What games are you good or bad at?

[hooliganyouth]

Was just reading about the new "Project Gotham Racing" game and said to myself, "Huh, that sounds pretty cool...too bad I suck at racing games." Then I got to thinking what am I go or bad at, I wonder what other people are good or bad at...

Good:
Squad based tactical 3rd person shooters.
3rd person crime games.
Turn based tactical/conquer/diplomacy.
FPS.
RPGs.
Action/shooters w/some platform elements.
Puzzle/detection games.
Survival horror.
Baseball on Rookie - slowly improving as I play through the season.
Burnout on Takedown mode.
The arcade fighter - "Universal Fighter"? Y'know - the with punk rock guy with a chainsaw - you could dismember your opponents. Great fun.
Space combat games - i.e. "Star Fox", "Wing Commander", "TIE Fighter".

Bad:
Any sports game that isn't Baseball on Rookie.
Technically accurate racing games...racing games that aren't Burnout on Takedown mode.
Multi-player/online - I still haven't found people I want to play with.
Fighting - any sort Tekken, Soul Caliber, Mortal Combat, Street Fighter.
Hardcore platformers.
Rhythm games - it is horribly shameful how bad I am at rhythm games.

 

[Katana314]

I'm good at FPSes and well-built adventure/puzzle games (unfortunately, so many are badly made and just frustrate the player) I can be good at fighting games after a lot of experience with them.

I'm not so good at racing games...often I can't even tell why I lost. I can never manage enough units in strategy games, and seem to be very slow at building a base while balancing with a military concentration.

I seem to be very good at sniping in CERTAIN games. Surprisingly, I'm good at Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory though everyone jumps around like greased lightning. Maybe the hitboxes are big. But in TF2 and such I just can't make a shot, even on a heavy.

 

[ccesarano]

I'm horrible with strategy games. The only one I can enjoy playing is Master of Orion 2, and even then I have to stick to the easier modes (which sucks because I need a difficulty somewhere between "you suck" and "you don't suck").

I used to be able to adapt to any fighting game in a few rounds, but have since lost that ability.

I'm good at combat shooters, like Gears of War, Halo or Call of Duty. Thinking man's shooters I can either rock at or have bad days. For example, Half-Life 2. I'm either awesome, or I'll play one day and everything goes wrong. Bioshock took me forever until I started using more of my environment and powers to my advantage (pretty much took me to play it on hard mode). Portal took me three hours, which is probably longer than it took plenty of other folks. In the end, though, shooters tend to be the sort of game I'm best at...until you throw in multiplayer.

Overall, I'm pretty much average with games. I only suck at tactical war games, but most other games I can adapt to pretty well and get through fine with little challenge. It's combat shooters that I excel at, though.

 

[gameloftguy]

I'm good at virtually every game type. I'll try and think of ones I'm bad at and get back to you.

 

[Russ Pitts]

I can no longer play an RTS. I used to play them all the time, but now I cannot. I'm ashamed to admit this. As ashamed or more ashamed than I would be at having to admit to requiring Viagra or wearing bifocals. But there it is. My name is Russ, and I can no longer play an RTS to save my life.

 

[Slycne]

Racing and sports tend to be my downfall more then others. Just don't play them enough.

I really want to see someone say RPGs are their hardest games due to a short attention span =P

 

[Lex Darko]

I'm good at pretty much all games. Best in shooters worst in RTS games. RTS games just take me more time to develop a method of play like maybe a 2 hours of exposure and some tips from more experienced players after that it's no problem for me.

The only games I would say I'm bad at are games that require ambiguous gestures for the core gameplay.

 

[oneplus999]

>I really want to see someone say RPGs are their hardest games due to a short attention span =P

i'd be willing to admit to that for turn based rpgs. i would really like to see the end of ffVII for myself someday, but alas after managing to get through a few hours of it, i usually end up formatting my hard drive a year or two later before i can get the inspiration to play it again.

 

[ccesarano]

I can no longer play an RTS. I used to play them all the time, but no I cannot. I'm ashamed to admit this. As ashamed or more ashamed than I would be at having to admit to requiring Viagra or wearing bifocals. But there it is. My name is Russ, and I can no longer play an RTS to save my life.

Does this include games like the Total War series and Ogre Battle 64 (which I do count as an RTS, yes)? Or is it pretty much all the Warcraft clone RTS games?

 

[LyonLee]

I'm fine at FPSes on PCs, but consoles I can never seem to get the hang of.
RTS games I'm alright against a human opponent, but I always get my ass handed to me by the computer.
I love puzzle games. The more complicated the better.
Truthfully, I hate survival/horror games. I have a significant problem with personal failure, and the death of my character just seems intrinsically tied to my value as a gamer. So I tend to avoid them. Add to that the creepy "you're gonna die" vibe the game gives off and I just tend to quit them early.
Fighting games never hooked me since Street Fighter II. I was basically mashing buttons. When I did take the time to learn a move, I'd have to take time to think about it, then remember how to do it, then perform the trick, and "Oh! Look at that! I appear to be dead!"

