What are the 30 year old plus gamers playing?

What games are 30 plussers playing?

62 here. Pong, tv tennis game. Two stick bats and a square ball. :)

Nah, seriously though, Iracing.
 
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47 here. I've just recently returned to my original love...

ULTIMA ONLINE.

I've joined a server called Outlands which is free of charge and it's amazing.

The Nostaligia is REAL!

Community is great. They're really really active on discordance so questions and queries are answered incredibly fast.

For the unitiated, UO was (I think) THE original MMO. It's unlike any moden games in so much that when you die...... you lose everything.... unless you can get back there and collect it.

It's a far more complex game than most of what is out there now with tons of skills that you put together as you please with a skill point limit. Want to be a lumberjack that takes axes into Dungeons.... go for it. Want to be a theif and actually steal items from players..... go for it.

The graphic level is very low so it plays on anything.

There are lots of private servers. Some are really populated some really are not. Outlands got some great reviews, has really great population, has fantastic support youtubers..... thats where I made my home ...... and it's like being home again.

(Sales pitch ended)

UO OUTLANDS
 
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38 (today) currently playing Portal and Resi Evil 2 Remake on steam deck and going to be starting Xenoblade Chronicles 3 on switch over the weekend.

its great to see some of the replys in here, people in there 60s and 70s still gaming strong!
 
Generation Zero and Cold Waters (with Dot Mod).

For reasons I can’t explain, Chaosgate Demonhunters hasn’t grabbed me the way I expected what’s basically WH40K XCOM2 to grab me.
 
I think getting older has decreased my patience a hundredfold. Tried playing Dyson Sphere, PC-only RTS game and I just felt totally overwhelmed even with the basics. I just can't seem to sit and take the time to learn games anymore. If I don't get something with a couple of minutes, I just move on. Which is a shame as I used to love playing things like Rise of Nations and Company of Heroes back in the day. Now I seem to have more fun playing flippin' Solitaire.

Just downloading Scorn as it comes out on Game Pass in a few minutes so will see what that's like.
 
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ic1male said:
I think getting older has decreased my patience a hundredfold. Tried playing Dyson Sphere, PC-only RTS game and I just felt totally overwhelmed even with the basics. I just can't seem to sit and take the time to learn games anymore. If I don't get something with a couple of minutes, I just move on. Which is a shame as I used to love playing things like Rise of Nations and Company of Heroes back in the day. Now I seem to have more fun playing flippin' Solitaire.

Just downloading Scorn as it comes out on Game Pass in a few minutes so will see what that's like.
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For me, I lose patience with games before the 'intro' ends. After so many years playing games, I can spot flaws much easier and they stick out like sore thumbs.

I'm currently finishing my first playthrough of Ghosts of Tsushima on the PS5, it's absolutely brilliant on hard with expert hud. Very cinematic and doesn't try to reinvent the wheel.
 
I'm playing another run of a modded Fallout 4, Cyberpunk 2077 and Destiny 2...I'm actually really enjoying the latter even though its grindy AF.
I'm finding the PvE and single player content in the game really fun but the game does a pee poor job of explaining mechanics to you. Graphically at times though its truly mesmerising and it runs beautifully.
 
ic1male said:
I think getting older has decreased my patience a hundredfold. Tried playing Dyson Sphere, PC-only RTS game and I just felt totally overwhelmed even with the basics. I just can't seem to sit and take the time to learn games anymore. If I don't get something with a couple of minutes, I just move on. Which is a shame as I used to love playing things like Rise of Nations and Company of Heroes back in the day. Now I seem to have more fun playing flippin' Solitaire.

Just downloading Scorn as it comes out on Game Pass in a few minutes so will see what that's like.
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Yes, this sums up how I've been feeling exactly.

I had just this experience with Stellaris recently. I used to love a good 4X strategy, and space-based ones even more so. I could happily nerd out learning the intricacies of the systems, planning my galactic empire.

But I started up the tutorial of Stellaris, took one look at the preponderance of information, icons, numbers, menus, submenus, sub-submenus and just recoiled instantly. Uninstalled immediately and mentally filed away under "well, if I am ever unemployed and bored, maybe..."
 
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Yes, this sums up how I've been feeling exactly.

I had just this experience with Stellaris recently. I used to love a good 4X strategy, and space-based ones even more so. I could happily nerd out learning the intricacies of the systems, planning my galactic empire.

But I started up the tutorial of Stellaris, took one look at the preponderance of information, icons, numbers, menus, submenus, sub-submenus and just recoiled instantly. Uninstalled immediately and mentally filed away under "well, if I am ever unemployed and bored, maybe..."
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I purchased Stellaris as I’m a massive fan of their others games …. And like their other games you have to do ‘homework’ which is fine by me. Part of the Emersiveness.

However that game is DEEP and to even understand it I had to practically do a YouTube walk through which ended up being the only way in played it.

I don’t think you can have more than one or two ‘grand strategy’ games. They’re really detailed and massive time sinks.

Hearts of Iron 4 is amazing though but I imagine now very hard indeed to get into.
 
I'm almost 35 : Overwatch 2 and today I bought The Riftbreaker after enjoying the demo a few times over.
Driving games : WRC 7 and Assetto Corsa.
 
ic1male said:
I think getting older has decreased my patience a hundredfold. Tried playing Dyson Sphere, PC-only RTS game and I just felt totally overwhelmed even with the basics. I just can't seem to sit and take the time to learn games anymore. If I don't get something with a couple of minutes, I just move on. Which is a shame as I used to love playing things like Rise of Nations and Company of Heroes back in the day. Now I seem to have more fun playing flippin' Solitaire.

Just downloading Scorn as it comes out on Game Pass in a few minutes so will see what that's like.
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I‘ve long been a “You’ve got 10 minutes to grab me, game, so chop ******* chop!” gamer and now I find even My Inner Completionist CBA’d to finish games that I’m no longer enjoying.
 
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Just started Metro Exodus.

Hope it gets away from the linea game that it has started with.
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I think it's supposed to, same reason why i haven't tried the next one yet. Metro was a bit predictable, and to refer back to a previous post about patience, i have little patience for games that are hand holdy or predictable. It's why Stalker grabbed me so hard, and one of my favs today, plus i didn't play till 2019!
 
I'm 46 now and I find in general that I struggle with games that rely on fast "twitch" reactions. I enjoy online shooters but I am terrible at them. The other thing I struggle with are single player games with complicated controls on a modern controller.

This is why I really prefer turn based stuff. I'm playing a lot of CRPGs at the moment. Really enjoying BGIII. I also played though XCOM2 again recently.
 
spudbynight said:
I'm 46 now and I find in general that I struggle with games that rely on fast "twitch" reactions. I enjoy online shooters but I am terrible at them. The other thing I struggle with are single player games with complicated controls on a modern controller.

This is why I really prefer turn based stuff. I'm playing a lot of CRPGs at the moment. Really enjoying BGIII. I also played though XCOM2 again recently.
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What rpgs you enjoyed? Was considering BGIII as absolutely loved the previous iterations
 
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