Tuesday, 05 January 2010
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Throwing Your Matches in Video Games
In all of the finger tapping, thumb rolling, competitive glory, it can be hard to remember that video games are first and foremost games, where people are meant to have fun. More than other kinds of games, video games can get frustrating for people when much better players refuse to show any mercy.
I believe that's why it's important to throw your matches or at least go easy on the people you're playing with depending on the scenario. Yes, dudes, your button mashing girlfriends may just thank you for it.
You're just a douche bag if you ALWAYS opt to own someone else regardless of their skill level, especially when they don't want you play them at your best. Unless it's in the context of competition, the best kind of gamer is the one who takes the effort to get full enjoyment out of who he or she is up against while simultaneously making it as enjoyable as he can for the other person.
Besides, as with sparring irl, playing around and taking it easy gives you the chance to learn new and weird things about the game you may have never had the chance with playing by yourself or in a heated match. It's really all about fostering the right atmosphere, games always were meant to be a social thing after all.
As I said guys, your girlfriends may just thank you for not being so vicious. This goes for the lady-gamers out there too, many of whom I'm sure can strafe, aim, combo, hammer-on, and aggro like the rest of us, and who may sadly (or is that happily?) be with a guy who's not as good at video games as they are. Hell, not to be exclusionary, it should be the same for same-sex couples as well.
So yeah, do you throw your games from time to time?
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Cranks MeatLoaf to 11...
I would do anything for love...
I would do anything for love...
I would do anything for love...
But I won't do that!
(Link to my post on that)
Most girls are smart enough to know when they're being played with. They'd rather be pwn'd by you than win...and wonder if you 'just let them win'.
This applies to friends too, i think. I remember visiting friends at another university that had a Halo night every Friday. I'm a playstation guy, and this was like my 3rd time on halo. These guys were really good and it wasn't fun.
I remember, when playing Mortal Kombat with some younger cousins, there was a code to start at lower health. I would use that when I played, and really appreciated the in-game balance. Plus there was always the "I use the shitty guy, you use the guy I unlocked from beating the game on ultramegahardmode" thing.
Um... if i Kick my bfs ass... I kick his ass... he knows I'm really good at games, so is he to a degree I'm just extremely tatic based when I play games and I have been playing them since I was seven or eight... very first game... Zelda for the nintendo! Then I played on a sega... then the N64... then the playstation and now ps2. I haven't upgraded because I don't have the funds yet! But I shall and then RE5 here I come! Speaking of throwing... hehe I have recalled myself throwing my controller due to freaking hard ass mode on Final fantasy and no save point for three hours of game play.... irritating when you die!
Uhm...I never throw a match...never...end of story.
Hell no!
I play to WIN.
- Kunoichi
I took it easy on my little sister when she was growing up and learning how to play games. but other then that I never just take it easy on people. I don't like taking it easy on people cuz it just gives them a false sense of accomplishment. Might as well show them that people will own you in any game. Lord knows I get my butt kicked in C.O.D or Marvel Vs. Capcom 2.
I use this when playing racquetball.. the only problem is when you go too easy and almost loose, ha ha.
I'd be pissed if someone threw a match for me, so I won't do it for them.
If you beat them all the time they will take time to practice if they really want to beat the person who is always beating them. When they finally beat them it gives them more of a sense of accomplishment then when you throw the game in fact they may not want to play any more.
haha once my boyfriend tried throwing the game and still won...
and by the end of the night i was kicking his ass, and he was trying :)
i hang out with all gamer guys (while i'm home at least. while i'm at college, it's different) and whenever we hang out, we *gasp of shock* play video games together. They're 10 times better then I am, but i still enjoy playing with them, even when they kick my ass. Sometimes I win, sometimes they let me win and act like they didn't, most of the time, i get my ass kicked. But they're never mean about it, so it's ALWAYS fun :]
i never threw a match... i own in everything
i remember with a girl i liked, we went bowling, and all I was doing was shit talking. And hittin them strikes all day long
i'm terribad
I throw games with my friends who don't play video games a lot, because they whine if they lose twice in a row (and stop playing if it happens a third/fourth time).
But I hate when people do this to me. I'll even stop playing if it happens too often.
No, and I'd be pretty annoyed if I found out somebody threw a game for me. If I didn't want to play the game to play the game, I wouldn't be playing. If someone can't handle losing, I don't want them to play with me, because I'll be irritated at feeling like I have to throw the game once in a while, and if they ever found out I was doing it they might get irritated over it, too. And when you're irritated, you aren't having fun. Likewise, if you're frustrated, you aren't probably having a lot of fun. So, that's why I really don't play with people whom I feel like or know that I have to throw a game for, or who think that they have to throw a game for me.
So, if I had a boyfriend that couldn't handle losing to me, I'd just not play with him. And if he felt that he needed to throw a game for me every once in a while, even if I tell him not to, I likewise will not play with him. :p If either one or both of us are not usually having fun, what's the point?
A lot of people on here are complaining about how "all girls would hate it if I threw a game for them" and bla bla bla. But I don't think he means it quite like that. Yes, if you pretended that you were trying really hard and let them believe that they really beat you at your best then I could see a chick getting pissed. But when the poster says "throw the game" I think they just mean to relax instead of making it into a competition. Play around, look for glitches, give them time to shoot you before you retaliate. Me and my bf play video games together sometimes, and we even played pool together last night. He lets me work my ass off while he just goofs off, sometimes right up until the very end. Sometimes he comes back up and beats me, sometimes I legitimately kick his ass. Either way, we BOTH have a lot of fun because we are relaxed and just enjoying each others company. Or like lewk said up there, just give them an advantage to even the playing field and chill out. Its a lot more fun.
I'm friends with a guy who played that Jaleco Baseball game back in the halcyon days of the SNES. Bases Loaded? Anyway, he tells me that one time he played a kid at it, and my buddy was so great at this game, he made the kid cry because the boy kept losing....so he had to throw the match.
I'm not really good enough at most games to even consider doing this, and I'd never really think of doing it either, unless I was in my buddy's scenario.
man never throw a match, cuz if a girl knows u doing it, she gets pissed a lot more than if u beat her. thats life.