Poll: Hello darkness my old friend...

[JohnnyDelRay]

I'm gonna go with...no. The problems I have in a video game were due to the unexpected, not from a lack of skill on my part. My skills grow, my muscle menory increases, my knowledge and understanding expands. The reason I got a rocket to the face in Fallout 4 was because I simply didn't expect to be rocketed in the face. These things happen. They're irritating, but they're not the player's fault. Hell, enemies will point-blank a Fatman...

Heheh...this just happened to me last night. Wandering around Quincy feeling like a fucken cowboy boss (Gunslinger n crits maxed out) when all of a sudden, hear the high-pitched firework whistle and *dead*. Like, wtf man.

OT: Okay, this has happened to me mostly in driving games, and fighting games. Although I think in fighting games, it's also more to where the games have evolved past me. I used to be able to rip 4-5 hit combos with my eyes closed with Ken, since SFIV though, I can barely string 2 hits together. It's all timing now rather than just sequence and distance, which screws me to the point where I stopped playing out of frustration.

In driving games, when it comes down to straight racing, every different games' physics engine is so nuanced, it just takes a while to get back into it. When to brake, how much gas to give, how vigorous to be with the wheel, what happens when downshifting too early, where the limits are, how much awareness is required for the weight shifts. Sometimes it comes back really quick, whereas in other games it can be a headbanging few hours just to be near the level I was at before. And so much is going through my mind at those times. Damn rewarding once I get it down though.

 

[The Wykydtron]

I always thought I was pretty decent at UMVC3 back in the day, seeing as how I played it daily for a year and a half since it first launched and had a positive win rate in ranked for all of that time but when I tried to go back to it, everyone online was either trying to use ChrisG's Morrigan monster team or pulling off 100-0 Doom TAC swag combos.

Then there's me with my still unfilled third team slot because I only play 2 characters in a fighting game generally and an unoptimised team including the de facto worst character in the game Phoenix Wright. No way am I ever going to catch up to that anymore.

I would say I used to be relatively good at Mu-12 in BlazBlue until CP:EX came out but that Mu in CP:EX and my Mu in CS:EX are barely recognisable. They changed all the things I liked about her, including her personality. Noel gets the option to use her old style look with the hat because I assume people saw the redesign and were just up in arms because that beret was godlike but Mu gets her entire personality changed and you don't even get the option to use her old voice lines? Mad.