To a point, been playing mario kart games since the snes and have had multiple occasions were my friends stopped playing it if I was involved as they are just playing for second place. couple of months after I started a job and someone organised a mario kart Wii tournament over the internet. Much trash talking was had by all but me (just never been into it) leading up to that evening, an hour before the end of the shift one of them PM'd me as they realised I hadn't been taking part in the trash talking and asked me if I was being quiet because I knew I was good...well we only did it once and I came first every race by a wide margin. I say we only did it once, would not be surprised if they just kept it from me. Even in on a 12 player online race I will finish first most of the time and exceptionally rarely outside the top 3. For mario kart 3ds I found out that there had been a competition in a local shopping centre and the winning time for it was 10 seconds slower than my time trial PB. If I had known I could of got an easy 3ds and copy of mario kart. Bringing it back to the video, I then watch speed runners on any mk game and it just leaves me in the dust, that difference between the top 5% and top 1% is just crazy.
Any FPS multiplayer game like Call of Duty, Doom or Battlefield. I can kick some enemy butt in the single player campaign mode and feel like a god but go onto multiplayer and I'm lucky if I even end a game with a positive K/D ratio
Come on Rob, you're easily the best Crash Team Racer in the world who uses the whole track, the speed runner cuts out parts of the track, so you're still on top. Enough said hahah
I thought I was hot stuff using Kirby in Smash Bros Brawl. I dominated other players at a tourney until someone steamrolled me with Yoshi. I still have nightmares about cute Yoshi noises.
a phd to finish? hmmm senran kagura, peach beach splash should be one of them then probably megadimension neptunia with the vr mode too oh wait, have i got the wrong meaning for phd? *wwhistling innocently* *quickly and quietly leaves*
You could *do* a PhD on Valkyria Chronicles: A JRPG set in fantasy WW2 wherein the player liberates Europe with anime characters. The creators are Japanese, the protagonists are pan-European, their weapons are based on real weapons, the enemies are clearly coded 'Nazi', and the story manages to tip-toe around some "war crime" issues associated with that conflict. It's a cultural humanities goldmine!
I bet the more advanced RTSs like Starcraft or Civilization series’ top the PhD list. Always have to know how to plan everything strategically just to stay one step ahead of the enemy AI - and don’t even try playing online until you’ve mastered the main game! Lol. Any of the old school RPGs would make the ‘Nerdy’ list, like Baldur’s Gate or the original Fallout trilogy.
One fight I will never forget: Every time I swung, he parried, curtsied, and threw a poison dagger. After a point, I just spammed curtsy and waited for the poison to kill me.
You can be excellent at bloodborne and not be good at PvP. Lots of PvP players are extremely well min/maxed and make builds specially to troll people. PvP and pve are basically 2 different games.
@@juanpequeno1224 I tried playing pvp once didn't end well lol. Lots of them have really good blood gem things for more damage and stuff even if they are low level. so kind of unbalanced for normal people just for abit of fun.
@@juanpequeno1224 in Bloodborne specifically you need to be really good at PvE to be a god in PvP. since you need to clear the hardest chalice dungeons to obtain the best bloodgems in the game. so yeh. some of those PvP'rs are insane at both PvE and PvP.
Guitar Hero. Thought I was pretty good considering I could get through like 95% of the game's songs on Expert. I was definitely the best at it out of all the people I know irl, but then I go online and see people getting 100% on Through the Fire and Flames at like 150% speed.
FF7. I remember playing for hours and I thought I was good until after weeks I find out at my jiu jitsu club someone was also playing the game. When he began talking of Vincent the vampire or Odin I was thinking is this the same game? Turns out I forgot so many items along the road I never could win against the Ultimate Sephiroth.
I honestly don't think I've ever thought I was good at a game. I'm usually good enough to get through them but I've never boasted about being good. I take the Hollie approach and enjoy them. I don't play on easy though.
Dylan Farley no problem. 😀 Just sharing, I know I could show patience and do research to learn. Instead I just hammer my way out and enjoy the story .one reason me and platformer games don’t get along😝
Injustice, more specifically injustice 2. I spent a good few hours learning how to play Robin. I was like "screw it i'll go online' and holy hell... robin v Robin only it was really like Robin v robin-shaped punching bag
A very old one NFS Porsche - on PC. I guess any games that were popular before online leaderboards. When your name fills every spot in the local high score board was something quite special.
Dave: "That's funny because there are so many one on onsie where you thought you'd win and I owned you." Hollie: "Lol." That was ace smack talk right there and Hollie's follow up accented it. XD
God I would love to work with PlayStation Access...I love you guys so much and always wanted to be a games journalist or something along those lines. Watching you guys is humbling and fun, Thank you for all the great videos and good times!
The ivs, Stab moves, egg moves and in general the meta is overwelming the first time... I will never forget how a ammongus a togekiss and a chansey UTTERLY demolish my team of op (I tought) of legendary pokemon 6 v 6. I never knew his other 3 pokemon...
I've been yanked back down to earth by the internet similar to Rob My game was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 If it had any trophies, I'd have the Platinum for sure since at some point I got the Screen "Game completion 100%" I unlocked every character, got all skill points and stunts on every character (which required to 100% every level for every character) I knew these levels by heart. Even when friends were competing against me (taking turns and see who get's the higher score) I wiped the floor with them They couldn't even get close Then came the internet and presented how absolutely average I actually am at this game I was sad. I am sad. This was MY game Thank you, internet
Fallout 4. The settlement building side. I was always pretty happy with what I could build in F4 Settlements - the I went online and found the Super-Structures that the “professionals” were building. I’d spend all morning making a house, but they’re building whole underground cities, complete with gladiator arenas and an indoor swimming pool. Fml.
Crash Bandicoot N' Sane Trilogy. I remember being good at the original games. The remake nearly broke me and I still haven't got the platinums. Damn you High Road...
I remember being quite happy about being able to get around Papu's Pyramid in 7 seconds. Of course the game doesn't actually count using that guardrail as a lap if you haven't gone up the pyramid first, but still. I always used it as a sort of first lap handicap when playing with friends.
Tony Hawk's Underground 2, beat the game without breaking a sweat. Purchased the modem module for the PS2 and tried it online, got to eat a very big humble pie. When the timer ended, players who where still mid-combo could continue, some of them continued for 10-20 minutes after the timer ended. When they stopped their combo's, my "highscore" was a mere fraction of theirs.
