Grade yourself as a gamer..

[Fireman]

At what level do we grade ourselves against?

 

There are many gamers out there who can make a living winning many competitive tournaments around the world or even placing in 2nd or 3rd. How often do you top leaderboards in many games in a genre? Surely these are the gamers that should be getting the 8's, 9's and 10's.

We're grading ourselves against the games, not necessarily against other online players (after all most of these genres still have more offline games than online games).

 

Though I suppose with the FPS genre it's hard to ignore other players since FPS are almost always online. I'd still grade myself a 9/10 out of then for FPS's though. Played CS:CZ for a while at a decent level and whenever I play a FPS I haven't played before I get the hang of it within an hour or two, enough so to beat my friends which have been playing for a few months/years.

 

 

[EmSixTeen]

In this thread: A lot of people thinking they're a lot better at games than they actually are.

[Fireman]

 

In this thread: A lot of people thinking they're a lot better at games than they actually are.

That's the beauty of gaming, games make you feel like you're better than everyone.

 

Which is mainly because everyone is a programmed bot (SP)

[Guest]

 

In this thread: A lot of people thinking they're a lot better at games than they actually are.

That's the beauty of gaming, games make you feel like you're better than everyone.

 

Which is mainly because everyone is a programmed bot (SP)

Not necessarily. Online GTA IV racing, I get 1st, 2nd or 3rd out of a 16 player race. I've been in tournaments and the majority of the time been in the top half, mostly first or second. I rate myself a 10 because I beat pretty much everyone, and the times I get beat are from people who are also 10s. Somebody has to win.

[EmSixTeen]

 

In this thread: A lot of people thinking they're a lot better at games than they actually are.

That's the beauty of gaming, games make you feel like you're better than everyone.

 

Which is mainly because everyone is a programmed bot (SP)

Not necessarily. Online GTA IV racing, I get 1st, 2nd or 3rd out of a 16 player race. I've been in tournaments and the majority of the time been in the top half, mostly first or second. I rate myself a 10 because I beat pretty much everyone, and the times I get beat are from people who are also 10s. Somebody has to win.

If you're placing 4th or 5th, you're not a 10. If you get beaten, you're not a 10.

 

.. If you judge any racing skill by GTA's race, you're definitely not a 10.

 

Shrug.

[GunWrath]

Action: 8/10

Racing: 8/10

FPS: 8.5/10

RPGs: 6/10

Fighting: 6.5/10

Strategy: 7/10

Sports: 9/10 (That's my sh*t.. Madden and Tiger yo!)

Achievements: 5/10, I don't really go for them, I unlock these usually by luck or just so much time into a game.

[Adler]

 

It's also awkward how you can score yourself how good you are at RPG's, I don't break character while playing, does that make me good at RPG?

Haha true that. Being good at RPGs, to me, means that you have a firm grasp on RPG logic e.g. the middle path with the ominous doorway is usually where you're supposed to go and other paths lead to treasure, and if the game suddenly gives you a ton of healing items and a save point, it usually means a boss is coming up. No idea how you could score that from 1-10.

 

For RPGs and the like, I don't think being a completionist counts a skill that you could score since all you need is a ton of time, the internet or past experience with the game for that.

[Mark]

 

In this thread: A lot of people thinking they're a lot better at games than they actually are.

That's the beauty of gaming, games make you feel like you're better than everyone.

 

Which is mainly because everyone is a programmed bot (SP)

Not necessarily. Online GTA IV racing, I get 1st, 2nd or 3rd out of a 16 player race. I've been in tournaments and the majority of the time been in the top half, mostly first or second. I rate myself a 10 because I beat pretty much everyone, and the times I get beat are from people who are also 10s. Somebody has to win.

If you're placing 4th or 5th, you're not a 10. If you get beaten, you're not a 10.

 

.. If you judge any racing skill by GTA's race, you're definitely not a 10.

 

Shrug.

Pretty much. Also consider that average should be 5/10 then you're definitely not a 10.

 

Apart from racing and flying games where I'd give myself a 7 and 8 respectively (generally win most dogfights in Ace Combat and post podiums a lot more often than not in Forza for example, annoyingly I don't even have time to play these let alone any games), I'd say I'm about a 4 on FPS and 3 or lower on the rest. I just don't play often enough to actually beat the regular online players on a game most of the time. That and I suck.

 

Edit: Please note I only count online play. Offline these days is deliberately easy in order to keep you entertained.

Edited March 10, 2013 by Mark

[Sgt. Foley]

Action Games

I enjoy action games alot. Like GTA, Uncharted, and Battlefield. I would say i'm alright in this part

8/10

 

RPG

Not a big fan of RPG's. I hate Skyrim and Oblivion.

