If you are not currently nor ever have been heavily into the Legend of the Five Rings CCG, the below pathetic whine will make no sense to you. Choke it down at your own peril
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Well I don't see myself as a great player BUT OMG UR THE BIGGEST LOZAR LOL M I RITE!!1!!!!!!1!11eleven
Anyway, I'm actually having this discussion right now with someone else - about how most of the people in #l5r these days are raging assholes. And it's funny when one of my friends who's a raging asshole is sick of the game in part because he can't stand many of the OTHER raging assholes.
I don't know that "casual play" is the answer. I love to win in odd ways, but I like to win - and I've found that most casual players seem to play that way so at least when the lose, they can claim somebody else wasn't playing casually enough, or something (like maybe I should leave guys to clog my provinces, I dunno).
But yeah, you're far from alone in thinking the player base seems to be going to hell. It makes me more clannish at major events, rather than trying to meet everyone, and it's a raging bitch to try judging when people are being absolute dicks.
Eh I'm not saying "casual play is the answer", because this is still a competetive game and you play those to win. My problem is that I used to be able to play games and lose and enjoy them. Hell I used to be able to play games and win and still enjoy them. Now it's not really all that much fun, win or lose. I mean if someone plays just to have fun and they don't care if they win or lose, that's their world, but I'm not in it. I've just gotten to the point where the fun is actually gone from the game itself, and so when I turned to think "well at least so-an-so still plays and they're a damn hoot to play with" I couldn't think of many people at all.
Yeah, that's the biggest problem to getting people together outside of tournements. Money/travel/time off issues aside. What to do? Going to see movies and playing video games only lasts so long. And when you're paying big bucks to do so....not many people do. I know I do, more often than I should, but I do crazy shit all the time. *shrug*
It's not that I don't play to win; obviously, the goal of each individual game is to win that particular match, so I try to play to the best of my ability. The difference to me is the goal of playing itself.
Am I playing to win, such as in a tournament, where the goal is to be the last player standing? I can do this, as I said, but it's not nearly as enjoyable for me. In a tournament setting, be it L5R, DBZ, or Warlord (the three games where I've played in tournies), the pressure is on, and it takes a mental and physical toll on me. My hands start shaking, especially as the game goes on. My fingers get cold, and I can hear my pulse pounding in my head, and all my attention is focused on my opponent's moves and my options. At the end of a round, win or lose, the first thought through my mind is, "God, I'm glad that's over." If I do manage to win, the sigh that goes with that thought is only slightly more relaxed
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Anyway, I'm actually having this discussion right now with someone else - about how most of the people in #l5r these days are raging assholes. And it's funny when one of my friends who's a raging asshole is sick of the game in part because he can't stand many of the OTHER raging assholes.
I don't know that "casual play" is the answer. I love to win in odd ways, but I like to win - and I've found that most casual players seem to play that way so at least when the lose, they can claim somebody else wasn't playing casually enough, or something (like maybe I should leave guys to clog my provinces, I dunno).
But yeah, you're far from alone in thinking the player base seems to be going to hell. It makes me more clannish at major events, rather than trying to meet everyone, and it's a raging bitch to try judging when people are being absolute dicks.
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Am I playing to win, such as in a tournament, where the goal is to be the last player standing? I can do this, as I said, but it's not nearly as enjoyable for me. In a tournament setting, be it L5R, DBZ, or Warlord (the three games where I've played in tournies), the pressure is on, and it takes a mental and physical toll on me. My hands start shaking, especially as the game goes on. My fingers get cold, and I can hear my pulse pounding in my head, and all my attention is focused on my opponent's moves and my options. At the end of a round, win or lose, the first thought through my mind is, "God, I'm glad that's over." If I do manage to win, the sigh that goes with that thought is only slightly more relaxed ( ... )
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