Ever get that feeling that you completely suck at video games?

Well, it's not like I completely suck at every single video game, but I just figure that the time I put into a game like Mario Kart DS (I beat nearly the whole game) that I could be at least have a fighting chance and not get 4th place EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. It's not like I suck at video games, I mean I'm rather good at Colin McRae Rally 2005 (Heck, I'm one of the best in the world at that game), RalliSport Challenge 2, Gran Turismo 4, Tourist Trophy, Mega Man X2 (pretty much any Mega Man game I am pretty good, or at least good enough to beat the game).

I know that list isn't exhaustive by any means and I could probably think of a few more examples later, but the point is that I'm not THAT bad at video games. But it is SOOOOOO FRUSTRATING getting 4th place at MKDS in 99 out of 100 races. And in that one race I might get 3rd place by some kind of fluke. I don't know, I just feel like I cannot even have a small chance of being semi effective in the games my friends play! Ugh, I just think the solution is to quit playing those games because I am just pissed just thinking about it. I just feel like I want to sell the game and just not have to play it anymore. Maybe I should just stick to games that I am good at? I just needed to vent a little.

Well, I don't think I get that feeling of sucking in general, but sometimes in a game where you just get murdered.

Last time for me was a Guilty Gear session at Otakon. I spent a lot of time getting better and better at Bridget and his Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure style playstyle. I was getting down zoning, traps, juggles and everything. Then I face against the Evil Ky players and their insane combos that never let up at all, except for specific small parts of the combo where you can Flawless defense out of it. Even then, they're quick to reacquire the combo basically forcing you to drain too much bar to flawless defense to put like pressure back on them.

A very very tough fight unless you can put that same level of pressure back. A feat I haven't been able to do with Bridget. Then again, I'm more of a distance game, trap, mind-game kind of fighter. Near Flawless contant offense is not my cup of tea. Still, the Ky players of that nature tend to destroy me for that very reason.

It's one thing to come into something feeling you just didn't get it yet, or you've gotten rusty. It's another to see months of training just get thrown out the window.

Its actually the opposite for me. I only suck if I dont try. If I try I get really good fast. But the interest has to be there.

I think in general I just practice every part of the game. Or more so the ones that really make a difference. Figure out when to use it and why. And then just practice until I get it perfect.

Then just start combining ideas and play.

Takes a bit of dedication but it works well for me. I think my strong points are Strategy games like chess, poker, starcraft, stronghold etc etc.

I think first person shooters are probably my weak games. I have never really put to much time in though.

Actually I know I suck. There are only a handful of games I can say that I don't suck at and 90% are fighting games.

except for Fighters, Mario World, and the Mega Man X series I'm pretty average at games. Unless you really pour your time into them you'll never be that good. As for Mario Kart the game got busted pretty quickly with the dash boost business so unless you have that mastered don't feel too bad bout it.

Well, I certainly suck at most FPS games.


I still enjoy playing them, for the most part. :)

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Originally Posted by Bishamon

Well, I certainly suck at most FPS games.


I still enjoy playing them, for the most part. :)

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That summarizes me as well.

At least I can hold on to MD3 (until I finally sort it out with superfami and/or find the Japanese players I assume are over there)

I love fighting games but I sux ass. I downloaded U MK3 on the Xbox360 like 3 days ago, got online to play someone and got my ass kicked in like 6 secs. I really enjoy playing fighting games but I just cant do combos or too complicated moves. Am pretty good in Counter Strike Source on the PC though!



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I suck at a lot of games :emb:

But i am honing my skills, bet most of you bitches here (bar the people that actually visit the All About Shooters Forum) can get to stage 5 on Donpachi without dying after less than a week of play :buttrock:

Completed RayCrisis in 3 credits first time through.
Sweet jesus infinity is hard to beat when you have a craft that feels like it's moving though fudge. Wanna get my mitts on the R-Grays.

PS: Mario Kart DS s piss easy.

PPS: i SUCK at third strike, majormajorbadd.

neojedi did that to me the first time I ever played him at KOF at the first Otakon I ever went to.

I've since learned to play fighters a whole lot better. Was definitely one of those humbling experiences where I wanted to learn to get better.

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Originally Posted by JHendrix

neojedi did that to me the first time I ever played him at KOF at the first Otakon I ever went to.

I've since learned to play fighters a whole lot better. Was definitely one of those humbling experiences where I wanted to learn to get better.

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You just described the clinic I held on MD3 at the first MN Gathering I went to. Data East should pay me royalties for all the copies that got sold in this area after that.

Yes.

At least I know it and don't shit talk when playing other people.

When it takes me all my credits to beat 2 levels on Alien Hominid... i think man I suck....

I always express this exact same sentiment to people. For as much time as I have put into videogames, I should be infinitely better than I am. I suck at almost all games imo.

