Video Game Capabilities You Lack

[Headcrab Pie]

Over the years I've found that I suck at certian tasks that a game gives me. So after thinking about it I threw up a thread.

One genere I've never been very good at is RTS's. For some reason I lack the ability to micromanage all my units, expecially when the enemy is fast and manuevable. For example: Company of Heroes. I loved that game but I sucked at it. Eventually I would simply throw up as many MG nests and AT-guns so I could hold a line, pool my resourses enough to buy enough tanks to assualt a small country and if that didnt work, we just start over. The only RTS I was ever good at was Rome:Total War, and thats because there wasnt any airstrikes or paratroopers.

Another thing is the quick-time events/minigames that have you press a button over and over again. Never can hit the B button enough times to finish it.

 

[Krynn72]

I'm not good at multiplayer RTS games because I hate the fact that there is little strategy in them. Its all formulaic really. And I dont have the drive to learn all the intricacies of the game to know what units cancel out one another.

R:TW is great for me, because a lot of times you have very similar units, and its all about the tactics and strategy on the battlefield. Much more engaging for me.


I'm also pretty shit at Madden, because I always dive tackle everywhere and end up missing the runner and then all of the sudden half my team is on the ground because I freak out and try to dive tackle everywhere in hopes of hitting him.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

My major fail is RTS, yeah. I can't get all the resource/hero/tech tree stuff down simultaneously, I just get hugely a.d.d. and end up sucking ass. I don't even bother playing them online for the most part, but they can still be a blast on a LAN or in single player. It seems they keep getting more and more convoluted and difficult too, I found it impossibly difficult to manage heroes AND resources AND micro in Warcraft III battle.net games so I gave up altogether.

 

[Tacoeaterguy]

I've always had a thing with quick time events. I'm usually not expecting them.

 

[Danimal]

CoD 4 Hardcore Mode is pretty annoying for me.

I don't suck at it, or anything (Not saying I'm uber1337 at it or anything, but I kill d00ds now and then.) but nobody ever has the balls to run around in the open, it's all some pathetic race to the corners of the maps with their sniper rifles.

So I guess the capability I lack is camping, and how I don't have the patience for it.

Oh, and the standard RTS suckage that everyone I know seems to have.

 

[Dinnesch]

I suck at RTSes, Guitar Hero-like games, but I'm also weak at a type of game you wouldn't expect: Run&shoot games like Half-Life 2. While I can easily beat tactical FPS games like Far Cry and Crysis on highest difficulty, Half-Life 2 was already frustratingly hard on the medium setting.

 

[bam23]

i fail at RTS games and those extremely number-heavy DnD type RPGs.

both are too monotonous for me

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

I suppose FPS has always come most naturally to me, Perhaps because of how young I was when I first got into CS beta on WoN, etc. (UT, Q3, TFC, CS) were some of the first games I ever came to love, as shallow as they seem.

 

[Shakermaker]

I fail at console controllers. Always have and probably always will. My hands aren't made for them.

 

[Danimal]

I guess that's another thing, console FPS.

The amount of times I come over to some frat-boy's place to play Halo on his xBox, and he beats me at it, it's always like "HAY I THUT U WUR GOOD AT GAMES."

I wish I could magically conjure two well-built PCs with the same game running before us, so I could wipe that bong-stained toothy grin away! :frown:

 

[Sparta]

I love FPS multiplayer games but I apparently suck at CoD4 online.

I just get so frustrated with the grenade spamming that I can't be bothered playing it for longer then ten minutes to earn anything. I think i'm on level 10 or something. I hate games that reward hardcore gamers more than casual gamers. Yet strangely, I love TF2.

 

[Naph]

I CANNOT PLAY RTS

Don't tell Zephos but I can't play and understand and cope with them.

Pikmin was even hard.

 

[Gargantou]

My worst genre is also RTS's, especially ones that focus on basebuilding, games like World in Conflict I can handle and enjoy, but I guess those're more like RTTs than RTSs.

 

[Remus]

Looks like everyone's weak point is RTS. It's mine as well.
I almost always go for the "turtle" route in any RTS. I first build strong fortifications, advance to the highest tech level, stockpile resources and then attack in mass.
A while back I tried Supreme Commander, and was highly frustrated at the slow pace, and the constant balancing act with the resource management.

 

[Paulaner]

I total fail at FPS games. I hate them, and they hate me.
My genres: adventures, RPGs and RTS games.

 

[Dekstar]

Looks like everyone's weak point is RTS. It's mine as well.
I almost always go for the "turtle" route in any RTS. I first build strong fortifications, advance to the highest tech level, stockpile resources and then attack in mass.
A while back I tried Supreme Commander, and was highly frustrated at the slow pace, and the constant balancing act with the resource management.

