Its so refreshing to have a game like Brink come out and mess around with the generic a bit. Hopefully for the positive in the whole grand scheme of gaming and what not. But looking through these forums there are still an awful lot of people just in it to win it. And now I am by no means trying to have a go at the competitive people, by all means if that's your prerogative best of luck to ya. But I'm starting this thread to find all the players who are looking to have a good time above all else.

So if you think you can handle a laugh, a few losses, and probably one of the most relaxed organised groups drop a comment and see if we can get a list of players together who all share the same mindset.

My 'deets' are in the sig.
PEACE!

(Also, this isn't a clan recruitment or anything like that... I know what forums are like so I thought I better cover my bases)

Playing for fun, but winning is fun!

Thats pretty flame worthy.

Ive played competitively, and I'm in it for the fun, and to win it. What are you trying to say exactly?

I'm with the above poster messing about is fun but not winning and getting creamed is not fun.

i like to play for fun but dont my some competition. never played competitively properly thou like in a clan want to thou
xbox-Mombigalo

Okay, I'll try to explain my self, and apologise for sounding flameworthy where it really wasn't intended

We all know winning is fun, thats a given really, but in my experience (and again, not condemning all the competitive gamers here of my past experience) the people who try too hard to win, end out missing up on the fun of the actual game. For some people winning is the whole point of it, and fair play to them. But for me at the very least winning really isn't that big a part of my enjoyment of online play. If I get a nice, funny, talkative team together who all totally svck, I'll still be dead happy.

So really, as I said, I'm just looking for like-minded people who are more laid back, like me. Where the main point of playing is just about the game, not the outcome.

If it still seems like I'm having a go or something, sorry yet again. Just my definition of competitive gamer might be different to all yours.

You can't win all the time.Game's are for fun,not to be taken too seriously.Games are a way to "relax" from the intensive or dull reality,no?
Also when you lose you learn something too yes?

I could never think myself as competitive in games,then it stops to be a game and has no meaning for me.
It's a jungle out there,i won't bring it in here

Thanks for explaining it better Eresis, you deserve this. :turtle:

Looks like I found a like-minded person after all

Saying your opinion is not flaming m8.I am a grown man,mature enough to have an understanding that i have different perspective of things than others and with this understanding i respect others different opinion than mine.

Simple as that i think.

^ True dat.
Just making sure I don't start any fights though.

Online forums make Mordor look like Switzerland.

My favorite thing about gaming is just to relax and have fun above all else. But dont get me wrong. I find fun in competition. :gun:

I still fall into that category.
Just because Ive decided to compete professionally doesn't pull away from my fun with games.
In fact the only reason I ever started competing was so that I could merge job with fun.

I plan on developing video games in the future as well, and the experience Ive gotten with win/loss is something you can't get many other places in the same fashion.
The best clan Ive ever been in lost an important match against 3D playing Counter-Strike in the Cyber Pro League, and needless to say we were destroyed. Many of our members took it very personally,
and started pointing fingers at others. Basically, it just split in all directions. Sad really. But it teaches you something as well in the long run, and I wouldn't have traded the experience for anything.

These days, I don't get as hardcoe into it, because its blind faith.
I'd rather enjoy my game, as well as being able to compete casually. Even if I do have a sponsor.

Firstly,good luck m8 with developing,secondly many times when i think going in a clan exactly this "Many of our members took it very personally" is what holds me back in the end.I don't see any reason going that way in games.
I mean my problem is that there should be a chemistry,and it feels so rare.You must know someone personaly very well to do it i guess.
Real life has so much drama it's enough for 10 lifes,so i'll play as lonewolf in games but still teamplayer always

Im in it to win it...not here to fu*k spiders!

I love playing competitive, but overall I will play for enjoyment. Like Eresis said "Its to get away from the real world and enjoy what you are doing". Brink looks like both a competitive and very fun game, I will play with a team that are social and have a laugh and won't really care if we win or lose. :thumbsup:

Its different for everyone. But one sides experience with something doesn't make the reality. Ive been in some great clans, and some of them I had left due to school (sadly).
I have had some great experiences with my past team mates, most of them who Ive met in person.

The first experience doesn't account for all of my victories. And when I say victories, I mean it for the team and the experience (fun to me).
Losing isn't so bad if you are all laid back individuals and you are mature enough to have learned to accept a loss. But to each his own at taking the effort to do it.

I really didn't have anything better to do at the time. I just don't get how competing = not being able to enjoy yourself. Its subjective.
I'm here for the fun, the rest is topping on the cake in my eyes.

And for me, that cake is pretty moist.

I play for fun. Though despite this, I still do quite well when playing against others.

Well i told u,u gave my answer to that "Many of our members took it very personally",so all the unececarry drama begins.I don't enjoy this kind of drama,it has no meaning.It's pure selfish drama i think
As u said again "Losing isn't so bad if you are all laid back individuals and you are mature enough to have learned to accept a loss.",i am 37yo now and i know very well how rare this is,ppl mature,not only in theory.
And again,as i said,and even more for u guys who play competitive,u should learn from a loss and be smarter/stronger out of it,not beign dissapointed by it,exactly because it remains a game and still has the benefit of teaching us something out of it.

I completely agree with you. To me this is the basis of a great team.
Taking anything too seriously isn't healthy, really. Like Drinking. *burp*

I play almost completely for fun. By "almost completely" I mean that winning is fun but I really just want to have a good time with the game. I can take a loss very graciously if I had fun while playing. Win or lose, I love a nice, long, fair, action-packed battle. My only problem comes when we bomb and get wiped out. That's when I start to get angry, I hate it when people are just bad and not doing there job, but as long as the game was fun and we tried, I'm fine taking a loss.

Hehe,u reminded me a some-kind of a quote (don't know if i can translate it properly from greek) : "i'm not drunk,just chemichly unbalanced".

On topic,in a competitive level (or not) the mature stance should be a positive discussion of what went wrong etc.If mistakes made by me i must accept them if i want to be better.If i don't see them and don't accept them then i'll always be a drama-queen.

And this from a guy that never played in competitive level,sooo,let's have an ale

I can't take a game to seriously, it just loses the fun side.
Brink will be there for me to come home to and relax, not come home to and get even more worked up about.
So yeah, OP, i understand why your thread is here, and i'm in.

Hmmmm. It really all depends with me. Most of the time I play to win simply because I enjoy pushing myself to do better. Winning and improving are fun for me. Losing svcks. Any I don't mind having fun games everyone once in awhile especially with friends where we can just crazy and weird stuff.

I'd definitely like to play the game competitively, but unless a tournament organisation picks the game up I wouldn't say I was playing competitively. By that I mean actively working on strats and playing with my team at set times.
Otherwise ill be playing as I always play, which is to win, after I stopped playing competitively I still played with my friends(non-competitive) but we always played to win, even if we werent practicing as i mentioned before for strats etc. This is how I enjoy to play, if im not playing to win I will quickly get bored and not have fun.

Basically i dont think a gaming population can be split into groups who play for fun, and groups who play competitively. This would mean no one has fun playing competitively. A fairer split would be those who wish to play competitively and those who wish to play non-competitively. Fun shouldnt come into it as I dont believe competitive players can truly play well if they arent having fun.

To most, Video games = Virtual Sports.