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Post by 8bitretroshit on Sept 23, 2011 6:53:25 GMT -5
Doesn't matter how silly the concept of a game is. If there's the element of competition, there are people who enjoy getting better at the game and compete seriously to see who's better at it. I think we met our competition rambling quota for this month  |
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Post by Shrikeswind on Sept 23, 2011 13:36:39 GMT -5
True, but still, when I play a game, even one with a competitive element, and even at my most competitive, there's still a perfectly intact piece of my mind which realizes how ridiculous it is to be flying across rainbow oceans with a magic wand and a squirrel in a little hat. When I play against a competitive player, I can't help but notice they're a different breed who don't seem at all phased by how goofy it is and insist on taking it 100% seriously, in spite of the fact that they can beat a well-armed and highly-trained United States soldier with a spider monkey with a peanut shooter. It's competitive, but in a goofy, friendly way, and whenever I decide to ignore my instincts and do an "official" tournament, I find myself surrounded by people who take it too seriously, like all they can think about is how much they're going to pwn some noobs. Like they've lost their sense of wonder to the competitive spirit. Sure, they'll beat you senseless and all, but you're busy laughing because a giant penguin flattened a ninja with a rocket hammer, and they're wondering what's so funny because it's serious business.
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Post by kirbychu on Sept 23, 2011 13:43:22 GMT -5
That's exactly how I feel about it. I was once playing with somebody like that. It was a stock match with one life each, he was asleep and I was winding up a Home-Run Bat to finish him off when a Bob-omb appeared right in between us. Obviously, I hit the Bob-omb and we both died. I thought this was the funniest thing ever, and it took me about five minutes to stop laughing.
He didn't see the joke. He told me it was the perfect example of why we should be playing with items off. I told him that I thought it was the perfect example of why items should be on at all times.
I never played anything with him again.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Sept 23, 2011 22:29:28 GMT -5
Kirbychu, God damn it. You do not hit bombs with baseball bats. They get mad and tell their moms and you have to explain everything to her, all while wondering how bombs have babies in the first place, then start contemplating how hot she is and how much you'd like to father a breed of bomb-people with her.
I have no idea where I was going with that.
But yeah, I dunno. It comes up in stages too. I love the goofy stages like Onett. I mean, watch Bowser make a car spin out. It's hilarious. Driver's spinning around, Bowser's in the wall, and Bowser's opponent can only be thinking "Well, that'll teach him to drive on the sidewalk." But no. You don't get that kind of laugh in tournaments because it's dangerous or something.
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Sept 24, 2011 4:22:14 GMT -5
I don't really think 'giant penguin hitting shit with giant hammer' or 'hazard doing it's hazard thing' is funny to anyone anymore after playing Smash Bros for a few weeks. Ofcourse it's always funny if you die in ridiculous ways involving items and hazards, but hardcore gamers are sore losers and incapable of laughing at their own silly mistakes.
Yeah I'm willing to be devil's advocate with the reason they play how they play, but PRO GAMERS in general are twats and Smash Bros really has some of the worst.
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Post by Shrikeswind on Sept 24, 2011 22:19:10 GMT -5
Well, provided. Still, it kinda exemplifies the fact that, as far as fighters go, Smash Bros. is pretty whimsical, and it seems that the standard competitive gamer doesn't appreciate it in that light.
Another example, to a lesser degree, is Pokemon. Think about the universe: You can pit two critters together and make them fight, for this example, Pikachu and Gyarados. Pikachu is essentially an electrically-charged squirrel. Gyarados is a freaking dragon that can shoot lasers out of its mouth and shit. The squirrel sometimes wins...and how? Because the dragon has trouble with electricity. Or the fact that to get the dragon in question, you need to take a useless load of carp around for-freaking-ever. The carp's attack style is "Just kinda flop around..." which later gets the suffix "...in the other guy's face" until he decides "You know, I could probably flop around in faces better if I were a dragon." Then he starts shooting lasers.
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Post by asiacatdogblue on Oct 7, 2011 12:25:50 GMT -5
I guess that could be considered an example of "Not to Judge a book by its cover?"
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