Has anyone else had the experience of going back to a game you haven’t played in a long time and some lower level part of your brain just remembers all the controls? Like when you try and remember which key does what, you can’t, but then you start playing and your brain just does the thing.
Yes, absolutely. My dad recently purchased the same model of electric guitar he had as a teenager and he felt the same way about it.
I’m the opposite of this picture. It’s like I have to relearn the game each time and fluid play takes a long time to return.
Funnily enough my muscle memory persists to some degree though. So for instance if a particularly tough enemy is charging me I might push a specific key without actually knowing what it does. Afterwards I have to reason and rediscover what I was trying to accomplish and bind that action to the key I pressed.
Tetris, I have to have the original controllers though.
I call it “The Muscle Zen”. You just gotta relax, trust yourself, your fingers know what to do.
Metal Gear Rising: Revengance is one for me. When I first fire up a playthrough, I’ll feel rusty as hell, but once that music starts kicking my brain, it’s like night and day.
I have a bad habit of resubbing to wow every couple years for a bit, and yes I feel like Theoden king. My fingers start to remember their strength as soon as I lay my hands on the keyboard, it feels like returning to home. In no time we’re back spreading a little plague in raids, arena and bgs
Just started KOTOR (2003) after last playing 3 years ago. It’s like riding a bike.
This is true of other skills too. Sometimes I can remember how to do things only when I stop thinking
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Heil Grammer!!!
I’ll go back to a game and load up a character with all my endgame gear and then die.
I came back to counterstrike with CS2 and couldn’t figure out for a few round why everything felt so wrong until I realized my flipping crosshair was moving! Disabled that and started murdering folk.
Or . . . you load that old save game and think, “oh yeah. NOW I remember why I stopped playing this.”
This is not BG3 for me
4 me this is hypixel
Your fingers would remember their old strength better, if they grasped your AWP.
I just fired up Donkey Kong Country recently after lowkey bragging about how I knew all the secrets, despite playing it last years ago. Partner was like, “Aight. Show.”
“Kay”
And to my surprise I still remember where everything is and breezed past all except one level so far.
And you all know which fucking level that was.
Me loading up A Link to the Past and still having a full memory of every palace, which areas are secrets, which walls make the satisfying clink clink clink, and how to get the Golden Master Sword without having to check GameFAQs:
“Hell yeah. Zelda, go put on your green tunic and let’s go save Link.
