Competitive gaming

[Erik_Twice]

In this thread we talk about competitive gaming, it's culture and everything else.


I find competitive gaming very insteresting. While I didn't play any videogames competitively util somewhat recently I played Magic: The Gathering, whose culture lends itself to tournaments and competition.

Competition can add much to a game and make it more fun. For example, there's more fun involved in building a solid Pokémon team that can compete than just using your favourite Pokémon. Why, you must ask? There are simply more choices and more thinking about it. If I like Lanturn and put it on my team because it's cute there's not really an interesting chain of thoughts involved. It's cool but not specially interesting.


There's the stereotype that competitive gamers are jerks who only care about winning and that see other players as idiots.

I have to say, I'm not surprised that people have that stereotype but not because of compeitive players. You see, the problem are those kids that get together for less than a month and call themselves a team. They are no different from before so they hang around the same forums and servers as more casual players, leading to the stereotype that most competitive gamers are dicks.

Discuss!

[YoshiEgg25]

Competition can add much to a game and make it more fun. For example, there's more fun involved in building a solid Pokémon team that can compete than just using your favourite Pokémon. Why, you must ask? There are simply more choices and more thinking about it. If I like Lanturn and put it on my team because it's cute there's not really an interesting chain of thoughts involved. It's cool but not specially interesting.

Lanturn isn't typically used in the standard metagame, but I have used him due to its bulkiness and its ability, Volt Absorb, which converts Electric attacks against it to HP.

[Erik_Twice]

^Haha, I know. It's actually pretty good because it has a lot of key resistances and is THE Starmie counter. It was just the first Pokémon that crossed my mind.

[ZeroAX]

The only "real" experience I've had with Competitive gaming is WoW, and well that sucked ass. You basically had 1, 2 options tops, of what style of play you could use in competitive gaming, if you wanted to do something else no one would play with you, if you wanted a different role you had to level a new character all the way to end game, and worse of all there were classes that were actually kind of useless. Really unbalanced PvP game.

[MrPopo]

Back in high school I was in a CS Clan that participated in one of the lagues (can't remember which one), so I was involved in several matches. We had a pretty broad spectrum of personality types; both the "it's fun!" guy who's just good, as well as the "gotta win!" douchebag who takes everything too seriously.

I've personally always tried to avoid getting too caught up in these sorts of things. I go to Magic tourneys and when I play TF2 I always give it my best, but I stop short of needing to win to validate the time I spend.

[alienjesus]

Competition can add much to a game and make it more fun. For example, there's more fun involved in building a solid Pokémon team that can compete than just using your favourite Pokémon. Why, you must ask? There are simply more choices and more thinking about it. If I like Lanturn and put it on my team because it's cute there's not really an interesting chain of thoughts involved. It's cool but not specially interesting.

Lanturn isn't typically used in the standard metagame, but I have used him due to its bulkiness and its ability, Volt Absorb, which converts Electric attacks against it to HP.

I find theres even more fun trying to build a pokemon team that can compete with other competitive team that DOES use a few of your favourite pokemon. I tend to use a lot of UUs.

[Fickieboy]

I tend to play Legacy tournaments from time to time at my local shop... I guess thats it

[Lord_Santa]

I used to play Quake 1/DooM 2 tournaments, but I only played pure DM

I also play(ed) Magic; and have just recently (this X-mas) started getting into it again (last game I played was back in '99)

I can see the fun in cometitive gaming, but I've since moved on to just playing

why?

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

I do play UT series on-line in DM still though, but never to win, only to have... fun

[alienjesus]

I used to play Quake 1/DooM 2 tournaments, but I only played pure DM

I also play(ed) Magic; and have just recently (this X-mas) started getting into it again (last game I played was back in '99)

I can see the fun in cometitive gaming, but I've since moved on to just playing

why?

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

I do play UT series on-line in DM still though, but never to win, only to have... fun

Yeah, I love a bit of competitive pokemon or even smash bros to a certain extent, but I'm not interested in the actual tournaments or whatever, people take it too seriously. I just wanna have fun matches against people who are really good at the game. I like balancing between the hardcore tourney rules and more casual play too. Although I'm happy to play smash bros with the stereotypical '1 vs 1, final destination, no items, fox mccloud only' (although fox isnt my character of choice), I'm just as happy playing with all items turned on in 4player for all out craziness. I always hate that people on one side seem to think competitive play is ridiculous and removes the fun and people on the other side think casual play is for noobs who suck at the game. Both sides need to grow up and realise that if people are having fun, then they're playing the game the way they enjoy.

[casterofdreams]

Competition can add much to a game and make it more fun. For example, there's more fun involved in building a solid Pokémon team that can compete than just using your favourite Pokémon. Why, you must ask? There are simply more choices and more thinking about it. If I like Lanturn and put it on my team because it's cute there's not really an interesting chain of thoughts involved. It's cool but not specially interesting.

Lanturn isn't typically used in the standard metagame, but I have used him due to its bulkiness and its ability, Volt Absorb, which converts Electric attacks against it to HP.

I find theres even more fun trying to build a pokemon team that can compete with other competitive team that DOES use a few of your favourite pokemon. I tend to use a lot of UUs.

I remember building a bunch of teams back in the day during the third generation of games. I had one team that meant real business and had another where three pokemon were UU barely Ev trained pokemon and three god like pokemon at the tail end of the team. Come to think of it I transferred them over to the DS games!