I’m in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT 99 and Tribes 2 competitively. Not anymore. Life is stressful enough, and I don’t want to add to that by playing competitively. I want to relax by playing story-based games. I also play a lot of games on easy mode so that I can truly enjoy the story.
Don’t forget all the new CoD, battlefield, and even tarkov (soon) is requiring TPM 2.0, secure boot, and actively blocking linux making it impossible to even play them.
I’ve yet to find a game I couldn’t play on Bazzite in the year since I’ve switched from Windows. I know that says something about my gaming preferences, but it is also high praise for the folks who have worked on Wine and Proton over the past years
I have over 1500 hours into The Witcher 3.
Sometimes I think at least 500 of those hours are just me loading into the game after a long week, finding an isolated spot on the map, and just staring into the sunset while the wind howls in my headset.
Yes, it’s a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day.
Or team based PvE games where it’s just trying to keep up with the speedrunners farming.
In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.
start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager
One of my younger coworkers was just complaining about that and I had the pleasure of informing them they were now an old man.
Recently I rediscovered StarCraft 2 for me. Am I ever to reach a top ladder placement? Hell no. But the games in platinum league are fun and it is often surprising what tactics other people come up with. Especially because almost anything can work on that level when it is decently executed. No need to play the same optimal openings all the time like the pros.
I used to play on my college’s Overwatch team. I did the grind. I hit GM. I put in 5000 hours. It has forever made me despise competitive games/gaming. 2 years ago, I tried valorant for a few weeks and was immediately accused of smurfing just because I was pub stomping the lobbies.
I still have good fps fundamentals and pretty much any one I touch is trivially easy, but I stick to single player games now.
I don’t play multiplayer games anymore.
First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.
Second off, I’m in my 40s and my reaction time isn’t what it was when I used to play Counter-Strike. You can’t improve an aged reaction time as easily, nor dedicate the time that you would need to to get even somewhat better, let alone competitive, and getting repeatedly stomped isn’t fun.
Third off, I don’t like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. A handful of maps are expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery and story. Doing the same thing over and over again he’s boring.
Fourth off, some of the communities in some games are dogshit and I don’t want to interact with them at all.
Doing the same thing over and over again he’s boring.
That’s also a factor in the gameplay itself.
Competitive multiplayer games will always develop a ‘meta’ that you have to adhere to or respond to in order to be at all competitive.
In single player games, you can make a replay interesting by playing it a different way, trying different strategies even if they’re non-optimal, just to have the novel experience of playing the game a different way. Things like, “I think I’m going to try doing a no-vehicles run in Subnautica.” or “I think I’ll try Cyberpunk with a melee-focused solo build this time.” But stuff like that just isn’t viable in competitive multiplayer. You will be defeated early and often if you stray too far from the meta.
So not only are you playing the same few maps over and over, you’re playing the same few tactics and strategies over and over, making things boring from that angle as well.
I’m 32. I just recently started getting better aim than I ever had throughout my entire 20’s. When it comes to gaming, age doesn’t really matter as much.
It’s unlikely your reaction time has changed much in your 40s. You probably have well over a decade before that starts to happen. On your first couple of tries, reacting to something is going to seem impossible. After you’ve seen the same stimuli and practiced what you should do in response, you’ll be right around where teens and 20-somethings are. If you don’t want to put the time in to make that happen, that’s fine, but don’t think it’s unattainable to get good at a given multiplayer if you were otherwise interested in doing so. E-sports are now old enough that we’ve seen enough folks age into their 40s and remain top talent, as long as that remained an ideal career choice for them when so few are going to be able to support themselves in that career.
Watching NakeyJakey’s video on competitive shooters put into perspective how hard it really is. I knew I wasn’t cut out for it, but that just demonstrated how not cut out for it I was.
Link please?
Probably this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbJIbdcLn6M
Oh. It’s clear you haven’t played multiplayer games for a long time, otherwise this false statement would not have come up:
Third off, I don’t like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. One map is expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery and story.
Maps rotate constantly and change, active and passive maps, community maps.
Oh I obviously understand that there are multiple (if not dozens of) maps, but how many times are you expected to play those maps over and over again? Without plot progression, I just don’t find it interesting.
I only stopped playing multiplayer games because all the current MP games suck shit.
At least update the meme with more recent games
What recent games on the single player side? In the RPG side, content has fallen off.
We’re still waiting for Witcher 4 ten years later. Dragon Age killed itself. Mass effect trilogy is a one off. Spiders never really got to finish the Greedfall sequel before being shut down. The newest thing right now is Baldurs Gate 3.
I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.
I was pvp hardened in Eve Online, exactly because of that I will probably never touch anything multiplayer again.
I sometimes miss counter-strike, but i lack atleast the time and the people to play it on a level where that game is fun and probably the reflexes.
The alternate modes like arms race or demolition are fun and quick.
and not what i’d want from the game ;)
it’s either a 5vs5 in a serious setting or in service of getting better at that, otherwise it’s not the game i miss.
Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.
And even these games are way better as single player games.
It’s also making my move to Linux gaming way easier.
Only multiplayer games I still play are deep rock galactic and the occasional MMO. The former has the best online community around and the latter I can filter who I play with easily
