Are you actually good at gaming?

[Kiju]

Gaming in general? I'm pretty decent.

However I'm stubborn and refuse to use those weapons/characters/tactics regarded as "the best". i.e. I like thinking out of the box and making my own way through the game rather than being like everyone else. I usually end up doing fairly well for myself despite this handicap.

But my main skill are with the following: Ace Combat (multiplayer), Robotech, and Phantom Crash. In those games, I'm damn near unstoppable.

 

[tyranic nero]

You put me in a racer i will beat most people. except Mario Kart never was that good at that.

that being said i am a a team player on most FPS Multiplayer but solo i am truly dreadful.

 

[Jodah]

There are three things I excel above most people at. Shooting firearms (rifle, shotgun, or handgun), troubleshooting computers, and video games. Thats not to say I am the best, or even in the top 10%. However, I am better than the average jerk.

My old man watches me game sometimes and hes still amazed at the hand eye coordination even an average gamer has much less a good gamer.

 

[Wolfwind]

Offline, yeah, I think I'm pretty good at them. I can beat most games on their hardest difficulties. Especially the more I enjoy the game in question. I'm not amazing at them though, there'll usually be bottlenecks where I get stuck for a bit, but I do alright.

Online, I'm pretty average. I'm good enough that I can break even against or beat your average or casual player who's not dedicated to a single game or genre without putting in much practice in myself, but I'll usually get beaten by the more dedicated players who've put in the time and commitment.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well I have been gaming since I was 3 so I have been doing it for slightly more than 16 years now and I like to think I am good at basically every game genre I have played(all - sport and racing games bar Tony Hawk and Snowboarding type games). I can finish any game I have on the hardest setting although obviously in stuff like Halo on hardest I will die a bit but I get it done(takes me about 1/2 an hour to 3/4 hour per mission on Halo 3 Legendary to give you an idea on how often I'd die. While on Normal I finished the game in under 3hours).

Although Fighting games against other players I am not that good or I assume I am not given I do not play them online and while I do not have a good KDR overall in most shooters I always tend to be at least mid table on my team(usually higher) more or less every game.

 

[LilithSlave]

Eh, probably not as I play games for fun instead of challenge.

I don't have a competitive nature at all.

 

[Vrach]

So so. Frankly, there are a lot better gamers out there than me and heck, even some non-gamers can kick my arse at certain games. Going by genres:

It's hard to tell whether one's good at something like RPGs. Morrowind/Oblivion I kicked arse, but then, I'm pretty sure the game's designed for it. Dragon Age: Origins I played through on Normal, found it remarkably easy after a while, but that's likely cause I stacked Mages (3+warrior tank). I played ME2 on some higher difficulty but couldn't tell you exactly which one, I was aiming for the highest, but I might've tuned it down to the one below. But yeah, I reckon I'm above average at RPGs.

Third person shooters I'm generally great at, at least the singleplayer. Likely has something to do with the fact they're (well, the ones I play) mostly stealth games or at least have stealth elements and that's definitely my forte and my preferred style of play - I like having the time to think and plan.

FPS... Well, I played CoD on the highest difficulty. Bit of a pita getting pwned now and again by ridiculous difficulty, but mostly managed through it fine. Multiplayer... I was relatively decent at Counter Strike back when I played it, but nothing special (I suck arse now), never really played CoD online (once, for some 5 minutes, when it was a free Steam weekend but I got bored, not my kind of game). Battlefield was always my (FPS) game and I do pretty well at it with most roles, particularly vehicles (further particularly air vehicles, whether doing transport, assault or both), but I also do just fine with infantry as well, mostly playing snipers and engineers as I enjoy support, but I play Medics and to a slightly lesser extent, Assault as well.

RTSs I'm generally not good at. Could be just lack of my love for the genre, I do enjoy it on a level, but never really played it much. C&C Generals: Zero Hour I fire up with some mates now and again at LAN parties, but I'm awful if I need to be alone. With a team mate? Gimme a bit of protection and you'll have a pile of Auroras ready to blast the hell out of whatever you need as well as a pretty good protection. So all around, I'm a decent support, but I wouldn't survive 5 minutes with guys who played any RTS regularly. As for TBSs, I like Civilization and TW: Rome, but can't really say I was ever especially great at them.

MMOs... Long story short, I'm good at them. I've got pretty decent organizational skills (that mostly really come down to dedication), so I usually move up as well and end up leading the others and have no trouble playing my role to the max while doing it.

 

[Dreiko_v1legacy]

You tell me:

Spoiler

(no FPSs shown, don't worry ^^)

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK You're awesome with Bang!!! Plus his theme song playing only makes it more badass.

