Things you are good at in games, but (probably) not in real life.

[The Last Nomad]

Is there anything you particularly excel at in video games that you are not very good at in real life outside games?
Don't be afraid to sound big headed, kinda necessary to boast for an answer here.

For me, its probably flying planes. I generally find flight to be very easy in games. almost all games with flight in them I pick up very fast and soon I am flying close to buildings/terrain at breakneck speed, with some little tricks thrown in for good measure. This particularly applies to planes in sandbox games like GTA or Just Cause 2 and the like, but I'm pretty good at flight simulators and other modes of flight like the jetpack in Dark Void or whatever.
However, I can only assume that flying a real plane would be way more difficult and I'd be rubbish at it.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Well, in games I can take a bullet to the chest and literally walk it off.

Tried that in real life. Didn't work out.

 

[Luca72]

In Mirrors Edge I can jump the hell off a crane and onto a building over a thousand foot drop. Haven't tried that particular stunt in real life, but based on how much better I can wallrun in Mirror's Edge than in real life, I'm guess it wouldn't go very well.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Jynthor]

Romance people.
In real life the girls run away in terror. The games lied to me.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Freerunning.

Even at my most athletic, I'm not very acrobatic. Jumps and flips I can not do. Hope to change that in the future, but as far as I know, it takes some legitimate training from an outside party to gain such abilities given the lack of talent.

 

[Scrustle]

In Forza I can do this:


In real life I haven't got my license yet.

 

[The Wykydtron]

Anything speech related. Thanks to a certain someone I have learned how to figure out the optimal dialogue routes to successfully talk my way out of anything! When the game stops forcing me to shoot shit over and over anyway. This is why I like Visual Novel type stuff. Unlucky they don't get released outside Japan 99% of the time.

Definitely doesn't translate that well into RL though, for the most part at least...

Oh and I can't eat 50 cheese wheels in 2 seconds then continue fighting a Dragon IRL either. Shame.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

I'm really good at using weapons (specifically swords) and driving vehicles (like tanks or planes) in games, but I require a lot of training to be proficient with any bladed weapon and to drive a tank or plane.

 

[Powereaver]

Controlling Monsters, i dont think ill ever be able to perform this feat of having monsters doing my bidding

 

[loudestmute]

Long-distance shooting. I'm horribly nearsighted and have little real-world experience with firearms of any sorts.

Being stealthy. I've knocked over stacks of jewel cases with my heavy footfalls, and the problem only gets more pronounced when I try to disguise them in any form.

Honorable mention goes to driving stunts, although there was one odd incident where driving on a snowy road caused me to do a perfect 180-turn into the other lane, speeding away before I could get rear ended by an approaching motorist who was just as dumbfounded by what happened as I was.

 

[soren7550]

Pretty much everything. Driving, fighting, wielding weapons, shooting, making stuff, getting stuff done, knowing how to get from one place to another, flying, making choices, talking to people, saving the world, saving everything else, making friends/allies, etc.

[insert Forever Alone here]

 

[Master_Archer53]

archery my fav voc in rpgs, but im not that good in rl. I tried only at camp, its fun but i suck.

 

[burningdragoon]

In real life I can't go anywhere nearly as long without eating or going to the bathroom.

 

[krazykidd]

Being an asshole . In games like ME i am always a dick . But in real life i wouldn't hurt a fly . Real life sucks.

 

[Eddie the head]

"This has been scenes form a hat everybody." What I can't be the only one who thought that.

 

[Zantos]

Hitting things with giant arse metal objects. Across all sorts of tabletop and computer RPGs I'm an expert with swords, axes, maces, hammers, the whole shebang, the bigger the better. In real life, assuming I'm strong enough to even lift them, I'd probably do more damage to myself than anything around me.

 

[Rawne1980]

Fighting Dragons.

Pretty sure if a real life fire breathing Dragon was to pop up infront of me i'd be cooked with a capital F.