I suck at games online because I don't play that often, or at least shooters are the only one I play enough to really be comfortable as an online competitor.
I play shooters, and sometimes "get on a roll" once I start learning the maps - but I wouldn't say I'm great. I'll have an occasional round where I get like 50 kills vs. 10 deaths or something like that. I've seen some "cheaters" in CoD that spawn rape people and get like 100:1 ratios. I've never done that, because that's not the way I play. In a game like Battlefield, I play rush mode and just pretty much go on a b-line for the objective, even if I get killed like 10 times in a row LOL. I just don't care. That's they way I like to play it, all out for the objective. In other modes I will sometimes play more strategically, but I definitely play more as a team player than someone that cares about having a Kill/Death ratios. I do remember owning people at Counter Strike and Half-Life WAY back in the day (I mean the pre-Steam versions of those games). I used to get booted from servers because people thought I was cheating, but no, I was just owning them. It helped that I was playing on basically a lag free network at that time.
As far as other genres, I'm sure I"m terrible because I rarely even attempt play. Fighting games require much more practice that I'm willing to put in to actually be good. Tried playing a few fighting games and basically I can't win a single match online in something like Street Fighter or Tekken. So I must be pretty terrible. But like I said, I barely play enough to know the basic moves, let alone be able to time out juggle combos. I can win at Smash Brothers or Playstation All-Stars because those are more accessible/newb friendly - but Street Fighter? Forget about it. Even Mortal Kombat you wouldn't think requires much skill, but i pretty much get owned.
Driving games I'm not terrible at the arcade style games, I win fairly routinely. But if it's a simulation with harder settings I tend to not be able to keep up with the top drivers (i.e. they will open up a big gap and it keeps getting bigger every lap). The only simulator style game I've ever been decent at was the Dirt or Colin McRae games.
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