I'm better at Halo when I'm not playing with my brother. Help me figure out why.
Posted by
Mop (aka rburriel)
May 21 '20, 17:26
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So I still pay a lot of multiplayer Halo 5. When I play alone, I'm usually a top 1 or 2 player on my team (there's no accounting for the losers on my team so sometimes we don't win, but it's not because of me!)
When I play with my brother, we're both middling. On a team of 8 players, he may be 2nd or 3rd, and I'll be 4th or 5th.
Now those of you who have played with my brother in the past know he can be a little... intense. Frankly, he plays a lot like this is Wing Commander and we're all his wing men. Someone's shooting at yet? Get in line. I'm supposed to drop everything and come to your assistance? Now, I'm not a selfish player, but playing my game so that it revolves around him seems like asking a lot. So maybe that's the issue? Even when I'm just ignoring him, he's still a noise in my headphones. Could that be distracting me?
Or maybe it's something. Maybe it's because he's a higher level player. He's just one level above me at this point, but does that mean he attracts higher level opponents?
Finally, maybe it's just that he and I play very similar games, so there's less points to go around. Some players may play a stealthy game, or some players may snipe more. But my brother and I are more "all around" players and that just means he gets the fish before I can hook them?
Or it could be a combination of all those elements.
I was thinking about this the other night as I watched the last episodes of "The Last Dance" as I thought about Pippen and Jordan. Was Jordan a vortex into which all the points were sucked? What about a team that has two brothers on it? It seems unfair to separate the brothers if they like playing together. But is it unfair to them to keep them together if they both have the same technique and separating them might produce two superior players rather than two middling players?
Thoughts?
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