How Good Do You Want to Get?
Video games that have no difficulty aren’t as fun, and they don’t require as much skill. Sure, there’s something to be said for a sandbox game like Grand Theft Auto where the point of the game has less to do with being really good, and more to do with causing as much mayhem as you can. In contrast, First Person Shooter (FPS) games tend to be more competitive.
With most varieties of FPS games, the whole point is having a contest with other opponents. You can’t just play for “mayhem”; you won’t be able to do much. You have to get good. The good news is, you don’t always have to play real opponents. You can play varying AI opponents. You can also play games where losing won’t impact your overall ranking.
So how good you want to get, in part, has to do with how driven you are. If you’re driven, you will get good. That said, you can streamline the process with a few tips like the following.
1. Practice, Practice, Practice
Practice is essential in anything. You need to enter the gaming arena with regularity. Play the game on the hardest difficulty setting in single-player or campaign mode.
Play the AIs in multiplayer mode. Enter online games which don’t have any tournament rankings. As the opening of this writing asked, how good do you want to get? The more you play, the better you’ll get.
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2. Get External Help From the Pros
If you’re going to do something difficult, it’s always a good idea to find trusted consultation. The best plans will fail without such consultation because there are things you don’t even realize will affect the outcome that others are well aware of. So you want good advice from diverse advisers. One option for games is sources like FPS Champion.
With guidance, you can learn about programming, you can learn about issues related to an actual console or computer functionality, and the list goes on. There are always aspects to gameplay that can enhance your game, but which you won’t be able to find on your own.
Speed runners recently “cracked” Final Fantasy X. The game came out over twenty years ago. Just now, speed runners figured out how to zip right to the end of the game in record time. The person who knew the most about the game (and wasn’t on its design team) was clueless as to the existence of this method until it was discovered recently.
Similarly, with FPS games, human design and interaction produce options in terms of play strategies that may not even be directly advised by the programmers. Accordingly, if you inform your play with advice from those who have mastered the game, you can quickly learn things that may have taken years to discover otherwise.
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3. Play Those Who Are Definitely Better Than You
Beating stronger opponents makes you stronger. So does losing to them; it just takes a while. This message is imparted in many different media outlets beyond just gaming. Why do you think Japanese Manga always has the protagonist pitted against some Godzilla-sized mega-tyrant?
There’s a subtle message there about tackling a larger opponent. Be a David who takes down Goliath. Keep playing opponents who are definitely superior to you, and you’ll learn their secrets incidentally.
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Becoming the Best of the Best
Play stronger opponents, get advice from the pros and find ways of practicing as comprehensively as you can. Such strategies will help you continuously hone your techniques in virtually any FPS game. Whether your aim is to speed-run through the latest FPS in record time, or be the “king of the mountain” in terms of skill, these tactics will help.
