Do you almost always lose in competitive video games?

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I was never very good at FPS games like CS when I played them online. I'd always be like "you sonovab**** M*****F***ING LAGG!!!111" when I got head-shot killed before I could even see the enemy. I decided it's not worth playing a game that just makes me mad.

I'm pretty good at racing games though.

I typically excel at all video games, and will beat most people I meet in competitive video games. The only way I lose is if it is a game they have played many times and I have never played before. In highschool friends didn't want to play video games with me because they could never win.

The video games I do the worst at are football or FPS type games. I still can play them well and win most of the time, but don't do as well as I do with all other types of games. Football mostly because I have zero interest in sports so I am totally oblivious as to the rules of the game, and FPS because I dislike being zoomed in so far. I like 3rd person so I can see what my character is doing and what is behind him.

The only games where I have been any good at are Mario games, Sonic games and Super Monkey Ball.

Everything else I'm pretty poor at.

I really don't like battle competition between players. Dying that much is not any kind of fun for me. Races and other stuff, fine.

As a huge gamer myself I'm not quite sure how to reply. My attempts at becomming competitive at Smash Bros Brawl gave me results similar to those in the original post, yet the reason why I decided to go after that was on launch night, I picked up on the controlls faster than anyone, and being in a room with like 60+ people with bearly enogh room to even move around, you would think I would have just shut down since that is what I generally do in crowds. I guess itwas because I was so excited about the game comming out and getting to play it that I somehow overcame my usual sensory problems (not that I didn't feel it, just that I was able to get through it) That night, I did not lose a single match, and I won the tournament. (say what you want about GameStop's rules that night, if you know what I'm talking about. Yes they were really screwy, but that doesn't change the fact that I did not lose a single match, I think outlasting 50+ others while outside of my element including NT players who were in theory better than me while inside their element transcends luck, not to mention I won the final round by a pretty significant margin by a score of +4.) Within a week, once everybody had the controls down, I started losing 9 out of 10 matches to anyone who was even halfway decent. Those first couple of days though, even online, I actually did great. So what happened? I think it had something to do with speed.

I don't. The competitiveness with games is more or less the only thing I think is fun with them, and if anyone challenged me in something with FPS or shooting I'd probably win, and compete till I die. I'd take it very seriously, and it is fun as heck every time.

I don't do multiplayer often but I think I usually do okay. My heyday of competitive gaming was back around Quake II and III, Half-Life 1, Counter-Strike mod era. I got pretty good at Counter-Strike. By 'good' I mean I could always manage to rank middle of the pack or a bit better.

The other genre I've tried competitively is 2D fighting. That one is tricky. My response time in a lot of scenarios with fighting games isn't great so I lose to a lot of dumb stuff that I think I shouldn't have lost to had I reacted in time. My best semi-recently was Street Fighter II: HD Remix. It helps that I have 20 years of experience playing some iteration or another of SF2 though.

I like single player best. For any game.

I almost always win... Sadly a kind of useless talent to have, but I'm pretty darn good at video games. I've played some games at a near-professional level. I can't help but be super competitive in any multiplayer game I play. It's annoying because I can't just "relax and have fun".

I always lose to other people when I do tournaments. I have played Mario kart online and do okay. I am not always in last but I still don't come in first. It just depends on the players. Only time I ever win is if I am better than someone else and they are not pros at it.

Depends on my mood a lot, if I feel competitive then I'll go all out and do well. Other times I lose interest halfway through and then arse about and do my own thing to enjoy myself. I was never great at FPS but have noticed the more I've played, the better I've got. I feel extremely clumsy in games too, this worked out to my advantage two days ago though

Lack of spatial awareness -

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Hmm - some interesting posts here actually.

From my perspective, im good with games 80% of the time, and can use keyboards and controllers respectively.
I enjoy FPS games mostly, but i do like Diablo 3 for its customization.

As for the competitive element? Well from my pov, when i play an fps i play it because it feels satisfying to play, i enjoy the sounds, visuals and guns etc, but theres no competition for me - i just like to see the scoreboard at the end and think, oh i did rather well, i didnt die more than i shot etc. Im not looking at my position on the scoreboard at all.

The only element of competition that remotely crops up, is that sometimes when im sniping, there may be a guy that has been sniping a long time in a position. And i will go find him, and take him out. If i can do it from a longer range too, that makes me happy. But i get knifed alot in games, because i like to pick a spot and sit in it for a long time. So why should he get it any easier? Seeing his score of 73-3 at the end of the round, knowing that I was his 3 deaths, is very satsifying. For about 3 minutes anyway.

Side note: any UK PS3 gamers who can play Battlefield 3? Always interested to find squaddies

I do seem to lose in some competitive games more often

IMHO, all players of competitive video games are losers. There's real life out there, people, and it is in a crisis unique in history.

This is a huge part of why I don’t play video games. I’m terrible at them - well, all the multiplayer first person shooter games at least. I’d be fragged over and over again before I could manage to align the crosshairs and get a single shot off. I now realize it’s because my coordination & fine motor skills were so piss poor and out of synch.

More than 20 years ago I used to play some strategy/problem solving/racing games. But most gamers were into first person shooters and the only time that was remotely enjoyable was when I skinned my character as Homer Simpson so there’d be dead Homers all over the place, which was funny. Or Kenny from Southpark - it was funny to die as Kenny over and over.

Meh, not a problem for me today, really. I’ve probably played a collective fewer than 10 hours of video games in the last 20 years.

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I'd likely lose at everything related to reaction time.
It doesn't matter how much your experience was, how coordinated you are, how strong and well prepared your odds should be.
Good reaction time is the mark of 'natural athletes'. It's my weakness and I've reached the ceiling too many times, never get to keep up.


If it's, say, less related to reaction time and more related to strategy, I may par up with enough experience. Not great though, but not badly either.

Overall, I usually don't do competitive games.
Especially online. My country's net always sucks. If you don't believe me, compare it globally, my country's internet speed is not only slower but also more expensive.

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