This. It works for me lanning with friends, but only because they have the same tactics. My example isn't Supreme Commander though, it's Starcraft for turtling, the AI always rapes me within 10 minutes. The only RTS I'm good at is Sins of a Solar Empire, and even then it's "good lanning on the same team as my friends against unfairly hard AI". I'm only good at it because I don't buy any of the weaker but more abundant frigates, instead I stockpile capital ships. Endgame I usually have just one group of over 10 Capital ships wreaking havoc on planets. Usually in that 10 is 3 or 4 ships built just to regen the shields of the battle ships.

I also suck at games like Rome: Total War, because I suck at proper battle strategy too.

 

[Fishlore]

I was always pretty terrible at 2D side scrollers, escort and/or protect missions in any game (Tie Fighter I'm looking at you) and absolutely miserable at any style of stealth game like Commandos or Clancy games. Zero patience for those games. I can hold my own in RTS's in the Age of Empires style with hotkeys that are familiar. Other RTS games I'm usually well below average.

 

[Sheepo]

I fail at console controllers. Always have and probably always will. My hands aren't made for them.

i fail at RTS games and those extremely number-heavy DnD type RPGs.

both are too monotonous for me

These. Not that I don't love Age of Empires with a fiery passion, but I always get caught up in buying every single advancement and obsessively organizing my resource collection, while my enemy is already on the attack.

 

[Murray]

I uh... suck at RTS.

 

[Dekstar]

I'm just waiting for CyberPitz to come in here screaming "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!"

 

[kupocake]

I was going to make a thread just like this... a kind of 'your gaming school report' where you'd grade yourself at certain genres. The conclusion for me would be that I mostly just suck.

RTS: I believe I've only ever completed the Homeworld games, and that comes down to shoddy AI and unit hoarding (especially in the first game). Given a high-paced RTS scenario, I put all my effort into building a base and defences and take years to mount a counter assault. That's partly because I simply prefer base building to combat, but it translates as suckage in RTSs which require the best of your micromanagement and multitasking.

TBS: Except, it can't be the micromanagement and simultaneous multitasking because given a thousand years a turn, I still manage to **** it up. I just forget to expand, or feel bad about attacking my neighbours or something. At least I've learnt a few routes through the Civ tech-tree (ok, one. Railroads by 1200AD!), I'm worst of all with Alpha Centauri which has completely unintuitive tech names (Ethical Calculus? "No equations were harmed in the development of this civilization"?)

Shumups: Vertical, Side-scrolling, on foot, whatever. I recently cracked open the R-Type series and am going mad for similar late 80s, early 90s side-scrolling spaceship games because they rock and I've never really played them before (my experience up to a week ago was probably limited to a save-state assisted lame fest in Zero Wing and the four level shumup section in Dynamite Headdy). My abject failure to proceed further than the second level on pretty much all of them can at least be excused by the fact that I usually don't use continues, and that the games are meant to be hard, but still: this entire genre is on this list for the times when one bullet idles in the vastness of space and I manage to fly straight into it, or I back my million-dollar spacecraft into a static wall and explode in a million pieces of fail.

Puzzle games that aren't as good as Puyo Puyo: Falling block stuff like Columns and Tetris particularly. In single player mode, they give you so much time to complete such simple tasks that I automatically fail through boredom. In Multiplayer I lose again simply because I play quicker than everyone else, filling up the screen with leftovers. **** everything that isn't Puyo Puyo.

Console FPS: All the problems of lack of practice that many of you have, compounded by the fact that I lived with a pilot's son who insisted on leaving inverted controls on, so I'm now least worst with upside down controls, and I've become some kind of configuration ogre given the opportunity to play against anyone.

 

[Warped]

I suck at combo oriented games, like Devil May Cry 4. I'll go through the whole game getting Bs and sometimes a great combo will come along but I really suck at it. Also cannot do Expert mode in Guitar Hero yet, and I don't think I'll ever get there. I also suck hard at sports in real life so it only makes sense that whenever I try a sports video game its even worse. also some RPGs with large puzzles in them I just loath. a lot of times I'll quit the entire game because of a dumb ass puzzle. if its not a physics based puzzle count me out

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

RTS same. I play fastest map on star craft cus i just get OWNED every time. Also i am good at team games but i am rubbish when i am alone.

 

[ríomhaire]

I'm not terrible at RTSs (I've never gone online with one so I'm just talking about campaigns here) but I've played so much C&C that every time I play one I expect it to play like C&C and then have to readjust.

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

I can't play fighting games, I just can't.

 

[Tacoeaterguy]

I can't play fighting games, I just can't.

