Do Gamers Enjoy Dying in First-Person-Shooters? 309
Ponca City, We Love You writes "Brandon Erickson has an interesting post about an experiment on players' emotional reactions to killing and being killed in a first-person shooters (FPS) with a group of students who played James Bond 007: Nightfire while their facial expressions and physiological activity were tracked and recorded moment-to-moment via electrodes and various other monitoring equipment. The study found that "death of the player's own character...appear[s] to increase some aspects of positive emotion." The authors believe this may result from the temporary "relief from engagement" brought about by character death. "Part of this has to do with the intriguing aesthetic question of precisely how the first-person-shooter represents the player after the moment of death," says Clive Thompson. "This sudden switch in camera angle — from first person to third person — is, in essence, a classic out-of-body experience, of exactly the sort people describe in near-death experiences. And much like real-life near-death experiences, it tends to suffuse me with a curiously zen-like feeling." An abstract of the original article, "The psychophysiology of James Bond: Phasic emotional responses to violent video game events" is available on the web." Obnoxiously this alleged scholarly research is not available for free, so we'll just have to speculate wildly what it says based on the abstract.
You wouldn't enjoy it against this guy (Score:1, Funny)
not with every game... (Score:5, Funny)
Sometimes I like dying in an FPS (Score:5, Funny)
Zen state my ass... (Score:5, Funny)
For example, spawning on a grendade that kills you about 0.5 seconds after you come back usually elicits the following response: "&%#! you mother #@%!$&, that was bull$&#!"
Yeah I enjoy dying (Score:5, Funny)
007 Nightfire (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Perhaps... (Score:3, Funny)
The searing heat is a bother though. Wish they'd install air conditioning.
You mean people ENJOY playing games (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, I get that satisfaction... (Score:2, Funny)
That way I can use the voice chat to rub it in their faces after the fact
Re:You wouldn't enjoy it against this guy (Score:5, Funny)
Why, the Flying Spagetti Monster of course! He'll never leave you room for desert, always quite satisifying!
Re:not this gamer (Score:4, Funny)
Re:You wouldn't enjoy it against this guy (Score:5, Funny)
You, um, want your teammates to gather around your rag-doll body or pile of giblets mourning you until you press the space bar and come back to life?
You know who wouldn't do that?
Um...the Marines, I guess?
No. (Score:4, Funny)
(clicks before are ignored).
Re:Mr. Toad's Wild Ride: ends in hell (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You wouldn't enjoy it against this guy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I prefer instant blackout (Score:5, Funny)
There is a MEC manning the machine gunner position right next to the train wreck on Karkand. I manage to move around and get behind him, so I rush up on him and slice him with the knife. 1 kill. I then run around the other side of the concrete barrier and slice up a sniper who had been laying next to him on the other side of the fence (and somehow didn't see me.) 2 kills. I whip out my assault rifle and pop another MEC running down the bridge straight in the face with two three-shot bursts. 3 kills. Load up the grenade launcher attachment on the rifle, and take out a group of two MEC running next to each other across the bridge. 4 and 5 kills. By this time, four of my squad-mates have joined me in trying to cap the point...and I get sniped. Exhilarated, I sit back for a second...5 kills in a time span of ~30 seconds...I'm quite pleased with myself.
A medic revives me, only to have me instantly die from a grenade. Well crap, it happens. I spawn literally in the middle of a firefight near the large concrete ramp, in that little town square...end up getting teamkilled (i forgave the guy because his grenade got 2 MECs as well). I get rezzed, and get sniped. The same medic comes back and rezzes me. I take one step forward, and blow up a claymore. I respawn right next to the tracks this time, and before I can even move I get killed by an artillary strike.
I never took more than a step after respawning before I got taken out again. This went on for a total of 7 times. I had to disconnect from the game, I couldn't stop laughing:-)
Spawn camping bothers me...these kinds of things humour me.
Re:I prefer instant blackout (Score:4, Funny)
It's great. I love it when people get really pissed because I do it to them over and over because they cant pick a new spot to camp.
Re:I prefer instant blackout (Score:3, Funny)
After this camper gets shot in the head, I like to watch the angry guy who I fragged like 4 times shoot up my dead body in rage and stand statue while he types something obscene.
I then usually quip, "Not dead yet! Go back and shot me some more!"
Re:You wouldn't enjoy it against this guy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I like it if I get pwned (Score:4, Funny)
The ex freaked out over the second one; it had someone in a Kenny skin getting fragged with a sample from South Park saying "you bastard!" The future Evil-X was not amused. "That better not be one of MY kids!"
Re:Maybe it's like gambling (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I prefer instant blackout (Score:2, Funny)
Best line I read today
you had me at death.... (Score:2, Funny)