Games You Like That You Suck At

[Zeraki]

Fighting games, RTS games and classic Megaman are the biggest ones I can think of.

In the case of classic Megaman, my introduction to the franchise was with Megaman X, so a lot of the habits and experience I've gotten from the X series really screws with me when playing classic. For example, I always forget I can't wall jump and it often gets me killed when I try to out of reflex.

Also, those disappearing block sections can go straight to hell.

 

[Poetic Nova]

Real Time Strategy.

Love games like Total Annihilation but the best I can do when I play on medium or higher are bizarre stalemates. Unless there's more than one enemy camp, then I'm even worse at playing them.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

Specifically, Skulls of the Shogun. I may not be the best at turn based strategy, but that game actively tears me down. For some reason, I follow a cycle of picking up to play for a bit - lose terribly - forget after a while how bad I am - pick up and play again - lose terribly again. Damnit! I should learn to take a hint. But they gave it away free this month on psn plus, so my bushy tailed mind leapt straight back in to kick some undead ass. Except now i'm even worse than before, dying at a much earlier battle. Oh why must you mock me, Shogun? Even Xcom bought me flowers once in a while.
Just...one more go. Maybe i'll finally get it this time...

 

[CaitSeith]

I was going to say Dark Souls, but in that game the definition of "not sucking" is surviving more than 5 minutes. Then I remembered FTL: Faster Than Light. The farthest I have reached is Sector 5, but sometimes I don't pass even from Sector 3.

 

[Flutterguy]

I love RTS games, I'll have to blame Warcraft 3 for that, but I will never beat one on hard, and I will never get past a silver ranking. Although not taking them too seriously is probably a big reason I enjoy them.

 

[sageoftruth]

For me, the Dark Souls 2 DLC. I can handle the game itself, but I still haven't beaten some of the bosses in the DLC.

 

[EvilRoy]

Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Horn of something something. Really just HM3 in general though. I can win randoms on normal, sometimes and only if strategize almost every move. I have no idea who the two harder difficulties are intended for, but those guys must be friggin insane.

 

[Randoman01]

Mostly all of them. But I suck the most at 4X games and multiplayer games like DOTA or LOL and things like that.

 

[DrownedAmmet]

I'll have to say Dark Souls because I never rage quit, whenever I die I can always get right back on the horse and try to tackle the next enemy in a different way.

But when I play online fps's like CoD, I usually only have fun when I have a positive kill to death ratio, so if I do bad in a few matches I have no desire to keep playing

 

[Catfood220]

Demon's Souls. My relationship with the game goes something along the lines of start, die repeatedly, rage quit and delete save. Repeat a year later. And a year later, start with a guide, die repeatedly anyway, rage quit but don't delete my save. Will probably start playing again at some point.

I really like Demon's Souls, I like the doomed atmosphere and the fun combat. But I get maybe 2 or 3 hours a night to play a game and it gets a bit soul destroying (ha ha) when I'm playing my 2-3 hours and not making any progress due to death in that game. I'd love to play Dark Souls and Dark Souls 2 as well as Blood Bourne as they look and sound really good. But unless I quit my job and dedicate my life to playing them, they will remain unplayed by me as they would simply take up too much time.

 

[garjian]

Street Fighter for me.

I once hated Street Fighter, as that's what most of the people I've met that play fighting games play, where I've always been into Soulcalibur and of course I was bitter about that.
But after years of poking at Street Fighter IV I finally got a feel for how that game plays, and I'd love to take the plunge and get good at it, or V... especially with Soulcalibur's future looking a bit rocky to say the least.

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.

That's the best thing you can do though. Combos will get you nowhere if you can't land a hit, that's what really matters... depending on the game of course. Try playing a pokey character!

 

[Treeberry]

Dark Souls. Although once I started spending my souls as soon as I got them rather than trying to hoard them I realised that death is arbitrary in this game and that's when I started enjoying it far more and actually got better at it. Lost my save for it though and I'm not sure if I can bothered to go through certain areas and certain bosses again though. I'm glad I played this whilst I was unemployed because I don't have the stamina for it anymore (maybe I'll get the PC version during a sale if there's a 'pause' mod somewhere though).

