Today I wandered down to “Seattle Indy Expo”, which was basically ‘some local devs who couldn’t get into PAX putting on a n event near PAX’. There were several competitive multiplayer games. I tried a few.
Within two or three rounds, I was beating the pants off of everyone who was not a developer of the game I was playing. I feel like I have discovered a skill I didn’t know I had.
I guess this is what happens when you play video games for like thirty years, and never try competitive multiplayer stuff except in game genres you never play – I mean, try to get me to play Smash Bros and I’m just lost, because I don’t have much Fighting Game skill.
I also had no idea what was really going on in the round where you beat me handily. :)
I think half of it is being very quick at picking up what the systems in the game are. I was utterly clueless in the first round of anything!
Mostly I just kept losing track of which bird was mine. It didn’t help that it was red vs. pink though.