Games that make you ask yourself "Why can't i get better?"

[krazykidd]

Have you ever played a game you enjoyed playing even though you suck at it? Just when you thought you were half decent you got a reality check making you realise how bad you actually are? Have you ever practiced a a game a realised your skills have reached the highest it probably ever will be and you can't seem to get better at it no matter how much you try? What games have made you come to that realisation?

I post this right after a losing streak of Umvc3 . I realised that i simply cannot get any better at this game and i suck at it . Some days i play better than others , but regardless i don't seem to be getting any better no matter how hard i try . I am nowhere near the level i wish i would be despite having poored countless hours into the game . It's frustrating and quite frankly depressing . I was thinking about attending a local fightinggame tournament this summer , but now i am havig doubts , i don't wanna be THAT guy . The guy that goes to these things thinkig hes good and gettig annihalated b everyone else . Don't get me wrong i love this game and i have been playing religiously for about 5 months and i don't intend to stop . But i am seriously discouraged by my lack of skill and understanding of this game .

Another game this happened to me was resonance of fate . This is a game i could not fet my head around ( it's a single player game) and although i found it fun , i just sucked so much i just stopped playing . When shit like this happens it makes me feel so bad , and ashamed to call myself a gamer . And don't get me started on MW2 , that is one game that when i played ( online ) i just sucked so hard i actually felt bad for the team i was playing for despite having played the game for about a year .

So escapists have you ever been in this situation ? And with what game

 

[Dansen]

UMVC 3 is a ruthless game, tried making a new team after realizing my Nova/Frank West/Skrull team couldn't handle zoning at all, but all my attempts failed. I've come to realize that the only character I will ever be good at using is Super Skrull, and its really annoying because he is godlike anchor with terrible assists. He has trouble getting in and has some of the worst normals in the game. Not to mention that capcom deliberately made all his alternate colors suck.

I really want to learn Dr.Strange, he is just so hard to use because he is so punishable. UMVC 3 is that game that makes me ask myself every time I play it, why do I suck?

 

[Gorilla Gunk]

Uncharted 3, Uncharted 3, aaaaaand... Uncharted 3.

The multiplayer specifically. God it's brutal.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Fighting games are always like that.

I've pretty much hit my talent wall in UMvC3.

Sure, I was High Lord in the vanilla game and I'm currently a 2nd Lord in Ultimate, but as far as my technical prowess is concerned, I just can't get better.

I could always improve my movement game, since I tend to rushdown quite recklessly sometimes, which is never a good thing to do with Vergil since his normals have about 10 minutes of recovery frames.

 

[him over there]

God Hand

That game is one serious son of a *****, and spamming back flips makes me feel terrible. I mean I usually scrape through encounters just barely and I'm doomed if there is a group. I am getting better though, just got to master pressing up on the right stick to dodge people behind me while staying in range of the guy I'm beating to death, that's about all I need to suddenly climb up the fucking 90 degree shift in the learning curve.

 

[krazykidd]

Fighting games are always like that.

I've pretty much hit my talent wall in UMvC3.

Sure, I was High Lord in the vanilla game and I'm currently a 2nd Lord in Ultimate, but as far as my technical prowess is concerned, I just can't get better.

I could always improve my movement game, since I tend to rushdown quite recklessly sometimes, which is never a good thing to do with Vergil since his normals have about 10 minutes of recovery frames.

Ha , i don't think it counts if you are actually that good at the game. I mean to reach that rank you do need a pretty high talent . And/or wesker . But then again i guess your talent wall is pretty high . Lucky

 

[Daystar Clarion]

Fighting games are always like that.

I've pretty much hit my talent wall in UMvC3.

Sure, I was High Lord in the vanilla game and I'm currently a 2nd Lord in Ultimate, but as far as my technical prowess is concerned, I just can't get better.

I could always improve my movement game, since I tend to rushdown quite recklessly sometimes, which is never a good thing to do with Vergil since his normals have about 10 minutes of recovery frames.

Ha , i don't think it counts if you are actually that good at the game. I mean to reach that rank you do need a pretty high talent . And/or wesker . But then again i guess your talent wall is pretty high . Lucky

Well I identify two types of talent when it comes to fighting games.

There's technical prowess and tactical prowess.

I'm not a very technical player, my UMvC3 team is X-23/Vergil/Ammy, while my combos aren't difficult by any stretch of the imagination, I can get around the field easily, open up my opponents and defend. My X-23 combos aren't great, but I can get that girl around the field like nobody's business and get that touch I need to combo off of. Vergil has a huge amount of reach, so being aware of my positioning, I can attack the enemy from a safe distance and set up my blockstrings in such a way that doesn't leave me wide open. And Ammy?

Well Ammy's just fucking god tier

 

[Zhukov]

Most strategy games.

I enjoy them, but God damn I am crap at them.

 

[Racecarlock]

The Street Fighter 2 demo. I can beat up guile, but the AI ryu has instant reactions to everything even on minimum difficulty, and he spams hadouken like a *****. I mean, fuck, why doesn't the game hand the guy a machine gun while it's at it? It would still be about as fair as it is now. Minimum difficulty and I still end up yelling at my TV. I mean, fuck.

 

[SageRuffin]

U/MvC3 has a certain degree of randomness in it. That's why I stopped playing, not to mention that team synergy can pretty much make or break a player. That was my main problem back in "1st Edition" (you know, "vanilla" MvC3): the characters I liked to use didn't really work together (well... Spidey and Shulkie can do some nasty resets, but god damn are those hard to pull off).

