Technically, you can play any game how you see fit. It’s your game, so nobody can tell you how you must enjoy it. That said, there are definitely some unwritten rules in the video game world that you shouldn’t break.
You can consider them sins that you shouldn’t commit. If you do commit them, nothing will really happen, but other gamers may look down on you for it. Plus, you can sometimes ruin your own enjoyment of a game. So, here are some of the sins you should avoid.
8Using Overpowered Moves, Combos, Or Weapons
Wait Until They’re Nerfed
When games are first released, they sometimes aren’t balanced perfectly. There are certain moves, combos, or weapons that can doan absurd amount of damage in one go. When this is a multiplayer game, it can cause significant issues.
While there are always good samaritans who avoid using overpowered items to keep things fair, there are plenty of others who don’t. All they care about is winning, and they do that in any way they can. Therefore, skill level pretty much stops being important.
7Screen Cheating
Only Look At Your Designated Screen
Screen cheating isn’t perhaps as well-known a gaming sin as it used to be. After all, it’s only relevant for local split-screen PvP games, not online multiplayer titles. It refers to the act of looking at someone else’s screen to see where they are or what they’re doing to give yourself an advantage.
It’s a despicable and unforgivable form of cheating that’s hard to prove. This is because you’re all looking at the screen, and it’s hard to tell exactly where on the screen people are looking.
6Camping
Move Around A Bit
There are a lot of strategies you can use in PvP multiplayer games. The one that gets the most hate, though, is camping. This is where you hide in one place and wait for the enemy to move into your sights.
A very legitimate strategy on a real battlefield, but it isn’t accepted by gamers. You may be able to get away with it in battle royales where you only have a single life. In games like Call of Duty and Halo, though, people will get mad if you stay in one place and pick them all off from a distance.
5Save Scumming
Accept Your Mistakes
Not all gaming sins involve you disappointing other players online. Save scumming, for instance, doesn’t hurt anyone. That said, if you’re a gamer of honor, it should hurt you.
Save scumming is where you continually save your game, so you can quickly reload if you make even the smallest of mistakes. For example, you couldmake a decision that doesn’t go the way you expector mess up a stealth section and have to fight a whole camp of enemies. By save scumming, you can undo these misteps. But you should be dealing with or owning up to your mistakes, not save scumming your way out of them.
4Not Playing A Large Number Of A Game’s Side Quests
Side Adventures Are Fun, Too
Many games don’t just include main quests for you to complete. They also contain a bunch of side quests. However, when the story of a game gets really good, it is easy to ignore side adventures and just focus on seeing what happens next in the main narrative.
In a lot of games, you miss out on so much content by doing this. Not only are these quests sometimes excellent, but they also can add a bit more lore to the game’s universe. So, you may hurt your overall appreciation of the game by trying to rush through the main quests.
3Not Finishing Good Games
Finish What You Start
Not all gaming sins are done on purpose. One example is the act of not finishing a good game. Everyone has been there. You’ve started a game, really enjoyed it, but you just get distracted. Perhaps another game comes out or something in life takes up your attention. The longer you go without continuing the game, though, the less likely you are to ever pick it up again.
In some cases, so much time passes that you can’t remember what’s happening in the game’s story or what many of the mechanics are. This can scare you away from ever playing it again, and it remains unfinished. It’s an understandable sin that everyone is guilty of at one time or another, but it’s a gaming sin nonetheless.
2Skipping Cutscenes
They’re A Vital Part Of The Experience
If you’re playing a story-based game, there is a good chance that it has an abundance of cutscenes, andperhaps some of them are very long. Yet, that doesn’t make it okay to skip them.
A bunch of people have worked hard on those cinematics, and you can’t fully appreciate the story being told if you bypass them. You’d be doing a disservice to both yourself and the game by not watching them all. Now, you are allowed to skip cutscenes without feeling bad if you’ve already played the game before and witnessed the scenes previously. On your first playthrough, though, you should be experiencing all of them.
1Rage Quitting
The concept of quitting a game in a fit of rage because you aren’t doing well has been around forever. However, when you do it while playing a single-player game, there isn’t any issue. In multiplayer, though, rage quitting is a serious offense.
This is because in some games, it hurts the enjoyment of the player or players who are winning. For instance, if you rage quit in a fighting game, then the other player has nobody to fight, so the battle ends prematurely, which is annoying. This is often the case in sports games, too. You take your beating like a mature adult.
