Am I doing something wrong?

[Acier]

Okay, so I've never really been too lucky with girls, I don't know why, but I always end up being put in the dreaded 'friend-zone'. I'm always really nice and I've been told by a lot of people that I'm a really decent guy, but it's just never worked out. I admit I'm a bit of a nerd, but I don't see why liking video games would make me unattractive. I'm 17 btw.
get it cut.

Alright, blunt but sincere advice inbound.

The friend-zone isn't a real thing. At least not in the sense that you are thinking of it. There is no such thing as a magical time limit where the sexual attraction just turns off and places you squarely in the "friend zone". If she isn't attracted to you sexually, she just isn't. There is no magic about this. And being a "decent guy" doesn't mean a girl wants to date you. That is a good quality in a friend and a boyfriend. But it can't be the only quality that a boyfriend has. Would you really want your girlfriend to just turn to you and say "You're nice and funny. But I have no inking of a physical or sexual attraction to you at all." Also in reverse, there's a girl who's nice and funny but isn't attractive to you. Do you want to go out with her? How do you think she's feel if somehow you started going out and you fed her the line above? Generally speaking, sexual attraction (not necessarily sexual relations) are important to make the relationship special compared to the run of the mill friendship, because without that that's all it is.
You also haven't listed any behaviors but I've noticed a lot of these complaints, and the guy isn't "nice" at all. It's pretty amazing. I won't go into this unless you want me too, because you may actually be nice. But if you want more of this topic just let me know.

Liking video games alone is not a turn off. But do you talk about them constantly in conversations where other people (ex: potential gfs) can't relate? This is bad form in all conversation and can happen with any topic. It's just videogames are easy to learn about but hard to get a fine tuned knowledge. So say a 17 year old can get into them (as opposed to a field that can't be mastered by just going to best buy and purchasing a product) So if you tend to go into minute details about videogames at great length in conversations this can be a problem. And if there's nothing else to your life other than "liking videogames" then get another interest. Seriously. That means you're one dimensional and boring. And no one wants that in a significant other.


God, some of the comments here make me rage.