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Gaming: Self Improve and Map Memory
12 years ago
Just a random journal about a thought in my head. I don't make jouranls too often but sometimes I feel it can be good.
I am wondering, how many of you play games and try or wish you could be better at that game?
To better detail that, to wanna be better just for yourself? Meaning in single player games. I know people want to be better in multiplayer and be able to win most the time, but I am not meaning that.
Do you play a game and just wanna know that you can play it pretty well? No one to compete with or anything but just know that you are good at it? Be it a game like Metroid, Zelda or what game made me think of this recently, Batman Arkham Asylum. I love the combat in that game, it's so good... I am just not too good at it. Getting that flow going and getting high combos just feels so good to me but... yeah. I feel as if I cannot get any better. I suppose I would have to put in many hours. Having mainly spent most the time playing the story mode and replaying it, it is probably why I am not any better. Combat is spaced apart too much. There are indeed the challenge maps which is where one would improve of course. I played those somewhat and realize I have to play those to get better at it, but it is so discouraging for me as I continue to fail at it. I suppose one has to put many hours of practice to improve, some more than others. I feel my learning curve is pretty slow and I reach a certain peak and cannot get any higher while others continue to get better than my level.
That first part I decided to add as extra. I mainly wanted to make a journal about map memory in games but thought I'd add the other thing as well.
In games like Grand Theft Auto, how good are you at memorizing the map?
By that I mean are you able to get to a location without relying on the mini-map or overhead map? For me, and probably many, with games like that, you end up knowing the city just by the mini-map rather than what you see in front of you, building and street wise. I only mention a game like GTA because smaller or linear maps like on Batman AA or Bioshock, of course you memorize the map more easily and it's locations, because of them being smaller or more simple.
So yeah I dunno. A journal to see how others are with games in those aspects. If someone is able to memorize a big cluttered map like in GTA and if one plays and wishes to be better at a game just because they want to, for themselves, not to beat another. As for me, as I think I mentioned, I do wish I could be better at games just for myself, know that I can be good. And I am unable to memorize maps like in GTA and I rely too heavily on the mini-map. But maybe with both, it requires just hours and hours of play.
I am wondering, how many of you play games and try or wish you could be better at that game?
To better detail that, to wanna be better just for yourself? Meaning in single player games. I know people want to be better in multiplayer and be able to win most the time, but I am not meaning that.
Do you play a game and just wanna know that you can play it pretty well? No one to compete with or anything but just know that you are good at it? Be it a game like Metroid, Zelda or what game made me think of this recently, Batman Arkham Asylum. I love the combat in that game, it's so good... I am just not too good at it. Getting that flow going and getting high combos just feels so good to me but... yeah. I feel as if I cannot get any better. I suppose I would have to put in many hours. Having mainly spent most the time playing the story mode and replaying it, it is probably why I am not any better. Combat is spaced apart too much. There are indeed the challenge maps which is where one would improve of course. I played those somewhat and realize I have to play those to get better at it, but it is so discouraging for me as I continue to fail at it. I suppose one has to put many hours of practice to improve, some more than others. I feel my learning curve is pretty slow and I reach a certain peak and cannot get any higher while others continue to get better than my level.
That first part I decided to add as extra. I mainly wanted to make a journal about map memory in games but thought I'd add the other thing as well.
In games like Grand Theft Auto, how good are you at memorizing the map?
By that I mean are you able to get to a location without relying on the mini-map or overhead map? For me, and probably many, with games like that, you end up knowing the city just by the mini-map rather than what you see in front of you, building and street wise. I only mention a game like GTA because smaller or linear maps like on Batman AA or Bioshock, of course you memorize the map more easily and it's locations, because of them being smaller or more simple.
So yeah I dunno. A journal to see how others are with games in those aspects. If someone is able to memorize a big cluttered map like in GTA and if one plays and wishes to be better at a game just because they want to, for themselves, not to beat another. As for me, as I think I mentioned, I do wish I could be better at games just for myself, know that I can be good. And I am unable to memorize maps like in GTA and I rely too heavily on the mini-map. But maybe with both, it requires just hours and hours of play.
http://youtu.be/MQGPcDV44_8
And while you can certainly build up a good reaction speed to things in a game, when it comes to a single-player game, skill really does come down to knowing exactly what to do at a given time. I can do a crit path run of Darksiders 2 without any sort of exploits (those make it possible to clear it in less than 2 hours) in around 5-6 hours, maybe less, because I've just ran it so many times during testing and know exactly what I need to do and when.
Also... why here with the saying of this? I mean I guess if saying here then I say here even though with the here could be there and be yeah with the yeah hmhm. Yes. Hmm.
And speedrunning is sometimes one big amalgam of not just knowing those tricks, but being able to pull them off with a lot of consistency (DMC4 has a lot of moves with frame-specific timing, for example).
Hmm it is also like with using a guide on a game your first time or such. If you use a guide to find all hidden packages or something like in GTA, if you were to ever replay it you wouldn't have such good memory of where they would be as compared to if you spent the time to find them yourself. Goes with any game I would think. Just one of the speedrunners I watch who was trying a 100% GTA VC run saying that he better memorizes when finding them himself and that if he uses a guide he won't remember them next time.
Heh anyway yeah when I replayed Batman AA oh yeah I got so many of the riddles found without the map, missed so few. I had only played Batman AA, twice, back to back, no guide, over a year ago or so and I had remembered that much because I did not use a guide. Heh.
And I don't disagree with you that sometimes there's more. My brother claims I'm "amazingly good" at video games. I wouldn't go that far myself, but I will say I do not remember the last time I ever played a game I couldn't complete. But there are still some aspects I would say that I can't ever really "master". League of Legends requires such an intense knowledge and exploitation of all its elements that you're either dominating everything or learning to like the respawn timer. And back in college when I'd play Halo with random people around campus, sometimes I would be dominating and sometimes, against the same people, I'd be falling flat on my face. No idea why o3o
Like I'd usually tell my brother lol, try not to get too tense about games. Relax, don't be afraid to quickly glance the controller to make sure you're hitting the buttons right, and do whatever you can to make sure you have fun :3
But I think after you play a lot of different games you start learning how to learn games faster. Like how you can learn techniques to be really good at studying. So, try a large variety of games is a good thing to be a better gamer I think.