Dave’s entry was my favorite. I’ve been there...pretty much every time I’ve played a FPS. The only difference is never doing an event and do a capture of course.
About the writer in Hollie's story, I don't think it's showing off. I think it's bragging rights, well earned. I also think I only say that because I can be a bit of a show off myself... sometimes. So I kinda feel for the guy. A few years back, there was a story in Hockey news. People were complaining that Alex Ovechkin was show off a bit too much after a goal. I remember one of the Habs players had the best reaction. He said:"Hey! If I were scoring as much goals as he does, I would be showing off too." That was the end of that story. I agree with D.O.N. about feeling like a god in PVE, then getting your humility checked in PVP. Cheers and thanks for the entertainement everyone!
That Pic on the far right top wall. The one with Rob dressed as Snake, Dave with the Portal Gun, Hollie as Fem Shep??That would look cool as a PS4 theme. Can it happen???
Hollie, I never bother playing on anything harder than Normal, and if I actually want to enjoy the story I almost always set the game to Easy. That was the only way I was able to finish the Uncharted games. I play games to have fun and relax, not to feel underpowered and overwhelmed. I get enough of that IRL...
Guitar Hero, won a couple local tournaments, had a lot of fun, beating every song on expert. The gap between my GH ability and the ability of those who are actual GH experts is larger than the gap between me and my 3 yo daughter.
Holly was the stand out of course. I totally feel her on the feeling inadequate when someone else does better on a higher level. Some games I do on easy, others on normal - if I like it enough, I bump it up to hard. With Nier Automata I actually stopped playing because I was bored, even though I'd totally recommend it to people - it is brilliant. The fighting was really easy but it drags out a bit. Not for me. Great video.
Gravity Rush, literally two days ago. I'd been refining my technique on one of the time trials, trying to get a gold medal. On my gold medal run, I absolutely shattered my personal best. Feeling cocky, I decided to check my score against the global leaderboards, only to discover that my time was slightly less than double the world record. I'm still a little crushed.
For a while I thought I was good at Devil May Cry 3 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, then I went on TH-cam and look up how other people did in the games. While I was watching these combo videos I felt myself getting smaller and smaller with each passing second.
I love Dark souls games, I know the ins and outs of both dark souls 1 and 2 and I can say with confidence that I am very good at the single player and the multiplayer aspects of the game, so when bloodborne came out I was like "this game is going to be easy because my dark souls experience", ooooooh I was so wrong, the thing with dark souls is that you learn to be defensive and to react to your enemies, bloodborne is about been agresive, high risk high reward.
One of the greatest joys in gaming is realizing that I'm not good at a game. It's one of the best feelings! It implies that, for starters, I really like the game, since I've played it enough to feel like I'm good at it(only to have that illusion shattered). It also implies a high-skill ceiling, and discovering that a game that you love has high skill ceiling, man, there's no better feeling than that. "WHAT! You mean there's more for me to do? YES!!!". It happened to me with the Devil May Cry series, for example. Turns out that your S-Rank runs are nothing compared to what you **can** do in those games.
i have a few stories. 1. a game i thought i was god at wasHalo but i only played against the same 3 friends all the time and i was alwayst he best of us then i tried online with Halo 2 and man i got my ass kicked and i had to learn again how to be good at halo and now i am a better fps player in general thanks to Halo 2s multiplayer. 2. Super Smash Bros man i always played Link, Ganon or Roy and thought i was the king but again i only played against the same 3 friends so of course but then i meet new friends who told me they only play for fun and i challanged them cusi wanted to show off i guess :P. We went home to one of the friend and they told me "do not shout if you lose", i took Roy and the other took Link, Yoshi and Captain Falcon. it was a very fun fight but i lost against the guy who played Link and thought wow there are people better then me at this game. The other laughed hard and called me a noob, loser, unskilled and which trigged me more then losing. 3. One last game i thought i was good at was in Tekken as a kid i only did a kick and a punch i had no idea how to combo but as an early teen i coudl do so many of them and the same 3 friends i played with lost most of the time against me but then i played at an event against a really good player and he destroyed me and i was just holding my controler in silenced, looked at him and he just said"thanos for the match new guy" and then walked away. In general i am a decent player in some games but i am never or dont have the same skill level as some of the best players in the world i mean thier reaction time is just amazing.
I was one of the top players in COD:MW2. I was on the top 2 or 3 in scoring and K/D in most of the matches I played. Then I played on an internet connection good enough to get into matches in Europe. I was still above average, but I was nowhere where I thought I was. I was just a big fish in a small pond.
The even worse part about cod is it's a team game so like there are groups of people we collectively refer to as pub stars people who aren't quite as good as your average or top teir pro players but they do certain things like run full party's or use certain skills and kill streaks that aren't viable or are flat out banned in a professional setting and also very unlike pro players your likely to run into them in a public lobby because they aren't practicing or going to tourneys or playing cash matches in private lobby they are doing it for leaderboards and bragging rights and no matter your skill level when 3/4/5 of the random teammates you got paired with are getting stomped cause not only are they decently good players but they are using every little advantage they can take and communicating and all this you could be doing well the first half until the kill streaks get on a roll then your just fighting to stay even already lost the sense of trying for a victory and more about preserving what little pride you have left it's kinda brutal
100% smash brothers. Specifically PM. I had fallowed the competitive melee scene for years, could perform pretty much all the adnance tech in pm and had what i thought was a very strong grasp of how nuetral and punish games worked. Two of my best friends also loved smash and we grinded for hours every hangout pushing eachother to new heaights. We absalutly destroyed anyone we casualy met who thought they were good. BUT then we went to a pm local that had some of the best players in texas and all three of us went 1-3 in our pools and diddnt make it to bracket. I got absalutly wrecked by the 3 guys who beat me and knowing in the world of smash only one was maybe top 100 my perspective of how good i was was shattered. We still play but usually just for about an hour.
I was thinking about saying I'm good at a single player games. The Uncharted games, Arkham games, God of War, MGS (that one is for you Rob) to name a few. But I'm gonna go the competitive route and say I was pretty good at Jet Motto on PS1. I knew all the tracks shortcuts and how to hit grapple points at the perfect spot. I wish they'd remake that or do a next gen sequel.
