I'm done...

SolidSonic

SolidSonic

[09] Warrior
Soul Calibur IV was fun for the time that I've had it but as of tonight, I have officially given up on this game.

I can't figure out why but my zeal is completely nil. I walked into about 7 ranked matches, selected Siegfried and just stood there. I only attacked to prove that I could easily beat my opponent but was simply surrendering instead of fighting.

I have no idea why this has come over me but I feel like I've become completely detached from this game.

So...thanks for the fun times, I guess.
 
So, essentially, you needed to validate your ego by proving you could beat them, and then stopped so that you could validate yourself by showing your opponents your disdain for the game, and then posted about it online for everybody to read so you could validate yourself with the attention you'd get from everybody reading about just how much it is you don't care? Am I in the ballpark there?
 
You act like I've been building towards this. I haven't been; this feeling of meaninglessness washed over me as I was playing tonight. I started off the night ready to win and take on all comers but as I began fighting it all felt stale and empty. Either I use Siegfried too much and as such, have lost any passion to win with him (i.e. its high time I learned someone else) or the game itself has lost its luster.

I have no idea why I feel like this but its so...unsettling. I just didn't want to quit playing without telling everyone that I planned to. This community is too nice and provided a lot of useful info but I don't think I should play a game I find to be depressing.

Look, hate me if you want...I'm just sharing what's on my mind.
 
SolidSonic said:
You act like I've been building towards this. I haven't been; this feeling of meaninglessness washed over me as I was playing tonight. I started off the night ready to win and take on all comers but as I began fighting it all felt stale and empty. Either I use Siegfried too much and as such, have lost any passion to win with him (i.e. its high time I learned someone else) or the game itself has lost its luster.

I have no idea why I feel like this but its so...unsettling. I just didn't want to quit playing without telling everyone that I planned to. This community is too nice and provided a lot of useful info but I don't think I should play a game I find to be depressing.

Look, hate me if you want...I'm just sharing what's on my mind.
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Oh, don't get me wrong, I don't hate anybody on the intarweb. Seems like a waste of perfectly good hate that could be reserved for more important things. And seeing you phrase it like you did just now, you don't seem like a bad dude. The first post just didn't come off nearly as humble or on-message as this one did.

My suggestion is just take a month off. Play another game or two, preferably a non fighting game, and then when you *do* come back, pick a new character. One you never considered playing before, and force yourself to stick with them until you're decent, without giving into the temptation to play something more familiar.

If that doesn't work, well, maybe it is time to move on. You could still pull out the game to play friends when the occasion arises.

Either way, good luck and I hope you figure it out.
 
EscapingJail said:
Go offline.
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Thanks but...you're actually giving me advice that I myself have given to a lot of other people. I've told a lot of people who became disenchanted with the online component that this game had a lot more meaning offline and could make for far better matches.

Its not the competition that's got me bugged, I think I may have just found my limit with Soul Calibur in general. I've just been doing the same things over and over again with this game and frankly, I can no longer see myself getting any better or improving my style. I either have characters I win with or characters I lose with, there's nothing in between. If I pick Siegfried, I'm probably going to win. Its just that simple. Tried branching out but kept coming back to Siegfried when I wanted to win. Time and time again and eventually, winning becomes stale when I felt like picking anyone else would mean I'll probably lose (a conclusion I came to while I was playing tonight).

I feel like that's the big hangup.
 
If you feel that you will win all the time then go to some big tournaments. Once you lose then you will have that spark ignited again and will want to play more.
 
I felt that way playing online and put SC down for a while. I had lost my zeal for it because of the competition in ranked matches. In ranked matches people are too concerned about winning, so the matches can turn stale and monotonous.

Joining this community helped me pick the game back up because I learned a bunch of things about the game I didn't know about. If you don't want to use anyone beside Sieg, then do more unranked matches. I get better matches when online ranking doesn't matter. Plus I can work on using other characters against people.

I wanted to get better with Mitsurugi since I don't use him much, so I started with fighting the computer on Edge Master in Training Mode, then started using him in unranked matches until I was fine with using him in ranked matches.

Also, challenge some people. Find someone really good and issue a challenge. There's plenty of people here to fight against. Or do some offline. Or join a ladder for SC4. Or enter a tournament. Don't just wait to fight some random dude in a ranked match since it can get stale and doesn't improve your fight game.

And if all of that fails, then take a break. Like Sporko said, play something else for a while then pick the game back up. And after all of that you still don't have the zeal you once have for SC4, then move on.
 
Sounds to me like you need to challenge yourself. You should hit the random block on the player selection screen and learn how to win with whoever comes up... even if it someone you suck with.
 
What a stupid thread... "I can beat people levels 1-20 so easily that I have lost my will to live"

emo
 
wait...did he just say he's giving up on the game because he's playing random scrubs online......ONLINE?!?!?

come on....play me bro....i'll change that attitude of yours REAL QUICK!!!! ask fuzion :)
 
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