What are your strengths and weaknesses as a gamer?

WEAKNESS:
1. Classic Resident Evil-style puzzles. (even before I buy the games I always print out a FAQ )
2. QTEs with the Xbox 360 controller (I've been playing the Xbox 360 at least 50 times more than the PS3 and yet I still struggle with QTEs with its controller whereas I never struggle all that much with the PS3 controller.)
3. First-person shooters of any kind. I just can't friggin stand that perspective. It's just never felt comfortable to me.
4. Getting attacked from behind in shoot 'em ups.
5. Turn-based RPGs, driving sims, strategy games.
6. Playing VERSUS or Co-Op with other players.


STRENGTHS:
1. Platformers                    [especially love the ones with tricky jumping sections]
2. shooters (shoot 'em ups)     [love my Cave/bullet hell shooters]
3. action games            
4. arcade racers  [not a major strength of mine, but I do enjoy my arcade racers]
5. adventure   [adventure games without annoying RPG elements and Resident Evil-style puzzles.]

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

WEAKNESS:
1. MMORPGs. I quit them because they are boring.
2. I pwn too much in multiplayer and it discourages nubs.

STRENGTHS:
1. I pwn at everything.

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

Weaknesses
- Playing FPS' on the 360 pad...just can't be accurate for some reason
- Inability to play games more than once / keeping games more than a week.
- Geometry Wars, so rubbish at it!
- Getting angry and throwing my controller at the screen when I die at a crucial part in a game that I've tried for the twentieth time!  (read: Devil May Cry on max difficulty)

Strengths
- Racing games - arcade and sims
- Twitch PC FPS' eg CSS
- Pro Evo  (I dare anyone to challenge me!)
- Pulling an all-nighter to play one game
- Completing games no matter how challenging or arduous
- Dance Dance Revolution.... no just kidding!

Weaknesses:
-FPS games.  God I hate them, but n00bs love them.  If you like FPS games, you are a n00b and not yet a real person.
-Braid.  Love the visuals and platforming, hate that they made it a friggin' puzzle game.
-Puzzle games in general.  I have no time for this nonsense!
-Guitar/instrument games.  I refuse to even play these.  They are not real games.  If you play these types of games, you are a sissy.
-Games that want to be movies more than they want to be games.  Games don't need complex storylines, people!  Shenmue is the exception.
-Getting bored with games.  I am lucky if I power up any current generation game more than two or three times.  It goes back to that whole story thing.  I just don't care!  Make the game fun and I will keep coming back for more!

Strengths:
-Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 (the Wii version sucks ass)
-Arcade style games which require skill.
-Racing games (though I don't like it when they get boring and focus on being a simulation.  If I want a simulation I'll just drive my real car!)

Weaknesses: Beautiful woman with a big ass in the back field I don't know what it is about the big butts its like mind control. That big booty draws me in and I cant control my self.
Scary games that start you off with a small knife or nothing at all. When I get that shotgun I start to feel a lot better.
Cheaters that cheat and refuse to tell me how they are cheating.
Thandie Newton  (Google That Sexy Lady)

Strengths:
FPS and fighting games. 
Arcade games.
Racing games 

Joe Redifer


Weaknesses:
-FPS games.  God I hate them, but n00bs love them.  If you like FPS games, you are a n00b and not yet a real person.
-Braid.  Love the visuals and platforming, hate that they made it a friggin' puzzle game.
-Puzzle games in general.  I have no time for this nonsense!
-Guitar/instrument games.  I refuse to even play these.  They are not real games.  If you play these types of games, you are a sissy.
-Games that want to be movies more than they want to be games.  Games don't need complex storylines, people!  Shenmue is the exception.
-Getting bored with games.  I am lucky if I power up any current generation game more than two or three times.  It goes back to that whole story thing.  I just don't care!  Make the game fun and I will keep coming back for more!

Strengths:
-Super Monkey Ball 1 and 2 (the Wii version sucks ass)
-Arcade style games which require skill.
-Racing games (though I don't like it when they get boring and focus on being a simulation.  If I want a simulation I'll just drive my real car!)

Lol.. I agree with a lot of your list. I really wanted to like Braid, I heard so many good things about it, but once I got my hands on it, I couldn't really stand the puzzler aspect of it. A shame because the visuals look great.....
Puzzle games in general;  while I do enjoy a Columns, Lumines, and/or Tetris from time to time, I can only play those games for a couple levels before I lose interest.....
I have yet to get into the whole music gaming phenomenon and don't really see that changing in the near future... I once had my eye on Singstar (the one with 80s music) for about 5 minutes but then I kicked my own a$$ for even contemplating the purchase...  When you say games that want to be movies, are you talking about stuff like the Metal Gear Solid games?

