With age, my performance in games tends to decline...
With age, my performance in games tends to decline...
It's true but I don't think it's that serious to notice things in games, I didn't really get worse, actually I keep improving! (mostly lol)
The key is to practice a lot...
Hundreds of hours... thousands... Knowing all the tricks and situations is like having a job!
Kids usually have more time, so it's often easier for them (often)
But for me, I wasn't great at video games as a kid. Except STEET FIGHTER! I was always ahead in my neighborhood haha
How many hours each week do you spend on "Counter Strike"?
It doesn’t seem like you really practice, once you stop you’ll quickly lose your skills in most games and have to start over—except for experience, which isn’t much help.
PS: When I want to compete, like in a fighting game, I usually play at least once a day (1-2 hours), even if I don’t feel like it because I know daily play is essential to keep up.
It feels like work, but it’s not paid.
Awesome.
I too have aged and lost my skills in games. Used to be, I was a top player. On the Atari, I cracked Breakout. I seized Pitfall. I even caught entire families of frogs crossing perilous roads. On the Commodoe 64, Turrican and Karateka fell at my feet. I finished Jet Set Willy. On the Amiga, Zool, Speedball 2 and Another World met their end on my old 600. Then came the newer consoles. I conquered the Playstation, Saturn and N64 collections. The Dreamcast and Gamecube arrived next. MDK2 and Ikuraga stood their ground, but I ultimately triumphed.
Then arrived a new generation of adulthood, and gaming became just a few hours of Ultima Online and Guild Wars 1, until life pulled me away from the screen.
I made a bold comeback in recent years with Steam and Proton on Linux, and played a charming, straightforward platformer named Hollow Knight. It seemed so appealing—just a jump here, a swipe there. Lordy, it kept pulling me back, over and over again.
As I sat dead under my desk, defeated by Hornet for the 17th time in Prince of Persia, I realized this is precisely how Grand Vizier Jaffar must have felt after my 17th run through Prince of Persia.
My gaming prowess didn't simply disappear with age and less practice. It was dismantled piece by piece.
My abilities in shooters have gradually faded with age. My reaction time has slowed. The peak of my skills came with Tom Clancy's Rogue Spear, which helped me overcome my age. After Black Hawk Down, I began to notice this decline. Since then, most of my gaming has been limited to weekends, which is related to it. I prefer playing the DayZ map, mainly for survival rather than shooting. World of Warships would suit me better, but it feels too repetitive and I don’t want to spend a lot on a free game.