Hello everyone
I noticed something pretty subtle that not many people think about and wanted to touch on it with everyone to see what everyone thinks about the topic
. It seems their are two very different types of people. Some who let a less skilled opponet win and some who try to humble them by whooping them lol. This happens with everything and not just gaming and it's a sort of moral dhilhema. Although I put kid which is the most common occurance, I more so mean anyone who is not as good at the game as you by a large margain like a non gamer girlfriend who doesn't play much or a old man who never played. And wanted to know how you'd handle facing them
.
One time at my brother's house we were playing Marvel vs Capcom 3 ultimate, and we were getting into some heated matches. It was a epic fun night of tournament style pass the controller if you lose fun.
. But then my brother's friend's daughter who is about 6 wanted to play, so they gave up their controller and had her play against me.
I let her win without giving it much thought, because I didn't want to beat her or make her sad.
I guess that's the decision I usually make. But it surprised me that many people do the opposite, and i've seen it in arcades especially when I was a little kid. I was wondering if I was doing the right thing by letting her win without earning it. But then realized it wasn't so important.
I remembered when I was a kid, my dad and older brothers would beat the living crap out of me in games, especially madden until I got good enough to beat them at them. I bet many of you also have older brother stories of older brothers being epic at games. Which all and all made us more passionate and just better at games and also at accepting defeat. Which is a good trait to teach kids. It was fun times growing up the ranks to finally beat your brother in a game.
I also want to add that I'm not saying all lil kids are helpless or bad at games, I have a 10 year old nephew who completely whoops me at Star Wars battlefront
. He's more braggy with his challenges, and says he'll whoop you and stuff. So when we play COD I have less regrets of trying hard and beating him because I know he's very good at games. I'm more so referring to people who are obviously very new to games in general.
Which type would you be in the scenerio of facing a kid or maybe a old man who's never played?
Would you hadooken them into oblivion or do you let them win to make them happy?