Embarrassing Gaming Weaknesses

Lyaiera

I bought an XBox controller for my PC a few months back to play Bastion with (I couldn't get into it.) I broke it out last night to play Grid with and I realised I have never used the triggers properly. I cut my teeth on the Megadrive, never had an N64 and went straight to a PS2 before abandoning consoles for the PC. With most of my time spent on a Megadrive controller it made me realise I never learned to use the analogue aspect of the newer controllers. For me everything is digital: on and off. So I either press the button the whole way, or I don't press it at all. I somehow managed to fuddle through a good deal of Gran Turismo on the PS2 and Forza on my brother's XBox but last night, sitting right in front of my screen on Grid I forced myself to use the triggers properly.

No longer were the long smooth turns on the track causing a problem with acceleration. I could keep the trigger half pressed and gently breeze around them. I didn't have to brake and lose all speed before hand. And I didn't have to power on everything on the exit to gain back speed. Instead I could maintain a solid speed, with a half depressed trigger and ease my way around. It was a revelation! A whole new world of racing possibilities are opening up to me. Now I just have to teach myself to do the same with the analogue sticks and I'll be a racing genius!

So what embarrassing gaming weaknesses have you overcome or do you still face?

ShadowHearth

My embarrassing weakness? I am playing video games for the last 20 years and I am still **** at them. Last night I decided to play some Cod Ghost on PS4. I was dominated and ass slaped by 10 year olds. All of them rank 60 with some skull emblems and I am rank 28 ( I got game since launch :pac: ).

Tl:DR After 20 years of gaming I am still **** at it.

solomafioso

ShadowHearth wrote: »

My embarrassing weakness? I am playing video games for the last 20 years and I am still **** at them.

This, for me in a nutshell! :pac:

If I can blame it on ageing or delayed reaction as a result I would, but I'm just terrible.

My cryptonite is third person action shooters. I had to rage (emphasis on rage!) quit Revengeance and Bayonetta. Although I'm having a great time playing Vanquish at the mo. I was grand with Tomb Raider...and finally finished Resi 4 there the other week (pats self on back).

Don't get me started on Dark Souls! Even the tutorial area has me filling up the swear jar.

Any first person online shooters too. Tried my hand at Battlefield 3. Would literally run a few game-yards and get sniped. Rinse, repeat, rage quit.

My first 'system' was a game boy (original), then graduated to a game gear (oh the amount of batteries that went through!). On to a megadrive (AGH! more buttons!). Next was a ps1...then the dual shock came out with the analogues. Got used to that, but controls in fighting games have my fingers in knots too. Can't execute them...so resort to being a button basher (hangs head in shame).

Was good at Tetris though....So there's that.

Kimbot

ShadowHearth wrote: »

My embarrassing weakness? I am playing video games for the last 20 years and I am still **** at them. Last night I decided to play some Cod Ghost on PS4. I was dominated and ass slaped by 10 year olds. All of them rank 60 with some skull emblems and I am rank 28 ( I got game since launch :pac: ).

Tl:DR After 20 years of gaming I am still **** at it.

That was probably me ass slapping you :P altho Ghosts and COD in general is not a good enough test, Im horrific at it but give me battlefield and your ass would be more than slapped all over the place :P

solomafioso

jonny24ie wrote: »

give me battlefield and your ass would be more than slapped all over the place :P

Sephiroth_dude

I buy far too many games,I rarely finish games and I haven't gotten a platinum trophy

Generic Dreadhead

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I haven't gotten a platinum trophy

Don't worry, never ONCE has anyone ever clicked through the appropriate amount of PS menus to see your trophies

solomafioso

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I buy far too many games,I rarely finish games and I haven't gotten a platinum trophy

Used to do that, but I changed to "right I'm going to play this to death until I finish it and move on to the next one". By that time the new release has come down in price.

