The burden of being tremendously good at videogames

handsomedgc

handsomedgc

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Hello Xpoff.
This isn't a troll thread, @ thread nor a 'look at how good I am' thread.
this is a feels thread.
During the lockdown I decided to spent an enormous amount of time playing videogames.
In this time I pushed myself hard, becoming better at every game I played during quarantaine.

My results (keep in ind that this happenend during a 3 month timespan):

Fighting-games:
Brawlhalla - Reached Diamond ELO. Pretty sure I was carried by Lancelot
Smash Bros. Ultimate - Reached Elite Smash with all characters, even won local WiFi stuff
Rivals of Aether - Reached Diamond rank. Loved playing Kragg

Moba/RTS:
League of Legends - Diamond V. Pretty decent
Heroes of the Storm - Reached Masters. This is a good ass MOBA btw
Age of Empries DE - Peaked at 1700 ELO, maybe I'll play this more

Boasting about this doesn't make me feel any better.
It makes me sad.
I don't know why I invest so much time to achieve meaningless things.

But this isn't the true burden.
The true burden is that I can't play with my good friends.
They are, bluntly said, just sub-par gamers.

In fighting games they are just spamming moves.
Never considering why their options get beaten by mine.
I get no enjoyed out of beating them.
They get upset when they never win.
Not trying isn't a option, because nobody enjoys that.

I even hate playing MOBAs with them.
We've played League for years together.
But everytime I play with them I wish I was blind.
They still make the same mistakes they made 5 years ago.
Why can't they just get better?
I have given up on trying to make them better.

All we do now is play shitty ass games.
Casual ass garbage games.

I want to play competitive shit with them again.
And I know.

I can't expect them to play what they deem 'unfun' games.
I just want to feel the euphoria again, from pushing each other to new heights.

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handsomedgc said:
The true burden is that I can't play with my good friends.
They are, bluntly said, just sub-par gamers.
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pug or make new gamer friends, i hear ya though, i was a console gamer on xbox 360 at the time my friend ask me to play warcraft with him, i didnt even have a powerful enough computer so i bought one, his girlfriend moved in and he quit around lvl 22 in the middle of questing in hillsbrad (when ally had southshore), this was about halfway through burning crusade the sunwell raid just unlocked, guess what i don't talk to that guy anymore.
 
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melabeari said:
pug or make new gamer friends, i hear ya though, i was a console gamer on xbox 360 at the time my friend ask me to play warcraft with him, i didnt even have a powerful enough computer so i bought one, his girlfriend moved in and he quit around lvl 22 in the middle of questing in hillsbrad (when ally had southshore), this was about halfway through burning crusade the sunwell raid just unlocked, guess what i don't talk to that guy anymore.
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I haven't seen a run on sentence like this since middle school.
 
You want to be better and improve yourself. If this makes you satisfied, just find new people like you and continue your journey. Your old friends don't have to be like you. You have to understand and respect them too. Play with them just for fun, not for winning. You can always have smurf accounts for this situation.
 
handsomedgc said:
Vraxx and Xul
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I was a Xull main before the reworked cannon, I don't like the feeling of it for whatever reason, and slight sucks. The new Xull art rework they did the other day is not something I'm a fan of either.

I was a Xull / Fait main until I learned the basics of every weapon, now I usually just pick random.
 
Gotta say, while your results are impressive at least for me, you mention 6 games but just 2 genres. Especially the fighting games you mentioned are very very similar. I imagine that a great portion of success in these games can be transferred between each other - such as concepts of wave manipulation, trading, getting into habit of following minimap etc for MOBAs, and stuff like edge guarding, invincibility frames, spot dodges, neutral and the like for smash-like games.

if you feel like you’ve accomplished yourself in these games, maybe it’s simply time to try completely new stuff? FPS for example
 
ohti said:
I was a Xull main before the reworked cannon, I don't like the feeling of it for whatever reason, and slight sucks. The new Xull art rework they did the other day is not something I'm a fan of either.

I was a Xull / Fait main until I learned the basics of every weapon, now I usually just pick random.
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Funny cannon goes punish
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Crystalpall said:
Gotta say, while your results are impressive at least for me, you mention 6 games but just 2 genres. Especially the fighting games you mentioned are very very similar. I imagine that a great portion of success in these games can be transferred between each other - such as concepts of wave manipulation, trading, getting into habit of following minimap etc for MOBAs, and stuff like edge guarding, invincibility frames, spot dodges, neutral and the like for smash-like games.

if you feel like you’ve accomplished yourself in these games, maybe it’s simply time to try completely new stuff? FPS for example
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FPS are hard.
Only FPS I enjoy is CS, because you can carry entire teams.

Currently trying OSRS F2P pvp.
It fucking sucks, but learning about ticks is amazing.
 
ohti said:
I haven't seen a run on sentence like this since middle school.
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sorry man im an environmental chemist im use to writing chemical equations i ignore rules of grammer and i am too lazy to even hit shift to capitalize a letter cause its a waste of calories to move my finger to push the button and with the pandemic its been a little bit harder to get food i dont want to waste calories of moving my finger i need to only move when im gaming its mostly warcraft but sometimes i log into steam and play darkest dungeon the new expansion is a pvp version called butchers circus which is cool but dont use a stress team because then ur lame ive been using a antiquarian and a vestal and a grave robber and a sheildbreaker there are plenty of combinations though i suggest experimenting to see which one fits u best sometimes i leave a box of mint condition 1918 liberty head silver dollars you see back in those days rich men would ride around in zeppelins dropping coins on people and one day I seen j.d. rockefeller flying by so I run out of the house with a big washtub and hey where are you going anyway about my washtub id just used it that morning to wash my turkey which in those days was known as walking bird we would always have walking bird on thanksgiving with all the trimmings and cranberries and yams stuffed with gunpowder then we'd all watch football which in those days was called baseball why didn't you get something useful like storm windows or a nice pipe organ im thirsty what smells like mustard there sure are a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood ooh look at that one ow my glaucoma just got worse I can't unbuckle my seatbelt there are too many leaves in your walkway
 
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