Are you actually good at gaming?

[Delsana]

I'm 21 and I've been gaming since I was 6. I have the Crest of Hyrule tattooed on my back and I donno where I'd be without games. However, that doesn't mean I'm a particularly good gamer.
I've played through Mass Effect 2 several times on normal difficulty, but on hardcore? No no no no. Y'know the part, half way through, where you make your way into the supposedly dead Reaper and get ambushed by a load of Collectors on platforms? Can't do it, nope, not a chance.

My point is, for all of the love you have for games, are you actually good at Halo, DIRT, CoD, God Of War or Portal?
Sure, we all have our strengths. For example, it's a scientific fact that I am unbeatable at Crash Team Racing, but I am rubbish at almost all first and third person shooters, even though I play them quite a lot.

So, gamers, what games do you suck at, even if you love them and play them often?

Yeah, I'm good at Halo, though I hate multiplayer, but while legendary on Halo Xbox took FOREVER to complete (and Halo 2 on the Xbox and then on the Vista PC took EVEN LONGER (stupid dual plasma rifles in the first level) it eventually became a routine to go through.

I'm not bad at multiplayer, but I don't like it.

At Gears of War? Not all that good, tactics are different and while the SP on max difficulty isn't too tough for me, I just don't like the multiplayer to even one degree as I don't think it's balanced and "cheap tactics" are all over the place.

At RPG's? I don't usually play higher difficulties on PC or anything though I may have on Dragon Age at some point.

Deus Ex? Did that on the highest difficulty on the PC, not that hard.

Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2 I've definitely gone through on the highest difficulty (or was it just ME 1 that I did insane on? I'm not sure, I've had the 360 version for quite a few years.

So yeah... I'm good at games... but I play for story and hate multiplayer.

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

Give me a free-roaming Spider-Man game and I'll make him dance in the air, I'm great at web swinging.

 

[Sir Prize]

I'm good with anything involving stealth and exploration...
Not with FPS's or beat'em-ups.

 

[HT_Black]

I play pretty much game I have on the hard setting the first time around, because otherwise it's just too easy; and I cut off the first game of Halo I had played in over a year when I realized my score was more than 4 times my friend's.

I think yes.

 

[Madara XIII]

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

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I have been playing since I was two. My first words were "pickle pickle" mimicking the pause sound from Super Mario Bros. All Stars.

I fucking suck at games.

I can't even think of any specific games. Literally, every game I play I just blow chodes at. I have absolutely no idea why I still do it.
Aside from masochism, I mean.

 

[scorptatious]

I would say I am average. I can stumble through single player games just fine. And if there is some kind of end of level rank or grade system (like Valyria Chronicles) or end of game ranking system(like Metal Gear Solid) I could probably get perfect through enough trial and error. Most of the time though, I tend not to bother with it.

As for multiplayer games, (like Halo or Team Fortress 2) how good I do seems to depend on luck. Either I kick ass when I'm on a good team, or get completely annihilated on a bad team. Or sometimes even vice versa.

 

[Yureina]

I've been playing games all my life, yet... I wouldn't say i'm "Great" at them. At best, I am "good" or at least "competent". That's when it comes to multiplayer, at least. Single-player on the other hand... well my breakneck speeds of beating games speak for themselves. I routinely beat games within a day or two, even large RPG's.

 

[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!

 

[scar_47]

I think so I've beaten most of my games on the hardest difficulty, I usually go for the higher difficulties when starting a new game, and I do pretty well in online games compared to most of the people I've seen. You've got to have some level of skill to get the big boss rank in a metal gear solid game you've got to beat the game on the hardest difficulty without killing anyone or being spotted all in under 5 hours let me tell you although not easy not nearly as bad as I thought it would be.

 

[Madara XIII]

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

 

[Rossmallo]

I'm godlike with Metroid, Castlevania and Oblivion, relatively good with Runescape, and bad-but-dont-care with most other games.

 

[Hamish Durie]

23/2/12 average score in most mulitiplayer deathmatches or LoL
yeah i'm good at a game if I like it

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I've been gaming since I was about 6 or 7, and I would never claim to be a master by any stretch of the imagination. In fact usually when I go up against another human player I usually get my ass handed to me, but I think I do alright.

 

[Atobe-sama]

The first question should be whether your sense of what constitutes a "good" gamer considers only multiplayer, because it is entirely possible to be good without winning, without being the best. As for any single player game, shouldn't it be good enough to have gotten through it? Are you not good at it then?

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Been playing driving sims for a while, managed to complete GT4 to 97%. Got one of the top 20 scores in drifting in NFS: Carbon, but I don't know how official that list was. The score was pretty off the charts though. However, I don't try all that hard in modern driving games as much as I love them, just don't have the time. Now I'm happy to play on the next difficulty after normal, with flashbacks. Like to turn off all the driving assists though, love wrestling the car and being all delicate with it, without ABS, traction, throttle cut or whatever.

For shooting, I used to keep a pretty decent score in CS, but nowadays I just play singleplayer on Hard, whatever that is (usually the one between Insane and Normal). I've finished all the R6:Vegas2 terrorist hunts on Realistic, with a pistol, if that counts for anything. And I've mastered a few older Rainbow 6 games, might not mean much to some people here but looking back on how stupidly hard they were (talking about Raven Shield) I'm quite proud of it now.

All these action/RPG hybrid games are a bit too easy nowadays, (Mass Effect, Borderlands, Oblivion, Fallout3/NV) I don't know why I don't see a challenge in any of them, except maybe DA:O, but that's more RPG than action still. Still like the process of figuring out the games mechanics, that's where the value is in for me, and the stories are great.

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

Back when I was in highschool I was a competitive gamer. Now I'm just bad at almost everything I play; no time to hone in on any one genre and too many games in my library. I don't care though, I still have my fun.

 

[xsoenx]

im a pretty good platform gamer (altough i have never beaten Rayman 1) but im pretty good to learn patterns and enemies weaknies.
FPS im decent, i beat AVP 2010 on Nightmare and DOOM 1 and 2 on the second hardest diff.
RTS im okay on easy and medium but hard is nor my cup of tea (im still trying to beat RA3 on hard)
i suck at Racing... Moving on
JRPG i can really beat with no effort unless i don´t like the game.
so here is a pic of me

 

[Stammer]

I'm awful at virtually every game I play. The only games I have any hope of playing well are the Smash Bros games. And even then I came in 4th in a Brawl tournament a month ago.

I'm pretty sure I was supposed to be a jock (I was always good at sports), but my skin disease kinda prevented me from ever becoming hardcore into them.

 

[Kekkles]

Yes and No, I'm terrible at Multiplayer FPS. Just no good at all! But things like RPG, Puzzle, Platform, RTS and so on I can say I'm pretty good. Logic I'm good with but pinpoint accuracy I'm useless and mostly careless. Although I did PWN at Borderlands