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My Addiction To Rainbow Six: Siege (And a petty Siege Multiplayer Rant)(And maybe a rant about Shaymin)

Posted May 29th, 2016 at 9:12 PM by Zoroark Cutie

Since February of this year, I've been an absolute addict to Rainbow Six: Siege. It rarely has seen the light outside of my PlayStation 4, that's how much I've been addicted to it. It's really hard to say why I'm so addicted to it, sorta why I can't answer why I was addicted to League of Legends from mid 2013 to early 2015.

It's of course all in the gameplay as to why I'm so addicted to it, but not from the singleplayer. Not going to lie, the singleplayer does get stale in a short time since there's 10 levels, but they all last at the very max 10 minutes. Plus they don't get you a lot of renown, the in-game currency, unless you're doing all the challenges for a Situation (Which roughly comes out at 6000 Renown after doing all of them.), but I already completed all the objectives so there's not a whole lot of reason to play them. I haven't touched the multiplayer, mostly because I would probably suck at it, I don't have a headset so I can't communicate and a game like this needs voice communication because it is crucial, and this might be a bit petty, but the multiplayer just feels so weird to me.

Sorry, but I feel like I need to rant on this. Like you have this intro to the game where you are shown that your enemies is a terrorist group called the White Masks, yet when you go to the multiplayer everyone is shown as an Operator, including your enemies. Like you would think that they would have it set to where enemy Operators show up as a White Mask terrorist, or even an Option to if you want to have it as that or as the actual Operators, but no, it's Operators all the time and it is so weird because half of the Operators are Defenders and they have to protect hostages and bombs. So does this mean that the Defenders are Terrorists? Well no because not only is that unlikely, but Frost and Valkyrie, the two newest Defending Operators are shown to work together with their Attacker counterparts, Buck and Blackbeard. Plus why would a counter terrorist team be protecting a hostage or setting off some bombs. Okay, maybe the hostage thing can be explained that they got word that a large amount of enemies are about to attack the building and so they must hold out and protect the hostage from harm, but what about the bombs? Maybe you could say that they found a terrorist hide out and so they are going to bomb it. You could make that argument with maps like the Oregon map which is a rundowned or unfinished building and the Clubhouse map, and this would before I slap you across the face because I'm 101% sure that a group of terrorists would NOT use a small Suburban house with a children's room, a Yacht that is stuck in the Hudson Bay, a fully Operational Russian, French Consulate building, American Bank and a British SAS training base in Herefordshire, and a Presidential Plane! Plus what counter terrorist team would deploy a gas bomb filled with a deadly compound?! "Well maybe they wanted to get rid of the terrorists in the building for good while keeping the building intact." says the naysayers who think they are smarter than everyone else before I back hand them with my ring on because these areas have no one else around and the matches are always 5v5 so I find it unlikely that a counter terrorist unit or even a terrorist unit would use a poisonous gas bomb to take care of only 5 enemies. So it just seems weird to me. Maybe I'm being nitpicky and should just take the fact that it's just a game, but eh, I can't help it.

So anyway most of the time I spend on the game is in the co-operative Terrorist Hunt mode. Now some people may find that boring since you're going up against AI, but I don't mind and the AI is not easy on the Realistic difficulty. Now I usually play either Terrorist Hunt Classic, Extract Hostage, and Protect Hostage. Disarm Bomb can kiss my red mane all it wants, I don't care about it. Terrorist Hunt Classic is just simple, you play as an Attacker and make your way into a building and eliminate all the terrorists inside. Extract Hostage and Protect Hostage are also simple, they are exactly as they sound, plus Protect Hostage is the only Terrorist Hunt mode where you get to play as a Defender. I personally don't care for Disarm Bomb that much and that's mostly because of how I constantly get suckish players or players who won't like where I place the Defuser and just out right kill me. Now I personally like all these modes and play them about equally, except for Protect Hostage when I'm grinding for Renown because I'll just keep doing that on House since I memorized where and when the hostages will spawn. Not for any other map though. It's weird, I can't memorize all the spawn locations for the hostage and even the bombs in Siege across 10 maps, but yet I can memorize most of the League of Legends champions and all of the Pokemon. Except for maybe Tynamo and Tympole because I mixed them up. And also that little rat of a grass hedgehog who I nickname [CENSORED]erson, aka Shaymin, and I will do that on purpose.

