Comments on: Inarticulacy In the UK: Brits Don’t Talk

By: FRIENDLYUNIT

FRIENDLYUNIT — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:13:21 +0000

As an Australian I may be somewhere in the middle. If it’s my friends I’ll yabber.
If it’s strangers I’ll make pertinent tactical comments and also the occasional comment appropriate to OMG or LOL moments.

But yes, I very much dislike people who talk constantly (mike-spammers) and they tend to make me go into shock and clam up.

By: Shnyker

Shnyker — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:27:08 +0000

Hm, I’ve had mixed results with brits on the mic. Most wont say much at all, but I’ve gotten a few who don’t shut the hell up. Though I must say I’ll take the bad team with all the talkies over the pro team in silence.

All studies conducted in TF2

By: Javier-de-Ass

Javier-de-Ass — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:00:51 +0000

I don’t know, I seem to have to mute annoying talky island morons all the time.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:33:40 +0000

Remember there likely much fewer brits playing than americans. Also brits are in the curious place of being able to play on european (lots of languages/nationalities) and east coast US servers (almost all Americans).

I’d love to play up to the reserved brit stereotype (you’d I probably think I do in face to face contact) and make all the brits and angophiles happy but I think the issue is 50% the situation most brits are playing in as opposed to an entirely cultural issue.

I will also go out on a limb with a few giant stereotypes and generalisations myself and say American kids are on average probably slightly more privaledged than brits, and there are probably more kids towards the working class end of the spectrum playing than in the UK. Awful thing to say but I have a feeling it’s true. Sorry.

By: Eplekongen

Eplekongen — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:59:01 +0000

aw, jeez…

By: seer

seer — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:04:42 +0000

true Brits are also overeducated and pedantic, and so would know that taciturn and laconic are almost synonymous, and thus using both is redundant. turn in your card please.

on-topic, i’ve found that if you communicate tactical info and don’t prate about what a colossal fart you just ripped, people will communicate back just fine regardless of nationality. (is prate a word? some educated Brit help me out.)

By: Quercus

Quercus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:43:30 +0000

I’m sorry, but a girl playing multiplayer games is still too much of a rarity to get any other reaction. My wife loves gaming but generally isn’t into the sort of online multiplayer ones likely to have or use voice comms. I did get her to play Battlefield 1942 for a while but it generally isn’t her thing.

By: Quercus

Quercus — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:35:33 +0000

No, I don’t think there are any specific regions where we have anything like red-necks. As a gross generalisation I would say the northerners tend to be more vocal, but that is about as close as it gets.

By: Szudden

Szudden — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:24:29 +0000

We hate them too. So how can there be so many? It keeps me up at night. The folks I play with usually immediately kick anyone whose voice pitch is too high.

Slightly off-topic, but a fun story: a couple nights back, while a buddy and I were waiting for a lobby to fill up to start a L4D match, a kid joined. Squeaky voice, so my buddy asked his age. Kid said he was 12, so my friend asked if his mom or dad was home, and if so, to put them on the mic. The kid put a gal on who said she was his mother, and my buddy proceeded to tell her that the lobby was full of adults, and there was likely to be a lot of vulgar lanquage and profanity, and we needed her permission to allow the 12 year old to play with us. I had to mute my mic, I was laughing so hard.

She granted permission, but the kid quit almost right away. Thank goodness, as he could only blame lag for his shortcomings.

By: Ozzie

Ozzie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:04:22 +0000

Yeah, I also wasn’t sure if you, Mitthrawn, were honestly talking about “Preußen”!? Yep, that state stopped existing many, many years ago. Before you were born, presumably.

By: We Fly Spitfires

We Fly Spitfires — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:43:06 +0000

As a British gamer, the only response I have to this is “meh”.

By: Irish Al

Irish Al — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:53:59 +0000

The French are great men for the ould chat in online games.