I thought the title was "Games We Thought Were Good (but were actually not)". I was like, this will be an interesting video. Than I reread the title and was a little disappointed. Either way, it is nice seeing more of Access Team. :)
Got to be Guitar Hero, I'm not that bad at them - I've not found a song that I can't actually pass - but seeing what some people can do with the game is actually nuts
When i would play games like CTR and Super Mario Cart Double Dash i memorized everything and beat all challengers. When i played mt sister she would get so mad because of my taunts for example "don't feel so bad, look at it this way your my assistant champion because there wouldn't be winners if it wasn't for losers".
Tekken 7 for me ! I'm playing the franchise since the third opus and I love it ! Tekken 7 is one of my favorite game on PS4, I even platinumed it (and yeah I know it's a piece of cake to get the platinum, I just wanted to share how committed I was to that game). And it doesn't matter how much effort I put, I'm getting destroyed online !!
I went 126 straight wins once, against around a dozen of my friends on Mario Kart's battle mode on the SNES. The game stops counting after 99. I was pretty happy with that one. I'm terrible at literally everything BUT Super Mario Kart.
For me it was Gran Turismo 2 - like Rob with Crash Team Racing this was before the internet was really a thing. I practiced and practiced and thought I was really good. Even entered a national competition and placed 6th in Wales. Came home all proud of my accomplishments and played a friend who then persisted to school me at the game he'd barely played and I couldn't get near him.
Speaking of shortcuts... Star Wars Episode 1 racer for N64. Hours upon hours in multiplayer with my brothers just moving around in the stages looking for possible shortcuts and quick routes. Good fun, might boot it up tonight.
For 5 years I went from what I thought was from noob to pro in smash, however because it was vs CPU’s I was actually naff, learning this the hard way. After ultimate was released I pledged to get better and now I’m a top 1% Dedede player
I was pretty damn good at Black Ops 2. Me and my brother made classes where we just used combat knives and ballistic knives and we came in the top 2 quite a bit. I was also really good at One in the Chamber. wish they'd bring that back lol.
Being good at CoD is just like being good at crash b or the witcher. You put the time in and while yes, your reaction time and reflexes will improve nominally the levels make it so that patterns do develope. Just like memorizing the patterns of a boss in dark souls actual people players inevitably fall into patterns. And while someone like ali will be good because they say to themselves "hey ive been killed in this spot multiple times, dont rush in or this is a good place to rack kills" a true pro player doesnt make those conscious desicions, its basically muscle memory. They dont have to make a conscious choice they've just played so long and often that player behaviour for certain levels are ingrained in them on a deep almost subconscious level. I can only equate it to boxing. Ive been boxing for 8 years, im very good. Above 70% percent. To some extent im able to read an opponents moves before they attack by the set of tbeir shoulders and stance of their feet. With that almost subconscious muscle memory also comes a confidence that when i go into any fight even if im not 100% sure ill win im confident i will put on a good showing. Confidence and muscle memory, instinct through hours of play. Its the 10000 hour rule. And while i don't personally believe itll take 10k hours to become a pro it certainly comes diwn to time invested. Dave said he used to play for 2 or 3 hours a night...i LoLed these pro players play for 8 to 13 hours a day. For work. And then for fun they play some more. This was a tl:dr for sure. Sorry about that.
Devil May Cry 3 - WAYYYYY back in the day, when this game first came out and my family still had absolute shite internet, meaning videos weren't really something I commonly bothered with...much LESS videos of other people playing games to see if they were better than me. Man, I beat my head against a brick wall, with DMC3, back in the day. It was my first DMC. It was probably my first real modern action game, unless you consider Kingdom Hearts to be somewhat of an action game, and even then it's fairly easy to abuse the RPG mechanics there, to diffuse the action challenge. No, DMC3 was a brand new beast, to my young teen self. It didn't help, of course, that what I thought was "Normal" was supposed to be "Hard," due to...hell, was it a mix up in the coding? Japan trying to "HAHA!" America? I don't care at this point - our Normal was their Hard, and that is where I started, with the series. And I beat my head against a brick wall, until I understood it - until I practically breathed DMC3, back in the early 2000s. I COMPLETED that bloody game - unlocked everything. Top ranks on all missions, filled out the entire Gallery mode, just...generally thought I was a badass. A few years later, at college, my roomies and I are drinking, taking turns at DMC3 for whatever reason, and my buddy Ron comments on how good I am, comparably. I knew I wasn't as polished as I'd used to be, so...yea, there's my ego boost, only heightened by the alcohol. However, other roomie Jeremy knows otherwise, kinda chuckles while he goes to get his laptop from his own room, then hooks that up to my tv. I had never seen a PROPER stylish video of a DMC game, prior to that. I never knew what it REALLY meant to be good, at DMC. Needless to say, I was quite swiftly humbled, regarding my own abilities - even considering how I'd been, back when it was an obsession. I still hold that I'm pretty damned good at DMC games. But I will never be that good lol - have neither the time, nor motivation to master it on such a level. I mean, it's damn near fighting game levels of mastery that are necessary for those frame perfections! It's impressive as hell, but not something to which I aspire, at this point.
I thought I was really good at the Red Dead Redemption multiplayer till I handed the controller over to a friend who doesn't play nearly as much and me and witness how he continued to do just as well as me in a deathmatch. Turns out it was just really easy to be good at the game and my teenage mind didn't register this.
Street Fighter.... I grew up being better at Street Fighter, and games in general, than all of my brothers, as well as all of my friends. I would destroy them to the point where I crushed their hopes and dreams and their very will to live. Then Street Fighter IV happened. Playing online was a heart breaking eye opener for me.... Still love it
MKX, was a game I thought I was good at because I was better than my friends. Until I met really competitive people. I was still decent at the game, but all my unsafe moves were punished heavily with 40% combos.
rob, it dosen't matter how good you are at a game, you will never be as good as the speed runners, you still the best crash team racing player i ever seen :)
I never thought I was unbeatable in video games, especially fighting games, but I didn't thought I was terrible either. But on doa4 after I have completed the story mode with every character, I decided to play online to unlock some achievements. The achievements I end up unlocking the achievemt for losing 10 consecutive games online worth 0 gamerscore. There was another one for losing 20 consecutive games, but I didn't want to attempt it. I was exhausted
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (PS1) - (and also CTR, but I'm leaving that title to Rob) I could do the whole 2 minutes (and sometimes more) trick after trick, pumping up the multiplier... but I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who can crush me with more advanced tricks, combos, and the like... The times when you were the world champion, and only had your friends as judges... :')
Mortal Kombat X. Got through the campaign after only losing a couple of times and destroyed my friend when playing 1v1, but then I tried playing online... I did 10 casual games and lost all of them, I haven't touched the game since.
