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In many games these days you got taunts and will have opportunities in which you can perform these taunts against opponents without any reparation ex when you win a round of a game such as Team Fortress 2 and many fighting games

Do you consider this unacceptable behavior? Not talking about "unintended" taunts like teabagging, I'm talking about purposely programmed taunt animations/audio/whatever. Do taunts proclaim the type of person someone is with situations such as a steamroll or a cheap win? Are there times when such taunts are accepted like a real gg?

I'm mainly asking since I actually do find myself taunting post game quite a few times and wondering if I'm coming off as some type of troll or jerk

If they're programmed in, then no. I find them funny. Maybe rubbing my face in it a little, but I don't mind my enemy celebrating a little.

If you can't take a taunt or smack talk, then you shouldn't be playing any sort of competitive game.

 Necroshea wrote:
If you can't take a taunt or smack talk, then you shouldn't be playing any sort of competitive game.

I am a firm believer in sportsmanship and smack talk is childish in the extreme and I have no time for man-children.

I don't mind the taunts in TF2 though, not least becuase if you do taunt you are probably going to die (or even kill yourself in the case of the escape plan) and they are usually quite funny.

Palindrome wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
If you can't take a taunt or smack talk, then you shouldn't be playing any sort of competitive game.

I am a firm believer in sportsmanship and smack talk is childish in the extreme and I have no time for man-children.

I don't mind the taunts in TF2 though, not least becuase if you do taunt you are probably going to die (or even kill yourself in the case of the escape plan) and they are usually quite funny.

Taunt kills ^^

 Necroshea wrote:
If you can't take a taunt or smack talk, then you shouldn't be playing any sort of competitive game.

Agreed.

I remember once I was playing WoW and this Ally was basically running the area I was in. He killed me and the other Horde players a good 5 or so times. So I had to call a buddy in and he and his guild hulk smashed this guy, and once he was finally dead, I taunted the gak out of him. Thats funny. Its how games should work.

It wouldn't be nearly as much fun if it was mean...

Depends on how the taunt is made. Post-game taunting still doesn't justify calling someone names or using racist/misogynistic/homophobic epithets, or calling your opponent a noob.

A lot of d-bags take winning as an excuse to throw every insult and foul language they can.

I used the thumbs down flag from the WOW ccg whenever it was off CD.

Bear form teabags was the norm in season 2, id say 1 in 10 kills i got a response about how I was a jerk. It is trollish but consider it part of the game.

Palindrome wrote:
I am a firm believer in sportsmanship and smack talk is childish in the extreme and I have no time for man-children.

So the guy who can't deal with smack talk calls the people doing it man children?

You remind me of a friend of mine, he can't deal with people talking smack in the least bit. Played a WoW instance, and a casual one at that. He did something wrong and one guy said he needed to stop being so slow and speed things up. In response he just quit the game because he can't take criticism.

People talk smack in competitive activity. It's always been that way. It's not that it's unsporting, it's just that you sound like you have paper thin skin.

I never understood why people got so mad at tea-bagging it's not like they're actually placing there balls on your real life face.

 Necroshea wrote:

So the guy who can't deal with smack talk calls the people doing it man children? .

When did I say that I can't deal with it? Frankly I don't give a gak about what anyone says on the internet on the grounds that its the internet.

Poor sportsmanship reflects badly on who ever it is that is being an arse just like it does in the real world.

I spent 2 hours shouting at some Vanu on PS2, claiming how their wives will be taken as Terran cocubines, and their sons enlisted into our glorious army.

It really depends how it's done, 'taunting' can be done in a tongue in cheek way, you don't have to be a dick about it.

And come on, when you hear 'your best is my worst' on planet side 2, you don't think how much that upset you. Programmed in insults are normally no soft, I've never seen anyone use them.

I hate when someone starts throwing out every racial slu---- ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!

 Melissia wrote:
Depends on how the taunt is made. Post-game taunting still doesn't justify calling someone names or using racist/misogynistic/homophobic epithets, or calling your opponent a noob.

A lot of d-bags take winning as an excuse to throw every insult and foul language they can.

Hmm.....Ill admit, Noob just pisses me off to the core. Everytime. I remember once I was playing WoW YEARS ago, when the lvl cap was 70. I was tanking and my toon was a lvl 66, and some guy STILL called me a noob because he could kill me. Nevermind the fact that he was a mage and mages ALWAYS lolstomp tanks into the ground

Noob is usually just a pathetic accusation by a pathetic person.

Palindrome wrote:

Poor sportsmanship reflects badly on who ever it is that is being an arse just like it does in the real world.

But to be fair, people that get that excited over winning a game of TF2 probably don't have much going on in the real world.

 KingCracker wrote:

 Necroshea wrote:
If you can't take a taunt or smack talk, then you shouldn't be playing any sort of competitive game.

Agreed.

I remember once I was playing WoW and this Ally was basically running the area I was in. He killed me and the other Horde players a good 5 or so times. So I had to call a buddy in and he and his guild hulk smashed this guy, and once he was finally dead, I taunted the gak out of him. Thats funny. Its how games should work.

What grounds did you have to do it though? The guy outplayed you repeatedly. You had to call an entire guild in to deal with one guy. As far as I can tell, he was still the winner.

I personally don't see much point to it. Now I will partake in post game taunts if there is a lot of pregame trash talk, and we happen to beat their asses down. I have noticed though that the majority of folks that I run into that act like their the best thing ever because they hit a button a fraction of a second faster then I did, are the folks who still need mom and dad to buy the games for them in the first place.

That's just a different kind of trash-talking.

Well calling people for noobs and such to me is very dum and childish since even the best of computer/video players where noobs themselves lol. Also calling people stuff like Gay etc..is just stupid but i guess it's wishful thinking on my part that people should at least have some manner.

Depends on how it's done, IMO.

OK:
"Beat the crap out of you guys!"

Not-OK:
"You're such trash! Quit the game!, n00b!"

One is trash talking, the other is just being an ass.

I recall that type of activity going back to the Counterstrike Betas. I'm so used to it.

Racial slurs and its counterparts is something ive never done and will never condone. The demon in me comes out in competition, but i guess that demon still has morals and class.

 btr75 wrote:
I recall that type of activity going back to the Counterstrike Betas. I'm so used to it.

I'm used to it, too, but I still despise it when it's done tastelessly.

I think online and in games people treat people like crap often. I don't mind it from time to time but when it happens like 1/3 of the time it gets disgusting. I used to throw out smack talk when i was younger but to an extent you gotta let people know it's playful and not too insulting. Also just like in any situation if you make fun of somebody too much for too long even jokingly they'll really hate you for it. You can't tease everybody all the time.

I'm with the depends on how it's done crowd.

Ingame taunts are obviously OK. This including teabagging, cause guess what? You can now do it with holograms in Halo 4.

Honestly, the only way it's not ok for me to taunt is if it isn't in jest. Foulmouthing and bad manners can be hilarious, just watch some of the more casual tournaments in SC2 where they encourage BM.