What are the 30 year old plus gamers playing?

fired up FTL last night on the Mac (not actually meaning to play it but I was checking if other games were natively compatible) and ended up putting 2 hours in until my ship blew apart spectacularly when I was focused on boarders.

I had forgotten how unforgiving the game can be at times. One moment my ship with 3 layer shield, dual 3 burst lasers and Pike beam was cutting up pirates and the next I am in the middle of an ion storm with 3 boarders, weapons down and facing off against a Rebel Fighter with a 4 burst main laser and the "big" missile. Managed to jump out of that system into one where I got more boarders, lost two of my crew and then jumped again (with 4 hull points left) straight into a 3 layer shielded Pirate... I didn't last long.
 
Still playing Rocket League Rumble a lot (currently in 1400 BST tournament, only time slot they can run).

But in the last week, I've installed free to play Disney Speedstorm on ps5 and pc (linking account). Heard of it a while ago, but was put off by all the Disney characters, but it plays really well and so far not spending a penny of real money hasn't put me at a disadvantage... But getting harder now I've got a few racers above level 20 and one in Platinum online league.
 
Balatro & CS2. Managed to get 20k in Premier after my placement matches but every 1 in 3 games has a rage hacker in it. Uninstalled.
 
bigmike20vt said:
i fancy getting this one as i love the Dune universe and have played the original Dune and Dune 2 multiple times (the musical score on the Amiga was excellent)
is it viable to play this as a pure PvE game with only a handful of real life friends or do you really have to play it publicly to be effective?
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I'm playing online public solo at the moment, don't feel like I'm missing out on anything if I'm honest. I've been in the deep desert a few times just keep going back to the main Hagga Basin area to finish quests, explore, build etc. Half of deep desert is PVE, ships are PVP but the population isn't high so you generally don't bump into people often.

I love the vibe of the game, I rarely play with music on but it's such a nice track and the dynamic music warns you of incoming sandstorms etc so there's a good reason to keep it on too.

It scratches that exploration, build and collection itch for me now, I can't quite explain it tbh.
 
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I am in for 600+ hours on Project Zomboid.

On a new save around 2 weeks in. Cannot get enough of that game. Also easy to install again for when I rage uninstall.
 
Monsters & Memories during the last open test. An old school MMO very similar to EQ. Pretty good so far.

I keep logging into Dune but I think this might be out of habit than anything else.
 
Worthy said:
I'm doing the same at the moment. I might just be getting old but older games are way more fun than newer stuff.
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Yeh downloaded it on the laptop when I read that post and played some last night at the van (I'm on hols).

Nice just to be able to press go and be entertained.

No long intro, book to read or a massive load of controls to learn.
 
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I've fired up Links 2003 again. I set myself a goal to get this on to my Steam Deck as a non-steam game, so I've put it on my laptop first to make sure it doesn't ask for the dvd, which thankfully it doesn't with the 1.07 patch, and to get all my courses, players rosters, seasons and sound script mods set up so I can test and replicate on the deck. I've not played any modern golf games but Links 2003 is still a great game with the hundreds of free courses and other mods you can get for it.
 
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