Poll: A Question For Fellow Competitive Gamers

[GoaThief]

Thus, in shooters, I'm not inclined to feel badly largely because mechanical skill above all else is of primary importance. In more cerebral games, I'm inclined to feel bad simply because beating someone at a strategy game means I simply had a better plan than they did. It's a more personal defeat.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this, was getting worried for a while.

That said, I don't agree that mechanical skill is most important in FPS, especially past a certain point. You can help someone refine aim and such, sure but in competitive shooters (I don't think I would class Planetside in that) it's all about the meta game, map control, item timing, movement, pathing, blah blah. Then again I often find a lot of RTS all about quickest build order and little strategy out of that... Guess that's why I don't play many of them any more. Absolutely adored Frozen Synapse, whilst not real time I found it far more strategic than the pretentious.