What are the 30 year old plus gamers playing?

Since Christmas, just Elden Ring. Sometimes you feel powerful, and then a few minutes later, you realise you need to gain some more levels as you get pummelled by the next boss. The game is huge, and each of the new locations look great. Maybe it's not for everyone, but I'm loving it.
 
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Strangely, I'm still playing 7 Days To Die. Steam tells me I've played it for ~2200 hours. There are enough overhaul mods to keep me interested and it's enough of a sandbox game to make it possible to implement whatever odd idea flitters through my head. Redirect a river. Lay a tarmac road, including a section through a tunnel I dug through a hill. Build a giant bright white pyramid with its own power station to power the ridiculous amount of lighting on it. Plus it has Rekt, the rudest merchant in any game and that entertains me. I'm still partway to convincing myself to buy a new CPU (and motherboard and memory) because of it. 7DTD is fully voxel with realtime structural integrity, so it's almost always CPU limited. I can drop as low as 55 fps in dense urban areas with my 5700X. A 9800X3D would do much better...

Other than that, I'm also still playing Revhead a bit. And CarX Street, which reminds me of Need For Speed Underground. Which is a very good thing. Although I'm wondering how the devs are getting away with copyright issues. The cars in the game are obviously real world cars with slightly changed names, e.g. the car in the game that is very obviously a Mazda MX-5 is called NX-5. Maybe the game isn't big enough to have been noticed. It's not big enough for the multiplayer aspect of the game to be of much use. It's theoretically like TDU in that respect, but not really as you're unlikely to find other players. But I wanted it as a single player game anyway.

I might get Medieval Blacksmith next. Or maybe look through my libraries, where I will inevitably find some games I bought and never played.
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Any stand out mods? Our group has played 7d2d and enjoyed it, but I didn't realise it had mods - could give us another stint of gaming on it.

I've been playing Guild Wars 2. After buying it at launch, and then grabbing the first and second expansion, I've never really done the story. I love the world and running round in it, but that only holds me for so long.
They had a sale at Christmas, so I picked up expansion 3&4, and this time I've actually been doing the story from the start, completed the main game, completed the mini dlc between the main game and first expansion, completed the first expansion and am halfway through the dlc between expansion 1&2.
It's holding my interest pretty well and an really enjoying it
 
I'm playing The Thaumaturge as previously mentioned, also started Nier Replicant yesterday and today I am going to install Napoleon Total War, as I have just watched Ridley Scott's film.
Let's see if I can conquer the Russian Empire in their own backyard.
 
I've been trying The Last Of Us Part 1, never played the original. Game is beautiful and the environments are very well made, and the voice acting and story are top notch so far. The problem is I just don't think a linear (non-open-world) game can keep my attention for very long anymore. The majority of the puzzles and encounters have exactly one solution, I'm finding it quite frustrating, it's possible I won't even finish the game. I wish more games were like Sniper Elite 4 & 5 in structure, linear progression through a series of levels, but within each level you are free to explore and complete objectives in a myriad of ways. Anyone else finding they've been spoiled by huge open worlds and can't go back to very linear games?

I think I'm going to give 7 Days to Die a look next.

Also will be re-playing RDR2 when I have upgraded my GPU and can run it 4k max settings.

And I've been replaying all the portal 2 co-op content with a friend, great fun.
 
RoosterC said:
Since Christmas, just Elden Ring. Sometimes you feel powerful, and then a few minutes later, you realise you need to gain some more levels as you get pummelled by the next boss. The game is huge, and each of the new locations look great. Maybe it's not for everyone, but I'm loving it.
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You go from 'cower at my phenomenal power' to 'oh **** oh **** oh **** oh ****' quite a bit :cry: :cry:
 
Started a Mass Effect Trilogy mega playthrough, but got bored with ME1 about halfway through. After my game save in the Noveria VI chamber started me falling through an endless void abandoned it and jumped to ME2. Sort of okay but it's kind of hard to find the replay enthusiasm as very linear. Think I'll just be dipping in now and again.

Back to trains in Derail Valley or TSW. Or buses in OMSI2.
 
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Started a Mass Effect Trilogy mega playthrough, but got bored with ME1 about halfway through. After my game save in the Noveria VI chamber started me falling through an endless void abandoned it and jumped to ME2. Sort of okay but it's kind of hard to find the replay enthusiasm as very linear. Think I'll just be dipping in now and again.

Back to trains in Derail Valley or TSW. Or buses in OMSI2.
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Yay! Another Derail Valley player! :D
 
Gone back to Snowrunner after a bit of a break from it. Got a work mate into playing it too after successfully managing to convince them it is more fun than it sounds driving from point A to point B making deliveries.
 