I'm sorry to all the people who really like Shaymin, but I personally grew a dislike for Shaymin due to the Giratina movie. That one Shaymin who's in the movie the entire time is such a pompus little brat with an irritating, ear-bleeding voice to the point where I hope that an Ice type would destroy the little rat. Plus that movie bored me to the point where I was literally crying out of agony so that makes me dislike Shaymin even more. That Shaymin is such a snobby little kid and I can never see Shaymin the same ever again after watching it. It also literally did next to nothing, if not nothing, during the entire flick. It's also weird because Super Mystery Dungeon didn't ruin Pancham for me even though the Pancham in that game was a school bully who kept picking on your partner and Goomy, but at least he acts more friendly to you and even respects you a bit after a short time and he gets what he deserves very earlier on, plus with Pancham being a Panda Pokemon may make not dislike it even more since Pandas are adorable. I find it somewhat shameful that I dislike Shaymin because to be honest, Shaymin is really cute and adorable and I do want to love it again, it's just that it's hard for me to like it again after the Giratina movie.

Back to Siege and I promise no more rants at this point forward because I do want to focus on Siege. So anyway, when I grind for Renown on the House map, I generally do it on the Night time version of the map due to the light to dark transition is much more bearable for me than on the Day time versions where I try to go in and yet I can't see anything because it looks so dark on the inside. I will literally spend hours playing this one mode on this one map because on average I get anywhere between 150-200 renown easily and so when I'm trying to unlock something that is really expensive, like a new DLC Operator who cost 25000 Renown, you can bet that I will stay on that for hours, even more than half of the day. Imagine yourself playing a game, and you're doing the same thing over and over and over and over in one area for more than half a day. That's my days on Siege when my addiction to it is cranked up and I will not stop at anything to get the new thing I want. I do change it up by switching characters, but sometimes I go mad hungry for that renown and I stick to Glaz since he has the potential to earn the most points out of all Operators on my time given his gadget earns you a few extra and that he's a sniper and avoid Shield Operators like the plague since they have the potential to not only earning me the least amount of points, but wasting more time since they only have pistols, unless it's Blackbeard since he has a rifle shield and I waste as much time using him as I do with 3/4ths of the entire Attacking Operator roster.

Should I not be grinding, I'm spending my time playing 3 of the 4 Terrorist Hunt modes either by myself or with other people. When in match making, I get so un-patient with the waiting that I get irritable with the wait and if the host either leaves or gets disconnect, or I get disconnected from the servers or my internet cuts off for no reason for a split second that I never see, I get pretty angry and sometimes even yell out profanity. If I am able to stay in a match or the match making gods are on my side during that time, not only do I spend a lot more time playing, but I also even get somewhat of an ego-complex while playing it. Like I'll see someone use DLC Operator and if I do have that ego-complex at that time, I'll just think to myself "Look at this smug son of a mommy. Thinking that he will take all my points and make me get none. I'll show him just who is the boss of this team and who is the best person!". I blame myself for that since most of the time I do play Terrorist Hunt, I do end up being the highest scoring person on my team most of the time, like 75-80% of the time on Normal that is. So one or two things will happen after that. I either lose the ego-complex for a bit and just go back to playing the game for fun or the ego-complex stays and I'll just be hoping that I will have my side played during the ending replay or just waiting for the scores to show and hope that I will have the highest score and if I don't I just stare at the screen like it was nothing and if I made the lowest score I look just as happy as Britney Spears does whenever she does a fake smile. It's the Siege addiction y'all. The Siege addiction made me grow the ego-complex. Or maybe it was League of Legends and coming across Diamond level players in my Co-Op vs. AI matches that make me go "Get this person out of my game." and people locking in Champions with cool skins on that make me so jelly that it makes me think I'm better when I see people who are better than me, which is like 95% of whole gaming community.

Even when I get off the game, I still crave for more Rainbow Six: Siege action. So I go searching for anything from videos of Siege that I already watched to desperately trying to find new Siege content, to watching the Esports competition. I feel like I just can't escape the game. Like I'll want to do something else, but I always think about it and want to go back to it just to play more. Like it won't leave me alone, it's sitting in my console begging for me to go back and play it more and I do. At least it won't be like this for much longer. Once Mirror's Edge: Catalyst comes out, I'm will take a break from Siege to my over loving delight to play Catalyst for what will feel like an eternity.
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