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I suck at video games
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: Lise on 02 Sep 2009, 22:03 ---That's right, girls dig guys with "skills." It doesn't necessarily have to be a particular genre (I'm not really impressed by FPS/Halo players, honestly), but at least a general knowledge of video games is appreciated by nerdy girls like me. Also, bonus points if you like to play fun co-op games like Katamari that don't require any specific dexterity. You roll shit together, it's fun. Fighter games, beat-em-up's, and flash games are also options for so-called "casual gamers."
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I have an extensive knowledge of video games. I've been playing them for well over half my life (holy crap, really!?), but I'm just not good at them. Sure, I can play on single player, and eventually beat most games, but God help me if I ever try to play online. Maybe saying I suck at video games is a little much, but compared to pretty much everyone online, I suck at video games.
I just remembered one time in college my friend's dorm decided to have a Halo LAN thing. My friends and I decided to enter ourselves as a team, because we thought we were good at playing video games together. In the three matches we played to 50, we got more than 10 kills in one of them.
A Shoggoth on the Roof:
nobody cares if you suck at halo anyway. at least nobody that matters. Also I just remembered I suck at games that have built in cover systems. I can never get the hang of them, and they always stick you up against a wall and then I get pissed because I am not in optimal cover and I get distracted and someone shoots me in the head because the goddamn cover system fails to account for the fact that you are a big manly man who cannot fit behind the wall it is programmed to try and hide you behind. I'm assuming this is my fault anyway because none of my friends seem to care about it.
I have to say favorite multiplayer game here is littlebigplanet, I could play the shit out of that game for the rest of my life and I'd be happy. Assuming I'm doing it with friends. Also Eden is bangin', in a relaxing with friends way.
WriterofAllWrongs:
--- Quote from: A Shoggoth on the Roof on 03 Sep 2009, 09:15 ---Also I just remembered I suck at games that have built in cover systems. I can never get the hang of them, and they always stick you up against a wall and then I get pissed because I am not in optimal cover and I get distracted and someone shoots me in the head because the goddamn cover system fails to account for the fact that you are a big manly man who cannot fit behind the wall it is programmed to try and hide you behind. I'm assuming this is my fault anyway because none of my friends seem to care about it.
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Is it just me, or is there always a significant problem with the difference between "Take cover here!" and "Jump over this thigh-high wall and get shot!" I mean, this is pretty much the big thing what deterred me from Gears of War. Well, that and the Rob Liefield buffmen all making out with their own testosterone. But mostly the cover system.
Bastardous Bassist:
--- Quote from: Tycho Brahe (Jerry Holkins) ---There is a point at which "the rookie" says there are a shitload of grubs down there. Marcus Fenix corrects him, suggesting that there are, in fact, "Ten Shitloads." I want to grant that Gears of War takes place on the planet Sera, where Shitload may be a genuine unit of measurement - but that's dumb, and this line is dumb, and the people speaking are idiots, and they live in a world of dumbshits where stupidity of a form of currency.
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This is my quintessential quote about GoW. That said, I did enjoy the game despite never being able to use the cover system. Whatever happened to "I see a wall here, I'm going to hide behind it" as opposed to now "I see a wall, and I hope the game will allow me to hide behind it"?
It's not just Halo I suck at, it's pretty much all the games. The most recent game that I played online in any sort of serious manner was Battlefield 2. It was lots of fun, but really frustrating, because I'd just die all the time. Maybe I've just never really tried to get better at video games, but that sounds like practice, and if I'm going to take time out of my day to practice, it's going to be on the bass.
A Shoggoth on the Roof:
I totally hear you, you shouldn't have to practice video games. the entire point is that it's supposed to be a quick form of escapism.
(quick tip: if you're not so good at the aiming part of FPS maybe try playing with your sensitivity level, when my dad started playing FPS'rs a year or two ago he would always massively overcompensate and end up sliding his aimer wayyy off to the side of his target. while a lower sensitivity will make you slower to react it'll make you less likely to slide off the target with a slight joystick movement)
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