So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King.
Which got me thinking. Basically every game for the past 20 years has been designed around instant gratification and being accessible. We outright had to make a new concept “hard but fair” to account for games like Dark Souls that are designed to be difficult but beatable as opposed to putting you in a death spiral if you hesitate too long on a hard jump (hello Ninja Gaiden).
So do the younger folk even have a concept of a “favorite game” where you likely never experienced more than fifteen minutes worth of content?
World of Warcraft. You may wonder how can I possibly suck at it, and well… I just do.
I love, but suck at, Minecraft. How am I so bad?
I know a lot about Minecraft but I still suck at it lmao
Did, and still do enjoy fast-paced shooters from time to time but I absolutely suck at it. Sometimes you just need to do something exciting without putting too much thought into it and not having a care about whether you win or lose, what your K/D is or whatever. I just find it a nice way to unwind from time to time.
How do you define young?
I’m definitely too old but I loved Tarkov before cheaters ruined it.
I know some early-20’s folks who grew up on DayZ.
Both games very hard to not suck at.
I wasn’t expecting to call myself young but I guess I never did experience any games that were just brutal though I did get into gaming a bit later in life. The earliest game I played was Warcraft 3 and the main campaign was easy enough, some custom maps were harder but nothing really hard so 20 years ago games weren’t really harder. The hardest thing in any game I have experienced in about 20 years of gaming was Midir with a magic build in dark souls 3 which I never did beat.
Road Rash on the PS1, absolutely loved it but could barely win a race on it 😂 yeeting other riders off their motorbikes was too much fun.
Also thought the video cutscenes and menus looked kinda cool back then, especially compared to the simple ones in fighting games (tekken, versus etc). Actually thinking about it now, the music on Tekken’s character select screen really made you feel like you were in an arcade
There’s a spiritual successor to Road Rash which is Road Redemption, I can recommend it. I found it to be a bit easier to control.
I’m not that young anymore but I put more hours into Planetside 2 than is even reasonable for how fucking bad I am at it.
I’m bad at most games so yes
I brute forced my way through learning starcraft, it took literal years to get out of the bronze league, probably my most played game of all time. Can’t wait for immortal gates of pyre.
After years of dominating everyone at my high school in LAN parties, we finally got the Internet at my house and I played my first few online games.
I got my shit wrecked 10x in a row. Haven’t played SC online since lol
Yea StarCraft 2 was this game for me. I first saw some beta gameplay from TotalBiscuit and just got hooked into it and I was so ridiculously bad. I still play every year around Christmas for some reason
For me it was Rainbow Six Siege.
Absolutely fell in love with the gun play (leaning in that game is my favorite mechanic in any game), destructible environments, operator gadget interactions, and repelling.
However, I was trash at the game because of slow reflexes due to bad eyesight, and poor aim. Relied on the gadgets while my team got the kills.
All rhythm games and fighting games.
Karate Champ. I probably spent hundreds of dollars on that game and never got past the third match, and don’t have the slightest clue what would make a round kick score a full point or a half point… You could come up with strats that usually worked, but nothing ever worked reliably… Mortal Kombat you could come up with strats that would 100% get you double flawless, but it’s grandpappy would toss all manner of randomness at your ass and fuck you up pretty reliably :)
I don’t think there’s any game I like that I’m good at
I am a young user of lemmy ( I am in high school ), And, I really suck in games, but I love the blinding of isaac: repentance,I didnt played as many games as that, but I think it is the hardest game I’ve played, and my favorite.
Keep and it, in a few years you can be like me. An old guy who loves Issac, but still sucks at it!
yeah, it is fun to try and retry, and I love the fact that every game you play are different in some ways. I began to watch “Learning of isaac” from Shisheyu , it is very fun and usefull. Btw do you think people can be interested by a AMA I’m a high school student ( in France)
edit: I wrote “I’m a high school”, but I’m a human.
Yeah, the variety is amazing. That is the best part by far!
I absolutely sucked at games as a kid, Most of my absolute favourite games I played all day for months on end as a kid I still never finished… even on the easiest setting.
Wasn’t until my 20s I started going back to a lot of these games and finally completing them 100% on hardest mode. It’s quite a feeling :)
Terraria. Spent so much time in it. Tons of fun. I liked a lot of it. But I compared to other friends and realized I was terrible and barely even saw much of the game cause I didn’t get very far.
I have a couple hundred hours in Terraria, am still terrible. Usually get carried by my buddy I play with. Though, to be fair, he has close to a thousand hours, so maybe there’s still hope! Lol
Do I need to explain any further?
That’s why I only play aram, urf and 5v5 lmao
Ah, I went to play Pokémon Unite instead (even tho Nintendo and their Switch & Mobile only approach)… Bluestacks is an option but not a particularly good one…
And then there’s Tencent - but you encounter Tencent kinda everywhere right now so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So the thing about these linds of games is that you theoretically can master any Champion/Pokémon, but there are some that you just intuitively understand. Keep trying different characters until you find one you gel with in Standard/non-Ranked matches, then get a feel for how to improve your runes/items by playing Ranked and studying your shortcomings. It’s how I found out that I love to play walls and use items that optimize walls for damage. (Iceborn Gauntlet, Sunfire, Demonic Embrace type stuff for LoL and Rocky Helmet/Shell Bell/Drain Crown for Unite.)
Yeah aram and TFT for me lmao
Age of Empires 2. Love the game, but I’m terrible at it… I can barely beat the medium AI. I was defeated in pretty much every online match.
At some point you will drop down to your level online, but itll take a few losses to push through. It is such a lovely game though, but just a bit too stressful for me.
I always felt like the way you need to be playing AoE to be competitively good defeated the purpose of the game for me. It ends up become a rush of min maxing, as opposed to what I loved about the game which was building and designing empires and armies.
