Poll: Last Video game you played that required skill

[The Lugz]

Do games take skill?
really begs the question, what is skill and how is it applied

the answer is yes, all games take some kind of skill even Qte's arguably take memory and reactions

if it has user interface essentially, you can input 'skill' because the definition of skill is to have the innate ability to complete a task

I think the question you really wanted to ask, is do games arguably take less skill than their simpler earlier counterparts, and or do game company's make games less difficult than they used to?

the answer is also yes, because the casual market is so big making games for everyone is a good financial move and overall, you get more games to choose from as company's can develop more titles
so, yes, yes, and it's a good thing!
but you want to test your skills at being mr hardcore? fine do a level of cod with one clip of ammo
and limit yourself to head-shots or knife-kills or no damage taken
because the player really has all the power.. you can play however you want!

timing creeper explosions in Minecraft so it kills other hostile mobs = skill

lining up 3 enemy's in a shooter by kiteing them around then triple headshoting them with a single round = skill

exploring / bugging / game-breaking / exploiting arguably the most skill full things you can do in a game, because you are operating in such a way as you are holding the game under a microscope and
poking holes in it as you play through it, flipping the skill around the idea being you rise above the test to the point where you are putting it through it's paces instead of the other way around and testing the player-proofing the designers put in place
although, it really depends what you are doing

so, yes, skills, yes, less in new games, yes you can display more skill than the game 'requires' to beat it if you like a custom difficulty curve or just to show off
there are of course exceptions, every good rule has them!
and i did not say there are no new hard games, cause there are and will be!

 

[ZeroDotZero]

Try Starcraft II, VVVVVV and Super Meat Boy. Need some mad skills for them.

 

[Ekonk]

I like to think that Deus Ex requires skill.

 

[X3N0N]

Last one I played was TF2. And Minecraft, because I'm an MLG pro at imagination.

 

[icame]

All games require a skill of some sort. But, not all of them are challenging. If you're looking for a challenge, try QWOP out for size. If you can run in this game, then you have a "skill" that very few have.

Link: http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

P.S. It can be done.

6.4 meters of doing some strange hop/crawl and I'm done. I guess my skill level isn't too high with this!

Great link tho.

OT: All games require skill silly. Just because you're used to playing video games, and they seem easy to you, doesn't mean everyone already has that level of skill.

I find that if you hit w, then hit p repeatedly until your leg hits the ground, then repeat, you cannot lose.

 

[BeeRye]

Any game that's played against other humans who are also decent at the game qualifies. The game I play most frequently is CSS, although I've just been pubbing lately, which hardly could be said to require skill.

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Buy Nocturne, gank bitches.

On a serious note it's buggy and imbalanced, but the main problem is that it has just so many bad, bad players at the pug end, and getting to ranked takes quite some time. I'd say the game has a high turnover of players and that many never get past the first few hurdles. How many times have you come across an Ashe with absolutely zero MR and cackled with glee when you explode them in half your combo? While the game's not hard, the genre in general isn't exactly "noob friendly". Picking up all the concepts can take a while if you're new to these type of games, sure you'll get the idea of laning pretty quickly but how many new players have an understanding of AD and AP carries for instance. There's no synergy between players at the lower ELO either, half the time it's a team of 5 carries and no tank or support, and attempting to jungle will just get abuse yelled at you. It's really far far easier to get into if you have a friend willing to teach you, the thing they have on the forums for tutors is a pretty good idea too. There's certainly room for some skilled play in the game, but only in premade ranked games as far as I can see.

there is very little you can do as a player to set you apart from other players besides knowing what to do, which is usually common snese

Not sure about this to be honest. It's the same in every game. In FPS games you can out-aim and out-think people, out-micro them in RTS, etc. There's a simple way to set yourself apart from others in every game - outplay them, pure and simple, be that out-farming your opponent or playing your character to maximum capacity. In fact I'd say part of LoL's problem is that there are too many ways to set yourself apart from other players other than just your talent at the game. You can buy characters people have never played against before and play gimmicky builds and such. It's a less pure format than an FPS like Quake.

On a side note, how many times have you been raped by an allied Jarvan's ulti this week? They need to never ever put him on the free rotation again -.-

 

[Delta2501]

I really hoped we'd get less topics like this after the Extra Credits video.
(http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/extra-credits/2454-Easy-Games)

If you are talking challenging games I could quote a dozen freeware games on the subject (people haven't stopped making old-style games). The STALKER series is a recent example of challenging games though.

