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Meatplow
06-29-2007, 11:16 PM
So when you are playing an RTS or turn-based strategy game and you start realizing the odds may be against you, do you give up right away?

I was playing Heroes of Might & Magic 3 before, and i had built myself up pretty well and thought i was doing okay. Then a hero and his army came out of nowhere and slaughtered me, taking a couple of my towns. Even though i probably could of recovered straight away i gave up.

Does anybody else mirror this kind of behaviour, or do you always stick through to the end? This happens when i play all different kinds of strategy games from Heroes 3 to Starcraft.
AmericanWeiner
06-29-2007, 11:46 PM
I do that when im playing rpgs

no point fighting it out if you cant win by any means
MegaPhony
06-30-2007, 12:19 AM
Come-from-behind victories are what makes RTS games enthralling.
They're the only games you ever remember (at least for myself) and they are the only ones that push you to your intellectual limits rather than you're own automated niche/comfort-zone that people tend to have in every game.
Let's Chop Cats!
06-30-2007, 12:33 AM
I don't lose, ever. So this is not a problem for me.
Hedgedive
06-30-2007, 01:33 AM
If it's hopeless I gg them and leave.

Unless I have teammates, then I stick it out.
Meatplow
06-30-2007, 02:20 AM
Come-from-behind victories are what makes RTS games enthralling.
They're the only games you ever remember (at least for myself) and they are the only ones that push you to your intellectual limits rather than you're own automated niche/comfort-zone that people tend to have in every game.

I suppose that would be true. As soon as i come out of my comfort zone i have difficulty forcing myself to stick it out, i might try it with that approach.

RTS games are fine but there seems to me a problem with lengthy turn-based games such as Civilisation 3 where you spend a ridiculous amount of time on just a single battle. It just feels like so much wasted time to me if you spend 16+ hours building up a civilization just to lose. Of course you could call that an incentive to force yourself to train up so you can win but is it really worth it?