Hall of shame: admit which games you are terrible at .

[Pink Gregory]

I think I'm quite bad at all the things that I enjoy; and I love it.

For some reason I love having the odds stacked against me and very little chance, makes slipping through the gaps even more satisfying

 

[Blaster395]

Any competitive multiplayer game where you can kill or eliminate each other.

I do well in cooperative multiplayer though.

 

[Erttheking]

I freaking blow at all real time strategy games.

 

[TheSteeleStrap]

Maybe it's because I don't play Counter-Strike often, but my kills are pretty few and far between.

 

[remnant_phoenix]

RTS
I like RTS as a concept, but "micromanagement" and "fast-paced multi-tasking" just isn't my forte. I'm much more of a "big picture" and "focus on one thing at a time" kind of guy. I WANT to like RTS, but I suck at them so bad. I can never get through the campaign when the difficulty starts to climb and there's no way I'd ever play against a human opponent.

Real-Time Tactical RPGs (i.e. Baldur's Gate)
See above. Love the concept, suck at the implementation. I must have played the beginning of Baldur's Gate II half a dozen times, trying out different classes and trying new strategies, and I just couldn't get it. I never even got out of the first dungeon...

 

[Legion]

Well I am currently playing ICO for the first time and have had a guide up for half of it. Although to be honest a lot of it is down to "OMG you can't leave Yorda alone by going that way, or she will be captured. You gotta do something else first fool!" At which point the guide comes up because I really can't be bothered to fail and have to do all the stuff again.

I think with older games where you can't just save when you like I have less patience and therefore rely on guides more. Games are not fun for me when I have to repeat the last 15-20 minutes just because of a single screw up. I had a guide up for Silent Hill 2 a fair amount as well, simply to find out whether a boss could be killed or merely had to be survived.

 

[Lt._nefarious]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R Shadow of Chernobyl.

I love the game but I suck at it. For instance I came upon a small building full of dogs with a fellow S.T.A.L.K.E.R requesting a medkit. I ran into the building and was immediately murdered by puppies. After reloading I managed to get up to the top floor where I fell though a hole and got mauled by dogs again. Then once I retrieved the medkit and had given it to the brother,I was killed by dogs...

 

[RatRace123]

First person shooters and non-arcade sport and racing games. (basically any one that doesn't have Mario in it)

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

xx = cancel the previous move's animation in order to make the next move a part of the same combo.

180 on the current version and on the original version 50 hours spent, and I'm still pants at Street Fighter 4: Super Ultra Gold The Movie Edition: Director's Cut. I just can't do almost any combo consistently, or at all. I can do really really really simple ones like jumping m.kick crouching m.kick xx EX Hurricane Spasm, and maybe once in a blue moon I'll somehow pull off: jumping kick of some sort, 3x l.punch, m.kick xx Hadouken xx Super. Yes, I know jumping in a lot is bad. Oh right, I'm talking about Ryu. I can't even play the easy character! I would like to painfully crush shake the hand of any dev who designs their fighting game with lots of 1 and 2-frame links. Well this game requires 1-frame links to do good combos, so I guess I'll just resign myself to an eternity of failure right now.

I have a full-time job, and there's way too many other games I want to play. So, the unfathomably large number of hours it would take me to commit those 1-frame links and FADC into ultra combos to my retarded muscle memory do not seem worth it.

The game's still really fun though, and I can beat people who are new (wow, I'm so cool) or even sometimes significantly better than me, because they don't know how to block. Like I've beaten Akuma's who--when they managed to hit me--did 12 hit combos on me. But I'd win through attrition by using 1 to 3 hit "combos" on them all the time, because they don't understand Street Fighter's blocking system. Learning how the fundamental systems work early on will help you win against other new players, even if you still suck at execution.

Note: It seems I vent a lot on this site. I actually do like most every video game I play. I've been jokingly told in Vent when discussing games, "fuzzy, your opinion doesn't matter, you like everything." So don't hate me for not liking things, because I probably do actually like them when it comes down to it.

