Basically Paradox games. I love Civ games, MOO2, and Imperialism, but I never quite understand what is going on in Paradox games. All the grand strategy games look cool, but I am always at a loss once I start.

>:-)
Yes, its officially the most globally hated (like in "hated") game mission worldwide.

Pretty much any Street Fighter or most fighting games in general.

I suck at these so much and have no patience to truly learn them.

I actually had to quit the otherwise very enjoyable game. Not sure whether it was Vice City or San Andreas. There is one mission where you have to control RC mini helicopters into a building, up some stairways to place some bombs. Those terrible controls, I always failed... And at that time the GTA games had no checkpoints yet. That means, if you fail in a mission, you have to go / drive all the way back to the mission giver and then back to the actual locale of the mission. Easily 10 minutes can pass between two tries. That made me finally quit, unfortunately I had to. Since I love that open world game play with shooting and driving. Right now thoroughly enjoying Saints Row 3, 4 will be next. I love it, and there are checkpoints ;-)

Being able to save anytime would kill the tension in a Survival Horror game. Besides, the remake is somewhat generous with ink ribbons, so it's safe to assume you can save after any major event or progress. I think there are about 40 total ink ribbons in the entire game.

Love, man.

That game is ****** hard.

Dark Souls, I guess? Because it's too punishing for my taste. I like the atmosphere and exploration aspects, and I guess I could even live with starting over at the last bonfire when dying from regular opponents in the area, I get how it adds to the tension, keeping players on their toes, and you don't necessarily lose all your progress. But I was never really fond of bosses, and having to start over at the last bonfire whenever you die in a boss battle, and bonfires being placed far away from the boss arena, that's ruining all the fun I might possibly have had with the game otherwise. To a degree, I can understand the concept of the design, but I'm not the type of player to get something out of it.

I didn't realise there were so many ribbons - that's comforting. I'll need to man up and go back to the game. I get what you mean about the tension but I think they handled well in RE7 with having a rooms throughout the game that you could save in...

Big 4X games in vein of Europa Universalis and Hearts of Iron.

There's just way too many things to manage, too many menues and things to tweak.

I do OK in "lighter" 4X games like Master of Orion and Stars in Shadow.

In general I find 4X space games to be easier to manage than the history-based ones (WW2, Roman Empire etc.).

Platformers. I just don't have the reflexes for it anymore, I just become annoyed with myself.

Flight simulators like Microsoft Flight Simulator X and P3D. The learning curve is far too off-putting.

I might try Far Cry again with that mod. Thanks. :)
That nuclear countdown part was insanely hard. I had to reload many times before being able to beat it.

Want to play but cannot? Hmm, many RTS games I fail at partially so must skip skirmishes or the campaign or whatever is too hard for me but one game I have I get 'pwned' in EVERY single time whatever I try to do: American Conquest (yes, an RTS)

Real Time sTrategy games are beyond me
I suck at top-down shooters
I suck at platformers
I'm not very good at shooters

Not sure how much of all this is lack of practice. All my life I have played and loved rpgs. Time to think. A slower paced approach. Decisions more important than reflexes.

Anybody's guess whether I like rpgs because I am slow or whether I am slow because all I've ever played are rpgs.

You. Come to papa.... ;(

Haha, same here when it comes to strategies.

I love how well made these games are, but if I don't get a pause function, I am gonna get crushed by the AI 8 out of 10 times. I just suck at them. But I still love 'em and will buy 'em if they interest me.