If I lose to an obviously smart move and strategy, I can deal with that. I don’t like losing to cheese. Jump in HK Sweep cheese, cross up throw cheese or LK/MK throw cheese, Blanka everything cheese (doesn’t anybody do combos with Blanka?), Zangief Lariat Cheese. When players use these two or three of these patterns in a match to win, it just leave a bad taste in my mouth. There’s no way they would get away with that mess offline.
When I was a kid i would punch the couch cushion I was sitting on. Now that I’m 30 I just take another swig of beer and move on to the next match. It is after all just a video game.
The only time I get frustrated is if its a crappy connection and my moves/blocks won’t come out against a Ken/Geif scrub. I never drop based on principle so even if the connection sucks I will stick it out.
Lose a close game: Play another game
Come from behind loss: Double high five
Lose because drunk: Make excuses
Lose because donkey outside window won’t stop looking at me: Softly close blinds
I give myself a little break. The funny thing is I come within a pubic hair away from victory, only for my opponent to pull off a win. In SF3, generally I have them, I get a little cocky (my biggest flaw) and they pull off a come back. In KOF 98, the clock runs out before I can get 'em.
I entered a local tournament in SFIV thinking I would at least make it to the semi finals. To be honest I was being a little arrogant about it for the most part, thinking I would beat most people there. Turns out I didn’t even win my first match.
That lost really humbled me, and now I don’t mind losing at all. I learned not to underestimate my opponents ever again, and now I’m doing a lot better.
I deal with them pretty well. I just hate to lose to the dam upper cut spammers. (Dam Custom stick need’s new washer)
Depends…tournament or casuals?
Casuals- It also depends where.
Casuals vs. my friends etc- Dont care,I’m sandbagging anyways (Not playing seriously in other words)
Casuals at a tournament- Don’t really care,but I care enough to take note what the other person is doing so they can give me all the free exposure about them should we play for real in a tournament.
Tournament- Shake the others hand, I lost to the better person that day. Sure losing sucks…but I LOVE IT in the long run. In the moment losing sucks, but its good for you if you are competitive in the long run. Why? Winning all the time gets maddddddddd boring. When you lose it makes you stronger,which causes you to get better,IF you are the competitive type…
So I prefer losing in a tournament OVERALL to winning all the time, You lose motivation when you win all the time, But you GAIN motivation when you lose.
Think about that.
Now sure some people have that “Go hard or go home” mentality, or they don’t sandbag in casuals. I personally aint that way, I believe both ways work just as effective if you know who you need to play to get better. (In other words don’t sandbag against someone better than you in a NON TOURNAMENT SETTING! In a tournament sandbag in casuals…trust me every man/woman for his/her self, don’t sell yourself short and show everyone what you can do in casuals! HELL NO THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING!)
-DG
There are times that I’d end up spending upwards 50 and that’s dollars, not cents, in a single weekend. Did I waste that? Of course not. Easiest way to deal with loss is assess what you got out of it. I got out: a great face to face arcade experience on a perfectly engineered competition grade stick set and that in itself is a luxury not everyone can afford; learned what to look out for and what to practice when I go home; and learned that melty blood is not a game worth learning(j/k). Look for these things that you got out of and you’ll feel better.
I can take losing if I got crushed but if the match is close then it eats me up. I also hate when I crush someone when their using one character then they change characters, beat me once then leave the room.
That annoys me even If I’m 19-1
if i lose to someone whos clearly better than me then i’ll shake hands and figure out what it was i did which caused me to lose.
if i lose to a scrub then it depends on the situation. if its an up in comer player who wants to learn and is improving then i cant get mad at that and if i lose to a scrub then its my fault cause i shouldve played better.
so i just take the loss and learn from my mistakes then i move on. yes i get mad sometimes but more at myself than the player.
playing only on psn, i tend to only get upset when my opponent thnks he has to smacktalk via the messenger :&
Right way to deal with lose is note how much life remains in opponent’s lifebar, then select another character, if you lose too, note again, and try several characters. Eventually you will find out which of your characters is most effective, then just stick to it and try to leave opponent with lesser and lesser life each time he wins, and eventually you will win
Going through the 12 steps REAL QUICK (denial, anger, acceptance, etcetc) in like 30secs.
After watching the SF4 world exhibitions, I understand what Poongko was going thru cause we’ve all been there. Head slumped and shoulders slouched. He lost a part of himself on that stage.
Watching Muteki lose is fascinating cause the guy takes it like a FUCKING MAN. All smiles 'n no worries. Can learn a thing or two about losing in games and real life from him.
i blame game mechanics and cheapness, and hold myself up as a fair player that will take the risky move while the other guy turtles for the shoryu.
Then when I win I hail the game as well made and just figure I am more clever than the other guy and that he does not have the patience to play.
ahahah it’s sad how often that happens.
“this game is broken as fuck”
And then they turn around and refuse to say there’s such thing as cheap when they win. I wish I was lying.
I used to throw the controller. Now I push the stick away, curse myself and start punching myself on the jaw.
I just tell myself that the guy was on a whole 'nother Yomi layer and go back to playing Chess and rock-paper-scissors.
learn from it and move on. That’s all you can do.
I don’t care when I lose, although if I’m forced to play via a type of control I’m not used to I do get upset (ie. DC pad, 8 gates, broken sticks/buttons).
Not much though, no :sad: and no object throwing.
i dont get mad because im used to losing but i get angry if its because i was fucking up my move.