I can't believe I'm the only person who is mostly a tourneyfag here.
Tourneyfag- Probably the best fit for me. I play with official tournament settings on most games. I have an affinity for fighting games. I enjoy reading tier lists, frame data, and match up charts. I analyze gameplay videos to build my skills. If I'm not attending local tournaments, I sometimes drive hours to meet decent competition. The only thing I don't fit into is the "must win" mentality. I play competitively for ...the competition. I'd prefer to lose an intense battle than win against inferior opponents. In fact, I usually quit playing a particular person or group if I win too easily. It's not fun for me. We tourneyfags only hate losing when it's because a random, powerful item literally falls out of the sky next to our opponents. No items on Smash Bros please.
Pro Gamer- I've become more of this recently. When playing less skilled friends or family, I usually switch to my secondary or tertiary characters. Often, I just adopt a playstyle unfamiliar to me to keep the match interesting. I haven't competed much lately and my time at the controller has dipped greatly. Still, I log too many hours in video games to be a Casualfag or Rec gamer.
Retro- I play Galaga, Toy Pop, old Mega Man games, Mario, Sega Saturn and Genesis, and others. This is probably the smallest part of my gamer profile though. While I enjoy these things, it doesn't occupy a large amount of my gaming time.
I'm curious which categories each group befriends. I've got a friend that fits the Ronery class in every way possible. He even had his own Assclown antagonist. Most of my friends are Recs though.
I think I am caught somewhere between Rec and Pro gamer. Every time I find myself about to win big, I slow down and allow my opponent to catch up in order to play a for as long game as possible as well as because I find it silly when people get mad for losing so I generally try making it as even as possible if I have the upper hand. If I get the chance, I try push a game to sudden death and a state of 'next to score wins'. If I know my enemy is a sore loser, I often let them win.
I am not very fond in Grrl gamers or attention craving players in general. Particularly females who act weak and incompetent simply for the sake of sympathy. Should I at any point learn that one of my enemy players is a "Grrl gamer", I would target her and if it is within my capability DESTROY HER!
When "Grrl gamers" are not in play, I am often mature and indifferent. I am not too modest to admit that some of the games I play, I am quite good at, but I am entirely indifferent at that point. I do not gloat, act superior or even try to be stylish if I turn out to be a better player than the one I am opposing. Which I should add is not too often, even though I am by no means a bad player at what I play.
Winning or losing, I do not care which. I am out to have a good time and I am out to help others have a good time, friendly as well as enemy players. The only exception would be "Grrl gamers", who in my opinion make all female players look bad and they should be impaled on a pole, burnt to ashes and then drowned. Feel free to kick them when they are down as well.
Grrl gamers is the whole reason I never let people know I am a female. I rather not play at all than be mistaken for one of 'them'.
Originally posted by StyleTime
I'm curious which categories each group befriends. I've got a friend that fits the Ronery class in every way possible. He even had his own Assclown antagonist. Most of my friends are Recs though.
Rec and Pro would surely befriend. Grrl Gamer and Ronery certainly would as well. Gigantor and Tourneyfag should get along well too. Retro Gamer might get along well with Rec and Pro as well.
I know a Casualfag who loves to hang out with and listen to Pro Gamer, Rec Gamer and Retro Gamer friends of mine. The last horizontal line is probably entirely approving of one another.
Originally posted by StyleTimeThen you play at tournaments, which is fine, you aren't a pompous tourneyfag in that sense. I've been around them and I can't stand being around them, and that's in anything. I'm not much of a tournament person as I don't really have much to prove.
I can't believe I'm the only person who is mostly a tourneyfag here.Tourneyfag- Probably the best fit for me. I play with official tournament settings on most games. I have an affinity for fighting games. I enjoy reading tier lists, frame data, and match up charts. I analyze gameplay videos to build my skills. If I'm not attending local tournaments, I sometimes drive hours to meet decent competition. The only thing I don't fit into is the "must win" mentality. I play competitively for ...the competition. I'd prefer to lose an intense battle than win against inferior opponents. In fact, I usually quit playing a particular person or group if I win too easily. It's not fun for me. We tourneyfags only hate losing when it's because a random, powerful item literally [B]falls out of the sky
next to our opponents. No items on Smash Bros please.Pro Gamer- I've become more of this recently. When playing less skilled friends or family, I usually switch to my secondary or tertiary characters. Often, I just adopt a playstyle unfamiliar to me to keep the match interesting. I haven't competed much lately and my time at the controller has dipped greatly. Still, I log too many hours in video games to be a Casualfag or Rec gamer.
Retro- I play Galaga, Toy Pop, old Mega Man games, Mario, Sega Saturn and Genesis, and others. This is probably the smallest part of my gamer profile though. While I enjoy these things, it doesn't occupy a large amount of my gaming time.