I MUST CHALLENGE YOU WITH HAKUMEN!!

If you're up for an online fight anytime soon.

You think a real man ever walks away from a challenge!?

Pick a place and time...and another place for your casket.

(as you can see, my PSN is dreikoo, send a Frequest whenever you want )

Alright then. I'll send you a request when I get a chance. Plus I plan on putting this on my youtube channel as well .
Thanks to you I can progress with my BlazBlue LPs

LPs?

Anyways, be aware of furinkazan, it's music is your funeral song, comebacks are possible again and again, that is what it means to be a man!

Sorry LPs mean Let's Plays

Ah, ok, the only LP I know is the lumbar puncture. *watches too much House*

 

[William Dickbringer]

apparently I'm bad compared to friends I'm always last in the games

 

[kickyourass]

Aside from ultra realistic racers like the Forza series (They might as well give you an actually license if you can figure some of those games out) and sports titles which I just refuse to play, I'd say yes I'm pretty good. I'm not great or anything but it's been a long time since I was forced down to the easy setting.

 

[SckizoBoy]

In general, I'm an OK gamer, which is pretty good since I didn't really get into gaming until something like 2002-3 (or thereabouts, but please note, I was 16 at the time).

I never really invest all that much time in gaming, so I can honestly say that I major league suck at god-games (just don't play them enough to get them), I'm competent at shooters (give me six hours to analyse a map and I will be able to advise people on how to pwn, but can't pwn myself, because my twitch reflex is rubbish), I'm iffy with pure-RTS's (once it goes to hard mode, I'm ended or even normal, depending on the game), and I'm a dab hand at WRPG's. However, the TBS/RTT system, I'm good at (Total War etc. 'cos I love me my military history). All other genres: don't play 'em at all.

 

[Rikkano]

Somewhat below average I'd suppose, thats why I mainly stick to single-player games and take my time.

 

[JasonKaotic]

I'm fairly good at single player games (I've been playing them nearly my whole life, after all), but you most likely will beat me at any kind of multiplayer. Although I've gotten a bit better at Black Ops, but I don't play it much so that fact will probably disappear soon.

 

[PatrickXD]

I like to think I'm a good gamer. My K/D on Blops is 1.5 or so, and I make a point of using guns such as the Kiparis or the ASP just to show it isn't the gun that gets my kills.
I've never seen a game that I couldn't beat and I play all genres.
There is one skeleton in my closet however.
One dark secret...
I suck balls at RTS games like Company of Heroes or Warhammer. Seriously, I can't do a skirmish on the easiest setting, let alone the first proper missions.
Also I Wanna Be The Guy is enough to bring any mortal man to tears.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Yeah. At the Risk of sounding like an ass, I'm quite good.

 

[theriddlen]

Yep, I could be a pro if I'd want to. The profit of getting the first computer at the age of three.

 

[Soulpunch]

If its not Racing/Fps games, i can be pretty good. But i can never seem to do good at Racing, or FPS games

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

I'm rubbish at most games. Especially competetive games. As I've grown older, I simply do not have the same reaction times I did in my youth. Now when I was in my 20s, I was a Street Fighter veteran, even did respectably in a few local tourneys though nothing with the clout of an EVO or anything. But still, respectable.

Even when I was good at fighters though, I was never what most would call great. I never speed ran Mega Man or held a leaderboard place above the 200s. But as with all of us, I have some games I'm better at than others. I was particularly good at the Batman: Arkam Asylum Challenge Rooms, scoring respectable places on all the combat challenge maps, though consistently less on the stealth challenges because as fun as those are, I didn't like having to pull off certain moves when I could come up with my own plan for taking down the bads. Combat though, I don't have a score that placed below the 4000 mark and some as high as in the 200s, which among a group of over 60,000 I was pretty proud of.

 

[Navvan]

Yes and no. Some games I'm good at while others I'm horrible with. Even within the same genre I can be good and bad at a game. For example, I'm typically good at puzzles, RTS, or just plan strategy games. However if I'm unfamiliar with the games mechanics I will still get stuck/crushed/ect.

The opposite happens as well. I'm typically poor at shooters and platformers. Yet I was rather good at Halo and Mario when I played them when I was younger.

Any competitive game? I'm good if I bother to learn the ins and outs and practice. Just like everyone else. I can say that if me and a friend pick up a game and are both playing it for the first time I generally do better.

 

[Freddyqaqualung]

I think my abilities range from average to pretty good. In COD I think I'm better than the average player (interpret that as you will) and I beat ME2 on the hardest difficulty to get the platinum trophy for the game. I'm horrible at most games like Starcraft even though I freaking love it. And I've beaten a very wide variety of games, so I like to think I do just fine.