Urprobablyright
Banned
I can tell from other posts here that plenty of NeoGAF posters are my age or older, so to me that means there are entire console generations, entire graphics cards epoch, entire gaming dynasties out there that we have collectively played the hell out of.
I'm wondering if your younger self was, at some point, a colossal badass at a game that is now forgotten. Like, if you were to sit down with new friends today and play this game together they would finish the gaming sesh saying you "should go pro" and "i think they will play this professionally in South Korea" or something~
For me..
SSX 3: Recently returned to this in Dolphin and i can confirm that I'm TUB at this game. I went on YouTube to look at speed runs and while i never bothered to find hacky routes (like falling off the edge of the world to respawn 500m down the track and stuff) i was definitely as quick as them through the course proper. And my Big Air totals etc were equally awesome. Who cares?!
Unreal Tournament: This game was made for me, from the moment my clumsy ass self picked it up and started jumping around that zero-g level on top of the three towers i became Muhammed "I'm 'ard" Bruce Lee, going entire games without dying, topping charts, and i wowed covens of new friends in 3 different countries i lived in over the next 5 years or so.
Global Operations: This was a really fun Counter Strike clone with upgraded graphics and a slightly different take on, everything.. anyway, like Unreal Tournament there was a time when i just lived within my character in FPSs and couldn't die. This is funny because i haven't seriously played an fps aside from Deus Ex Human Revolution/MD since the 00s~
see also: True Crime, Streets of LA; Red Faction 2; MOHAA; Operation Flashpoint
I'm wondering if your younger self was, at some point, a colossal badass at a game that is now forgotten. Like, if you were to sit down with new friends today and play this game together they would finish the gaming sesh saying you "should go pro" and "i think they will play this professionally in South Korea" or something~
For me..
SSX 3: Recently returned to this in Dolphin and i can confirm that I'm TUB at this game. I went on YouTube to look at speed runs and while i never bothered to find hacky routes (like falling off the edge of the world to respawn 500m down the track and stuff) i was definitely as quick as them through the course proper. And my Big Air totals etc were equally awesome. Who cares?!
Unreal Tournament: This game was made for me, from the moment my clumsy ass self picked it up and started jumping around that zero-g level on top of the three towers i became Muhammed "I'm 'ard" Bruce Lee, going entire games without dying, topping charts, and i wowed covens of new friends in 3 different countries i lived in over the next 5 years or so.
Global Operations: This was a really fun Counter Strike clone with upgraded graphics and a slightly different take on, everything.. anyway, like Unreal Tournament there was a time when i just lived within my character in FPSs and couldn't die. This is funny because i haven't seriously played an fps aside from Deus Ex Human Revolution/MD since the 00s~
see also: True Crime, Streets of LA; Red Faction 2; MOHAA; Operation Flashpoint