The Art of Being Bad at Video Games

[@MrSquidWhiskers]

I love how you're not afraid to just reference someone if you feel they've already said something well! Great work on this!

[@sebastian1175]

I remember as a kid that I asked to my aunt help when I'm on a certain level, she was like my protector, but then I go through those levels and I ask to myself "Is that all?", it's crazy that feeling.

[@derp1627]

when i finished this video i thought you would have at least 10k subs, with this video as reference you are HUGELY underrated. Great video man.

[@mr.pumpkin8891]

only 96 subs? ur content is gold i hope u get more

[@roblammens]

Here before this video blows up. Im always down for more underrated video game essays

[@JACKSTAY]

This video is so so solid and I hope you get all the views

[@thatwillstory]

Great video! You are gonna pop off if you continue making more

[@komododuck]

im bassist in knives chao , love that folding ideas vid, love this vid

[@izzymosley1970]

For me i enjoy getting good at video games from the sense of accomplishment i get from learning a new skill even if that skill doesn't seem very useful. But even so I prefer getting good at games I enjoy playing in fact if I'm not enjoying the game too much I may not even beat it. So I go for a balanced approach when it comes to getting good at games and having fun with games.

[@quinnnr9945]

as someone whos disabled and beat elden ring. you can do it but its like you said nothing wrong with getting help. i find summons and doing planing and math made it better I cleared all content besides Melania thats about it I got an ending and i proud of getting through it.

[@siyzerix]

The problem with elden ring is it wastes player time. Why does fromsoft STILL have a crap camera? Crap controls? etc.? Why not give us a stance meter so we can stop guessing the stance of an enemy? They can even give players the option to disable it, but that option should be there. If doom eternal can literally tell you how to beat each and every enemy in the game, what's fromsoft's excuse for hiding basic information to generate difficulty? Infact, with maleina, fromsoft literally cheats to create difficulty. I've beaten ER twice. Its not a good game. I'd much rather play actually hard but fair games like doom eternal or distance. Heck even outward does difficulty much better than fromsoft.

[@proggz39]

Miss me with that one champ. I’m on a mission to utterly destroy any game worth its salt on this 20 year going strong journey

[@RosieUV]

i played portal 1 and 2 with a walkthhrough video in another window as being a puzzle game, there would be parts of the levels that I wouldn't have any clue on what to do with, or areas that I didn't notice, so having the walkthrough videos as a refrence made it more fun for me as it meant I didn't have to spend an hour on 1 level repeating it over and over.

[@craftynest3435]

I have a feeling your gonna pop off if you keep making videos this good

[@TheDevourerOfGods]

I like summoning in souls games. It makes things more exciting. It is also doing a favor to those waiting to be summoned.

[@leekalba]

Jedi Fallen Order handled difficulty adjustments well in a souls-like, imo. the lack of a pause button is actually shameful though. not everyone can no-life a game, some of us have real life concerns and can't wait to find a safe spot to camp out in.

[@mayoraeryn]

For me, I love TF2, but I absolutely hate getting demolished by players with over 4000 hours, meanwhile I only have 200 hours. I would absolutely love it if TF2 had skill-based matchmaking or even servers specifically designed for players with under 500 hours in the game just so I'd have a much smoother chance to learn instead of getting instantly headshot by a sniper with 4k hours half-way across the map

[@samrobison6421]

Dude how do you only have 50 subs this should have 1 mil views

[@UrVirtualSister]

cheers!

[@MANOFKILLER]

These should be seen by every MOBA, and Competitive FPS players everywhere. Those guy either need to calm down or straight to therapy.

[@grittytenacious6004]

I was the exact opposite. I'm the only one in my household who plays competitively in games! I'm not the best, but I always games like fighting games, or games like Doom Eternal as you said in Nightmare mode. Cheers!

[@1marcelfilms]

fortnight has a no build mode now? Maybe I should start playing it.

