gaming Do you game for skill or just for fun?

[RippedOffMattress 314]

Mostly just for fun. Since I'm not that much of a gamer, I never really got that much out of increments of skill, other than that it'd just help me a little more in other games with a similar layout.

[LightRaider 148]

Mostly just for the fun of it, as i think competitive gaming is kinda weird, aint nobody got time for that.

And i just really like gaming!

[Lightning Fluttershy 1,844]

I'm kind of a mixture of both however for the most part it's for fun.

 

Now don't get me wrong I've stayed up for entire nights playing Halo so I could kick people's butts but in the larger picture it's so I can have fun doing it.

 

Like I said before however it's mostly for the fun. I love to just sit down and turn on my Xbox and have a good time playing Halo.

[Waffles 12]

It goes without a question...Just For Fun!...Thats why games were made for afterall, right?

If I'm bored I would probably play a friendly game of black ops with my brother (JUST FOR FUN),

NOT for competition.

[Lost Profile 644]

Fun in video games????

 

Lol jk

 

I play all sorts of games... Fps, platform, race, etc

 

I'm the top gamer in my town... I play for skill online... But sometimes I play for fun...

[Nohbdy 4,108]

Both are important. IMO, there's no point in playing a game you don't enjoy. On the other hand, many games simply require skill to have fun at all, because frankly, seeing the respawn screen every 5 seconds kinda puts a damper on the enjoyment.

[FALCON PUNCH 244]

I used to play BF3 for skill but now that I have reached rank 45 and unlocked all weapons I just mess around in the game.

But I just play the ffa and community games in MW3 now.

[A Blithering Div 247]

Needs a both option as I play for both. Single player games I usually play on normal as the hard difficulties just mean more camping and very rarely make me think. Wow there are more tougher enemies that still just stand there and shoot. That's not hard, that's tedious. However multiplayer games I play for either as it depends on the server and what mood I'm in.

[DusK 1,264]

I do both, but fun is easily more important to me. Also, on that note, I can't stand people who think that being good at some game makes them God's gift to the planet.

[khaine21x3 789]

I play just because I find it fun but I do try to get better at the game.There are lots of easy games which I enjoy for different factors despite not requiring any skill, I only view skill based game as something that I would play seriously in tournaments.

[ChuniaC 52]

In most* games you don't need skill to have fun. But in some, I see it like this.

 

Let's take League of Legends for example. Very fun even if you're good or not. But when you practise and get better. Win over more and more foes you get an amazing feeling of accomplishment that only a similar event can create.

 

Say you start playing and have fun. Then you play some more and notice that what took your full concentration before now you do almost automatically.

You feel like you are more aware of what is happening in the game. A sort of automatic reflex for performing tasks that for unexperienced players seems "skilled". Fills your mind and you feel... almost robotic.

 

I love this feeling and it drives me to play games alot until I am the best.

 

* Co-op, singleplayer, puzzle and some multiplayer games like garry's mod.

[spas-ticShotty 3,584]

Bohth. Stuff like GTA IV and SR3 is almost solely for dicking around, althought games like CoD or BF are a little more for skill. I try to get decent games and I also try to win if it's possible that match, as these 2 are how I have fun in those games; getting decent games and trying to win. However, I can't play those games if I'm mad, so I have to be in a good mad to play them .

[♥.:Yulaiyre:.♥ 290]

It really depends upon how you define the two categories, Because in a lot of cases they overlap.

 

For instance, I play games for fun. But I have fun on games by beating difficult odds, by pitting myself against harder and harder enemies. That's how I have fun on games, But that also increases my skill with said game, though I do it for fun.

 

I have played competitively before, and to be honest, that wasn't fun at all, it was just stressful and annoying. I think It may have been from the fact I was recruited into a random group because the members saw me play and wanted me, and I didn't know anyone in the group.

but even then, playing competitively can be construed as playing for fun, because that's what you have fun doing. Personally, I think it would be fun to play something like tf2 competitively, but only if I had a group of friends to do it with.

 

But umm yeah....I play for fun. Even if it does make me better at the game, I still only do it for fun.

[Cranium Tyranus 216]

Well, this is a bit of a mixed topic for me, I grew up in the 90's, where fighting game cabinets were king and an impressive combo was as well regarded as a Herculean score. Then take my family, the boys at least. All saying, "nah nah, I'm better then you at this game and always will be!" As the youngest, my motor skills wern't up to fighting game form until I was 12, even then I had no idea how combos worked.

 

I'd go to arcades to just watch other people play street fighter 3rd strike, I'd mainly watch the screen, but I'd also watch the buttons, I saw character inputs and that's also how I learned to do the Raging Demon, and Demon's palm Akuma Super Arts. After I practiced the things I'd seen it was time to test them out on my brothers. I won, no contest. But it didn't make me feel better, cause my brother's were also sore losers, saying many mean things to me for winning, me 13, the oldest 19.

