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"GTD" <Stoooopid@duuuh.net> wrote in message 
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> Major Ursa wrote:
>> On Tuesday 28 August 2007 05:21 GTD wrote:
>>
>>> My kid has tried, he plays online for about 2
>>> minutes and switches to CSS. there are alot of people out there
>>> making UT online play suck. The whole spastic jumping/walldodge
>>> crap is the biggest annoyance to me. It becomes about who knows
>>> the maps and where the health and weapons are in them, and who
>>> can jump around the most.
>>
>> I'm glad your kid went, it is better he goes back to his CS crowd.
>> Whenever a kid from CS enters UT he's whining or laming. They just
>> don't have the character and perseverance to learn a game fully.
> You really don't know my kid then.
>
>>
>> Once you *learn* the game, like any sport or endeavour, it will be
>> huge fun. There is nothing spastic about jumping/dodging, it is a
>> new verstatile way of moving around that makes the game less
>> predictable and less machine-like.
> You're trying to project that we should like it better because YOU like it 
> better. The jumping/dodging IS spastic, and like I said, it's just taken 
> over the purpose of the game. You don't have to agree with me, but you're 
> not going to convince me otherwise.
>
>>
>> And map-knowledgde, yeah right. What's wrong with that. Or is it
>> the fact that you need to invest maybe more than 10 minutes te
>> learn something?
> Calm down, you don't have to get all high-and-mighty. Jees.
>
>>
>> I never played UT off-line. I never play any off-line games anymore
>> except to check the maps and the agility before going online.
>> Can't even imagine playing against a computer again. Sheez, so
>> boring.
>>
>> Ursa..
>>
>
>
> It's the elitist mentality of your whole post that drives people away. I'm 
> not sure why you even bothered to respond, except to let the world know 
> that you like the game and think little of those that don't.

He's entitled to his opinion, even though I don't share it either.

DM matches have turned into a bunny-hopping jump-dodging festival. What 
happens is the skill level is replaced by keybinding and speed apps that do 
the movement at superhuman speed. When I first saw the wall-dodge video that 
hit before 2K3's launch I thought it was a bad idea. It's not a gymnastics 
sim. All that excess movement coupled with the extended jump range and 
lowered gravity and inertia made everything seem, well, unreal.