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

Weaknesses:

Rockband/GH drums
Basketball games
Soccer games
fighting games(same shit. Combos are typically useless compared to button smashing)

Strengths:

Pretty much everything not mentioned above. I'm, at the very least, average at all games, but good at FPS.

weaknesses:
Music games. Patapon is the exception. Maybe cause it has a regular control scheme?
FPS: Its not that I don't like them, I just suck at them.
Racing: Don't like racing games in general.
Open-World Games: Give me a linear game, and I ace. Give me a game with a somewhat open world, with tons of stuff to do (Yakuza, Shenmue, etc) and I'll be able to handle it. Give me a GTA like game and I just don't know WTF to do!

strengths:
Hardcore action games with a one man army (Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, etc)
JRPG's
Third-Person shooter games with cover mechanics
Platforming 

Weakness:

I have destroyed controllers, mice, keyboards, walls and glass in frustration.

I dont like racing games and i suck at them, with the exception of RollCage.

Strengths:

I am above average at most games i play.
I am good at solving puzzles.

Weaknesses
FPS - I'm decent at them considering I hardly ever play them, but I just don't really like them.
Overly complex strategy games - I don't want to micromanage every single aspect of my army or what not, it's retarded, end up getting pwnt because I just don't care to put in the effort.

Strengths: IDK

Compared to the average gamer I'm strong in everything (most of us are).  The average gamer is not competitive.  I compare myself to those who specialize in each category.  For example I'm good with Strategy games if you compare me to all gamers but probably average if you compare me exclusively with strategy game players.  With this in mind, I'm average in most games.

Weaknesses:
-Sport Games
-Fighting games
-Guitar Hero esk games (don't like them either)

I'm not good with timing and I dislike memorizing combos. 

Strengths:
-FPS games

If you can appeal to my interests which usually include killing something I'm more likely to play the game long enough to master it.

"This is sad. There's no other word for it. The person who invents a way to punch someone in the face over the Internet will make millions from the demand generated by people like this." Youtube comments

Strengths: FPS, RTS
Weaknesses:  Racing, Fighting, and GTA4.

Everyone keeps mentioning GH and RB, so I guess I should too. Ive never actually played either of them, and have never had the urge to.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

Terry Bogard


When you say games that want to be movies, are you talking about stuff like the Metal Gear Solid games?

I'm suggesting that games in general are trying to be more story than anything.  Most games' sole concern these days is the telling of a story... a very long and drawn out one.  Once you beat the game you have absolutely no desire ever to play it again.  If you don't play it for awhile, you forget the hyper-complex control scheme and you just can't be bothered to relearn it and therefore the game becomes useless.  I'd say many if not most of today's "action" games are like this.  I like pick-up-and-play games.

Stfu Joe.

ya rly, you sound like my dad

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

For Joe, control schemes were "complex" after the Genesis. Its not that he cant get used to them, its just that he doesnt want to. Joe is the epitome of disgruntled old-school.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

I play games to get stories. I like it when a game story captures me, doesnt happen often.

New games cant afford to have stories like the old day RPG's, i guess voice overs has a downside, no one wnats to record 1.000.000 lines of speach.

New games cant afford to have stories like the old day RPG's, i guess voice overs has a downside, no one wnats to record 1.000.000 lines of speach.

More like no one wants to come up with a million lines of speech.

Obviously adventure and RPG games I would expect to have very involving stories.  I just want more gaming and less story telling in my action games. What's next, characters with deep emotions and complex issues in the next Gran Turismo or Out Run?

no one wnats [sic] to record 1.000.000 lines of speach. [sic]

Oh yes they do!  I've seen a lot of games over the last couple of generation which have mega-quantities of voice, even though the game doesn't really need them.  Even friggin' Retro Game Challenge on the DS has some flippant asshat making dipshit comments next to you as you play.  It is a kid on the screen but he has the voice of a 25 year-old.  Trust me, companies LOVE recording voices!

Joe is the epitome of disgruntled old-school.

stfu danmx.

Stfu Joe.

OK.

mastachefbkw

New games cant afford to have stories like the old day RPG's, i guess voice overs has a downside, no one wnats to record 1.000.000 lines of speach.

More like no one wants to come up with a million lines of speech.

I was exagerrating a bit, but a game like Planescape: Torment has 800.000 words in the games script. Baldurs Gate 2 has even more!

