Yes, it’s a peaceful life. It sucks when i finally can sit down in the evening and start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager who has nothing to than practice all day. In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.
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Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
nullspace@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
start up a game and then getting insta killed by teenager
One of my younger coworkers was just complaining about that and I had the pleasure of informing them they were now an old man.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.
Yeah exactly. I need a game I can just pickup and put down on a moments notice.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was gonna say having kids is incompatible with souls like games.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, generally in those games you’ll pick up exactly where you stopped. You just have to take the extra step of quitting to the menu.
jamesrandysghost@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a pause feature in most souls-like games? Or is this because its the boss battles that take up the most time and pausing in those is a death sentence?
Sorry if this is a newby question, I don’t play souls-like games. I’ve tried, they just are not for me.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Got drunk and played megaman 11 with siblings, passing around the controller, cracking jokes about how megaman’s ow sound seemed weirdly gay and horny in this one. I was so bad I kept getting him hurt and it sounded like a gay porn.
My sister asks “isn’t that supposed to be a robot child?”
Me: “He’s been a child since the 80s and his voice is lower now. He’s a megaMAN now, and how dare you demean the short king fighting for your safety over his robo masochim kink and short stature.”
Brother: “yea he can’t help he was built that way. You’re a monster. Don’t kink shame”
Me and bro: -glare-
Sister (who is in a poly relationship and very much the alternachick of the family): “….what the fuck is happening here?”
Single player games are still fun when played together.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Your family sounds fun lol
mereo@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT and Tribes 2 competitively. Not anymore. Life is stressful enough, and I don’t want to add to that by playing competitively. I want to relax by playing story-based games. I also play a lot of games on easy mode so that I can truly enjoy the story.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Exact same. I can pause when needed and handle priorities. Fuck MP games that drive up my blood pressure. The only MP games now are co-op, like L4D2
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Tribes 2 was so fun.
There was a brief period where I played Tribes: Ascend, and it was actually really good and reminiscent of the old games. Then, I don’t remember specifically what happened but it only took one update to kill it. Pretty sad.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Tribes Ascend had at least two periods where it was good bordering on great and Hi-Rez fucked it up both times.
That company’s sheer incompetence is noteworthy. Global Agenda had serious first-mover potential and they bungled that too.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Difficulty doesn’t really have anything to do with story. Playing games on easy can even rob you of the enjoyment of the full gameplay mechanics. Noah Caldwell-Gervais’ recent video covering RE4R and RE9 is a good example, where some of their conclusions regarding gameplay design were only because they typically play on easier settings. Some of the things in question make more sense or have stronger legs when the game’s played on a reasonably challenging setting.
mereo@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Of course, it really depends on the game. For example, I preferred playing Borderlands 3 on normal mode because I enjoyed the mayhem, whereas I played the Horizon series on easy difficulty because the story was engaging and the world atmosphere was awesome.
So it really depends. Often, if a game is not an FPS and is really story-driven, I’ll play it on easy mode to enjoy the story. The more full and deep the game’s story is, the more likely I am to play it on easy mode to fully enjoy it after a stressful day.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
About the same, but I would love to go to a lan party every now and then and actually game. I stopped going when people were more interested in sharing their puddle deep political takes then gaming and that was before gamergate. I can only imagine how bad it would be now.
People were more relaxed a lan parties and open server browser games. Rank tracking and matchmaking made everyone a sweaty gamer.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The live service model has been a plague on gaming and has basically killed every bit of enjoyment I’m getting out of multiplayer game nowadays. Shit’s like having a job. You leave for two weeks and you might as well be playing a different game. Leave for a month? Maybe the game don’t even exist anymore. It’s exhausting.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
You’re not supposed to leave! Subscribe to the Steam iv nutrition service and stay focused!
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s also why they keep dying. All of them operate off a walled garden model while simultaneously demanding “this is probably the only game you can play for a while” levels of time investment and using unlockables as the carrot.
So is it surprising that players don’t want to jump ship and leave all their skins and “look at me I’m special” shiny equipment behind for something that’s not much different than what they got already?
It’s the same thing as when every Tom, Dick, and Harry were sure they’d be the next WoW. Execs never learn.
Switorik@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget all the new CoD, battlefield, and even tarkov (soon) is requiring TPM 2.0, secure boot, and actively blocking linux making it impossible to even play them.
scops@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
I’ve yet to find a game I couldn’t play on Bazzite in the year since I’ve switched from Windows. I know that says something about my gaming preferences, but it is also high praise for the folks who have worked on Wine and Proton over the past years
Switorik@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
To make it a bit more clear, they are actively blocking access to the game via anti cheat that doesn’t support linux or in many cases, not enabled.
