Sucking so hard at games that you used to be so good at

[deathbyprayer]

I used to be so good at stealth and FPS games but now I just totally suck at it. I can't even get past a guard in Conviction without getting shot at least 10 times. Don't even get me started with FPS games, back in the day I can go through a whole CoD map without getting shot or killed but now I can't even place a proper headshot anymore.

 

[daimashin]

Back at the pre-PS3 era I was pretty good at playing Street Fighter. Back then I could easily beat the game, but after PS2 I stopped playing SF for a few years. Last month, I decided to try out SF4 and couldn't even beat the AI. My fingers were so stiff and couldn't do any combo effectively.

 

[deathbyprayer]

Back at the pre-PS3 era I was pretty good at playing Street Fighter. Back then I could easily beat the game, but after PS2 I stopped playing SF for a few years. Last month, I decided to try out SF4 and couldn't even beat the AI. My fingers were so stiff and couldn't do any combo effectively.

Oh right fighting games is another one I really suck at now. I used to be like a master among my friends when it comes to SF especially on the NES and PS2 days but when I made the jump to the latest, SFIV that game kicked my ass both literally and figuratively. I'm even having a hard time defeating the enemies at the Easy difficulty.

 

[Oberon]

I can relate to that.Sometimes I think Im not as good as I used to be in SP campaigns,and certain things take me longer to figure out or perhaps take longer before it becomes 2nd nature.

 

[Sekelani]

Back in the ps2 era , I was really good at tekken. Paul Phoenix was my hero. Now, if I play the game I suck miserably at it!
Absolute shame.

 

[Haymansafc]

I'm dreadful at FPS games whether they're new or old. I just don't have that outright, absolute precision control required for them that so many gamers have – and I've been a gamer since the very late eighties, so that's a quarter of a century! I just can't play them to save my life. As I said in another thread only recently, if you give me a target, I could guarantee to you that I'd shoot more or less perfectly around it's outline without actually hitting the object/target once. I find the analogue/dual shock sticks either too sensitive and end up turning me immediately 45 degrees one way or another, or are so sluggish that I'm dead before I've had chance to move the 'dot' over to the correct spot . As for using scopes for even more precision shooting – forget it! It's one of the reasons why I just don't like FPS titles.

That reminds me, actually. One game that I know my skills have notably deteriorated on is the first few from the Quake series. I didn't mind these early FPS games and I could master them. I went back to the early titles a good few years back after a long break and dear me…I was appalling. I spent more time dead than I did alive. I think a lot of that was having to readjust myself back to the graphics of the time…! That's the excuse I'm sticking with, anyway!

Turning this topic on it's head, whilst I've not played them in years, I'm still pretty confident I could get through Tomb Raider 1 and 2 quickly and efficiently with little effort. I played them to death. The same goes for the first two Resident Evil titles and Silent Hill 2 for that matter. I hate to sound a bit big-headed about that but if there's anything I could do and still do well, I'm pretty sure it would be those five.

Away from the Playstation, I would love to give the arcade version of the original Daytona USA a go again. I had that game pretty much mastered on all three courses - with manual transmission. I dread to think of how many £1 coins I chucked into that machine over around a seven/eight year period from it's launch. I can still hear it's "Baby allllrighhhhht" tune in my head as clear as day. It's one of few arcade racers where I've actually felt 'connection' to the car in the game. The wheel was very well weighted in it. I bet if I went back to it now a 12 year old would probably beat me...

In reflection Daytona USA 2 was pretty horrid as an arcade racer in comparison. All cars had a habit of understeering which then snapped into massive oversteer with almost no warning. I never quite got used to that and think I only managed a 1st place finish three, maybe four times...

 

[Henry]

I know what you mean. I used to be great at stealth when I played all those Metal Gear games back in the day. But now when I play Splinter Cell or Hitman, I get killed way too many times before I can get somewhere. I'm just not as sharp as I used to be.

 

[SeanM]

Well FPS's aren't exactly the same as they were back in the day, the engines and mechanics of have changed drastically, so it may not be your fault...

 

[Cpt Blackadder]

i still feel awsome playing titanfall ( LOL sorry couldn't resist )

I've had lots of chats with friends about this subject and rest assured it isn't nescesarily you getting bad at game, more the design of them is harder now than before.

COD Ghosts maps and lower player health is perfect example. I can still jump on to any FPS i have and find a way of being effective and have fun. Ghosts is the only one i can't simply because there is a narrow corridoor of gameplay stlyes that work. Camping and or being slower won't help it's a pure twitch reaction game now with the only weapons to use to be any good the SMG

In BF4 at least you can take things slower and have fun for example.