| mZuzek said: I feel like I can always be somewhere close to the top level players on any game I play, but never get quite good enough to be notable or actually be able to compete with the best. I've tried to get into many competitive games over my life and it's frustrating how I can never really get past that barrier. First was Guitar Hero when I was a teenager. I was possibly the 2nd best in my city, but nowhere near the best player and nowhere near the best in the country. Trying to play against them was humbling and I could never get anywhere near their high scores. I got over 700k points on Through the Fire and Flames, and FC'd many difficult songs, most notably Cliffs of Dover, Master of Puppets, Free Bird and The Spirit of Radio, but for the top players these seemed like easy feats. Then came Smash. I played it for thousands of hours, there was nothing else I'd do with my time, I was wholly dedicated to being the best in Brazil, and dreamed of the world even. I had pretty solid results from 2015-2019 but never got close to the best players in the country, rarely ever won against them and only once made it into the top 8 of a national, in which I lost straight away. It's especially sad that I could never be among the 10 or so best players in the country, because even the best players in Brazil are nowhere near the best players in the world. During the pandemic I got into speedrunning Ori. I had tried speedrunning before, with Super Metroid, but never took it seriously, now with Will of the Wisps I went all in, learned a lot of tech and difficult skips, wanted to make it big in the Main Quest Order category. Which, I suppose I have, given I'm currently 3rd place in the world. But in all truth, I'm only there because the game has a small speedrun community, I'm significantly behind the top 2 and it's obvious that if this was a popular speedrunning game (which I can't understand why it isn't), my 3rd place run would probably be closer to 30th. And now it's Splatoon. Again I tried it before with the first two games, but they were always overshadowed by Smash, now I'm dedicated to it and even got into a team, I'm a good player and maybe have some room for improvement, but it's already obvious where there's a barrier I won't be able to get past. tl;dr trying to get far in a competitive game is a fruitless effort, don't do it |
You're amazing in those games I also tried all the games you listed, In Splatoon I get destroyed most of the time I'm very bad at shooting games being top 3 world wide in Ori is a great feat. And Smash bros you beat everybody in VGchartz very easily. I'm Very bad in Smash Bros all the versions including Melee :(
