Playing fighting games and SHMUPS tends to get you used to losing. I don't really mind. I'm trying to grow out of my silly there's no way I can lose mindset that I used to have. I still have traces of it left, but I'm working on it!
Are you an online loser?
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I'm a try-hard, but I do win at least 80% of the time in CoD. Of course I have my share of bad games, and I lose almost every time against noob tube morons, but against legitimate players I usually win.
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in free for all I rarely lose and since I don't roll with a party free for all seems like the most viable option for personal growth and examination.
in free for all I rarely lose and since I don't roll with a party free for all seems like the most viable option for personal growth and examination.
I lost interest in competitive multiplayer 10 years ago at the age of around 14. In FPS games it's an endless cycle, and a random pattern of luck. You can't really say that you're "good" or "bad" at a FPS game. You can be "more accustomed" and "experienced" at them, but good or bad, the path your bullet takes will always be a less than 99% randomized chance. Also, even with broadband connections, lag will always exist and be an issue with these games. You aim at the head. You fire at the right time at the head, but the head wasn't really there because you were experiencing split-second lag that's unavoidable. Basically, you spawn, you kill or you die. That's as complex as it gets. You can memorize maps, get more accustomed to the controller and how the different weapons fire, but in the grand scheme of things you're going to be killing and dying at random. Sometimes you'll get a lot of kills, sometimes you'll suck terribly. No one can accurately predict when someone is going to turn around a corner, sneak up on them or snipe at them from beyond visibility. Unless they hack.Isla said:
Another reason I don't play FPS multiplayer anymore is it's died on my favorite platform, the PC. I dislike FPS multiplayer with the thumbsticks. I'm less accurate/fast with my nubbs on my hands. I like the precision and speed the mouse provides.
I've never liked Fighting games, it's too much of a hassle to memorize 20 combo moves for every fighter game. The person you play with always gets mad at you and calls you cheap or a cheater, etc when they lose repeatedly.
I also lost interest in MMORPG PVP competitiveness. It's another feature that isn't based on actual skill, but random luck and time. The more time you devote to the game, the stronger your character. If you get a lucky critical hit, you were stronger for that one hit and so you won. It basically boils down to this. You start on a PvP realm thinking "this is going to be fun, fighting other people!". You run along trying to level your guy up, never seeing anyone your same level (they're always higher than you, or if theyre the same level as you they run away from you). And you get ganked by some max level guy running by. That's PvP! haha! If you don't like it why are you on a PvP realm! *sarcasm*. Um maybe because I want to fight people when I even have a chance to win? Would people play Halo if every match had someone who was invincible in it? Wouldn't they be right to say "hey I couldn't even fight back.."? Anyway, yeah.
The only competitive multiplayer I enjoyed in the past were strategy games, StarCraft, Command and Conquer, etc. I'll never forget the time I took on my older brother and my father in StarCraft and defeated them both (they were even sharing a base and cooperating against me!).
However, I never had an interest in MASTERING strategy games, so I very rarely play them online. The people are just too good. I accept that I'll never be that good and that its just a video game. I actually don't find value in becoming so great at a game anyway. I choose instead to play games for fun, and when I stop having fun and it becomes a job or too great of a time-sink, I stop playing and find something else (or another game) to do.
So I don't compete with people online because it's not very fun to me. I spend that time helping them out instead. It's a lot more fun in my opinion.
Depends on the game, really. If it's very teamwork-oriented, I'll get more annoyed at losing when it's because my teammates are too lazy to just turn around and punch the hunter off of me, or picked medic without the intention to heal because they just want a big point score with their G36E. If it's something like CoD where a few good players can carry an entire team, I don't mind losing so much.
I tend to be pretty good at games. Whenever I lose, it tends to be because I have a terrible toeam who would rather lone-wolf the entire game than work together. It's why I try to always play with friends.
I have a tendency to land at around 50-50 in most games. Only game I ever got really good at was Battlefield 2142. I would more often than not end up in the top 3 players regardless of whether we won or lost. Other than that I almost always end up somewhere around 50-50.
I don't mind losing if it was a good game. If I lost for completely bullshit reasons like getting spawn camped or spawn trapped or any number of cheap tactics I'll be infuriated, but if it was a game where everyone was playing properly and the other team were just better then I don't mind. However, I avoid online play unless I'm with my friends because it makes losing more bearable.
I'm good depending on game mode. In CoD my fav is sabotage. my best K/D in sabotage is 60/15 
I'm pretty average at everything else though, but I usually end up more positive than negative. Losing doesn't bother me unless it's because there's a sniper on my team that wont do the objective.
I'm pretty average at everything else though, but I usually end up more positive than negative. Losing doesn't bother me unless it's because there's a sniper on my team that wont do the objective.
My K/D ratio on every CoD game is dreadful. I mean really embarrassing, but I don't care. I have fun and that's what matters. People take winning and losing too seriously, to the point that they forget that games are supposed to be fun and recreational
I'm that guy that normly wins rounds 99% of the time in any game. If I lose I do not take it well, and I am a bad loser.
Starcraft 2 makes me cry its the only game I really have to work so hard to be just ok at.
Starcraft 2 makes me cry its the only game I really have to work so hard to be just ok at.
I don't really play a lot of games at once - I'll usually find a game I like and play it for a long time. So I'll usually end up getting pretty good at the multiplayer. On Brutal Legend, for example, which I've been playing for a few months now, I can beat whoever I'm against most of the time.
As far as how much I like to win... Really, I think what's more important is that a game is close, rather than whether I win or lose it. If I, or my team, are getting completely stomped, it's boring. If I or we are the ones doing the stomping it's also boring. There needs to be that possibility of it going either way for the game to be really fun, I think.
As far as how much I like to win... Really, I think what's more important is that a game is close, rather than whether I win or lose it. If I, or my team, are getting completely stomped, it's boring. If I or we are the ones doing the stomping it's also boring. There needs to be that possibility of it going either way for the game to be really fun, I think.
With FPSs, I'm a bit (I guess... hope...) below average and I'm cool with that. I'm certainly doing well enough to have fun. My fabulous inconsistency on the other hand is quite capable of giving me some irritation.
In online RTS I'd be the playerbase's very sediment. I don't touch that stuff.
In online RTS I'd be the playerbase's very sediment. I don't touch that stuff.