The only games I think that other people would consider me objectively "good" at are

SF: Hyper (I have beaten most of the best players in the Southwest at least a few times, including Brian Tyson, David Hem, Cmutt, Javi, and other top ranked players)

Jet Grind Radio - I have gotten all JET ratings on every mission before

Beatmania IIDX - I'm not great, but I would say I'm pretty decent when I'm in practice.

and most strategy/strat RPG games.

That's it though. I pretty much suck-ass at everything else :oh_no:

Funny enough, though I'm seriously into SNK fighters, I tend to do better in the Capcom ones. The gameplay is just simpler for me, mostly because the zones and traps are so much more static and defined. A zone is a zone is a zone. If player is *here*, and you are *here*, use this move (or press this button) to achieve *this*. The main Capcom games that break that tradition are the deep ones like the Street Fighter 3 series, where some of that stuff goes out the window due to parries.

Still, the more I learn, the more I end up having a distaste for the CPU AI particularly in games like the Street Fighter II series (with arcade difficulty) due to having to learn how to beat CPU manuevers that abuse impossible actions that players can't do, since the CPU doesn't rely on charging rules among other things.

Oddly enough, I don't see that in the SNK games, more or less. They may do some read-input controls as well; but in general the actions they perform on you are actually possible by players. (They act more or less with a subset of stuff a player can do as opposed to the other way around) Working to fight the engine-breakers does a lot more for an attempt to *unlearn* the game, for the player.

Mortal Kombat? Hmm. Since MK3, I don't think I've ever had a good grip on real competitive play.

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Originally Posted by Snuh

When it takes me all my credits to beat 2 levels on Alien Hominid... i think man I suck....

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I love that game but it has a lot of cheap deaths/hits so I would not feel too bad.

well back in the days of Street Fighter II, Art Of Fighting, Fatal Fury, Samurai Showdown, etc i was actually very good. none of my friends could beat me at any fighting game & i was the local champ in the arcades at SFII Champion Edition(even won a tournament).

although once they started adding more features to fighting games(multiple super attacks, combos, etc) i found that i was starting to have a bit of difficulty with the games at first but after awhile would pick up ok and be in tip top shape again.

aside from that though, something i really don't like in fighting games is when they try and cramp in a ton of playable characters & then you're at the character select screen going 'ummm....' while time is running out(especially a pain in those KOF games when you have to pick 3 people).

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Originally Posted by soulthug

But i am honing my skills, bet most of you bitches here (bar the people that actually visit the All About Shooters Forum) can get to stage 5 on Donpachi without dying after less than a week of play :buttrock:

Completed RayCrisis in 3 credits first time through.
Sweet jesus infinity is hard to beat when you have a craft that feels like it's moving though fudge. Wanna get my mitts on the R-Grays.

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If you seriously want to get good at shooters, then why not actually play the good ones?

Beat Rayforce on a credit and then we'll talk.

I suck at life.

Sometimes it could just be a matter of having a playstyle not suited for the multiplayer match being played. This happens to me in FPS deathmatch games. I don't suck ass, I mean as you can see on my gamercard for Quake 4, I won a match without being killed before I even got 100 frags lifetime. But even so, against anyone who's considered good at deathmatch, I get absolutely raped, and it's always been that way. I can do enough to own the noobs, but never enough to play with the big boys, no matter how much I practice. On capture the flag though, I'm a monster. I'm probably the most annoying person you could CTF against. I'm unrelenting. I don't care about deaths or anything, I am 100% objective focused. I will suicide 100 times if it creates a diversion, and I do. I'll grab your flag right as you were going to cap it and jump out a window on a suicide run just to give my teammates an extra 10 seconds to return ours. I just love to cause trouble and chaos, I love to confuse people and get in their faces. I don't carefully snipe from a distance and build up a kill count. So don't feel too bad, just ask yourself what your paystyle is and try to find games that suit it.

I've never felt as inadequate as I did when I played Guitar Hero for the first time. Put that on expert and I'm totally fucked.

I SUCK at Fighting Games..Even my Five year old Son beats me..

Sports Games I suck.....(MVS Sports games,I'm not too bad)

If I had to say I was good at anything it would be FPS as I generally suck at games..


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I think most of the time people remain to suck at games is because they refuse to change their strategy at trying to beat it. When you play a game you do it for fun, but if you keep dying over and over you need to start thinking about strategy. Hell, thinking about enemies in their basic shapes helps me out sometimes.

Back when I had more time to play games regularly I seemed to beat people more consistently... weekly Halo LAN parties made me pretty decent at that, but now I suck at Halo 2 when I play it every once in a great while.