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Gone back to Snowrunner after a bit of a break from it. Got a work mate into playing it too after successfully managing to convince them it is more fun than it sounds driving from point A to point B making deliveries.
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Its a superb co-op game, has no right being as fun as it actually is in co-op :)
 
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Any stand out mods? Our group has played 7d2d and enjoyed it, but I didn't realise it had mods - could give us another stint of gaming on it.
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It has at least hundreds of mods. Maybe thousands. One drawback is that 7DTD is still in alpha. The recent relabeling of alpha 22 as 1.0 was a purely business move - the game is very definitely still in alpha and still says so on the loading screen. Core parts of the game have been changed repeatedly. As a result, mods are for a specific version only and might or might not work with any other version. Some of the biggest mods haven't been updated for 1.x yet (and some might never be).

It's possible to switch to most alphas, going back as far as alpha 8. The devs have made them available through the Steam option labelled "betas".

It's also possible to do a straight copy and paste of the whole game and have a functional 2nd (or 3rd, 4th, etc) installation on the same machine, with different mods for each. Which is what I do - one installation as vanilla, autoupdating through Steam and 1 or more other installations as various other versions of the game with various mods on them.

Modding in 7DTD is usually done manually. There is a mod manager (it's called 7DTD Modlauncher), but not all mods are available through it and I found it less convenient to use than adding the mods manually. In almost all cases it's just a matter of putting the mod's files in the 7DTD folder called "Mods". That's created as part of the base game install from A22/1.0 onwards and can be manually created for earlier alphas. There are guides online. It's really straightforward.

The two main sources of 7DTD mods are a dedicated website and Nexus:

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Having said all that, the first question is "How modded?". Are you after modlets for specific things? Or are you after full blown overhaul mods? I only play overhaul mops now, have done for a while. I played one game vanilla in A20, A21 and A22/1.0. So I can only answer your question if it's overhaul mods you're after. There are quite a few and all the ones I've played were very good. I'll mention a few here, but there are many.

Darkness Falls is the best known overhaul mod, but A22/1.0 version of DF is experimental and does have bugs. A21 and earlier work fine. It's a lot harder than vanilla, a lot more complicated and goes a lot further. The difficulty scales a lot higher with gamestage. You end up facing flying demons with powerful ranged attacks. It even has a storyline.

War3zUK is the hardest start. The design philosophy is different. You're not the centre of the world. The world doesn't give a damn about you. It's endgame hard from minute 1 of day 1. First game I played, I encountered a giant flaming zombie dog with an always on AOE fire attack before I even made it to the first trader. Expect to run away a lot. Expect to die. You have classes, many new weapons, new POIs, far more complex farming, etc, etc. It has been updated to A22/1.2, the latest version of the base game.

Joke Mod is weird. It's a full overhaul mod, a serious mod. But it's also a huge collection of jokes, all of them bad. And that's not just the "dad jokes" you find. Everything is played for laughs. You can get a clown car as your vehicle. Or a unicorn. Which is actually a horse with a big ice cream cone on its head. Your first repair tool is a rubber hammer. Which squeaks as you use it. I like it a lot.

Craft Until You Die is a little known overhaul mod, perhaps because it's a German mod. It contains a mostly complete mostly accurate English translation. It's definitely playable in English. I'm currently on about day 120 of a playthrough. It's very crafting-orientated. >30 crafting workstations. New raw materials. Many new items (screws, ball bearings, circuit boards, power cables, etc, etc, etc). It's very hard and progression is very slow. I didn't get a minibike until day 46 and I didn't get a motorbike until past day 100. It's updated to A22/1.2, the latest version of the game. I could only find it on Nexus.

Some other overhaul mods (an incomplete list off the top of my head): War of the Walkers, The Wasteland (a Fallout-flavoured 7DTD), TongoMod, Undead Legacy, Preppocalypse, Outback Roadies (7DTD Australian Edition), Wild West Mod (best played with the custom map included with the mod, which contains only the mod's custom mid-late 19th century POIs), Age of Oblivion, Sorcery (adds magic to the game).

Or if you want vanilla but with lots of new POIs, the simplest way is to add the Compopack mod. There's over 1000 new POIs in it.
 
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That's a lot more info than I was expecting, tyvm. Yes it was mostly bigger overhaul mods I was thinking of, so I'll have a look at those you've suggested. We're currently on a Grounded play through, but there are more than 4 of us so some are sitting it out.

There are a few that sounds interesting either from your description or the title, Darkness Falls, The Wasteland and Sorcery.
 
Ready or Not, good fun, bit buggy and MP match making is terrible.

Delta Force is pretty good, no team work though, or voice comms use.

And have had another go at RDR2, I still find riding a horse from mission to mission quite tiresome.
 
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