Heh. I’m better than ever at games and I’m 36.
My younger self was apparently a fucking scrub. I’m currently working my way through the Devil May Cry collection, and I’m stunned by how much easier those games are than I remember. I breezed through all but Dante Must Die mode, which is appropriately pretty damn hard at some points. But yeah, looking back I have no idea how I struggled to beat that game on NORMAL.
And it goes for competitive shit too. Have I lost a few ms of reaction time? Absolutely. But that’s drastically outweighed by my newfound abilities to 1) basically never get tilted 2) actually analyze an opponent and 3) actually understand how game systems work: combos in fighting games, balance decisions in rpgs, etc. Myself now would destroy my younger self in anything except Halo games. Young me was NICE on Halo lol.
When I was in high school, I was the king among my friends at Smash Bros melee. Then Brawl came out and I tried online battles, and that’s when I learned I actually sucked at video games.
I’m older, and right now I play games for enjoyment, vs grinding, achievements, or being really good at them. I bought Cuphead because the retro graphics looked good, and the stroyline was interesting. But damn if that game isn’t hard for me to get through, and I don’t have the time to be such a master of the game. I moved on to play other games, such as Control. I enjoyed playing Control. I wish I could re-gift Cuphead to someone, as I’ll never play it again.
See me and my younger self would be playing games and talking…. plus my younger self would have a black eye so it understands not to let this happen again
Take peace in knowing your failed time investment will only give worse odds in the future despite what retrospectively justifying children might claim.
I wouldn’t call my life awesome now, but it’s gotten better every decade I’ve been alive (nearly six of them.)
Not only has my personal happiness increased, I feel that society is gradually going in the right direction. Maybe not the economy, though. That kind of sucks now. But overall and on average, we have more tolerance, less war and less violent crime. Sure, all that stuff still exists, but it’s been declining for decades, especially if you factor per capita.
I would tell myself to never trust women and get used to being alone. I would also say that if I ever encountered a woman I was interested in and attracted to, to just run the other way and save myself decades of pain from all the rejection. probably i could just say to go move to the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere as soon as possible. just enjoy nature and wait for death
Well, at least give younger self some lotto numbers or stock tips. A rich, sad, dumb failure is an improvement at the very least.
Git gud scrub.
Damn that was harsh
You just woke up and decided to personally attack me at my core today?! Wtf?!
I got worse at video games 😂
I mean yea
But what does it matter? As long as you’re having fun and at least attempting to get better it’s enough.
Have you SEEN pros lately? Orgs failing left and right, game’s being miserable to play, having to play boring ass metas every season.
Just saying, at least it’s a hobby and not your job.
Heh. I’m better than ever at games and I’m 36.
My younger self was apparently a fucking scrub. I’m currently working my way through the Devil May Cry collection, and I’m stunned by how much easier those games are than I remember. I breezed through all but Dante Must Die mode, which is appropriately pretty damn hard at some points. But yeah, looking back I have no idea how I struggled to beat that game on NORMAL.
And it goes for competitive shit too. Have I lost a few ms of reaction time? Absolutely. But that’s drastically outweighed by my newfound abilities to 1) basically never get tilted 2) actually analyze an opponent and 3) actually understand how game systems work: combos in fighting games, balance decisions in rpgs, etc. Myself now would destroy my younger self in anything except Halo games. Young me was NICE on Halo lol.
…what were we talking about?
When I was in high school, I was the king among my friends at Smash Bros melee. Then Brawl came out and I tried online battles, and that’s when I learned I actually sucked at video games.
aw geez rick
My younger self was not better at any game than I am now. I’m 34.
I used to be really good at video games until i played online games for the first time and was like “……..oh”
Speak for yourself
Seeing how amazing some people are at video games now makes me realize I was adequate at best.
I’m older, and right now I play games for enjoyment, vs grinding, achievements, or being really good at them. I bought Cuphead because the retro graphics looked good, and the stroyline was interesting. But damn if that game isn’t hard for me to get through, and I don’t have the time to be such a master of the game. I moved on to play other games, such as Control. I enjoyed playing Control. I wish I could re-gift Cuphead to someone, as I’ll never play it again.
This one hurts…
Jokes on you, I always knew I sucked!
We get good a video games, golf, music, gardening, DIY, and being kind to others as well as to ourselves.
So does he tell his younger self to get off the video games, get outside and talk to people to change the loser trajectory or…?
See me and my younger self would be playing games and talking…. plus my younger self would have a black eye so it understands not to let this happen again
/r/lostredditors
What if I was never actually getting better as I played, but was just becoming an OP bullet sponge with OP guns?
Take peace in knowing your failed time investment will only give worse odds in the future despite what retrospectively justifying children might claim.
Everything after Tecmo Bowl was downhill for me…
At least they have 2 people and can speedrun Fireboy and Watergirl again
Hahaha depression is so funny
Yeah… I’m sorry. I tried my best. I still think they were hacking.
I wouldn’t call my life awesome now, but it’s gotten better every decade I’ve been alive (nearly six of them.)
Not only has my personal happiness increased, I feel that society is gradually going in the right direction. Maybe not the economy, though. That kind of sucks now. But overall and on average, we have more tolerance, less war and less violent crime. Sure, all that stuff still exists, but it’s been declining for decades, especially if you factor per capita.
I would tell myself to never trust women and get used to being alone. I would also say that if I ever encountered a woman I was interested in and attracted to, to just run the other way and save myself decades of pain from all the rejection. probably i could just say to go move to the middle of the woods in the middle of nowhere as soon as possible. just enjoy nature and wait for death
I’m sorry, lil guy…