What Games Do You Suck At?

[Krynn72]

Oh and horror games. I can usually only play the first like hour or so before I wimp out.

 

[Qonfused]

RTSs for sure. They're a lot of fun to play, but I just plain suck at them.

 

[alehm]

I am terrible at RTS.

I am terrible at L4D2 as well but only after several drinks.

 

[CptStern]

I'm good at shooters, mediocre in platformers and absolutely terrible in RTS games. also suck at pvp in mmos cuz I dont have time to grind for l33t gear

 

[Polaris]

I suck at Mario.

 

[kupocake]

Strategy is my weakest spot. I was brought up on a few strategy titles that were 12-hour long slogs from level to level that let you do things at your own, painfully slow pace (God games mostly) so when it comes to RTS games, I struggle with the forward momentum in Single Player and am just hopelessly outclassed in Multiplayer. Thanks to the story (and arguably, the shit AI and many quiet bits) I fell in love with the Homeworld games. But I have a few shelf-spacers: Company of Heroes, Napoleon Total War, Starcraft that I could just never get into. One additional problem is that I just plain don't like playing games where losing people is just part of the game, or even a legitimate tactic. Partly because I'm just soft, partly because I'm never sure what counts as an adequate victory. Oh, and I suck at god games and TBS too, they've just always been more easily accessible.

I've basically never placed a sports title, and if braking is necessary in your driving game, I probably don't quite get it.

I suck at any Shumup or Fighting game I've not played 30+ hours of. And so do you.

 

[Higlac]

I'm no good at multiplayer RTS's and racing games. I'm fine with singleplayer on both, but not multiplayer. League of Legends and Mario kart 64 are a couple exceptions though.


I suck at everything while consuming beer/vodka/white lightning.

 

[Darkside55]

I actually bought Virtua Fighter 4 a long time ago and I played for hours never getting any better.

Bro, it takes 10 years to get good at Virtua Fighter. You need to become a sequestered mountain hermit with only a TV and VF in your cave and learn the 10-frame input buffer. Virtua Fighter is not a game you can get better at in a few hours. Virtua Fighter is the summit, not an entry point.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

strategy
racing
fighting

;_;

 

[Shift]

Any game on the wii. Oh and guitar hero, I just can't play it. Other than that I can crack any game with time most likely.

 

[ShinRa]

I suck at Fighting (like Street Fighter) and ANY racing games ever created. I just never win. Ever. **** fighting and racing games.

 

[Ren.182]

I suck at fighting games (can just never get the combos in my head) and strategy games. I like taking the slow approach in strategy games, it's fine in SP but in MP it's RUSH RUSH RUSH and I suck at it.

 

[StarBob]

Bro, it takes 10 years to get good at Virtua Fighter. You need to become a sequestered mountain hermit with only a TV and VF in your cave and learn the 10-frame input buffer. Virtua Fighter is not a game you can get better at in a few hours. Virtua Fighter is the summit, not an entry point.

I don't think I'd even admit playing a game I'd only played for a few hours. I figure I invested about 30 hours. At no point did I even come close to tournament mode kind of thing, and I spent the majority of time desperately trying to advance in Kumite. Of course at the time I had no idea what I was getting in to... I just knew I wanted to try my hand at a fighting game since I really hadn't yet on my PS2... and I made a horrible choice. The only good thing about it was that the menu music was relaxing...

 

[stemot]

Multiplayer games in general. My problem is I like to be able to move at my own pace rather than have to rush or be killed. Example: Portal 2 co-op, playing my first time and being rushed along and not being given chance to work out the puzzles because the other player had clearly been through these levels before.

 

[Katamariguy]

Mediocre at everything.

 

[dfc05]

Anything that requires near-perfect timing (vvvvv comes to mind). Very frustrating when you know exactly what you need to do, but your brain/fingers just aren't coordinated enough.

And I also enjoy RTS's but suck against human opponents. I'm always on the "slow" end and never sure how to balance resource collection vs. military. Usually for multiplayer, I'll team up with a friend against a few AI players. Back in the day (dial-up days...), I played Age of Empires with my cousin. It mostly devolved into both of us using cheat codes -- not challenging, but very fun.

I'm probably also pretty bad at anything multiplayer. I never played much though, aside from a little bit of HL2 deathmatch and trying out a couple of mods.

 

[Gargantou]

I demand an answer, what would one classify EA's Fight Night boxing series as? Fighters? Sports?

 

[sixteenth]

I demand an answer, what would one classify EA's Fight Night boxing series as? Fighters? Sports?

Uh, perhaps these games come closest to a "Fighting Sim". I never really played much of UFC: Unleashed or anything of that merit, but I did try my hand at Fight Night: Champion. I was surprised at the amount of control you really have over your boxer. I really like the direction EA is going with using the analogs (since Skate, they seem to be implementing this method more and more; Ex. the NHL series).

 

[Dekstar]

I'm pretty good at fighting games like Marvel vs Capcom only because I'm used to playing PC games (CSS for instance) at 100+fps, so when a game runs at 60fps, and is designed around that fact for counters and such, I'm actually not that bad. Combos are where I suck though, but MvsC was actually pretty good in that most combos are the same button combinations, so you learn one and you learn them for every character.

My biggest failing is definitely strategy/RTS games though. Heroes of Might and Magic 3 I'm awesome at, but only because I've been playing for years, and still can't beat the first campaign. Starcraft I'm just awful at for the same reasons people have been saying; the mix between micro and macro, controlling multiple fronts etc just isn't something my brain is programmed to handle. I'm more of a twitch-fps player, so it's all in-the-moment stuff with me.

 

[morgs]

I also suck at games like geometry wars, audiosurf (anything but mono) and other quite technical games along those lines.

 

[GreatEmperor]

That 4x stuff.

So very pointless

 

[Stigmata]

Oh and horror games. I can usually only play the first like hour or so before I wimp out.

Oh yeah, this. I still haven't made it past the wine cellar in Amnesia.

 

[Gargantou]

Yeah, same here.

For the 'proper' horror games such as Amnesia and Penumbra anyway.

Alan Wake, the Dead Space titles, Resident Evil and such are fine for me.

But Penumbra and Amnesia scare the living hell out of me.

 

[15357]

I kinda suck at grinding. I mean, you can't necessarily suck at grinding, but when a game makes me do it, I tend to stop playing that game.

I like the fast-paced action of FPSs, the tactical swift decision making required by RTSs, and the continuing sense of advancement in 4X games. But RPGs.... I suppose I play WoW because it doesn't make you grind so much compared to other games.