Competitive gaming

[flojocabron]

I'm gonna go old school on ya!

I love the classic Warlords for atari 2600!

its simple yet entertaining!

get four buddies together and let the trash talking begin!

[J T]

I made it to state semi-finals in the Nintendo World Championships of 1990. That's my little claim to video game fame.

I have played a lot of games competitively, mostly with friends on split-screen or LAN. These have mostly been console FPS games or fighters. I used to have an X-Band modem for my SNES back in the day and played a lot of fighters online as well.

I am fine with trash talking if people are clever and say shit in good fun, but many online gamers are just rude and vulgar. I don't enjoy playing with them. It's also hard to break into a game that already has a strong online following because everyone is so good already and they are not helpful... in fact, they are usually disparaging of new players. I played a lot of Street Fighter IV online and got ok at it, but I realized I spent more time getting angry or annoyed at my opponents than I actually did having fun, so I uninstalled the game.

These days I mostly stick to single player games and don't bother being competitive. Nothing beats a good competitive match between friends of similar skill levels though.

[Frizz.Meister]

I used to play Halo 3 very competitivly in tournements and stuff. Now im so pleased i stopped, it went from 4 mates having fun to everyone yelling at each other plus another guy who was our coach(yeah i know crazy) yelling at us.

5000+ games of Halo 3 with over 1000 sucking balls because of this http://www.bungie.net/stats/halo3/careerstats.aspx?player=Frizz%20Meister. The worst part was when i found myself not helping someone who wanted to improve but simply telling them they played wrong. It turned me into a douche and im never going competetive again, casual all the way!

[Erik_Twice]

I made it to state semi-finals in the Nintendo World Championships of 1990. That's my little claim to video game fame.

Cool! You should tell us the story one day.

when I heard that people were making millions of $ by playing Counter-Strike, I realized that all the fun had been removed and left was a mere choir

Nobody is making millions by playing any game, you heard wrong. I doubt any players make enough to live.

Anyways that people make money out of it doesn't mean that "all the fun was removed", that's simply absurd.

@ZeroAX

Yeah, as far as I know, PvP in WoW is pretty poor.

@Alienjesus

Given the choice I would play Combo until the day I die And if a game doesn't have good combo strategies it better has a lot of Control!

BTW, Jumpluff is awesome. Too bad Erufuun is now strictly better. Hope it rises to OU so I can play Jumpluff in UU.

[Frizz.Meister]

I made it to state semi-finals in the Nintendo World Championships of 1990. That's my little claim to video game fame.

Cool! You should tell us the story one day.

when I heard that people were making millions of $ by playing Counter-Strike, I realized that all the fun had been removed and left was a mere choir

Nobody is making millions by playing any game, you heard wrong. I doubt any players make enough to live.

Anyways that people make money out of it doesn't mean that "all the fun was removed", that's simply absurd.

@ZeroAX

Yeah, as far as I know, PvP in WoW is pretty poor.

@Alienjesus

Given the choice I would play Combo until the day I die And if a game doesn't have good combo strategies it better has a lot of Control!

BTW, Jumpluff is awesome. Too bad Erufuun is now strictly better. Hope it rises to OU so I can play Jumpluff in UU.

People do make big money. Not millions but certainly 100s of thousands. Check out www.mlgpro.com

[alienjesus]

@Alienjesus

Given the choice I would play Combo until the day I die And if a game doesn't have good combo strategies it better has a lot of Control!

BTW, Jumpluff is awesome. Too bad Erufuun is now strictly better. Hope it rises to OU so I can play Jumpluff in UU.

At first Erufuun seems better, but no sleep powder means it doesn't really do the same thing. Jumpluff also has the benefit of being the fastest pokemon in the game after sunny day and the new sunny day ninetails to keep the sun up. Erefuun is good, but not quite the same.

[Lord_Santa]

Nobody is making millions by playing any game, you heard wrong. I doubt any players make enough to live.

In September 2006 FUN Technologies held the first WorldWide Web Games, with a $1 million prize. The competition had 71 contestants and featured the casual games Bejeweled 2, Solitaire, and Zuma.[6]

Anyways that people make money out of it doesn't mean that "all the fun was removed", that's simply absurd.

are you assuming, or do you have any actual knowledge to back that up with?

I won a lot of tournaments and yes, I did indeed find that "all the fun was removed"

:edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_sports

I don't know what you consider "enough money to live", but I can assure you that a lot of players are making cash enough to live quite luxurious

:edit 2

the reason as to why I thought the fun was removed was because once I started losing (having had a winning-streak for a long time), I didn't enjoy it anymore
and if I can't enjoy losing a game, then I don't consider it fun anymore

[MrPopo]

In September 2006 FUN Technologies held the first WorldWide Web Games, with a $1 million prize. The competition had 71 contestants and featured the casual games Bejeweled 2, Solitaire, and Zuma.[6]

Is that a $1 million prize for first, or $1 million in total prize pool split over all the placing competitors?

[Lord_Santa]

In September 2006 FUN Technologies held the first WorldWide Web Games, with a $1 million prize. The competition had 71 contestants and featured the casual games Bejeweled 2, Solitaire, and Zuma.[6]

Is that a $1 million prize for first, or $1 million in total prize pool split over all the placing competitors?

$1 million for first

http://www.arcadegamecentral.com/news/c ... prize.html

[PixelPixii]

The closest thing I have ever gotten to competitive gaming is the recent Magic the Gathering Tournament I was invited to. Let's just say I am not really made for it. (At least not MTG)