[@PanosrozG]

here before 1 mil subs! Love your vids dude!

[@siyzerix]

I'm gonna disagree with the dark souls example. Objectively speaking, these are mediocre games at best. The challenge genuinely comes from the bad camera, bad controls, poor optimization (except ds2), dumb technical limitations like 60fps lock, unbalanced enemies at times, etc. Its important to have a good technical polish first and foremost in action/combat oriented games, so you can minimize player frustration, like distance, doom eternal, etc. do. I would go as far to say these games pretend to respect the player. If they actually respected the player, they'd avoid all these mistakes I mentioned, like actually hard but fair games do. And they waste player time by obfuscating basic information. If you want a genuinely easy to pickup but hard to master game, go play distance and try the community tracks, hidden campaign, etc. They will truly challenge you. Doom eternal is easy to pickup but hard to master. Geometry dash is the same. All these games I mentioned avoid using fromsoft's crap approach to difficulty they use with ER and dark souls series. Because if doom eternal can literally tell you how to kill every enemy and still remain hard, fromsoft has no excuse hiding basic mechanics like a poise/stance meter, no buff duration meter, not explaining its mechanics like jump dodge in ER or powerstance/animation cancel/stance breaks in ds2, etc. Also, unlike doom eternal, none of the souls games except ds2 offer hard mode/challenge runs, etc. Anything to challenge you once you master their combat. What kind of hard game does that? This is from someone who's beaten ds2 and ds3 many, many times with all sorts of gameplay overhauls to make these games harder. I've beaten ER twice including maleina both times without summons. I'm simply tired of fromsoft getting a pass for producing mediocre games and getting praised as if they made some masterpiece, which they didn't.

[@UrVirtualSister]

You make some interesting points, i’ve been thinking about dedicating a full video to the Souls games, i might do a wee section where i address some criticisms like these

[@siyzerix]

@@UrVirtualSister You're gonna need more than a wee section to address my points. And these are points no youtuber covers. If you have a discord channel, we can discuss these points first so your video will have more balanced criticism.

[@milesthegamer951]

Good video👍

[@droopy_eyes]

Well put thing. I myself play a lot of games because, as a kid, I was too poor to have console or pc, and now due to mental and health issues, I play too much games. For the things like pause menu in souls, and so on - I totally get it. Not sure how it could be implemented in most games, but perhaps separate build or mod/addon for disabled players with extra settings? But that are "wasted resources" for most, especially, AAA companies I guess. Other than that, I just am bad at games, and have very "safe" or slow tendencies in strategy games, so fast paced RTS tittles are no-go for me. And I'm not capable to outsmart computer player who have their resources set to 200% and get it called "hard" or "challenging". That's just cheating. Write better AI! haha Yeah, but thanks for the video. I think I needed it.

[@siyzerix]

Souls games have to get a proper camera, proper optimization (which ds2 has), good controls, good control scheme, etc. These aren't wasted resources. Games like doom eternal, geometry dash, distance, etc. all feature pause menu's. Games like NMS have a completely separate online and offline mode, which souls games can incorporate. I mean these things aren't that hard.

[@learnshredguitar]

is bad at games, says its okay and fun good players point out using help is a sign of being bad at games gets actually mad at ppl pointing out the reality he claims to enjoy

[@chaptap8376]

Failure doesn't mean you're bad at games. Being bad is when there's zero improvement. Nobody's bad at Dark Souls because they died during it. Death literally is a core mechanic that the game expects from you, like Seath's first "fight" unless you use unintended exploits to skip it. Demon's Souls literally requires you dying to reach the main game. Same with so many poorly explained and unintuitive mechanics. Bed of Chaos killed everybody who tried doing it blindly, at least once. There's much harder games out there like MMOs and their raids. Those are 100% intended to be learned by repeated failures, and not beaten on their first try unless you're doing it half a decade later with 100x the stats it was designed for. Just look at Mythic Raids or Ultimate Raids.