Avoid the bad game habits (02/24/2010)

A high-level is something gamers can showcase their achievment in one game and which can make the gamer admirable. Of course this one is not so easy. There is a easier way: to behave well or throw the bad habits. Here is a list of the bad habits you should avoid.
1. Always against someone who is way better or way worse than you.
Competitive games are only worth a pair of players' time when the match is actually competitive. Otherwise, you are going to have the angry dad from apartment 3C wondering why his 8-year-old daughter is in her room crying about something called a "Dragon punch."

Sure, winning is fun, but the flavor is lost when zero chance of losing materializes. The opposite is true as well -- who wants to continually play the best player in the world? You want about an equal chance to win as you do to lose. A good risk-to-reward ratio is important and fun.

2. Reject team play.
Teamwork is fun and important for gamer. Almost all of the experienced gamers have ever joined a team or group or even more. First, with team members' help you can finish a task which is impossible for single one. At least you can exchange with other gamers of playing skills. On the other hand, there are many special duties in the game especially for team, even if you have the ability to finish it by yourself, but you are not qualificated to enter.

3. Playing in a vacuum

Half the fun in playing a game is the bragging, leaderboard chasing, and story-sharing.

What is the point in remotely detonating a metric-fuck-ton (the technical term) of plastic explosives that have been strategically planted on motorcycles that were also miraculously driven to the top of an office complex's roof and watching as one of said motorcycles randomly slams into a panhandler if you can't tell your friends about it?

That was a difficult sentence to write -- just imagine actually performing the stunt.

We want to compare and contrast our adventures with people who have common experiences. Nothing kills an Xbox Live Arcade game faster than when people stop leaderboard chasing.