I Fail at All Things Gaming – Questioning Manliness

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Well, the thread title says it all really. I am just about to hit 30 and don’t understand. 8-10 years ago I was awesome at all things gaming. RPG, RTS, 3 rd / 1 st person shooters, racing etc.

Over the years, I have slowed my gaming down as family commitments took over and I seem to now have the reactions of a slug. I have been trying COD 4 on my mates X-box and I just totally fail at online multiplayer, to the point where it is embarrassing. I tried Forza the other day as well and I am no better at that. My bro dug his N64 out the other week and I fail at Goldeneye (there was a time at uni I was unbeatable) and mario cart. Doomed :mad:

For all my skills or lack of them, I may as just well be a woman :( I this what I can look forward to as I get older, finding the business pages of the Times more stimulating than a head shot?
 
DireEmblem said:
By the sounds of it you need a PS3/360 for your 30th, and perhaps a dedicated gaming room?
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I have a 2 year old girl and another daughter due in June, chance of a Gaming Room, bah.......I have a My Little Pony room :(

But yer, perhaps the money I sepnt on a holiday for my Birthday would have been better placed into a console.
 
You're out of practise, that's all it is.

You should also stop caring :D As long as you're having fun who cares.

The only game I'm even remotely competitive at is Unreal Tournament, no one plays that any more, and I suck at the likes of COD/BFBC, acceptance is key :p

Forza is pretty easy to get relatively competant at though, just take a few hours of practise, don't go too fast, use the racing line, start turning assists off when you get used to controlling a car with a controller again and you'll soon improve.
 
Gaming is a skill. Every game has its own skillset you need to spend time practicing.

Even people who play frequently have to have a "warm up" to play at their best.

Stop playing a game for a year and you're going to find that all the others who kept on playing will be better players than you when you return to it.
 
It will happen to all of us I'm sure. My patience is very limited these days, reaction times simply cannot match 14-year-old brats, etc etc. Stick to single-player with unchallenging AI. :D
 
Andelusion said:
Forza is pretty easy to get relatively competant at though, just take a few hours of practise, don't go too fast, use the racing line, start turning assists off when you get used to controlling a car with a controller again and you'll soon improve.
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Forza 3 is chuffing awesome.

(Still driving with some assists and full racing line and just about to start R3 in year 4)
 
I'm 31. When I was at school I was pretty damn good at Streetfighter 2 (I was almost unbeatable in Mortal Kombat) When I play SF4 online, I almost always lose and a lot of the time to people who have a 93-95 suffix to their PSN name so were born after my mighty SF2 days!:(
 
32 here.

Always been a casual gamer til the last couple of years when I got myself a console (and then another), but I was always pretty good at shooters on pc. After a couple of years on consoles, I recently went back to pc with BF BC 2, and wow, do I suck. So much so that it's frustrating me immensely!

Just can't keep up with the young'uns! I spawn and die, spawn and die, rinse and repeat!

Am considering getting a copy on console to play instead. Unforunately I activated my pc copy online so can't sell it :(
 
ffallic said:
Unforunately I activated my pc copy online so can't sell it :(
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This is why I moved to consoles! The one and only reason. I now enjoy being able to play a game, then trade it in when the next one comes along that I like. I had enough of buying PC games which turned out to be junk yet I was stuck with them and couldnt sell them on. Now if I buy a game which is crap I can simply go down the local shop and trade it in for a different game or sell it online.

They say pirating is killing the PC genre but the anti-piracy stuff killed it for me. I have never owned a console before the PS3 but now buy all the games on that instead. The PC is used if a good RTS comes along. I miss the good graphics though as PS3 graphics for Bad Company 2 in comparison to the PC are awful :( But it's more sociable in that I can simply pop it in the boot of my car and go round a mates for two player action!
 
Trust me, he's not out of practice! Largely, everyday since November for around 3 hours a day and his kill death ratio is in minus numbers!

I then have to spend the next round to get it back to where it was ;)
 
I am going to hit 30 in a few months, having been a hardcore gamer since.....since the Megadrive tbh :D

Anyway, while yes it can be annoying to be owned by 14 year old hummingbird-reflex teens in twitch-FPSs, I still can own the lot of them given enough time and practice. Its mostly a question of time, because of responsibilities like career and family (and preference of course) that leads to a gulf in gaming ability.

Having said that, its the ultimate thrill in multiplayer to own someone who has been owning you by learning their tactics and countering them. The resulting abuse from said teen is worth the price of admission itself :D
 
This is why I want a boy, when I have kids.

Get them in to gaming to give myself an excuse to play too :cool:
 
I can relate. 34 years here and 35 in a few weeks. Been playing games since Atari ST, Megadrive, SNES etc etc.

I suck at anything online RTS or FPS. At Uni I used to own on counterstrike. However recently on BFBC2 it has reminded me why I don't really play FPS online. spawn die spawn die spawn, fire one round, die. Rinse repeat (see sig ;)).

However it does not frustrate me anymore; I have accepted my leet-less skills and just get on with it.

To add to this mix we have just had a lovely baby girl a week ago (our first) and I have had next to no time to play. When I do get time I find I am so tired that I just cannot be bothered. People say play some games during the sleepless night. ummm how - you are tired! I had GoW3 and DAO:Awakening arrive last thursday and have spent a total of about 20 mins on each.

I know this will change, however my lack of skills will not. Mostly offline gaming for me at the moment. It is pretty much the only way I can win nowadays :rolleyes:
 
M8, I feel for you, I really do. I am 42 with a 5 and 6 year old daughter, I had to give up ,y games room for a playroom. I also suck at FPS these days, I used to admin and play in a hardcore CS Server (from beta). What you do is buy yourself a nice 42" Panny Plasma, an XBox elite or PS3 and say that after 9pm is daddy time. Then you choose a sniper class and you learn to play tactically with a long gun, because I guarantee age+experience > ninja reflexes when you have an M95. Keep practicing, build your confidence and you will find your niche.

What you forget is, we were weaned on games like doom and quake, which are relatively slow compared to todays FPS games. Todays kids are weaned on Quake 19 Ultra, or whatever they play, fuelled on a diet of McDonalds, redbull and relentless. They live their lives at 1,000,000mph and dont care. Thing is by the time they reach 30 they will all be, obese, arthritic and diabetic. They'll have glaucoma from the **** diets they eat and wont even be able to watch TV no matter play a fps. They will have RSI on their thumbs from texting and will be totally deaf from the 1000w stereos in their Vauxhall Corsa's. We on the other hand may be slow, but at least we are still in the game ;)

Stay in there, keep the faith and you fill be fine m8, I promise

Mushii
'Sniping spotty ****s since 1995'
 
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