I really want to see someone say RPGs are their hardest games due to a short attention span =P

I have significant trouble with RPGs that can't hold my intrest for more than a week.
There. You happy?

 

[623S]

Good:
Puzzle (any kind)
Platformers
Strategy (any kind)
Racing games
Some fighting games

Bad:
FPS
RPGs. I SUCK AT THEM SOOOO MUCH.
All sports games.
Some fighting games.

 

[gameloftguy]

I remember one. Tombraider. I found this more due to the fact I was endlessly bored playing the game, not too fond of the lets find the little room off the endless side passages under the secret who has what there now. I found it completely unengaging.

 

[LordLocke]

I'm probably best at fighting games and action/platformers.

While I got big, clumsy hands, not the best suited for the rapid-pressing combo styles of some series, especially on a pad (Guilty Gear, Dead or Alive), I'm pretty good on the reaction end, and can read opponents pretty good. With practice comes the consistency needed to get everything else to work- even if whenever I start on a new fighter, I'm reduced to pokes and short obvious combo strings. Not surprisingly, I find I probably do best in the Street Fighter titles and Virtua Fighter.

On the other hand, I'm pretty good at learning and breaking apart action-platformers rather quickly. In fact, a lot of games which use navigation as the primary source of opposition I tend to plow right through- none of the Mario titles have ever been more then a speedbump for me difficulty wise, and more recently I blew through Portal in about 90 minutes on my first run. Combat-based action titles don't tax me that much harder, although I've found that if one absolutely requires you to use and abuse a blocking action in order to stay alive (so far, Ninja Gaiden's the only one that's REALLY punished me for not being a blocker), it'll take me a little longer to catch on then if I can get away with mobile attacking (Either by dodge-then-hit or by using attacks that keep me mobile)

 

[Russ Pitts]

I can no longer play an RTS. I used to play them all the time, but no I cannot. I'm ashamed to admit this. As ashamed or more ashamed than I would be at having to admit to requiring Viagra or wearing bifocals. But there it is. My name is Russ, and I can no longer play an RTS to save my life.

Does this include games like the Total War series and Ogre Battle 64 (which I do count as an RTS, yes)? Or is it pretty much all the Warcraft clone RTS games?

Yes. Why must you force me to wallow in my shame?

 

[LisaB1138]

I'm not good at any game that requires deft analog control like shooters or racing. No matter how light a touch I try to have, it's always too much.

I'm good at 3rd person action/adventure/horror.

 

[GrandBoy]

Good:
FPS Game's (1st and 3rd but im better at 3rd in my opinion)
RPG's
MMORPG's
Action/Adventure
Turn Based Strat's + RTS
Time Crisis (I often break records on that game when on holiday =))
2d shooters (such as Gradius, R-type etc etc)
Tony Hawk Game's
Bad:
Fighting games of any sort due to the lack of that kind of game in my repetoir (sorry if thats mis-spelt)
Button-Mashing games (im seriously not bad at them, but I get so bored i run off to go slit my wrist's with paper plates)
Football/Soccer game's (On any difficulty above amateur)
Any skating game that isn't skate boarding ; this is mainly due to the fact that , excluding skate, there are NO SKATING GAMES AT ALL which arent branded, endorsed, owned, babyfed and happyslapped by Mr Hawk.

 

[Joe]

Good:
Sports games, FPSes, western RPGs

Bad: Strategy games (much to my chagrin), puzzle games, adventure games, eastern RPGs, pretty much anything that requires patience or some sort of time investment before the fun starts.

I left off MMOGs, mostly because you can't really be bad at something that only requires time or money to excel.

 

[WafflesToo]

Good:
3rd person shooters
RPG
Puzzle
Racing
Decent showing in a Strategy game
Flight-sims (dead genre, I know)

Bad:
1st person shooters (feels like I'm playing with blinders on)

Uber-suckage:
RTS-clones

 

[danimal1384]

Good:
most fighting games (Soul Calibur, Marvel vs Capcom, Capcom vs SNK, Street Fighters, Smash Brothers.)
Naruto: Geki no Ninja Taisen 4 (Clash of the Ninja 4. Gamecube Import)
RGS's (though who the hell can't beat them?)
Most FPS's like Halo and Red Faction and Gears of War, etc.
Platformers like Zelda and Kingdom Hearts and so forth.

Bad:
Sports games (if i wanna play football, i'll find some friends and go outside)
Driving games (if i wanna drive, i'll get in my car)