Games you play not necessarily for your own benefit

[Ki!ler-Mk1]

I’m sure many of you spend time playing at least 1 game, which you do not find to be fun. But play for others who invite you, or perhaps it is that you play because they expect you to like it because they all do, or is it that you are just really bad at that game.

If there is such a game, what do you do to change the above. Read about it? Play it loads and try to get good to find entertainment in owning people rather than the games self-redeeming qualities? Just slog along and not tell anyone it isn’t fun. This can work, but it could go from not fun, to plain boring.

For me, this game is TF2, I AM bad at it, I don’t find the class variety fun, and I always pick the worsted class for me without asking what I should be. Sure I love the chatter in TS during this game, but is that a reason to drag down your team?



What game do you play that other people do not know you do not enjoy when they invite you?



PS dont stop inviting me to TF2 games

 

[Spicypixel]

Ditto, used to be fairly good at TF2, player other games (EVE ruined my FPS skills for the most part) then picked up BC2 and stuff. But yeah TF2 is the game I least enjoy sadly.

 

[Angelic]

Used to have this problem with CoD4. I sucked, yet many a friend of mine praised it to high heavens, so I kept trying to find the amusement in it. Having failed repeatedly I eventually gave up on it and don´t play it anymore. Problem solved!

WoW can be like this at times too, but the sheer amount of friend in there and the goals you set for yourself generally keep you going even through the less fun more boring times.

One last game I can think of was/is Civ4. It´s a brrilliant game, don´t get me wrong, but I could never get over the micromanagement tediousness of the later parts of each game and slow pace of the earlier times. I would play a MP match, but mostly because of all the friends rather than the game itself.

 

[Zooggy]

Hoy,

Pretty much every single RTS ever. It's like my brain can't wrap itself around the thought processes required to be good at that style of games.

Oddly enough, every time I come across an RTT, like Bridge Too Far or the likes, I love it to death...

Cheers,
J.

 

[Traxata]

Used to have this problem with CoD4. I sucked, yet many a friend of mine praised it to high heavens, so I kept trying to find the amusement in it. Having failed repeatedly I eventually gave up on it and don´t play it anymore. Problem solved!

WoW can be like this at times too, but the sheer amount of friend in there and the goals you set for yourself generally keep you going even through the less fun more boring times.

One last game I can think of was/is Civ4. It´s a brrilliant game, don´t get me wrong, but I could never get over the micromanagement tediousness of the later parts of each game and slow pace of the earlier times. I would play a MP match, but mostly because of all the friends rather than the game itself.

Also Ange, You didn't like EVE for similar reasons

 

[Angelic]

Also Ange, You didn't like EVE for similar reasons

Your face

Well yeah.

Well no, it wasn't that I sucked (I did, but not because of being a noob, but rather a newbie), it was just that I couldn't find my sense of direction in the sandbox and that, when it comes down to it, it turns out internet spaceships don't speak to me as much as I thought they would.

But yes, I did play it because my friends were on about how awesome it is

 

[Ghostwolf67]

Splinter cell conviction wins this race.

I knew it was going to suck and suck it did. Yet i bought it solely because a freind and i had always always done the co-op missions together and he badgered me into getting it. I hated every quick time event, single button kill, brain dead plot moment. Not to mention the last lvl section was practically impossible on the difficulty we were doing it on. After like 50 tries we gave up.

 

[Panda with issues...]

Resident Evil 5. For the exact reasons ghostwolf articulated above