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.