Omg the final bosses on the first playthrough on Nier Automata was ridiculous. I literally had no potions, all of my stuff was broken and I was weak af. AND I COULDN'T GO BACK!
I don't think it was the controls for me. Ironically, it was the help of the Batmobile. I don't know why everyone hates the Batmobile, it makes some missions easier to handle, especially when you get used to the controls.
The original white day. Going through it hundreds of times, learning exploits for the janitors and ghosts, and understanding the principles of the puzzles, stocking coins for drinks and then watched a speed run of a 100% real run.......mortifying
The year is 2006; I'm trashing everyone I know at PES, so my cocky self decides to hold a public tournament at my house. It was a £5 buy in where if anyone beat me once I'd give them £20, and they got up to 3 tries (Each match costing them £5. So after hours and hours of me not losing and taking people's money, I was now confident enough to go to public tournaments, where more of the same happened where all I did was win, up until met this kid known only as 'The Greek'. No one had ever scored 6 against me on PES in any mode, in any version, in any way. It just didn't happen, but this kid who was probably half my age absolutely decimated me. I scored once. I pretty much knew my place after that.
Mine is Bloodborne. I thought I was hot stuff being able to counter and beat Orphan of Kos NG+++++ but then i forgot I had rung my Beckoning Bell earlier and had another player enter...with the Milkweed Carryl Rune, Kos Parasite weapon and dressed in the Student attire and just danced around Kos’s Orphan the entire fight at close range and never took a single hit.....made me feel like a novice.
Thought I was good at Rocket League, scored a few nice goals, some good saves etc but then watch the prods who are dribbling in mid air and doing back flip shots off the ceiling, it's mental!
Man I would love to have a job working with you guys. You guys have so much fun doing what you do. If you have any openings at PlayStation Access I'd love to be a part of the team there 😀👍👍👍. You guys Rock 😇
I got really good at Goldeneye 007 on N64, I thought I was so good a shooter games. Then all of my friends got the XBox and started playing Halo. "Aw they think they're all so good," I'd say to myself, "Wait until I get ahold of a controller." I learned that day I was actually quite bad at shooters. From Halo, to Halo 2, to Call of Duty MW2, Black Ops, MW3, to Battlefield 1, I realized I'm just bad at shooters. It's a curse, really, because every 2-3 years there's this idea that creeps into my head saying "well maybe now you're better" but there's always the reminder that... I'm not.
Mine back in the day was Halo because I always trashed my friends at it. Then I went to a local tournament and was last place... Hated halo since then. The game I've gotten the best at since that time is Tekken, but I am humble enough to know I'm still not really good at Tekken because I started playing after seeing some friends play who were godlike in the game. I still don't come close to their level.
i got this with fifa 18. lost only a few games against my friends. so i started playing FUT champions. and the beated me hard. only got 15 out of the 40 matches. and the worst is when you go up against a very good player, you score because he made 1 error, and then he scores 3 in 5 mins. at the end of fifa 18 i got more then 20 wins out of the 40 games. started FUT champions on fifa 19 and setted the goal on 15 out of 30 and only got 10 :(
You don't have to be the best in the world, all that matters is, that you're better than your friends.
To a point, been playing mario kart games since the snes and have had multiple occasions were my friends stopped playing it if I was involved as they are just playing for second place. couple of months after I started a job and someone organised a mario kart Wii tournament over the internet. Much trash talking was had by all but me (just never been into it) leading up to that evening, an hour before the end of the shift one of them PM'd me as they realised I hadn't been taking part in the trash talking and asked me if I was being quiet because I knew I was good...well we only did it once and I came first every race by a wide margin. I say we only did it once, would not be surprised if they just kept it from me. Even in on a 12 player online race I will finish first most of the time and exceptionally rarely outside the top 3. For mario kart 3ds I found out that there had been a competition in a local shopping centre and the winning time for it was 10 seconds slower than my time trial PB. If I had known I could of got an easy 3ds and copy of mario kart.
Bringing it back to the video, I then watch speed runners on any mk game and it just leaves me in the dust, that difference between the top 5% and top 1% is just crazy.
I'm bad at fighting games... But I defeat all my friends hahaha...
@Leocram Vinci Do you have Tekken 7 on PS4? ;)
@@mrbarefootbogan6254 Yes
Wanna Player Match?
I think Rob’s sister should come on and challenge Rob to some Crash Team Racing!
I agree
Special guest: Robs sister
Any FPS multiplayer game like Call of Duty, Doom or Battlefield. I can kick some enemy butt in the single player campaign mode and feel like a god but go onto multiplayer and I'm lucky if I even end a game with a positive K/D ratio
Truth
Because it's a very different playstyle
I kinda have the opposite with cod bo2
I'd like to see you play Battlefield 1943 ;) I've mastered all of the maps.
@@MoviesNGames007uk Watching me play any Battlefield game would be like watching paint dry 😂
only joking lol I bet you are good at something though. fighting games? rpgs? puzzlers?
Come on Rob, you're easily the best Crash Team Racer in the world who uses the whole track, the speed runner cuts out parts of the track, so you're still on top. Enough said hahah
That moment when you've been watching PS Access so much u know exactly who will pick what XD
I know how you feel.
Yes. Well, Rob at least.
totally!! xD
HaHa, yessss!!!
nope, not only rob, everyone.
"Well I am really good at the game"
I knew Rob was going to talk about CTR.
It was the game that came to mind, but I didn't think he'd actually say it. Lol
Poor Rob wasting so much time playing CTR when he could have played Mario Kart ;p
That or MGS
I saw it coming as far back as you likely did.
A game I thought I was good at (but turns out I'm not) is life.
Same bro.
Same.
Good thing I don't have a life.
No challenge for me
Mee too
Sounds familiair. I want a refund.
I thought I was hot stuff using Kirby in Smash Bros Brawl. I dominated other players at a tourney until someone steamrolled me with Yoshi. I still have nightmares about cute Yoshi noises.
I LOVE THIS EPISODE. So funny! Hollie's story was the funniest!
