Are you actualy good at games / Are you bad at them

[jezz8me]

We all love games here but is everyone here actually a good gamer.

I am one to admit that YES i do love games and play them often but NO i am not that great at them. I do a good job in single player RPG's but that is about all. I can only pass action games in normal and i am hopeless at FPS.

I never really got the hang of any of the competitive genres. I am a competent single player gamer but i could never get the hang of the FPS (i also do not enjoy them, maybe because i die to much) and, although i love them, I can never do anything in an RTS quite fast enough to have any use.


Are there any other members here who are not perticuarly good at games but still love and play them avidly?

Do you think you are god's gift to gaming and pwn everyone?

Is it just because i play music, have a good social life (as i am sure many/most gamers like me do) and do not play games all the time that separates me (and maybe you) from people who devote all their time to games like my gamer friends.

 

[m_jim]

Depends on what your standard is. I'm pretty good at SSB, but certainly not tournament level, but I can't even come close to touching Ninja Gaiden.

 

[jezz8me]

Good answer

I am like that with Soul caliber 3. I can easily beat single player and beat my friends in it (because they never play fighters) but i would die in proper competitive play.

 

[Easykill]

Im pretty good, I'm not one of those people who picks up a game for the first time and is automatically good at it, and I suck at realistic FPSs because I have a slow reaction time, and I die before I can react. Halo and other games with more health and regenerative capabilities I'm good at, but I don't play enough to get as good as some of my freinds.

 

[l33tabix]

I am very good at games, not to boast or anything. I have over 20,000gs on xbox and i always go to the hardest difficulty first. atm im going through all bazillion of them in DMC4. i've finished all the pathetic CoD's on Vet, only took a few hours on GoW to do it on insane, I've only got 1/4 of the songs left to 5* on expert on GH3. If you don't believe me my XBL GT is also ' l33tabix '

And towards the sad little ending coment, i've played guitar for 8 years, i have a great social life, my current girlfriend for 1 year and a couple of month (who might i add just bough an xbox to play with me ) so it's nothing to do with your life outside of the games console. You were either born to 'pwn' or not.

 

[Mr.Expendable]

I must agree with the author of this thread. I'm fairly quickly get the hang of controls in RPGs and enjoy the hell out of them. FPS games I'm good at aswell, not in the way that I go thru them in the hardest difficulty the first time but after maby 30 minutes of online play I'm almost unstopable. The really bad thing is that I don't like them as much as say RPG games and Adventure games.

 

[l33tabix]

To continue on from my previous post.
I just put in my xbox live gamertag and I'm 8th highest on this site.
So yes, I am good at gaming.

 

[jezz8me]

133tabix the first gamer to actually try to back up his claim of being 1337.

 

[Cooper42]

I don't have the time to get that good at games.

I'm good at FPS games, only because I've played so many over the years. but I'm still awful at MP FPS games. They're always far too fast and twitchy for me.

In fact, there are few games I'd say I'm good at in MP. There are so many kids out there who can devote hours to individual games, that I can never hope to even be near that level. Nor would I want to be. I like having a life outside games.

 

[l33tabix]

hahaha why thank you. I never CLAIM to be l33t. It's actually a play on words for harcore English gamers. Although many people and clans have taken my name I actually invented it and obviously I pay for it on XBL. I also have it registered on about 20 sites now, I'm just trying to make sure no one else gets it. I usually come up several times if you search it on google also. Imposters use L33tabix.

Weetabix is an English breakfast cereal (called Weet-bix in Australia apparently) so l33tabix is the gamers perfect breakfast.

Currently on mission 3 on DMC4 on Son Of Sparda mode (yes it's only the third difficulty but i only just got my sodding xbox back from microsoft people!)

 

[Alphavillain]

I suck at games. Suck suck suck. It really torments me to the extent where I take it personally. I think I may have premature thumb arthritis setting in from playing DMC 4 so much.
The worst thing is where magazines and websites say a game is easy to complete ("it only lasts eight hours or so") and there I am weeks later still tghrowing my controller at the wall.

 

[l33tabix]

Aphavillain I KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU FEEL! When you need to get so say a 'Sick Smoking Style' with that sticky wank Dante, your thumbs hurt for at least half an hour afterwards.
I am in the inverse of you though, because I've played guitar for so long I find the guitar hero series far too easy. I 5* most expert songs on first try. So then I have to read full page articles in Official Xbox Magazine about how they can't do this or that song. IT really aggrivates me.......this is starting to sound like a boasting threat. I probably look like a **** right about...now.

 

[jezz8me]

1337bix has been used heaps i have seen. even was used on the only credible gaming show in Australia Good Game.

Do you guys play the Xbox DMC4 because i find the PS3 version quite comfortable to sit back and play. Although if i tried Son of Sparda i would end u in the corner in fetal position. At least it wasn't as bad as DMC 3 i felt bad loosing to the first boss repetitively on normal.
(BTW DMC2 was awesome i don't care what people say and i liked the extremely cold dante)

As for the GH thing i know what you mean. I play bass and find it incredibly insulting the easiness of basslines in GH but they are just put there for a bit extra. In Rockband apparently not even a Rush bassline (Geddy lee respected and skilled bassist) is at all difficult.

 

[x434343]

I can be good at CoD4 online. When people say I suck, I just drop kick them in the nads... with bullets

 

[l33tabix]

Geddy Lee is a fucking god. Some of his fills are completely mindblowing.

Aww you have got to be screwing me, you saw it on good game? In a country that has a de-graded version of the cereal itself. I'm finding Son Of Sparda quite easy, only because by playing through Demon Hunter I have all of Nero's Moves.

Did you know that the voice actor for Nero used to be a power ranger? And he has voiced millions of anime characters english re-dubs?

 

[jezz8me]

lol no but his voice did sound very familiar. Do you know if he did "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumia" because the guy in that sounds like a game character me and a friend were trying to work out. We at first thought Raiden but it was not.

I never got into Rush but i highly respect Geddy as a fantastic bassist. The problem is his singing

I have not tried Son Of Sparda in the harder parts because my friends has borrowed the game but i may be able to do it easily. Did you find when you first switch to dante he seems weak but when you go back to Nero dante is better. I wish I could use the lucifer more. I just love the Inferno references throughout the game.

 

[l33tabix]

Hahaha yeah, Dante's Inferno, one of the best poems of all time. Italian Literature for you. When Pandora's Box is said to take 666 forms I did lol heavily. Even with all the recent claims that it was originally 616.
Go and type in Devil May Cry 4 on IMDB and just follow it to his acting profile. It'll tell you everything he has done.

"Although his mind is not for rent, don't put him down as arrogant, he dives a quiet defence, riding out the days events, the river" I tell you that is some Geddy Lee whining right there.

 

[jezz8me]

"The greatest pain is to, in times of sorrow, remember what it was to be happy" some Dante for you. (the poet not the character ) I need to finish this brilliant piece. Hard to read, have to pay attention to each word.

ANYWAY back on topic is it that people like me are not good at games or that competitive games are measured using only a certain amount of skills that i do not posses. I think it is this way seing as multilayer is usually used in genres which require fast reactions and decisions rather than single player based games which require working out what you need to do and you have all the time in the world (why i love Hitman)

 

[l33tabix]

Hitman is about doing it as fast as you can with only one kill. That opera level on the last one can be done so damn quick if you map the path right.

 

[Sib]

It really depends, a good example is Cod4 yesterday, one match i go about 30kills and 5 deaths with a gun i hate, then the next match against same people i go about 10 and 15 with a gun i much prefer.
It just depends on whether or not i can be arsed to concentrate hehe.