Trying to have fun is the worst thing ever

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I have been playing a computer game where you interact with others. There is a special game that takes place once in a while that is kind if like soccer Except you kick a chicken. Sounds fun right?

But I am just so incredibly bad at doing things. So pitifully slow and clumsy trying to maneuver my character. Such a simple thing and I fail so badly at it. Quickly went from fun to me turning the thing off and crying in despair. I have to play this game completely solo or else I'm miles behind other player and totally fail. And it is an easy going game. I'm just so tired of being so pathetically feeble.

What do you use to maneuver your character? Is it because of poor motor skills, or poor hand-eye coordination?

I can relate. I'm really bad at video/computer games.

Love the game itself though. First one ever really played. Enjoy it playing solo.

It's just like if I try to participate with others I will end up deeply regretting it.

This is the solo play. All the other characters are animated non player characters. I like Lore Master best because he has a pet that helps him. This player is using his pet lynx.

It got better after I tried to improve it, though that is me. It might be different for you, because your classically Autistic. Though I had some occupational therapy.

....why not just try a different type of game, instead of constantly sticking to only one thing? Even the most skilled of gamers typically have some things that they're just amazingly terrible at.

In my case, it's FPS games. It doesnt matter how much practice I could do at them. Bloody terrible at them, and always will be. They simply dont match my skillset. I'll never get anywhere at them.

Now that being said... dont forget, LOTRO is an MMO. If there's any sort of action mini-game in an MMO, they're almost always badly made and have alot of internal problems. There's a very high chance that no amount of coordination will help you with that, simply for that reason. If anyone else is good at it, they've probably just played things like it SO freaking much that they've somehow managed to sort of compensate for the problems. Most gamers, honestly, that play games of skill, dont put up with that sort of thing and simply ignore it. You wouldnt get me playing it. I mean, I've played MMOs before, lots of them... you name it, I've probably played it... but whenever the devs think it's a good idea to do a screwball minigame for whatever reason, it always ends in derp.

If you want to play a game of skill with others (MMOs being more games of knowledge and planning, not technical skill), you need to find a different genre.

I'm sorry you're frustrated, buddy. I know you want to do as well as other teenagers on this game.

But there are more important things in life that you are good at. Being good at written communication, in this society, is much more important than being good at computer games. There are great advantages to being great in written communication that people great at sports would absolutely kill for.

Everybody sucks at SOMETHING, sir.

Sorry your having a hard time, i have this problem but with sports. When i was in the hospital i tried to play ping-pong with another patient and i tried to play pool but my hand-eye coordination and depth perception is very poor, then we played mario kart and i beat him at that lol

Some video games i do pretty well in but still just a tad behind, my timing is very slow so re-acting to someone shooting me in a game is hard. I always die in versus L4D2 and always die in GTA5 and i play those games a lot! I dont dare play COD.

I can somewhat relate, but for me I tend to have a harder time with games that require quick thinking and strategizing than games that merely rely on motor skills and reflexes. Not that I'm that great at action games either, but I'm definitely better at Unreal Tournament than I am at Magic: The Gathering.

MtG was actually a hobby of mine for a number of years, and I played it on and off, but when my small town scene started to dissolve, and I started playing more at booster drafts and such, I eventually came to realize that I simply lack the mental reflexes and strategic/tactical abilities needed to play against other people. Informal play was enjoyable for me because I could take the time I needed, and playing well was not really expected. Formal play however, you're expected to be able to focus on the game, play your turns fast, and think quickly about your opponent's strategies. You also have to keep track of a bunch of things like the effects of various enchantments, which step of a turn you're on, your life total, your opponent's life total, status effects on your creatures, and so on.

About six months ago, give or take, I eventually came to realize that I had barely even touched most of my cards, and that I was sitting on a fairly significant amount of money, so my dad offered to help organize and sell my cards. I kept one deck that contained a few of my favorites, but I let him go through the rest and sell anything of any value. It still amazes me that my dad was willing to do this without being paid a cut of it, and I even offered it to him a few times, but the closest he came was borrowing and paying some of the money I made from my cards. It probably helps that my dad is an aspie as well, and that MtG is one of his special interests. Admittedly, I do sort of regret it since I didn't get nearly as much money as I was expecting, and it will likely be hard for me to get some of the cards I sold back if I decide to get back into playing, but at the same time, I needed the money. I still own a fair number of cards, but it's pretty much all stuff my dad wasn't able to sell.

Magic can be a very fun game, and the cards are cool collectables, but I prefer playing the video game adaptations to the "real" game because the computer helps keep track of things for you, and I can choose to play against an AI instead of a real human opponent. AI opponents are more predictable, you don't have to worry about hurting their feelings if you play like an a**hole, you can call one up to play with you any time you want, and you don't have to remind them of the rules every so often like I've had to with some human players. That said, I don't play computerized MtG that often because there is no perfect implementations of it out there, all of them have their disadvantages. Magic Duels on Steam is a grindy F2P game that had a fair number of bugs the last time I played it, and it also doesn't have any of the really cool old cards. Shandalar, the MtG PC game from 1997, has tons of cool cards, a decent deck manager, and even an RPG-like quest mode, but it is also hard to run on modern PCs, and it simply doesn't have the code in place to accommodate for all the rules that have been revised since its release, as well as all the new cards and mechanics that have been introduced alongside those rule revisions. Then, there's Magic: The Gathering Online, which I haven't even bothered to touch since it requires you to buy all your cards with real money. I don't mind paying for physical cards, as they have collectors value in and of themselves, but I'm still not keen on the idea of buying virtual cards.

I know, this has been kind of a long rant, but Magic the Gathering is a game I've known for quite some time, and unfortunately, it's also one of the biggest things that has made me realize my mental limitations. I also happen to be in the unique position of having a parent who has played the game for almost its entire existence, and as such, I grew up around it for years before I even started playing it. The fact that I can't play it worth a damn against real people is something that frustrates me.

It's hard to have fun when it's the kind only other people consider fun and not mine. On weekends it's like - "Yeah let's go out and have a wild night!" My idea of a wild night is to eat junk food while staying up most of the night playing video games or watching YouTube.

Anyway, I can't see myself being into a chicken soccer game more than a minute or so because I don't care for sports-themed games in general even when it has Super Mario or Sonic characters in them. One exception was Sonic and Mario at the Olympic Winter games in Vancouver. It was in Canada, had to love that.