Yeah, what a gentleman
hi Rob: how about a Friday feature of a list of reeeeally nerdy games :) or games that you need a phd to finish :)
That sounds interesting!
a phd to finish? hmmm
senran kagura, peach beach splash should be one of them then
probably megadimension neptunia with the vr mode too
oh wait, have i got the wrong meaning for phd? *wwhistling innocently* *quickly and quietly leaves*
You could *do* a PhD on Valkyria Chronicles: A JRPG set in fantasy WW2 wherein the player liberates Europe with anime characters. The creators are Japanese, the protagonists are pan-European, their weapons are based on real weapons, the enemies are clearly coded 'Nazi', and the story manages to tip-toe around some "war crime" issues associated with that conflict. It's a cultural humanities goldmine!
I bet the more advanced RTSs like Starcraft or Civilization series’ top the PhD list. Always have to know how to plan everything strategically just to stay one step ahead of the enemy AI - and don’t even try playing online until you’ve mastered the main game! Lol. Any of the old school RPGs would make the ‘Nerdy’ list, like Baldur’s Gate or the original Fallout trilogy.
I thought i was pretty darn good at Bloodborne until I decided to ring that stupid bell!
One fight I will never forget: Every time I swung, he parried, curtsied, and threw a poison dagger. After a point, I just spammed curtsy and waited for the poison to kill me.
You can be excellent at bloodborne and not be good at PvP. Lots of PvP players are extremely well min/maxed and make builds specially to troll people. PvP and pve are basically 2 different games.
@@juanpequeno1224 I tried playing pvp once didn't end well lol. Lots of them have really good blood gem things for more damage and stuff even if they are low level. so kind of unbalanced for normal people just for abit of fun.
I just hid until the invader just left lol.
@@juanpequeno1224 in Bloodborne specifically you need to be really good at PvE to be a god in PvP. since you need to clear the hardest chalice dungeons to obtain the best bloodgems in the game. so yeh. some of those PvP'rs are insane at both PvE and PvP.
Guitar Hero. Thought I was pretty good considering I could get through like 95% of the game's songs on Expert. I was definitely the best at it out of all the people I know irl, but then I go online and see people getting 100% on Through the Fire and Flames at like 150% speed.
I was pretty good back in the day. Almost never lost online and could 4 star through the fire and the flames. Back then nobody had fc'd it yet.
FF7.
I remember playing for hours and I thought I was good until after weeks I find out at my jiu jitsu club someone was also playing the game. When he began talking of Vincent the vampire or Odin I was thinking is this the same game?
Turns out I forgot so many items along the road I never could win against the Ultimate Sephiroth.
I honestly don't think I've ever thought I was good at a game. I'm usually good enough to get through them but I've never boasted about being good. I take the Hollie approach and enjoy them. I don't play on easy though.
Dylan Farley I play on easy because I have no patience and just want to see story and feel awesome. Or in case of Dragon Age get to romance
@@Naa45702 that's fine. I wasn't trying to shame anyone i was just elaborating a bit
Dylan Farley no problem. 😀 Just sharing, I know I could show patience and do research to learn. Instead I just hammer my way out and enjoy the story .one reason me and platformer games don’t get along😝
Injustice, more specifically injustice 2. I spent a good few hours learning how to play Robin. I was like "screw it i'll go online' and holy hell... robin v Robin only it was really like Robin v robin-shaped punching bag
well I am really bad at any game, in multiplayer even The Worst
Have you tried "Friday the 13th: the game"? Or "Super Mario Party"?
A very old one NFS Porsche - on PC. I guess any games that were popular before online leaderboards. When your name fills every spot in the local high score board was something quite special.
I already knew Rob's choice since the moment I first saw the title of the video
2:00 I'm down for a rematch, Rob. Whenever you're ready :)
Dave: "That's funny because there are so many one on onsie where you thought you'd win and I owned you."
Hollie: "Lol."
That was ace smack talk right there and Hollie's follow up accented it. XD
Not so much other people..but I thought I was pretty good at Monster Hunter World until I reached the Odogaron...
Eddy Madou my kryptonite is any Diablos. My insect glaive was terrible againts them :(
@@daniellamunoz8894 As a fellow insect glaive user I feel your pain, yet I was just too stubborn to trt changing my weapon
Eddy Madou hahaha it is terrible, I had to learn to use the light bow gun just for Diablos and I hated every moment of it.
The pukei glaive was not too bad
I think the insect glaive in general is awesome, but obviously had it's disadvantages
God I would love to work with PlayStation Access...I love you guys so much and always wanted to be a games journalist or something along those lines. Watching you guys is humbling and fun, Thank you for all the great videos and good times!
"Rob's here, everyone!" that's so funny
Sometimes I just miss Nath. His dynamic with Dave was the best - true friend goals!
Pokémon, then I played against other people (actual people) and got obliterated.
The ivs, Stab moves, egg moves and in general the meta is overwelming the first time...
I will never forget how a ammongus a togekiss and a chansey UTTERLY demolish my team of op (I tought) of legendary pokemon 6 v 6.
I never knew his other 3 pokemon...
pokemon against the game is just (put up some high lvl pokemon, type often doesnt even matter) and you win
Same here.
togekiss is amazing w/ serene grace ability plus holding kings rock and using air slash= 64% chance to flinch
The Pokemon meta is insane
I'm a simple man, I see Hollie in thumbnail, I click.
I've been yanked back down to earth by the internet similar to Rob
My game was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
If it had any trophies, I'd have the Platinum for sure since at some point I got the Screen "Game completion 100%"
I unlocked every character, got all skill points and stunts on every character (which required to 100% every level for every character)
I knew these levels by heart. Even when friends were competing against me (taking turns and see who get's the higher score) I wiped the floor with them
They couldn't even get close
Then came the internet and presented how absolutely average I actually am at this game
I was sad. I am sad. This was MY game
Thank you, internet
Dave....shots fired 11:10, POOR NATH then Hollie in the back "LOL"
Fallout 4. The settlement building side.
I was always pretty happy with what I could build in F4 Settlements - the I went online and found the Super-Structures that the “professionals” were building.
I’d spend all morning making a house, but they’re building whole underground cities, complete with gladiator arenas and an indoor swimming pool. Fml.
Crash Bandicoot N' Sane Trilogy. I remember being good at the original games. The remake nearly broke me and I still haven't got the platinums. Damn you High Road...