 

[In Search of Username]

All games.

I'm terrible at games in general, I can't pick any specifics at all.

 

[scorptatious]

Well there's Skullgirls. That game kicked my ass even on the easiest setting. Sure, I was able to get the hang of it and beat the story mode a couple of times on normal mode. But when I tried to play online, I got absolutely destroyed.

I guess this extends to other fighting games as well. Really the only fighting game that I'm somewhat decent at is the Super Smash Bros. series. And even then, I haven't played it in a while.

I guess I'm also bad at RTS's. Halo Wars for example. I can barely get my
most basic defenses up before an opposing player sends his scarab and utterly annihilates my base.

So I guess the moral of the story is that I shouldn't be playing genres I'm not too familiar with against people who practically live on that stuff: :/

 

[DanielBrown]

Any fighting game or action game with combos. I can never be arsed to learn them, so I just mash a button that seems to give me results. Got all the GoW games(and I fucking love them), but as far as combos go... the most advanced I use is square, square, triangel.

I'm also really awful at LoL. At least that's what everyone kept telling me during my first and last game session. :'(

 

[scorptatious]

Well I am currently playing ICO for the first time and have had a guide up for half of it. Although to be honest a lot of it is down to "OMG you can't leave Yorda alone by going that way, or she will be captured. You gotta do something else first fool!" At which point the guide comes up because I really can't be bothered to fail and have to do all the stuff again.

I think with older games where you can't just save when you like I have less patience and therefore rely on guides more. Games are not fun for me when I have to repeat the last 15-20 minutes just because of a single screw up. I had a guide up for Silent Hill 2 a fair amount as well, simply to find out whether a boss could be killed or merely had to be survived.

I understand how you feel. As much as I love ICO, I'll admit some of the puzzles in that game confused me so much that I had to use a guide. How was I supposed to know you can SWING on those chains?

I'll also admit I had some trouble figuring out what to do or where to go in the first two Fallout games. This was especially frustrating considering I had a time limit in the first one. Thankfully I can save anywhere in those games.

 

[Ranma12569]

A lot of the games I'm about to mention I like a lot but I'm no good at:

Megaman games
Donkey Kong country games
Metroid games
Castlevania games
Every fighting game ever made
Sensible world of Soccer

I think that's about it

 

[Godhead]

I'm really bad at Ragnarok Online, but that might also have to do with the the server my friends play on none of the donation items can be dropped so I'm left with a set that is child's play to somebody who drops $50.

 

[cynicthnkr]

Sims, sims 2 and sims 3.I am so bad that terrible doesn't even begins to describe it.

 

[flying_whimsy]

I'm pretty awful at most games, so I use cheat devices like action replays or trainers (I don't cheat at multiplayer, though). I can get better at them and sometimes do play through games without cheating, but I focus on story, gameplay mechanics, and fun more than challenge; so, my main focus when gaming is totally different from most people's. VVVVVV and portal were, to me at least, some of the best gaming experiences I've had without cheating.

On a side note: I played the original halo on the computer with a trainer that gave me infinite health and ammo as well as letting me stop time: totally different experience.

 

[Ziggy]

Oh and LoL. Yeah i've been playing it for a few months straight now. Yeah I still suck, what of it? I'm liking how Poppy is so simple to beast with now i've picked her back up. Get ganked by jungler? Press R on the jungler, kill the jungler and walk away.

If you do seriously suck as badly at LoL as you say you do, don't make my mistake. Keep playing LoL. Don't move to Dota 2 yet. On the bright side, I don't think I suck at LoL any more - I suck a lot worse at Dota.

Also, pretty much every fighting game ever, with the possible exception of Super Smash Bros.

The day you start thinking that you don't suck at LOL or DOTA2 or any other MOBA/A-RTS is the day you stop improving.