I'm curious which categories each group befriends. I've got a friend that fits the Ronery class in every way possible. He even had his own Assclown antagonist. Most of my friends are Recs though. [/B]
True, and like I said that can be in Martial Arts, working out, Card Games, or whatever. There are some (like my friend) that are convinced that to be good you have to huddle around a small group of people for small prize money to be "the best". I know from experience that the best often don't go to those because they play for fun and have nothing to prove. You really are just playing by the rule suited to help them win. I can play a game flawlessly and with more technical skill than my friends, and lose to them because they implement a cheap tactic or glitch. Are they good, yes, but that doesn't show true skill to me. Then when I use that tactic it's a different story when I'm proving a point.
Tourneyfags (the real ones) suck the fun out of everything.
The tourneyfag mentality sort of transcends the gaming genre. This is also the case for Pro Gamers, these are sorts of people that you can find everywhere. The type of person who is brimming to the edge with moderate skill and the competitive person who is obsessed with winning. Tourneyfags acknowledge and often have the most skill though. Even if I do not really care much for people who can't seem to find enjoyment in things where you do not measure your own skills against others, I still have a great deal of respect for them.
I hate meeting Tourney guys on SF4 online. Can't match their skill, only their attitude 😐
Winning is fine, some just take it too far. I play for fun and I just happen to win 99% of the time. I'm more of a challenge gamer myself, I like to push the envelope doing "impossible" stuff when I play games, although I don't do them as often anymore as I don't really play games much.
Originally posted by Kris Blaze
The tourneyfag mentality sort of transcends the gaming genre. This is also the case for Pro Gamers, these are sorts of people that you can find everywhere. The type of person who is brimming to the edge with moderate skill and the competitive person who is obsessed with winning. Tourneyfags acknowledge and often have the most skill though. Even if I do not really care much for people who can't seem to find enjoyment in things where you do not measure your own skills against others, I still have a great deal of respect for them.I hate meeting Tourney guys on SF4 online. Can't match their skill, only their attitude 😐
That depends. Maybe with the average person, but I find the true elite don't care for participating in those things. They are the ones who just choose to up themselves, the tourneyfags are best at playing the games at the rules that suit them. But there are some really good ones. I guess you'll find more "really good" people there percentage wise, but the "very best" won't be there, especially at matches where you play for only a couple grand.
Martial arts, I did one for fun and got first place trophies, didn't mean much to me. Same with card games, and video games. You have one or two good guys and a lot of guys who think they are all that, or rely on the cheapest tactics. Even Yu Gi Oh and Pokemon have these types of people. So I agree with that. I don't know, it just depends. One person can have superior reflexes, knowledge of the moves, and refuse to play a certain way, where another person knows mainly their tier and the glitches and abuses them. Would that make them more skilled? That is subjective I suppose.
Originally posted by Tha C-Master
That depends. Maybe with the average person, but I find the true elite don't care for participating in those things. They are the ones who just choose to up themselves, the tourneyfags are best at playing the games at the rules that suit them. But there are some really good ones. I guess you'll find more "really good" people there percentage wise, but the "very best" won't be there, especially at matches where you play for only a couple grand.
Originally posted by Kris BlazeWell I don't mean necessarily elitist as in taste, but I just meant the elite as in "the best" in general, in most things, weight/body training, gaming, whatever. Some like the competition for fun (which is cool) some like to prove things. My friend constantly has to prove something against me even though I do it for fun and win, so it is one-sided. I guess I've just learned to keep most things to myself as I don't care for excessive attention and nonsense that comes from jealousy. 😬 To each their own though. I'm used to getting the attention and don't necessarily want it, and some want the attention and never get it, regardless of what it's from.
This is true. The elitist does not necessarily only participate in competitive games, such as fighting games or shooting games, which is mainly all the tourneyfag does. I'd bring up Pokemon tourneys, but people mostly use shoddybattle for that and it's so riddled with children that it's really difficult to apply these different gamer-types. I can see you going through into the Retro-Gamer a bit, had it not been for your wide area of interest. Those guys are usually skilled as hell, considering how mercilessly difficult some of the older games were.
The only game i really play these days is TF2 but before you all start calling me a Casualfag, you better watch this:
A fighting games person mainly. I own DOA, Tekken, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter (if it looks decent and in 2D and not trying to act/look 3D...so HD Remix is all I'm interested in at the moment) and...yeah. Not a Virtua Fighter person (although it feels like a combination of Tekken's realistic graphics and DOA's mechanics and physics) because I think overall it's lame. Also own DBZ Burst Limit which should count as a side by side 1on1 fighting game.
Second in line is action/adventure. I love those games. I own Kingdom Hearts, Devil May Cry, and Ninja Gaiden.
Then a shooter and Halo 3 is sufficient for me. Fun as hell too.
Lastly RPG is my last interest, as it's not that straight to the action sometimes, and involves having to upgrade a lot and whatnot. I have Final Fantasy X and X-2 but X is the real game of the X series. X-2 is just lolfunmildporn but actually has a better battle system. No I'm not talking about dress spheres (if that's two words..) but more about how you don't have to wait for turns. Dress spheres are for those guys who're ("who" and "are" put together, not whore 😆) like "lulz let's put on the least covering dress on! droolio" 😐.
But RPG's are the most I'm attached to. What I mean is they're not quick fun. They feel like interesting movies and books. KH is an RPG but it feels a lot more like 3rd person action. FFX and KH have the best stories from all I've played.