What game are you best at?

Anonymous Robot

I used to be amazing at Armored Core 3. I was absolute proness with the hover tank that I decked out with all the machine guns I could fit on it.
I was also awesome at Red Alert 2. Allied, French, Grand Cannons. Sneak them up the map and then destroy the enemy base with them. Manipulate small groups of Tanya's and elite GI's to harass and rip shit apart.
I was once really really good at Team Fortress Classic. Medic, mainly.

What games are you pro gosu at?

Carnivore

In my circle of friends I am unstoppable at Halo.

Like, I can win 1v5 CTF sometimes.

And the other guys are pretty average, not bad or anything.

Im no professional quality, but goddam I rock at that game.

Halo 2 not so much.

Also, we have these uni-wide Defcon games, across the uni network. Even some lecturers get involved. In one of my lectures, he stops the presentation, walks over to his laptop and says to everyone (about 200 people) 'sorry, Ill just be 5 minutes, jones has just launched at me'.

Half of us look over to jones, sitting on the back row with his laptop open smiling. Eventually the lecturer has to carry on with the presentation, and luckily he was runnin an office mode game (like 5 hour long) so it wasnt a huge setback.

Still totally awesome.

Mai-Kero

Mario Paint.

Orikaeshigitae

Carnivore wrote: »

Also, we have these uni-wide Defcon games, across the uni network. Even some lecturers get involved. In one of my lectures, he stops the presentation, walks over to his laptop and says to everyone (about 200 people) 'sorry, Ill just be 5 minutes, jones has just launched at me'.

Half of us look over to jones, sitting on the back row with his laptop open smiling. Eventually the lecturer has to carry on with the presentation, and luckily he was runnin an office mode game (like 5 hour long) so it wasnt a huge setback.

Still totally awesome.

That's incredibly cool.

Cilla Black

Think the only game I've been genuinely good at was FFVII. Specifically the Materia system. For some reason I just kicked ass at making good materia combos. Beat the Emerald and Ruby Weapons with so much ease.

Big Dookie

Apparently I'm really good at Wii Sports Tennis. My skill level is 2290 currently, and I have yet run across a human opponent that has beaten me in a one-on-one match.

This is surprising, because I suck at real-life tennis.

Basticle

Ghost Recon 1 (PC)

Orikaeshigitae

Basticle wrote: »

Ghost Recon 1 (PC)

what, are you taking a poll or something

Aroduc

I'm certainly not good at The Game.

And now, neither are you.

slash000

I was awesome at Unreal Tournament2003, but I never bothered with the series after that, since it shifted away to team-based gameplay.

I'm pretty awesome at Wii Tennis, too. Don't know my score, off hand, but I'm pretty damn slick at it.

Lemming

I got really good at Enemy Territory at one point.

Atheraal

Rag Doll Kung Fu. Also, Wii Sports tennis. The only way people have a chance against me is if I use my left hand, and even then I still usually win.

Smasher

I used to be really good at Myth 2. I never hit celestial, but I'd convincingly win most of the time. Unimappers tended to be the hardest to beat, since that's all they did, and I liked to play pretty much everything.

WW2 was never really my thing. I was decent at it, but too many people only played that for me to really compete well.

Dusda

Smash Bros Melee, definitely. I'm pretty good at CS (1.6 or Source, though I prefer the former), too, but nothing I'd call 'zomg pro.'

YodaTuna

I was ridiculously good at Crimson Skies, I was in the top rankings within 2 days of playing it online.

Tribes 2 as well.

slash000

I'm pretty amazing at Shinobi and Nightshade. I can whiz through those games pretty easily.


I thought I was awesome at Trauma Center, until I attempted the X missions... :shudder:

Sliver

I'd have to say CS 1.6 and SSB. Not because of any innate skill but just because I logged so many hundreds of hours playing them that I had it all down to pure reflex from the reptilian part of my brain. I also still avidly play AOE: Conquerors and Rise of Rome with my brothers. We have it down to a science, and pretty much know whos' going to win based on who picks which race.

oldmanken

Red Alert 2 for sure, loved that game and was actually very good at it amongst my circle of friends.