 

[NathLines]

The Witcher 2 just got released and it is hard as hell. There are still plenty of games that require skill and I personally don't want see a higher a ratio of games that require it. Skill, to me, can often take out a lot of the fun from a game. Especially in multiplayer games.

Note that I am talking about mad skillz and not the ability to play games.

 

[GrimHeaper]

The World Ends With You

Probably the only game I have right now, that I haven't been able to get the hang of yet. Than again it's mostly due to the fact that the game registers attacks as movement and vise versa.

Bit as all people above me have said. All games require skill, some just require different ones

Beat the ultimate boss in ultimate mode.
he basically 1-2 hit kills you at level 100.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Well, there's the obvious answer that "all games require skill", so I'm gonna take this chance to poke fun at certain groups whose bitching I'm getting sick of:

CoD Fanbase:
"Black Ops! So many people using perks like Ghost and Second Chance and campers, it takes real skill to not do any of those and win!"

Fighting game fans:
"Street Fighter 2. Fighting games have been so dumbed down now that their just skill-less button mashers. You can make a few basic movements and can pull out combos and win."

PC Gamers:
"Anything on a PC because as we all know, nothing on consoles require skill because it's all dumbed down for the idiots who play them, and EVERYTHING on PC requires skill, because it's on PC."

A 5 year-old:
"Kirby's Epic Yarn. I keep losing all my beads!"

Retro Gamers:
"Contra. Gaming is just so hand-holding and simplified these days."

 

[Ultraman950]

If we're including Flash games, then the last I played was Super Mario Crossover. Simon's a bit tricky.

If not... the hardest was probably Bayonetta. Most recent was Fallout: New Vegas. Sniping's a bit tough with the scope sway, and the only thing that's kept me alive during the Macross Missile Massacre that several missile mooks can launch was my power armor.

Yeah, I'd say games still need skill, just usually different kinds. An FPS veteran might have trouble with, say, Devil May Cry, for example.

 

[KingofallCosmos]

Every video game requires a skill.

I give you Noby Noby Boy.

Last game that I had to really concentrate on was Vanquish I guess. Before that Bayonetta so no, there's not a lot of skill involved in most new games. Not that it really matters, these games are meant like that. A lot of games concentrate more on a broad experience with emphasis on story and setting, while other (casual) games are meant for relaxation.

 

[Chrishu]

Cave Story.

Freaking SacredGrounds...

 

[ThePirateMan]

PC Gamers:
"Anything on a PC because as we all know, nothing on consoles require skill because it's all dumbed down for the idiots who play them, and EVERYTHING on PC requires skill, because it's on PC."

Console Gamers:
Omgz i r teh console gamer, i r 19 year old (actauly 12, olol). [Insert excessive swearing and verbal abuse of females]

Generalisations, woooooh!

OP: As some have said, the majority of if not all games do require some sort of skill, but I'm going to change the wording from games requiring skill to games requiring a lot of skill/being hard.

Yes, there are still plenty of games in which it takes some time and effort to be good, such as Mount and Blade and.. uh.. other games..

 

[GrimHeaper]

Final fantasy Dissidea 012
That game takes a certain amount of skill all right.
You basically have to fight a computer that cheats.

 

[WaderiAAA]

Every game require skill. Even though you can't die in Kirby's Epic Yarn, you still can't complete it without some skill.

Last game I played that demanded a lot of skill was Geometry Wars Galaxies, which I played earlier today.

 

[Mikeyfell]

Most video games nowadays require little or even no skill ( or so it seems ). So my question today is: What is the last video game you played that required any for of skill to play ?


EDIT: people are saying all games require skill, one that required 0 skill whatsoever off the top of my head is Kirby epic Yarn. You cannot die, thus as long as you have working fingers you will be able to complete the game, it will take longer if one has a mental deficiency , granted, but one will eventually finish it. imsure theres other examples of extremely easy or games that dont require skill but i just cant think of any atm.

A thing lost of people forget is that holding a controller is a skill.

Navigating a 2D or 3D space are also skills.

Most people who've been playing games for ever have those skills down to muscle memory but they never stopped being skills.

If you mean the last game you played that made you use a unique skill set probably Rock Band 3's Pro keyboard mode.

Puzzle games like Limbo make you think outside the box in order to finish some of the levels. that's a skill I wish more games would push.