# Do you get mad at video games?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-mad-at-video-games/351774>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 7, 2006, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-mad-at-video-games/351774 "2006-04-07T20:33:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-mad-at-video-games/351774/61 "2006-04-12T18:54:47Z")

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I was playing Call of Duty: United Offensive, yesterday and one thing always bugs me. During the final battle at the train station in Kharkov, you have to put up with a lot of things, not the least of which are incessant stuka runs. The problem is, after a while it seems pretty obvious that the damn stukas are only trying to kill one thing: you. If you save the game the moment someone yells out a stuka is coming, the stuka will likely drop a bomb on your head. Reload and move somewhere forward or back. The stuka will still probably drop a bomb on your head. You can actually see it alter it’s fight path to try to hit you.

Rather breaks the illusion that you’re just a single soldier in a big war, when all the stukas are trying to kill YOU in particular.

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**Author:** ![DarrenS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DarrenS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarrenS)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-mad-at-video-games/351774/62 "2006-04-12T19:27:42Z")

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[QUOTE=HPL]  
Rather breaks the illusion that you’re just a single soldier in a big war, when all the stukas are trying to kill YOU in particular.  
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Well, you can’t blame them: if I was the enemy, I too would want to kill that guy that keeps respawning every time I kill him! 😃

I get so mad at my teammates in the COD games that I try to get them killed just to get them out of the way. If you’re hiding in a building, you push them outside one by one, so they’ll get sniped and won’t bock your retreat if you need to back off in a hurry.

I guess that’s why I don’t play online 😉

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**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2006, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-get-mad-at-video-games/351774/63 "2006-04-13T03:04:03Z")

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[QUOTE=DarrenS]  
Well, you can’t blame them: if I was the enemy, I too would want to kill that guy that keeps respawning every time I kill him! 😃

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True, but according to the rules, you don’t actually die. You die and then go back in time to an arbitrary point where you’re still alive.

So while you experience death a lot, the enemy just sees a soldier who just happens to know every ambush is coming.

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