I think I've lost the touch

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:28 am

The last real 2d games I've played for the last year were various iterations of King of Fighters until tonight when I loaded up Contra HardCorps and Shinobi 3. Holy crap have I gotten slow. It seems like everything is zipping around the screen and I'm moving like a horribly obese fat man trying to do the hurdles.

Anyone else ever get to this point? If so, what games did you use to recover?

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:47 am

karoshi drop 4 life son !!

i haven't played shooters for a couple of months, and feel your pain. can't clear galuda now. can't even beat stage 2 of ketsui. but then i beat my doj bl score on my first credit in months

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:55 am

The ol'd sage advice: Practice makes perfect works wonders for me. ^_~

By spending some quality one-on-one time with Klax, it's simple game to learn but a hard game to master. There are certain patterns that can be pulled off to boost your overall scores but each game of Klax is never the same game twice due the randomness of the colored tiles be generated by the CPU. So you have to change gears really fast and hope that one certain "wild" Klax tile comes your way to save the day (but most likely, chances that it won't happen). So you gotta play with what you're given at the moment. I've played hundreds games of Klax back in the early 1990s to learn by trial and error of what to do and what not to do.

If you're rusty on some certain genre of games that you haven't played in a while, it's best to take it nice and slow and work your way back into the rythym of things. I had a co-worker who is a known as a "Jack of all trades" type of gamer -- meaning that he beat such games whether it be FPS, 2D action platformers, 3D action platformers, etc. Give him a game and he'll finish it in no time flat. I'm impressed with his gameplay abilities...he would make a fine beta tester indeed. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:02 am

They're like wanking. Takes a while to get your form back to perfection if you've been out of the picture.

junkeR · Post by **junkeR** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:18 am

GaijinPunch wrote:They're like wanking. Takes a while to get your form back to perfection if you've been out of the picture.

Yeah, but this is inaccurate - as people don't stop wanking.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:30 am

I played Donkey Kong Jr on MAME the other day. I find it hard to get past level 5 or 6. I don't know how I did it all those years ago. I think having a 8 way joypad screws it up a bit.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:37 am

Time to retire to JRPGs.

Sly Cherry Chunks · Post by **Sly Cherry Chunks** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:44 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McN3_4vdMGs

This should get you back on track.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:26 am

junkeR wrote: Yeah, but this is inaccurate - as people don't stop wanking.

You've obviously never had both your wrists broken.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:36 am

Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McN3_4vdMGs

This should get you back on track.

Facepalm

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 10:41 am

PC Engine Fan X! wrote:The ol'd sage advice: Practice makes perfect works wonders for me. ^_~

meh, i dont really like to hear that anywhere again

^_~

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:34 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
junkeR wrote: Yeah, but this is inaccurate - as people don't stop wanking.
You've obviously never had both your wrists broken.

OUCH!

thats about six weeks for recovery… 6 weeks of no wanking… My apologies.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 3:47 pm

Didn't happen to me. Did to a friend in high school though. His poor sister of course was on the short end of all the jokes.

The n00b · Post by **The n00b** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:05 pm

Okay through the magic of save states, I've made it to round 4 on shinobi 3...on the Easy difficulty.

I know this is going to sound like whining but I'm thinking it might be my controller. The xbox 360 face buttons on the pc seem to be very gummy and don't feel very responsive at all. I'm going to try some klax soon.

LaserGun · Post by **LaserGun** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:26 pm

The n00b wrote:Okay through the magic of save states, I've made it to round 4 on shinobi 3...on the Easy difficulty.

I know this is going to sound like whining but I'm thinking it might be my controller. The xbox 360 face buttons on the pc seem to be very gummy and don't feel very responsive at all. I'm going to try some klax soon.

On easy? What the fuck, I can admit to being shit at action games but Shinobi 3 is pretty easy, you can virtually dash through all the levels. Maybe you're experiencing input lag due to a slow USB polling rate, have you used a USB speed tweaking app to eliminate input lag?

Oh and I recommend a strict diet of Metal Slug 1, 2 and 3, I find them easier than Contra titles.

Khan · Post by **Khan** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 5:37 pm

Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McN3_4vdMGs

This should get you back on track.

Awesome!

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 6:29 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
junkeR wrote: Yeah, but this is inaccurate - as people don't stop wanking.
You've obviously never had both your wrists broken.

Thought you were more articulate than that. What a shame...leveling up in shooters but not in more important activities.

Anyway, when does all this come about? 35? 40?