Are we too old to game?
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Shuvi McTupya said:
jonnyb said:
I’m 42 and just thinking about getting back into it to be honest.
I remember playing the original Doom on my PC and then ridge racer on the first PlayStation.
Does anyone remember manic miner and jet set willy on the spectrum? Or pong on the BBC micro?
Right now I’m torn between an XBox one X or PS4 Pro!
Chucky egg on the BBC microcomputer was my favourite of that era! I remember playing the original Doom on my PC and then ridge racer on the first PlayStation.
Does anyone remember manic miner and jet set willy on the spectrum? Or pong on the BBC micro?
Right now I’m torn between an XBox one X or PS4 Pro!
jonnyb said:
I’m 42 and just thinking about getting back into it to be honest.
I remember playing the original Doom on my PC and then ridge racer on the first PlayStation.
Does anyone remember manic miner and jet set willy on the spectrum? Or pong on the BBC micro?
Right now I’m torn between an XBox one X or PS4 Pro!
Wolfenstein was my first game, Doom came next, then Duke Nukem, then the incredible Unreal, all on PCI remember playing the original Doom on my PC and then ridge racer on the first PlayStation.
Does anyone remember manic miner and jet set willy on the spectrum? Or pong on the BBC micro?
Right now I’m torn between an XBox one X or PS4 Pro!
They were cutting edge two decades ago but try to play them now and they are laughable. I’m actually on the latest Wolfenstein game, mopping up the last few Enigma codes, sore arm permitting....
We have Xbox one and PS4 in our house. And an Xbox 360 upstairs as backup...
My problem is lack of patience with hard games.
You'd think (at 44) I'd be getting more patient, not less.
Lack of free time is another factor I suspect.
If I can get in to a game quickly I'll play it, but that probably means it's easy.
If it's a challenge I usually give up before I get hooked on it.
You'd think (at 44) I'd be getting more patient, not less.
Lack of free time is another factor I suspect.
If I can get in to a game quickly I'll play it, but that probably means it's easy.
If it's a challenge I usually give up before I get hooked on it.
My dad is 69 and has just rediscovered the original doom after I installed my steam account in his computer. He’s got all the monkey island games to replay as well. I’ve even got him watching YouTube videos for tips + the custom maps where they have hundreds of sprites fighting each other.
jonnyb said:
I’m 42 and just thinking about getting back into it to be honest.
I remember playing the original Doom on my PC and then ridge racer on the first PlayStation.
Does anyone remember manic miner and jet set willy on the spectrum? Or pong on the BBC micro?
Right now I’m torn between an XBox one X or PS4 Pro!
All of the above. Ant Attack was good for its time. I remember playing the original Doom on my PC and then ridge racer on the first PlayStation.
Does anyone remember manic miner and jet set willy on the spectrum? Or pong on the BBC micro?
Right now I’m torn between an XBox one X or PS4 Pro!
If you already have a half decent PC you can game on then I’d go for the PS4 Pro. If you don’t, then whichever one has the best exclusives is probably your best bet. And if exclusives don’t matter to you then get the XB1X as it’s a bit more powerful.
I was toying with an XB1X myself but I’ve already talked myself into buying a new PC graphics card when the next Nvidia GPU’s come out next year instead.
46 and currently working through horizon zero dawn
That’s when I’m not raiding with my guild in WoW (playing since the beta) or playing lego with my son if we can’t go outside.
Daytime is reserved for biking, climbing and anything vaguely dangerous.
I refuse to grow up.
Oh yeah. Sometimes I work.
That’s when I’m not raiding with my guild in WoW (playing since the beta) or playing lego with my son if we can’t go outside.
Daytime is reserved for biking, climbing and anything vaguely dangerous.
I refuse to grow up.
Oh yeah. Sometimes I work.
kowalski655 said:
52 in 3 weeks & I still love gaming(too much the OH says!) Why should you not?Games are bigger than films in terms of $, and made for adults.
Wont be long before people are choosing nursing homes on the basis of low ping
Haha, I love the idea of this. Finally get the time to get stuck into an MMORPG again...!Wont be long before people are choosing nursing homes on the basis of low ping
toasty said:
47 and just finished Fallout 4 to 100% completion. Wife is not amused. She does knitting FFS.
Need a word for that feeling where you have achieved 100% after days of painstaking gaming, turning triumphantly to the other half to share the warmth of success only to get a disinterest "hmph. If you've finished can we go do the shopping now?"
