The title is basically what I'm about to say in a nutshell. Yes I know exactly how petty it sounds, and tbh I'm annoyed at myself for not just letting it go because I'm usually very good at that sort of thing. I'm no stranger to losing in games, I know that I can't win all the time and that losing is part of playing any game. So when I do lose I usually just shrug it off and move on to the next game. But this time made me as close to tilted as I've ever felt in years. This time, well is bad enough that I'm posting about it here. Oh yeah and the game itself was Star Wars: Imperial Assault.
I actually typed out what happened, but it was a pretty complicated game and required explaining how the game itself works, which TBH I'm still kinda iffy on since I only played it twice and that's with a over year gap between the two games. So here's a more condensed version of it: We only had one final objective to win the game. From where I was sitting we had 2 players that close enough to the objective where they can both attack it twice(4 total) and seal the win. There was also another player really close by to move to attack the objective one more time if necessary and another that was closeish, but the two more would've been overkill. With that in mind I asked the other two to grab optimal rewards we rushed past since there was a time limit.
But first there were walls that I couldn't see since I was at the far end of the table and the walls were marked with light red lines on the bright game board. So instead the 2 characters had to move past the walls thus costing them a attack each and thus the objective survived so we lost. But it turned out that since both players were at corners of the walls,(you can attack through certain corners in this game) they were legally allowed to attack from where they were thus not needing to move at all, so my original plan would've worked exactly the way I said it despite me not seeing the walls. But for some reason the loss wasn't overturned, we still lost despite everyone acknowledging that we were absolutely in position to win.
The players playing the other side didn't want to give up even through they thought for certain that we were going to win that game at the start of the last round. Now the thing about this game is if you lose it's not game over, you get less rewards, the bad guys get stronger and you go to a different story path. So I even tried to comprise by saying OK, if we're stuck with the loss for some reason can we at least get half the prize we would have gotten? That proposal also got rejected since it might affect future games, which I feel is rather doubtful. The best I could get was to redo the whole thing but that doesn't seem fair to me since we didn't do anything to warrant that. It's like if in soccer a team had free kicks at the goal that it needed to win but was denied those kicks for a wrong ruling that even the refs admitted was wrong right after the game, but were only offered a rematch instead of the free kicks.
In any case the rest of the players are willing to suck up the loss, the side that "won" is obviously ready to move on but I'm still pretty ticked off about the matter. The game itself is fun, not my favorite game ever but there's definitely potential there. But this experience just left a terrible taste in my mouth and the idea of continuing with a undeserved loss seems infuriating to me. At the same time I don't want to be the one guy that's making a big deal out of something no one else seems to care about. Really not sure what to do, so I guess that's why I'm here. Thanks for reading and thanks for any advice.
Guess I should add
TL-DR: My team was in perfect position to win, was forced to take a loss due to incorrect rulings that was found out soon afterwards, but the loss still stands and I don't want to keep playing since I felt my team got cheated yet don't want to be "that guy".
I actually typed out what happened, but it was a pretty complicated game and required explaining how the game itself works, which TBH I'm still kinda iffy on since I only played it twice and that's with a over year gap between the two games. So here's a more condensed version of it: We only had one final objective to win the game. From where I was sitting we had 2 players that close enough to the objective where they can both attack it twice(4 total) and seal the win. There was also another player really close by to move to attack the objective one more time if necessary and another that was closeish, but the two more would've been overkill. With that in mind I asked the other two to grab optimal rewards we rushed past since there was a time limit.
But first there were walls that I couldn't see since I was at the far end of the table and the walls were marked with light red lines on the bright game board. So instead the 2 characters had to move past the walls thus costing them a attack each and thus the objective survived so we lost. But it turned out that since both players were at corners of the walls,(you can attack through certain corners in this game) they were legally allowed to attack from where they were thus not needing to move at all, so my original plan would've worked exactly the way I said it despite me not seeing the walls. But for some reason the loss wasn't overturned, we still lost despite everyone acknowledging that we were absolutely in position to win.
The players playing the other side didn't want to give up even through they thought for certain that we were going to win that game at the start of the last round. Now the thing about this game is if you lose it's not game over, you get less rewards, the bad guys get stronger and you go to a different story path. So I even tried to comprise by saying OK, if we're stuck with the loss for some reason can we at least get half the prize we would have gotten? That proposal also got rejected since it might affect future games, which I feel is rather doubtful. The best I could get was to redo the whole thing but that doesn't seem fair to me since we didn't do anything to warrant that. It's like if in soccer a team had free kicks at the goal that it needed to win but was denied those kicks for a wrong ruling that even the refs admitted was wrong right after the game, but were only offered a rematch instead of the free kicks.
In any case the rest of the players are willing to suck up the loss, the side that "won" is obviously ready to move on but I'm still pretty ticked off about the matter. The game itself is fun, not my favorite game ever but there's definitely potential there. But this experience just left a terrible taste in my mouth and the idea of continuing with a undeserved loss seems infuriating to me. At the same time I don't want to be the one guy that's making a big deal out of something no one else seems to care about. Really not sure what to do, so I guess that's why I'm here. Thanks for reading and thanks for any advice.
Guess I should add
TL-DR: My team was in perfect position to win, was forced to take a loss due to incorrect rulings that was found out soon afterwards, but the loss still stands and I don't want to keep playing since I felt my team got cheated yet don't want to be "that guy".