Everything else, not really. Just certain fighting games.

 

[Limecake]

I just started playing league of legends about 2 weeks ago, I never played DotA so this was a new experience for me.

Needless to say I suck pretty bad with every hero except Morgana, and even then it's pretty hit or miss.

That plus every strategy/flight simulator ever (I can't even fly BF3 jets properly)

 

[Fleetfiend]

Most fighting games, RTSs, Gears of War multiplayer, and sometimes Monster Hunter.

With fighting games, I usually play them thoroughly offline before I even touch online multiplayer. And by the time I do, I usually feel like the best player out there. I find out VERY quickly that I am very, very mistaken.

Haha I AM still second best at Soul Calibur at my school though, and that makes me happy enough.

 

[Finbark]

I'm gonna go with Soul Calibur. I spend hours learning combos and different techniques, then a friend or my brother comes in and button mashes his way into beating me. Though admittedly I think my brother may be playing Soul Calibur 3 at his house and thus improving without me knowing.

Also, Toribash. I used to be good enough at the game to the point where movement was second nature. I took a break for a bout 8 months, came back, and found out I was retarded at it again.

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

Super Street Fighter 4: Etcetera Edition. I decided I wanted to learn how to play fighting games properly. So, I started out with Street Fighter 4. Got it in a Steam sale, and away I went. Couldn't even do hadoukens on command every time. Even now, sometimes I still just punch the air...

Then, I moved on to SSF4: Arcade Edition shortly after it launched on PC. I got a tatsunoko vs capcom fightstick as well. 50 hours in SS4, and 150 hours in SS4:AE, I'm still rubbish. I've only completed one character's set of trials, Guy. His seem much easier than other characters. The only people I beat online are those who don't understand the basics of fighting games, such as you have to stand block to guard jump ins and overheads. I can't land any combo that's more than two hits consistently. Even in training it's very hit and miss. I can do a basic special FADC into ultra combo in training mode once in 30 tries. Never done it in a real match.

To get better... I don't know. I don't think I can; I've reached my limit. I think I would literally have to do drills everyday to get better. But, that's work, not play. No thanks.

 

[loc978]

Nope... I tend to blame the controls and not have fun in any scenario even close to that. The only games I could be considered "not even decent" at would be ones I didn't have fun with and gave up on quite quickly. Any game that makes me feel like I'm fighting the controls or the protagonist, not the enemies of the protagonist, is one I put down almost immediately... which is why I flatly refuse to play any first-or-third person shooter on a console.

 

[TheKruzdawg]

Racing games. Although I'm not a huge fan of them, a lot of my friends are. So every now and then I'll be duped into playing a vs. match against one of them and get destroyed. I've tried playing in the solo modes to improve my driving skill but I am almost universally terrible at them.

I take that back. I'm okay at Mario Kart. But all the more realistic racing games, like Need for Speed or Gran Turismo? I'm horrible. No matter how hard I try, I usually can't go more than 30 seconds without running into something.

Sadly this lack of driving skill also translates into games like GTA. Give me 1 minute with a brand new vehicle and I can almost guarantee it will be trashed. And (usually) not because I trashed it on purpose. I for some reason can't avoid hitting things like other cars, light posts, traffic lights, fire hydrants, trees, everything, etc. This has become something of a running joke between my cousin and I.

 

[neonsword13-ops]

Uncharted 3, Uncharted 3, aaaaaand... Uncharted 3.

The multiplayer specifically. God it's brutal.

I was pretty good a Uncharted 2's multiplayer. Spent almost every afternoon after school playing it. Going into Uncharted 3, I was expecting the multiplayer to be a cake walk because of all my previous experience with 2's multiplayer.

I was sorely mistaken.

Even with my friend to do split-screen, we always end up at the bottom of the scoreboard. We found that the players that always spam grenades and use hip-fire seem to end up on top.

It's a broken system, I tell ya... *Takes another swig of whiskey*

OT: Disgaea.

After the enemies progress past level 10, the game turns into a never-ending hell for me. All grinding that I do in the item world is useless.

 

[Bucky01]

any of the total war games before empire. i loved and conquered on the turn base map but my skill was horrible on the RTS battles, i can just never get the hang of it. my units just wont get into the right formation in time, take forever to get to an ambush location despite running, etc. thankfully with computer auto battles i could still have fun, but once empire changed the mechanics of the world map all fun just went out the window for me.

 

[saluraropicrusa]

i'm only decent at Team Fortress 2, and even then, only any good with Medic and Soldier, and sometimes Pyro. the problem is i'd love to be a good Sniper, i know how satisfying it could be, i'm just... not good at it. i guess i don't react fast enough or my aim isn't good enough, but i just can't seem to get any better at sniping. this goes for other multiplayer games, like playing infiltrator in Mass Effect 3. while i can get by in the campaign, as soon as i'm playing with/against other players i can't seem to land any hits. i just don't understand what i'm doing wrong.

 

[Just_A_Glitch]

When I hit my big losing streak in UMvC3, I stopped playing for awhile. A few months actually (just referenced this in another thread, coincidentally). When I went back to the game, I was inexplicably better. Sometimes you just need some time away from something to reinvigorate yourself.

I could say my game is also UMvC3. I love the game, and love watching the tournament scene, but I just can't get to that level no matter how much I play. My Thor/Nova/Hawkeye team is destined to be mid-level, unfortunately.