Poll: Gamers are masochists

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NezumiiroKitsune

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Makes it feel like Im deserving my success if I die a couple of times. If i beat a game on hard without dying the will have been too easy in my opinion and I wont gain the satisfaction from achieving anything. However, I dont "like" dying as such, it doesnt give me a thrill or a euphoric feeling, more or less it makes me more determined or angry because I should have fucking won that.

In my experiance of gamers, they don't tend to react positively to losing, more swearing or a nervous twitch. We're a healthy lot. They WERE playing Nightfire though, maybe they just reallyt got a kick out of seeing a bad game fail. 99p a Gamestation for the PC on 2 for 1, those were the days :)

Oh and "dying" on games like Burnout and Resident Evil 4. Epic =)
 

Sewblon

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Dieing during bad games comes as a relief to me sometimes. It makes me think "yeah I don't have to play this anymore." But the effects of dieing depend on the genre in general. In an RPG it is all about developing a character so death is usually just annoying. In a competitive game like an online shooter it is most fun to play against people at your own skill level. If the opposition is substantially worse then me I get no satisfaction from victory, If they are substantially better than me I can't do anything at all, If they are roughly as good as me Victory seems to be an accomplishment and defeat means that I have to think and master another facet of the game, which provides the bulk of the games appeal. Sorry for the verbosity of this post.
 

FireFly90

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Sometimes it can be fun being killed or kiling your self, espeicaly in Multiplayer. I find blowing myself up in GTA IV can be quite fun to see how high i can get my corpse to fly.

I also find a satisfaction in taking someone else out if it means i die too.
 

bushwhacker2k

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I'm pretty sure if this is real then they need to have their brains checked. In some games it's funny to die but not generally more so than killing other guys.
 

sheic99

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I always thought it was the other way around. With gamers being sadists, but tbh I am a little bit of a masochists(not sexually for clarification).