# Some Videos That Will Make You Feel Inferior In Video Games **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204 "2008-01-12T00:22:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/1 "2008-01-12T00:22:45Z")
Right [here](http://www.gamesradar.com/us/pc/game/news/article.jsp?releaseId=2006032219817514003&articleId=200711239291393082§ionId=1006&pageId=2007112394150531054) . I defy you to do better. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/2 "2008-01-12T00:43:12Z")
I’m pretty sure these guys are all in the “plays by sense of smell” territory. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/3 "2008-01-12T00:46:24Z")
Wow, I watched that Street Fighter video and all I can say is…well wow. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/4 "2008-01-12T00:49:17Z")
I’ve seen a couple of those before (the Street Fighter and DDR ones). Always fun. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/5 "2008-01-12T01:18:36Z")
The unnamed music guy delighted me; the Tetris guy terrified me. I mean, I know they were joking about the army of cyborgs. Right? Right? Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/6 "2008-01-12T01:51:27Z")
You know, they’re about to re-release Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo to the box Arcade soon. It’ll have leaderboards and online play. That will fulfill a childhood dream of mine because I was the baddest Street Fighter player in the city. I want to go out into the world and get steamrolled. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/7 "2008-01-12T02:02:02Z")
I already know I’m inferior in video games. I was recently replaying Blue Shift. Easy mode-ridiculously easy. Medium mode, no problem. Hard mode… I’m doing about as well as a lone person trying to fight past scores of heavily armed enemies would actually do in real life. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/8 "2008-01-12T02:06:59Z")
The Puyo Puyo thing was weird…right before the combo, there were a lot of times when the left player SHOULD have lost, where the bubbles were above the top, unless I’m totally misunderstanding how the game works. Still, those were flippin’ AWESOME. The Tetris…(I didn’t know there was a hold option!) was amazing, and the musical one…the guy’s hands were actually blurs! ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/9 "2008-01-12T03:29:05Z")
In case anyone’s curious, the music game is [Pop’n Music](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop%27n_music), a Japanese arcade staple. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/10 "2008-01-12T04:39:37Z")
I’m not that impressed with the Mario one. Assuming it’s done with save states any good platformer could replicate that without a huge time investment. I’m pretty good at both Tetris and Minesweeper. I didn’t watch the whole tetris video, the guy’s good, but nothing that drops my jaw. The minesweeper video is pretty crazy, my best score on expert is 84 seconds, if I got a really good grid and was in practice I think I could get around 60-65 seconds, 37 is just nuts. [Here’s](http://www.warcraftmovies.com/stream.php?id=34505) a video of a rogue I used to play with in WoW. He’s easily the best player I’ve played with, some considered him the best rogue in the game (out of probably a bit over a million rogues) There’s a video around of a hunter I played with too (Fubarious) killing 6 guys at the same time that’s pretty impressive to me too. WoW has a ton of luck involved though so it’s debatable about how much skill there really is. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/11 "2008-01-12T15:27:52Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I’m not that impressed with the Mario one. Assuming it’s done with save states any good platformer could replicate that without a huge time investment. I’m pretty good at both Tetris and Minesweeper. I didn’t watch the whole tetris video, the guy’s good, but nothing that drops my jaw. The minesweeper video is pretty crazy, my best score on expert is 84 seconds, if I got a really good grid and was in practice I think I could get around 60-65 seconds, 37 is just nuts. [Here’s](http://www.warcraftmovies.com/stream.php?id=34505) a video of a rogue I used to play with in WoW. He’s easily the best player I’ve played with, some considered him the best rogue in the game (out of probably a bit over a million rogues) There’s a video around of a hunter I played with too (Fubarious) killing 6 guys at the same time that’s pretty impressive to me too. WoW has a ton of luck involved though so it’s debatable about how much skill there really is. [/QUOTE] I don’t get the WoW one. Can you explain it a little bit to me? ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/12 "2008-01-12T16:08:43Z")
It’s hard to see, but he’s basically utterly annihilating enemies he shouldn’t be able to punk like that. ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/13 "2008-01-12T16:09:06Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] I don’t get the WoW one. Can you explain it a little bit to me? [/QUOTE] It’s a compilation video of a player fighting a variety of different opponents. If you don’t play WoW you probably won’t get what’s going on, but basically he’s fighting a lot of matches two versus one and even three versus one and winning. WoW player versus player content is often called paper-rock-scissors because everything has a counter. In the last fight he fights the paper to his rock and wins. The resolution probably doesn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/14 "2008-01-12T16:34:05Z")
Yeah, the reslution doesn’t help much at all. I’ve never played World of Warcraft (I’m diametrically opposed to having to pay for a game and then paying 15 bucks a month. The game should be free…oh yeah, and I can see myself being completely and hopelessly addicted.) ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/15 "2008-01-12T17:01:15Z")
[QUOTE=Snarky\_Kong] I didn’t watch the whole tetris video, the guy’s good, but nothing that drops my jaw. [/QUOTE] The action dramatically speeds up near the end of the video, and if I’m watching it correctly, he continued playing through the game’s end credits, in a scenario in which pieces **disappeared** as soon as they landed; he had to play from memory. And he still won! Daniel ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/16 "2008-01-12T18:18:09Z")
[QUOTE=Left Hand of Dorkness] The action dramatically speeds up near the end of the video, and if I’m watching it correctly, he continued playing through the game’s end credits, in a scenario in which pieces **disappeared** as soon as they landed; he had to play from memory. And he still won! Daniel [/QUOTE] Ok, that is pretty impressive. They picked a poor GH video I think. Here’s the video of what’s probably the pinnacle of GH to date a 100% on Jordan from GH2 [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i7zCv3CuzVc](http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i7zCv3CuzVc). Here’s a video of the guy’s hand practicing the song. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BdAKIqo5jzk/hqdefault.jpg "Jordan: Solo B+C FC (Hands)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdAKIqo5jzk) ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-videos-that-will-make-you-feel-inferior-in-video-games/433204/17 "2008-01-12T18:32:25Z")
[Super Mario 3 Time Attack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTNpC6lYYrs) No save states, no cheating. Two warps. 11 minutes. 99 lives. One smoked Bowser. This is teh bestest.