Poll: The day where you just sucked at a game

[Zantos]

Plenty of times during my time on different CoD games I could go 30-5 one day and 5-30 the next. No time in particular jumps out because I played so much, but I can remeber it wan't a good feeling.

I get this fairly often, it used to be worst if someone was watching me. Not distracting me or anything, just simply being there.

The strangest thing is that some of my worst days on CoD have been my best days when I gave up and played Space Marine.

 

[Mordekaien]

Happens to me a lot in Binding of Isaac and FTL recently. Sometimes I can finish it with ease, other times, I rage quit because of my incompetence.

 

[Fappy]

I'll add another voice to the chorus of LoL players who suck every now and then.

 

[AgentLampshade]

I'll only really suck at a game if I haven't played it in a while, which is pretty standard.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I get it with Guitar Hero a lot. One day I'll be absolutely wrecking every measly challenge the game can possibly throw at me, the next day I can't even finish a song before I lose. I don't geddit.

 

[The Wykydtron]

MOAR LOL.

Seriously, how well I do with Amumu differs from game to game, even when played back to back. I've landed sick, blind over wall Bandages and i've also missed piss easy point blank range ones... Still Amumu is one of my favourites since he can escape anything like a boss.

"Oh dear, three people are coming at me mid... Hmm, Wraiths are up. BAI!"

Get caught by Red Buff? Dragon, time for your hugs!

I like it so much it comes to the point where taking Dragon for me = no easy escape for the next six minutes. Not Woo free money!

I think LoL is such a good example since each game is a huge reset. You always start at level 1 with one ability on a level playing field. You could go 8/0 then immediately go 0/8 next game

Maybe you get instakilled at level 1. Maybe you trade kills with Ignite? Maybe you get three kills with a heroic Teleport gank across the map? Maybe you fail the Teleport gank and look like a tard.

Sometimes you outplay them (jumping out of the obvious Ziggs ultimate onto said Ziggs' face with Diana and destroying him) sometimes you get outplayed (get counterjungled all game and end up level 6 by the end of the game when everyone else is level 14)

Hell, in some games kills sort of... Wander into your hands almost. Cleaning up a few low health people since you were in the area for example. Like when an enemy comes out of a tower dive and you were in the part of the jungle he had to go through

 

[Jynthor]

Ever since I got Black Ops II every day has been like that.
The last CoD I played was CoD4 MW, I remember being quite good at it, that was on the Xbox 360, since then I've switched to PC. And I don't know what it is, CoD just seems impossible for me on PC, I can't aim for shit despite being slightly above average in shooters other than CoD, No matter how much I play, I'm not improving at all. And that's not even mentioning the fact how everyone uses overpowered weapons. but that's for another discussion.

 

[ensouls]

I breezed through most of Shadow of the Colossus, and then yesterday, when I tried the last one, I absolutely could not beat it. It just refused to jump half the time, and then I got angry and started falling constantly and swearing.

 

[Xannidel]

Earlier today I was playing Smite and somehow I got into the same game and same team as a friend in TS3 so we went Wukong/Guan Yu lane (I was Wukong). SADLY I have not played Wukong in a week or so, so let's just say that our lane fed pretty hard. My team went NUTS calling me wonderful names telling me to uninstall ect ect. To be honest I never liked ranked because it has no real point at the moment. I am just happy I had fun with my friend regardless to that game being the first ranked match I lost.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

I find that once I get angry with a game, I then start making stupid mistakes, which causes me to get angrier and more frustrated and so on. With most games this doesn't happen a lot, but COD's multi-player has a habit of repeatedly throwing you into matches where there's nothing you can do but get dicked over repeatedly until you lose your shit.

You know the ones. The ones where you spawn directly under missile strikes, or where you spawn in open ground and get shot before you can even make it to cover. In fact, think the COD spawning system is probably responsible for more angry rants than any other bullshit in any game. Not even Dark Souls can generate nearly as much ire. Plus there are occasional games of it where my aim or tactics genuinely do go to shit before I get angry too...

 

[dimensional]

Sort of but its usually games rather than days or I should say matches, just got off playing SF X Tekken online (got it real cheap) with some dood whos about my skill level (poor) and for the life of me I could not do a super move which is pretty bad as my whole game plan revolves around connecting them that lost me more than a few matches I really dont know what was wrong with me I could do the motion fine and get the other moves but do that specific move for either character absolutely no chance it seems. Thank god my fundamentals didnt totally desert me or I would have been screwed forget combos just do simple attack, jeez I was playing crap most games.

Tried it offline and I can do exactly what I want 90% of the time the internet ate my inputs its the only logical explanation.

 

[Altorin]

happens a lot when i play fighting games. I just won't get any of the rhythms, or my opponent will just hit impossible timings, and I'll just suck upon suck.

At that point I stop playing, heh

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

All the time. Sometimes, I just can't get into my BlazBlue groove, y'know? Messing up my timing just because I'm having a bad day really sucks.

 

[kasperbbs]

A week ago i was playing NFS most wanted and i kept failing most of the tracks or at least taking 2nd or 3rd place after multiple tries and then a 'boss fight' came up and i failed it at least 20 times, i don't know if i just suck at it or what was the problem, but i just couldn't win, it seemed like no matter how good or fast i drive that bastard is always faster and the cops seemed to ignore him, probably they were too busy knocking me off the road, and often while i'm ahead and near the finish line.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Yeah... usually with shooters...

Granted, being colour-blind just does not help me (most times I play either MP or SP, I will TK a lot), so it's actually the other way around. Sometimes, I'll have a blinding few rounds of kicking so much ass my boots would be covered in pre-shit... -_-

But not often...

 

[lacktheknack]

There's a DLC pack for Batman: Arkham City where you have to score a million points in an arena fight.

It took me six hours with Catwoman.

SIX. HOURS.

The day before, I'd done it with Batman in twenty minutes.