What game genre kicks your ass?

[Rye]

Quake 4 does indeed handle differently to Q3, which I used to be pretty good at. FPSes are probably still my forte, though I've not played any in ages. I didn't play much of Q4, and I hated it online, it didn't feel right at all.

Starcraft-like RTSes are my worst one. I genuinely dislike upgrading little units personally, as well as ordering various technologies in battle. If there was something like a mutually exclusive tech tree or something that you could base around your playing style, that would perhaps make it worthwhile, as it is, it just seems to be a resource contrivance. Why would you want inferior quality migs equipped to drop non-nuke bombs if you're the china nuke general etc?

I do also like more epic scales in strategy games rather than "you can have 20 guys and 5 tanks plus one big tank" of DoW. I also like the suggestions of shared strategy games, though I would want forces much bigger than those in WiC.

[Ghost Rider]

Sports or more because they bore the fuck out of me.

Football(and I mean the American type) isn't horrible but not my fave given the level of sheer bullshit that can occur because for some reason a defensive lineman was facing the goddamn wrong direction.

Most of the others bore me to tears. At least when the event is live, I have a better overall feeling. As a game? Too much of it is the absolute worst rotation to win. Sorry, I'd rather watch middle school league soccer then play whatever is the newest FIFA version out.

[Peptuck]

Puzzle games.

For the life of me, puzzle games frustrate me to no end. I just can't do them. They're not fun for me. Maybe games like the more recent Zeldas, with puzzles that are relatively intuitive and integrated into the plot (feeling less like sadistic mockery of my lack of spatial intelligence and more like slightly tedious chores to open up the next part of an extremely fun game), I can handle pretty well. But pure puzzle games....

Well, let me give you a simple example.

I never beat Portal. I stopped halfway through because not even Glados' insanity could keep my interest.

That's how much I hate puzzle games.

[Ford Prefect]

Heh for a good laugh you should check out the published strategy guides for Disgaea and it's sequel. These are not the usual bullshit 'do this, then this, then this to win' kind of strategy guides. Oh no...

These are the ones who teach you all the nasty tricks you can use to utterly abuse every aspect of the game to create characters with stat-lines that would make the most hardcore munchkin cream his jeans.

While normally I'm not really into munchkining up the characters I play, I must admit that Disgaea's completely ludicrous level cap is a goal.

[Lusankya]

While normally I'm not really into munchkining up the characters I play, I must admit that Disgaea's completely ludicrous level cap is a goal.

Well, given that in that game you actually have NPCs giving you advice on the best way to cheat... I really don't think that any kind of underhandedness will detract from the game. I think the characters even want you to do it.


As for what I suck at... well, I suck at a fair few of those, but FPS is probably the one genre that I will never be good at. At least with platformers, I could theoretically sit down and play Mario III for ten hours a day and get better (why I'd want to do this is beyond me, but the point is that I could if I wanted to), but with FPS, I feel like throwing up after about two minutes, so even that is beyond me.

Strangely, the same thing happens with 3rd person action games which don't have inverted x-axis control. It's a real shame, because I've bought several games that I know I'd like, but I just can't play due to this.

[Noble Ire]

Racing, sports, and rhythm games are all typically well beyond my gaming skill set, the first especially. Be they "real" racing games, "off-road", flighted, or in little cartoon bugies, I can't get a handle on racing controls, strategy, or timing of any kind. I'm also rather poor at fighting games.

Actually, FPS's and RTS's are the only varieties of electronic games that I'm actually good enough at to really enjoy. I've played a few good RPGs, too, but not enough to really get into the genre.

[Archaic`]

If I had to pick one, I'd have to say FPS games. I've had some success with the occasional console based FPS (Goldeneye/Perfect Dark on multiplayer, any Wii FPS), but PC based ones knock me for six.

I'm pretty horrible at any western rhythm games too. I have no problem with something like Ouendan, or Taiko Master, but I find it difficult to get into things like Guitar Hero.

[Karza]

Fighting games. I used to be quite good at One Must Fall 2097 back in the day, but that's about it.

[Andrew_Fireborn]

Fighting games. Mostly because the only way they can make them challenging is to make the AI cheat it's processors off. (Recently, it seems like they love making them block/parry/counter 99% of attacks.)

Everything else I can name one or two games in the genre that I love... Even racing has the bulk of the Extreme-G series... But I've never found a fighting game that clicked with me.

[Ritterin Sophia]

RPG- Nowadays, I only play the more westernized kind of console RPG's, IE KOTOR and Mass Effect. I used to be big on FF and the Chrono Trigger Series, but outside of Disgaea now, I find myself rather bored in no time when playing JRPG's.

RTS- I love making my impregnable fortress of death where enemies hurl themselves at me, only to be cut down or shot out of the sky by my longer ranged defenses before they can even cause damage, of course sometimes they get lucky and their planes will plummet into one of my buildings. There's also something about swarming an enemies base in an endless tide of late tech troops and vehicles.

Platform- Don't play at all.

FPS- I'm a casual FPS player, however, I fucking suck at games like America's Army where you're dead in like two shots to the foot.

Sports- Outside of Football and Hockey, I really have no interest in sports games.

Fighting- I suck at fighting games, I can't seem to memories block breaking combos.

Puzzle- I only play the stress relieving difficulties.

Rhythm- As of this time my favourite game is Rock Band, yet despite this I can't beat Enter Sandman on hard, and it's the last song in the second to last set for guitar. I can play a number of songs on hard, though some of them like Suffragate City on Rock Band I just attempt to survive.

Other- I suck at flight sims and outside of Nascar games I don't do racing. Of course I could never forget sandbox games.