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[nightfly]

What are some games you were once good, if not great at but due to not playing for awhile or whatever made you rusty? Used to be pretty decent at Smash, but haven't touched it in quite a while, and it shows.

 

[Artistic]

All.

 

[Cakeboxer]

Punch Out! and Super Punch Out!
Competitive shooters
Anything with longer combos

 

[Kilau]

Whey they added combos to fighting games.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

I was one of the UK regional winners back in 93 for Star Fox, they called it StarWing over here. I played it recently on the Switch and i was terrible.

 

[TommyCronin6969]

COD4 and Wipeout HD

 

[Punished Miku]

Tony Hawk 3+4

 

[Connificent]

 

[TintoConCasera]

Buddy I'm at the top of my game, better than ever.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

COD. Used to dominate. But a combo of skills getting worse, ratmazy maps and SMGs everyone uses that are accurate/low recoil really sunk my game as I used to pick people off with ARs and LMGs from open distance.

 

[Aenima]

Fighting games. They require alot of player time to git gud, or git less trash. And once i drop them it requires alot of time to be back to the skill level i once was.

 

[Hyperborean]

I used to play Halo games at Heroic difficulty minimum. Had to move down to Normal for Infinite. Could be I'm in my forties now aswell though.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Maybe not specific games, but using kb+m combo to play them. Up until the 360/PS3 era I was a PC gamer and played a lot of shooters and other fast games. Now 90%+ of my time is spent playing on consoles and I suck whenever I have to use a mouse to play on PC, especially if the game requires precision and speed to stay alive.

 

[Garibaldi]

Picked Expedition 33 back up (Act 2) after a break to play other stuff. I'm getting absolutely bodied by trash again cos I can't time the parries anymore. Might just start again.

 

[DragoonKain]

Every game I've ever played. They have a very short half life. Even a couple months off and I forget virtually everything about them.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

Daley Thompson's Decathlon

 

[Magic Carpet]

There was a time I would have challenged anyone on the spot to Starcraft 2.
But if you were to put me on the spot right now I couldn't remember build order.

Also Twinsticks. Resogun, Do you feel lucky kid? Well Do ya?

 

[reinking]

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I was one of the UK regional winners back in 93 for Star Fox, they called it StarWing over here. I played it recently on the Switch and i was terrible.

What was the challenge?

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

COD

Used to drop a lot of nukes but they are super hard for me to get now for whatever reason

Guessing 58 year old reflexes

 

[AJUMP23]

I was good at Tony Hawk, the remake I suck at.

 

[BlackTron]

When I read title Smash was my first thought lol.

Rogue Squadron for N64. I don't know how I got all the gold medals as a kid.

 

[digoutyoursoul]

What was the challenge?

Highest score in the first mission Corneria.

I was the winner in the city centre store I played in, won a certificate, cap, copy of the game, poster etc .

I had already played it on a US import cartridge months earlier so I gave the UK copy to a friend.

 

[Fahdis]

I can't play the fucking games I used to be good at like Uncharted 2.

 

[t_wilson01]

Gran Turismo. The last one I used to be good at was GT6. Now I can't play to save my life.

 

[Sintoid]

All.

End of thread

 

[KellyNole]

Day of Defeat

 

[Paltheos]

Metroid: Zero Mission. My in-game time for 100% once was below an hour, and that was on an old route. I don't even remember the optimal way to play anymore or if I can reliably IBJ (I used to be able to alternate between standard and double IBJs mid-jump).

Among competitive games, Super Smash Bros. Melee. I never played a fast character but my own playspeed's probably dropped a fair bit back from when I used to play regularly..

 

[Loomy]

competitive shooters.

 

[RoboFu]

I once thought I got rusty at nes - n64 games then realized it was just emulators and wireless controllers that caused lag that my body didn't remember. So I got real hardware and everything was normal again.

Like with Super Mario I could barely get passed the first world on VC but breezed through the whole game when I played on an actual nes.

 

[Itchy Tickles]

Probably multiplayer shooters as the obvious one. As I got older, I went from wanting revenge in-game when someone killed or out pointed me, to just feeling tired and wanting to lie down.

Black Ops 1 was the last time I got heavily sucked into one of those games, then the next games felt worse to play, bit by bit.

 

[TGO]

I don't get worse as evident by my first run of the foundry in 20 years with THPS3+4 and completing all challenges and overkilling the sick score by 1300.00
I guess COD I play a bit rusty at first until I get the hang of it, especially new COD's.

 

[Zacfoldor]

Tekken. No question, Tekken.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

You get rusty in every game that you stop playing, so this applies to everything. Not sure how this is even a question lol. Anybody says that they don't get rusty in a game that they were good at and haven't played for 6 months plus is just lying.

 

[GymWolf]

I was super good with fighting games and pure actions like dmc\ng when i was a small kid, now i straight up stopped playing these genres because i feel like i'm playing wrong

My brain was just more hardwired for long combos than i'm today.

 

[Fahdis]

Tekken. No question, Tekken.

Tekken haz needlessly become more rock/paper/scissors. You haven't gotten worst, everyone is just a dick online now since aggression is encouraged, so you have to adjust your style since you can't turtle anymore.

 

[R6Rider]

I think I've retained most of my skills so far.

My younger self could probably smoke my current self in Gran Turismo though.
I still kick ass in shooters.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

I stopped playing Hunt: Showdown for maybe a month and suddenly my fucking head is a house-sized magnet.

I hate this game...

I also love it.

 

[Deerock71]

I'm 53, and fuck off.

 

[Hawk The Slayer]

Halo 1 and Halo 2 especially Halo 2 from 8th grade to senior year of high school. I was almost unbeatable in pvp. Dominated all my friends. Even had someone in one of my class that thought he could beat me just because he is a master in single player. Came to my house and lost big time, even my other friends who wasn't as good as me was able to beat him. I'll admit he was better in the campaign compared to me in the hardest difficulty but not as good when we fought in split screen. Eventually there was another guy we meet that actually was extremely good and could actually rival me and even beat me more often. And one of my friend eventually caught up to my skill level in the last year of high school cause he always wanted to be better than me for years. Good memories and times.

 

[Windle Poons]

Everyone Gary Oldman.gif

 

[analog_future]

Was really into CS from ~1.3 to 1.6 and then with CS Source.


Turns out it's hard to stay really good at a game when you aren't 13 any more and able to play 4-5 hours a day

 

[Zimmy68]

I haven't picked up Elden Ring in a year.
I beat the game multiple times with multiple builds on (I'm afraid to say) Xbox, PS5, and PC.
I lost interest by the time the DLC came out.
I fear I would get my lunch handed to me by a common knight now.
All the "Cast this first, then this, Golden Vow this, etc" has left my brain.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Sports games now I want nothing to do with them

 

[Codes 208]

Dragon ball Sparking Zero reminded me just how rusty Ive gotten since the budokai tenkaichi and raging blast games

 

[Chronos24]

Guitar hero and rock band

 

[R3TRO]

Stealth

I guess I lack the patience these days.

 

[Zannegan]

Smash Bros, though that may be more a function of being "good" in my small circle than actually being great at it. Regardless, I'm laughably bad now.

 

[bbw_lover87]

Fighting games, dmc games i suck now my reflex suck lol used to play dmc 3 everyday did everything etc lol now im have to play on easy mode

 

[Memati187]

Does playing with myself count?