Also, I 'get' trophies (why they exist that is) but I don't get the mindset that you haven't experienced or fully completed a game until you've gotten them all a little backwards. Like a gaming status symbol.

I think developers make achievements up just so you spend hours for that notification (or personal gratification).

CastorTroy

As others have said, alsthough I've played for years, I'm still not great at games. I start all games on medium difficulty and still find it hard enough for me.

Another is shoulder buttons. I could never pull off the combos in Killer Instinct on SNES because I could never hite the shoulder buttons quick enough and now I have a habit of just keeping my fingers rested on the triggers as opposed to having 2 fingers at each of the shoulders for both trigger and bumper.

Another weakness/annoyance is clicking the analog sticks accidentally. So I could be trying to run from something and suddenly the cahracter decides it's a good time to crouch or stop and reload.

Of course these things could be the reason I'm not great at games.

zero19

Slide puzzles drive me mad, I'm never any use with them. I'm normally very good with logic problems but damn slide puzzles always get the better of me.

Drexel

I think I have everyone above problems all rolled into one!

I buy way too many, finish no where near enough and after playing games for 20 years im still useless!

I was good for finishing games when I was younger but now I dont seem to have the time / patience.

gugleguy

Loosing contact with flight simmer societies by not renewing my contract subscription my own procrasination. Fool me.

Mr. CooL ICE

I love RTS games, but I'm terrible with them. Actually, any game that requires a lot of thinking and strategy on the go makes me feel utterly thick. I can die and realise what went wrong and how to adjust it, but I end up doing the exact same thing again and again.

CastorTroy wrote: »

Another weakness/annoyance is clicking the analog sticks accidentally. So I could be trying to run from something and suddenly the cahracter decides it's a good time to crouch or stop and reload.

Reminds me of this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKIiUsbOO24

LordChessington

LordChessington wrote: »

I love RTS games, but I'm terrible with them. Actually, any game that requires a lot of thinking and strategy on the go makes me feel utterly thick. I can die and realise what went wrong and how to adjust it, but I end up doing the exact same thing again and again.



Reminds me of this gem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKIiUsbOO24

Can't watch it atm but I presume it's the one about MGS?

Loved that bit

wandatowell

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Last night I decided to play some Cod Ghost on PS4. I was dominated and ass slaped by 10 year olds.

My neighbours kid is 9 and is always saying how good he is on the xbox in FPS'

I cracked out COD:MW2 and smashed him 18:2. I took way to much pleasure in beating a kid one third my age.


Though I did pretend I never played the game before just to put him off his "A" game

Vojera

If I can't invert the y-axis in shooters I end up pointing in the air and twirling in circles until I die. I don't know why I can't just do it the normal way.

COYVB

I'm awful at online gaming. Up until around 2005 I always thought I was decent enough at games. Now I know the truth.

COYVB

COYVB wrote: »

I'm awful at online gaming. Up until around 2005 I always thought I was decent enough at games. Now I know the truth.

I used to be pretty good at CS 1.5 / CSS

Tried CS Go recently and got flaked repeatedly

Scavenger XIII

Vojera wrote: »

If I can't invert the y-axis in shooters I end up pointing in the air and twirling in circles until I die. I don't know why I can't just do it the normal way.

That not embarrassing that's just you needing to have proper controls.

Vojera

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

That not embarrassing that's just you needing to have proper controls.

It is embarrassing when you're playing with your friends and swapping controller every time you die and end up looking like you've got some sort of equilibrium disorder

CiDeRmAn

I have far far too many, a games room packed to the rafters with consoles and titles and, it seems, decreasing amounts of time to play them
And no time to get good at any of them.
I'm lucky most modern titles are short, it's the only way I saw the end if TLOU or Tearaway.
And I love racing games, but if I'm playing after 11pm I doze off, only waking with the car lodged in a tree and the lap counter reading 1hr +

Sephiroth_dude

I'm also crap at multiplayer shooters,I always get shot straight away.

