Multiplayer gaming... sigh

[godofallu]

Yes, some people are just naturally gifted. Name a FPS I have never played, give me 2 hours and I will beat anyone in the world at it.

Give me an RTS I have never played, give me 6 years, and I will still come in last.

Peoples minds just do better at some tasks than others.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I get the hang of FPS-games fairly quickly. At first I get my ass handed to me but when I finally get the hang of the game and understand just how it flows I get better. Of course, like many others I too have those days when nothing goes the way I planned and ends in a delicious ragequit more often than not spiced up with a few tasty finnish swearwords.

You're Finnish?

Awesome. I was there twice, in 1996 and 1997... Lahti and Helsinki. Went in July so it was WAARM. Beautiful country, and it's just insane how damn good looking your women are!

 

[Shockolate]

Either I destroy everything, or I lose so badly I ragequit. Everyday, it's something different.

Even in games like Team Fortress 2, which I have over 1000 hours playing, I still get my ass handed to me regularly, despite knowing every trick in the book. Next day, I can be nigh unkillable and kicked repeatedly for "hacking". That's how inconsistent I am.

This applies to every game I play. There is no middle ground.

 

[fishman279]

I'm better than average at games you actually have to have some skill to play. Unlike COD, where whoever shoots first normally wins, Halo 3 actually demands a degree of skill (As someone who posted earlier correctly said). I normally come 1st or 2nd but when up against some guys who have about 3000 games under their belts I get destroyed. Mind you, I've only played 250 odd games and I'm better than most of my friends who've played it for longer, so hopefully I improve.
I get taken down on COD though, I'm utterly useless at it and after playing for 2 hours, I got bored of dying and went back to halo. Yeah, I'm pretty much a fanboy, but with less of the retardation of the ones I know.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Someone is unfamiliar with basic acronyms. Team DeathMatch.

A gameplay were your only objective is to make the other poor sods die for his/her team. Get it?

I am well aware, but I have never heard of someone getting 80 kills in a TDM, as you claim to, when the game ends at 75.

Hence I presumed you were actually playing Domination.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Either I destroy everything, or I lose so badly I ragequit. Everyday, it's something different.

Even in games like Team Fortress 2, which I have over 1000 hours playing, I still get my ass handed to me regularly, despite knowing every trick in the book. Next day, I can be nigh unkillable and kicked repeatedly for "hacking". That's how inconsistent I am.

This applies to every game I play. There is no middle ground.

Good to know there are others like me. It can be pretty frustrating when you can't keep consistency.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

I was a very very very slow starter. Took about half a year demolishing my friends good cod record to get even competent at the game. Now i have a pretty good apptitude to games i havnt even played yet, coming back to halo 3 after 2 years got me top of most matches. Once i got going those years back ive got a good rythm going of online skill.

I remember his crash courses of online FPS. RELOAD RELOAD NOW! CROUCH SHOT SHOT PRONE RELOAD SHOOT!

 

[superbatranger]

I honestly don't know. I mean, I've never had Xbox Live, so the few times I've played online multiplayer has been at friends' houses. If I had to guess, I'd say I'm average. Sometimes my K/D ratio is good, and sometimes it's bad. But, in the end, I haven't played any online multiplayer in a long time, so who knows what it's like now. I could be absolutely shitty now, or really good.

 

[philosophicalbastard]

I think you're just working with a to rigid system. You memorize these things when you should just be playing, plans are overrated and prevent you from adapting. Just go with the flow. Act as things come to you, never before hand. If faced with an immediate threat let your instincts take over, true combat is primal.

Follow this advice and you will be as good as me.

Funny you mention it... I just spent a couple of hours on MW2, had a few games where I relaxed and just took it as it came... running toward the enemy spawn with my TAR FMJ... ended up getting great scores and even got my AC-130 on Bailout by rushing!

I know what happens now though... I try to repeat it later tonight and end up negative 10 with a red face and quickly rising rage

The two best ways to deal with rage are to either, A.Let that rage out completely, or B.Remember that you are in control (this works well in racing games). So either lose all self control, or relax and gain it.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

Nothin wrong with that... I've played Half Life 2 and Portal 5 times each and only tried TF2 once.

This is on the XBOX though so TF2 ain't the best...

 

[Yagharek]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

Nothin wrong with that... I've played Half Life 2 and Portal 5 times each and only tried TF2 once.

This is on the XBOX though so TF2 ain't the best...

Which seriously sucks. Hearing about how good it is on the PC from about a million people, and then finding out that they don't support the 360 version nearly as much when I was considering buying it almost gave me rage of MW2 proportions.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I wish I had natural talent. It's my reaction time, overall weak and slow fingers and extreme haste in making decisions that really, really kills me. I can play Smash Bros well, as well as Pokemon, but, no matter how much I play it, I can't get higher than average at most anything else. I am really, really jealous of people that are dexterous and have a decent reaction time...

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

Sorry. Double post.

 

[Sirpipple]

All i ask from online gamers is to have fun but what might be fun for you migh not be fun for everyone else i'm talking to you noob tubers -_-

 

[Yagharek]

I wish I had natural talent. It's my reaction time, overall weak and slow fingers and extreme haste in making decisions that really, really kills me. I can play Smash Bros well, as well as Pokemon, but, no matter how much I play it, I can't get higher than average at most anything else. I am really, really jealous of people that are dexterous and have a decent reaction time...

Try playing more sneakily. It ought to be able to more than compensate for slow reactions if you can shoot them before they see you.

This is also a resposne to the person who said they prefered halo because you have to be accurate over a longer period of time. The skill with Cod is more in position. Accuracy and reactions certainly help, but unless the difference between the two players in these respects is large, then most of the time it doesn't make that much of a difference. As he says, most of the time, whoever shoots first wins. The trick is in outmaneuvering the other team, so that you are in a better position, allowing you to shoot first, or making it hard for them to see or hit you. 1v1 situations where you both see each other at the same time do happen, and here reactions and accuracy play more of a part, but I find that when I do well, it's because I am shooting them before they see me, most of the time.

 

[Z(ombie)fan]

WHile I don't hate arena style FPSs, Im a total freak: I Played Quake 3 for the singleplayer. And enjoyed it on that alone. I shit you not.

Nothin wrong with that... I've played Half Life 2 and Portal 5 times each and only tried TF2 once.

This is on the XBOX though so TF2 ain't the best...

I may have misinterpreted you, but Quake 3's single player is pretty much just MP with bots instead of people. Like, thats the ONLY difference more or less. IN half life, Singleplayer is ACTUAL singleplayer, as opposed to just running around an arena playing MP with a bunch of AI because you have no friends.

 

[Kenko]

Depends on the game. Im a fast learner, but I prefer games that allow people too use smarts over twitch-reflexes.

 

[Thyunda]

If I start playing a game, I'll be awesome at it. Win every game, come first in every race, whatever.
Same time next week? I'll be awful. Whether I've played the game constantly or not, I just end up awful.