Submission + - How does one cope with being a lousy gamer?
Ka D'Argo writes: For years I've had the distinct pleasure of being, well pretty damn awful at PC games. Not single player games mind you but multiplayer ones. Of pretty much all genres as well, RTS, FPS even MMORPG's. I figure /. has probably the best pool of gamers in the world amongst all the readers, and I know in that group of people I can't be the only one that just sucks at gaming.
I ask, how do you deal with it? Sure we all know at the end of the day it's just a game and that's that nothing really more too it. But when you play a dozen different games and always end up last in every one of them, scoring the least, or just losing the game entirely. And it's not without it's merits, I've practiced and tried to learn from mistakes, spent hours looking over demos, replays, any kind of material to glean a tidbit of useful information from and in the end I still manage to lose. I love playing games but when the horse never manages to reach the carrot on the stick, the horse kinda gets tired of chasing the carrot. There's plenty of games coming out or already out that I am interested in but just don't want to go drop $50 or $60 USD to play for a few months, never really get into it due to just losing.
I ask, how do you deal with it? Sure we all know at the end of the day it's just a game and that's that nothing really more too it. But when you play a dozen different games and always end up last in every one of them, scoring the least, or just losing the game entirely. And it's not without it's merits, I've practiced and tried to learn from mistakes, spent hours looking over demos, replays, any kind of material to glean a tidbit of useful information from and in the end I still manage to lose. I love playing games but when the horse never manages to reach the carrot on the stick, the horse kinda gets tired of chasing the carrot. There's plenty of games coming out or already out that I am interested in but just don't want to go drop $50 or $60 USD to play for a few months, never really get into it due to just losing.