Advice for newer players looking to legitimately gain xp

[TampaBondo]

Well I still harken back to the days of pinball - before video games caught on...my personal fave..."The Getaway 2"...

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Mod edit: Wrong thread for that.

[TampaBondo]

Sorry - I guess what I am trying to say...is that the real reason for my GE success is that I develped those lightning quick reflexes early on in life by playing pinball! So if you are a newer GE player looking to improve...umm...play lots of pinball and you will have a faster trigger finger! umm yeah!

(gotta keep things on-topic, you know )

[Koopa007]

Well, a good way to improve is play against better players.
It's hell, and really frustrating to lose time and time again but it makes you better.

Take me for instance, as much as i hate too admit my brother is a tad better than me at playing games.
You lot probably won't believe me since he's not playing much wii (he's more into PC games atm, but he'd probably give Daisy-Fan a run for his money).
(I blame it on the fact that he got to start playing at age 4 when i bought the snes, and i only started when i 6-7).

I can beat him sometimes, but 8 out of 10 he bests me.
(and those 2 times usually come in games he didn't like as much like F-zeo X or by playing with a haxed character like Kirby).
For the longest time i've played mostly against him (Mariokart, Mariokart64, SmashBros64, Goldeneye64, ...)
And it was actually more rare to play against other people.So whenever i was playing friends it was baffling to find out how easy i could win against some of them.
I remember winning my First Tekken match (even though i barely knew the controlls, and hardly played with the PSX controller).

Playing against someone better than you does make you better. In a way it did gave me an inferiority complex.
When internet came, i fully expected to find that most people would be better than me.
Only to find that after years of losing against my brother, has brought my gaming skills up to the more upper levels of mediocraty.
I'm not that good, but to my ever eternal surprise i usually end up finding myself slightly above average.

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Good tips/life story redcrow!