The other day I encouraged a friend of mine to get involved with Destiny 2 so we could play around a bit with it. He had some notion about the game but is not an avid gamer. He only recently purchased a PS4 and hadn't been a gamer for quite some time.
He went through the absolutely massive download and later on that night I logged in and sure enough, there he was already in game somewhere.
I decided to join him on a quest that he was mid way through with my toon that had a significantly higher power rating than his character did.
Then we ran around for a while and I tried to take point thinking that I was going to be carrying the team. Wow was I ever wrong. I kept dying over and over again and he wasn't. Here's this guy that has about 2 hours of logged game time and he is the one rezzing me over and over again and we ended up failing sections of the quests because I was dying too much. He had the game on "legendary" and he did that on PURPOSE.
In just a few hours of ever having played the game in his life he was significantly better at it than I was. This was a very humbling moment for me and after a while I just decided to not play anymore. I think my involvement in the game was actually holding him back.
Now I think I can safely delete this game from my hard drive and walk away from it. I am truly terrible at it :)
For me, I think the only games I really excel at are MetroidVania games. It's fine with me if they are tough provided they don't use all 18 of the buttons on the controller. This is another thing that is always going to hold me back in FPS games of the modern age. I simply am not dedicated enough to remember at the blink of an eye which button I am supposed to be pressing. A good example of how I CAN be good at a tough game that doesn't use all the buttons would be Hollow Knight. This game is considered by many to be one of the toughest side-scrolling platformer / MV games of all time, yet I got relatively good at it.
I also really enjoy RPG games, whether they are 3D or not doesn't really matter, because I enjoy old-school turn-based RPG's just as much as modern ones like RDR2 or Witcher. I think FPS games are just too fast-paced for this old guy and maybe I should just leave them alone.