What are you gaming flaws?

Been a while since I made one of these lame threads, time to change that! See the other day I was playing some good old Breath of the Wild, continuing my 3 heart run and entering Zora land. Naturally I decided to take on the Lynel whose every attack is a death because sneaking is for wimps. Needless to say I got my backside kicked a few times before perfecting him.

Afterwards I did some self-reflection, as the two deaths weren't good enough in my eyes considering how often I pick fights with Lynels and win. And thus this thread was born, as the self-reflection led me to a conclusion about myself and how I play games, a conclusion that made me realise I tend to get more than a little careless and lax when feeling overconfident. I'll rush in to a fight I know I can win, making mistakes and getting destroyed in the process. Happens in every game too, whether it be multiplayer or singleplayer.

Over notable game-specific flaws include constantly rolling in Smash after getting a good hit in, a bad reflex that formed as a way of centring myself for my next approach which makes me dead predictable. A flaw because I often roll and miss a good followup or chance to apply some pressure, as well as the aforementioned predictability of it.


Well, I've shown you mine, time you lot show me yours.

At least buy me a drink first.

I've got a couple of bad flaws in SSB, mostly rolling around everywhere. My worst gaming flaw, though, is getting bogged down in things I find quite dull for the sake of my completionist nature. One reason I'm not too concerned that Nintendo have no trophy system!

Buying to many games

Balladeer wrote:

My worst gaming flaw, though, is getting bogged down in things I find quite dull for the sake of my completionist nature.  One reason I'm not too concerned that Nintendo have no trophy system!

Yeah, this - I haven't finished BotW because I'm trying to find a picture of all of the beetles, and get my clothes upgraded to 4 star.

A more direct flaw - in e.g. beat-em-ups*, not being able to perform the special move at the exact most important time.



*this is correct as I started doing this in 1985

Mine is similar to the "buying too many games" thing we probably all have, but that I tend to miss out on great games when they are brand new.

This includes pretty much every Zelda and Mario (minus Sunshine).

I enjoy playing "last-gen" games and constantly read and think about playing games from my childhood/teenage years, without actually buying them. That's a massive flaw of mine - thinking about games all the time but if you gave me £40 to buy a game, I'd spend a week researching what I could get and end up with 10 games - most I'd never get round to playing.

This is further amplified by watching YouTube gaming channels like Game Sack, Game Scoop, MetalJesusRocks et al, when I could be playing games - I only really play a few hours a week because I'm too busy pussyfooting around reading/watching/reminiscing.

I hardly ever go in depth on a game. Instead I will spend the time I need to get to the credits before popping it out if the machine and replacing it with the next game. Games that require time to truly master/becum compitant at - like Mario Kart or a fighting game - I just play to completion and promptly get a damn good thrashing online.

gjones wrote:

Mine is similar to the "buying too many games" thing we probably all have, but that I tend to miss out on great games when they are brand new.

This includes pretty much every Zelda and Mario (minus Sunshine).

I enjoy playing "last-gen" games and constantly read and think about playing games from my childhood/teenage years, without actually buying them. That's a massive flaw of mine - thinking about games all the time but if you gave me £40 to buy a game, I'd spend a week researching what I could get and end up with 10 games - most I'd never get round to playing.

This is further amplified by watching YouTube gaming channels like Game Sack, Game Scoop, MetalJesusRocks et al, when I could be playing games - I only really play a few hours a week because I'm too busy pussyfooting around reading/watching/reminiscing.

I do this as well, I will watch people talk about games or come on here and now even do things with games myself which I'm not playing anything.

For me, it's definitely trying to complete a game fully and eventually marring my overall experience of the game in doing so. Dark Souls III comes to mind as I was totally done with that game but the lure of the platinum trophy drew me back in, and I ended up burning myself out. That's why if I'm planning on completing a game 100% now, I'll give it a while to cool off so I'll return to it with an actual desire to play that game again.

I used to be awful for starting games and never finishing them in my younger days. I have improved a lot, but I now have the problem of just never starting them, and instead just going back to old faithfuls. It was Animal Crossing for a while, Splatoon and Titanfall had their periods, now it's Mario Kart.

In terms of actually playing, my biggest flaw is getting bored or distracted, especially in a multiplayer game where I'm chatting to friends, and my skill subsequently plummeting off a cliff.

I think for me it'll be playing games that I know I'll hate, but still feel I have to dabble/play through completely for the sake of having an opinion.

The other thing I can think of is that I'd rather buy the game again on another platform to replay if I've already platinumed it, so it does kind of act as a cut off point for me. It's not often that I feel the need to do so, but it's a lil bit wasteful when I do.

I'm just too good at them, It's not fun being consistently the best.

Crumpy Andy wrote:

I think for me it'll be playing games that I know I'll hate, but still feel I have to dabble/play through completely for the  sake of having an opinion.

I do almost the opposite: I'll buy games and then not give them a fair crack of the whip. Recent example on the Switch is pixel-indie darling, Shovel Knight. (Although not the best example as I gave it a fairer go on the 3DS.)

I get that as I've tried the Souls games numerous times for instance as I want to see the fuss and give them a fair crack even though I know after the first one (demon) that I won't like them.