Tuesday isn’t Tuesday without the Tuesday Checklist, great job guys 😄
I remember being quite happy about being able to get around Papu's Pyramid in 7 seconds. Of course the game doesn't actually count using that guardrail as a lap if you haven't gone up the pyramid first, but still. I always used it as a sort of first lap handicap when playing with friends.
Fantastic shirt, Rob. Looking spiffy!
This was my favourite PlayStation Access team.
Lmao at Rob’s impression of the “unnamed guy!!” 😂😂. “Wow what a cool guy!!” His sarcasm lol. Funny episode in all.
Tony Hawk's Underground 2, beat the game without breaking a sweat. Purchased the modem module for the PS2 and tried it online, got to eat a very big humble pie. When the timer ended, players who where still mid-combo could continue, some of them continued for 10-20 minutes after the timer ended. When they stopped their combo's, my "highscore" was a mere fraction of theirs.
I would love to see online of CTR on the PS4
Dave’s entry was my favorite. I’ve been there...pretty much every time I’ve played a FPS. The only difference is never doing an event and do a capture of course.
Loving the new music used on the channel, in the intros 👍🏻
About the writer in Hollie's story, I don't think it's showing off. I think it's bragging rights, well earned. I also think I only say that because I can be a bit of a show off myself... sometimes. So I kinda feel for the guy. A few years back, there was a story in Hockey news. People were complaining that Alex Ovechkin was show off a bit too much after a goal. I remember one of the Habs players had the best reaction. He said:"Hey! If I were scoring as much goals as he does, I would be showing off too." That was the end of that story. I agree with D.O.N. about feeling like a god in PVE, then getting your humility checked in PVP. Cheers and thanks for the entertainement everyone!
That Pic on the far right top wall. The one with Rob dressed as Snake, Dave with the Portal Gun, Hollie as Fem Shep??That would look cool as a PS4 theme. Can it happen???
Thought I was amazing at commenting, turns out i'm not.
Why do you say that?
Put it on easy.
Oof, even using meta comments op only got 5 likes
I love how humbling and chill this is.
Hollie, I never bother playing on anything harder than Normal, and if I actually want to enjoy the story I almost always set the game to Easy. That was the only way I was able to finish the Uncharted games.
I play games to have fun and relax, not to feel underpowered and overwhelmed. I get enough of that IRL...
It has to be rocket league, until I saw the actual pros playing.. More in the air than on the ground! Realitycheck that I`m nowhere near their skill
Im pretty good in getting lost. In Rocket league. Were there is just on frickin space to move in.
Guitar Hero, won a couple local tournaments, had a lot of fun, beating every song on expert. The gap between my GH ability and the ability of those who are actual GH experts is larger than the gap between me and my 3 yo daughter.
I used to think I was really good at super smash, beat all my friends/family etc every time....and then I watched a pro tournament.
Holly was the stand out of course. I totally feel her on the feeling inadequate when someone else does better on a higher level. Some games I do on easy, others on normal - if I like it enough, I bump it up to hard. With Nier Automata I actually stopped playing because I was bored, even though I'd totally recommend it to people - it is brilliant. The fighting was really easy but it drags out a bit. Not for me.
Great video.
Every fighting game ever. Unless I'm playing Kintaro on Mortal Kombat trilogy ;)
Every mobile games ever 😉
lol I love this channel. Keep up the good work guys.
Gravity Rush, literally two days ago. I'd been refining my technique on one of the time trials, trying to get a gold medal. On my gold medal run, I absolutely shattered my personal best. Feeling cocky, I decided to check my score against the global leaderboards, only to discover that my time was slightly less than double the world record. I'm still a little crushed.
For a while I thought I was good at Devil May Cry 3 and Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, then I went on TH-cam and look up how other people did in the games. While I was watching these combo videos I felt myself getting smaller and smaller with each passing second.
Watching these DMC4 combo videos is absolute insanity, I have no idea how stuff like that is possible with only two hands.
I love Dark souls games, I know the ins and outs of both dark souls 1 and 2 and I can say with confidence that I am very good at the single player and the multiplayer aspects of the game, so when bloodborne came out I was like "this game is going to be easy because my dark souls experience", ooooooh I was so wrong, the thing with dark souls is that you learn to be defensive and to react to your enemies, bloodborne is about been agresive, high risk high reward.
How come I never get tired of Rob talking about CTR?
One of the greatest joys in gaming is realizing that I'm not good at a game. It's one of the best feelings! It implies that, for starters, I really like the game, since I've played it enough to feel like I'm good at it(only to have that illusion shattered). It also implies a high-skill ceiling, and discovering that a game that you love has high skill ceiling, man, there's no better feeling than that. "WHAT! You mean there's more for me to do? YES!!!". It happened to me with the Devil May Cry series, for example. Turns out that your S-Rank runs are nothing compared to what you **can** do in those games.
You tube suggested this, my heart skipped a beat when I saw hollies picture
i have a few stories.
1. a game i thought i was god at wasHalo but i only played against the same 3 friends all the time and i was alwayst he best of us then i tried online with Halo 2 and man i got my ass kicked and i had to learn again how to be good at halo and now i am a better fps player in general thanks to Halo 2s multiplayer.
2. Super Smash Bros man i always played Link, Ganon or Roy and thought i was the king but again i only played against the same 3 friends so of course but then i meet new friends who told me they only play for fun and i challanged them cusi wanted to show off i guess :P.
We went home to one of the friend and they told me "do not shout if you lose", i took Roy and the other took Link, Yoshi and Captain Falcon. it was a very fun fight but i lost against the guy who played Link and thought wow there are people better then me at this game. The other laughed hard and called me a noob, loser, unskilled and which trigged me more then losing.
3. One last game i thought i was good at was in Tekken as a kid i only did a kick and a punch i had no idea how to combo but as an early teen i coudl do so many of them and the same 3 friends i played with lost most of the time against me but then i played at an event against a really good player and he destroyed me and i was just holding my controler in silenced, looked at him and he just said"thanos for the match new guy" and then walked away.
In general i am a decent player in some games but i am never or dont have the same skill level as some of the best players in the world i mean thier reaction time is just amazing.
I was one of the top players in COD:MW2. I was on the top 2 or 3 in scoring and K/D in most of the matches I played. Then I played on an internet connection good enough to get into matches in Europe. I was still above average, but I was nowhere where I thought I was. I was just a big fish in a small pond.
