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What video game genre are you bad at ?

Marnie

Marnie

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    Do you consider yourself bad at a specific video game genre ? Or maybe it's just you're not comfortable with it ? (Not to be confused with not liking a genre)
    I have a hard time with fighting games and while it's true I don't have enough practice, I always had the feeling it was not for me. I also noticed I'm slighty better in a 3D environment than in a 2D one.
     
    Fighting games, sports games yada yada simply cause I never played them and my interest in them are low

    Also this might suprise half of PC (especially PC members who know me), but I suck at RTS, especially in recent times due to just not keeping up with most other people and I just play more FPS games these days lol
     
    I don't consider myself good at RTS either, sure I've played games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Age of Empires, Starcraft or even Warcraft III but in all honesty my actions per minute sucks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
     
    マリィ (Marnie) said:
    I don't consider myself good at RTS either, sure I've played games like Command & Conquer: Red Alert, Age of Empires, Starcraft or even Warcraft III but in all honesty my actions per minute sucks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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    the fact that I am addicted to them since my childhood still makes them fun to play, APM isn't much of an issue to me either, it's just that i straight up suck and die to the first attack in online games :rowlyikes:

    though an Age of Empires meme game always ends up with me winning somehow
     
    I'm not good at anything.

    But to give more of an answer than that: PvP. That's not a genre, but I think it's the most applicable answer for me. Naturally I'm not going to be as good at genres I don't play as opposed to the ones I do play, so saying "I suck at X genre" is more going to have to do with my experience or lack of it with the genre than anything else. Like, yeah, I'm better at RPGs than puzzle games, but that's because I don't play puzzle games. But the universal thing is that in any genre I do play, I never really get anywhere in PvP. But that's to be expected, as PvE content is designed to be beaten by everyone, while PvP....is not.
     
    FPS (first person shooter) i'm just horrible at the K/D ratio. i end up having 2 kills and 20 deaths lol.
     
    I'm really bad at puzzle games. Zelda I'm alright at but currently I'm playing LM3 and I'm getting incredibly frustrated at trying to solve some of the puzzles
     
    fucking platformers. i'm so bad at them which is hilarious bc that was my introduction into gaming. platformers. lol i'm basically bad at everything except jrpgs though honestly. fps games, or anything from a first person view, makes me motion sick. i'm not good at platformers, though there are some i still enjoy despite it. puzzle games can be hit and miss with me. action adventure is...eh? i'm not good at exploring. lol and fuck sports why would i do that
     
    Oh, a lot. Shooters, survival horror, any fighting game that I haven't put hours of my life into, stealth games, rhythm games, and most strategy games. Most of this is because I play RPGs and platformers way more, but yeah, I am not very good at video games.
     
    Fighting games, most definitely. Medium level CPUs and higher tend to wreck me in single player, and I absolutely cannot stand the way they're played in PvP. Stop blocking/dodging and actually attack, FFS. It's boring. I find there is a lot of dirty tactics/outright cheating in fighting game AI that I can't exploit, and pulling off combos in arcade-style fighting games that require ridiculous button inputs is completely beyond me.

    Not great at racing games either, and I'm very hit-and-miss with puzzle games - the Layton series completely stonewalled me because my mind just doesn't work that way. Most puzzles in RPGs I don't have an issue with, but stuff like that throws me completely and honestly I get bored trying to figure it out because I just guess repeatedly until I get it right. A lot of the time I just give up and follow a guide. I am OK with 2D platformers although those are just a question of muscle memory I think. I mean, I died 219 times in Ori and the Blind Forest, and most of that was repeated death in the same spots learning how to get past them until I could do it without thinking about it. Not sure if it makes me a bad player if I can't do these things in fewer tries...maybe?

    I'm not very good at most PvP modes generally either, although I think that's partially psychological. Repeated loss demoralises me, so I perform more poorly than I otherwise might. Plus people who play PvP in a lot of titles tend to be those who spend a lot of time playing these games and are much better than me who tends to stop playing once I've finished the single player content. I'm good enough to finish the game, but not good enough to compete with other players, and I guess that's...fine? idk if it makes me BAD persay, just not as good as other people.

    I think that's about it? There are a lot of genres I avoid because I don't enjoy them, and enjoyment tends to affect my performance too - I half-arse things when I'm playing just to play something, as opposed to being actively engaged in what I'm doing. I think I'm deliberately bad at some things so I stop playing sometimes...that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it, haha.
     
    Marnie said:
    I have a hard time with fighting games
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    Same here! I love Smash, but get wrecked by Lv.9 characters, even on final destination. I had to crawl through Hollow Knight's bosses as well.
    Again, coming to platformers, Hollow Knight's "Path Of Pain" and "White Palace" are paths of pain. Celeste is torturing me :P That doesn't stop me from playing these games, but it takes a lot of time and attempts for me to finish these compared to RPGs. Add sports games as well, though Mario sports games don't trouble me. That's it. Have a good time, reader!
     
    Mostly first person shooters... if that counts? I mean, I'm bad at most genres. It depends on the type it is as well. I can do really well if I'm the roleplaying ones. Things like Pokemon, Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy... but anything outside of that I have a tendency to struggle with more. D:

    gimmepie said:
    Just about all of them lol
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    mood
     
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    Shooters. I play Overwatch and I'm not very good. I can play a few heroes adequately and then the others... They might as well ban me from their local discord and never unban me even when I return to the forums that the discord's connected to.
     
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