I'm really starting to hate games with mandatory Co-Op. Being an adult gamer in a rural part of the country, I have no IRL friends that play video games. They're all out hunting wildlife or fixing cars or something. So when it comes to games like Left 4 Dead and the newly released Alien Swarm, I'm stuck with playing with total strangers. Unfortunately for me, most total strangers are also total idiots.
There's always the guy who wants to rush ahead of everyone else. Then when he inevitably gets killed he accuses the rest of the group of being the bad players. Then there's the griefer. Forget shooting the aliens or zombies, he just wants to shoot teammates! When shooting becomes boring he resorts to things like wasting powerups and welding teammates into rooms. A rarer form of idiot is the mastermind. He is the leader nobody voted for, and refuses to play unless everyone follows his (usually bad) instructions. Listen mastermind, all 4 people in Alien Swarm do not need to pick the ammo pack for their secondary piece of equipment to be able to beat the first mission on easy difficulty. Go ahead and kick me then.
Since Alien Swarm came out 3 days ago, I've played about 8 games on it. Only one of those games actually had people in it that were actually interested in working together to finish the mission, and it was lots of fun. The other 7 games I just wanted to go back to playing something with single player, or something where I can play against these idiots instead of with them.
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