Poll: What are the 40 year old plus gamers playing?

Should this thread be changed to "What are the 40 year old plus gamers playing?"

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Dravic said:
I feel your pain, I don't even bother with online shooters anymore, my reaction times are crazy slow these days. ARC Raiders looks a lot of fun but just no.
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Hmm interesting - I'm in my (early!) 40s, don't play loads of shooters regularly, but dip in with TF2, a BF (usually 4) game or single player Doom. I find of course reaction times are glacial relative to when I was younger but muscle memory comes back fairly quick, I cut my teeth on Quake so twitch gaming is baked in solid but I recognise I tend towards being strategic in play more so than when I was young. Simply put can't rambo through a map and expect to get far. So working angles know maps, and. you can still rack up a decent score k/d ratio.

I keep being reminded of playing touch rugby as a teenager and having a few 40-50 yr old ex rugby players on the pitch and they were slow, but gooooood, they just used their experience and didn't make too many mistakes, and I see that same thing in how I play the more competitive games online now. I haven't tried an RTS in a long time competitively, and I played SC/SC2 at a fairly high level back in the day, I suspect that would be much harder to keep up with!
 
I have got back into medieval dynasty lately as its an easy game to just stop randomly if the baby wakes up or needs attention, and also he can be crawling around while I play it and I don't have to worry about him seeing 50 people get shot and killed.

It's a great game though it suffers a similar issue to all other factory games in that the late game stuff becomes just about perfecting your factory with nothing new, with medieval dynasty hitting that point much earlier than say factorio. Perhaps a good thing for those who don't want to lose 500 hours of their life
 
Skate story, it’s right up my street now I’m older - it’s pretty chill, cool art style and music you can just zone out to after a busy day, highly recommended!

Only form of skating I could do now without dislocating a knee / hip too :D
 
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53 here and it was cod, apex and FIFA but none of them have seen daylight since arc raiders came out. my superfast reflexes have all but deserted me but hey ho i don't care . it makes it more fun when i do have some great wins :)
 
Looks like I've not been Steaming as much this year. Well I know I haven't as I've been learning Python the past few months.

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Steam kindly gave me some stats from the year

Escape from Duckov - 20% of total play time this year
The Last Caretaker - 12%
Fallout 4 - 10%
Ghost Recon Breakpoint - 8%
Horizon FW - 8%
 
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Now this thread is over 10 years old, can we change the title to "40 year old plus gamers"

Currently playing SNES Mario Kart - because the original is the best IMO.
 
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