I'm shit at driving in games. My friend group has made me the designated driver in games for over 8 years and I'm still shit at turning without bumping into something. Especially in populated games like GTA V or The Crew where pedestrians and lamp posts are exponentially more threatening than in real life.
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Simple mechanics you struggled with
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Revolutionary
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Accidentally jumping because you approached a ledge at a slightly faster pace than walking is one of the most annoying things ever. I prayed to the gods for 20 years for a goddamn jump button and they are finally delivering.
I think that's what he's referring to.
Earthpainting
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I start sweating when I see a game bust out a grappling hook. There are too many games that want you to latch onto a ceiling, swing, and jump, and mid-jump hook back onto another part of said ceiling. I just can't pull it off reliably.
Last game I played with that mechanic was Axiom Verge.
Last game I played with that mechanic was Axiom Verge.
SomedayTheFire
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Booted up Wind Waker there on sunday and struggled with that too.
MadJackChurchill
Banned
You ever tried hitting a lamp post?
Ordinaryundone
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I was always pretty bad at links in Street Fighter IV. Its like, I get the concept behind them and I'm able to do a couple of them after tons and tons of practice but in an actual match I find it so hard to fight the compulsion to want to do the combo as fast as I can, rather than relying on specific timings. SFV made it much easier though, the timing is now lenient enough that you can even mash your way through most of the more common links if you want.
Triggerhappytel
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Lol. "Confusing the power and eject buttons on the PS4".
AppleSeason
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I have major problems with "press this button" QTEs. I can do it when it is a sony console, but on the rest something like "press A" or being shown just the colour of the button can lead to major complications trying to understand which button I'm supposed to press and having to look at the gamepad. After nearly every console having variations in naming and colours, I'm always confused unless I am dealing with the playstation symbols or I am on a nintendo console that uses their traditional button layout (Gamecube is sort of a special case in which I know the shapes of the buttons but not their letters)
More Recently, open the menu on The Witcher 3. Four hours into The Witcher 3, I keep pushing "option" instead of the touch pad. I also try to talk to people with square (I think this is related to a game I was playing before) and I keep punching them in the face
And as a last one... Charge characters in fighting games. I swear I can't time the back/down for Guile's special moves.
More Recently, open the menu on The Witcher 3. Four hours into The Witcher 3, I keep pushing "option" instead of the touch pad. I also try to talk to people with square (I think this is related to a game I was playing before) and I keep punching them in the face
And as a last one... Charge characters in fighting games. I swear I can't time the back/down for Guile's special moves.
I have wasted hundreds of hours on the various Souls games, yet never consistently nailed the timing for parries. I started avoiding it pretty quickly because of the risk involved. I was so disinterested in the mechanic that I only later learned using a buckler makes the timing window larger. Weirdly enough, I did use the criticals a lot in Bloodborne. Them being tied to a gun shot + being able to dodge out of the way, made it more tempting to try out. Nailing them constantly felt so satisfying against Gascoigne. Yet when DkS III hit, I ignored parrying like always.
I also had a hard time with the climbing/floaty movement in Grow Home. I sort of got used to the controls by the end of the game, but I was glad it was only a couple of hours long. I really didn't like those controls.
I also put aside The World Ends With You because of the dual action set up. A lot of people loved this system, but I couldn't deal with doing two things at once. Gave up on that game pretty quickly. Granted it's not really a 'simple' mechanic, but it felt like I should've gotten used to it after a while.
I also had a hard time with the climbing/floaty movement in Grow Home. I sort of got used to the controls by the end of the game, but I was glad it was only a couple of hours long. I really didn't like those controls.
I also put aside The World Ends With You because of the dual action set up. A lot of people loved this system, but I couldn't deal with doing two things at once. Gave up on that game pretty quickly. Granted it's not really a 'simple' mechanic, but it felt like I should've gotten used to it after a while.
TheRealJakoozie
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Haha this. Especially in CoD. I guess sometimes you really should bring a knife to a gunfight?
I loved the parrying in MGR, such a great mechanic. But I think it was a bit overpowered in MGR.
I loved the parry so much that I started using the Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa in Bayonetta and Bayonetta 2 so I could parry in that too.
basic_text
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My sentiments exactly. I tried all buttons, even one of them felt like a handbrake placebo but I was wrong.
Time to remap!
MarioHead3
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DigitalRicket
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Not sure if I'm the only one but as a kid I sucked something fierce at using the cape in Super Mario World. Got the hang of it when I later the light a Super Nintendo as an adult but yeah, that was always something I could never get the hang of back then.
actthafool
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I'm garbage at blocking/parrying in most games.
In Uncharted 4
In Uncharted 4
The sword fight with Rafe was hell for me
Don't know if this specifically would count as a mechanic, but Sniping in FPS or TPS. Any other gun I'm usually very comfortable with but give me a sniper rifle and I'm like a baby trying to walk its first steps. I'm just God awful at sniping, I never can get headshots, can never aim properly and almost always I get killed while trying to use one.
