At least, we assume there's one game at which you totally suck. We've all got 'em. Maybe it's not consistent, but at least some days you get continuously smoked. But what's the game? Maybe you can't face Contra 4, or you are continually last (and weeping) in Mario Kart DS. Maybe you've given up on Tetris or Planet Puzzle League. Whatever the game, we want to hear about your shame. We'll commiserate. After all, with so many of us hanging around, you're probably not alone over there in your big ol' pail of fail.
At least, we assume there's one game at which you totally suck. We've all got 'em. Maybe it's not consistent, but at least some days you get continuously smoked. But what's the game? Maybe you can't face Contra 4, or you are continually last (and weeping) in Mario Kart DS. Maybe you've given up on Tetris or Planet Puzzle League. Whatever the game, we want to hear about your shame. We'll commiserate. After all, with so many of us hanging around, you're probably not alone over there in your big ol' pail of fail.
Reader Comments (30)
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 9:32AM (Unverified) said
Wario - Master of Disguise. All of the drawing of little symbols with my horrible handwriting gets me every time. I try and do the checkmark to turn to the thief and it turns me into the artist. Slightly frustrating.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 9:37AM (Unverified) said
I suck at every Mario Kart ever released, always have and always will.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 9:44AM (Unverified) said
contra 4 is a killer....
last in mario kart...
damn....
PS: Blessed Christmas ds fans!!
last in mario kart...
damn....
PS: Blessed Christmas ds fans!!
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 9:55AM (Unverified) said
Adance Wars DS. I just don't get how you're suppossed to win. Up to about mission 7 or 8 I'm fine, but after that (when the enemy starts to have an infinite number of troops) it just constantly ends in stalemate until I give up in hopelessness. I guess I just suck at strategy games.
It's like:
My go: I move my tank
Their go: They kill my tank
My go: I move my soldiers
Their go: They kill my soldiers
My go: I move my helicopter
Their go: They kill my helicoptor
AAAAAAaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
It's like:
My go: I move my tank
Their go: They kill my tank
My go: I move my soldiers
Their go: They kill my soldiers
My go: I move my helicopter
Their go: They kill my helicoptor
AAAAAAaaaaarrrrrrrrggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 10:17AM hvnlysoldr said
I find my skills at games, and some skills in life, grow in acceleration. Such that if I really suck at a game I suddenly hit a burst to become better at it. Though I can still not be good enough to reach the end I do accelerate and become slightly better in leaps. So there really hasn't been a game I've sucked at. Except one licensed game with Wolverine.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 10:49AM (Unverified) said
Yeah, that's kind of how I am too, just sudden spurts of ability to play. Of course, the ability wears off after a while because I'll end up playing something else once I get as far as I can, then end up back where I started, stuck on the first level.
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Posted: Dec 24th 2007 10:42AM SSUK said
Lost in Blue... Just can't get into the game and can't seem to find what to do before I run out of energy... It annoys me slightly...
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 11:13AM (Unverified) said
Mario Kart DS. Youve all seen me get owned in mario kart :P.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 11:36AM (Unverified) said
Oh! I thought I was good at Tetris until I have gotten my a** handed down to me, ripped with multiple new holes. Also, I could not get passed the 5th or 6th surgery in Trauma Center (the one where you had to suture aneurysms or something): even after drawing out the Healing Touch, five wounds would pop up at the same time, which I have always been unable to prevent from blowing off. I rued that so much I traded it in.
I still play Tetris, though. Alone. :-)
I still play Tetris, though. Alone. :-)
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 11:44AM dditto74 said
I am terrible at Advance Wars. With the first game on the GBA, it is the only game that can consistently convince me it needs to be thrown across the room. The thing is, I loves me a good Strategy RPG any day of the week. I'm a huge fan of the Disgaea series, Phantom Brave, and various other titles that come out of Nippon Ichi on the PS2. I guess it's something about how I can't play old missions to create a level 57 supertank in Advance Wars that makes the game so infuriatingly difficult for me.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 12:01PM (Unverified) said
I can't face Contra 4. It just requires mental conditioning the likes of which my short attention span for such things doesn't care for.
I love Metal Slug, but Contra just isn't the same. ._.
I love Metal Slug, but Contra just isn't the same. ._.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 12:20PM (Unverified) said
Meteos, but I think it's that game that sucks, not me.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 12:24PM lazymangaka said
For me, it's two games: Mr. Driller Drill Spirits, and Super Mario Bros. 3.
I owned and loved Mr. Driller Drill Spirits. It had a neat art style, colorful graphics, and a fun and interesting puzzle engine. But in two years and countless times I'd played the game, I managed to beat a whopping 1 LEVEL. That's it. Just one. Then I would package it up neatly in it's box and hide it (and my shame) in a drawer.
And Super Mario Bros. 3... Maybe I'm just spoiled on modern platformers, but this game just beats the hell out of me. My girlfriend makes it look incredibly easy, but no matter how many times I play the levels I just cannot figure them out.
I owned and loved Mr. Driller Drill Spirits. It had a neat art style, colorful graphics, and a fun and interesting puzzle engine. But in two years and countless times I'd played the game, I managed to beat a whopping 1 LEVEL. That's it. Just one. Then I would package it up neatly in it's box and hide it (and my shame) in a drawer.
And Super Mario Bros. 3... Maybe I'm just spoiled on modern platformers, but this game just beats the hell out of me. My girlfriend makes it look incredibly easy, but no matter how many times I play the levels I just cannot figure them out.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 1:54PM (Unverified) said
Advance Wars for me too... It took me about a year and a half to get to mission 23, but I keep getting schooled. I haven't really played it for a few months cuz i just want to punch the game in the face, but I'm gona try to beat it during the holidays.
