Bad at Video Games

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I've seen a lot of aspies here that enjoy playing video games. I'm quite the opposite: I don't like them at all. My video games skills are abysmal, so playing one is nothing but a source of frustration. Every time I play, I can't get anywhere past a certain level, no matter how hard I try. When I was younger, I used to ask my NT friends to pass levels for me. Now I completely abandoned playing video games, don't own anything that has to do with them, and roll my eyes at commercials advertising new game systems. Whenever I actually play a video game, it's only on my computer, with all possible cheat codes enabled.

Is anyone else here bad at video games? Do you play them anyway, or do go about it another way? Post your responses.

I only like the kinds with monotonous leveling-up I tend to get very frustrated when I can't do something first time round, and I also hate surprises. First time I played Tomb Raider I got to level three, then a dinosaur jumped on me out of nowhere and I leaped out of my seat and said "Right, sod it, I'm never playing this again" XD

My general habit with videogames is that I'll get to the final boss and stop there. I've done it with so many games that my brother's started taking them off me to finish them in frustration. In Final Fantasy VII I had all characters including Vincent and Yuffie at level 99 with their final weapons and limit breaks, Cloud's stats all at 255, scads of materia including a Master Summon and two maxed Knights of the Round (meaning I'd actually mastered KotR THREE times, which should astonish any FF7 fans)... but I never got around to fighting Sephiroth. I got to the point where there was nothing left to level up, so I quit.

I'm a mediocre video game player overall. I'm pretty good at some games but absolutely horrible at others.

i used to suck at them until i found a game i liked. i stuck w/ it, and now kick ass at it. i recenlty taken a liking to a new game, wii tennis. i kick ass at it too
all you need to do is find a game that u like.

perseverance and thats it. You can be good at anything you put your mind to, which is even more true for the single minded nature of aspies.

I adore video games but am terrible at playing them, i am ridiculously uncoordinated and, instead of jumping over an obstacle i usually end up jumping on to it. This is rather ironic as i'm usually very good at figuring out how to defeat the various advesaries etc (all in the timing).

I also have trouble dealing with all the lights, noise and various other things that happen in a lot of video game, i get overloaded. Music is particularly bad, especially in Tomb Raider where they start playing creepy music when there is something up ahead, like wolves, as soon as it starts i can not continue; then they do the evil thing of playing the music when there is nothing there.

Doom is one of my all time favourites, but as soon as i start playing it, i start shaking and sweating, and can't stop, i know what is approaching (having watched various others complete the same levels), yet i start to panic, i have tried to overcome this by mastering the first level, sort of desensitizing myself, but if i do not play it regularly, i start to shake again, which is just impractical.

I wish someone would do DVDs of game footage as it is the only way i get to experience any types of video games.

My two-hand coordination is pretty bad, so console-games are too hard for me anyway. On the PC I can be pretty good, but never reach something like 'very good'. I'm never first, always second or third.

I've only completed a few games 100%, and they're all platformers.

Sonic The Hedgehog 1
Sonic The hedgehog 3
Donkey Kong Land (Game Boy)
Croc (PSOne)
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)

The last game I 'unofficially' completed was Archer Maclean's Mercury for PSP. I've completed all the levels, but there are hidden levels, which are REALLY hard.

I am very bad at videogames, but my son (HFA) is excellent. There was only one videogame I've had some success with, an old one, "Bugdom." But I could never get past the level with the river

I once tried to play Myst and I actually felt so sick to my stomach from the panning perspective that I threw up and was dizzy for more than a day.

I, too, am horrible at video games, but that's mainly because I've never actually tried to beat one.

In Grand Theft Auto, my main source of enjoyment was riding around and shooting at people. I'm not sure I even knew about the missions.

In Starcraft and Warcraft, my favorite thing to do was to use a cheat code make my guys invincible, and just watch them slaughter the enemy.

I'm good at FPS games, but not RPGs.

I don't like hard games at all, but I love playing easy ones. I want the experience, not the challenge.

I like fighting games and platformers
others...meh.
Soul Cal is awesome.