What's Your Gaming Achilles' Heel?

[Key-Glyph]

There are a whole bunch of classic skills that games may demand of us: color recognition, maneuvering with tank controls, talking to endless NPCs, and solving abstruse puzzles, just to name a few.

My question is, which ones are your downfall? Which ones make you stop and say to yourself, "Aw man, I STINK at this!"?

Bonus points if it's something your other gaming friends and family seem to be pretty good at.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Well, I can just barely differentiate and recognize colors which makes for some fun times.

For the most part, I can not "properly" play modern 3D games, and games with control schemes more complicated than what you'd find on the SNES.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Well, I can just barely differentiate and recognize colors which makes for some fun times.

For the most part, I can not "properly" play modern 3D games, and games with control schemes more complicated than what you'd find on the SNES.

Don't believe him. The man's awesome at PSO.

I thought I was good at almost anything, bu I am apparently awful at sports games.

[noiseredux]

Stealth. I am terrible at stealth. I'm too anxious I think.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Mine has... and always will be time constraints. When a game places a ticking clock, or multi-tasking in a real time atmosphere, I clam up! Real Time Strategy games? Get outta here! I love being able to stop and assess the situation before making decisions and diving in. Whenever a game puts up a timer and a self-destruct sequence.... I panic!!!!! Outside of that, not much really discourages me in the gaming world!

[Segata]

Patience.
Stealth.
Timed missions or moments.


Timed things are the worst for me. They only make me angry and panic. I have sold games I was enjoying just because of a time mission. It's a bad mechanic. I hate it.

[strangenova]

Tetris....or any block type puzzle games really. I like them, I just really stink at them. And I guess I get bonus points because my sisters/wife/grandparents and everyone can wipe the floor with my tetris high scores.

[alienjesus]

Stealth. I am terrible at stealth. I'm too anxious I think.

Yeah, this. Horror too, if it counts, for pretty much the same reason. I can even feel my hands shaking a bit when I play a close competitive match of overwatch

I'd like to imagine I'm good at some genres, but compared to others on the board I kinda pale in comparison. Shmups for example.

I'm pretty terrible at fighting games, but I actually think the vast majority of people are. Very few people actually learn the ins and outs imo.

[Tanooki]

Scripted events when it comes to the TRPG genre on the whole, RTS games from Starcraft since, and other non-sense designers put in a few other genres where there's no logical step forward or thing to do so you just sit and spin for hours or repeatedly die/fail the objective with no idea or even a hint of why you are stuck/losing. TRPG is one thing, the rest to me is like a way to sell 900# tip lines in the day or $20 strategy guides.

TRPG type stuff (your Ogre Battle likes to the grid off stuff like Advance Wars/Nectaris/Fire Emblem stuff -- total lack of any kind of control other than moving a piece around and hoping the AI doesn't foul up. I just can't do them, I wish to do one thing, AI decides another and it's maddening.

[Sano]

Timers for me as well. One game that comes to mind for things I suck at is Gran Turismo; trying to do the licensing tracks is beyond my abilities.