What are the 30 year old plus gamers playing?

42 here, not played a great amount of games over the last 5 years but put a lot of hours in to dark souls and dark souls 2, bloodborne, dying light and had a year and a half of black ops and modern warfare 3.
Cant be doing with fps now, simply dont have the time to put in to become half decent in multiplayer. Currently going through tales of zestiria, a bit childish but i did enjoy tales of vesperia a few years back so giving it a run but wont play anything else until dark souls 3 comes out i imagine.
 
I'm 33 and just had my first kid.

I've been off work since 1st oct and go back to work this coming Monday 26th. Have hada brilliant but exhausting time looking after the little man with my wife but as a bloke and therefore 'udderless', I'm somewhat surplus to requirement a lot of the time and so have had to find things to do to entertain myself.

Given my mrs doesn't want me at my desk playing on my main pc, I have discovered that her 2008 mac book pro plays world of Warcraft at a pretty solid 30-50fps on a lower resolution and fair graphics settings.

Most evenings over the past week I've been levelling a human rogue from scratch. I stepped into Elwyn forest with my earphones firmly engaged and was literally swallowed by a pit of the most wonderful nostalgia. I'm sorry to all the haters but world of warcraft was and remains brilliant. I have even made a point of reading all the quest text and some of it is really funny and clever.

Turns out child birth brings many benefits!

I still hate Stranglethorn Vale!!!! So much running around and horrible moments of complete loss when trying to find a certain NPC in Booty Bay
 
I'm 34 with two kids, 2 and 6. Gaming wise, my habits have changed over the years. I used to be a much more competitive gamer but nowadays with so little free time I don't want to go down that road as I would just be frustrated by the lack of practice.

I prefer games which are fairly short to complete, such as Life is Strange.

I love PC gaming but what I have found is that I have bought too many games, so I get the problem of not knowing what I should play!

My new rule is a maximum purchase of 1 game a month, and if I'm playing a game with a story, I should aim to complete it before moving on to the next game.

Currently playing Wolfenstein New Order. Its good but I'm clearly a console gamer at heart since my keyboard controls are pretty terrible.

I'm really looking forward to the next Tomb Raider game as I find that as excellent to play in short spurts or longer sessions. It won't require hours of practice to enjoy.

Rocket League is my only competitive game at the moment but perhaps I will try Project Cars again (even though I feel at a disadvantage with only a 360 controller).

My next purchase is a new GPU and a freesync 144hz monitor (XL2730Z) to be precise, and this is when I will perhaps delve into games like Counter Strike Global Offensive and Rainbow Six Siege.
 
42 here and still play single player but not multiplayer so much.

I find I can't really keep up with the lightning reactions.

I am enjoying Mad Max and Far Cry 4. Just started playing World of Warships but I am also quite looking forward to Star Wars when released.
 
36 here. Not had barely any time this year, I just seem to fire up a game and then log out after about 10 minutes. When I have had the odd chance to spend an hour or two I have played a bit of Cities Skylines, stopped playing WoT altogether, just can't get into it any more after 10s of thousands of battles and about 3 years sunk into it.

Was playing Just Cause 2 again but it keeps crashing since I moved to W10 so I don't bother with it. I have loads of games in my steam library I've either only got a couple of hours on or not even started, depressing, surely there should be time in life for fun stuff.
 
37 here, currently playing DarkSouls 2: Scholar, Lords of the Fallen, Dead Island (co-op with a mate) occasionally dip into MMO's - currently Wildstar. Used to play WoW but gave it up as a lost cause years ago. Play the occasional game of LoL and Smite with mates and the odd game of Civ 5 when I have the time.

I tend to stay away from FPS games, gravitate more to games with RPG elements and I have a bit of a soft spot for stealth games.
 
I just downloaded the GOG version of blitzkrieg anthology..and even better have found a legacy site that has all the best mods and addons! I am as happy as a pig in his own poop

3.99 for months worth of strategy!!

I am 45 and have just built a brand new skylake 6600 rig with a gtx970...and my favourite game is an isometric slow paced isometric strategy game..go figure!

seriously considering buying up all the old SSI D&D games they have on there as well now...god I used to love pools of radiance on my 486

still, the pc looks cool!
 
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30-something (shh!)

Only multiplayer thing I do is modded Minecraft, and I'd consider that more of a single player game with a chat channel - though it's nice to login after a break and find someone's built a massive sky castle near your house :)

Outside of that, XCOM Long War, Cities Skylines and Kerbal Space Program are my go to games. Won't touch FPS (playground "bang bang" games) or anything that revolves around 'checkpoints'. If it doesn't let me save and leave on a whim, then it doesn't get a place in my Steam folder. Partly because I keep sneaking 15 minutes on them before I go to work ^^;
 
Destiny all the way for me. Ticks every box, looks great, plays great, great community.

I can pick it up and play for 10 minutes, or when I do get a spare evening I get a group together and do the 6-player co-op raids which are great fun.
 
For the past 8 years I have mainly played EVE ... however I do also play BF3 & 4 world of tanks & ships plus have had a go at most of the new fps games over the past 3 years etc but I always go back to EVE :-)
 
44 and still game but as others have said, it really has to grab me to put the time in. Lately its been Witcher 3 and Dying Light, also a bunch of MAME shmups (trying to prove to myself im not old and can still complete Raiden on one life....im failing!!)
 
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