Honestly, a game like wow is probably the lowest bar to measure your skills against, as it requires almost no skill to be good. If you want to challenge your abilities pick E-Sport titles like Starcraft 2, DotA, CoD, Quake etc. Because there skills is all that matters.Draitheryn said:
Are you actually good at gaming?
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In every game i play, ever, i find my limit eventually. A point in a game i can´t get through or some challenges i cant finish.
Like now, i'm playing Gran Turismo 5. Do not expect to find many fellow GT-fanboys around here.. But anyways, i have 99% game completion but i met my limit when it came to the last 3 challenges, which involves driving against time in the specially designed monster of a car, the Red Bull X2010. Now it is suddently not a regular car simulator, but a game of perfect timing and reactions, where i fail.
Like now, i'm playing Gran Turismo 5. Do not expect to find many fellow GT-fanboys around here.. But anyways, i have 99% game completion but i met my limit when it came to the last 3 challenges, which involves driving against time in the specially designed monster of a car, the Red Bull X2010. Now it is suddently not a regular car simulator, but a game of perfect timing and reactions, where i fail.
Nah, it depends on your circumstances (e.g. other team's players, game mode makes a big difference, your own team) and also remember that while the average K/D may be 1, the average player doesn't necessarily have a K/D of 1. For example, the skill level of good players help filter off "bad" players that simply won't play due to the fact that they are getting owned by very good players, leaving a higher proportion of good players still playing the game (and probably owning you).Jakub324 said:
Also, you get better with practice. I used to be however around 0.8 K/D but with a lotta game hours, I got to around ~1.37 K/D (yeah, not much, but not bad either).
I call bullshit. No seriously, unless you were resting after every battle, or refusing to sleep to level up, or exploiting flaws with armour enchantments, or something ridiculous like that, there is no way that you managed to complete the main questline in the hardest difficulty that quickly.NinjaOnXTC said:
when i got halo reach i was, lets say addicted for about a week and yes i was somewhat good.
but then i remembered i was one of those dirty games are art hippies.
and now i'm considerably poorer at gaming competitively.
but then i remembered i was one of those dirty games are art hippies.
and now i'm considerably poorer at gaming competitively.
It depends on the game. After years of practice, I'm pretty damn good at platformers. When Super Mario Bros Wii came out, me and a few friends played it together, and I carried them through most of it
However, when it comes to games like FPS? I'm terrible. I play Left 4 Dead with the same friends, and I'm almost always the worst out of all of us...
However, when it comes to games like FPS? I'm terrible. I play Left 4 Dead with the same friends, and I'm almost always the worst out of all of us...
DEMON'S SOULS.............enough said for me......I am a gamer that continues to look for difficulty+ immersion in my games. This being said I enough a tough game to beat in the terms that Jimquistion said about kurby's yarn. Though the majority of my games are shooters, I find that Too much immersion in the case of MW2 simply leaves you thinking your skilled at a genre when the game hasn't prepared you for any other games in said genre.
That all sounds technical, so here the dumb down version for the gamers that went, "HUH? Did he just make fun of the greatest shooter ever?"
EXAMPLE: Take the RPG Uncharted: Drakes Deception, whether or not your familiar with the game, it is a large immersion game. This causes you to feel powerful and in a metal sense you feel like a great gamer. This is misleading because play the game Demon's Souls right after and you will lose hope for all mankind. Demon's Souls is beatable yes, no it's not a super game or whatever but for those not conditioned for a game like it, especially if you don't have internet. You will fail at it.
In conclusion, why I said all this is to show a contrast between everyone thinking of skill. MW2 uses a Skinner box system which makes the players feel powerful as they progress, whereas say, Resistance 2 makes you feel the game doesn't care and throws you into a match where everyone is equal in level, there is few guns that are overpowered but have weaknesses, and a overwhelming number of said player make you feel weak. My view on the topic of skills is that everyone will have a different view based on the games they play. Me my game I suck at and won't continue playing is Scooby Doo: Unmasked for the original Xbox, I have a horribly hard time with Old platform based games...........The game I am God at is Resistance 2 and MW2. The game I am horrible at but for some reason keep going is Demon's Souls, have played for 4 months still on the "Technically" second level. The game I will never touch is Black Ops, beofre the fan boys jump on that it is the same as MW2, just add zombies to mw2 and get rid of spec ops downgrade graphics rush the production time and kill hlaf your story boarders and you have Black Ops by Tryarch........yea infinity ward is much better.
