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1. Metal Gear Solid - I am absolute rubbish at MGS games, I cant wrap my feeble mind around the controls and the stealth strategy required to get through some parts. I end up getting too frustrtated and end up shutting it off. For some reason I am pretty good at Splinter Cell though.

2. Tekken- Can memorise some combinations but in the heat of battle I forget everything and end up button mashing and subsequently get slapped.

3. 2d Shooters - Ikaruga, Gradius, R-Type etc all own me. I am partial to lapses in concentration and I get pwned for it. I really do enjoy these games though, (Parodius especially) and I usually end up using unlimited lives cheats if they are available just to see everything the game has to offer.
 
I also have problems with MGS sometimes. A lot of times I just end up shooting my way through stuff on accident. But hey, it still works :P But I usually get better as I go along.

I have always been pretty mediocre at fighting games except Smash Bros. I just lose interest in games like Tekken where you have to memorize button combonations. Just kills fighting games for me.

And Racing games. I really suck at most of them, unless they are very arcadey. I hate pressing the brake pedal/button. :lol
 
I'm a JOAT/MON (figure it out) except when it comes to Sim City, or any other deep resource management game. I doubt I could run a McDonalds with my skills, and attention span :(.

Well, I probably could run a MC'D, knowing who manages my local MC'Ds :P.
 
Stealth elements of games. I'm playing Shadow of Rome right now, the arena fighting parts are awesome, but the stealth components are boring and fiddly.

I'll soldier on just so I can throw more scimitars at tigers, but it's like two different games badly welded together. Not quite as frustrating as the Dororo parts in Blood Will Tell, but not far off.

Also, I just don't enjoy FPwhatevers. Last one I played was Metroid Prime, but the atmosphere of the game was more of an incentive to play on than the gameplay itself was.
 
Tournament fighters. I hate (most of) them and they hate me.

Racing sims. I don't have the patience to relearn how to turn a car.
 
ANY RTS game.

Dune 2, War2, War3, C&C, AoE1/2/3 etc. you name it - I SUCK AT IT.

Usually I can't even beat the first map! When I produce my first tank/ cavalery/ dragon etc. the AI already has 10 tanks/ cavalery/ dragons etc.

That's why I stick with FPSes & RPGs :) and TURN-BASED strategies (Heroes of Might and Magic FTW!)
 
Definately RTS games >_>. Normally I take my time, way too long and I always get stormed before I'm even ready to create an army. >_>
 
I never die in the first level of Xevious up to the first mothership. Then I'm pure crap. I've played that first level maybe 5,000 times in my lifetime just to feel good about myself.
 
Ikaruga, etc.
Sonic Rush - I frequently fall into bottomless pits because I like to hold down right like in the old Sonic games.
Shadow of the Colossus - I have difficulty figuring out how to defeat Colossi, it takes me too long.
 
Reilly said:
Fighting games. I was ok when there were only 3 or 4 moves you had to memerize.
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Im in thr same boat. Ive never been good at fighting games and I never will. In any fighting game i play there is about 4 or 5 moves that I can actually pull off. The rest of the time Im just button mashing and hoping that I pull off some incredible move that I will never be able to do again.
 
RTS games and fighting games. RTS games, I never really get into memorizing build orders, etc, plus I'm just not good at controlling the large groups of forces. Fighting games the move lists just usually overwhelm me. In both cases, like most things, it's probably more a matter of not being willing to spend enough time with them.
 
Its quite wierd with RPGs. I can usually get through most of the game fine. there may be times when i get stuck but after a couple of goes I'll get past it, however when i reach the final boss I just cant do it. Once this happens I never finish the game because I cant level up. There are so many RPG's in which this has hapopened to me.
 
Space Channel 5.

Could never figure out the "system" for button presses in that one. Had to use the cheat code just to get to Michael Jackson in the game.
 
Bemani/Frequency/Amplitude. I was fine with older PSX rhythm games like Parappa and Bust-A-Groove, but the genre has since evolved past my capabilities. I'd probably have an easier time learning to play an actual musical instrument.
 
There was a game called NECROMANTIC ages ago.

I couldn't even get past the first room. Maybe because I couldn't figure out what I am supposed to be doing in the first place.

I suck.
 
Metroid on NES, I'm playing the version included as an extra on Zero Mission for GBA and it kicks my butt!! I mainly can't stand not being able to crouch or shoot down - but the amount of damage done each hit is rather large and I only start out with like 30 energy. :(
 
Metal Gear Solid series ... I just can't get it --- I completed #2, but that was a task ..... the controls work fine for me, it's just the patient stealth elements and figuring out enemy paturns .... There always seems to be one enemy I had no clue was there....
I have no idea how people can be good enough at it to experement with all the dynamic 'tricks' to do.
It was 4 or 5 hours into MSG3 before I saw the intro movie : [

teiresias said:
Metroid on NES, I'm playing the version included as an extra on Zero Mission for GBA and it kicks my butt!! I mainly can't stand not being able to crouch or shoot down - but the amount of damage done each hit is rather large and I only start out with like 30 energy. :(
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I beat this game for the first time like two years ago, it starts off tough like that ---- but just take it slow, don't rush through the environment, and before you know it you'll have plenty of energy tanks.
 
i find 2d shooters really difficult, especially the treasure and technosoft ones. it takes me ages to get good at them and even then i'm not great. i can only go so far in difficulty then i've had it.
 
Calling me a MGS fanboy would be an understatement, HOWEVER, I do find the controls hard to master, which adds to the difficulty of the game. I feel like I'm doing some Chinese finger puzzle just to do some of the gun maneuvers.

I suck at fighting games, that's probably the only genre I would say I "suck" at...

Racing and flight simulators are hard for me, though I really enjoy them. I wouldn't say that I suck at them, just that they are really hard. :)
 
I'm not that good at twitch-based action games in general. I still like them, but usually choose the easy mode.

It's embarrassing sometimes being a huge fan of videogames, but not an especially skilled player.
 
Definitely fighting games...I can do okay against the computer by learning to exploit the A.I. and leaning on a few choice moves, but against a skilled human player it becomes evident that I'm "faking" it. I'm decent with SSB:M though, probably because it doesn't require the memorization that other fighting games do.

Also RTS games or any game that requires you to micromanage a ton of stuff at once, but I think that's more my disinterest in doing it than a lack of skill.
 
I am simply a button smasher with any fighting game (after Street Fighter II) as I don't want to remember all the combinations.
 
Real-Time Strategy games - I enjoy them but I just can never do anything good in it.
Normal Strategy games - Pretty much the same as above. I enjoy them till the difficulty gets ramped up, and then I quickly give up.

That's about it. I could put sports games on that list, but that's more of a lack of interest thing.
 
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