r/Age_30_plus_Gamers

So I (33m) bought Returnal last week as heard great things about it but had to return it.

Only played 4 hours of it and loved the gameplay, how the gunplay felt, even the time loop aspect of it until I didn’t.

It was cool how the levels changed every time you died and go back to the crash site but the final straw was when I went through 2 hrs of not dying and got to the first big boss fight which I only just lost then had to go back to the start.

With 2x kids under 3 yrs old and working Full Time I don’t have the time to sink 2-3 hrs a day into these kind if games, which is kinda sad but wondering if others here feel the same way?

I (30m) started to play Bluey on the switch with daughter (1y) and she really loves it. My question is do you dads play video games with your kids?

Ive had a lot of time to game recently, and one thing that has been bothering me is that, now that i finally have all this time to play and get immersed into these single player games ive been wanting to play for a while now, namely Death Stranding 2, Crimson Desert, many indie games and the like, I find myself just mindlessly playing overwatch or CS2, instead of making progress on those single player games, even though ive been looking forward to it and really want to play them.

It just bothers me because i feel as if im just wasting time vs making progress in those SP games. I am the type though, that only plays those games when I really feel like it because I want to get every ounce of enjoyment and immersion out of them, instead of slogging through them for the sake of it. It took me 6 months to beat Witcher 3, and about the same for RDR2, I really take my time with these types of games, but I have to be in that specific mood and have the mental bandwidth for it.

I cant say I regret the way I play SP games, but as I have less and less time now, that method feels less efficient compared to just playing them all the way through at once. Am I overthinking it?

I have few free hours of time to play games however all I spend them on is researching what game to play because I don’t want to waste them. Well guess what happens - I always waste my free time just looking for games but not playing or dedicating to one of them. Any ideas what to do? For example now I am always looking for a new action roguelite and I can’t choose one

Maybe nothing to do with age but I start 10-20 games at the same time across emulators and my Switch 2 and my attention span is horrible, unless it's a masterpiece like the recent RE9 Requiem that I finished.

When you have so many games in the library you get the choice paralysis and then end up not playing anything properly.

I'm probably not alone?

Between the age of about 22 to 35 i pretty much lost interest in gaming as I was more passionate about other things in life (thankfully). Only in recent years as I got established in my career I picked up gaming as a big hobby again. So I'm devouring all the stuff I missed previously and there's tons of games even on older systems that I didn't play.

Hello fellow gamers.

It's been 3 years since I play games. For the last decade I've been playing mainly in laptop until it broke.

I wanna jump back to gaming again and I'm not sure what device should I get. I can spend 800usd top, and I can't build a desktop pc as I move a lot due to work. So I can use laptop, a handheld device or a console such as ps5.

I used to played shooting games with some friends, or diverse single player such as mortal Kombat, hitman, Pubg or BF6.

Ps: I would get the device from the US market

Brother lives on the other side of the country, we use gaming as our "hangout" since we reconnected. Running out of things to play, hoping for some ideas, only minor requirements:

- Pc only (OR crossplay with PC,he has a Series S, im PC only)

- Hes a recovering addict and on welfare, he has a 3050 4gb laptop so the games need to scale DOWN to that at least. Upgrading is not an option financially unfortunately. I had plans to upgrade him for his birthday (cpu,psu,case i already have) before gpu prices blew up last year, and ram prices further ruined this plan.

- No pvp, I suck at it too much

- controller playable is preferred

- Currently on Far cry 6, the division 2, and Ready or not. Other Far Crys are completed already.

- Probably not interested in games like "split-fiction" due to next point

- The story does not matter, gameplay only as we mostly talk crap to each other the whole time anyway.

I’ll be around all day, just tryna find someone to game with on my day off! If you’re curious to know more about me I have plenty of posts on my page, but i’m just tryna find a gaming buddy tbh 😂 I have Little nightmares 3, and reanimate friendpass, I could download other things, I also have Apex?? 🤣

I just picked up It Takes Two on a sale (Xbox). A friend, who's not a gamer, seemed interested in playing but turned out to be flaky. So now I need someone to play with.

I usually play evening hours Europe time (CEST) after work or on weekends. I have the full game and a mic, and generally enjoy light conversation and banter while playing.

DM me if interested.

Hello,

Was considering one of these when they go on sale next, wondering for someone who played both what your thoughts are?

I would be playing on steamdeck only.

I used to play wow for years like 20 years ago, and getting that "itch" for an mmo like game, but offline as I dont have the same time i used to when I was younger 😅.

Appreciate any advice or recommendation.

Thanks !

edit: thanks for the replies, going to pickup gulldwars when on sale next !