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This might seem like an easy question but it is pretty hard to answer, because what does it take to be good at gaming? Just beating a game doesn't make you a good gamer IMO because the purpose is to beat the game. I think that if you do something amazing and think out of the box like setting a world record or just a very good record on a Mario Kart track with some wicked tricks, that's when I think someone is a good gamer. And by my own definition I'm clearly not a very good gamer.. How do you think about this?



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I think its safe to say that everyone has a prefered genre, and people take some games seriously while playing others for fun.
I take fps' seriously and 99% of the time, im in the top half of the leaderboard and most of the time im in the top 3 (providing I started the match from the beginning)
Apart from that, I'm slightly above average (atleast I consider myself to be) in all games apart from puzzle games and rts' where I fail completely.



Yes, i am very good at gaming!










































That i thought, until i played Wipeout online and i got my ass kicked on every track/tournament!



golfgt170 said:
Yes, i am very good at gaming!



That i thought, until i played Wipeout online and i got my ass kicked on every track/tournament!

That reminds me of Doritos Crash Course..



Yeah but only in Jump and Runs.... I suck at most of the RPGs out there. For example: I played bravely default on easy and still failed on some of the bosses... Yeah im not that great.



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no.
i cant even beat the last sm3dw stage, im sweeting in DKCTF 5th island, i have to practice a lot to manage to win these challenges, as i sweat in rayman legends invaded stages. but it is very pleasant when you do!


but these are exceptions
nowadays gaming is built to you think you are good. you smash buttons and great animations appear on the screen that make you think you did great, but you only smashed buttons randomly...



jonathanalis said:
no.
i cant even beat the last sm3dw stage, im sweeting in DKCTF 5th island, i have to practice a lot to manage to win these challenges, as i sweat in rayman legends invaded stages. but it is very pleasant when you do!


but these are exceptions
nowadays gaming is built to you think you are good. you smash buttons and great animations appear on the screen that make you think you did great, but you only smashed buttons randomly...

This, this, and a hundred times more this. It's really true a lot of the time.



Yes I am, but I'm not the best. I am the best Tekken player I know in real life pretty much. But I play online and lose to people who spam moves/use lasers or exploit juggling (2 things me and my Tekken playing friends don't like), although I can tell I'm better than them and in the same room with a team battle of 8 characters I'd whoop them. I have one friend who started Tekken with Tag 2, a big mistake but he learnt the game by learning combos and as long as he did that sequence of buttons he'd 'win', that was his goal. It's the same thing he does with Street Fighter, learn a sequence and win. This to me isn't good gaming, part of gameplay is to think outside the preprogrammed sequence of events. I mean playing football in real life, you could be the best in the world at Freekicks but if you can only do set pieces you will never be good.

I can easy pick up a game and be good at it in quick time. I got to grips with Guacamelee pretty quickly.



Hmm, pie.

Not even close, I am quite a noob at most games. I guess thats mainly because I play games for fun or for a story, rarely do I play games all that competitively. I think MK I play semi-competitively (not like guys like Sword or TWD98) but thats about it. As for single player games I normally play on normal or easy.



I'm really good at anything turn based. Also I'm really good at fun racers like MK and Sonic Allstars.
I do like RTS but I kinda suck at it. Probably suck the most at BmUPs though.

Intellect helps me to be mediocre to good at all other genres.



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