Are you actually good at gaming?

[Barry93]

I easily beat single player campaigns on the hardest difficulty, both on consoles and PC.

When it comes to competitive mulitplayer, I'm far above average on consoles, often getting mail by people calling me a hacker. But I'm absolute rubbish on the PC, I just can't figure our how to use a mouse and keyboard interface effectively

 

[Faux Furry]

I'm good enough to have completed Mass Effect 2 on Insanity difficulty (with a soldier class Shepard, for whatever that is worth)and to have gotten 100% of the achievements in Bayonetta as well defeat the hidden Lumen Sage.
That's good enough for someone who isn't planning on getting into a career in professional gaming.

 

[Ixnay1111]

I beat Cod mw2 on the hardest difficulty with relative ease... most RTS's are pretty simple if you know how to play them. Actually that goes for all games... i notice a lot of people suck at games because they dont understand fully how theyre meant to be played.

 

[Drakmorg]

I'm above average at the genre's I prefer, which at the moment consists of FPS and MOBA games. I don't really consider myself to be great, but I like to think that there's more people who are worse than me than better.

Usually games don't give me much trouble on normal difficulty, and if it's a game I really enjoyed I can generally play through it again on the next difficulty up and still not have much issues.

 

[Randomperson9999999]

i think I'm good but not great

 

[Quantom Quak]

I died 203 times in HL1.
Died no times in HL2.

I say I'm pretty good.

 

[Tsuki Akechi]

I'm above average, k/d on B ops is something like 1.50 or whatever. But most anything other than fps I'm average at. And I absolutely hate sports games.

 

[ExiledPaladin13]

I'd say I'm an above average player on FPS console games, but I'm definitely just an average player on PC fps games. I am, however, a beast in RPG games (western ones).

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

while i prefer single player greatly, i don't mean to toot my own horn but i am pretty damn good on most multiplayer games i play, especially back when i was hardcore on socom 1-2, for socom 2 i was in the top 100 players for the first 8 months (of course hackers took over the leaderboards so i accepted defeat after that basically) and on mw1 i used to have a solid 4-5 k/d ratio for a while


but when it comes to single player, i usually never play/beat anything above normal/hard, unless i really like the game, which roughly 60% of the time i usually get frustrated and tone it down, while most people i know beat all the halo's on legendary i never beat em once above heroic (even then i don't think i ever did all of them on heroic)

 

[Switchblade1080]

Games aren't intentionally a competition, though I'm not likely to say that I am "Good" at it since saying that I am is like saying "I'm good at watching TV"...

Yeah there's that Starcraft competition but I DON'T GIVE A FUCK!! "ahem" we all have our reasons though...

OT: If you ask me said question though, I'll have you know that most of my games aren't built for competition (MOST, I have Unreal Tournament III, Sins of a Solar Empire, and Yuri's Revenge though it doesn't matter since I'm not into competing with said games) and Rune Factory Frontier isn't exactly something to brag about especially if all you do is literally set up a farm...

 

[Continuity]

yeah i'm pretty good, I can pick up pretty much any game any genre and master the mechanics in a matter of minutes, but then i've been gaming for longer than most people on this forum have been alive. As i've played hundreds of games over 20+ years i've gained an almost 6th sense for what the developer has done with the game and what to expect from the controls, the environments, the mechanics and even the character interactions and story (genre dependant).

However gamers do approach games in different ways, and may even approach different games in different ways. For example I played and completed the Bioshock games on easy and I'm glad for it, I think it improved my experiance of the games; at the same time i've just put several hours into Deus Ex HR on the top difficulty which I selected without hesitation knowing that that would give me the most satisfying experiance.

As for competitive play... I'm average at best, genre dependant. FPS is probably my best competitive genre but I'm a gaming enthusiast not a competitive FPS entusiast, so I never put too much time into any one game, in fact i'm usualy playing several at once and need a new game fix every few weeks... so given that, i'm never going to be putting enough time into any one game to be truely competitive in it. I've a lot of raw skill, but just not much inclination to put in the hours necessary to become truly competitive.

 

[Black Arrow Officer]

I grew up enjoying Kingdom Hearts, Splinter Cell and Final Fantasy. I think growing up on more "hardcore" games has helped my performance today. My brother, unfortunately, has to grow up on Call of Duty and other incredibly easy games. Throw him into an RPG and he's completely clueless.

 

[Elijah Ball]

if k/d is anything to go by ima 1.8ish in black ops and 1.7ish in reach.

i think im pretty good, but i try not to take it seriously or else i get pissed and bite my controller.

true story. it has teeth marks.

 

[Nieroshai]

I'm an avid gamer, and always have been, but am I a hardcore gamer? I think not. I rarely ever touch the highest difficulty of a game, and even then only if there are unlocckables. Also, as a kid, even though I loved my game collection, I can't say I've beaten a single one of them except for Sonic 2.

 

[Baldr]

Here's a good test:

"Do you make more than $30,000/year playing in tournaments?"

Y: You are good at games.

N: You Suck at games(me included).

 

[MordinSolus]

I'm terrible at any sports game.

 

[Bobbity]

I can stroll through RPGs and Strategy games on the hardest difficulties, but I usually just play the normal mode of any given FPS.

 

[The Heik]

My point is, for all of the love you have for games, are you actually good at Halo, DIRT, CoD, God Of War or Portal?
Sure, we all have our strengths. For example, it's a scientific fact that I am unbeatable at Crash Team Racing, but I am rubbish at almost all first and third person shooters, even though I play them quite a lot.

So, gamers, what games do you suck at, even if you love them and play them often?

I've been gaming for over ten years now, and I'd say I'm pretty good. I'm no Major League Gamer, but I can hold my own in almost any game I play, playing all but the highest difficulties on most singleplayer games, and generally kicking butt in multiplayer matches.

My only Achilles heels to speak of are Sports games and Fighting games, the former being something I could do in real life so I never have a reason to play them, and the latter requiring too much memorization to play with any degree of skill (seriously, learning a new fighter's moves is like studying for a test >.< )

 

[GeneralSeasick]

I love gaming, though i'm terrible at Racing and Sports games. I dominate in FPS games, though I really suck at the multiplayer XD