Shaking a Competitive Mindset

Agreed. My least fav genre for deathmatch multi-player is the FPS. If you don't sprint frantically a half-second after you materialize, some guy headshots you. I usually end up cowering in a corner somewhere, shakily aiming my rifle at the nearest doorway

@ Echoax: I feel no shame in admitting I play DOA games for the costumes. I love having a huge selection of costumes to choose from. Also, DOA: Dimensions was a lot more fun than other DOA titles I've played over the years.

 

Did you hear about DOA5, Explosion?

 

Yeah. Although I am mildly worried about how it is going to turn out. Call it needless paranoia after Ninja Gaiden "sword is only weapon" 3. Major game developers seem to be able to screw up even a sure thing so often.

 

Oh, that brings back some more memories. I played, um, I think it was Medal of Honor with my brother. The gameplay was astonishingly plain and simple, yet all the more hilarious for that. Spawn-camping was easy.

 

My gosh, I cannot tell you how competitive I get sometimes, I absolutely HATE losing. It's not a case of, Damn it I lost! It's a case of WHAT THE HELL THAT GUY WAS SPAWN CAMPING AND HE WAS CHEATING AND BREAKING THE STUPID RULES yadyadayadayadayada

I have an extremely competitive mindset even when it isn't a high stakes game, For example I was extremely frustrated after I lost by one point on a family putt-putt game, same with bowling, I got a score of 110, and the other guy got a score of 130, I was so pissed xD And this was with a large group of people meaning I came second out of the whole lot, and was still angry at myself.

Even with school, I sorta HAVE to get the top marks in the class kinda thing, but that is hard as there are two girls who just get that little 2% more than me in everything. It's leading me to think I have a case of OCD, because I always seem to have to do things perfectly or at least do very well at whatever it is. I dunno about you guys, but it looks that way to me.

 

I've never played games very competitively. I entered a local Smash Bros. Brawl tournament once and ranked 7th of 25 in singles. Brawl and Melee are the only games I've ever played in any way competitively. Since the group of people I played with all the time were extremely into the competitive scene, I had to learn from them to step up my game to not die horribly to them. I never got anywhere near their level, though. Aside from that, I really enjoy the PvP in Demon's/Dark Souls, but never got too serious about it.

 

I have an extremely competitive personality. If I can't find a challenge in something I enjoy when facing another, I usually try to make one. League of Legends is pretty much my only outlet for that, but I don't really care for actually achieving anything in it due the amount of players that understand any general mechanics of level cap play are far into the minority. :\

Once upon a time it was Vindictus, and (Classic) WoW before that.

 

I'm very competitive when it comes to gaming. When we have Brawl, Metal Gear, timesplitter, even tetris fights And if I don't win, I sometimes rage. Not like that's often a problem though.
Anyway, basically, I dislike loosing a lot. I don't go on quite as much a tantrum as my brother when I loose (The unfortunate part being how much I win. <-- yet again) I guess I have a problem... And I do sometimes try and make tasks harder for myself in game. One method of doing this is restarting, say, a song on DJ Max, if I get a single break and loose some HP. If this happens, I've kinda started just shutting down my PSP and getting all worked up about not being able to max combo the song out. I also usually quit a mission if I get spotted on Metal gear , even though you can usually hide for a few seconds and loose the alert.

 

I've found that the better at a game I get, the more I rage. I'm not good at most games, so I don't mind losing. With things like Pokemon, I don't battle online (although this is mainly because my DS doesn't support my wifi security). Whenever I play competitively, I go in with the mindset of "there will always be people better than me". This way, if I lose, I don't get angry.

Although that just works for me, some more serious gamers may actually want to be the best. So this strategy won't help.

 

I'm not very srs in any game I play, really.
And actually I like it that way. A lot.

 

Classic WoW broke me. Now I feel like an overachiever in everything. I used to be like this.

 

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