The even worse part about cod is it's a team game so like there are groups of people we collectively refer to as pub stars people who aren't quite as good as your average or top teir pro players but they do certain things like run full party's or use certain skills and kill streaks that aren't viable or are flat out banned in a professional setting and also very unlike pro players your likely to run into them in a public lobby because they aren't practicing or going to tourneys or playing cash matches in private lobby they are doing it for leaderboards and bragging rights and no matter your skill level when 3/4/5 of the random teammates you got paired with are getting stomped cause not only are they decently good players but they are using every little advantage they can take and communicating and all this you could be doing well the first half until the kill streaks get on a roll then your just fighting to stay even already lost the sense of trying for a victory and more about preserving what little pride you have left it's kinda brutal
Original Playstation Ridge Racer, using a NegCon is was an absolute master. Bit like Rob, I only had one competitor!
100% smash brothers. Specifically PM. I had fallowed the competitive melee scene for years, could perform pretty much all the adnance tech in pm and had what i thought was a very strong grasp of how nuetral and punish games worked. Two of my best friends also loved smash and we grinded for hours every hangout pushing eachother to new heaights. We absalutly destroyed anyone we casualy met who thought they were good. BUT then we went to a pm local that had some of the best players in texas and all three of us went 1-3 in our pools and diddnt make it to bracket. I got absalutly wrecked by the 3 guys who beat me and knowing in the world of smash only one was maybe top 100 my perspective of how good i was was shattered. We still play but usually just for about an hour.
I was thinking about saying I'm good at a single player games. The Uncharted games, Arkham games, God of War, MGS (that one is for you Rob) to name a few. But I'm gonna go the competitive route and say I was pretty good at Jet Motto on PS1. I knew all the tracks shortcuts and how to hit grapple points at the perfect spot. I wish they'd remake that or do a next gen sequel.
Tekken 7
I thought the title was "Games We Thought Were Good (but were actually not)". I was like, this will be an interesting video. Than I reread the title and was a little disappointed. Either way, it is nice seeing more of Access Team. :)
Got to be Guitar Hero, I'm not that bad at them - I've not found a song that I can't actually pass - but seeing what some people can do with the game is actually nuts
When i would play games like CTR and Super Mario Cart Double Dash i memorized everything and beat all challengers. When i played mt sister she would get so mad because of my taunts for example "don't feel so bad, look at it this way your my assistant champion because there wouldn't be winners if it wasn't for losers".
18:53 "assumtions". I'm going to have nightmares about that.
I love devil may cry games but i suck at doing combos aswell
Tekken 7 for me !
I'm playing the franchise since the third opus and I love it !
Tekken 7 is one of my favorite game on PS4, I even platinumed it (and yeah I know it's a piece of cake to get the platinum, I just wanted to share how committed I was to that game).
And it doesn't matter how much effort I put, I'm getting destroyed online !!
I went 126 straight wins once, against around a dozen of my friends on Mario Kart's battle mode on the SNES. The game stops counting after 99. I was pretty happy with that one. I'm terrible at literally everything BUT Super Mario Kart.
For me it was Gran Turismo 2 - like Rob with Crash Team Racing this was before the internet was really a thing. I practiced and practiced and thought I was really good. Even entered a national competition and placed 6th in Wales. Came home all proud of my accomplishments and played a friend who then persisted to school me at the game he'd barely played and I couldn't get near him.
Don't worry Rob, you're still the CTR God in my heart 💜
Speaking of shortcuts... Star Wars Episode 1 racer for N64. Hours upon hours in multiplayer with my brothers just moving around in the stages looking for possible shortcuts and quick routes. Good fun, might boot it up tonight.
Zachary Charles you mean Star Wars pod racing correct? I still have that game (I think like 3 copies (for some reason))
For 5 years I went from what I thought was from noob to pro in smash, however because it was vs CPU’s I was actually naff, learning this the hard way. After ultimate was released I pledged to get better and now I’m a top 1% Dedede player
0 dislikes that is how it should be.
I was pretty damn good at Black Ops 2. Me and my brother made classes where we just used combat knives and ballistic knives and we came in the top 2 quite a bit. I was also really good at One in the Chamber. wish they'd bring that back lol.
Being good at CoD is just like being good at crash b or the witcher. You put the time in and while yes, your reaction time and reflexes will improve nominally the levels make it so that patterns do develope. Just like memorizing the patterns of a boss in dark souls actual people players inevitably fall into patterns. And while someone like ali will be good because they say to themselves "hey ive been killed in this spot multiple times, dont rush in or this is a good place to rack kills" a true pro player doesnt make those conscious desicions, its basically muscle memory. They dont have to make a conscious choice they've just played so long and often that player behaviour for certain levels are ingrained in them on a deep almost subconscious level. I can only equate it to boxing. Ive been boxing for 8 years, im very good. Above 70% percent. To some extent im able to read an opponents moves before they attack by the set of tbeir shoulders and stance of their feet. With that almost subconscious muscle memory also comes a confidence that when i go into any fight even if im not 100% sure ill win im confident i will put on a good showing. Confidence and muscle memory, instinct through hours of play. Its the 10000 hour rule. And while i don't personally believe itll take 10k hours to become a pro it certainly comes diwn to time invested. Dave said he used to play for 2 or 3 hours a night...i LoLed these pro players play for 8 to 13 hours a day. For work. And then for fun they play some more. This was a tl:dr for sure. Sorry about that.
Devil May Cry 3 - WAYYYYY back in the day, when this game first came out and my family still had absolute shite internet, meaning videos weren't really something I commonly bothered with...much LESS videos of other people playing games to see if they were better than me.
Man, I beat my head against a brick wall, with DMC3, back in the day. It was my first DMC. It was probably my first real modern action game, unless you consider Kingdom Hearts to be somewhat of an action game, and even then it's fairly easy to abuse the RPG mechanics there, to diffuse the action challenge. No, DMC3 was a brand new beast, to my young teen self. It didn't help, of course, that what I thought was "Normal" was supposed to be "Hard," due to...hell, was it a mix up in the coding? Japan trying to "HAHA!" America? I don't care at this point - our Normal was their Hard, and that is where I started, with the series. And I beat my head against a brick wall, until I understood it - until I practically breathed DMC3, back in the early 2000s. I COMPLETED that bloody game - unlocked everything. Top ranks on all missions, filled out the entire Gallery mode, just...generally thought I was a badass.
