What games do you consider yourself an Expert at?
 

Years ago I would have said Street Fighter II up through Alpha 1. I was never good enough to hang with the truly gifted/obcessed but I could defeat most people. However I'm so woefully out of practice I'd likely be schooled very shortly.

Call of Duty, Call of Duty:UO, and Call of Duty 2 (PC). I'm currently involved in a clan that used to support Call of Duty and used to involved with TWL Ladder matches (top 10 team).

Quake 2

Burnout Revenge and Unreal Tournament (PC).
Burnout Revenge online my rank hovers around 700.

Decent in many, expert in none? I don't know, not sure if I would consider myself an expert in any game, although I wouldn't say that I'm BAD in any of the ones that I actually play.

Killer Instinct 2, man I love that game...

SF2 series. Hands down my best game.

Oh and I whip ass at Super Dodge Ball on the NES. Team All-Stars baby!

:up: Great at many, but probably far from an expert in the scope of things.

Nothing recent. 2D Mario and Sonic games I was the best. Older Madden games.

Oh! And Ninja Gaiden 2 and Mike Tyson's Punch Out. I could beat Ninja Gaiden 2 without dying, and Mike Tyson was a cinch.

Super Mario Bros. 3

I turn this on and I'm running completely on automatic all the way through. I don't even think about getting those three star cards in a row, I just *DO*.

Does Uno count? I've played lots of games but never good enough to consider myself an Expert at. Once I've finished them, I usually move on to the next.

Wait, I just remembered one. Contra for NES I am definitely an expert at.

Call of Duty 2 and Halo 2. I'm no where near the very best but, I can hold my own and consider myself above average.

It's been a long time since I played a game enough to feel that I was an expert. Two of my old ones are Contra (NES) and The Legend of Zelda. I pushed myself to master each level of Contra to not need the cheat code and used to be able to sit down and burn through Zelda, either collecting everything or saving time and just getting the necessities.

I play such a large variety now though that I do not put that kind of effort into a single game, instead prefering to beat one and move on, returning to old favorites on occasion.

Ultimate Doom and Doom 2

Super Smash Brothers and Mario Kart 64. Back when I was in my prime of videogames.

Ah, I forgot my Super Mario Kart days on the SNES. One of my friends and I tangled almost every weekend in battle mode and I rarely lost (he got better with time, so he learned my tricks). Not to mention the single player.

Definitely only an expert on Guitar Hero I/II. I'm not world class, but I'm pretty darn close. I was also pretty good at Galaga back in the day, but definitely not an expert.

I think I'm better at Chubby Cherub then Jovo or his brother Underwear Man.

Alright, after some thinking and suggestions in this thread I have a few:

Mega Man 2: got to where I could finish the game with one life

Mario Kart 64: no one will even play this anymore with me :(

Goldeneye: mopped the floor with friends due to Turok style control

Ninja Gaiden 2: Only played it once, but beat it with first life on my first try

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Old school

Ms. Pac Man: Probably not an expert but can make it further than most on arcade machines and typically make it onto the leaderboard if I have time.

Joust: Not sure of the differences but made it to wave 256 on the Atari 400.

Buffy: Chaos Bleeds, Call of Duty 2, Uno, Dead Rising, Hitman: Blood Money, Command and Conquer games, Perfect Dark (N64)

Wonder Boy in Monster Land for the arcade. I can beat it on one quarter and clear two to three million depending on how much extra gold I can amass. I also fancy myself an expert at manic shmups, but I know that my skills are not shit compared to so many other players out there. I'd daresay I could probably wipe most people out in Puyo Puyo.. as long as they're not Japanese Puyo players.

Of course, that's the the problem with the internet concerning game skillies, no matter how great you are at a game, you can do a quick search and be instantly shamed.

Robotron and Asteroids Deluxe. Neither of which is an easy game as you get to higher levels. ;)

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UT 2K4 and possibly Tekken Tag, Tekken 5....although I've only played a handful of people. I'm a middle of the pack player in COD2, Halo2, and GOW

oh and j/k Ed :)

Nothing now. Probably the closest would have been Mortal Kombat II on the SNES. I rarely lost to my friends in that game and could morph into every character with Shen-Tsueng or whatever his name was and do nearly all the fatalities.