Agent Ghost


Compared to the average gamer I'm strong in everything (most of us are).  The average gamer is not competitive.  I compare myself to those who specialize in each category.  For example I'm good with Strategy games if you compare me to all gamers but probably average if you compare me exclusively with strategy game players.  With this in mind, I'm average in most games.

I'd say same goes for me. I ain't all that big on the whole playing only one type of game and being competitive at it. Not that I don't enjoy competing. When I do...I don't suck but neither am I great then.


Weaknesses:
-FPS
-2D Fighting games (trying to work on it with SF4 though)
-Strategy games (except Fire Emblem)
-GH/RB games (there's always certain songs I simply can't beat on extreme)


Strengths:
-RPG's
-Action/Stealth games
-3D Fighters (Got to love Virtua Fighter)
-Platformers
-Racers

For the racers prefer simulation over arcade though I do look forward to the new outrun coming out.
But certain F1 mods for Rfactor are still my main things when it comes to competing. Fully customizable car set up. Strategic racing. Very good drivers to compete with online and doing 100%  full F1 seasons. I like it, it pushes me to the limit and it's one thing I'm actually pretty damn good at.

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Demonoroth

Weaknesses:
-2D Fighting games (trying to work on it with SF4 though)

Strengths:
-3D Fighters (Got to love Virtua Fighter)

I dont get that. 3D Fighting games play exactly the same, with only the addition of a sidestep button. Or have I missed something since I stopped caring about fighting games?

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

Yeah, you've missed a lot.

Strength: Fighting games

Weakness: Sports games...because I never play them.
I'm also pretty bad at strategy games because I lose interest in them pretty quickly. I can't even understand WHY someone would want to play a multiplayer stategy game.  

Everwhere else I'm pretty average. 

nekkid_monkey


I'm also pretty bad at strategy games because I lose interest in them pretty quickly. I can't even understand WHY someone would want to play a multiplayer stategy game.  

Men enjoy competition. 

"If you knew how good I am you would think I'm modest."

nekkid_monkey


Yeah, you've missed a lot. 

No, I havent. All fighting games play as 2D anyway, with the exception of environmental hazards(no, not greenhouse gases) and a side-step move.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

So you're saying they play exactly the same except for the stuff that forces you to play differently.

Ok...I agree.


Also, I'm completely bald except for the places on my head where hair grows.

How about Fatal Fury where you can jump back and forth between different planes to avoid attacks, etc?

nekkid_monkey


So you're saying they play exactly the same except for the stuff that forces you to play differently.

Ok...I agree.


Also, I'm completely bald except for the places on my head where hair grows.

So obviously the majority of the action doesnt take place in 2D? Sigh.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

It's a fight between two characters. They move towards each other or away from each other. So, yes in that respect the action is mostly 2D.
 The only way to vary that is to vary the angle of approach,  i.e. sidestep.

However, sidestepping changes strategy significantly. The good 3D fighters all have moves that are designed to counter or avoid attacks from the side. If you don't master those techniques a person who has done his homework will crush you.



If you ignore the changes in a genre that force different strategies of course they all seem the same.

2D fighters are usually 5x faster as well.

Demonoroth


 
For the racers prefer simulation over arcade though I do look forward to the new outrun coming out.

Isnt the New Outrun Just the same as the one released on the PC last year? (but maxed out  at lower 720p resolution)

Currently playing:
Korg DS 10 (ds) /  Metal Slug 7 (ds)
Rhythm Heaven (ds) /  Fire Emblem (ds)
Super Stardust HD (psn) /  Virtua Fighter 5 (360)
FSX (P

emofag


2D fighters are usually 5x faster as well.

And therefore 5x more worth playing. I really dont give a damn about most fighting games, but Marvel vs Capcom 2 can still suck me in for hours at a time.

I dont want to celebrate, I want to sell you hate.

Joe Redifer


How about Fatal Fury where you can jump back and forth between different planes to avoid attacks, etc?

I always thought that was a cool feature in Fatal Fury 1 & 2, not so much with later editions. I rather enjoyed the simplicity and unpolished nature of the original Fatal Fury.

Terry Bogard - currently the most Unhelpful member of the Kikizo forums.

I suck at sucking.

"I'll wager sixty finest English pence that you defeat Big Sister in the end by shagging her to death."

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Strengths - I can pretty much turn my hand to any game (except fighting ones which I loathe), and I'm a good team player. Also when I am on form, I am very very good.

Weaknesses - Jack of all trades and master of none. Incredibly inconsistent; I can play two games back to back one of which I will be awesome, the next I will mega-suck. And for no good reason too.