I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D on I think a 486 at high school (or uni?). The ORIGINAL FPS.
Age has little to do with it. I play with guys that are my age who own all, and others that get pawned. I regularly get done over, but I only play infrequently. When you haven't played for a while, the reflexes fade. Plus familiarity with the keyboard. Try frantically trying to change to pistol in close combat when you run out of ammo, when the bad guy is bunny hopping at you with a knife, and you haven't played in weeks and are struggling to remember which key it is (1, 2, or 3!?!?!!? ... aaarggah!!! ... 15 seconds to respawn ...)
The biggest thing I dislike about BF2 (or non gamepad PC FPSs) is the keyboard interface. It isn't intuitive, which you need under pressure (or maybe it's just us old guys). Halo was so much easier to play with the Xbox game pad, even GTA3 on the PC with a gamepad was easier (and the on foot combat set up on that sucked!!!).
So my excuse is I can't spend 6+ hours at a time playing this game and honing my reflexes to a cutting edge. My 10 hour a day job, and need to keep my marriage alive, interfere with by BF2 time. Which makes the time I can spending it all the more enjoyable.
And respect your mother punk. She gave birth to you, which if that attitude is carried over into real life (rather than playing tough, which I hope it is) means putting up with you currently is probably a more painful experience than giving birth to you.
Simple lesson - you get treated as an adult when you act like one.
Gotta go. wife's calling ...
Last edited by pj666 (2007-04-12 05:05:29)