses defeated.

[Lionx]

Personally i dont mind, it means usually that you are doing good or the match(since i usually play Fighting Games in arcades) is interesting to watch. Though i admit if its someone i know i tend to mess up since they can cap on me later XD. Gotta learn to focus a lil better.

[Germ Hamee]

People watching me play games annoys me to no end, but what drives me absolutely insane is when people try to tell me how to play my games.

"You need to get the..."
"SHUT THE HELL UP! LET ME PLAY MY GAMES!!!!:mad2::mad2:"
"But you need the..."
"I'LL PLAY THE GAMES THAT I BOUGHT THE WAY I WANT TO PLAY THEM. WHEN YOUR PLAYING YOU CAN PLAY HOWEVER YOU WANT. LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!!!"

Then feelings get hurt and relationships are destroyed. But what's even worse is that people are telling me how to play my game! :mad:

Yeah. That. Pretty much exactly. I get really testy when people try giving me any sort of advice when I'm playing. "Germ, what are you doing? Cast blah blah!" "STFU!! *does exactly the opposite of what they said*"

[Lionx]

People watching me play games annoys me to no end, but what drives me absolutely insane is when people try to tell me how to play my games.

"You need to get the..."
"SHUT THE HELL UP! LET ME PLAY MY GAMES!!!!:mad2::mad2:"
"But you need the..."
"I'LL PLAY THE GAMES THAT I BOUGHT THE WAY I WANT TO PLAY THEM. WHEN YOUR PLAYING YOU CAN PLAY HOWEVER YOU WANT. LEAVE ME THE HELL ALONE!!!"

Then feelings get hurt and relationships are destroyed. But what's even worse is that people are telling me how to play my game! :mad:

Yeah. That. Pretty much exactly. I get really testy when people try giving me any sort of advice when I'm playing. "Germ, what are you doing? Cast blah blah!" "STFU!! *does exactly the opposite of what they said*"

Unless its a 2+ player game :D

[blackmage_nuke]

It doesnt annoy me but I always seem to become worse at games when im watched.

[Kes]

When either, I'm not confident about my playing skills or they're seriously doubting my ability I fail even worse than I usually do.

I'm not good at video games to begin with, but I still enjoy playing them, and if people start judging me, I stop playing.

[NeoCracker]

Imma join the "DON'T TELL ME HOW TO PLAY" camp.

Though people watching doesn't bother me if the shut up at critical times.

Though it felt odd that once there were 5 people watching me play Harvest Moon: Magical Melody.

Really, its fun to play, but how can anybody actually sit down and watch that? And 5 people at that. Hell, one of them was in his late 30's.

[Breine]

I guess I get more conscious of what I'm doing in the game and such, which can sometimes be a bad thing. My little sister will sometimes come in and ask me if she can watch me play (for whatever reason), and it usually doesn't worsen my performance that much.

[Roogle]

I would love to hear the advice of someone more experienced and wisened in the ways of whatever game I am playing.

[Elite Lord Sigma]

I'm usually annoyed by it because the people who do watch me tend to give me advice; this advice is either about segments of the game I've already done, something I already know how to do, or something I don't care about.

[Quindiana Jones]

I always seem to cock-up more when people are watching me do anything, haha.

[Yar]

I would love to hear the advice of someone more experienced and wisened in the ways of whatever game I am playing.

But that is different than hearing it from either a) someone who knows nothing about which they are talking or b) someone telling you exactly what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why to do it.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

i like when people watch me play games, it makes me feel superior cause they cant do it :p

[NeoCracker]

I would love to hear the advice of someone more experienced and wisened in the ways of whatever game I am playing.

But that is different than hearing it from either a) someone who knows nothing about which they are talking or b) someone telling you exactly what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why to do it.


And don't forget WHEN you're doing it. :p

[capricious]

Hmmm not really... Pretty much the same... I don't mind people watching me play... Now when I play multiplayer, I tend to mess up because I hate being competitive. :mad2: Cause I always end up looking at the other person's screen.

[Misfit]

I don't mind at all if somebody watches me play something, because then I get all AMG LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!!!!11 and then I do amazing things. 8-)

[Bunny]

You've never done amazing things.

[Roogle]

But that is different than hearing it from either a) someone who knows nothing about which they are talking or b) someone telling you exactly what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why to do it.

If they are telling me what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why to do it, they must know more about the game than I do; however, if they are just being bossy for no particular reason, then I can see why it can become a problem.

[Tifa's Real Lover(really]

I don't mind at all if somebody watches me play something, because then I get all AMG LOOK WHAT I CAN DO!!!!11 and then I do amazing things. 8-)


yeaaaaaa same here :p

[Peegee]

Depends on the game and whether I am actively talking to them. If talking is involved, I can't play 2 D fighters (unless I act rude and not look at them when I talk)

For a game like world of warcraft. I can do my job without looking at the game. So I actually actively chat with friends on msn, surf the web, and talk to IRL people all while tapping some 5 buttons in rthymic fashion.

The game's too easy.

[Gogo]

i enjoy being watched so i can show of my l33t skills. *ahem*
nah, if i lose and im being watched, i get stressed. if i win im ok xD

[Germ Hamee]

I would love to hear the advice of someone more experienced and wisened in the ways of whatever game I am playing.

lol, I don't even care if they do know what they're talking about. When someone wants me to do things a certain way so badly, I just begin to wonder if they're expecting me to hand the controller over to them or something.

Most of the time I'm not even having trouble when somebody chimes in with their not-so-humble opinion of what I should do. So I get annoyed, and since I'm so irritated I begin to lose interest in playing. And start sucking -- to which the backseat player gloats, mistaking my sudden apathy for failure due to not listening. At which point I fantasize about cracking their skulls with the controller and marching away vindictively.

Meh. It's one thing if I actually need the advice, and another when it's a difference in style and/or something I'm already going to do.