18996c No.16799095[Last 50 Posts]
Are you better at videogaems now then when you were a teenager, anons?
Is there a game you struggle finishing when you were younger and now you can easily beat? or vice-versa?
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1fd57b No.16799104
>>16799095
>Is there a game you struggle finishing when you were younger and now you can easily beat?
hitlers high score
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73c288 No.16799122
I used to play Beatmania IIDX a lot as a teenager, but couldn't keep up with the series after the PS2 CS era. I'm probably fucking awful now, but I do have everything I need to play the PC fangames.
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744aa0 No.16799141
>>16799095
Nothing specific, but generally, remember thinking that games were more difficult and large than I do now. Like solving puzzles, looking for the way to progress, remembering where exactly I am in the story.
On the other hand my motor skills are worsening slowely, don't have enough patience to repeat endlessly, but more proficiency at it.
<As a child: Keep trying, stop because I don't have the time/don't remember what I did last
<As an adult: Rush through everything, stop because you hit grindwall and get bored
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b80185 No.16799147
I'm shit at vidya and I'll always be shit. But that's what make it fun.
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e4c8cc No.16799170
FFX. I can usually beat Yunalesca in one go now, back when I first played the game I was seriously stuck.
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a7bcd9 No.16799215
No, work, IRL shit and other hobbies give me less time to play anf git gud than what i had when i was a teen.
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ac8b8f No.16799220
I have gotten better. I'm in my lower 30s now. I went back and replayed Super Mario 64, managed to get all the stars, Yoshi on the roof, etc no problem. As a kid I had an absolutely horrible time with that.
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3b85cd No.16799272
>>16799095
At this age 31, I'm significantly better at strategy, and with solving puzzles. Well, puzzles can go either way. Younger me was better at having the patience to solve puzzles that have esoteric solutions. Younger me was just more patient in general, and could tolerate restarting the same game over and over, or doing something like tracing every wall in the world to search for secrets. I haven't noticed my reflexes dulling or anything, since I'm still significantly better at action-oriented games than my friends (except FPS games, which I never played much of to begin with).
As I grow older, my real life friends are becoming more and more the kind of people who buy up every single AAA release. We play less and less games together because of it.
>Is there a game you struggle finishing when you were younger and now you can easily beat? or vice-versa?
I never beat Ultima 4 when I was a kid, despite beating the next entry in the series. I just couldn't string together the thoughts necessary to figure out what I was supposed to do. I played it a few years ago, and I just walked right through it. Maybe it's because all of my brain power was being diverted into weird day dreams and conspiracies, but it was actually fun to remember some of the weird shit I thought.
>What if every group of enemies I find in the dungeon is actually another party of players somewhere else in the world, but with their graphics changed?
>I bet there's a way to heal this sick kid in this bed
>An "X-Bow"? I bet that's a really big bow!
>Why can't I get any of these guards to come help me kill monsters? Lord British must be an asshole.
>Wow, I can cast infinite spells, because these idiots put a blind man in charge of the reagent store!
A real wild game to play when you're 4.
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67a689 No.16799276
I'm better at stopping if I get frustrated. Walk away and come back and the game feels great again.
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ff641a No.16799280
>>16799272
>What if every group of enemies I find in the dungeon is actually another party of players somewhere else in the world, but with their graphics changed?
Wizardry 4. Brace yourself
most enemy parties are based on party compositions from Wizardry 1-3 that were either from damaged save disks sent in for repair or from a contest looking to add real player endgame parties
Lord British doesn't send his guards with you because a great many people are competing for avatarhood. The runes and words and shit were all placed by his agents for the grand test of courage and morality that is the game.
Raising the question of who pissed him off enough to get sent to brave the lava fields and put the codex of ultimate wisdom in the stygian abyss. God damn LB really is a tremendous asshole
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0e796f No.16799399
I'm in my late 30s and I'm often surprised at how much easier some games seem now, even when I had way way more time to play them as a kid. otoh I will probably never reach my apex of Monster Party skill again, too much dumb stuff I'll never take the time to memorize.
