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

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?

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

The multiplayer specifically. God it's brutal.

God Hand

That game is one serious son of a bitch, 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.

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 :(

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 bitch. 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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. :(

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.

Star Craft. I played the hell out of that game when I was younger, but I could never handle a serious match. I'm just bad at managing that many things at once. I still love it and am going to get SC2 eventually (just finally built a gaming pc)

Right now it's Mario Party 9 and, Fortune Street. The problem with MP9 is that my general means of winning was taken away since no matter how poorly I did on the board I always aced the mini-games which would net me at least one star at the end. Not so much in MP9 where you get some random mini-stars at the end. Also the board hazards can screw you over in a pretty big way: earlier today I was clearly and, undeniably in first until I got hit by 2 Boo at once which cemented me in dead freaking last (with no helpful stars at the end to save my ass).

Fortune Street is a board-game style game without mini-games: like Monopoly only with a stock market mechanic. I love the game but it's almost completely luck based (based on my playthroughs anyway).

Fighting games. I do much much better when I just spastically hit random buttons then when I try to execute actual techniques. If you're just a casual fan of fighting games, you better not be too competitive. People get way too good way too fast in them. I remember buying Marvel vs Capcom 3 last year just about a week after it came out. I played through the story/arcade/whatever they call it mode with three or four characters before trying some online matches. And I got destroyed. I started off with an online win-loss record of like 0 and 30. People would do some crazy shit, and then I'd later flip through the manual or try the tutorial mode. People were doing moves that weren't even in the manual. A week after the game came out.

Also, Bayonetta. I'm pretty awful at it. I didn't get over a Stone Trophy once...

Happened to me all the time on MW2 until I decided to do the campaign on veteran. After that I routinely got top of the scoreboard in the lobby. I wasn't getting nukes or anything but I Harriers were pretty common.

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Gorilla Gunk:
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.

It really is a broken system though. They had everything perfect in the original beta. But they fucked it all up by tweaking the shit out of everything.

I took a semi-long break from UMvC3 and was still able to win online, so that game's not really a case of "why do I suck so much"...

However, every other fighting game is like this for me. Third Strike Online Edition, SSF4AE, KoFXIII, doesn't matter. I can't beat anyone who knows how to play the game half-decently. KoF is definitely looking better though, while Street Fighter is a lost cause. I just can't do link combos in AE or Third Strike for shit, but they feel a little easier in KoF.

Every single fighting game ever.
Every single driving game ever.

Dark Souls.

Racing Games.

I played Gran Turismo 3 to death and was actually pretty decent at it (according to my own mind). I've tried every other racing game out there and I seem to suck giant hairy monkey balls at them.

The only one i've ever managed to finish a course in first place was Gran Turismo 3.

I don't know why.

I can barely drive any better in Grand Theft Auto games, i'm always crashing into shit.

DustyDrB:
Fighting games. I do much much better when I just spastically hit random buttons then when I try to execute actual techniques. If you're just a casual fan of fighting games, you better not be too competitive. People get way too good way too fast in them. I remember buying Marvel vs Capcom 3 last year just about a week after it came out. I played through the story/arcade/whatever they call it mode with three or four characters before trying some online matches. And I got destroyed. I started off with an online win-loss record of like 0 and 30. People would do some crazy shit, and then I'd later flip through the manual or try the tutorial mode. People were doing moves that weren't even in the manual. A week after the game came out.

Also, Bayonetta. I'm pretty awful at it. I didn't get over a Stone Trophy once...

Oh man i know how that feels . It took me 800 online matches to hit a win/lose ratio of 1 ( 50% matches won). Right now i'm at about 4000 matches and 63% of games won . I guess i put myself at a disadvantage by not wanting to use overused characters .

Also that bayonetta man .Speaking of witch ( see what i did there?) is 't bayonetta a capcom character? Why isn't she in umvc3?

TF2 and Toribash.

But the one that really marked me was Battlefield 2.

There was a time I hit a slump and all I could do was sniping or be a medic. Any kind of truly offensive role would get me killed, so I went into combat with the L85A1 - the medic rifle had a nice SUSAT scope.

Only 2 years later I understood. To line up the sights with a target, you have to make sure that the sight makes an invisible line you want to hit.

Number 2 is the correct use of an iron sight. I was using the number 3.

Starcraft 2 :)
I've been Bronze League, Silver League and Gold League in my time. Not in that order, and in a constant flux between the three. I have yet to break into the elusive Platinum... Which is still considered a low league :(

StarCraft 2. I'm stuck in Bronze, and no amount of Day9 can fix me. My APM is just never good enough.

Also a little on TF2. I really like the game, and occasionally floor everyone, but I never really stuck to one specific class... so I'm really average with all of them.

Ninja Gaiden, the 2004 Xbox version. Fuck those ghost fish.