But these days I'm pretty much a beat a game and move on to the next one gamer, so I don't get anywhere near being an expert at any of them.

Soul Caliber 1,2 and 3
Armored Core 4 (double S ranked everything easily)
Virtua Tennis
Guitar Hero
Zelda : A Link to the Past (100% without dying)

I can play pretty much any 2D Mario game blind-folded.
And I'm pretty good at a lot of 2D fighting games (Street Fighter, King of Fighters, etc.)

Back in the day I was pretty good at SF2 (one Sunday I beat it with every character at the arcade on basically one quarter each) and I actually learned MK II from some tournament-level players on a trip to Las Vegas and cleaned up back in my home town.

More recently, I got to be pretty badass at Battlefield 1942, pre-expansion. I played the hell out of the demo and got to be an expert tank driver (regularly brought down planes) and spent a solid month doing nothing but playing on a sniper-only server.

Haven't really "mastered" anything since then though.

two games really
QuakeII/III
and Descent.

And that's mainly multiplayer gaming. Being an expert at the single player portion of an FPS isn't much of a challenge.

Of the newer console games, I'd say Wii Sports Bowling (hey, it says I'm a pro!), and Tetris DS. There was a point a few months back where I had that tetris vision going, where I'd see falling blocks everywhere. Ranking-wise, i was about 7k in the world. Not super expert, but play me and I would probably rock your world.

I was ranked 3 in the world for resident evil outbreak at one point.

Hmm...thinking back...

Street Fighter II Turbo
Mortal Kombat 2
Killer Instinct (I was that kid in the arcade that sat there and played it through on just 50cents, and beat mostly anyone that came up to play me)
Soul Edge
Soul Calibur I, II, and III
EA's NHL Series (from 92-99, various platforms)
FIFA 96
Sega Worldwide Soccer
Panzer Dragoon I, II
Skate or Die 1 and 2
Ski or Die
Warcraft II
NHL Powerplay '96
NHL 2k through 2k6
NHL Faceoff
NHL Faceoff 97
NHL 07
Blades of Steel
Super DodgeBall (NES, GBA, and Arcade)
Wii Sports Tennis
Dead or Alive 1 and 2
Virtua Fighter 2
Tekken 3
Punch-Out
Super Punch-Out
IronMan Stewart's Super Off Road
Quake 2
Rad Racer

My victories are mostly the product of dumn luck, but I'll school your ass in NHL'94 for the SNES.

I used to be able to beat Resident 2 (PS version) in about 1 hr 45 min on the hardest difficutly with Leon.

I also beat Emerald & Ruby weapon in Final Fantasy 7 back in the day.

back in the day: Galaga (Arcade). Usually I would end up just walking away from the machine cuz I was tired of playing. Last time I recently played it at the arcade, some of the magic was still there, but I couldn't get into "the zone" like I used to. I've tried all the MAME and console versions, but it's not quite the same as playing the upright arcade game. Something about standing up with the proper joystick and button.

In addition, all the old NHL games on the Genesis.

Zaxxon

I'm the same way with Ms. Pac Man. Played them on many systems but nothing comes close to the real thing. Your story reminds me of a similar one. Back when the Anniversary Ms. Pac/Galaga came out I gave it a run at the movie theater. I had about 45 minutes to kill before the movie started. I too had to walk away unfinished.

Goldeneye (64): Challenged multiple times in college (during its peak) easily beat everyone.
Tetris DS Online: Single-handedly responsible for an estimated 30 Japanese player suicides.
Halo: Kill ratio of 3 to 1!

Ditto with Galaga. I was once able to make the aliens stop shooting, and then I played long enough to reset the score, and I just walked away...

I used to own a Zaxxon! I was pretty good, but a few fraternity brothers were still better. Now I'm down to a MultiWilliams game (Robotron, Joust, Defender, Stargate, Bubbles and Food Fight) and a Super Pacman cocktail. I still suck at Defender & Stargate. (I get distracted by Robotron, Bubbles and Joust too often!)