So... I'm crap again.

[Jintor]

Great.

After a half-year long absense from FPS's in general, I boot up steam, wait the hour or so it takes to update everything, curse at Valve for the Collector edition not being the Gold Edition (and therfore not getting DoD: Source) and load up HL2. Because I've reinstalled, I've got no save files, so no jumping in and out of what i want.

I start it up, plod sedately through the opening sequences, Barney throws me a crowbar, I'm in a trainyard. And i find myself flinching, actually flinching, whenever I get shot. When ever that flash of red goes over the HUD, my aim goes straight off. My reflexes are horrible. And yet a mere half-year earlier I was completely pwning at DM (well, not completely, but I was better than average).

Has this happened to you? Have you stopped and started and found out your complete n00bishness has re-appeared?

It hurts. I've got a lot more killing to do before I'm ready to stop shuddering everytime i see red.

 

[Reaktor4]

Yeah. I stopped playing hl2dm before summer and then played again a few times last week. I used to get good scores nearly all the time (something like 45-0 was my best iirc) but now im only breaking even. The game seems a bit different.

 

[jondy]

Relish it, I would be well up for going back in time to my nub days and re-playing HL2 with wide eyes

 

[Foebane]

I wouldn't get too worried, maybe it's age. I remember not cheating on any FPS game for years, until I got Return to Castle Wolfenstein; then I felt it was so hard I had to put cheats on for the final boss.

Ever since then, I've used cheats for the single-player campaigns.

I still have Q3A, but I still perform well at that, and I perform the same as I ever did on Counter-Strike.

 

[Beerdude26]

I wouldn't get too worried, maybe it's age. I remember not cheating on any FPS game for years, until I got Return to Castle Wolfenstein; then I felt it was so hard I had to put cheats on for the final boss.

Same here D:

Yeah. I stopped playing hl2dm before summer and then played again a few times last week. I used to get good scores nearly all the time (something like 45-0 was my best iirc) but now im only breaking even. The game seems a bit different.

I know what you're talking about, lol

My gravity gun skills have diminished significantly :/

 

[Asknoone]

I wouldn't get too worried, maybe it's age. I remember not cheating on any FPS game for years, until I got Return to Castle Wolfenstein; then I felt it was so hard I had to put cheats on for the final boss.

Wuh? I thought the final boss was a pushover compared to eveyone else. Just whipped out that electric zappy thing and jumped liked crazy. Flattened in no time.

I've only felt like that on CSS.

 

[Hyperion2010]

This happens occasionally to me when its really quiet in CS and I acidentally hit MOUSE1, god damn that shit will make you jump!

Loud sounds when you arent expecting them, ie you cant "see" it comming, like with the crow bar are to be expected...

On the other side of things I once beat both gunships before novaprospekt without dieing, I only realized it when the second one died...(yes, on hard) I was psyched after that.

 

[Lanthanide]

This happened to me. I used to play 15-20 hours of HL2DM a week and was generally the best player on the servers I went to.

Then I stopped for 2 months, went back, and was rubbish, being lucky to make it into the top 10 in each game.


Reminds me of the quote from Joy Luck Club where Waverly decides to play chess again after quitting because of her mother showing off all the time:

Waverly (Age 6-9): I've decided to play chess again.
Lindo Jong: You think it is so easy. One day quit, next day play. Everything for you is this way: so smart, so easy, so fast. Not so easy anymore.
Waverly Jong: What she said, it was like a curse. This power I had, this belief in myself, I could actually feel it draining away. I could feel myself becoming ordinary. All the secrets I once saw, I couldn't see them anymore. All I could see was, were my mistakes, my weaknesses. The best part of me just disappeared.

 

[MTG_Maro]

I hate when that stuff happens. Does it with me on all games i dont play in awhile,

 

[mr.mac]

yep. gotta agree. like, i used to LIVE on halo and then i stopped for like what, a month? and BAM! i suck.

 

[Foebane]

Maybe I should've said this first, but years ago I used to play TFC regular as clockwork and became one of the best players out there.

Then I stopped for a year and when I came back I was rubbish, so rubbish that someone on some TFC game I played said they couldn't believe I was ever so good, and CALLED ME A NEWBIE!!

Cheek! I'll spank the little monkey! :monkee:

 

[clarky003]

heh, I havnt properly played HL2 in oo, 2 months

 

[Asuka]

Nope, iv stoped for months, got back to CSS, HL2DM did slightly worse then before.

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

Happended to me pretty much every time I took a brake from CS 1.x and Im a total noob at it now, because I have hardly played it for over a year... Luckily Im usually on top of the team at CSS

 

[$kelet0r]

happens all the time to me in css - its very unforgiving
hl2dm is more forgiving - one round of 0-12 is enough to wake me up to hitting par and beyond again

one of the reasons i love bf2 so much is its pick up and playability

 

[bliink]

same thing happens to me. You'll find you learn your old skills much faster the second, third time than first time.

In no time you'll be all like BOOM HEADSHOT!! again

 

[JellyWorld]

yep. gotta agree. like, i used to LIVE on halo and then i stopped for like what, a month? and BAM! i suck.

I used to suck at Halo, then I quit for half a year and when I returned I managed to achieve a 1:1 kd ratio on a regular basis for once

 

[$kelet0r]

what i maybe perversely love about gaming is how your so virginal when you start playing a game against human opponents
not like when i used to play avp multiplayer and hldm at school where everyone was laragely at the same level but online
i still remember the day i got my first kill in cs1.6 - the glow of winning was literally a better feeling than when i first had sex 0.o
maybe because the latter was easier but the exhilaration of success after days of 0 kills 10-30 deaths was incredible
and when i got into dod out of curiousity it wasnt the same because success came easier - while being good felt good it wasnt as orgasmic :naughty: (not like that sickos! )

that feeling was reawakened in bf2 where i sucked so bad to begin with almost as much as in cs1.6 when i began... the raw emotion of conquering that absolute inability of succeed was intense going from 1:3 to the other way round was like an epiphany...

i miss those more innocent days - there is something beautiful in conquering your own shortcomings in such an explosive, definitive way






i just realised the amount of innuendo thats in this post :O
oops :naughty:
i think i'll leave it

 

[Sulkdodds]

Relish it, I would be well up for going back in time to my nub days and re-playing HL2 with wide eyes

QFE. How nice it would be to come to HL2 unknowing, oblivious, unheeding of the hype, and shit at gaming. Like the first time I played HL. :E

 

[Angry Lawyer]

i still remember the day i got my first kill in cs1.6 - the glow of winning was literally a better feeling than when i first had sex 0.o

She must've been a bit of a crap woman then, hmm?

-Angry Lawyer

 

[gnome08]

ha ha yes you are not alone my newb freind i remember i left cs alone for around 6 months come back to find my favorite weapon (the aug) useless with my skills i was devastated ever sense i have been on video games ever sense hoping never again to suck so bad