Generic Dreadhead

zero19 wrote: »

Slide puzzles drive me mad, I'm never any use with them. I'm normally very good with logic problems but damn slide puzzles always get the better of me.

Windwaker HD getting you down? :pac:

zero19

zero19 wrote: »

Slide puzzles drive me mad, I'm never any use with them. I'm normally very good with logic problems but damn slide puzzles always get the better of me.

^^Reminds me of...
The puzzles in Uncharted 3 pissed me off rightly. Done my nut in having to constantly open Drakes notebook for reference and then forget what I was supposed to memorise :o

COYVB

Scavenger XIII wrote: »

That not embarrassing that's just you needing to have proper controls.

Inverted Y IS proper controls.

COYVB

Actually one thing I can nail down that I'm dreadful at is awareness in online FPS games. Every single time I sprint blindly around corners, see someone and by the time I pull the trigger I've been shot in the face. I have no idea how people see the things they do as quick as they do in shooters. I'm going to put that down to being an old man with the reactions of a dead sloth though

Sgt Hartman

I'm a total confidence player. If I'm on a winning streak I feel invincible and I believe I'm the best. If I go on a losing streak however I end up thinking that I'm the worst player in the World and I end up getting mad at myself.

Also my reflexes ain't what they used to be. When I was in my teens I could pull off jumps and moves that I couldn't possibly do now due to my 34 year old codger reactions. And also I find games are doing my nut in a lot more now than they did when I was younger and I'm spending less and less time on them.

Randall Floyd

I don't know if you'd call it embarrassing but it can be annoying sometimes when you have to admit to yourself that you've reached the limit of your ability in a game, there's an achievement in Metal Gear Rising that requires you to get all S rankings in every fight in the game on the hardest difficulty setting, I will never get that achievement because I will never be good enough to do it.

Penn

I love fighting games. Absolutely no good at them. Can't use the fightstick joypad things, can only use actual controller. Can't remember most moves, just rely on common inputs, (back, back, square is usually a pretty good move). Other than that, I pretty much just button mash or learn one or two combos for a character and hope for the best.

Have played no more than 10 games online, and got embarrassingly crushed in each one.

It once took me over 40 tries to beat Heihachi as Julia Chang in Tekken 4. Heihachi! Other Tekken games, you fight the Devil, or huge monsters, or ancient gods as the final boss. Heihachi was wearing a sumo nappy and it took me over 40 tries to beat him.

The level of proper online players is a level I'll never get near.

ScumLord

I don't like gamepads, I'm constantly trying to use the gamepad so I can sit back and use the big screen like all these consolers keep raving on about but it's just like smashing my fingers with a hammer. I think I'm just too old to relearn a control system. It's so bad I'm wondering if there's lag on the xbox controller. Keyboard and mouse is just so much more responsive but it's pretty difficult to do that on the big screen too. Sitting at a desk with a keyboard and mouse is just a much more productive way of gaming.

bucketybuck

I'm rubbish at anything that requires one billion clicks per second or constant movement or actions. Online gaming is just never going to happen for me, I will never be able to compete with these guys that zip around the screen like lightening or build a base in about 30 seconds. Tried playing Company of Heroes online once, barely got a few units out before the other guy had surrounded my base and was lobbing mortars at me.

The thing is, I don't want to be any good at it, that type of play is just not enjoyable as far as I'm concerned. If I'm playing an RTS I just want to turtle away, building castles or massive armies before unleashing hell on the enemy at my own pace. Thats relaxing to me, not frantically clicking the mouse button every 0.5 seconds and playing the whole game via the map.

wendell borton

Couldn't get passed the first level of the original tomb raider.

House of Blaze

I used to be great at games..

Then I took an arrow in the knee...

