Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?

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?

Mrderisant,

I’m bad at most games so yes

NENathaniel,
@NENathaniel@lemmy.ca avatar

Fortnite lol, but now I’d never wanna touch it again.

I def sucked at Quake Champions at first but now I think it’s the best shooter around

MycoBro,

The fucking lion king. Aladdin was hard af too. But roger rabbit? I couldn’t beat that bouncing around mother fucker and I don’t know if I ever did. And fuck kid Icarus. Another one I never beat. But the answer to the question is Turok for 64

tebro,

Escape from tarkov. I am intrigued by the concept of the game, but each time I played I was outmatched in gear and skill.

minthenry,

Does it count I loved Quake 3 back in the day? Wasn’t good at all at it but still I think it’s one of the greatest games ever made and I loved playing it, especially Rocket Arena.

WIIHAPPYFEW,
@WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net avatar

Touhou lol

python,

Binding of Isaac! I must have watched at least 2000h of Northernlion playing it and have complete knowledge of everything about that game. But I do suck at it and have played maybe like 10h in total just cause I don’t have the hand-eye coordination for it haha

ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling,
@ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

For me, Dwarf Fortress. I have never gotten far in that game. It’s fascinated me since I was 13, and I still suck at it.

space,

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.

spooksboots,

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.

sizzling,

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.

c0mbatbag3l,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Tried for months but couldn’t beat Rayman 2. Fuck you, razor beard.

callouscomic,

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.

Kyrinar,

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

JSens1998,

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.

Fizzlebleam,

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.

bigoljim,
@bigoljim@lemmy.ml avatar

Keep and it, in a few years you can be like me. An old guy who loves Issac, but still sucks at it!

Fizzlebleam, (edited )

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.

bigoljim,
@bigoljim@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, the variety is amazing. That is the best part by far!

HouseWolf,

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 :)

FluffyPotato,

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.

gnzl,
@gnzl@nc.gnzl.cl avatar

I don’t qualify as a “younger user of Lemmy” but I love games like Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat. I suck at all of them, except for Killer Instinct but I’m only kinda good with Combo.

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