do you feel that you're less skilled compared when you were a kid?

[csanjuro]

I feel that my skills has been dulled by becoming older, do you feel the same?

 

[skramz]

i think the only thing that's gotten worse for me are my nerves while gaming...

 

[Lod 10]

I was a happy, optimistic child who treated everyone with respect, but as I grew older I lost hope in the world.I felt what was happening. I kept feeling lonely after I got older; nobody cares anymore about someone who has a youngest child in the family now.

 

[Tonberry]

I always think they have because I tell myself that I don't like fast-paced games anymore, but I seem to prove myself wrong when I do play them.
I guess I still have a few good years of pro leet haxxor gaming left in me

 

[qw90700]

Nope. I always get better. What I lost is patience for boring games further. I'm not interested in playing every game "all the way in" anymore, I barely use 0.1% of my power while when I was young I would give it my best unless I rarely find a fun game to play to go all out lol.

 

[Boo Man]

still got it! but my patience wears thin with games and im no where near as persistent as i was
i give up easily these days

 

[RustySK]

Aside from some issues with my joints that limit the amount of time I can spend per session of playing really input-intensive games I haven't noticed much degradation, but I definitely have way less patience.

Back in the day I would just hunker down and chip away at a challenge until I eventually got it right, but these days I find myself getting annoyed much quicker. Which honestly bothers me and I am working on changing it, but it's definitely a thing.

 

[Luz de Luna Luz de Luna Luz de Luna's icon]

Some have dulled, some have gotten much sharper.

I particularly notice a distinct lack of patience for strategy games and a much heightened skill for sports and action-oriented games, which I find interesting because you'd think it'd be the other way around.

 

[qw90700]

Aside from some issues with my joints that limit the amount of time I can spend per session of playing really input-intensive games I haven't noticed much degradation, but I definitely have way less patience.

Back in the day I would just hunker down and chip away at a challenge until I eventually got it right, but these days I find myself getting annoyed much quicker. Which honestly bothers me and I am working on changing it, but it's definitely a thing.

Well when you put it that way, why I play anything on PC keyboard is because after breaking my right hand like thrice I can't use any gamepad comfortably anymore. My left hand only suffers from older age I guess. For example the damage done after playing a game via PlayStation 2 gamepad for 12 hours now happens to my left hand when I play a game for like one hour. My hands are too big for gamepads designed for kids and I know no gamepd designed for man-sizes so keyboard is the way lol!!! Only in that context to prevent damage I sometimes don't go too wild playing games anymore and it reduces my skill yep.

 

[Rocket2049]

short version, i got weaker muscles in my body and now that i'm older (almost 40) it makes me get tired of gaming very quickly, this reason is why i play a LOT OF RPGS, barely any crazy inputs required or timing or whatever.

i used to play ALL the fighter games, street fighter, king of fighters, mortal kombat, guilty gear, DOA, tekken, Melty blood, whatever else, and nowadays i play barely any
I got the capcom fighting collection, for one reason and ONE REASON ONLY... shortcuts
having EVERY command specal and super done with JUST direction+special, sure makes the game a lot easier to play! (sucks for the charge characters though, like guile or Vega)
some people say the shortcuts ruin the game, for me it makes it more enjoyable, less frustrating, and WAY LESS HAND MOVEMENT.
you can assume i play SF6 on modern mode, absolutely never turned it off even it's (slightly) weaker than classic mode for balance purposes.

and i used to play a whole crapton of 100+ hours JRPGs, disgaea, dragon quest, final fantasy, fire emblem, and then the Persona games, oh they are not short lol and i play most of them TWICE for new game plus.
right now i'm playing FF tactics Remaster, on Easy mode (30 less damage, 30% more to enemies) and CONSTANTLY fast forwarding, save scumming like CRAZY (it autosaves every turn, 3 seperate slots during a battle) and even skipping random encounters at every moment (you level up quickly enough, higher level enemies level you up faster).
all these remaster games I LOVE turning off random encounters, using fast forward, and quick saves
i used to hate save states and cheats in general, now i'm a bit more like...okay what will make the game less annoying to me.

