Games You Like That You Suck At

[Twintix]

So last week, I bought Splatoon, and while I was at it, I picked up this fancy-looking game called Akai Katana. It only cost about 11 bucks, which the cashier said was quite the bargain for that game.

So, Akai Katana; It's a side-scrolling bullet hell game. You dodge bullets and shoot your enemies. Having never played a bullet hell game before, (Despite my interest in the Touhou franchise) I was very intrigued by this game and figured: "Hey, you gotta start somewhere, right?"

I'll be blunt: This game kicks my ass six ways from Sunday. I am absolutely and unquestionably terrible at it. Even after discovering that you'll get a tutorial that explains to you what the hell you're supposed to do by pressing B at the menu (Which the game doesn't tell you, by the way. I don't think it even says this in the manual) and finding out how to play the game, I totally suck at it. Using Continue after Continue after growing tired of starting the stages again and again in a futile attempt to get better...Makes you realize that you're not as good at video games as you think you are. And I already consider myself bad at games.

Granted, this is the first bullet hell game I've ever played and I really like it so far, but lord knows I'm not very good at this game.

So what about you guys? Do you have a game that you really like playing, but you're also terrible at?

*Insert "all of them" comment here*

 

[someguy1231]

Pretty much any fighting game (that I like, of course).

As a side note, I think this is the ultimate sign of a good game. A game that someone still enjoys even when they're constantly getting their ass handed to them is a rare find indeed.

 

[CritialGaming]

Everything I play I play on easy because I suck at games and only want the story anyway. Even if the story sucks.

 

[Bad Jim]

I'll second the bullet hell games. And the 1v1 fighting games like Street Fighter.

Also, adventure games like Monkey Island, Sam and Max etc. I like the stories and jokes, but I'm too thick to figure out the puzzles myself.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

RTS, like Age of Empires. Loved the games but I was never very good at them. I just liked watching my dad play.

 

[Neverhoodian]

Just about any RTS game that catches my fancy (C&C: Red Alert 2, Dawn of War, Star Wars: Empire at War, etc.). I'm terrible at juggling base building with unit management. I usually end up focusing so much on one that I neglect the other. I know what I have to do, but my brain simply can't keep up.

My typical "strategy" consists of turtling, teching up, building a bunch of tanks/mechs and hurling them against the enemy until one of us runs out of units/resources. It probably comes as no surprise that I favor "brute force" factions like the Soviets in Red Alert 2.

Most of my time in those games are spent playing regular matches against Easy or Normal AI opponents. Anything higher and I either lose outright or barely win by an absurdly long war of attrition. I won't even touch the multiplayer side of things. I tried it before (against my better judgement), and I ALWAYS got steamrolled in a handful of minutes.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

Ikaruga. I don't think there's a chance in hell I'll ever beat that game using less than about 4 continues, but I love it. It's a shmup that has a puzzle game elegantly built into it using the polarity system, and perfectly beating it is like executing a masterfully choreographed dance. Here's a video of someone doing the 2-player by himself controlling both the ships that is awesome and also makes me feel bad:

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Also 1 on 1 fighters like Street Fighter, Blazblue, etc. I can remember some of the combos for some of the characters in some of the games, but I usually end up relying on timing my jumps and basic kicks/punches in a battle of attrition. I'm hoping that when I finally beat Persona 4 I'll be motivated to have an encyclopedic knowledge of the combos for all the characters in P4A/P4AU and be a real true awesome fighter guy.

 

[Rylot]

I adore the Souls games, but man do they wipe the floor with me. It's only in the last month or so that I finally beat the first Dark Souls and even gotten to the final, final boss of the second. I read up on the strategies and enjoy all the lore. Get the best gear I can, I'm just balls at actually playing the damn game.

 

[saphiren]

Probably Skullgirls. I've never been great at traditional fighting games, but SG's tutorial was a mile above the usual "here's a move list, go get your skull cracked" sort of learning curve I've seen in stuff like newer Mortal Kombat games and Street Fighter. It looks great and the tag team power scaling mechanic (and how it affected the number of rounds needed for a victory) added some nice meta considerations - do you play with one super-buff character and focus on brute force and speed, or do you use a tag team for the long combo chains...the tutorial goes into enough detail for the newb to grasp that there's room for strategy there, but expects skill in the execution. I've never gotten the hang of it and I will always get my ass kicked against a decently skilled human, but playing that game is so fun I don't even care.

 

[Rebel_Raven]

Fighting games. I'm adequate or better at everything else.
Fighting games just require a bit too much practice, except games like DB Xenoverse, and Evil Zone, and maybe EHRGEIZ, and stuff.

 

[Hazy992]

I like 2D fighting games even though I suck at them, although I tend to prefer 3D fighters, in large part because I'm better at them.

 

[Sassafrass]

CS:Go.

I'm so not used to the play style, yet I've been putting two hours into it for a week or so. I barely go positive in deathmatch (No comp because I'd get eaten alive.) and mostly end up going negative. But yet, I keep playing the bloody thing.

 

[Lufia Erim]

Street fighter. I'm decent at fighting games that are fast paced and use cancels as their primary combo system. But i am terrible at street fighters slower, methodical gameplay with link based combos. However i do enjoy it althought it is one of those games that fill me with rage like no other.

 

[necromanzer52]

Civilization. Civ 2 is one of the first games I ever played. I've put hundreds of hours into alpha centauri. I've adored these games since I was quite young. And yet, I'm so bad at them. I've never managed to win anything but a domination victory.It doesn't matter though. The games are just amazingly fun to play.

 

[BeerTent]

XCOM!

Although, maybe not anymore... I've got Gauss Weapons in LW, and nobody's died yet.

4X games!

I love the Multiplayer aspect of them, drinking, having a good time, crying a little inside when a vastly technologically superior France keeps 1940's Hiroshima historically accurate. My, Hiroshima. ut I'm really awful at that. I think my problem is that I don't specialize my cities, and build every building possible. Maybe I should just suck it up and use the damn governors.

 

[Zhukov]

Most turn-based strategy games.

I like to think I'm some kind of tactical genius.

Turns out, I'm really, really not.

 

[Jesus McChrist]

Fighting games. Loved Marvel vs Capcom 3 and MK9, but anything more than a moderate difficulty and I'm almost guaranteed to get the snot knocked out of me.

Also, racing games. The more realistic the physics, the less into it I am. Need for Speed: Most Wanted and Midnight Club: LA were the last ones I played that I could really handle.

 

[Dandark]

RTS games

I love RTS games but I am terrible at them for the most part. I could not play them in multiplayer to save my life and don't enjoy the micromanaging/preplanned build order style of them when played with other people. I love messing around in singleplayer against an AI that won't crush you for being slow though.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Also, adventure games like Monkey Island, Sam and Max etc. I like the stories and jokes, but I'm too thick to figure out the puzzles myself.

I love them and are pretty bad at the puzzles myself, but I don't think either of us are thick, the puzzle solutions are just so ridiculously obscure for most of the games in that genre.

 

[Foolery]

I will also say Dark Souls. I think the lore is neat and the world is interesting, but the game kicks my ass.