Games you enjoy or thought you would have enjoyed, but suck at.

[loadingmikke]

i bought black ops, but REALLY sucked at it. so i sold it after 2 days of just beeing killed. Maybe i got 1 or 2 kills for every match. but didnt care. just hated it. not my kind of game.

 

[Raideh]

Cleaned.

 

[___________________]

Even if you don't perform well in a game that doesn't mean you can't enjoy fiddling with it. So maybe take out the "you thought" and "would" from the title or instead of "suck at" put in "didn't". I think getting better at playing a game is half the fun.

 

[maddness666]

Every strategy game ever.

I turtle like mad, spend more time arranging my buildings in nice patterns than I do using them and watch every single fight/skirmish that takes place, even though doing so leaves my base(s) constantly unattended.

It's nice to make the base look pretty, right? I can't stand making it unorganized.

Yeah. I coined the phrase pretty city syndrome to describe that phenomenon. It get's bad when you're leaving spaces because the temple and the market would be close to the town centre but the barracks and stable would be near the gate.

OT: I enjoy the singleplayer experience greatly, but with Warcraft and Starcraft, the multiplayer is brutal, an Easy AI generally kills me in 13 minutes, which is appently a long time for a game of Starcraft.

 

[Justice4L]

I'm absolutely horrible at strategy games. Warcraft III's campaign ON NORMAL absolutely murdered me. Here's the thing I realized, I'm really good with limited troops but terrible when it comes to base building.
The other really easy game to put in here is Oblivion. Loved me some Fallout 3. Friend of mine suggested Oblivion. Thought I might try it out. Got destroyed more than a few times, level up system hated me, could not figure out where I needed to go, etc. etc. et freaking cetera. Basically I've never touched it again, and the game has caused me to go into bouts of insanity every time its brought up.

TOUCH IT AGAIN!!! seriously if you love Fallout 3 (I do, it is the best game I have ever played) then you will adore Oblivion (it is the second best game I have ever played)

OT: Probably Counter Strike, I love that game but I suck SO much

 

[Fiad]

Morrowind, I just can not get any good at this game. Am great at Oblivion, haven even dabbled a bit in to Hammerfall. But every time I pop in Morrowind I just fail so very hard.

 

[hooksashands]

Any rhythm game. I like music, I can play a real guitar and drumkit fairly well, but for some reason my brain just doesn't correlate flashing colored buttons and bars on a screen with pressing the same on a controller. This even goes all the way back to Parappa the Rapper.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

All of them.

Forever.

I am actually not very good at videogames, I have no idea why I play them. I think by this point it is just out of habit, I've being doing it since before I was old enough to talk. I pick them up faster than everyone else, sure, but I never get much better than just barely passable.

This applies to pretty much everything, actually, not just videogames.

 

[Burntpopcarn]

Resident evil 5
GTA 4
Half-life 2
that about sums it up.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

Metal Gear Online.

Oh my.. I'm terrible at it, but I yet enjoy it.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Morrowind, I just can not get any good at this game. Am great at Oblivion, haven even dabbled a bit in to Hammerfall. But every time I pop in Morrowind I just fail so very hard.

Man, that game sapped hours of my life away; literally over 400 hours. LOVE it. At one point, I knew that game like the back of my hand; i's been a while, but I could offer some pointers (get you a glass longsword almost at the beginning of the game, how to get a suit of armor granting 100% Chameleon, etc...) My Morrowind strat guide has more notes scribbled in the margins than my high school text books!

 

[Xprimentyl]

Burnout Paradise. Burnout Revenge got me all hot and bothered for car carnage, and Burnout Paradise was content to wrap me around every pole in its open world without remorse. Fuck Burnout Paradise. Yahtzee's review on it is PERFECTLY on point.

 

[RuralGamer]

Every strategy game ever.

I turtle like mad, spend more time arranging my buildings in nice patterns than I do using them and watch every single fight/skirmish that takes place, even though doing so leaves my base(s) constantly unattended.

I still enjoy them, actually; I can just never play against AI harder than normal.

Second that; I really find the AI to be monstrously hard on some games, whereas my friends don't. I enjoy them, I just can't play them on any difficulty higher than normal without raging. Oh and I suck at multiplayer.

Oh and KOTOR; with a few exceptions, I found both games really hard on average on normal or higher difficulty; some areas were easy as pie and others took hours to wade through. For example I found the Darth Sion fight at the end of KOTOR a cakewalk, yet any cluster of five or more decent enemies just kept wrecking my shit up. Dragon Age: Origins was the same;
"Ah, well this isn't too hard; these darkspawn die pretty easily, although there are a lot of them."
*Reaches Brood Mother*
"...what?... ok, so that thing just instakilled Leilana? How?"
*Brood Mother Proceeds to wipe out whole team*
"ok, you can curl up and die a horrible and slow death, when did the game switch onto hard mode"
*Checks the settings*
"WHAT!????"
Every boss fight in DA:O was so hard for me.

