Has This Ever Happened to You?

[Fireproof]

Okay, on Friday night I was at my friend's house, so I decided to play Halo. I started on Medium difficulty, with default settings. Then, something magical happened. When I started playing, I was inexplicably better. I finished the entire first mission without dying due to enemy fire. (Fell off a few ledges in the space part, but that's just because I forgot the way through. XD) I nearly did the same in the second mission. I declare myself, "average at Halo."
Has something like this happened to anyone else?

[Kaligraphic]

I sometimes find that I randomly improve at various skills. Perhaps the game has been sifting in the back of your subconscious and you've figured out something about the game dynamics without realizing it.

[LorentzForce]

Very noticeable when you play the same game over and over again. I noticed it often when I play BM, just one day, I can pass this song that I could never pass before with flying colours and not a single miss, and again, and again, and again.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

sometimes i get like a score of 43/13 in counterstrike

others i get scores like 5/17 and stuff XD

weird i guess

[Azier the Swordsman]

Sonic 1 and 2. The very first two console games I have ever owned. When I first got them, there were hard as heck to me. For some reason now, I can blast through them without breaking a sweat. Same for most of my other favorite games I've played to death.

[Cap'n Nick]

I played Asteroids in 1989. I played it again in 2004. I think I improved a bit.

[Myoti]

I tend to finally figure out something like a puzzle or how to defeat this boss, etc., when I'm not actually playing the game.

[desperado]

well the other day i was miracously able to beat a couple levels on legendary. man that stuff can be hard. i still have no clue how i did it

[the_lizardqueen]

Hmm, unfortunately, I have yet to have that happen with myself and Halo. Last time I played online, I kinda jumped out of an elevator lift backwards into an enemy base that was occupied by three guys packing some massive firepower. Needless to say, I was dead in about 3 seconds. Though I did manage to pick off one of the enemy team members, by accident, with a sniper rifle at a later point. Yeah! I rock! (yup, I'm delusional a proud of it)

Ah well, FPS games might move too fast for me, but I'll always have my RPGs. Yesh. *nods*

[Kanrad]

It happens. You ever wonder what gave those guys that design RPGs the idea for skill rank increases? Maybe it ties to something real.

[Shia Kyosuka]

sometimes i get like a score of 43/13 in counterstrike

others i get scores like 5/17 and stuff XD

weird i guess

Yeah, same here.

[Noodles]

I was playing Unrealy Tournament 2004 and I only had this game for 2 months and haven't been playing it that much. So, no matter how hard I try.... I get owned. Well one day I go on and I start shooting and actually got in 1st place out of 10 people. I was shocked..... but I went back to getting owned 10 rounds later.

[Michael]

You might have 'Kill Bonus' on. I makes you faster the more you kill. Very cheap, IMO.

Or aliens could be controling your body.

[Azier the Swordsman]

There is a Japanese guy who can beat Super Mario 3 in 15 minutes without cheating, getting hit, or dying once. No joke. There was a video of it somewhere on the internet.

[blkmage]

I usually suck really badly in Counterstrike. Usually less than ten kills for the entire game. Today, I played at school and got over 30.