Automatic playing?

**SkepticalMario** · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 310 Location: Minneapolis, MN

The last time I played Fire It Up, I didn't expect to do nearly as well as I did. I made it almost through the solo without missing a note and I have no idea how. For a while there, I was playing by completely eye and not thinking at all! It kinda freaked me out.

Is it normal to play instinctually like that? I can understand if I'd played the song a lot, but that was the only time I'd played it in a long (i.e. two weeks) time.

..or was I just lucky? Because I still don't know how that solo goes.
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**deathtongue** · Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject:

I've noticed the same thing happening to me lately since I have been getting better at playing Expert level. I will sometimes get through a difficult part of a song without missing a note and think to myself "how did I do that?" It is exactly as if your fingers are playing the notes without you even having to think about it. It's pretty cool isn't it!
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**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

As an expirianced rhythm gamer, I welcome you to the next skill level. Its almost as if your eyes talk to your hands (or feet) directly without wasting time with your brain.

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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

I've had this happen a lot lately. It's been really cool, but I only wish I could learn how to use it whenever I needed to.

I've managed to get ridiculous percentages (at least for me anyways) on songs that I used to be horrible at about a month ago. (Example: I played Get Ready 2 Rokk a month ago on Expert and just barely passed it. I played it not thinking at all just the other day and got 87% of the notes and a 4-star performance.)
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**Anthony** · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 659 Location: Cali

Yep this is a common occurance with rhythm games. I remember the first time this happened when I played DDR.
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**Fly1ngV** · Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 10:16 am Post subject:

as it's been said before, this is a very normal thing within most rhythm games. I remember the first time this happened when i was playing DDR, i was doing crossovers like no bodies business and when i finally got it right in ITG, i was doing hands and avoiding mines without even thinking about their locations, it indeed is an awesome feeling. Hell it even happens to me in guitar hero when i play cowboys or texas flood or something along those lines.

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

i feel like that sometimes. I can see a whole wad of notes coming up and i feel as if i mess up cos i go all over the place, then i look at the multiplyer and its still rocking 4x so i feel chuffed in a way, but cant get round how i done it

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**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

It's like in reading, when you take in an entire word instead of its individual letters. I'm pretty sure it's the same phenomanon.

**heartagram312** · Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 3

i love when it happens when i play at the arcade(ddr) i remember the first time it happened it was like woah what just happened, i hope it starts happening more

**SkepticalMario** · Joined: 01 Mar 2006 Posts: 310 Location: Minneapolis, MN

Well, I don't think I want it to keep happening. I'd rather know what I'm doing.
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**EdwardTeach666** · Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 290 Location: Tankard

When this happens to me I usualy end up messing up on easy parts of the song cause I either decide to try and not think anymore, or am so hyped I just drilled something without even thinking about it.

**TheZ-man** · Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject:

That happens to me alot and when it does Everyone around me is completely
stupified by what i played because my friends have more experence than me

I just wish it would happen on the solo for BatM
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**shutendoji** · Joined: 06 Apr 2006 Posts: 658 Location: Earth

when people are watching me i tend to do worse, except for one of my friends who has it too. But he's never beaten me yet (cause he's on hard and he doesn't play it as much as I do, plus he sucks at games, took him like 40 tries to beat Sephiroth on KH2 on normal mode so I make fun of him for that, it took me two tries).