Also, another game I suck at but I love horribly too much is league of legends, I'm Celtic57 and its a free game by riot games a link will be below, there is a huge download but the game is amazing if you like DOTA you would love this. Also, have fun and thanks for reading
http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=4db772715d8a6366009427
That all sounds technical, so here the dumb down version for the gamers that went, "HUH? Did he just make fun of the greatest shooter ever?"
EXAMPLE: Take the RPG Uncharted: Drakes Deception, whether or not your familiar with the game, it is a large immersion game. This causes you to feel powerful and in a metal sense you feel like a great gamer. This is misleading because play the game Demon's Souls right after and you will lose hope for all mankind. Demon's Souls is beatable yes, no it's not a super game or whatever but for those not conditioned for a game like it, especially if you don't have internet. You will fail at it.
In conclusion, why I said all this is to show a contrast between everyone thinking of skill. MW2 uses a Skinner box system which makes the players feel powerful as they progress, whereas say, Resistance 2 makes you feel the game doesn't care and throws you into a match where everyone is equal in level, there is few guns that are overpowered but have weaknesses, and a overwhelming number of said player make you feel weak. My view on the topic of skills is that everyone will have a different view based on the games they play. Me my game I suck at and won't continue playing is Scooby Doo: Unmasked for the original Xbox, I have a horribly hard time with Old platform based games...........The game I am God at is Resistance 2 and MW2. The game I am horrible at but for some reason keep going is Demon's Souls, have played for 4 months still on the "Technically" second level. The game I will never touch is Black Ops, beofre the fan boys jump on that it is the same as MW2, just add zombies to mw2 and get rid of spec ops downgrade graphics rush the production time and kill hlaf your story boarders and you have Black Ops by Tryarch........yea infinity ward is much better.
Also, another game I suck at but I love horribly too much is league of legends, I'm Celtic57 and its a free game by riot games a link will be below, there is a huge download but the game is amazing if you like DOTA you would love this. Also, have fun and thanks for reading
http://signup.leagueoflegends.com/?ref=4db772715d8a6366009427
I'm pretty good at games.
I know it sounds narcissistic (because it probably is), but I've found that my skill in first and third person shooters helps me determine the kind of gamer other people are. If they're better than me, generally they're ultra "hardcore" gamers looking to go professional, or just gamers who play nothing else. If they're not, I'm pretty much untouchable. Then everyone wants to play something else.
To be clear, that only applies to playing with local buddies, not online play. Once I go online, my apparent skill drops by 500% and my friends see that even their wrathful god can bleed and die and be teabagged for an entire round.
I drive like an elderly person in video games, most likely because I'm overly aggressive and treat every race like a round of Burnout.
I'm decent at platformers.
In RPGs it depends on how much they fluff up the useless skills. I usually go by what sounds good or looks cool, so sometimes my stats will suffer or I'll end up making a weak build that makes the game 1000x harder.
MMOs are timesinks. I still havent leveled up enough in any game to reach the "Endgame Content".
As for indie games and ones I can't classify in earlier categories, I'm generally pretty good at most things I play, though I've always been well aware that I'm far from being the best.
I know it sounds narcissistic (because it probably is), but I've found that my skill in first and third person shooters helps me determine the kind of gamer other people are. If they're better than me, generally they're ultra "hardcore" gamers looking to go professional, or just gamers who play nothing else. If they're not, I'm pretty much untouchable. Then everyone wants to play something else.
To be clear, that only applies to playing with local buddies, not online play. Once I go online, my apparent skill drops by 500% and my friends see that even their wrathful god can bleed and die and be teabagged for an entire round.
