Popular Opinion of Skilled Gamers

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Originally Posted by YellerDog

I JUST BEAT YOU WITH JIGGLYPUFF, SHUN! WHATCHOO GONNA DO!

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Hey, I only bring out the 'Puff when someone's being a total douchebag. I usually don't even have to use Rest. :)

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Originally Posted by TrialSword

The worst kind of game douchebag had to be the bemani/DDR douchebag. I remember this guy who refused to play Beatmania unless he was wearing his faggoty black beret. Here on LI there was a DDR "group" that would bum around the more popular spots (FYE in Bayside being the most popular) Man was it hard to like DDR back when I did, because you would always run into some poser who thought he was hot shit because he could "Perfect Maxx Unlimited"

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The FYE in Bayshore... Yeah.
Though, there's always the opposite end of the Bemani coin... Rat-Tail Guy.

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Originally Posted by Grave

It just makes me want to play more until I can beat them. it's not really fun to win all the time (on a non-professional non-money etc level I guess) and not have anybody challenge you, is it?

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This. Although I do like to win all the time, it's no fun if they aren't capable of beating you. Kind of like how it was with the Devils and Rangers from 1997 to 2007.

I like to be as good as I can at games, if I lose I lose, but either way I'm going to have fun. The only time losing sucks is when it's to some 13 year old who has to remind you that he's 13 and he just shot you in the head from across the map with a sniper rifle and his friends are all in the background laughing because they don't have a 360 and they wanna know "that guy" who's really awesome and a prestige 10.
Ok that digressed into a CoD 4 thing, but my point stands.

oy that too.

Regarding the rest of the thread: There's a difference between playful ribbing and calling your opponents mexican jew niggers. Chux should demonstrate. All taunting done in an Arnold voice is not douchebaggery.

Arnold vs Arnold. It has happened.

I played games for fun. I usually had more fun when I am losing. I usually stopped playing when my opponent cares too much.

I enjoy high level play, but the fact is that the majority of people you play against are douchebags.

And by douchebags, I mean the people who talk trash and the people whose only "skill" is abusing exploits in the game engine (sports games are notorious for that).

That's not high level play.

Well, let me clarify. I'd imagine that what you described is prevalent as far as arbitrary rank designations given by a game, such as COD4 prestige 10s (though this is one is solely a reflection of playtime) or in sports game I'd imagine it's just win-loss. These don't do much to tell you how good a person actually is beyond a certain point, and compared to legit good players most of these guys suck anyway.

Nah, I was talking about leagues/tournaments, not so much lobby play.

The ranking systems in most online games reward quantity of wins more than quality, so it's hard to take rankings seriously.

Yeah but all sports gamers are assholes. I've watched Madden Nation!