There's something wrong with my skills.

[Mirai Gen]

Originally Posted by fifthfiend

I mean this buddy of yours, if I'm taking your meaning, you pretty much spent ten years kicking the shit out of him, yes? Well apparently he managed to suck it up through ten years of ass-whoopings, 'till he finally hit a place where he was giving out better than he got. Maybe you just need to readjust your view to one suited to a world where you're not number one in the videogame pecking order. It could just be as simple as you're trying to brute-force a learning process that has to come naturally, so settle back, take your licks, and learn as learning comes.

Agreed.

What I'm hoping it doesn't delve down to for Maltrich, is with (at least one or two) of my friends, whenever we play a fighting game, he'll end up winning a few for using either a superior character or for my using a weaker character, or something. So he'll make asshat statements like, "I don't lose Marth Vs Dr. Mario."

While I don't mind anyone stroking their gaming wang, statements like "Under conditions ____, I don't lose" chaps my hide, especially since the statement is baseless and completely wrong. God forbid 'luck' might actually rear it's ugly head in games based mostly on skill.

Moving on.

Take a tip from me: Whenever you lose in a fighting game, take it in stride and demand a few more rematches. Don't let them mix up characters constantly - its the way pros in casual matches make sure you don't end up better than them. You only see their "Best character" once or twice considering they beat you, and they're done, which gives you no time to recognize patterns or find ways to counter whatever they do.

Sneaky tactic, but it works.

[synkr0nized]

I thought it was being fair...


Though I am in no way claiming to be a pro or whatever.

Really, though, instead of leaving it at my prior post, it sounds like the whole taking it easy and toning down your "fight kill win survive" would be a good idea.

[Satan's Onion]

Ayup. I'll second okay, more like seventh what others have been saying here: I do some of my worst gaming when I try and push myself past however much I want to play of a game. It's about recognizing when you want to play a game and when you want to put it away for a while and focus on another game--or even focus on another activity entirely. Like, as a for instance, a coupla months ago I was playing EarthBound. It's a great, great game, but I got to a point where I kinda overdosed on it, and I put it on the back burner for a while in favor of other games. Then just last night, I got a powerful hankering to play EarthBound, which I acted on and enjoyed quite a bit. (Made more progress then than I had done last time I played it, too.)

In brief: I dunno about you, but I stop being much good as a gamer when I stop wanting just to play and start saying "okay, gotta make it to this point in the plot/get to this level/pwn this n00b". Once one hits one's enjoyment threshold, as it were, one may as well just put it aside for a while. The mojo'll come back for that game in its own time; it's just moved on to something else.

[Mirai Gen]

Plus, if you try and relax more, there's all the more frequent times when you will come back and just plow that mother fucker under.

I want a .wav file of the Guilty Gear sound effect "DESTROYED," and put it on an iPod.