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Golfdish from Hell · 10:08 PM

I don't think I'm better so much, but I just have a better understanding of WHY a part is challenging. Metal Slug for instance...It's a quarter-muncher. It's SUPPOSED to kill you. I personally find the slow jumping and occasionally stiff controls responsible for dying as much as my own mistakes, so I'm not going to keep replaying until I win without dying like I would (and did) with the NES Megamans. Ikaruga, on the other hand, if I sat and really set myself to the whole swapping thing, I'd do really good at it, but...Oh well, I still have fun with it, even in death. I know it's an incredibly well-made game, but I'm just a lazy player who's slow to learn the system. I think there are a few games I would have tolerated more as a kid (Megaman X8 comes to mind...I just gave up on it because it was hard AND fucking garbage, but if it were the only new game I had to pound away on for 3 months...maybe), but I'm still as bad at Super C now as I was then (although people think I'm god when I tell them I can beat Contra 1 without dying...It's not THAT hard, is it?) I imagine I'd have been grounded several times as a kid if Contra IV were around (although Hudson's Adventure Island and Dino Riki filled THAT void).

Although...I remember last year, I beat Castlevania III for the first time and I was fucking flying around the room. I still can't believe I found a way to kill that Doppleganger. That was just vengeance for all the pain and suffering that game put me through in my youth (all in good fun).

Edit: I don't know about fighters...When I was younger, I'd always rush in (Chun Li/Shoto player). I'm much more of a keepaway player than an attacker nowadays...I think I'd school my younger self, although I'd be on the look-up for surprises from myself (I'll never forget the look on that one guy's face when I did the spinning bird kick through the fireball and won with no health left...I was, like 10, and I did that in front of his girlfriend!)

Jam it back in, in the dark.