Oh no I no longer can play the incredibly toxic matchmaking multi-player games and instead have to enjoy the automation, exploration, story, management and strategy games I've always loved
Factorio, my beloved
Yeah. Now I only have like 3 hours to play by day and I'm not gonna waste them in losing.
I'm the same way. I know some like the feeling of beating a hard boss after trying for hours, but I just don't have that time.
The secret is they like the process of beating them too. It's not all about "winning".
Hmm should I try different party combos in BG3 to see how the dialogue changes or run around a COD map getting shot in the back of the head every 9 seconds while ads for mtx strobe flash my corneas?
Jokes on you. I never had the skills to begin with.
It just means it’s time for solo 4x and single player RPGs.
A huge Rimworld expansion drops today. Solo game players have never had it better.
you cant lose what never had
Me being terrible at games now is because I am old and can’t sink the same time into it. But I beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES. Do I really need to prove myself anymore?
That deserves a medal as far as I'm concerned.
I am just going to frame your reply. Thank you.
Honestly the opposite happened to me. I'm 31 and I've been playing much better in terms of aiming than any other time ten or 20 years ago.
Same, maturing and looking at things more intelligently made me better at online games. Still average to be honest, but I was really bad as a kid
Play 4x/grand strategy and youllvonly get better as you get older.
You might find yourself playing on slower speeds with rts styles though
Jokes on you, I've always been bad at RTS
Strategy games are interesting, I feel aged when playing mount and blade.
I used to take on 10 men at once by myself with only half health but needed 25 men to fight an army of 35.
Now I lose a simple 1v3 but can beat armies thrice my size on hardest settings with my barely trained archer units.
I also use bufs and consumables in pokemon now so that's a thing.
Wait, y'all had gaming skills to begin with?
I can barely play online games against anyone without getting wiped in 0.0001 nanoseconds if it's a PVP game. Never had skills, so I'll never be in denial about losing what I never had.
I have never been good in FPS when it comes to "both jump around the corner and shoot, who wins?" But i have always been good at: "Where the heck did he come from?! what is this stupid play, this is not the meta!!!" happily frustrating some tryhards. As i get older i can still enjoy that way of playing.
I've noticed that with experience comes better predictive play, rather than relying on reaction time.
Strategy and turn based RPGs FTW!
Happened to me ages ago :3
I don't play enough competitive games to care anyway tho
It's literally the opposite. Platformers, point and click, full 3d and action games.
Wait you mean competitive multiplayer? Well turns out, being a sweaty tryhard after all is not possible for us all.
Particularly because of meta changes, intentionally bad players (think of feeders in moba) and general hostility within a team as soon as one of these gamers show up.
Games are supposed to be a fun pastime, most of the internet treats them as a second job, some people need to be remainded of this simple fact.
I cut my teeth on games when being balls hard was the standard. I paid my dues. Nowadays I just put them on easy (and use save states for old games).
59 years old today and still in denial.
From Atari's Combat, through Tribes, and now Helldivers, the gaming goes on. There may come a day when I put away my mouse and controller ...
BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!
This is the real reason to have kids. I'm not up on the Mario Kart meta, but I'll whup my seven year old around rainbow road any damn day.
late 30's and I'll still whoop your ass at Street Fighter 6 or The Finals
Priorities change. Now I spend more time working on my house or riding my bike than I do gaming and that is OK. It’s fun to be casual too.
For me it was the Doom reboot. I discovered my twitch reflexes just weren't what they used to be. Now I play only strategy games if anything at all.
I never had skills in gaming to begin with, I ain't good at all. At best I'm OK at strategy, but even then I'm bad. Just give me the computer and let me do DnD
Beating modders and pros in Halo piece of piss.
Top 0.1% PvP stats in Destiny.
Get a job and a family, get back online and told to kill myself for being so bad.
It's frustrating because I feel like my skills are actually still improving and better than they used to be but there's always some 11 yo kid who will absolutely wreck me over and over again to the point where I just quit out of shame.
I was never that good.....and then I got old. Still enjoy gaming though.
Fine, my kids can beat me at Rocket League sometimes now, but they still can't manage their duchies and bloodlines for shit in Crusader Kings.
Late 20s: You realize gaming from the couch is getting difficult because the distance to the TV is too blur without glasses
Mid 30s: No longer able to consume infinite packets of instant ramen. In fact it kinda tastes nasty. Halo 3 at Legendary still tho.
Early 40s: Quake 3 Arena and Half Life 2 now give you motion sickness. Can still get by Halo at Heroic.
Late 40s: The 2ft distance to your monitor now looks blur without glasses. not getting past gold or silver in ranked Overwatch
Mid 50s: Gonna need reading glasses to play. Clair Obscur difficulty now set to Story.
It's not me who changed. It's the esports driven fast twitch game style that has. I should probably try out my backlog of rainbow six games.
I'm not even in the initial phases of ~~dental~~ denial, and Im a millennial, I'm not ready to get attacked like this in a meme!!
Nope. Not me! I’ve got new glasses. That was the entirety of the problem. Nothing to see here…I’m not old
I was already outdone like 10 years ago by my cousins who practically came with gaming consoles out of the womb. Idk how they figure the stuff out so fast.
Don't have to worry about gaming skills disappearing if you never had any in the first place :3
Or maybe ya'll are have been so full of hubris and are now finally getting wiser with age and start to recognize that you were always shit or average at best.
Tried Ark the other day, looked awesome. So much damn micromanaging and juggling. Just nope
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i still go on cod ww2 to pwn noobs but if i ever lose its because im going against no life sweats
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