Are you actually good at gaming?

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DanielDeFig

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I'm probably good enough, but not great.

I have been known to downgrade a game's difficulty to "easy", because I care far more about continuing the story rather than be challenged to the point of frustration

So I probably wouldn't do very well in competitive gaming. Not that I play competitively, since I don't get how competition and the the unnecessary strains in relationships with ppl you like (though admittedly minor and temporary), that always come with, could ever be considered "fun".
 

dragcrew

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I like to thin I'm good at most games (racing, FPS and RPG's are my specialities) but they are all relative to other gamers that I know. Am terrible at RTS though could never get my head around that.
 

GeneWard

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I am tragically bad at most games I own, but I am Godlike at Red Dead Redemption's Undead Overrun mode (though not the rest of the game) and Halo 3's multiplayer. On the latter my K/D is probably like 20.0 or something.
 

Jake Lewis Clayton

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I have an awesome way of chaining in mortal kombat, i can go on 17 kill knife streaks on call of duty, or do some insane gun work.

I can complete most games aswell.


But, I have to say, I completely suck at western RPGs to the point where quite alot of the time I don't manage to finsih them.
 

Denamic

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Yes, I'm good.
If the game's too hard, I set the game to a harder difficulty and play till I succeed.
You'll never see me with a pink flower in Ninja Gaiden.
 

Adamd1990

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It's incredibly annoying that I'm slightly above average in every genre I have come across. There is nothing I excel at and nothing I can't do..
 

Loud Hawk

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I am only good at FPS games. I have been a high level competative CoD and BF gamer for a while.
 

Wardi Boi

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I like to think I am good at gaming but every once in a whle, I get that match were I just end up destroying the other team...with the help of my team, of course.
 

ChaosBorne

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i'm not the worst gamer in the world, i do have a natural affinity with games just easily pick things up and rarely have problems with controls.
(music games and the occasionally badly designed control scheme are exceptions to that though.)

i'm definately not the best gamer either, my reaction time is just a little too slow for me to really excel at any FPS or compete on high level RTS games (my play style in RTS games is also a slight handicap because i like to turtle and not a great many games allow turtles to be competative.)
fighting games i do okay though mostly due to button mashing only a couple of fighting games where i've actually put time in to learn the moves and even then it's only for a handful of characters.
racing games are a real mixed bag, some i'm really good at others i can't win for the life of me.
action games i enjoy but i never play above normal difficulty.
RPG's i absolutely play to death,and depending on what type of playthrough i'm going for i'll adjust the difficulty to it, sometimes i like to make the most uber characters with the best of the best, then i play on the highest difficulty for a challenge other times i like to try sub-optimal builds for more character driven improvement etc. i usually play easier difficulties then typically on normal.

i do seem to excel in RPG's most where you can simply look at all the possible builds and create the most powerful and efficient character on your "off time", generally i do this for my second playthrough i plan out my character in advance and level him up according to plan and generally steamroll all opposition even on the hardest difficulties.
on the other end of the spectrum, music games, i just don't get it, i can do a couple of buttons but when i have to use too many different ones i just keep messing up and it's not about the reaction times oddly enough with music games i'm capable of handling that for some reason, no my hands just completely sabotage me and keep me from actually finishing songs etc.
 

Creator002

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Jakub324 said:
My k/d on MW2 and Black Ops was somewhere around 0.85 so I suppose I suck. I'm not that bad on single-player, though.
You suck? Ha. Mine's about 0.54 (Black Ops).

I'm not too bad at some games. I'm good at first person shooters the very first match I play after taking long breaks/changing equipment.
Played Halo 3 yesterday (after a years break) and got about 19 kills on my first game. I was under 10 all games after. On Black Ops, I sucked, unlocked the Commando, switched to it, over 20 kills. Never done it since.
Otherwise, I'm not too bad. Dragon Age II is frustrating me at the moment, on Casual, because I keep dying, but I was informed that using my starting equipment for the whole game[footnote]Yeah, I don't upgrade very much on RPGs. Don't know why.[/footnote] is a bad idea.
 

ImSkeletor

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Oh hell no. Im terrible at every game EVER. I have like a .25 killstreak on call of duty. IT TOOK ME HOURS to get through the hostage section of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.(with lots of reloading) And I have had similer experiences with all of the other games I have played.
 

Vivi22

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I can quickly become good at a game, usually after a few hours of playing tops. Given enough time and practice though I can become great at a game. I used to be good enough at Turok 2 that every single kill I got was a headshot, usually as soon as someone came around the corner, and I never missed twice. I also became absurdly good at Team Fortress Classic back in the day, to the point where I stopped zooming in as a sniper because it wasn't a challenge anymore and continued to get better, often headshotting people as they grenade jumped through the air and even storming bases and fighting at close range with the sniper rifle. I became quite good at Soul Calibur 2 for about a year after it came out and usually become quite good at anything else given time.

I think the only thing I've yet to become great at is an RTS game, but I've been playing Starcraft 2 a lot lately and I've been getting quite good at it as well. Games like it are a bit different though since the physical skills and being able to read an opponents movements are only part of the game.

So yeah, given some time I tend to become good at most games. I'm not trying to toot my own horn or anything though. I think part of it is absurd amounts of practice for the last 21 years and maybe a bit of natural skill thrown in there.
 

King of Wei

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I consider myself to be damn good at just about every type of game. Only games I can't do worth a damn are those in the racing genre - though they're not really my style so I never put much time into them. Other than that, I can kick ass at any game and make it look easy. Just wish I could find the equipment to record them, then could turn it into a viable side business or something.
 

Reynard Wrecce

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Love games, but suck mightily at them. Dunno why, it's not like I have noticable poor reflexes/hand-eye coordination/lateral thinking in real life, but in games...
Doesn't make any difference, I just play on easy and enjoy myself.
 

AnarchistFish

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I don't really know how good I am. I've been gaming about 8 years now but for quite some time I was still playing on Easy. I play on Normal these days and it's usually a walkthrough on most games, but I don't have online yet either.
I don't really play games for the challenge, more for the story. Which is why I love games like Fallout and Mass Effect and can't stand CoD
 

Matt-Sama

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I'm decent. Some FPS games I do pretty well at. I do fine on most games on normal difficulty and I beat most my friends at fighting games like MVC2 & 3, SSF4 and Mortal Kombat. But it usually takes me a long time until I'm good at those skill based games.
I suck at racing and simulation games and I'm very impatient with other games.
I have some friends on the xbox that seem like gods at games because thats all they do. I'm just OKAY. I would be better but I'm usually too scared to try harder settings.