[General Discussion] Better at video games when you were younger?

I've become better through diverse experience, and fortunately won't have to say "Dang it, how come this was so much easier a decade ago" just yet.


Fighters: A long time has passed from when I first thought "How do you do that thing where E. Honda raises his arms and doesn't take damage? I read the manual... (apparently not thoroughly enough)". With the wonderful world of priority, autoguard, supers, overheads, mixups, etc. exposed to me, I laugh at my old self.

RPGs: First playing Final Fantasy VI, the quote I remember stating repeatedly was "it's really really hard to get used to, but it's very fun when you do". Of course, I was mindlessly going to "attack" without having the experience of taking advantage of and memorizing elemental weaknesses, knowing what everyone's skill did, and such.

Sidescolling/topdown shooters: Charging gung-ho forward and pressing the shoot button repeatedly isn't always the best thing to do, especially when I didn't even try to dodge anything. Twitching ever so slightly and laying back is.

Jam it back in, in the dark.