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Game Seriousness

Ghouled_Mojo
Ghouled_Mojo Member Posts: 2,287
in General Discussions

When I was young, I would analyze the hell out of something I enjoyed and dissect it until I fully understood every little thing about. At one time I was somewhat intelligent. Those days are long gone.

I know a lot of you still analyze the hell out of DBD. My question is really this. Of those of you who break the game down tile by tile, power by power, do you do this to be a better and more competent player, because it’s simply your nature, or for feelings of a type of superiority?

I don’t do it anymore simply because I learned to let my mind relax. Superiority is a young person’s game in my mind now. I’m very much a casual player in all games now.

Comments

  • RaSavage42
    RaSavage42 Member Posts: 5,566

    Yea... I went through the same things (but I do realize that some things are meant to be "for balance") but gave up after realizing that it would be hard to do cause of the RNG involved

  • Heartbound
    Heartbound Member Posts: 3,255

    For me out of those it's competency. I like knowing what I'm getting into before it happens so I'll read up or play killers or use perks just to see how they're used so I can handle them better.

    I'm guilty of running on autopilot and just doing the tiles the most optimal way regardless of what the other team is doing. Surprisingly some of the time it works all of the time.

  • Ghouled_Mojo
    Ghouled_Mojo Member Posts: 2,287
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2458502#Comment_2458502

    Lol. Good deal.

  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 2,039

    I'm the same as you. I don't really want to get better at this game, i just like to enjoy the immersion of it. I play adept on most survivors just because it's fun.

  • Ghouled_Mojo
    Ghouled_Mojo Member Posts: 2,287
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2458513#Comment_2458513

    It sets a different tone for your matches for sure.

  • DerpyPlayz
    DerpyPlayz Member Posts: 583
    edited August 2021
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/275994/game-seriousness

    This is as casual persons game, its not balanced. The only thing to analyze and realize is that this game is really easy to understand and figure out everything about it in only a few weeks.


    To answer your question, its a personality trait, and it doesn't make you childish as you seem to imply even if someone were to do it for competitive superiority. That is lunacy, by that same metric, just about anyone who is professional in anything would be "a young persons game".


    Just because you don't have the drive or skill to do X doesn't mean Y group of people who do X should be thought of any differently.

  • Duke_Ragereaver
    Duke_Ragereaver Member Posts: 215
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/275994/game-seriousness

    in my case its about being good at what i do, i dont feel superior because i can play the dbd game better. its more a if youre gonna do it do it right type thing.

  • Marc_go_solo
    Marc_go_solo Member Posts: 5,347

    I prefer being as good as I can be, but it's only ever for personal betterment. It's better when it's purely skill-based for me. Learning the optimum perk build isn't that interesting, compared to skill.

  • Kilmeran
    Kilmeran Member Posts: 3,142
    edited August 2021
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/275994/game-seriousness

    I did that in Overwatch. Which is odd for me, because I'm in my 40s (almost 50 now) and tend to generally play games very casually. If I'm good, I'm good; if I'm bad, I'm bad. I usually don't care either way. But something about Overwatch since the day it launched shifted my brain, at least for that game, to analyze everything from hero counters, hero combos and synergy, maps and positions, etc.

    I've never done that with DbD, though. Maybe it's because I only purchased the game due to Michael Myers. And I honestly, a majority of the time, just play Myers as my main, and then some Freddy, Amanda, Leatherface, and Ghostface, my favorite licensed killers (I don't play Nemesis, not a huge RE fan, never really cared about Pyramid Head in Silent Hill, and have little interest in Pinhead in the context of DbD).

    So, I play DbD very casually and mainly just to play as some of my favorite horror film icons.

    And Survivors escaping doesn't really phase me. Heck, someone usually always escapes the Slasher at the end, and poor Myers got his ass kicked in 2018 and left trapped in a burning house. 🤣

  • Ghouled_Mojo
    Ghouled_Mojo Member Posts: 2,287
    https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2459146#Comment_2459146

    I think you took the tone of the post wrong. Lol.