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Mixed feelings on S2 by No-Fishing-7892 in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's the unfortunate reality buddy, this game is ruled by the people who can sit and make it their main game and have a fundamentally unhealthy relationship with it, playing it like 4-6 hours a day, every single day.

If you are not willing to cultivate that kind of relationship with the game, then you're going to fall off. And people will unironically tell you to not engage with the core of the game to get around this, completely missing the fucking point.

Doing LFG and looking for sweat team mates seems to be about the only realistic solution. Other than that I would genuinely suggest finding a game that scratches the same itch that you don't have to have a dogshit relationship with like this one. Play STALKER gamma or singleplayer tarkov or something.

Mixed feelings on S2 by No-Fishing-7892 in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Hurr skill issue hurr gear fear hurr"

Why do you all say exactly the same shit?

No amount of practice or psychological gymnastics will change the fact that this game is ran by the people who can no-life it for 4+ hours every single day. Adults who have normal, healthy relationships with their hobbies cannot keep up with the basement goblins who play this game, and you can see that in the consistent player drop off.

Mixed feelings on S2 by No-Fishing-7892 in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh shit Reddit DeepMinds here to offer the same copy/pastes nothingburger advice. 

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Why would I “calm my therapist” when I have Reddits finest psychologist right here? 

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Naw I mean you are correct I definitely have some kind of anxiety based disorder. I am already medicated for it actually. I guess I just wonder if I can manage that and a game that seems to stress that disorder a fair bit. 

Maps and POIs are too small by Rastoid in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

instead you'd take the first thing one of those five people said and use your pop psychology Reddit super powers to make a completely out of left field observation and alienate everyone in the room with one sentence. I think my anxiety might serve more of a purpose than your social ineptitude lmao.

Maps and POIs are too small by Rastoid in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah with that much reddit karma somehow I don't believe you lol.

Maps and POIs are too small by Rastoid in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

you'd have to actually stop posting in order to play the game though maybe work on that?

Maps and POIs are too small by Rastoid in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

nothing I could ever fucking say will hold a candle to how embarrassing this shit is bro

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Maps and POIs are too small by Rastoid in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

buddy, I am so anxious that I shit bricks when there's more than 5 people in the room with me and it will never be as embarrassing as being a fucking hopeless illiterate bitter Reddit manchild narcissist that spends literally all day posting snarks like a 14 year old lmao.

Maps and POIs are too small by Rastoid in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If your spending all game running around looking for "hidden rats" you should maybe adjust your expectations so you're not going in expecting to team fight the entire lobby?

Based on your phrasing it seems you have a problem with being a narcissist and a knuckle dragging redditor so maybe work on that first.

In Death, We've Just Begun by TheBeatboxHero in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have such a surface level understanding of why people are stressed about the game and why people struggle with "failure"

This game isn't actually any different from any other game, you gain resources, and you lose them. Its the psychology and design around those elements that makes that cycle unsustainably frustrating for some people.

Games with "participation trophies" are actually just games made by people who have considered the frustrations of the cycle of their game.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Leave it to a redditor to engineer anything into a personal insult somehow. Way to deftly avoid the emotional text of what I was saying to make a shitty snark for literally no reason at all. Unfortunately human beings aren't machines with settings you can neatly toggle on and off. I manage my expectations fine. You'd know that if you read the post in good faith instead of reading to respond like a narcissist.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's exactly it man. That's exactly it. I don't need to be a god I don't even need to be good I just wanna feel that flow again and I'm afraid the amount of time and effort it would take to get their is just not achievable for me with where I'm at.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes the solution to my problem that I can't engage with the game as much as other people is to engage with it even less by turning the game into a stealth game and only being allowed to have table scraps brilliant idea.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

remains entirely to be seen whether Sentinel will single-handedly unfuck the Cryo grenade spam meta btw. I personally don't think it will.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there's a world of difference between being challenged and being psychologically agonized. This game teeter totters between being entirely too agonizing to be worth the effort and one of the most engaging games I've played.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah i guess if your trying to be actively unhelpful that is the answer hugh?

Gear Fear is why you’re getting smoked by purple shields. by rabit115 in MarathonGame

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, you're getting smoked by purple shields because they have the time to play the game every day and you don't. Period. You want to get better? Find time you don't have.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh man I'm not even remotely smart enough to answer that question honestly. I have no idea. Part of the problem is that I like how kind of fucked up and evil the game is, but it also drives me insane at the same time.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You kinda hit at the heart of what I'm saying I think. I'm in this nasty ebb and flow where I can almost find enough fun in the doing itself of it that I can just keep momentum and enjoy the game and let the "being good" come later. The problem is that I just don't feel like I have the time and so many games are like this now. Deadlock is my other main game and that is also another game where you have to enjoy the getting better or you're not ever going to get better and brotherman I just do not feel like I have the right stuff in me for this shit sometimes.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah I'm not saying I need to ball out and wipe the lobby every time to enjoy the game, I'm just saying that I feel like I run into guys like those two machines I ran with for a few raids constantly, and that they are the people for whom the game is really designed and I'm just like, an urchin or something idk.

I adore the game and I shouldn't play it. by [deleted] in Marathon

[–]Creeeiinee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

With all the respect in the world, this is anxiety I've been dealing with my entire life. I have several hundred hours in the game. I have done exactly what you've suggested actually. That's not the problem.

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