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UnfairRepresent posted...

You said it yourself.

He didnt beat them because he's good at them, he beat them because he played them for 80 hours.

It's 1000s monkeys at 1000 typewriters

That's video gaming in general. You don't blast through games because you have skill. You blast through them because they were easy or because of memorization. Your subconscious is thinking to itself, "I've never made it to this stairwell before, but I know an enemy is going to try and ambush me because enemies have ambushed me in similar spots in earlier levels."

Granted, it is possible to breeze through a game of a similar nature after mastering one type of game. When I beat Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, it took me two hours to get through the final castle (on the second quest). When I switched over to Genesis and played Ghouls 'n Ghosts, a game that just mauled me during my childhood, I beat it in one sitting and with no greater difficulty than if it had been a Super Mario game.

But those specific controls and that particular style of gameplay were still fresh in my memory. It's not like I could just pick up a platformer I've never played before and cut through it because I've adapted superior gaming reflexes or anything like that.


If beating difficult games doesn't make you a good gamer, I don't know what does. Playing a game until you've mastered it, then pretending like it's your first time playing?