Like qube, I can only think of a few games I think I'm actually "good" at:
-Virtua Fighter series: Lion Rafale is the only character I'm proficient with, but I can play him even, at worst, against everyone I've ever played (beating most about 80% of the time).
-Fight Night series: I've probably played 1,000 matches dating back to the original on XB. No excuse not to be alright at it.
-Soul Calibur II: took a while, but I finally learned Kilik well enough to destroy button-mashers and beat good players alike.
-NBA 2K series: best team sports series going, and easily the one I know the best (i.e. where the weak spots are in the defense, etc.).

That's about it, though. Not impressive in the least. :emb:

edit: what's most depressing is how bad I suck at 2-D fighters. I like them and I can easily dispatch my friends at most of them, but then I read some of the crazy things Lord Wolfgang Krauser used to post and what some of the rest of you can do... shit, I'd get killed.

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Originally Posted by Wes

I've never felt as inadequate as I did when I played Guitar Hero for the first time. Put that on expert and I'm totally fucked.

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Yeah, when my mates tell me they've clocked it on Expert it makes me want to fall on my knees and cry.

Maybe my favourite genre right now is shmups, which I am pure crap at. Funny thing is I play them BECAUSE I find them so challenging. I wouldn't bother if I didn't find them so nerve-shreddingly intense and tough.

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Yeah, when my mates tell me they've clocked it on Expert it makes me want to fall on my knees and cry.

Maybe my favourite genre right now is shmups, which I am pure crap at. Funny thing is I play them BECAUSE I find them so challenging. I wouldn't bother if I didn't find them so nerve-shreddingly intense and tough.

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If your friends can do that Shadows Fall song 100% note accuracy on expert I will give them $20. The highest I could get was 84% and I missed A LOT

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If your friends can do that Shadows Fall song 100% note accuracy on expert I will give them $20. The highest I could get was 84% and I missed A LOT

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Nah, doubt they can do that. Just surviving til the end is enough for them. Me though, I'm a perfectionist.

I'm usually pretty badass

but I have confidence issues when I play these pros on Halo 2

for fuck's sake

can a nigga get a table dance?

Some people just can't hack the pressure of competitive video games, which I think explains a lot.

I find it difficult to get a 2P competitive game with any of my buddies, as they all start to get pissed off about losing after a few games.

Just the other day my Ridge Racer fan buddy rather arrogantly challenged me to RR7. I have hardly played it or any other RR games for years. We only played one race, but I beat him fair and square. He went all quiet after that.

If I go down the arcade though, I usually find that I can hold my own against most people, but not the high level players.

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Originally Posted by LoneSage

I think most of the time people remain to suck at games is because they refuse to change their strategy at trying to beat it. When you play a game you do it for fun, but if you keep dying over and over you need to start thinking about strategy. Hell, thinking about enemies in their basic shapes helps me out sometimes.

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Dodonpachi DOJ.

When I got the game I sucked sooooooo bad.

Reason being was that I was concentrating too hard on chaining and not looking at what was coming at me (wood for the trees).

I didn't play the game for a long time and even thought about selling it.

Then I got a 26" LCD on a TATE-able wallmount and played it on component and decided to to just dodge and play it for fun (ignore chaining).

End result - played it for like 4 hours flat and was able to chain properly (because I had learnt the patterns).

Now I hold DOJ on a Pedestal;

If I mess up it's not bugs are cheating CPU its because I NEED TO TRY HARDER.

I still love Ketsui and Garegga a bit more ... maybee.


Oh yeah I pretty much suck on most games tbh, especially those FPS types.

That Gears game - I'm so wank, but I still liked it because of the eye candy.

I suck so bad that I talked Raphakick into letting me get some TecmoSuperBowl action at the next philly gathering... I want to be cometitive at something.... My SFII style fireball/hurricanekick doesn't get me very far in 3rd strike... And then when they break out the LB and Samsho, Fish gets his ass kicked.

I'd guess that I'm ok at Warcraft III. I play pretty good team ladder. I don't play 1v1 ladder cuz although I win 40%-45% of my games, the pressure just isn't worth it.

I miss the good old days when you had to just be better than your hack friends to feel good about yourself.... Nowdays there is the internet and online gamming... So you have some real nerds to compete with...

I don't play that many competitive games, and I'm only "good" at a few. Whenever I play something online after having played it on single player, I usually get completely pwn3d and wonder why the hell I bothered in the first place. I played Halo 2 online for a little bit the other day (with very little experience before that) and I was getting killed every 10 seconds. I also tried Mario Kart DS online again last night and got 2nd and 3rd in a few races. There was this one Japanese guy (I believe) with an anime-ish girl as his avatar that was "snaking" the entire time and I just couldn't keep up. Damn you, Japan.

for a while i thought I was getting bad at FPS, mostly because I've been casually playing them(no XBOXLIve anymore) but my brother plays them all the time. so I felt kinda bad that my lil' bro "might" be able to beat me. but we played goldeneye and I beat his ass 13 to 0 on facility with pistols. i felt much better

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Originally Posted by LoneSage

If you seriously want to get good at shooters, then why not actually play the good ones?

