Are you easily aggravated when you're gaming, or are you more the chill, laid-back type? Do you enjoy the competitive side of games, or are you just a casual player? Do you want to be the very best, or is "about decent" enough for you?
I'm also a chill player since people that are super competitive gets on my nerves a lot, and when I lose to those types of people, I go, "ok, I lost, I'll just try to do better next time."
I find this question funny, since me and my brother are polar opposites. My brother tends to take video games a bit to serious, screaming when he's frustrated, and shouting and bosting his ego whenever he wins. He likes to play competitive, but it only makes him more frustrated. I, on the other hand, Just like to play vidoegames casually. I don't play competitive, and just want to be decent at the game.
I tend to be more laid back and casual, but I do like to try being as good at a game as I can be just because it's easier to progress that way. I'm mostly into games for the stories. A game without a good story just seems like a pointless time waster, although I do like games like that occasionally.
I'm a super chill, casual gamer. There are times where I tend to challenge myself with hard games, but I won't get too angry over them if I die a thousand times (*glances over at Celeste), because I know they're supposed to be hard and the game expects me to die many times before I start getting the hang of it (Please don't bother mentioning Dark Souls. My brother is always telling me to get the remaster for Switch when it releases). That said, I'm the type of gamer that won't stop playing a good, engaging game until it's at the very least finished with the story. Though, there are times where I'm in it very early on and the game either gets too complicated and/or too boring. Then I won't finish it. As for time-waster games, I do tend to play Minecraft on occasion, mostly to give some rough shape to a building I'm drawing. But I will get bored of mobile games eventually.
I'm an extremely casual gamer. I'm not all the competitive so I'm not really into the competitive scene of things. I don't rage quit or anything. I just play games to have fun, really.
There needs to be more people like you in the world. The nerd rage does nothing, but dedicating yourself to improving is definitely a good thing. I have a similar approach: When I start losing, I decide that I need to get better. If I get frustrated, I put down the controller and do something else, anything else. And when I win? I try to encourage the person I beat by telling them they're getting better, without boating for myself. It gets hard sometimes, and I'll feel like I'm being patronizing if give the same encouragement every time, or if I too obviously try to handicap myself. Like, when I start to play a game with one hand literally behind my back, it probably means I'm getting tired of you losing so much and am tired of not being able to flex. On that note, that's another type of gamer I am: a challenge-seeker. I turn the difficulty up as high as I can, I seek the most skilled opponents I can, I try to make it as difficult as possible to push myself to losing, to the desire to improve, and the desire to put down the controller before I get angry so I can temper myself even better.
A very, very casual gamer. I only play games occasionally, and when I do I'm never the type of player to do competitive stuff.
I can sum up my gaming tendencies very simply: I play games to have fun, and I will do what is necessary to make them fun. I play games single-player, so if I compete, I'm doing so against the computer or the game itself. If the game is something I enjoy, whether due to party-building, world-building, lore, music, or any number of other things, I'll be more inclined to play it again. Weirdly, I usually am not in the habit of replaying games outside of visual novels; I tend to just make 1 file and keep building up from it. (This isn't the case in games with multiple save files but I only own 1 or 2 of those.) Gaming is about having fun for me, and if I'm not having fun, then I'm not playing - or I play such that I can get myself to have fun, by changing the environment how I need to.
Try to be chill, until I'm not, and then I turn into a cursing mess. Only tends to happen with Overwatch, which may not come as any surprise to those who like me have invested nearly 350+ hours of play time into the game. With other games, since I only have myself to blame, I'd barely make a sound except maybe to react to whatever bit of storytelling is going on in-game.
I seem to have a split personality when it comes to this. If I'm playing with buddies or just playing casual gamemodes (like Quickplay on Overwatch) I just relax, have fun and meybe get an achievement or two. But if I play a competitive gamemode, I suddenly get Army General amounts of seriousness. When I am like that, you may want to stay back.
I tend to stay chill, however I will admit I used to rage A LOT. I have nearly damaged keyboards, controllers, and have torn up stuff nearby. I've gotten better however, and if a game starts to irk me I stop playing- either for a while or for good. Nobody needs stress like that over some pixels/polygons! I used to be a heavy gamer- almost addictive/obsessive- but I consider myself casual now. I tend to just play to complete, however there are some games I go about 100+%-ing (such as Spyro or Alice: Madness Returns).
I'm a fifthly casual I tend to be pretty chill, sure I can still get mad when the game pulls too much BS but generally I'm just chilling along while playing.
I'm also pretty chill most of the time (because if I try to be a competitive gamer I won't have any time left to do anything else). I don't play a lot of competitive games though, so most of the time I just play until I complete the game. I do beat my head against the wall occasionally though if I'm struggling through sections.
Me as a gamer is like pulling a prize out of a hat, my mood flips quickly. For SP and some MP games I can be laid back, but for more comp MP's I'm a mix between laid back and easily angered. (Thank you temper), honestly because of this I rarely speak to anyone online because I don't know how I'm going to react that day.
I'm more on the casual side. If I had all the time in the world then maybe I'd try to be better than decent, but for now just being okay at a game is fine for me. Usually I stay chill, but of course there are those rage moments every now and then where you almost win something or die just before the end or because of bad luck.
I try not to be too competitive. It's really unnecessary and grates me whenever I do something stupid that causes me to embarrass myself in a competitive environment. Other than that, I'm a pretty casual gamer.
