Games you suck at but still enjoy

[eDove]

Giving birth makes you retarded in unexpected ways. Before becoming a mom, I could master almost any video game if I liked it enough, now the skill ceiling is much lower.

Darkest Dungeon — I've made awesome progress in the game but I'm routinely raped by the RNG like a new player would be. The pre-boss-room Collector spawn easily wipes my parties.

Lies of P — Sekrio: Shadows Die Twice and Bloodborne are two of my favorite games. This one's combat is far more rigid though, hence it's trickier to me.

Papers, Please — I'm just stupid. Don't know what else to say. I've beaten thrice so far and yet I miss the same little discrepencies over and over. It's addictive, regardless.

As an aside, every time I've tried to earnestly not cheese Elden Ring it ends poorly.

 

[Metallic Blood]

TF2 — Well, being more accurate, you could replace this with "any FPS ever", because for the life of me, my accuracy in any of these shooter games is almost 0%, But I still love to play FPS games tho. TF2 specifically is one of my favorites because playing as an Engineer and being able to support your team without knowing how to use a gun is pretty cozy. There's nothing like seeing a Level 3 Sentry with 5 kills and 2 assists, or a Heavy taking your teleporter and saying "Engineer is credit to team!".

 

[Travis Touchdown (REAL)]

I feel you with Darkest Dungeon. I suck ass at that game but I love it regardless.

For me personally though, any RTS. Especially ones with high unit capacity. For example, I love Supreme Commander but I struggle to beat a hard mode AI lol

 

[Irregardless]

Back when I still played, I really enjoyed escape from Tarkov, but I don't think I was that good. I never really pursued drawn out skirmishes, but I feel like when I did it really came down to chance whether I would get the drop on them and be able to aim track them properly. I feel like I'm ok with shooters when it comes to fast paced team death match style shooters, but when it comes to games more like Tarkov where so much of the killing process is about getting a good angel on your opponent or out maneuvering them in one way or another, I just don't think I'm very good.

 

[Core Theorist]

All of them.

 

[CallmeCicada]

Dwarf Fortress. I am more interested in designing my fortress than making a successful settlement. lol

 

[Great Value Mastur Cheeze]

I gotta go with SWAT 4, im completely terrible at it but I just enjoy going around shooting criminals in the face with a shotgun

 

[Neodanthril]

I enjoy the idea of rts games but I will never ever ever touch the multiplayer because I am terrible.

 

[Croaking Spider]

The older I get, the harder it becomes to stay on top of fighting games. I don't have the dexterity or the patience anymore to sit there and lab out combos or trials for hours on end. The local scene is too sweaty (literally and figuratively) for me to get into so any fighting games I play these days is strictly single player or with friends who don't take it super seriously.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Most fighting games, like Street Fighter III & V, Super Smash Bros Ultimate, and Pokken Tournament DX.

Mega Man/X/Zero/ZX series, Sonic, Devil May Cry, Ys... Actually, I could basically just put the Action genre as a whole here.

Ogre Battle (all except Knights of Lodis), Final Fantasy 2, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze (even with Funky Kong it's a bitch).

 

[Judge Dredd]

+1 for RTS games. And I'll add TBS too. Both for the same reason. I might have the ability to be technically good at them? But the way I like to play is not a way that equals good. I don't like, say, cheesing the AI in Xcom, or sending guys to die as part of a bigger strategy.

Survival horror. I have to play them on easy first time these days. Too often I'll get 5 hours in then realise I've fucked myself by spending all the health to save ammo, or that I've spent all my ammo to save health items. In either case, I'm soft locked without resorting to DSP levels of determination. A great example, Resident Evil 2 Remake. First time, there's no way to know that shooting the legs is the way to go, or how to use the shotgun to decapitate consistently.

 

[DefinitelyNotMe]

TF2 is definitely fits the description, sure i know how to shoot shit and do basic rocket/sticky jumping but i don't know all the advanced shit like sky strafing or ramp charging. hell i cant even pull of detonator jump with pyro. but honestly i dont really care to learn all of that.

RTS is a different thing though, im not bad at it, its just incredibly boring to do the same shit over and over again in MP
you wall off, you scout, you take your natural, do a bunch of MMM or just thor spam if you feeling particularly daring that day, split up the army to in-circle the enemy and boom you won
or lose if he cheesed you somehow or out apmed you
i cant fathom how people can go through 20 to 40 minute games where you do exactly the same thing over and over again.

i also would add dota but i havent played it since 2016, but i was pretty garbage at that game too

OH totally forgot HOMM3
i always mess up hero chains and loose my 1 stack for no reasons which in result causes the main stack to be hurt. also still cant eyeball fights for some reason i vaguely remember all the stats but if you put your hero stats + traits + 17 other variables and it becomes too much for me. Yet i look at some other players and they can do it no problem, im pretty sure its just experience and having the game scene, instead of calculating all the bullshit

 

[Lurkerish Kandor]

A lot of RTS games, for me. I'm way more used to twitchy shooters and fighting games, I can't micro OR macro well, and I suck at maintaining my attention that long.

I can manage a few fast-paced ones like Age of Emp/Myth (doing average against Moderate AIs) and some hybrids like Urban Assault and Dungeon Keeper/WftO although I rarely finish them.

There's tons of things I really really wanna play for the ludokino like the Homeworld games and Halo Wars, but I need my ultraviolence fix or something I can get really immersed in.

 

[The Last Stand]

I want to say the FPS genre as there are players that do these advanced movement techs that make it troublesome to compete properly.

Currently, MWIII. I'm motivated enough to go through Call of Duty's bullshit to complete prestige challenges and obtain its mastery camouflage: Interstellar.

 

[Endless Torment]

All fighting games. I love the genre and I go out of my way to play almost everyone that comes out and have also played most of the old ones, but I get more enjoyment playing in person with friends or simply just jumping online and seeing how far I can get by trial and error. I despise labbing and refuse to do it.

 

[IDontLikeLiberals]

Sekiro

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Any Paradox Interactive game, Europa Universalis IV the most bright example.

Always end up in bankruptcy or getting my ass handed to bigger nations in Europe, but damn it, I love the game.

 

[Patrick Bait-man]

CS:GO/CS2.

Absolutely INFURIATING to play at times, "How did he kill me? Why didn't my bullets hit? Is he cheating?" ...but I still (begrudgingly) enjoy it.

 

[Day of the Cope]

Binding of Issac: Rebirth when the game isn't spawning the most bullshit troll rooms available.

 

[Silver Higgs]

FPS, everytime I look at the scoreboard and I'm at the top, my team always loses. BF, CoD, Titanfall you name it, the only reason I'm the best is because everybody else in my team sucks more than I do but since I suck too we lose.

Though I should say 11 years ago I was quite the assassin in BF4 knifing whole squads before they could respawn it again and in the occasional situation where one my victims had enough time to respawn on his teammate I would knife him again lol. Good times.