The majority (actually, all) of arcade-era beat 'em ups and side scrollers. And shooters a la Truxton and Touhou. Screw those boring modern military soldier things, I'd rather be a spaceship!

Pretty much every fighter too, really. My favourite fighter of all time is Soul Blade but I haven't completed story mode for any character at all. Stupid Li Long and Voldo and Hwang kicking my ass all the time. >_< I don't play too many fighters but I was quite disappointed with Dead or Alive 5 and Virtua Fighter 5 didn't have arcade endings and I prefer following a selected character's story rather than the mess that is DoA's story mode.

(For true fighter fans I have a question! Are there any fighters that utiltise both armed and unarmed combat? For example in Soul Blade/Soul Edge everyone starts with a weapon but you have the potential to lose it and then have to fight unarmed albeit crappily. It'd be nice to play a game where characters are proficient with and without weapons.)

 

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[Fdzzaigl]

Starcraft 1 & 2.

I like building too much while the game is so much about rushing the enenmy in various ways. So often I'll build up a pretty neat series of bases only to get them all trampled by enemies who focused on churning out combat units more.

 

[Flammablezeus]

RTS games like C&C and Age of Empires. As well as fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Injustice (somehow I'm not too bad at Smash Bros, but then that game does differentiate itself from most traditional fighting games quite a bit.) I just don't have the patience to learn all of these games as well as I would have to to get good at them, but they're loads of fun to play. I'm also usually not a competitive or fast-paced gamer. I play games to relax and my play style reflects that.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I like 1-on-1 fighting games, specifically the Japanese ones but, I'm just no good at them. I was able to beat single-player Marvel vs Capcom 3 with multiple characters and before that I was pretty decent at Guilty Gear XX but when I play against another human, I'm as good as dead. When it comes to western 1v1 games, things are a bit worse. Like Mortal Kombat for the PS3/360; Even on very easy, I'm unable to beat the freaking story mode. When it comes to Injustice I was alright with a handful of characters but I don't even knock my opponent's first health-bar away if I'm on anything more difficult than easy difficulty.

Then there are PC games. I'm new to things on the PC but Total Biscuit sold me on the concept of The Last Federation, a game in which I lost horribly three times before making it to the part where I have a chance to actually begin a freaking Federation! I used to play Star Craft when I was younger but that would always devolve into me playing Terran against level 0 AI for the sole purpose of nuking the map. In a real game, I'm absolutely screwed before I'm ready to roll out my first line of vehicle units.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Nuclear Throne. I've yet to beat L'il Hunter, much less the actual throne, yet every time I look up videos of the game it's about people who are looping the game with relative security. I also play Melting most of the times, compared to other noob-friendly characters like Crystal or Plant, and dying in one shot most of the times might attribute to that, but I really love Melting's corpse explosions and I don't really play conservatively with anyone else.

 

[FPLOON]

Spoiler: I'm pretty sure this song can some up something I suck at...

Other than that, bullet hell games (especially the Touhou series) take the cake in terms of my suckitude and my overall enjoyment to be at a higher, yet equal, terms of endearment...

 

[EHKOS]

Most fighting games. Tekken and Soul Calibur (the latter only to an extent) are the only two I'm proficient in. I see all these other awesome fighting games and I just...I just can't. If I can do a move in Mortal Kombat I get all happy.

Also, like, the biggest one is probably TF2. I used to be really good at Sniper, now I can't even hit a stationary headshot. It's partially a mouse thing, but I don't want to spend twenty minutes calibrating shit on Harvest. But even with classes like Soldier and Heavy I'm certainly not as good as my peers. I just like being in the middle of the board so I feel like I helped. Demoman wrecks any class I play, like if I see a Demoman, I just turn around (or asplode) and just never cover that path until he's pushed back to a different bit.

 

[Drakmorg]

Fighting games and MOBAs I'm both terrible at, yet enjoy and play. Though honestly I probably only enjoy them because I keep a strict policy of only playing with people I am already well established as friends with. If I tried playing against randos who have no real reason to not just wipe the floor with me as hard as possible and then insult me for not being an indisputable master, I'd probably stop playing them altogether.