I drive like an elderly person in video games, most likely because I'm overly aggressive and treat every race like a round of Burnout.
I'm decent at platformers.
In RPGs it depends on how much they fluff up the useless skills. I usually go by what sounds good or looks cool, so sometimes my stats will suffer or I'll end up making a weak build that makes the game 1000x harder.
MMOs are timesinks. I still havent leveled up enough in any game to reach the "Endgame Content".
As for indie games and ones I can't classify in earlier categories, I'm generally pretty good at most things I play, though I've always been well aware that I'm far from being the best.
lately I have been playing .hack//GU Rebirth and I only died a few times (I,m currently at the end of the game grinding my party for the final boss)
so I think I,m good at action RPG,s
and I,m decent at FPS,s.
so I think I,m good at action RPG,s
and I,m decent at FPS,s.
I suck at all FPS's, but if you give me a fighter or old school side-sidescroller, I'm slightly above average.
Probably like most in this thread it depends on the game and also my mood. I have been gaming for the past twenty years of my life and I am twenty six now. I would say that decent gamer although my taste for games has changed greatly in the past five years, hell even the past year. Eh moving on.. .. My gaming skills for fps are really decent compared to my teenage self, but the sad part is I can beat games like chrono trigger or final fantasy IV around 25-30 hours now.
having played games since I were a wee lad I would say Im good at them depending on what game Im playing. Most single player campaigns I can do easy enough, I have done CoD on Veteran, was the first of all my friends to do Halo Reach on legendary solo. But sports game's Im not so good at because I very rarely play them. Its all about practise really.
I play everything on the hardest possible difficulty (I have a lot of games on backlog because I cannot be bothered to play them) and complete most games then when it comes to the multiplayer I'm a pretty decent sniper, sharpshooter etc... 1.27 K/D only had the game for a month or so and I'm matching prestige people. Halo I dominate people on it, BFBC2 I'm a good sniper I like having to adjust my sights for gravity and I'm a decent player I don't bang games out though I'm not a complete nerd.
Fighting games it depends on who I'm playing with, give me about a couple of rounds to get used to the controls of a character and I will start winning, racing games I tend to lose because I focus more on not crashing and smooth driving than going fast so people go past me.
As a Zelda veteran, puzzles are pretty easy for me, same with platformers since I played a lot of sonic and hack and slash as well as RPGs tend to be easy in the first place.
Online games I only get killed a lot by cheap tactics and bad spawns, don't really get outclassed but when I do I commend the player for their skill or tactics.
Fighting games it depends on who I'm playing with, give me about a couple of rounds to get used to the controls of a character and I will start winning, racing games I tend to lose because I focus more on not crashing and smooth driving than going fast so people go past me.
As a Zelda veteran, puzzles are pretty easy for me, same with platformers since I played a lot of sonic and hack and slash as well as RPGs tend to be easy in the first place.
Online games I only get killed a lot by cheap tactics and bad spawns, don't really get outclassed but when I do I commend the player for their skill or tactics.
Nope. In fact, I'm pretty much a special case.
I consider myself a fangirl in most ways. But the majority of the games that I like, I've never played. I've never played because I am incredibly intimidated down to my very core. So what I do is I watch others pay. Back when we still had our game systems, this was what I did. Saw my brother beat the God of War trilogy recently.
Now with the Let's Play trend up and strong, I use that to get my game fix.
I consider myself a fangirl in most ways. But the majority of the games that I like, I've never played. I've never played because I am incredibly intimidated down to my very core. So what I do is I watch others pay. Back when we still had our game systems, this was what I did. Saw my brother beat the God of War trilogy recently.
Now with the Let's Play trend up and strong, I use that to get my game fix.
I'm pretty decent at any game I like enough to spend significant time with, although my home internet is too shaky to let me play against other people online. As a result, I never get that bleeding edge skill that allows me to effectively compete with humans. I can school the AI, though, once I realize what I can get away with against it.