I'm Thinking FPS Games Aren't for Me

I got The Orange Box in from GameFly last week. The main reason I wanted this is to play Portal. Guess what? I completed Portal and really liked it. So, then I moved on to Half Life 2 and fail horribly. I don't know if its my lack of experience with FPS games, or just the fact that I have bad aim and bad problem solving skills, but I suck at that game, and that is not fun.

I'm being shot at by man and machine while I have to try to figure out what to do and where to go to advance. I die way too many times (even on easy mode, sad, I know). The control of the game really isn't an issue, as Oblivion had similar controls and I did just fine in that.

I think its more of the fact that the typical FPS game leaves the player at a disadvantage. The environment isn't controlled. In games like Portal and Oblivion, for the most part, the player can choose when, where and how to get involved in things that could end up in his untimely demise. In games like HL2 all that is decided by the game's AI, not the player, since the player is placed in situations that are difficult for him to control, but which require him to overcome to succeed.

Does that make any sense? Anyway, I'll probably give HL2 another shot before I send it back, but I did play Portal, which was the reason I rented that collection in the first place. So, mission accomplished. ;)