Penn

The Killcam in Call of Duty is probably the main reason I can't be arsed with most online games.

krudler

ScumLord wrote: »

I don't like gamepads, I'm constantly trying to use the gamepad so I can sit back and use the big screen like all these consolers keep raving on about but it's just like smashing my fingers with a hammer. I think I'm just too old to relearn a control system. It's so bad I'm wondering if there's lag on the xbox controller. Keyboard and mouse is just so much more responsive but it's pretty difficult to do that on the big screen too. Sitting at a desk with a keyboard and mouse is just a much more productive way of gaming.

For certain games I totally agree, FPS, RTS or anything involving really quick repsonse or multiple tasks it's a a no brainer that kb&m is a superior way to play. I couldnt imagine playing platformers or 3rd person action games on kb and mouse though just feels unnatural to me.

I think a lot of that comes from how your gaming progressed though, I grew up on arcades and consoles didnt get a gaming pc until around 1999 and gamed on that until around 2006 or so I guess when I didnt bother upgrading anymore and just phased out using a desktop. That was more of a space issue than anything else and at the time I wasn't too pushed about pc titles that I couldnt already get on a console, graphical superiority aside. I definitely will invest in a desktop again at some stage cos I hate missing out on so many good Steam titles these days.

Gaming weaknesses? I suck at newer fighting games, can still pick up a pad and play something like Street Fighter 2 not a bother, but the new ones like the MVC games or SFIV are just too chaotic. I have BlazBlue on my vita and good jesus it's complicated, the tutorials go on for ages and by the time I've finished them I've forgotten the instructions and just bash the buttons and look at the pretty graphics.

Azza

This

Gaming weaknesses? I suck at newer fighting games, can still pick up a pad and play something like Street Fighter 2 not a bother, but the new ones like the MVC games or SFIV are just too chaotic.

The funny thing is SF 4 is easier to play than SF 2.

calex71

My weakness is .... achievements

They don;t actually stop me playing and enjoying games like they do for some quiet the opposite in my case which is probably worse considering some of the ones I've chased and rubbish games I've endured in their pursuit.

Sephiroth_dude

calex71 wrote: »

My weakness is .... achievements

They don;t actually stop me playing and enjoying games like they do for some quiet the opposite in my case which is probably worse considering some of the ones I've chased and rubbish games I've endured in their pursuit.

Your not alone

RedXIV

I can't play horror games. I never completed silent hill, never even tried Resident Evil, Outlast scared the bejesus out of me. And I am unable to enjoy the games at all. I prefer being an overpowered behemoth.

I also suck at FPS games, regardless of the fact I've been playing them for years

johnny_ultimate

Always and forever (except for that one day I managed to beat them):

Pac1Man

Games that are geared towards stealth.

I liken my experiences to trying to walk across a narrow wooden beam at an adventure park or similar. Start off patient taking it step by step, bit by bit. All is going well. The end is in sight; then my heart skips a beat, I panic and sprint the last three meters, falling just before the finish into the piss stenched muck of Clara Lara.

CastorTroy

Trying to remember the buttons is another weakness. Especially since I play PS3, Wii U and PC(using 360 controller). So when I see "Press X", is that on the bottom, left or top? Why couldn't 360 have put the buttons in their correct places to help out?

And I agree on the Y-axis. Invert is the correct way.

farna_boy

Just on COD games, I remember I was useless at MW2 and MW3. I used to watch a lot of SandyRavage and be amazed at the ease he used to get nukes so effortlessly. Whenever I used to play I would get absolutely mauled no matter what I did.

I remember one day though searching to see if there were any good PC players (I used to play COD on PC) because it became totally obvious that it was just Sandy was just playing XBOX and they were all noobs *ahem* . Anyway came across one PC player (Raimpstage) who just explained everything he did to an understandable level. I have the most influential video below and to me it was absolutely mind blowing and all of a sudden I changed my style to follow his advice and I suddenly jumped from finishing near the bottom of the table after every match to finishing top 4 on a consistent basis. I still play this way now in other games and it does help immensely.

