One Lifers

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

Enjoy the read...

forums.socom.com/t5/SOCOM-4/One-Lifers/td-p/660849

[WarMachine_v1]

Read and kudo'd a while back lol

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

Glad you appreciated the content, thank you for the ups brotha.

[HTK]

Yeah that was a great thread. An old thread but a great thread.

[r_e_v]

I remember this, what's up Blue.

[WarMachine_v1]

Oh and welcome to these boards Blue... feel free to post often... hell post about w/e you want its more than just S4 here.

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

Thank you gentlemen.

What's good Rev? Glad to see you on here.

[WarMachine_v1]

Jul 5, 2010 14:00:06 GMT -5 [ D ] M-_Blue_-R said:

Thank you gentlemen.

What's good Rev? Glad to see you on here.

rev and HTK run this shit haha... literally!

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

I kinda figured that considering rev and HTK have "Admin" listed under their names.

[r_e_v]

indeed

[LUKENBACHER]

I would be an admin too, but my dumb ass would screw the site up!
(HTK & rev are REALLY good with computers and website coding.)



So they made me a "community manager" so I don't crash the servers.
My pc skills peak out when I make a signature pic or design a myspace page lol.

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

LOL.

[SOCOM_TOUGH_GUY]

wish i could read it... too bad im banned

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

Here you go Tough Guy...

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I realize I will post my personal opinion on this topic in vain but if after reading this your left reminiscing about the days' of Death Trap, Enowapi and Fox Hunt to name a few, I have accomplished my goal.

When did the SOCOM community start feeling “entitled” to a quick game, and why is it that when these “Johnny come lately” gamers' are forced to play an actual match of patience and strategy the post game lobby is now overwhelmingly filled with whining, complaining and verbal abuse?

Oh, that’s right; thank you “Gaylo,” and “Call of Dukie” for breeding a spoiled culture of non-strategic, run and gun respawn addicts'. Regardless of the rank-up opportunity these newbs’ represent, I as well those that this post represents would much rather match wits with SOCOM connoisseurs’.

I remember when a single war had the potential to last almost 3 hours' and we loved every minute of it as this represented the ultimate SOCOM experience.

Let me set the stage: You and your team have invested 2 ½ hours into this battle. There are 59 seconds' left on the clock in the 11th round of the third map (Crossroads) and you are the last one alive. The entire outcome of this war, the totality of all the training, time, and effort invested leading up to this moment rests squarely on your shoulders and everyone is watching in anticipation.

There are 2 opponents' left, they have the bomb. The final push ensues. You evade detection, the plant is executed and like Rambo you flank to pierce their defense, slay both opponents' and defuse the bomb with 5 seconds' remaining on the clock. The eruption that embraced you once the final round ended was euphoric, an unmatched gaming experience that put the SOCOM franchise on the map.

This is why the SOCOM vets' picked up their controllers’ and activated their headsets’ night after night. This is why we would endure the lag and server boots' over and over and over again. This is why we trained to master strategy in scrimmage rooms' for hours' per week. This is why we buckled down and worked harder to perfect our weaknesses after a loss, determined to overcome and improve.

Where we come from, those that play to respawn represent the bottom feeders' of our gaming culture. Minor leaguers’ that make up a world of red shirts used to re-calibrate your gun game if all other attempts to correct the problem have failed. Entering this realm for retooling purposes was embarrassing and at all costs' attempts to avoid it were regularly taken.

For those of you that are reading this and feel insulted by my position it is you that I am talking about. We don’t respect your play and when you experience a game of patience, strategy and wits' know that a team of SOCOM vets' has just schooled you to the way of the “One Lifers'.”

This is our universe and no matter how many of your kind pour into our world attempting to place your checker pieces' on our chess board, we will continue to dominate your impatience and mute your empty rhetoric until you return to where you belong, at the bottom of the food chain with the glitchers’ and newbs.

One system, one controller, one mic, one game, one life; SOCOM.

Come get some.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCt8OqzgeCI
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[unoj3w420]

so so so very true. i was getting excited reading that and the feeling of winning tht match for your clan. good stuff

[[ D ] M-_Blue_-R]

I have really missed the classic three map war forum lately.

We pick our map, side and specs, and you pick your map, side and specs. Tie breaker, Roads. The team with the most rounds won chose their side in the tiebreaker. 203's and rocket launchers, never.

Remember when you would go into a Clan Games server surfing for competition and all you saw was "8v8 Needed" rooms? Or if you put up an "8v8 Needed" room, inevitably two clans would enter and fight to establish their roster on the other side?

Oh how spoiled we were.

I think a combination of things have resulted in loosing this element within our community, but I believe the primary culprit was the elimination of one map ranked rooms.

And with all of these gamers promoting their tournament sites, I haven't seen one of them honor the classic war forum, even the ones that claim to be SOCOM specific, are you kidding me?

Its like a ghost town round' these parts.

Bring it back Zipper!