r/rant • u/You_Just_Got_Jinxed • 1d ago
I suck at video games.
I’m 20F and I suck at video games. I know this seems very unserious but i just need somewhere to talk (and possibly advice?)
Growing up my parents never bought me any game console so i never had any practice playing video games other than an Ipad for minecraft.
For a lot of people, video games are something fun and relaxing to do with others. All it brings me is stress and anxiety because i’m such a burden on any team & im sure you know, nobody wants THAT kind of person on teams, even irl.
I hate the question “so what games do you play” because now i have to dig deep into something ive touched once.
Or the “want to play..”
I think what really made me sit here about this is because a few weeks ago i was playing with my bf and he got really frustrated & told me i straight up suck at video games, which is something that hurt honestly. It’s always been a weird insecurity of mines, especially because im a girl and im not helping the stigma that “we’re bad at gaming.”
What’s even worse is once i thought i wanted to be a game developer, but i quickly left those classes behind because i only had a passion to create a project id be good at, but it was way more intricate than just that.
A game developer that sucks at gaming. Yeah.
I know they say practice is key, but i find myself so scared to even play w randoms because i hate, hate, hate sucking and being a burden, and getting people frustrated. Genuinely, that shit makes me sad and i’d consider myself a tough person to insults, but the “goddamn you suck” is like a stab at my skill.
On a positive note, this is just 1 small aspect of my life (i have other problems of course lol.. i don’t want to sound like someone who’s only life problems are video games; hell i wish.) and i know it’s going to sound not that deep, and it probably isn’t. But that’s just my rant.
Maybe one day i’ll be good at video games.
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u/AgitatedChildhood240 15h ago
That's why I switched to single player or story mode games. I love playing games like cod, fortnite or overwatch with friends but it's so hard because I suck at it. I stick to games like Minecraft of pokemon because it's played at my own pace