Gertrude Fenix

I have seriously got to stick to just playing GoW2 MP with clan members. Every time I go public I get my ass handed to me. Not to mention the lag-switching is becoming way too rampant.

I think the old school way of playing games gives credence to the saying of "Can't teach an old dog new tricks." I find that I'm jamming on the thumbsticks way too hard when things get heated up. I'll get a guy lined up with my shotgun and the next thing I know I'm shooting at a wall instead of the guy that was right in front of me 1/2 a second ago. I'm playing like I did when I was kid when I used to nearly push the cross pad right through the NES controller in hopes that Mario might just run a little faster.

The dexterity on these kids that have known nothing but analog control is quite humbling. Their ability to finess the controller in chaotic situations is something that I just don't think I can master.

It actually makes me a bit more empathetic of old ladies driving a car 25 mph in a 40mph zone. Many of those ladies didn't get their license at 16, 20 or even 25. They built a life time of bias of never having to control 5000 pounds of rolling metal. Their young brain didn't have a chance to make all those neural connections that dealt with negotiating 3-D space. Instead their old, bias brain has to deal with lots and lots of information that it just can't process efficiently.

So, to make a conclusion: When playing public multiplayer against all of these young kids that have known nothing but (and have mastered) analog control...I am the old lady in the over-sized Buick that everyone screams at to get off the road.

Damn whippersnappers.