its called getting old. these days fps games make me nauseous. i cant play button mashers no more (thumbs get stiff and go numb). i find rpgs to be a boring numbers game. im about as good as ive always been with joystick games and it takes me longer to get the hang of and to beat new games.
i generally suck at multiplayer. there are exceptions, i was so good at etqw that the game became boring, and i seem to hover in at silver in sc2. i think the problem is ive spent years playing with people who were not very good gamers. i started playing multiplayer games back in the mid 90s, probably starting with descent and quake. needless to say the number of people who played those games was never exceptionally large (probably because a computer cost upwards of $2000 where a console could be had for around $200). most gamers i knew back then played console fighting games. i dont think the problem is so much with us than it is with all these kids who have grown up playing games from a very young age. i mean i had games (atari, nes, snes, some computer games) but these were nothing like what we have today. were talking kids born post descent/doom who grew up playing nothing but 3d games. and us with out distractions like work and women and booze and other illegal substances just arent getting as much practice.