I'm the exact opposite. I'm hot garbage with KB/M. I flail like a dying fish out of water. Everything moves to fast, it's hard to control the mouse, it feels weird moving in a 2D space with basically directional buttons...it's overall pathetic with me and PC shooters. I basically have to put the difficulty level down to compensate when playing PC shooters.
Edit: Oh, another one: Combo systems in every 2D Fighting game outside of Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat and Smash makes no sense to me. I'm lucky as hell to get a combo greater than 3 in Street Fighter, Blaze Blue or King of Fighters.
I'm the exact opposite. I'm hot garbage with KB/M. I flail like a dying fish out of water. Everything moves to fast, it's hard to control the mouse, it feels weird moving in a 2D space with basically directional buttons...it's overall pathetic with me and PC shooters. I basically have to put the difficulty level down to compensate when playing PC shooters.
Edit: Oh, another one: Combo systems in every 2D Fighting game outside of Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat and Smash makes no sense to me. I'm lucky as hell to get a combo greater than 3 in Street Fighter, Blaze Blue or King of Fighters.
IMO, not simple at all. Very unintuitive.
This, but with all Zelda games. The auto jump is just terrible.
NinjaBoiX
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Why do people spoiler tag an entire sentence when part of that sentence is what game it spoils? There is no way to find out what the game is without also reading the spoiler.
It's infuriating, you may as well not spoiler tag it at all.
The_Hitcher89
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I'm watching Metal Gear Scanlon right now, and Drew is struggling with the concept of crawling through new areas instead of running
Not sure if this counts but in Dota 2, there's an item called a Black King Bar, that temporarily makes you immune to spells. The longer I've played the game, the more active items I've been able to handle, but there's something about the BKB in particular that makes me forget I have it, and forget to use it.
Shame, as its one of the best items for a lot of the heroes.
I'm absolutely shite at parrying in Bloodborne as well
Not sure if this counts but in Dota 2, there's an item called a Black King Bar, that temporarily makes you immune to spells. The longer I've played the game, the more active items I've been able to handle, but there's something about the BKB in particular that makes me forget I have it, and forget to use it.
Shame, as its one of the best items for a lot of the heroes.
I'm absolutely shite at parrying in Bloodborne as well
I love SF4, but I am so bad at it. I can't do links, and I can't FADC correctly 9 times out of 10. Ryu's SRK->FADC->Super is supposed to be some basic, rudimentary shit, and I can't do it.
Similarly, Urien is my favorite 3S character, but I can't charge partition, so it's useless.
Similarly, Urien is my favorite 3S character, but I can't charge partition, so it's useless.
DJ_Lae
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Console versions too, apparently - in the alternate control layout.
Not sure why they left it out by default. I had been pushing buttons at the beginning of the game wondering if one of them was a handbrake (and I swore one of them actually did something, but I think I was just fooling myself).
demosthenes
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This is me.
I literally can't play MGR.
Everybody says "you just need to practice, man". Bugger off. I've practiced, tried and tried, watched Youtube videos, etc, but it's like a brick wall. I can't do it.
actthafool
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Sorry, meant no offence, i'm still new to gaf!
Lonewulfeus
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I didn't know Hanzo could run up walls by holding the jump button until I already had a few hours under my belt and even then I saw a friend do it and had to have him tell me how :-(
viewtiful_dru
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Funny thing is, I can do complex movements in fighters no problem, can parry in most action games, but I can't aim for jackshit in FPS games.
John Kowalski
Banned
The magic system of Trails in The Sky. Only figured out before the last boss that gem (whatever they were called) levels are incremental.
Yeah I don't tend to struggle in any action games that don't require aiming a gun. Character action games, hardcore platformers, Souls games and so on are all doable. Soon as I need to aim a crosshair though forget it.
Just different types of skills I guess.
Frankenstrat
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Street Fighter: The Thread
This is why I stick with Melee and its L-canceling wavedashdancey bullshit
This is why I stick with Melee and its L-canceling wavedashdancey bullshit
Mase Gumble
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Platforming, I'm fucking useless at it.
capitalCORN
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Active reload in Gears of War. I never got the rhythm down and would flub it in the middle of action.
Moon of Mahaa-Kalaa was the 'end game' item everyone used on higher difficulties before MGR.
Air combos in VS games. Played from X-Men COTA (though it was pretty rudimentary back then), but didn't get it down until well into XvSF.
I'm not sure what it was either. I could do the magic-series just fine in Darkstalkers & Alpha, but something about doing all of this while airborne (including mimicking tick throws for air-throw "combos") eluded me for the longest time.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, was probably the concept of super jump cancelling that gave me the most issue. I don't think I had ever encountered that before.
I'm not sure what it was either. I could do the magic-series just fine in Darkstalkers & Alpha, but something about doing all of this while airborne (including mimicking tick throws for air-throw "combos") eluded me for the longest time.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, was probably the concept of super jump cancelling that gave me the most issue. I don't think I had ever encountered that before.