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a4a745 No.16799408
>>16799215
It doesn't matter unless the game requires a lot of muscle memory like fighting games. As you grow up you should be able to figure out games much faster and play more tactically compared to when you were a child. Even FPS and action games benefit a lot from not playing like an idiot.
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f81270 No.16799466
I can rationalize a lot of things now. I understand different game mechanics, frames of action, hit boxes, invulnerability frames and all that jazz.
Whenever I thought something was cool, I implemented it, regardless of efectiveness; and somehow I still min maxed stuff without noticing.
Now that change, that urge for efficiency, is conscious.
My mechanics are still there, and I can learn movesets faster, maybe now I lack raw reflexes and such, but I compensate with my meme fueled-357 IQ brain. A trade off than I am more than comfortable with. No pic for you, you sacks of nigger.
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8675b1 No.16799528
>be kid playing rct
>build crazy shit, fuck with visitors, have fun, wonder why i never complete objectives
>be older playing rct
>complete objectives, no fun
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bf9c58 No.16799648
A bit of improvement.
The only thing that's change is my enjoyment.
>>16799528
I feel ya
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447726 No.16799877
I'm still amazed that Kid-me managed to beat Jak and Daxter 2.
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9b3415 No.16799900
>>16799095
I don't have the autism or the time I had back in high school, but I can better analyse and deconstruct gameplay now.
I could never have beaten DMC back then because I would just mash buttons, but now I don't have the focus to truly, truly master the game. It's a shame, really.
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d1d9ed No.16799901
My skills have pretty much been the same since i was 15. I've lost some reflexes since then but I'm better at resource management, rng assessment and and generally more patient. I dunno, I find RTS and TBG more appealing now than I do shooters and multiplayer games in general.
>>16799900 (checked)
This too. Playing a game and analyzing whats happening is becoming more mechanical now. It feels more "gamey" now.
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00a766 No.16799904
>>16799095
>Are you better at videogaems now then when you were a teenager, anons?
I've found that i've been a lot better at video games (single player and multiplayer) ever since I've had depression. I was a very hyperactive teenager and now due to depression i've found that i can concentrate more. It's not a trade-off i can be proud of, but it's a trade-off nonetheless
Can anyone relate?
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1af929 No.16799928
>>16799095
Yes. Still pretty bad. I'll never be good at games because when I get into something I look up videos and see how people who are actually good at them play and get discouraged because I'll never be like that.
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8cb5cc No.16799992
>>16799095
still in my early/mid 20s. Used to play FPS a lot but now all i crave for is bullet hell/shmup and rhythm games. Younger me would be bored 5 mins in playing these kinds of games because i had shit attention span and because these genres are quite 'repetitive'. Now i can clear Touhou on Normal first time consistently. Although my reflex has certainly dulled, i think ~250ms reaction time is good enough for bullet hell but im definitely having a hard time with rhythm games.
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babff7 No.16800985
>>16799900
>>16799901
>>16799466
>the urge to play in an optimal manner and always be efficient
This is the main thing I've noticed. I'm not a min-maxer but seeing people play games in a blatantly sub optimal way annoys me now, even though that stupid.
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b42cb0 No.16801005
Genuinely the only thing I've gotten worse at is guitar hero, and that might have more to do with playing an actual guitar for the past 9 or so years than anything.
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9a591b No.16801009
>>16799992
wow..so young…got your whole life ahead of ya
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a998de No.16801010
>>16799528
You could install openrct2 and really start to unload
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464b17 No.16801170
>>16800985
For me it's not so much the urge to play optimally and efficiently, but more of an appreciation for how a game plays. Like, previously I would find the most fun in just getting through the game as fast as possible to see it all and get to all the cool stuff. Now, It's taking the time to get to know the mechanics and have fun being good at the game. I never would have bothered with the harder Combat Adjudicators in DMC3 before, but I think I had more fun with the SSS Beowulf Adjudicator than I did with most of the game. Really pleases my autism to see the little bar go up.