And any of you play TMNT 3: Mutant Nightmare? That game is brutally hard for me... I just want to unlock Turtles in Time!!!
And any of you play TMNT 3: Mutant Nightmare? That game is brutally hard for me... I just want to unlock Turtles in Time!!!
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 2:06PM (Unverified) said
I suck at most games I own. Except RPGs, that's part of the reason I love 'em so much. But... platformers, especially, and more actiony-type games.
Metroid Prime Hunters, Megaman ZX, even New Super Mario Bros (took me a MONTH). I SUCK.
I still play more games than I should.
Metroid Prime Hunters, Megaman ZX, even New Super Mario Bros (took me a MONTH). I SUCK.
I still play more games than I should.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 2:02PM (Unverified) said
Totally Mario Kart... I was awesome on the super, didn't have a 64 for a long time so I still stink at it, I was good on the Gamecube version... but man oh man do I ALWAYS get last in Mario Kart for the DS... I think I'm getting better though, slowly but surely... :( but I got it when it first came out and I remember playing my boyfriend the first time he had played it and he still owned me
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 2:56PM (Unverified) said
i can snake in mkds.
i can t-spin in tetrisds.
hell i can even do a 50-chain in planet puzzle league.
but contra 4? i can't even beat stage 1.
i can t-spin in tetrisds.
hell i can even do a 50-chain in planet puzzle league.
but contra 4? i can't even beat stage 1.
Posted: Dec 24th 2007 8:19PM (Unverified) said
BIG OL PAIL OF FAIL...I LOL'd
anyways...contra 4 gave me the hardest ****ing time.... but i finally owned it about two days ago. all 40 challenges + story mode on hard.
ahhh....victory. tastes great.
anyways...contra 4 gave me the hardest ****ing time.... but i finally owned it about two days ago. all 40 challenges + story mode on hard.
ahhh....victory. tastes great.
Posted: Dec 25th 2007 12:58AM (Unverified) said
Currently Sonic and Blaze have suffered several deaths. I don't ever recall getting this stuck on any early level stages for any of the Sonic games I've played.
and hope ya'll have a merry Christmas!
and hope ya'll have a merry Christmas!
Posted: Dec 25th 2007 3:34AM chispito said
Nobody said EBA? I'm stuck at the final stage of the number two difficulty.
Posted: Dec 25th 2007 8:02AM (Unverified) said
I suck at so many games, but I'm going to tell you just about my first time on Mario Kart wifi.
I enter... the system assigns me an opponent which count 63 losses and 0 wins. I say to myself "Aha! First race, easy win!".
Needless to say, I gifted him his first win XD
That was the first - and last - time I went on wifi with Mario Kart :D
I enter... the system assigns me an opponent which count 63 losses and 0 wins. I say to myself "Aha! First race, easy win!".
Needless to say, I gifted him his first win XD
That was the first - and last - time I went on wifi with Mario Kart :D
Posted: Dec 25th 2007 9:29AM (Unverified) said
I completely suck at the New Super Mario Brothers. I don't know why, but I just completely suck at it.
Posted: Dec 25th 2007 10:44AM (Unverified) said
Animal crossing! No matter how much time i put into it, I just can't beat that game! ;) Merry Christmas everyone ^_^/
Ok ok, I guess I suck at Mariokart DS Wifi! I get so pwned with them snakers! ;_;
Ok ok, I guess I suck at Mariokart DS Wifi! I get so pwned with them snakers! ;_;
Posted: Dec 26th 2007 2:09AM Scout12 said
Let's see... I suck at MKDS so bad, must rely on Bullet Bill powerup to win. And I suck really bad at Trauma Center. It's a total cakewalk for me with he first few operations, but then all of a sudden I'm failing left and right, arrggh!!!
Posted: Dec 26th 2007 11:52AM raindog469 said
There are levels of most games that I have trouble beating, but the closest I really come to sucking at a game that I like enough to buy in the first place would have to be Mario Kart DS. I'm not so bad that I couldn't get a star in most of the courses, but I've never gotten three stars in anything and whenever I go online, I'm in the tard league (never did learn how to snake) and still get beaten most of the time.
Posted: Dec 27th 2007 10:08PM moominsean said
new super mario bros, defnly. i'm like almost towards the end, and i can't even play any of the last levels without just getting pissed of. not worth the anguish. i've never finished an advanced wars game. i always start out good and then it just gets to complicated and i give up.
i'm trying to make it through the main dungeon on zelda ds for i think the 5th time. flipping drives me nuts that i still have to re-figure out half the puzzles over and over again.
howabout games we are good at? i completed every puzzle in picross ds with perfect times, and am now at about 350 out of 400 of the puzzles on hudson's illust color logic ds...though i have to go back on a few to get the full stars.
i'm trying to make it through the main dungeon on zelda ds for i think the 5th time. flipping drives me nuts that i still have to re-figure out half the puzzles over and over again.
howabout games we are good at? i completed every puzzle in picross ds with perfect times, and am now at about 350 out of 400 of the puzzles on hudson's illust color logic ds...though i have to go back on a few to get the full stars.
Posted: Dec 28th 2007 7:08PM (Unverified) said
I suck at most fighting games(LOL BUTTON MASH), but for some reason I'm really good at Bleach XD
Posted: Dec 29th 2007 12:47PM igorponweed said
Only a Wii game. Twilight Princess.
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