I used to be sort of lousy at FPS, but I haven't really tried lately, and it's been years.
I'm good at racing games, and I think I'm damn savvy at RPGs. But what makes you good at an RPG? Good with stats, gameplay, battles and BEATING it? Anyway, I claim to be good.
I couldn't win a match in a fighting game to save my cock. I suppose my best is survival-horror type games. By the end I always have more supplies than I know what to do with and regret not being more carefree along the way.
I should probably add realistic car games and sports games to list of games I play horribly at, but I don't play them enough to care that I'm bad. I'll take Mario Kart over Gran Turismo and Hot Shots Golf over Tiger Woods PGA Tour every time.
I'm great at hoarding items. At the end of the game I'm always loaded with an endless flow of health packs and unused heavy guns, all of which I blast the final boss with. I'm not a stranger to loading up a savefile if I think I can do it better and I'll always use the weakest gun I can get away with using. Also, puzzles and timing difficult jumps.
As a result of my lack of interest in FPS games, I tend to suck at them too when a friend jumps at me with a "duuuude, you have to try this game it's not like that other game I tricked you into playing, seriously!"
Goldeneye is an exception, but only because of the auto-aim and because I know where every enemy is placed on most levels.
I'm good at anything I put in enough time into. For example, I have put in over 200 hours into Wipeout HD since it was released so I'd class myself as somewhat of a god with that game now.
On the other hand I was playing a member here at some Tekken 6 recently and was getting absolutely destroyed. Which is quite sad considering I used to be quite decent at Tekken when 3 was released.
Best:
Flight games, HAWX in particular
Guitar Hero
Worst:
Race and sports games. I don't own any of these myself which causes massive defeats everytime I play it with some friends.
I'm not that great at anything, but so long as I'm entertained, I'm happy. I enjoy making fun of my lack of skill in various ways, such as "playing the decoy" in FPS team games. "Hey guys, watch me, I'll go out and run around a lot and you guys can shoot them while they try to shoot me!"
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
streme Wheelie
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I'm pretty average at most things. I have probably only excelled at the original Tekken and Halo 2/3 in my time.
Racing games, both novelty and realistic were never my thing, and most fighting games have combos that I can never remember. But I still enjoy giving everything a go.
EDIT: I'm BoB, but sometimes I get lucky as the decoy?
To be fair, I've on occasion been pretty lucky/good enough to top the rankings in various different games, be they RTS, TBS, FPS, racing, kart and even (shockingly) on occasion I'll mash the buttons in exactly the right way in a fighter game and beat some far better players. Those are obviously great times. The amount of times I heard/read someone say "wtf dude that was amazing" when I did something crazy and somehow pulled it off to make it look incredible... well, if you play crazy style then eventually you'll look crazy good at least once, I suppose.
Bow before the mighty Javoo!
This is incredibly satisfying to do. I used to do that a lot in the original Call of Duty when playing Retrieval: If I didn't have the radio and it was just two if us, I would gladly run out there and lay down my life so my teammate could get back to the base and win for us.Originally Posted by Loony BoB
Boy am I an unfunny ass.
Haha, this gave me a good laugh. I see you type of guys the odd time using this strategy, & it can prove so useful in tough matches. I just wish more & more people would have this attitude in FPS because almost everyone plays for themselves rather than helping the team. In MW2, my first killstreak is UAV for my team, while many would skip it for the nuke which is extremely uncommon to get and kills even your own team-mates for example.
And Dreddz, you are a freak at Wipeout HD.
Str8 Pimpin'
I'm great at old-school RPG's, rythm games, and fighting games.
I suck at racing and shooter games. And I hate them too.
I don't know if I would actually be considered good at any games to be honest. I mostly play for the story/characters rather than the gameplay itself, and so once I've completed the story I don't get anywhere near as much enjoyment out of games.
Having said that I was pretty heavily into Counterstrike back in its glory days and I suppose I wouldn't be stretching the truth too much to say I was good at that game, probably had a kill to death ratio of 3:1 or 4:1 most days. Was also in a pretty good clan, we won more games than we lost anyway. Haven't played in about 4 years now though so I'm sure I've lost any skill I had. Same with DoD and TFC, those three Half Life mods were central to my teenage online gaming days. Good times.
I'm also fairly decent at TBS games, which I prefer massively over RTS games because I can't handle the stress of having to do things quickly with little time to think. In turn based I can take things as slow as I want and carefully plan my moves.
I was pretty good at Soul Calibur 2, but I haven't put in the same committment to 3 and 4, though I still like to think I can handle myself well enough with them too. Also, SC2 was just much easier. All the characters had relatively simpler inputs and mix-ups back then compared to now (Ivy is much harder to master, ditto Raphael and Talim). You could quite easily justify the idea that a lot more people were really good at SC2 than 3 and 4, so it's not really a big achievement. But I loved the game. I've had interest in other fighters, but the only other one I'd consider myself better than average at is Tekken.
As a bit of an arcade junkie back in those high school years, I was also decent at DDR, Pump It Up! and Drum Mania. Not spectucularly good, but good enough to get crowds standing around watching me (keep in mind that this was when these games were new and still somewhat cool xD). I also played a lot of Initial D ver. 3, but still about 8-10 seconds off the world record times posted online on every track. I could beat the average player quite easily though.
I'm awful at FPS, RTS, simulation racing and action hack-and-slash, which is a shame because I quite like some of the games each of those genre offers.
Well...I think I'm pretty damn good at RO. But my item hunting in that game sucks...so it's a & b.
Halo3 I'm hit & miss. Sometimes I wreck kids, and others I get stomped on. Swahh...
Mostly RPGs I kick ass at, and Action/Adventure, like Assassins Creed
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