Ultimately my mood and perception of a loss is based strongly on the amount of sleep I have.
If I am well rested, I can lose a couple of times and come up with a good solution, different strategy and beat the part that's troubling. However, if I've haven't slept in a day or have been up late. I can lose and lose and my anger will stubbornly make me try the same tactic assuring me that the game is unfair and I'm not doing anything wrong.
Here are some examples of tactics I use to either deal with, or prevent, a loss.
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For first-person shooters like Call of Duty, Halo and Battlefield. I'm pretty cool in Multiplayer, despite dying a lot. But, if I'm killed continuously by the same person, in the same cheap and lame way. I will waste no time to use "the ultimate combo."
Start+Up+A+A (Ie. Start Menu, up puts me on leave game, A to choose it and A again to answer the game question of "Are you sure?")
There are two types of fighting games. Fun ones and Pro-Lame ones. Examples include:
FUN
- Dragon Ball Z: Budokai & Budokai Tenkaichi
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm and it's entire franchise
- Final Fantasy: Dissidia (the first one only)
PRO-LAME
- Street Fighter
- Marvel versus Capcom
- Mortal Kombat
When it comes to the "Fun" Fighting games. I can take losing pretty lightly. Unless the loss was incredibly lame and really stupid. But I've become pretty good at all the Ninja Storms so I can play on Super Hard with ease.
On multiplayer for those games, losing can be a pain in the tuckous, especially with Minato, Madara and Tobi (Ninja War) spammers. However, after I learned creating your own session as opposed to seeking out others, I learned a nifty little trick to A. Escape the same opponent, especially if he was being cheap and unfair and B. Filter the over-powered, experienced: 3 times my Rank guys. There's a button when you create session, it says: "Kick Player", 'nuff said.
It's especially useful to troll players who want a rematch and you want to stone wall 'em like a Brick-mason. :3
For the "Pro-Lame" ones...
First lemme say I don't event attempt multiplayer for any of the listed games.
But the computers for SF, MvC and MK are cheap beyond belief and don't deserve my time.
IE. Seth, Rogue and Shoucon <-or whatever
And finally, my RPG games. I never lose. (:<
Seriously, my party hasn't been wiped out on FF7 yet, not once.