 

[Graves Ruinwalker]

Not really .
Still playing games how i used to . Except QTEs . Back then QTEs were nothing for me and i never miss-inout them . Nowadays those QTEs are the bane of my existence . You have fun with the game and suddenly a QTE out of nowhere .

 

[moonbits]

Yup. In some games.

 

[Tr4sh_Kun]

If something, I feel like my skills have improved compared to when I was a kid, before I used to ask my mom for help when I was stuck in a difficult part on a game or I straight up stopped playing, after that now I can play games to completion and even play them until I 100% them

 

[MrYesterday]

Guys...
I am starting to forget the San Andreas cheat codes...

 

[Tetronomicon]

Eh... I was never all that good at (certain) video games and genres to begin with. I've never been great at twitch based games. Most arcade style games I never got super good at. I've never been into shmups mostly because I'm not good at them and most are very frustrating for me (losing all your power ups after getting hit once in many of them usually just leads to a restart). That's kind of why I've always gravitated to RPGs and Strategy games. Even a fast paced RTS still isn't a quick moving platformer. I can react to changing conditions fairly well still. But I've never been great at split second reaction timing stuff.

That being said, I do know of others who are going through this. I have a friend who has played at lot of Halo throughout the years. I'd say he could have gone pro if he wanted to (he still arguably could now). But even he has noticed his reflexes dull overall. It doesn't feel like any real difference to him personally. It feels like everything moves at the same speed and he's still pretty good for the most part. It just that he's noticed other players tend to be able to get the jump on him a lot faster/easier than they used to even though it feels like nothing is different for him.

 

[Dyne]

My reaction time is probably a bit slower than when I was young, but thats about it.
Certain game-specific skills I am probably rusty but it would come back quickly enough

 

[SoThankful]

I feel like my skills have improved, but my enjoyment has declined due to various factors.

 

[What's His Face]

Age does nasty things to motor control...

 

[PhaseJump]

Yes. Getting old, having nerve damage from physical labour.

I can't shred on guitar anymore, I can't run old games like I used to, I am no longer a purebred fucking monster with Akira when playing Virtua Fighter.

 

[PacGuy]

Time Enough at Last - Wikipedia

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Less skilled and more time than ever..

or was I never good?

WHAT IS GOOD?

WHAT IS MAN?

(I'm just getting old :( and it makes me sad )

 

[Lena CE]

Nah, I wish I was half as good at most games growing up as I am in recent years. Idk how long I'll be able to keep up with myself but I have felt like I'm just getting better at games for pretty much all of my 20s. Now that I'm 30 hopefully that stays true!

 

[Deean]

Yes,my racing game skills has deteriorated in the past 3 years or so because i rarely played them.

Nowadays i just play musou games again and again

 

[ZombieFish]

Interesting how many folks have lost patience over time. I’ve had the opposite experience, and completed probably twice as many games in my 30s as I did in my 20s and childhood combined. At 40 I’m sure my raw reflexes aren’t as sharp as they used to be, but learning to challenge myself and stick with games through frustration has made me a better player anyway, even at twitchy stuff. I was trash at boomer shooters as a kid, abused the hell out of god mode even on easy, but these days hard is my comfort zone. Same goes for puzzles and strategy.

Honestly, sometimes I’ll revisit a game I haven’t played in 20 years and be kinda embarrassed at how dense and clumsy my younger self was. Nothing good lasts though, so I’m trying not to take the sweet spot I’m in right now for granted; playing as many of the difficult GOATs as I can before I’m relegated to walking sims and visual novels.

 

[MajesticSiN]

I feel like my speed and reflexes might be a bit slower then in my younger days

 

[petran79]

as a kid I could only handle nes and Atari gamepads whereas now I can also handle more gamepads and arcade sticks and kb/m

but not much stamina as I can only last an hour whereas back then I could last six. And in pure action games, not the ones you spend half an hour in customisation or to walk from point A to B.