Hi This is just a quick poll to see if there are other people like me who can only have fun when they're dominating a server (or at least playing well). I am really not a good team player and for example back in UT99, if my team lost a match or a scrim, I wouldn't care much as long as I did good. However the opposite is also true as I will be mad if I sucked in the win. I guess I am just a competitive person. I always loved playing time trials at gran turismo/fzero/mario kart/trackmania only because the biggest challenge I could have was to beat myself and not some other noob ( )
i mostly play counter strike source and dont mind playing on severs with players that are much better than me as this helps me to become a better palyer, what i dont like is when people who are losing sulk off to another server in the hope of doing better
i find it much easier to have fun when i'm on my consoles playing multiplayer. something about the environment you're in just makes it a lot easier to kick back and just enjoy the game, push the boundaries and try new things. that's probably because i can _actually_ kick back.
i cant dominate when im playing online on a fps im either getting my ass kicked or being shouted at my damn kids.. though saying that the open map mode on gta 4 is great fun and im not too bad on racing games. so i guess the answer would be, yes i have to because i suck that much lol
+1 Ghys I find that i am so competitive in every thing i do. earlier today i was on xbl Halo 3 and i was getting fustrated because i was not doing well. but part of the fun is trying to do better than yourself/everybody else.
I find my attitude changes depending upon which game I play. I find that in CS:S I can get very frustrated if I'm not doing well, however in TF2 I can be first or last and it's equally fun. For something like CoD:UO I'm happy sniping which tends to place me somewhere near the top, rarely 1st, whereas CoD4 I'm competitive but I don't get as frustrated as I do in CS:S when playing poorly.
I can play and loose and not mind, but sometimes, when I get spawn raped, I physically have to change server. Spawn rapes and glitching should mean bans.
I'm Really Really competitive in COD 4 and other FPS', and get annoyed if i'm not 1st or somewhere near, but in other things such as GTA I just play to relax, usually after getting all twitchy from COD or UT3. But alas, no COD 4 for a while, 360's boekn finally, from launch day, 4 lights-no fun
I usually play online with 2 others in the same room which pretty much always makes for a fun game even if I'm doing rubbish. It's easy to team up instantly to take someone down even if it's just normal DM. Voted #2.
Depends on the game. Stuff like Unreal Tournament and CS aren't even worth playing online anymore if you ask me, it's too competitive and unpleasant if you're on a public server. However games with a more unstructured approach like the Battlefield games, TF, and COD4 objective matches seem way more enjoyable to me.
I don't think I'm that good a player, and I usually play online games for fun. win or lose it doesn't matter to me (although it is always nice to win.)
It's always fun to dominate and joke around with people who always say bad things and just have friendly conversations, but its funner playing with friends because I love playing counterstrike with friends as we all go on teamspeak and sure i'm usually closer to the bottom of the score for my team, we joke around, call each other names, and it's just great fun. When i'm winning i usually get frustrated when i don't get easy kills that i should have. I play games to have fun, not to whoop everyone's butt.
I noticed this as well... Back about 2 years ago I thought I had anger problems because i would get so freaking MAD when I sucked at UT2K4. Time went by and I started playing cod2 and then cod4 and noticed I never got as mad playing those two games. I would only get sick of playing and quit the server when things went bad. Well about two weeks ago i was playing UT2K4 again and I was doing terrible.It was as if my brain was just laging terribly and all I did was take stupid decisions and never react quickly enough. I got so mad I hit my desk two times with massive power. I was actually surprised it didn't break as my hand kinda hurt a little. It had been a while since I got as mad as I did that day. The last time being when I broke my previous MX518 UT is the only thing, not game, that does that to me. I never get mad at the point of hitting something (and I never hit anyone), but in UT ... it's kind of frequent gawd I love this game
It's more fun to dominate a game and hand people's asses to them (everyone has one of those zoned games), but I find the general play of online games can be really excellent. The biggest problem is finding a server/game which is devoid of dickheads though, there are a lot of whinging/griefing asshats out there that spoil it for a lot of people.
I used to get annoyed at UT2K4, I was pretty good at it. I just found that sometimes you would go around for ages and get no kills, then just killed several times in a row almost straight after spawning. Games like COD4 there is always a kill to be had. I don't play it online on the PC, I find I do get a bit annoyed due to the fact that when I am alone I tend to take things more seriously, as there is no one to laugh and share my misfortune with. But I go round my mates and we take it in turns on the 360, he gets very very annoyed and moans about the game coding and bugs etc... though on occasions he has more fun just shouting random crap on his headset. And scaring everyone to death by screaming when he gets his one kill. My theory is if a game is past paced so even if you suck you can get some kills, and the game doesn't last too long, then its always fun. If the game is a slow and has huge maps then it gets boring running around to get a kill only for some git to run off around a corner where he knows he bum chums are so they can triple team you, and then its back to square one.
As long as I play well then its fine. Times when I keep dying over and over again get frustrating - I am all in favour of playing with better players but I need to control the skill level gap as dying before I get a chance to even realise where I am, well...it makes it hard to learn from! I prefer them to be a few steps better and from their style of play I can learn and pick things up! I do however get annoyed If im teamed with complete idiots that dont know teamwork/what they are doing even in the slightest.
I like winning, and I like playing well, but I still can have fun if I don't win. What I don't like is when I keep getting killed for no foreseeable reason/keep spawning and getting killed/firing a load of shots into someone with an AK74u only to be killed by a single shot to the knee by a pistol/looking through the killcam to see that headshot I was just killed by wasn't actually aimed anywhere near me let alone my head.
I enjoy it more when i'm on form. the adrenaline kicks in when your having a good game. if i'm having a bad game it's frustrating but as long as your opponents/team are good it can make up for it.
I find it's fun either way, I'm awful at TF2, but it's fun. on more realism FPS's I don't mind, as long as there isn't violent spawncamping &c. Who doesn't have fun when dominating a server?
