Do you ever get discouraged by game leaderboards?

[ljhckjtshkcjhrkj]

I find leaderboards are great... when the game or game genre in question is something you have skill in already and you have plenty of time to focus on that one game. But some games, like Dustforce in my case, I start playing and continually find myself ranked in say spot 10,471 of a global player list. This feels a bit... off-putting for some reason. I know that practice would improve my spot but there's so many hours of the day and new games appear all the time, so I'm reluctant to invest all my time in a little game I didn't even buy specifically (it was part of the latest humble bundle).

I dunno, maybe I'd feel better if I didn't know how crap I was at a particular game. Ignorance in this case would be more entertaining. I know leaderboards don't mean squat and the leaders tend to be kids without jobs and without many resonsibility that would take up spare time to dedicate to said game. But it's enough to almost not want to play, sometimes. What do you guys think?

[ulia]

Suit yourself for actually caring about it.

I don't see why you'd bother about competition when it comes to a singleplayer indie platformer.

[desertman2]

I don't care about them, since I just assume that the top scores are hacked.

[ljhckjtshkcjhrkj]

@boat - well if people didn't care then they wouldn't have bothered with the leaderboards, would they? Again I don't care so much as to try to top the leaderboards - it's more when it shows how far down the list you are.

@desertman2 - fair point, though in the case of Dustforce you can see the replays which clearly show all the tricks used to get such a fast time. Then again in Jamestown the top scoring player is at something like 99,999,999 points, which as you say, is likely hacked and not worth anything.

[ulia]

I never said that people don't care, and your thread is a prime example of that a lot of them do.

issue lies within that you care in vain.

[\//\|>0R₩/\\/€ Sasha サー]

Do not care, I play the game for fun.

[kahbee]

nah. someone will always be better than me. I often don't really try to get best times and scores anyways.
I don't take leaderboards seriously anyways due to all the hacked scores

[ljhckjtshkcjhrkj]

@boat - You're blunt and you don't B.S... but you're also quite right. It does seem like vanity to care about such a trivial thing, and it certainly shouldn't take away from the fun of playing the game. I know your profile says "i probably don't like you", but meh, I like your posting style. :)

Thanks for the posts everyone. Makes me feel better for some reason.

[ulia]

I only care for leaderboards and such of games that actually matter, of what actually measures legitemate skill and experience rather than time spent grinding the same thing over and over or cheating your way to score well.

Granted experience and skill comes from hard work and time spent, but this can not be compared to the time you spend doing something that is not actually hard to achieve, rather just effortless but stupidly time consuming.

Don't bother yourself with it all that much, especially not when it comes to singleplayer platformers and games of its kind.

[Cy]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Em is 1% nachos:

nah. someone will always be better than me...
I don't take leaderboards seriously anyways due to all the hacked scores

Sums it up pretty well. Someone will always put more time in or just be better than you or cheat/hack/glitch their way to the top. If they could ever be 100% legit it would be nice. Maybe in a clan/guild/group a legitimate leaderboard for fun could be setup to be appreciated.

[Cheems]

idc bout leader bords as long as im having fun

[MentallyillGamer(Kaddam)]

No. I get discouraged when nobody parties up and goes solo rambo style without regards to how stupid doing so is. Matter of fact recruitment forums is what get me down.

[Ham]

Just stop caring if you are the best at some video game or not. You wouldn't stop golfing or playing a pick-up game of basketball just because you aren't Tiger Woods or Lebron James. You should devote yourself to being the best at your chosen career instead.

[The Sightless Swordsman]

I just realize that no matter how good at any game I am, there is always someone better.