 

Though my favorite games arn't competition focused, like Mario and Zelda. It's just you and the game, which I enjoy very much. Though I do still play fighting games online from time to time, simply because I know I'm good, but people out there are just as good, if not better then me, and most of them win/ lose with much more grace then my brothers ever did. So, while I play most games just for fun, when I play a fighting game, I play to get better, make my combos longer, and just make the whole fight cooler to look at.

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

Yes. Sometimes both at the same time. Depends on the game.

 

Team Fortress 2 is pure fun. I don't care about how effective I am so much as I just try to have a good time. With Red Orchestra, it's slower-paced, fairly realistic, and one shot almost guarantees a kill; when I play RO, skill is essential to keeping yourself from getting killed every minute, and sometimes no amount of skill is enough to get out of a bad situation. Still, I find it quite fun, otherwise I wouldn't bother playing it. In either case, ratios don't matter to me, because I don't mind being bested even when my focus is outperforming other players. Too much focus on skill usually breeds anger, and there's nothing more detrimental to a gaming community than people telling noobs to get lost.

 

On another note is how into it some players are, mostly the people who choose to insult people whenever they kill them, and if they manage to kill the person yelling they make comments like "Wow, you are so bad kid!" "OMG you are such a F***ing noob" "You have absolutely no skill" and I love hearing this one "The only f***ing reason you killed me is because you are using a f***ing noobish gun"...

Whether you win or lose, they'll hate you for it. It seems almost every time I play a multiplayer game there's at least one of those guys. It's always great when there's a server admin around to kick them.

[Tycoon 79]

Both. I started playing for fun (this is in Team Fortress 2, a MMOFPS), but I got too good for pubs eventually and decided to join in UGC Highlander 9v9. (competitive gaming). I still play for fun a lot but it does help to get some additional practice, since I've only got 1175 hours.

[MKT_707Z 34]

I mostly play for fun, but sometimes i play so i can become better, just so i won't have all those kids begin to scream noob or something else at me.

[WillieNelson 8]

It depends, when playing Call of Duty or something, I do it just for the mindless violence. But my competitive Pokemon battling is very serious; I'm always trying to develop new strategies and get more familiar with the metagame.

[moneyshredderofdeath 414]

I picked just for fun. I don't play too many games, and those that I do tend to be as single player. I do like honing my skills but having a good time and a relief from real life are my main reasons for playing a game.

[DoctorWhovian1902 596]

Everyone can enjoy games. Personally, I just play it for fun, but sometimes there is skill required to play a game, but since that's fun to me it makes sense. Minecraft is a perfect example, it has "peaceful" for a simple, relatively easy game, but also "hardcore" for those who are really up for a challenge.

 

I picked just for fun. I don't play too many games, and those that I do tend to be as single player. I do like honing my skills but having a good time and a relief from real life are my main reasons for playing a game.

 

Agreed. Video games are an excellent stress reliever...or stress producer, depending on the game. But sometimes it is nice to just relax a bit.

[zDashiez 496]

Who said you can't play for fun and be skilled

I mostly play for fun, which for me, means turning the game up to the hardest difficultly (anything lower and its just too boring for me) and searching every nook and cranny for secrets.

 

As for multiplayer, I usually just play halo. But for new games, I pick things up pretty quickly, so I'm not the worst player for long, I just play for fun though....until snipers are involved

Edited October 29, 2012 by zRevenantz

[Gigachip 148]

for multiplayer I'm just in it for fun. Used to be in it for skill, but then I realized I was being to stressful when playing like that. Now I get on and bs while I'm playing. I'm the guy that on MW3 runs around with explosives just for the heck of it

Plus its funny to annoy people and get that random Javelin kill or 40mm kill from across the map -_-

Even then I don't really want to play it, I'm just on it because my friends are playing. If theres one game I do take serious is the BF series of multiplayer. I try to be as supportive to my team as possible.

 

Who said you can't play for fun and be skilled

I mostly play for fun, which for me, means turning the game up to the hardest difficultly (anything lower and its just too boring for me) and searching every nook and cranny for secrets.

 

thats exactly what I do as well

I can't enjoy the game unless is on its hardest. Even if it means I have to restart from checkpoints a lot I rather do that than have an easy ride.

[zDashiez 496]

@@Gigachip, THANK YOU! Finally someone who agrees with me. All my friends online say it ruins all the fun and for that don't like playing co-op with me

[Vanguard 123]

I play for fun, i try to get better at some games because it requires you to so you can win, i consider winning fun but losing can equally as fun especially if your messin' round with mates. i have been playing COD Blops recently just for the fact i can pick up and play without focusing which means i can listen to music.

 

I like to play halo but i think that takes a bit of skill and i usually try to do well for my teams benefit.

[Winona the Dog 1,984]

For fun really i like gathering a bunch group of bronies head out to play a good online game to play together. Anything from FPS shooters to MMORPGS