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

[Fire Daemon]

Wow we have your own resident 1337. If your aussie I wouldn't mind giving you a game.

Back on topic:

I find that I am pretty good at FPS as far as single player goes but in MP I'm all over the shop. Sometimes I'm on the top of the leaderboard with 20 more kills then everyone else, sometimes I'm placed around the middle.

I'm good at RPG's especially turnbased. Its like a game of chess.

I can usually beat Race sims on normal or hard but not the hardest. Same with Guitar Hero.

I suck a big stiffy at fighting games. I cannot play these games.

 

[Cranius]

I am moderately good at games, I excel at RTS and Single-Player RPGs and am decent with FPSs, but all the other genres that I play I have to work up from the easiest to hardest, instead of hopping into Guitar Hero first time on Hard and playing Raining Blood, I work up from easy.

 

[sa1ntjames]

depends on the game i think. my 7 year old brother whoops my ass when i play Wii sports with him ("there's no way i swung through that, this game is crap!!!"), but on the flip side i have met very VERY few people who are on my level at CoD2 and CoD4 (i got screenies to prove it too lol...im pretty much a CoD2 god ^^). i am also pretty decent at guitar hero, and SSBB, although i could probably do better at that if i didnt use wario all the time to try and fart people off the level lol. i'd probably say i'm average to above-average at console games, and l33t when it comes to pc FPS games DONT HATE, APPRECIATE!

 

[jezz8me]

Well from my research there seems to be a few types of gamers.

Thinkers and processors - People who play games like Puzzles or RPGs that have no time limit and require either thinking of the right strategy or devoting time to move forward. (me) This can also include snipers and the like that stay out of trouble and calmly pick off people

Twitch - FPS gods at close range fast action.

Adrenalin - Do not have the reflexes of a Twitch player but are quite good at games involving fast paced (usually melee) action. These players tend to play games like God Of War, DMC and Arcade Fighters. Racing games also are included here.

Micro-managers - RTS players who have the speed to quickly undertake strategies they use (i respect people who can do this really well, South Koreans)

Pwners - "To truly pwn you must pwn at all games" said Teh Masterer and these are people who pick up any game and are great at it. The kind of friend who wants to play you in a game so they can raep you.

If there are more please add and if you hate my generalizations then shoot me. I take time and die often so it will not be hard.

 

[Kayevcee]

I enjoy playing FPS games on 'normal'. The only one I played on Hard was Quake 4 because I felt it was too damn short. I played a custom Far Cry level which was set at "realistic" by default and got killed by the first patrol I came across about 25 times before I beat them. I do enjoy FPSes, but I'm strictly in 'casual gamer' territory when it comes to skill.

That's opposed to RTSes, where I'm usually somewhere in "your gran" territory. At any level higher than "easy" I get humped every time regardless of the game. Maybe that's a sign I should stick to platformers.

One game I've always been a wiz at is the "Point Blank" series of arcade shooters. I was robbed of the top score in Strathclyde University student union by hitting the empty treasure chest in the bonus round.

-Nick

 

[ideitbawx]

I'm never at the top, but I'm not (usually) at the bottom either. I'll settle for mediocre, with the occasional flash of briliance and the occasional brain-dump.

-- Steve

word.

GH is pretty fun, but i'm a bassist as well (sort of), so once i get in the groove it's pretty easy. just don't ask me to play bloodrayne.

btw, last system i OWNED was an n64. i know, i know, it ain't 1997 anymore ...

 

[devilondemand]

Tony Hawks 2. That is where my gaming skills peaked. I could rack up billions of points in two minutes.

But I consider myself to be pretty good generally. I'll come top in COD4 sometimes and I'm normally pretty high up and that's all I've been playing recently.

 

[jezz8me]

Tony Hawk games. I find if you cannot own at anything own at that. No offense devilondemand.

The only game i have been able to finish easily on hardest difficulty and pwn all my friends was Underground.

 

[Whobajube]

I pretty much own at Soul Caliber 2... haha, probably would be murdered in a competition though

 

[Zaggles]

I'm pretty decent at RPGs, I used to be good at RTS's but haven't played any in quite a while so I can't say anymore. Suck at FPS's. Still have a lot of fun playing with friends, but I'm usually the one getting pwned, unless I retreat and hide with a sniper rifle. Anyone can dominate at least for a while with a sniper rifle.

 

[Flack]

RTS and FPS are my genre.
Specifically, C&C series, and (atm) TF2,UT,CS. Sure while I'm not tournament level, i can say the No.1 on the score boards and I are close friends.

 

[Boonesbane]

I would say that I am if not great, at least very above average at teamfortress 2. Unfortunately i am very bad at rts's and often struggle through their singleplayer modes.

 

[defcon 1]

challenge me to call of duty 4 if you fell like getting pwned and no m16

You sir are what many gamers call Scrubs. someone who thinks things are cheap simply because they don't know what the hell they're doing. Something tells me you're not the hot shit you make yourself out to be. and what the hell does your avatar say?

Anyways, I'm good at most games. I can actually play through most games on hard (not through extremely hard) difficulty. I do however suck at fighting games. I'm no good at hitting the combos precisely. I'm not all that good at racing games (with the exception of F-Zero).

Sweet! My 100th post