Also, Starfleet Command series. First game I played online, and definitly had no trouble holding my own.

Gorilla Salad

Does Time Crisis count? Cuz I'm pretty good at that. SSBM too.

Most games I'm average at. Though I kicked ass and took names with Senor Shotty in Gears of War.

Anonymous Robot

Guys please don't turn this into a poll thread. Please provide not only specific examples of unusual skill, but the reasons why. Elaborate.

Ethan Smith

The Specialists, and Defcon.

Also, Rome Total War near the end.

Literally, on hard/hard, I got 5 heroic victories, in a row, FROM THE SAME ARMY.

MiserableMirth

Apparently I'm awesome at Wii boxing. After playing a couple rounds of boxing, it became a contest out of my friens to see who could beat me. After 60 rounds of KOs I stopped playing. These are all pros in their respective games too.

I've been told I rock at the pokeyman battling, but I've a little rusty now. :[

Manic205

I had a friend who stopped playing Splinter Cell: Double Agent with me because having me on the team was just about an auto-win. And I think it caused him physical pain to be on the other side(my other partner would rarely consent to playing against me).

Back in Pandora Tomorrow, Gabe's teammate quit mid-round after one too many neck-snaps. I remember Gabe rocking us on Vertigo Plaza, though.

Too bad Demonware fucked Double Agent's online system to death, or I'd still be playing it now.

Edit: Rohaq made my avatar for me after feeling my wrath on Warehouse. That level was made for leaping onto Goombas' heads.

Lemming

Getting over 100 kills in one map in Gold Rush was pretty neat.

Although towards the end of my run I was Engineer more and more often and would usually directly lead to the victory of my team. On a related note, the Axis team gets pissed when you blow up the Seawall Battery within the first three minutes :V

mr_sweetcandy

I am nigh unstoppable at NHL '94.

Anyone here ever play Oooga Booga on DC? That too.

TimTheSloth

Myth 2... Duel to the death smasher!

SpazMuffin

Among my friends I was regarded as the best in Halo 1. I had friends who were real close but I always seemed to come out on top. Overall I wasn't all that great but when it came to split-screen and system link games I would always end as #1.

Suriko

I can kick all my friend's asses around the room when playing Ciel in Melty Blood. As soon as my player square moves over her in character select they'll let out a groan.

I do pretty well against them in Mechwarrior 4 Vengeance and IL2 Sturmovik 1946 too, but that's mainly due to the fact that my father and I played flight sims and mech games with and against each other since I was pretty young.

Sliver

Anonymous Robot wrote: »

Guys please don't turn this into a poll thread. Please provide not only specific examples of unusual skill, but the reasons why. Elaborate.

ok, on CS 1.6 I decided to sharpen up my Deagle skills so I played using that weapon exclusively. By the end I was sniping people in the head across aztec, and later in the same game, I took down three terrorists in a single shot. (Two of them were strafing back and forht in front of me with their AK-47s but the last was about 50 feet behind them heading for the bomb site. I didn't even see him.) After that I had two guys in the team copycatting me. It was hilarious to watch the Terrorists rushing out the double doors, hear me fire my deagle, switch to their knives and run back behind them.

Lork

Once upon a time I was so good at Turok 2 multiplayer that I could get headshots with the crossbow that you start with close to 100% of the time. While dodging cerebral bores. Now if only I could transfer those skills to a good game.

Vi Monks

I'm a godly Baldur's Gate 2 player. Solo Tactics/Ascension/Improved Battles on Insane difficulty with a vanilla cleric? Check. With a barbarian? Also check.

Baldur's Gate.

Basticle

Orikaeshigitae wrote: »

Basticle wrote: »

Ghost Recon 1 (PC)

what, are you taking a poll or something

huh?