Pic unrelated
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f2fb53 No.16802021
beat shadow of rome when i was 8 or 9, now i cant even beat one of the earliest arena levels. christ that game is balls-hard
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46efb0 No.16802058
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18996c No.16806149
I think i have gotten better overall. Mostly on Guitar Hero, I used to always choose easy. Now it's always either Normal or Hard.
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034b1d No.16806187
>>16802063
>but when I started taking meds
>taking kike shit
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f7bf79 No.16806219
i've done nothing but improve. though i'm only 24 so i'm sure that is soon to change.
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c580f2 No.16806301
>>16806187
>Everything I don't like is da joos
Take your meds
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403e5c No.16806310
I'm better on the basis that I was absolute dogshit at video games when I was a teenager and could only go up from there.
>>16806301
<oy vey just take the brain poison already
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46efb0 No.16806317
>>16806187
Thank you Tarrant-tard, very cool!
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ff7210 No.16806341
>>16806219
Reaction time does decrease with age, but planning ahead means that even "twitch games" like fighting games are playable when older. It's like how, when playing a top-down shooter/shmup, everyone knows not to leave your fighter all the way at the top of the screen unless you know something's going to attack from the bottom. As you get more experienced at games you get better at preparing for shit that'll probably happen so you don't need to have godlike reflexes, you're ready to react long before the actual bullet/fist/hadouken shows up.
Daigo Umehara is like 38 now and he's still amazing at fighting games, don't worry too much about age and reflexes.
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799b30 No.16806349
>>16802063
Congratulations, you're experiencing a mix of placebo effect and drug induced euphoria. Also, you've made yourself not only physically dependent, but addicted to what I assume is a selective serotonin inhibitor. With time, your brain will completely adapt to the serotonin pooling in your synaptic clefts, making you feel like before you started taking them, but with complex mechanisms in your entire body altered because serotonin is not the "happy neurotransmitter". There is no such thing as a neurotransmitter responsible for happiness, all of them work together in a highly complex process which somehow causes the brain to work.
When you get off the meds and you're lucky, you'll get brain zaps and dizzy spells for a week or two. If you're unlucky, you'll get excruciating withdrawal symptoms if you even halve your dose, and you'll be stuck weaning yourself off these drugs for years.
You got played by the eternal Pharmajew.
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b60bde No.16806364
>>16806315
>taking medications makes you not mentally ill
???
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799b30 No.16806374
>>16806352
>You need to be a licensed doctor to understand studies
The brain and body adapting to a foreign chemical changing its function is the very basis of drug dependence. The exact same process that makes an alcoholic handle more and more liquor, then going into seizures when he quits the booze also causes physical dependence of ALL psych drugs. Benzodiazepines, antidepressants (SSRIs, SNRIs, tricyclics, etc…), neuroleptics, mood stabilizers, all of them. If you deny this, then you deny everyone who goes into withdrawal when he gets of any drug.
Antidepressants of the SSRI class have been shown, in at least one study using an active placebo, to be just as effective as the active placebo. This means they have little actual, measurable effect on depression.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14974002
What we know, however, is that these drugs have severe and life threatening side effects, from anorgasmia and impotence to homicide and suicide. Federal law mandates that SSRIs carry a black box warning about these latter side effects.
So, in fact, you're taking a drug that could potentially end up killing you, makes you physically dependent all the while relying mainly on placebo effect to make you feel better. There are safer options to achieve these effects, so medications should be the last resort treatment.
Finally, the idea that mental disorders are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain is absurd and has been thoroughly debunked, as the only mental patients presenting a change in the densities of their neurotransmitter receptors from normal people upon autopsy are those who've been on psych drugs. Unmedicated people, even the most rabid schizophrenics, do not have any indication of these imbalances in their brains upon autopsy, unless they've taken illicit drugs which often have similar, but stronger and more short lasting effects on neurotransmitters.
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b60bde No.16806387
>>16806380
So you're going to ignore the evidence he put forth because he's not someone you want to hear facts from? Don't you got a barmitzfa to go to?
