What happens when "git gud" should actually occur and you ruin the game for yourself, or playing it with friends if it is a multiplayer (you are indeed now "that guy")? Similarly if games have taught people pattern recognition for sometimes decades then is it surprising when you get good at it and does that in turn break something you were enjoying?
Today we are looking for examples of games you were enjoying but eventually you saw through the matrix or your grit and determination left you just that good and thus you no longer care to play it. Did you make any house rules, alternative play styles, cheats or similar to try to make it better?

Examples.
One of my absolute favourite games on the DS was Puzzle Quest. It took the idea of "what if instead of epic battles in your fantasy RPG you instead won battles by doing a tile matching game" and ran with it. However then the pattern matching thing kicked in and I realised that if I saw a certain pattern of gems in the field which is theoretically random (in reality not so much, whether that is to make up for weak AI or an actual oversight I don't know) I actually knew the next seven or so optimal moves (some battles being less than that or decided by it), and then another optimal set for another common state, and another until I could almost do it on autopilot.

Another DS favourite is Tetris DS. I played the vs CPU as something to keep my hands busy when watching videos or something. Today it poses no challenge and I have to house rule myself, or go for another version.

Megadrive bomberman. I know there are better examples of battle mode but it was my main one and thus I still revert to it. However the thing where you wait for an enemy to come from above, know they will lay a bomb (or line thereof) and you go lower and trap them thus ending the confrontation does rather make it something of a one sided affair. Fortunately there are newer entries that follow the art style somewhat.

 

[Ampersound]

I can't play smash bros. melee with friends anymore. Got too invested in the competitive scene.

 

[x65943]

my wife beat me once....ONCE..about 8 years ago and she still reminds me about it.

I beat my girlfriend in Tetris Attack a lot when we first started, and now she has gotten so much better than me that I have to make up excuses when she asks to play - or get pummeled for 30 minutes straight ;A;

 

[AxlSt00pid]

I can no longer play Super Smash Bros with my siblings

Last game we played together was me VS them and a Level 6 AI

I won

 

[1B51004]

mario kart 7. im not good at multiplayer, but most of the tracks dont really throw me in for a loop when i play them. the ai is also pretty basic and forgiving

CTGP-7 is about the same, but the tracks are sometimes better than the base tracks.

 

[Nerdtendo]

Super Mario Odyssey. I was 15 and didn't have a job when the switch came out so I saved a bunch from yard work and finally had enough for a switch and one game. It was like a week before odyssey came out so that's what I went with and it's about all I played. It felt really good to perfect to movement, but it got too boring repeating stuff after a while.

 

[Crazynoob458]

some things
mario kart wii with motion controls i suck at online but i beat all cpus and frinds when i play
botw too op
forza horizon 4 i literally have a fast ass car

 

[Hanafuda]

Atari Pinball on the 2600. With the "English" nudging you could do to the ball, it was possible to play infinitely. So it was pointless.

 

[Deleted member 512337]

Minecraft PvP games or servers. I was pretty good at it, but now after I stopped playing for some years im pretty terrible at it.

 

[BlueFox gui]

i think sonic and all stars racing transformed, when you get the feeling of the game you kinda go automatic, or maybe the game is just too easy idk

 

[MohammedQ8]

Persona 5 royal …. Because I platinum it, I never platinum any game before and after it. If you learned how manage your time you can awaken other characters personas, buy better item, get more exp and much more I reached level 99 before the base game final boss which made the dlc castle very easy.

 

[Silent_Gunner]

SOTN. Backdash with the shield cancel trick and going ATATATATATATA with Alucard's fists on any boss not named Olrox and also using the Wolf form double jump glitch to sequence break has made replaying the game boring for me.

Also, most fighting games have become this for almost anyone I play with in-person these days. They don't know all the rules, how to do supers, or even the basic special moves, and end up getting bodied so easily that they usually give up. If only more fighting games had rollback netcode or if more Tempers around here had good enough Internet connections for Parsec...

 

[rimoJO]

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and this is in no way bragging that I'm pro-MLG or whatever. It's just that when I play with one or two of my friends, if it's a 1v1 and I'm playing almost any character( we play random a lot ), then I end up destroying them or getting a lucky kill off of something we didn't think should've killed. Like I enjoy playing against people of similar skill level because I want to try and get better to win, but I end up playing dumb or just play gimmicks to try and win in a harder way. And normally playing like that ends up with me SDing a lot.

i second this

 

[Mr.Faq2015]

A lot of Tetris variants became boring after a while. What was once a desire for difficulty, has become a desire for "this better have Master Mode".
Tetris Effect is nice to look at, but It gets boring to do endless marathons on it.

Only Tetris The Grand Master 3 still gives me a tough time.

