Discussing squad composition can make or break a round of escort in Overwatch, for example, while achieving victory in Rainbow Six Siege often relies on a team’s ability to relay tactical information on the fly. The problem is, of course, that real-time verbal communication is often as crucial to success in team-oriented games as an individual payer’s skill.
Although let’s face it, it doesn’t take much provocation to elicit a ‘git gud’. Naturally, the ‘git gud’ culture is a particular problem in the world of cooperative online games, where selfish players – those for whom the team’s success plays second fiddle to their own – use open voice channels to lambaste their companions whenever they feel they’ve been let down in some way perhaps because another player missed a seemingly straightforward shot or used their character’s special move too early. I guess you’ll just have to ‘git gud’”.Īnnoying as this kind of braggadocio is, however, not least because whoever coined the term clearly thought misspelling the words ‘get’ and ‘good’ somehow made it simultaneously less obnoxious and cooler-sounding, it would be easier to ignore if it didn’t represent a far more insidious aspect of the wider gaming community the elitist and judgemental mindset of some of its members. Well, in that case, there’s really no constructive advice I can give you I’m simply on another, higher level. Maybe I’m actually an incredibly talented gamer/human being destined to use my unique gifts to make the world a better place. They’re saying “You’ve failed how many times to complete x task!? I completed it on my first attempt so it can’t be that difficult. No one’s ever profited from this meaningless piece of non-advice, primarily because the people who say it aren’t actually trying to help their fellow gamer essentially, they’re just boasting. “Look closely at your surroundings for environmental clues, consider what you’ve learned so far and… only joking, you need to git gud”.Īn all too common feature of video game forums nowadays, especially when the title in question has a rather steep learning curve ( PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Dark Souls, Overwatch etc.) ‘git gud’ is easily one of the most unhelpful, asinine comments a gamer can receive.
“How on Earth do you complete The Witness without guides?”. “Is it actually possible to complete ‘Stormy Ascent’ on Crash Bandicoot N. “Any advice for someone who’s struggling to beat Dark Souls 3’s Nameless King?” “Git gud”.
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