Games you used to be good at but got rusty?

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I used to be part of a clan and competed in local tournaments during the Counter-Strike 1.6 era. These days, I play Call of Duty casually.
 
Counter Strike GO now CS 2. But to be fair.. the game has also been overrun and ruined by cheaters (my excuse).
 
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StreetsofBeige said:
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.
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Im convinced that on console, every fucker that's kills me from afar with an smg is a Chronus user.
 
Almost everything, though there are a few games I can pick back up quickly like riding a bike:

Halo
Super Smash Bros Melee
Counter-Strike
Paper Mario
Legend of Dragoon
Picross

And some games that if I even take a little bit of time away, I get rusty very quick:

Monster Hunter World/Rise/Wilds
Dark Souls/Bloodborne
FF7 Remake/Rebirth
 
Man I would kill all in Tony hawk back in the day and starting 3+4 up after a 20 year break? I used to be able to get 2 mil point tricks now I'm lucky to pull a 200k.
 
Quake 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein MP and Medal of Honor Allied Assault MP.

Fondly looking back at those long summers in 2000-2003 and meeting on TeamSpeak and sending applications to different clans and then meeting them in-game for an "interview match" to prove live that I can reach a high KDA ratio and finally getting in and proudly wearing that clan's tag before my username in-game. Clan culture almost felt like online fraternities to me. To me it was the epitome of "cool" when I was young.

20 years later and "I'm too young to die".
 
Every new game without a single exception I always start on easy mode first now.
There's a skill issue of course but mostly because I lost patience to lose, lose again and repeat. I can't do it anymore.
 
I used to be pretty solid at Smash Melee. I lived with M2K while he was top 3 (arguably #1) in the world, and we'd play for like 8 hours a day. I'd say I was "semi pro", if that's a thing, though I rarely actually competed in tournaments. (I'd always drive M2K to tourneys, which he'd always win, so I felt it was a waste of money to enter them lol)

But now my hands are getting old and I'm out of practice. I can still hold my own for sure, but I don't have the hand speed or dexterity I once did.

I still love that game, even though it definitely destroyed my hands.
 
Smash Bros. And by good I mean I could beat my college roommates and floor but once I tried against any actual players, I got hosed
 
CoD and a bunch of others. Recently, I am replaying MGSV and I don't recall being so ass at that game. (I am not running and gunning)
 
You know what sucks is leaving a fighting game at a high rank, and knowing that if you come back you are going to get busted down several ranks.
 
Battlefield, mortal kombat, killer instinct, street fighter, tekken, rygar, ikari warriors, contra, top gun, original TMNT
 
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Hyperborean said:
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.
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Step 1: Get the tank gun.
Step 2: Profit.

If you want to make things way easier, get the Bandana skull on a lower difficulty so that you can have unlimited ammo. Although the tank gun already has unlimited ammo, so that's not much easier if you're using that.

Don't blame your age. I'm there as well, and I am replaying Halo Infinite on Legendary (without the tank gun). It's difficult, but rewarding. I believe in you!
 
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MechWarrior: Living Legends

(Don't have the amount of free time anymore because of next-gen humans.)
 
SILKYSMOOTH30FPS said:
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.
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And you can for the most part always get it back. Though GaaSy games with shifting metas can be a little tougher.

I'd wager that a lot of the people who say COD were never that good at COD to begin with. In the old days with the far lighter SBMM and the ultra-casual-most--not-even-wearing-a-headset players it was just a different game. If you had even the most basic of skills and a half decent 3+ person stack you could go many hours before running into a challenge let alone eat a loss.
 
Avid Reading Horse said:
And you can for the most part always get it back. Though GaaSy games with shifting metas can be a little tougher.

I'd wager that a lot of the people who say COD were never that good at COD to begin with. In the old days with the far lighter SBMM and the ultra-casual-most--not-even-wearing-a-headset players it was just a different game. If you had even the most basic of skills and a half decent 3+ person stack you could go many hours before running into a challenge let alone eat a loss.
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Oh of course you get it back, even within a few hours of play (depending on the game of course). You just need to actually give enough shit to lose the rust. For me personally, when i quit a game and get rusty, it's usually when i am burned out on it, so coming back and losing the rust is pointless, i don't want to play the game anymore.
 
Used to be in the top 10 for bad company 2. Shooting the crates in a tank from the other side of the map when on the attacking side (gold rush)??
Bad company 1 i could anticipate when artillery would land.
Now i never play shooters..
 
Used to be very competitive in FPS games like MoH:AA, CoD 2 and CoD 4 promod.
Doubt I can still play on that level as I did back then.
 
Counter Strike 1.6/source and Battlefield 2-3-4

That's when you're young and have all the time in front of you.
 
I didn't get rusty, but I did lose a lot of patience, but that's because I have much less time to play my games.
 
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Halo 1/2/3 and DOTA (The OG WC3 Mod) for me.

Miss having the time (and motivation) to 'git gud' in games now, especially competitive MP titles.
 
hitman woa
when i was really interested in it i did all maps with SASO
even did some speedruns

3 years later i installed the game again and i felt clueless. it was really upsetting actually. i thought it would all come back. maybe it would but i was so out of it that i even forgot controls. i would have to play tutorials again which made me angry
so i just uninstalled and moved on
 
A couple of people have already said it, but Guitar Hero would be my obvious choice.

For example, I'm not great at fighting games, but even if picked something up after a long break, I've played enough of them over the years that I'm confident I would find my feet again pretty quickly. Can't assume the same would happen picking up a Guitar controller for the first time in 10 years.
 
I used to be good at dual analog aiming. But then I got used to mouse and keyboard and I can't go back anymore.

I tried the other day and I felt like throwing the controller in the air..
 
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