The Citizen Soapbox is an area where we throw out topics to the users of Citizen Game. When we record the podcast on Sunday night we take the previous week’s Soapbox answers and use them in our own discussions. We think it’s a great way of involving you guys in our stupid arguments!
The Setup:
This Friday Super Street Fighter 4 is being released in the UK. Many of us will buy it, play it on easy mode and put it away after a bunch of embarrassing online defeats. Later this year Starcraft 2 will be launched – another game that demands hours of training to hone your skills. Gaming has so many diverse genres and game styles that it’s impossible to be good at all of them.
The Questions
What individual game or genre do you wish you were better at?
Demons Souls - as accessible as an underwater wheelchair ramp to idiots like me
Pro Evo. I hate the game yet am compelled to play it by less geeky housemates. I’ve spent hours trying to improve but still lose as much as I win. Worst thing is, when I offer up a COD game they scuttle away.
I honestly believe I will be a better man if when/if I consistently beat them.
I’m a late comer to the Guitar Hero games and really enjoy sitting down and hammering out a few tunes. I haven’t progressed past Medium difficulty and am in awe of the folks who fly through on Expert mode.
Would be great to be a genius at them but I don’t have the time to dedicate to getting that good.
Every sports game, ever released. My frustration with them culminated when I was younger, and my friends played Madden. I would get so frustrated that I would beat the controller against the floor. That claimed two of my Xbox controllers, and with an NHL game on the 360 I threw it on the ground and it shattered.
Sports Games: 3
Me: 0
all my friends have played through all 3 assasins creed games doing razy things with it,but when i got a lend of assasins creed 2 i couldnt do any of these crazy things,like a wall run assasination or even a simple knife throw.
I cry myself to sleep wishing I was better at FIFA.
First person shooters are a humiliating weakness for me. I just can’t seem to get people into the centre of MY screen and press the ‘shoot’ button quite as fast as they can get me in the middle of THEIR screen and press the ‘shoot’ button.
Simple way to matchmake players on the likes of COD, match people using their kill/death ratio. That way you are pretty sure you will be playing against similarly skilled folk. Would work on most games actually eg. win/loss ratio or average grid positions.
It would be nice to be able to buy a game 2 months after release date and not get pwnd, but what chance does a bloke like me who works 10 hours a day have against a child with all the time in the world? I pray for a comeback in couch co-op/competitive games, but I doubt it is going to happen now online is just so massive.
The grind of MMOs never appealed to me, causing me to opt out of many forays into the genre. If only I appreciated mind-numbing mouseclicking more, I’d be better at them!
Boom! Headshots! I can’t seem to crack how to be consistent when the speed starts to pick up in shooter’s.
As Morpheus accurately summarises my current skill level…
‘Men have emptied entire clips at them and hit nothing but air!’
Marvel vs Capcom 1&2 and SF Third Strike are by far some of my favorite games of all time, yet i continue to suck at them.
Memorizing combos and specials just dosen’t do it for me.
My gaming skills very much mirror my life skills. Jack of all trades, master of none.
I am more than happy to reveal that my fighting game skills plateau at mortal kombat.
I really wish I was better at traditional fighting games. I play a lot of Tekken and sometimes get involved in some quite high level play, but I get murdered whenever I play Street Fighter against someone who knows what they’re doing. I’ve tried to learn 2D fighting games many times, but it just never clicks for me.