Beat Rayforce on a credit and then we'll talk.

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That post read in the same tone that a school Gym coach would say "Drop and give me 20".

:emb:

I can't help that both of my sisters and I own at Mario Kart.
Sorry, dude.

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Originally Posted by soulthug

That post read in the same tone that a school Gym coach would say "Drop and give me 20".

:emb:

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Drop and give me a credit, bitch.

This post intends to read like a shmup gangsta.

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Originally Posted by Lucent Beam

I can't help that both of my sisters and I own at Mario Kart.
Sorry, dude.

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my PR is through the roof, btw

Ever since I broke my left thumb I completely suck.

Guess I should be happy I can play them with a broken thumb.

But still, fucking hell.

Used to play in tournaments back in the early 80's (won a pinball, some $$$ and lots of prizes) and usually can play any video game to a respectful level. Driving games are my weak games and I tend to do better at puzzles and the scrollers.

<still waiting for a day to take Bobak down on MD3...> :loco:

About a year back I started flying bombers and whoring tanks, racking up 40-1 kill/death ratios, about then I stopped feeling I sucked at games.

I only get that feeling when I play something like a sequel.

Take for instance Battle Gear 3. I was pretty cool on BG2, but with 3 I'm still getting used to the handling on it. Give me a week or so though and I'll be great.

Only games I really suck at though are FPS but that's only because I hate that type of game.

I can beat most FPS, RTS, and RPG games I get on the hardest difficulty, but online I just suck. It's like there's bad, average, good, and like... obsessed. No matter how good you are at any online game, there's always some 35-year-old freak in his parents' basement who does nothing all day but play that one game.

I don't really get this "I suck at vg" feeling very often but I know that my skills are limited compared to other players. I'd say my general video game playing skills are average-to-good, I'm very quick to tune in to new games and I can be very persistent when it comes to beating them. However, this only goes for a select few genres; I'm quite good at fighters, shmups and other arcade or arcade-ish games but suck at most RPGs and action adventures. There are a few exemptions such as RE4, K7 or other games like that with more action than adventure elements.

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Originally Posted by SpamYouToDeath

I can beat most FPS, RTS, and RPG games I get on the hardest difficulty, but online I just suck. It's like there's bad, average, good, and like... obsessed. No matter how good you are at any online game, there's always some 35-year-old freak in his parents' basement who does nothing all day but play that one game.

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It's just ridiculous to put a quality amount of time into a game and just feel like you are getting nowhere. I just feel like I need somebody to teach me everything about Mario Kart DS just so I can become a better player because it is just getting ridiculous as to how many times I lose!!

Almost every game I own (or certainly used to when I had more time) I complete 100%, so I can't suck THAT badly - however, when playing multiplayer, I almost invariably loose, especially at FPS games, or 1on1 fighting games (usually to an annoying button masher!)

Not really, and even if I ever did, it's not the end of the world. Now there are some games I'm just godawful at (EA Sports, FPS, RPG), but to say I suck at video games overall would be inane.

It just kills me that every game my girlfriend likes to play, I TOTALLY SUCK AT. Even if I had a decent amount of prior experience, I get OWNED again and again and again and again and again...

Maybe I just suck at Nintendo games and rhythm games in general?

Games I’m great at.

Stronghold - Best in the world for a yr. They still talk about me in the community.

Chess - Won numerous medals and trophies.

Starcraft - Ranked pretty damn high in the ladder in 99.

MK DS - Played this quite a bit and I got a ridiculous win/loss ratio. Key is picking tracks people can’t snake on or hope you get lucky

Killer instinct - I totally mastered this game. I remember doing anywhere from 20 - 45 hit combos with everybody. Even with spinal and fulgore.

Virtual Fighter - Played this game since the first game. Proficient with lion, sarah, pai and jeffry. Only OK with akira. I need more work with the timing of the combos

Poker. Going to start playing again every day when I get some free time to do so.

Games I suck at.

KOF. I think it is a great game but never put the time into it and generally suck at it.

Anything FPS shooter. I’ve known some of the best quake/counter strike players in the world but I still never learned to play like them. Shagwire. LSV. Havoc, Serge. Great game players.

I practiced in Guilty Gear for hours upon hours..and then my dad beat me to death with May smashing random buttons.

Course, I came back to smash him up, but really - you can't win all the time.

Usually when I'm terrible, I get inspiration to get better at it. There are always games you can't be good at, and that's just the way it is.