A few years later, at college, my roomies and I are drinking, taking turns at DMC3 for whatever reason, and my buddy Ron comments on how good I am, comparably. I knew I wasn't as polished as I'd used to be, so...yea, there's my ego boost, only heightened by the alcohol. However, other roomie Jeremy knows otherwise, kinda chuckles while he goes to get his laptop from his own room, then hooks that up to my tv.
I had never seen a PROPER stylish video of a DMC game, prior to that. I never knew what it REALLY meant to be good, at DMC. Needless to say, I was quite swiftly humbled, regarding my own abilities - even considering how I'd been, back when it was an obsession.
I still hold that I'm pretty damned good at DMC games. But I will never be that good lol - have neither the time, nor motivation to master it on such a level. I mean, it's damn near fighting game levels of mastery that are necessary for those frame perfections! It's impressive as hell, but not something to which I aspire, at this point.
I thought I was really good at the Red Dead Redemption multiplayer till I handed the controller over to a friend who doesn't play nearly as much and me and witness how he continued to do just as well as me in a deathmatch. Turns out it was just really easy to be good at the game and my teenage mind didn't register this.
I remember speedrunning MGS2 back in the PS2 days and thinking my time of 2 hours, 18 minutes was quite something. Oh how times have changed.
Street Fighter....
I grew up being better at Street Fighter, and games in general, than all of my brothers, as well as all of my friends. I would destroy them to the point where I crushed their hopes and dreams and their very will to live.
Then Street Fighter IV happened. Playing online was a heart breaking eye opener for me.... Still love it
MKX, was a game I thought I was good at because I was better than my friends. Until I met really competitive people. I was still decent at the game, but all my unsafe moves were punished heavily with 40% combos.
rob, it dosen't matter how good you are at a game, you will never be as good as the speed runners, you still the best crash team racing player i ever seen :)
I thought I was good at tekken until I went online .got slaughtered.
I never thought I was unbeatable in video games, especially fighting games, but I didn't thought I was terrible either. But on doa4 after I have completed the story mode with every character, I decided to play online to unlock some achievements. The achievements I end up unlocking the achievemt for losing 10 consecutive games online worth 0 gamerscore. There was another one for losing 20 consecutive games, but I didn't want to attempt it. I was exhausted
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 (PS1) - (and also CTR, but I'm leaving that title to Rob)
I could do the whole 2 minutes (and sometimes more) trick after trick, pumping up the multiplier... but I'm sure there are a lot of people out there who can crush me with more advanced tricks, combos, and the like...
The times when you were the world champion, and only had your friends as judges... :')
Mortal Kombat X. Got through the campaign after only losing a couple of times and destroyed my friend when playing 1v1, but then I tried playing online... I did 10 casual games and lost all of them, I haven't touched the game since.
Omg the final bosses on the first playthrough on Nier Automata was ridiculous. I literally had no potions, all of my stuff was broken and I was weak af. AND I COULDN'T GO BACK!
Any rhythm game ever until I get matched online with anyone from Japan. Then my heart sinks as I know I'm going to lose... miserably 🤣🤣🤣
For me it's Injustice and Batman: Arkham Origins, through surprisingly not Arkham Knight for some reason.
That's because Arkham origins is buggy and had bad button sync. Arkham knight was way more polished
I don't think it was the controls for me. Ironically, it was the help of the Batmobile. I don't know why everyone hates the Batmobile, it makes some missions easier to handle, especially when you get used to the controls.
Crisis Among Infinite Darths AC Crisis Tank missions
The original white day. Going through it hundreds of times, learning exploits for the janitors and ghosts, and understanding the principles of the puzzles, stocking coins for drinks and then watched a speed run of a 100% real run.......mortifying
The year is 2006; I'm trashing everyone I know at PES, so my cocky self decides to hold a public tournament at my house. It was a £5 buy in where if anyone beat me once I'd give them £20, and they got up to 3 tries (Each match costing them £5.
So after hours and hours of me not losing and taking people's money, I was now confident enough to go to public tournaments, where more of the same happened where all I did was win, up until met this kid known only as 'The Greek'. No one had ever scored 6 against me on PES in any mode, in any version, in any way. It just didn't happen, but this kid who was probably half my age absolutely decimated me. I scored once. I pretty much knew my place after that.
Mine is Bloodborne. I thought I was hot stuff being able to counter and beat Orphan of Kos NG+++++ but then i forgot I had rung my Beckoning Bell earlier and had another player enter...with the Milkweed Carryl Rune, Kos Parasite weapon and dressed in the Student attire and just danced around Kos’s Orphan the entire fight at close range and never took a single hit.....made me feel like a novice.
Thought I was good at Rocket League, scored a few nice goals, some good saves etc but then watch the prods who are dribbling in mid air and doing back flip shots off the ceiling, it's mental!
Man I would love to have a job working with you guys. You guys have so much fun doing what you do. If you have any openings at PlayStation Access I'd love to be a part of the team there 😀👍👍👍. You guys Rock 😇
I got really good at Goldeneye 007 on N64, I thought I was so good a shooter games. Then all of my friends got the XBox and started playing Halo. "Aw they think they're all so good," I'd say to myself, "Wait until I get ahold of a controller." I learned that day I was actually quite bad at shooters. From Halo, to Halo 2, to Call of Duty MW2, Black Ops, MW3, to Battlefield 1, I realized I'm just bad at shooters. It's a curse, really, because every 2-3 years there's this idea that creeps into my head saying "well maybe now you're better" but there's always the reminder that... I'm not.
Mine back in the day was Halo because I always trashed my friends at it. Then I went to a local tournament and was last place... Hated halo since then. The game I've gotten the best at since that time is Tekken, but I am humble enough to know I'm still not really good at Tekken because I started playing after seeing some friends play who were godlike in the game. I still don't come close to their level.
I love Rob's T-Shirt. Wonder if it's sold anywhere.
i got this with fifa 18. lost only a few games against my friends. so i started playing FUT champions. and the beated me hard. only got 15 out of the 40 matches. and the worst is when you go up against a very good player, you score because he made 1 error, and then he scores 3 in 5 mins.
at the end of fifa 18 i got more then 20 wins out of the 40 games. started FUT champions on fifa 19 and setted the goal on 15 out of 30 and only got 10 :(