1/10

 

Strategy Games

Have not played a game that involves stragety at least I don't think so...

2/10

 

Racing Games

My best part in gaming. I love Forza and NFS. Can't get enough!

10/10

 

Fighting Games

Street Fighter and Marvel v Capcom is alright, I play for fun

5/10

 

Sport Games

Probably my third best in gaming, I love sports games. I probably could live on just MLB 2k13 for a year

8/10

 

Music Games

Guitar Hero, and Rockband I suck at the guitar though. I play for fun mostly at night.

9/10

 

Platform Games

Mario and Rayman Origins. I could never get enough of these games.

8/10

 

Trophy/Achievement Hunting

I am the biggest achievement whore you have ever met. My old account had over +17k gamerscore. I am currently at 13,220 gamerscore now.

10/10

 

Average : 6.7

 

[GunWrath]

 

Trophy/Achievement Hunting

I am the biggest achievement whore you have ever met. My old account had over +17k gamerscore. I am currently at 13,220 gamerscore now.

10/10

 

I have over 31k But that's from playing ALOT, ALOT, ALOT of games man in the span of like 3-4yrs. If I had Live like 5+yrs ago.. no telling what I'd have by now.

[Sgt. Foley]

Trophy/Achievement Hunting

I am the biggest achievement whore you have ever met. My old account had over +17k gamerscore. I am currently at 13,220 gamerscore now.

10/10

 

I have over 31k But that's from playing ALOT, ALOT, ALOT of games man in the span of like 3-4yrs. If I had Live like 5+yrs ago.. no telling what I'd have by now.

Wow, that's alot. I never really looked at your gamerscore. That's really impressive.

[Lelouch The Zero]

Not sure how I would grade myself for each Genre, but all in all, I would rate myself as 10/10, I have beaten MANY games without any trouble, so I doubt that will ever change.

 

EDIT: My Gamerscore is actually pretty high now, I think my current Gamerscore listed online is pretty outdated, as I don't have Live. I only connect my Xbox to an Ethernet cable in the living room sometimes to download updates and all that. I'm not sure how much higher it is now, I'd have to check.

 

It's 14,659 now.

Edited March 10, 2013 by VoiceoftheVoiceless

[EmSixTeen]

This thread is growing to be hilarious.

[Guest]

In this thread: A lot of people thinking they're a lot better at games than they actually are.

That's the beauty of gaming, games make you feel like you're better than everyone.

 

Which is mainly because everyone is a programmed bot (SP)

Not necessarily. Online GTA IV racing, I get 1st, 2nd or 3rd out of a 16 player race. I've been in tournaments and the majority of the time been in the top half, mostly first or second. I rate myself a 10 because I beat pretty much everyone, and the times I get beat are from people who are also 10s. Somebody has to win.

If you're placing 4th or 5th, you're not a 10. If you get beaten, you're not a 10.

 

.. If you judge any racing skill by GTA's race, you're definitely not a 10.

 

Shrug.

4th or 5th is very unlikely, and remember this is out of 16 players.

 

10s can get beat. Nobody is perfect and like I said, someone has to win. If two people are as good as eachother, someone has to win. If said person and I did 10 races, we'd most likely win 5 each.

[mrpain]

I'm currently sitting around at 35850 points of gamerscore right now. Getting around 10K ain't that impressive nowadays hell my 30K plus ain't that shabby either. I've seen people with 50K plus already.

[Lelouch The Zero]

I'm currently sitting around at 35850 points of gamerscore right now. Getting around 10K ain't that impressive nowadays hell my 30K plus ain't that shabby either. I've seen people with 50K plus already.

Yeah well I don't have Xbox Live, so I can't get some achievements which sucks imo.

[Master of San Andreas]

Open-World Games 10/10 I am an expert in Open-World games.Especially GTA.

 

Action Games 8.5/10 I'm pretty good I guess.

 

Sports 10/10 I am a killer of Sport games

 

Strategy 7/10 I'm Ok not very good.But I had alot of fun in AoE 2.

 

FPS 9.5/10 I am a great gamer in shooters.

 

Online 6/10 Not very good,sadly.

 

Racing 4/10 I don't play alot of Racing Games.Last I played was NFS Most Wanted.

 

As for others I have not played any music game and I am terrible at RPG's.I'd give my rating for RPG's a 1/10.

[Algonquin Assassin]

 

I'm currently sitting around at 35850 points of gamerscore right now. Getting around 10K ain't that impressive nowadays hell my 30K plus ain't that shabby either. I've seen people with 50K plus already.

Mine's only about 11K. The majority of achievements I get are by accident. I rarely hunt for a specific one and I don't like MP achievements.