Scrumtrulescent

I'm not good at many games. I would say that I suck.

If fucking xbox live would cooperate and let me sign up I would be able to tell how good I am.

Raslin

I am really, really good at BF2... often. I will regularly get top three or so in games. The thing is, I don't do crap like endlessly bomb the enemy, or use helicopters all the time, etc. I actually play infantry, or sometimes use a tank/whatnot, and if you took out the air whores, I'd pretty regularly be #1.

Though, sometimes, I just get killed mercilessly. But this is the exception.

Dyrwen66

The only game I consistently do well at is UT2k4, if I have a flak cannon, it's over. I really don't seem to do well at LANs and such in anything else. FPS is just where I belong, but it takes just the right kind for me to manage any skill at it.

I suppose I do a decent job at stealth games, but Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is about the only one I really excel at.

Zimmydoom

Back when I played MvC2 religiously, I was clearly the best player among my group of friends. My best friend was my equal when we played at the arcade, but on the DC I was God. This was especially fun, because one of the members of our group at the time was a complete dickwad about competitive videogames, and talked an unbelievable amount of shit about how he was so unstoppable and was just taking it easy on me and blublublu go eat a dick. After beating him several times in a row, he would put on his headphones and turn on some shitty death metal to "power up" (he was convinced that making himself angry gave him ACTUAL superpowers. Can't make this shit up). I would then proceed to take my favorite team (that I hadn't been using) and wipe the floor with him.

I owned like a career .750 winning percentage against that guy.

Also, it's gotten to the point now that I've been playing Final Fantasy games for so many years that nothing surprises me anymore. I don't grind, but I haven't actually lost in a FF game in something like 10 years except when testing out the optional super-bosses.

I am a strong proponent of having phoenix downs and the "raise" spell permanently removed from all future series entries.

Lucky Cynic

I tend to average over 20,000 Realm points a night when I RvR in Dark Age of Camelot. Thing is, the game is more of a group effort and some nights I get more than 100k and other nights I get barely 5. Just depends how everyone plays their roll and how well the cards are stacked against you.

Raslin

Also, if we're talking about within our group of players, it changes a bit. For example, fight night round 3, and DBZ:BT2. Usually the second best in my group of friends can beat me once in a while. But I rape pretty hard in those games. However, compared on a larger scale, I'm probably only adequate.

Graviija

I'm really good at Ninja Gaiden (XB).

I remember going in think the game would just be absolute rape, but I plowed through it on normal in no time. I actually beat through the highest difficulty with the highest ranking (Master Ninja? Been a while, hard to remember) on almost every mission.

That said, there are still a few missions (as in, the non-story super crazy hard missions) in NG: Black that I still cannot beat.

Scrumtrulescent

I am a horrible gamer. I would guess the only things I'm good at are sports games.

And still, xbox live needs to open sign-ups so I can play me some Madden online.

Another thing that's really weird is that I hate basketball. Hate it.

I think basketball games are some of the best sports games.

I actually watched a full hour of people playing NBA Live 07 on ESPN.

Blakout

I was pretty good at Halo, leagues ahead of my group of friends at least. I once played a CTF game to 5 on Hang 'Em High against two or three friends (doesn't sound that overwhelming, but it takes three or four shots to kill you with the spawn weapon and it's a completely open map), ended the game with 5 flag caps and close to 500 kills.

It carried over to Halo 2, too. I wouldn't call myself omgamazing, but anyone that's played with me can attest that I'm pretty good, one of the better players in the PA clan as far as pure killers go. I'm decent with objectives, but I prefer to just make sure the other team stays dead and let my teammates grab the flag/arm the bomb/drive in circles.

[edit]I'm pretty good at Ninja Gaiden too I suppose. I don't think I'm that good, honestly, but after hearing about how hard it was I rolled through the game without any serious problems. I only had to fight a couple of the bosses more than once, but most of them (even the final bosses) I beat on the first try. The only enemies that I thought were hard were the damn ghost fish.