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761f9f No.16806394
I feel like i'm much better at playing games than when i was younger, mostly because of either experience, guides, or cheats
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18996c No.16806402
>>16806374
I'm impressed. How did you gain all this knowledge, anon?
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000000 No.16806407
>first playthrough of metroid: zero mission took me over 40 hours in-game time to complete when I was 6
>can beat it now in under 40 minutes
i was trash at vidya but at least i'm not as trash anymore
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b60bde No.16806408
>>16806402
Some of the stuff doctors actually tell you, obviously not shit like it being a placebo or cause you to commit suicide (the very thing it's supposed to prevent).
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f21a01 No.16806434
>>16806407
Zero Mission is braindead easy, that's not an achievement.
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ef6ee7 No.16806435
>>16799095
no, I think I am getting worse, but that also may be because I mostly played single player games as a kid and now I am trying my hand at the cancer that is multiplayer, and I am shit at it.
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3870e1 No.16806503
>>16806435
Multiplayer is a completely different beast than singleplayer. Time to git gud.
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95673c No.16806540
>>16799095
I'm a lot better at these two. I used to get my ass kicked by every robot master, even Ice Man, and I never made it past Wily Stage 1 because I always soaked damage from the Big Eyes, but now I can completely shit all over Elecman as well as the robot master fights leading up to the final boss.
As for TMNT, I would always lose a turtle because of the underground enemies in Stage 5, and whenever I got to the Technodrome, the hall of enemies before Shredder's room overwhelmed me.
I feel like I have become more tolerant of trial-and-error in games in general, and I don't think I would've understood the enjoyment of trial-and-error back then.
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e6cbfd No.16806973
Mechanically, worse. Analytically, much better. Figuring out patterns is really easy. It feels like games in a genre are just the same with coats of paint and nothing really impresses me like when I was a kid. Execution is where I fall short, but then again I don't as much time/don't care enough to try as hard as back then.
Picking up a game seriously (e.g. rhythm games, fighting games, action-puzzle games) feels like a big commitment, about as daunting as learning chess or go, which makes it unappealing, especially for games which require commitment before you start enjoying them. I start getting that nagging feeling of "you could be learning a language or a useful skill instead of this"
>>16799904
>due to depression i've found that i can concentrate more
nigger that's not depression. depression kills your will, drive, and enjoyment of everything and makes you into an inert slob. it makes you unable to concentrate as you get sick of everything real quick and everything feels like a chore.
>>16806380
>>>You need to be a licensed doctor to understand studies
>Yes [...] I'd rather trust an actual doctor than a larping mulatto.
Not going to debate the validity of your point, but the reasoning behind it is faulty. For example, you'd have to be stupid to listen to a "professional" games journalist over someone who actually plays games.
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ff4db5 No.16806991
>>16806341
>everyone knows not to leave your fighter all the way at the top of the screen unless you know something's going to attack from the bottom
Wrong, you shoot faster and have more room to dodge.
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babff7 No.16808083
>>16806315
>>16806301
Have you tried fixing your lifestyle and diet before taking pills to numb you? Have you considered that the reason everyone has depression and anxiety these days is that they're living shitty lifestyles and eating shitty food, and so it's a natural response to poor conditions meant to encourage you to stop what you're doing and try something else? Depression/anxiety are there to tell you something is wrong. Taking pills so you don't feel that way anymore doesn't solve the problem, no more than starting a drinking habit to mitigate social anxiety solves the problem.
>inb4 some people actually have major shit wrong in their brains and certain medication help
Sure, but it's just like how the occasional fatty actually has some legitimate medical condition that makes them put on weight much easier. That's true for some, but not for most.
sage for offtopic
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e0f511 No.16808135
>>16799095
When I was a kid I used to suck hard at Pinstripe's fight in CTR but now it's cakewalk.
Sadly I have lost a ton of reaction timing skills unless it's in actual rhythm games.
>>16799528
Basically this, LEGO Racers where you build a shitty car with as much cool stuff you can put it are not as technical as going minimalist but where's the fun in that?
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