This has been a recurring theme over the last few years of gaming for me. I'm just growing VERY tired of competition in video games. Now I'm not talking about difficulty versus the AI or beating your own high score. I'm talking about how I've grown very distant from the realm of PVP. Co-op and me get along just fine but when you bring that heart racing bomb plant against an entire enemy team it just stresses me out more than anything.
For games that have an extensive multiplayer focus (such as Call of Duty or Battlefield) I have to take comfort in being with a team and focusing on the more RPG like elements that manage to draw me in more than the actual combat. It's not that I hate fighting another person but that's what I see; another person. Someone who is just as focused on killing (or beating) me as I am them. I lose, it annoys me. I win, it annoys them.
Most likely another element of the equation is that I hate chance. Most PVP instances in video games rely on both player skill and chance. Two players that are evenly skilled, which can easily be found thanks to true skill matchmaking, involve even higher instances of chance. Roll the dice on recoil and I feel like I've been cheated on that death more than anything else. But it's being cheated against another person that truly annoys me. I'll gladly get killed by a critical hit from an AI opponent but immediately call BS when it's from another player.
Anyways, this thread isn't supposed to be about me. Does anybody else find themselves drifting away from PVP arenas and focusing more on Co-op and campaign types of games?
For games that have an extensive multiplayer focus (such as Call of Duty or Battlefield) I have to take comfort in being with a team and focusing on the more RPG like elements that manage to draw me in more than the actual combat. It's not that I hate fighting another person but that's what I see; another person. Someone who is just as focused on killing (or beating) me as I am them. I lose, it annoys me. I win, it annoys them.
Most likely another element of the equation is that I hate chance. Most PVP instances in video games rely on both player skill and chance. Two players that are evenly skilled, which can easily be found thanks to true skill matchmaking, involve even higher instances of chance. Roll the dice on recoil and I feel like I've been cheated on that death more than anything else. But it's being cheated against another person that truly annoys me. I'll gladly get killed by a critical hit from an AI opponent but immediately call BS when it's from another player.
Anyways, this thread isn't supposed to be about me. Does anybody else find themselves drifting away from PVP arenas and focusing more on Co-op and campaign types of games?