However, I still have not been completely fix my biggest weakness of raging when someone kills me (usually a camper), going back to the same spot to get revenge and letting them kill me over and over and ever again until they start getting killstreaks just from killing me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW6DdCCR4Jg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW6DdCCR4Jg

balkieb2002

I now nearly play every game on easy. I try and justify it by telling myself I'm trying to finish games in my backlog and playing on easy is the quickest way but really its because I like to feel overpowered and invincible and any level other then easy usually brings me back down to earth!

I've also started using trainers in some games (usually RPGs) as the combat gets too tedious for me when I'm actually just trying to just enjoy the story. It also saves the hassle of trying to find every little secret to level up my character though is usually make me a tad overpowered!

There are some games though I can enjoy for what they are and even raise the difficulty as I enjoy the challenge.

wandatowell

balkieb2002 wrote: »

I now nearly play every game on easy.

I tend to play games on easy just to enjoy playing the story, then ramp it up after if I fancy a 2nd play through

tim3000

I tend not to play more than one game at a time, for instance I have sank near 400 hours into BF4 and all the while Far Cry sits on my shelf unplayed. Another weakness is my reluctance to play new types of games.

briany

Online gaming - Never really could get to grips with it. The Internet's always there to remind us that, no matter the skill, there's almost always somebody out there who's a half your age and a hundred times better at it than you.

I used to play Tiger Woods 2010 on the Wii. The online leaderboards for that thing were insane. You'd have people scoring -30 for a single round, or maybe more. Even though the people getting these scores were either cheating or had some kind Asperger's thing going on, you can't help but feel pretty damned inadequate in comparison. Time was that you were pretty happy to be defending the much coveted title of 'Champion of the World (house)" in PGA Tour Golf 3 or something against your brother/best friend, blissfully unaware of the talent that the world outside of your own cul-de-sac held.

SterlingArcher

Lyaiera wrote: »

I bought an XBox controller for my PC a few months back to play Bastion with (I couldn't get into it.) I broke it out last night to play Grid with and I realised I have never used the triggers properly. I cut my teeth on the Megadrive, never had an N64 and went straight to a PS2 before abandoning consoles for the PC. With most of my time spent on a Megadrive controller it made me realise I never learned to use the analogue aspect of the newer controllers. For me everything is digital: on and off. So I either press the button the whole way, or I don't press it at all. I somehow managed to fuddle through a good deal of Gran Turismo on the PS2 and Forza on my brother's XBox but last night, sitting right in front of my screen on Grid I forced myself to use the triggers properly.

No longer were the long smooth turns on the track causing a problem with acceleration. I could keep the trigger half pressed and gently breeze around them. I didn't have to brake and lose all speed before hand. And I didn't have to power on everything on the exit to gain back speed. Instead I could maintain a solid speed, with a half depressed trigger and ease my way around. It was a revelation! A whole new world of racing possibilities are opening up to me. Now I just have to teach myself to do the same with the analogue sticks and I'll be a racing genius!

So what embarrassing gaming weaknesses have you overcome or do you still face?

Mac fly? Mac fly? Anybody home.

My gaming weakness would be not getting enough people to press alt F4.

Dark souls, I just could not walk by a character without hitting them.even at level 1. Hours getting destroyed over and over. Never learning.

Shanotheslayer

My weakness is I like to play loads of different games at a time and never really get into one:( Not since wow have I put 100s of hours into a game. Apparent from maybe FIFA.

ShadowHearth

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

My weakness is I like to play loads of different games at a time and never really get into one:( Not since wow have I put 100s of hours into a game. Apparent from maybe FIFA.

Actually thats me too. I cant play any game longer then 1-2h. I always have to play something else. now and then I get games like Rust though, where I play it pretty much 17h in one day! :pac:

Magill

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Actually thats me too. I cant play any game longer then 1-2h. I always have to play something else. now and then I get games like Rust though, where I play it pretty much 17h in one day! :pac:

So in other words, if a game has lots of penis on display you become an addict ????