Well I have been gaming since the ZX spectrum days but really got into it via the Amiga 500 then got the PSone, Dreamcast (so underrated) then went PS2 then changed to xbox , xbox 360 and xbox one.
Then this year got into PC gaming via sim racing on xbox one like PCars 1 etc.
Long story short i now just have it all set up with wheel, pedals driving seat and just do sim racing now.
I'm 41 and my wife thinks i'm a bit mad when i'm racing real people online.
But s some have said, its a hobby, i no longer do track days so its actually much much cheaper compared to that anyway so never feel like i'm wasting money.
The opportunity to drive pretty much any track with nay car at any time of day or week is just brilliant.
Then this year got into PC gaming via sim racing on xbox one like PCars 1 etc.
Long story short i now just have it all set up with wheel, pedals driving seat and just do sim racing now.
I'm 41 and my wife thinks i'm a bit mad when i'm racing real people online.
But s some have said, its a hobby, i no longer do track days so its actually much much cheaper compared to that anyway so never feel like i'm wasting money.
The opportunity to drive pretty much any track with nay car at any time of day or week is just brilliant.
No, but games have mostly got worse over the last few years, single player games are more or less a thing of the past and microtransactions are ruining everything, as a person old enough to remember the 'good old days' of gaming, the modern gaming landscape is annoying and overcommercialised, whereas the younger generation are used to all this madness and therefore don't seem to mind so much.
Saying that, I think VR is going to invigorate gaming although it's early days yet. I think the next iteration of PSVR will be the one that starts the ball rolling properly. At the moment it's still a new thing and early adopters are being penalised - charged full AAA game prices for what are basically extended tech demos and Sony are not giving away enough full fat titles in bundles to make the current gen VR headsets a must-buy.
Saying that, I think VR is going to invigorate gaming although it's early days yet. I think the next iteration of PSVR will be the one that starts the ball rolling properly. At the moment it's still a new thing and early adopters are being penalised - charged full AAA game prices for what are basically extended tech demos and Sony are not giving away enough full fat titles in bundles to make the current gen VR headsets a must-buy.
vsonix said:
No, but games have mostly got worse over the last few years, single player games are more or less a thing of the past...
Utter twaddle; there are plenty of single player campaigns and plenty of new IP to keep things fresh; you just need to keep an eye out for them. I do agree that MP-centric games are seemingly gaining in endless popularity (and that tends to swamp the market/advertising etc) and the microtransaction thing is a cancer; but to say SP is dead just isn’t true. parabolica said:
vsonix said:
No, but games have mostly got worse over the last few years, single player games are more or less a thing of the past...
Utter twaddle; there are plenty of single player campaigns and plenty of new IP to keep things fresh; you just need to keep an eye out for them. I do agree that MP-centric games are seemingly gaining in endless popularity (and that tends to swamp the market/advertising etc) and the microtransaction thing is a cancer; but to say SP is dead just isn’t true. vsonix said:
parabolica said:
vsonix said:
No, but games have mostly got worse over the last few years, single player games are more or less a thing of the past...
Utter twaddle; there are plenty of single player campaigns and plenty of new IP to keep things fresh; you just need to keep an eye out for them. I do agree that MP-centric games are seemingly gaining in endless popularity (and that tends to swamp the market/advertising etc) and the microtransaction thing is a cancer; but to say SP is dead just isn’t true. I'm pretty sure the first developers to really start exploiting its customers was Codemasters.
I can remember getting codemasters games back in the day, ToCA and colin mcmrae games and in the box it had an expensive phone number to call to unlock locked items in game and also to unlock cheats...very naughty, but seems quiet tame compared to stuff now days..
vsonix said:
parabolica said:
vsonix said:
No, but games have mostly got worse over the last few years, single player games are more or less a thing of the past...
Utter twaddle; there are plenty of single player campaigns and plenty of new IP to keep things fresh; you just need to keep an eye out for them. I do agree that MP-centric games are seemingly gaining in endless popularity (and that tends to swamp the market/advertising etc) and the microtransaction thing is a cancer; but to say SP is dead just isn’t true. I’ve spent the last year playing Hitman, Deus Ex, Ghost Recon Wildlands, Horizon Zero Dawn, DOOM, Firewatch and Life is Strange - all great single players where DLC is not essential to getting through the game.
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