Do you do well with ARS? If so, I would recommend you to try this for a pretty interesting challenge:

Spoiler: Tetra X Pro Challenge

Failed to fetch tweet https://twitter.com/Mine_Tetris/status/1389010565415284737
(prizepool claimed already, but still a pretty tough challenge nonetheless)

Otherwise, definitely consider trying out TGM 1 and 2, let alone the Classic Rule of TGM 3

Ontopic: While I still have a plethora of Tetris games to try out, I do consider that I have also found myself "exhausted" of playing the same over and over. Some of the games where I encounter this at the moment are Tetris Effect, Tetris Axis, Tetris Party Deluxe, Tetrio and NES Tetris (this last one is the new addition, although things may change in the near future)

 

[raxadian]

At some point I could no longer play certain Arcade games unless I do it alone as I was so much better that anyone else, mostly on a pirate Street Fighter 2 Arcade machine, and a Punisher game. Thankfully time and lack of practice means I am no longer as good at those games. Plus the only way to play those games nowadays is by emulation.

 

[Deleted User]

There was a point where I thought that I had reached the general skill gap in Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix, so I thought I'd never feel the need to return to the game, but it's so tightly put together and so just damn fun to interact with that it'll never be ruined. It's also nice being great at the game so I can vouch for it as an exceptional and perfectly viable pure action game to go with the greats, although the recent pc port will definitely make that easier for me. It's just too bad the series decided throw everything it'd built up in the trash. To those who aren't in the know, imagine if dmc just stopped at 3 and the rest of the series was just like the Pachinko games or something, then 13 years later Capcom made a game called dmc4 but it was actually a sequel to the spin-offs. It's really too bad.

 

[Issac]

Hmm, I can't really think of a game that got boring because I got good at it. If a game start getting easy, I come up with some kind of challenge if that's what I'm after: Trying to go fast, not using certain weapons... or raising the difficulty level if that's an option.

Mostly when I replay a game, it's because I'm in the mood to play it again for whatever reason: Re-live the story, getting caught up in the nostalgic music, get achievements... Or if it's an arcade type of game (rhythm games) I strive to get better and better, *or* play the songs I love because it's a great feeling to play a song really well.

Then, there's also randomizers which are so much fun, or other romhacks.

So no, I can't think of a game that got boring because I got good.

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

Do you do well with ARS? If so, I would recommend you to try this for a pretty interesting challenge:

Spoiler: Tetra X Pro Challenge

https://twitter.com/Mine_Tetris/status/1389010565415284737
(prizepool claimed already, but still a pretty tough challenge nonetheless)

Otherwise, definitely consider trying out TGM 1 and 2, let alone the Classic Rule of TGM 3

Ontopic: While I still have a plethora of Tetris games to try out, I do consider that I have also found myself "exhausted" of playing the same over and over. Some of the games where I encounter this at the moment are Tetris Effect, Tetris Axis, Tetris Party Deluxe, Tetrio and NES Tetris (this last one is the new addition, although things may change in the near future)

Thanks for this, this looks interesting

 

[RedoLane]

Do you do well with ARS? If so, I would recommend you to try this for a pretty interesting challenge:

Spoiler: Tetra X Pro Challenge

https://twitter.com/Mine_Tetris/status/1389010565415284737
(prizepool claimed already, but still a pretty tough challenge nonetheless)

Otherwise, definitely consider trying out TGM 1 and 2, let alone the Classic Rule of TGM 3

Ontopic: While I still have a plethora of Tetris games to try out, I do consider that I have also found myself "exhausted" of playing the same over and over. Some of the games where I encounter this at the moment are Tetris Effect, Tetris Axis, Tetris Party Deluxe, Tetrio and NES Tetris (this last one is the new addition, although things may change in the near future)

you're sharp. ARS is literally one of the reasons I still have a tough time with TGM 3.
I tried out TGM 1 and 2 many times, but I stick to TGM 3 since i have an active grade there(i'm an S2 on classic rule btw)

about Tetra-X, for some reason I have input delay with Tetra Legends, but thanks for the heads up!

 

[Just_reii]

Damn my list can go on for days haha but I guess i def say Marvel VS Capcom 2

 

[Rioluwott]

I always play with my friends Smash Ultimate and most of the time win even though they go to tourneys and sometimes win, because i used to play smash 4 fighting level 9 CPUs a lot on my 3ds since i had no games to play(before homebrew in the 3ds was a thing) and now im know as someone who plays it every day but i don't even own a switch and only play when they invite me(i used to play with them a lot when classes weren't online), and i rarely play smash 4 anymore since it feels somewhat outdated and the 3ds controllers arent the best
The same goes to other games that i play with my other friends(bomberman, sonic robo kart, uni, blazblue, other fighting games, etc.) since i get better than them at a faster rate, maybe im a little too competitive by instinct, thats why i always play 1 player games or co-op games