 

[BeerTent]

[eeh, so much writing, so little space.]

I think you should probably curb your rage issues before you can get any better at this game. amirite?

Another thing that bothers me is that you put the title as "Games you thought you'd enjoy, but suck at." It almost sounds like to you that if your not very good at a game, you don't enjoy them, or just won't enjoy them. I'm sorry to also curb the topic a little, but I think this is a much more pressing matter. You can still enjoy a game, and be bad at it. I was fucking horrible at GH and Rockband back when they were the fad. I can't drum worth shit, yet to me, it was the most fun part of the game.

Another example is Civilization 5. I was never good at these games, but my strategy of Roman cookie-cutter cities almost always tanks. Maybe I should try India.

 

[The Eyeball Moose]

Audiosurf.
Seriously, the scores some people can get are simply maddening, and I just don't understand.

 

[terzil]

Every FPS ever. My reactions arnt fast enough to see something, recognise it as an enemy, shoot it. And if I shoot, I always miss and waste my entire clip of ammo. Specificly talking about TF2 but its ok in that game because I can always just pick Spy and take my time with my kills.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Donkey Kong Country Return. When I first saw the gameplay I had a nostalgia flashback of my time playing the first game on the SNES and love every moment of it. When it came to playing the game itself it was very difficult (me sucking at the game) and the game had little resemblance to the old game.
I pretty much trade it in for the next new game I had bought.

 

[The Human Torch]

[eeh, so much writing, so little space.]

I think you should probably curb your rage issues before you can get any better at this game. amirite?

Another thing that bothers me is that you put the title as "Games you thought you'd enjoy, but suck at." It almost sounds like to you that if your not very good at a game, you don't enjoy them, or just won't enjoy them. I'm sorry to also curb the topic a little, but I think this is a much more pressing matter. You can still enjoy a game, and be bad at it. I was fucking horrible at GH and Rockband back when they were the fad. I can't drum worth shit, yet to me, it was the most fun part of the game.

Another example is Civilization 5. I was never good at these games, but my strategy of Roman cookie-cutter cities almost always tanks. Maybe I should try India.

I got plenty of rage issues, but they are only connected to video games for some reason. Whenever a computer beats me repeatedly I have to stop playing. Depending on the game and/or how I lose I can take 5 defeats or 100. although I don't mind when I lose from real people with multi-player, for some reason.

And to me, progression means enjoyment, I am not above a challenge that requires me to put effort into before mentioned progress, but when I get stuck on the very first level (or song in this case) because I simply suck, it does destroy the enjoyment I would have gotten from a title.
It's a different case if you make it to a final boss and he gives you a hard time, at least then you can that you defeated 99% of the game.

I am not saying you can't enjoy a game that gives you a challenge, I am talking about gaming experiences that curb stomped you so hard that you reached a dead end.

 

[The Human Torch]

Every strategy game ever.

I turtle like mad, spend more time arranging my buildings in nice patterns than I do using them and watch every single fight/skirmish that takes place, even though doing so leaves my base(s) constantly unattended.

I still enjoy them, actually; I can just never play against AI harder than normal.

A game that more accurately fits your title is Frozen Synapse. Clever idea, nice little indie title, let's give it a shot - all my guys die on the first round. THE FIRST ROUND. OF THE FIRST MISSION. IN THE GAME. I was not expecting fail of that magnitude.

I know how that goes, you try to enjoy the fights happening, since you have this convenient top-down view and all you are doing is running from one fire to another.

 

[The Human Torch]

Dead Space. I constantly found myself lacking ammo during the 2nd and 3rd chapter. And how the hell am I supposed to get that many power cores to upgrade my shit?

could not figure out where I needed to go

What? I loved Oblivion more than most games because of the EXTREMELY easy to navigate maps and markers. I only ever found myself lost when I had to discover the Mythic Dawn's hideout in the Emperor Way; I though that I had to go inside the palace.

I gave up on Dead Space at a specific area where 4 monsters raped me in every hole and no matter how much ammo I sprayed on them, they just wouldn't die. I still don't know whether it's because I didn't buy the right upgrades to armor/weapons or if I missed something obvious to kill them with. Then again, the whole upgrading bit put me off Dead Space anyway, too much faffing about like you are getting ready for your wedding, just gimme a gun and let me shoot the zombies and I am happy.