[kudoboi]

Action Games

 

9/10

 

 

Strategy Games

1/10

 

Racing Games

good at this. i rarely get below 2nd place in any racing game

9/10

 

Fighting Games

 

5/10

 

Sport Games

no interest in the genre as a whole

2/10

 

Music Games

terrible at music games

2/10

 

Platform Games

 

8/10

 

Trophy/Achievement Hunting

 

5/10

 

genres and subgenres that may or may not count

 

MOBA: 1/10

 

adventure: 9/10

 

action-adventure : 9/10

 

MMORPG : 1/10

 

action/FPS RPG: 8/10

 

FPS: 9/10

 

sandbox games: 9/10

 

[mrpain]

I'm currently sitting around at 35850 points of gamerscore right now. Getting around 10K ain't that impressive nowadays hell my 30K plus ain't that shabby either. I've seen people with 50K plus already.

Yeah well I don't have Xbox Live, so I can't get some achievements which sucks imo.

I've had my Xbox 360 for eight years now. The first five years I was Xbox Liveless as well. I got my 15K around that time period. It was mostly because I game on games that were...um.... let's say average such as Cars and Army Of Two. I still game on the big titles but I still play the minor ones too. Now that I have Xbox Live, I only play big games nowadays. Mostly because I don't have that huge amount of dedication to gaming right now. And I'm also slowly switching to PC gaming ever since I got my new gaming laptop. Been playing Team Fortress 2 on my lappy the whole night.

 

There are games where achievement hunting can be quite a pleasure to do. Games like Dead Rising and Sleeping Dogs gave us doable achievements that were fun and challenging.

 

I know people who play sh*t games just to perfect the achievement scores. Have you guys heard of the gamertag BrownMan?

[jelly]

I am 100% terrible at everything.

 

Unless the goal is having fun, in which case I'm okay in a couple of types.

[Lelouch The Zero]

I'm currently sitting around at 35850 points of gamerscore right now. Getting around 10K ain't that impressive nowadays hell my 30K plus ain't that shabby either. I've seen people with 50K plus already.

Yeah well I don't have Xbox Live, so I can't get some achievements which sucks imo.

I've had my Xbox 360 for eight years now. The first five years I was Xbox Liveless as well. I got my 15K around that time period. It was mostly because I game on games that were...um.... let's say average such as Cars and Army Of Two. I still game on the big titles but I still play the minor ones too. Now that I have Xbox Live, I only play big games nowadays. Mostly because I don't have that huge amount of dedication to gaming right now. And I'm also slowly switching to PC gaming ever since I got my new gaming laptop. Been playing Team Fortress 2 on my lappy the whole night.

 

There are games where achievement hunting can be quite a pleasure to do. Games like Dead Rising and Sleeping Dogs gave us doable achievements that were fun and challenging.

 

I know people who play sh*t games just to perfect the achievement scores. Have you guys heard of the gamertag BrownMan?

Damn dude, You've had your Xbox longer than mine, I got my Xbox in October of 2009, 3 1/2 years. that's not that long, it will take me another 5-6 years to get as much as you. Then again by then, I'll probably have a 720 or a PS4.

[Fireman]

If you're placing 4th or 5th, you're not a 10. If you get beaten, you're not a 10.

 

I have World Records in a racing game, can I grade myself a ten then?

 

Or does it have to be in all racing games ever made?

 

 

[EmSixTeen]

 

4th or 5th is very unlikely, and remember this is out of 16 players.

 

10s can get beat. Nobody is perfect and like I said, someone has to win. If two people are as good as eachother, someone has to win. If said person and I did 10 races, we'd most likely win 5 each.

Oh right, so you genuinely do think that GTA races require a semblance of skill, and that correlates to your skill in the racing genre. Like I said, 4th or 5th in any sort of racing game is exactly the reason you are not a 10 - You're barely at the top 25th percentile with those positions. That would apply even if there were 32 players.

 

 

 

If you're placing 4th or 5th, you're not a 10. If you get beaten, you're not a 10.

 

I have World Records in a racing game, can I grade myself a ten then?

 

Or does it have to be in all racing games ever made?

So do/have I across Project Gotham, Forza, Burnout and Trials, yet I'd almost be reluctant to give myself a 10. Only almost though, heh. You're right about questioning skill in 1 game vs. a whole genre, though.

Edited March 10, 2013 by EmSixTeen

[Shenmue18]

When it comes to Call Of Duty 4 I'd probably grade myself a 8.5 or a 9, I've been able to go something like 31-2 before so I'm pretty good at the game.

[EmSixTeen]

 

When it comes to Call Of Duty 4 I'd probably grade myself a 8.5 or a 9, I've been able to go something like 31-2 before so I'm pretty good at the game.

Can you do that consistently? If you can't do that consistently, you're not an 8 or a 9..

 

People are ridiculously complimentary to themselves, it's amazing.