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This is my sad reality of local multiplayer games like Speedrunners, Duck Game, and Ultimate Chicken Horse. They're super fun, but I'm too good for my friends &

This is my sad reality of local multiplayer games like Speedrunners, Duck Game, and Ultimate Chicken Horse. They're super fun, but I'm too good for my friends & family, and too bad for people who take it seriously online.

wharvle 3y ago
Classic “Kid who owns the only Sega in a friend group” problem. Nobody wants to play Mortal Kombat with them.
- zlg_codes 3y ago
  It's a big meme in the Smash Bros world, too. Tons of people who beat their friends but get bodied at tournaments. If I could stand the BO or the competitive atmosphere I'd consider it.
  - HideousKojima 3y ago
    I always demolished my friends as Ness (to the point where they renamed PK Fire to PK Cancer) but Ness is one of the least competitive characters in tournaments and I'd get absolutely demolished because he's so easy to counter if you know what you're doing (hint: intentionally absorb his PK thunder when he's trying to get back on stage).
    - zlg_codes 3y ago
      Same with myself and Link. I've been devoted to him the entire series, with side characters for fun, and without fail, he falls to characters with more movement options that can escape the zone and outspeed him up close. Ultimate made him much better with the remote bombs for the mindgames, but yeah I feel it. Solidly mid-tier this time around but still next to nobody playing him at the top, so I haven't seen much pushing of his game. Izaw was big in the Smash4 era and I think T, Tea? A Japanese player still plays him in Ultimate. I keep telling myself if I ever get good at bomb-jumping to recover, my game will explode in potential. Nice to find another Ness player in the wild; one of my IRL friends is a Ness and Lucas main. He was the first I ever played against that could do more than PK Fire and yo-yo. Those matches get rough with PK Fire's angles and how quickly the stick can come out and return that arrow...
OkayPhysicist 3y ago
A group of friends and I would go into empty classrooms on our college campus and play Duck Game on their projectors. Made a great drinking game: You die, 1 sip. You die by falling object, another sip. If your death is memorialized (either by having your eyes closed, or turned into a tombstone), another sip. There were enough of us that we were constantly passing the controllers around. Absolute blast.
- bee_rider 3y ago
  In super smash bros I always like the opposite: drink when you win or drink when you get a kill. Automatically levels the playing field.
BeefWellington 3y ago
As one of the first people in my friend group to start playing Doom and Heretic using a mouse, I hear ya. My friends could always tell when I was essentially just letting them kill me so that the fun could otherwise continue. Wound up playing way less PC games with them than N64/Genesis/Snes.

wharvle 3y ago

Classic “Kid who owns the only Sega in a friend group” problem. Nobody wants to play Mortal Kombat with them.

zlg_codes 3y ago
It's a big meme in the Smash Bros world, too. Tons of people who beat their friends but get bodied at tournaments. If I could stand the BO or the competitive atmosphere I'd consider it.
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  I always demolished my friends as Ness (to the point where they renamed PK Fire to PK Cancer) but Ness is one of the least competitive characters in tournaments and I'd get absolutely demolished because he's so easy to counter if you know what you're doing (hint: intentionally absorb his PK thunder when he's trying to get back on stage).
  - zlg_codes 3y ago
    Same with myself and Link. I've been devoted to him the entire series, with side characters for fun, and without fail, he falls to characters with more movement options that can escape the zone and outspeed him up close. Ultimate made him much better with the remote bombs for the mindgames, but yeah I feel it. Solidly mid-tier this time around but still next to nobody playing him at the top, so I haven't seen much pushing of his game. Izaw was big in the Smash4 era and I think T, Tea? A Japanese player still plays him in Ultimate. I keep telling myself if I ever get good at bomb-jumping to recover, my game will explode in potential. Nice to find another Ness player in the wild; one of my IRL friends is a Ness and Lucas main. He was the first I ever played against that could do more than PK Fire and yo-yo. Those matches get rough with PK Fire's angles and how quickly the stick can come out and return that arrow...

OkayPhysicist 3y ago

A group of friends and I would go into empty classrooms on our college campus and play Duck Game on their projectors. Made a great drinking game: You die, 1 sip. You die by falling object, another sip. If your death is memorialized (either by having your eyes closed, or turned into a tombstone), another sip. There were enough of us that we were constantly passing the controllers around. Absolute blast.

bee_rider 3y ago
In super smash bros I always like the opposite: drink when you win or drink when you get a kill. Automatically levels the playing field.

BeefWellington 3y ago

As one of the first people in my friend group to start playing Doom and Heretic using a mouse, I hear ya. My friends could always tell when I was essentially just letting them kill me so that the fun could otherwise continue. Wound up playing way less PC games with them than N64/Genesis/Snes.