Evernessince
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Being good at a game and being good at speed running a game are two entirely different things. Speed running is mostly breaking the game and using glitches. The skills you develop are completely different from developing legitimate strategy.
I usually only play games once and almost always at the highest difficulty. I do this because normal or hard is almost always too easy. It's far too easy to predict AI in any game because frankly they all suck at it. Skyrim is a prime example of this. If you shoot someone while in stealth that NPC will always go within 5 feet of where you shot them from, regardless of whether they could possible discern your location or not. You can continue to back up and shoot them without issue or you could just shoot, leave, come back, and repeat. NPCs can only walk on pre-designated areas, which is why you can hop on top of any decent sized rock and you are immortal. Deus Ex Mankind Divided isn't much better. The NPCs will fan out more and on the highest difficulty they will continue to search longer but otherwise it's pretty much the same as Skyrim. The increase in difficulty is artificial through longer search timers.
It's my opinion that spending too much time on any game is a waste of time. The mechanics and systems aren't improving over time. You can pick out any FPS game right now and playing one would improve your performance in the other. The only games you would want to play allot are online games but even those often devolve into battles over things like glitch spots or trivialities of the game's systems, none of which can be universally applied to other games. This is exactly why online games contain progressions systems, to keep players going when the game remains largely the same.