Yeah same. I can't remember combo moves so I end up just button mashing one button. Plus they can get extremely boring, so I just don't even bother.

 

[CyberPitz]

RTS - The worst parts of these games is being able to juggle macro and micro. I can do each of them pretty good alone, but when I have to manage the battle while building units at the same time, no go.

Console FPS - I have absolutely no idea how people can fluidly work these controls.

Guitar Hero/Rock Band - Guitar: I can't take my hand off the strummer and 'tap' with both hands for those super fast parts. I lose the rhythm and I'm done for.

Drums: Too much moving + double/triple bass....

Strategy Games - EX: Civilization.....I have no strategy, the end. I'm not patient enough to think ahead, and I can't create a decent strat if my life depended on it.

Fighting Games - My fingers can't do the moves fast enough. I really just end up button mashing/doing the same thing over and over. Things just happen way too fast.

Off the top of my head, that is.

Oh and
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!

 

[Cpt Tenacious]

Console FPS - I have absolutely no idea how people can fluidly work these controls.

I have no idea why people say this, when TF2 came out I played it on the Xboxs for a long time and I was the best around, I could shit on anyone, i'm better on the xbox then I am with the PC. Console FPS's have good controls and they are fun.

 

[CyberPitz]

Easy, cause the controls are unnatural to my awesome PC hands.

 

[Tacoeaterguy]

Yeah. I used to suck at console controls, but since its the only thing I play now I've gotten very used to them.

 

[Ennui]

You guys are just a bunch of pussies. RTSes take a lot more game-to-game specific skill than FPSes do which is more of a general skill. Also how could you say there's no strategy in an RTS, how is countering opponents and everything in real time not strategic (or at the very least tactical)? Despite this I am still only ever decent in online RTSes, but I love lanning them and I can generally hold my own in MP online although I am far from a top-level player. I pwn in LAN matches with friends of just about any RTS though, except for my one friend who is a Starcraft god. In Sins I'm more or less unstoppable though, same with Homeworld, COH, and DOW (relic rtses = win).

Console FPSes bother me but they aren't so bad. I can get used to the controls but the fact is it's just nowhere close to as precise or fluid as a PC shooter. The game has to be really awesome for it to be worth it (which in my book is limited to Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, the Timesplitters series, and Red Faction). What is notably amusing is once before I had ever played Halo 3 I was talking MAD shit to some guys I didn't know too well that I was hanging out with about how PC shooters are way more skilled and I could pwn at something as simple as Halo, and so they took me up and the first time I ever played that game I beat a bunch of people who played it (4 player DM) something like 15-5-3-2. But still if it had been in a PC game it would have been much worse.

Console RTSes just make me cry.

 

[Eejit]

Console FPSs due to the controls.
Beat-em-up games because I cba with combos and that shit, plus as I've never played much to get the required button spam stamina.

RTS games vs humans I find difficult, it's all about optimised build orders and early scouting etc. which I suck at. I like to play my own way not 1 of a possible 3 successful build strategies.

 

[Qonfused]

Console FPSs because a first person shooter isn't supposed to be played with a gamepad.

I love playing RTS games, but I fail at them. I usually just end up massing one unit and ****ing around.

 

[CyberPitz]

Console FPSs due to the controls.
Beat-em-up games because I cba with combos and that shit, plus as I've never played much to get the required button spam stamina.

RTS games vs humans I find difficult, it's all about optimised build orders and early scouting etc. which I suck at. I like to play my own way not 1 of a possible 3 successful build strategies.

What RTS are you playing? I'm genuinely curious, because I'm not sure which one has such limited success builds.

 

[13LACKBISHOP]

Whats with all the hatin against console fps controls. Can you imagine playing COD on a PC. Well you can but what would be the point. I suppose different games work on different platforms. Its just what you are used to I suppose.

 

[Qonfused]

Can you imagine playing COD on a PC.

 

[Unfocused]

Whats with all the hatin against console fps controls. Can you imagine playing COD on a PC. Well you can but what would be the point. I suppose different games work on different platforms. Its just what you are used to I suppose.

I played CoD 4 on a PC. Was pretty good with the MP as well. Then played some multiplayer on a friend's PS3. I sucked.

I don't think a thumb can beat a whole hand with a leading pointing finger in terms of accuracy.

 

[CyberPitz]

Did he just asked if we can imagine CoD on the PC?

*Scratches head*

*EDIT*

Console RTSes just make me cry.

 

[PorkPi]

It's gotta be RTS's for me too. I usually end up sitting in my huge base for an hour and getting an army so big it makes the game lag. But if I'm doing anything harder than easy mode I get crushed pretty quickly.

 

[simonjedi]

quick time events, games like rock band and those dancemat arcade game, Flight sims.