I have zero issues on arch. I find linux works better out of the box, is more reliable, faster, and doesn’t actively farm data your data.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I used to play mostly shooters online.
Somehow, living next to a country which is invading one of its neighbours, and seeing a bunch of actual real war footage from real wars on the daily basis, made me reconsider if shooters actually qualify as “fun” these days.
huey_m@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Oh, come on. It’s not bad if you play something like fantastical like cyberpunk… that’s a world so far removed from reality, we’re talking corporations running the world, harsh police actions driven by corporate interest, commodification of basic health services, constant death and destruct…tion.
Well, shit.
kinship@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
I felt the same when my friends made me play Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Civilians dying around me is supposed to be fun? Should I feel like a hero while people die like flies around me? That is a hard pass from me!
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I have over 1500 hours into The Witcher 3.
Sometimes I think at least 500 of those hours are just me loading into the game after a long week, finding an isolated spot on the map, and just staring into the sunset while the wind howls in my headset.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I really love the atmosphere of skellige. Something about it is so nostalgic, the blowing wind, the clouds that look like a huge storm is about to roll in.
lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I want to live on Aard Skellige. It’s so beautiful, you have everything, ocean, forest, mountains, meadows, cliffs, creeks/waterfalls, all of it.
miraclerandy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is something I’ll do with an especially pretty game. Find a pretty view and just set up camp watching the world. Works even better with weather and night/day cycles in the game.
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
every time it rains i think or sing to myself “it’s rainin’, it’s pourin’, emperor emhyr’s whorin’”
Airfried@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.
Larry@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I miss community servers. Each had its own identity and you could pop in and out without being penalized. Being locked in to a 30+ minute sweatfest with people I don’t know, or like, has never been appealing to me.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Like so many things involving the internet, things were a lot better 15-20 years ago. Dedicated servers with active admins beat the pants off anonymous “skill based” matchmaking services we’re required to use now. Yeah, it’d take some time before you’d find a server that fits you but the search was worth it - and if you wanted to put in the money and effort yourself, you could just pay a service for server space and host your own!
No need to rely on AI chatbots to take out the trash, either. If someone was breaking the rules - which were set by the server! -, the admins would just ban them. Quick as you please. Players were anonymous like they are now, but you could ban their SteamID and it didn’t matter how many times they changed their name and thumbnail, and most other games had similar options. People that stuck around made friends and built a community, while others would move on and find a home somewhere better suited to them.
I miss it.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
If I wanted to be the target of homophobic insults, I could just do it to myself in front of a mirror, though granted, I can’t really emulate the voice of a 12 year-old so it’s not quite the same experience bouquet.
Beyond that, multiplayer is almost like working - you’re supposed to relentless keep at it, on somebody else’s timings even if you’re in a guild: done it in EVE Online and WoW and, frankly, for the experience of work I have real-life were I actually get paid for it rather than the other way around.
The there’s the whole creepy monetisation shit - I’m not really interested in the constant sales pressure, especially when it’s “buy this or else you’re handickaped vs those who did” (EA is still in my shit list since they did it with a DLC in one of the older Battlefield titles), especially nowadays when I’ve managed to mainly remove advertising from my life.
So I just stopped doing multiplayer a decade ago and pretty much avoid it like the plague.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I thoroughly enjoy single players games. I like being able to explore the world at my own pace, make my own decisions, and draw my own conclusions. It’s like reading a book, if turning the pages involved solving puzzles and beating monsters. Relaxing, if you’re good, challenging if you’re not.
Cooperative games are a close second. I like PvE, it means that I get to help my friends. The objective isn’t rank and competition, it’s winning together. It’s why I like Starbound, Minecraft, and D&D.
Genuinely? I despise PvP. It’s the trash talk and the aggressively competitive assholes who have nothing to do with their time. I hate dealing with people who like to hurt strangers by humiliating them. Who the hell enjoys that?
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
PvP can be honorable and joyful and rewarding too, if you don’t play with assholes.
Often times, even losing the match may leave you with a sweet aftertaste. Like, yeah, they got us, but it was beautiful and honorable and your teammates were there for you. With you.
Once you get the right people, every match will be like this. With randoms…it’s very occasional, but it happens, too.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, right. I seem to be a slow player too - at the mo I’m 160 hours into baldur’s gate 3 and still only just in act 2. I think Amy multiplayer game with me in it would be frustrating for everyone. I prefer doing my own thing at my own pace.
Nelots@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Competitive multiplayer games are a big no, but I love cooperative multiplayer games. I’d much rather play one of them with a friend or two than play something by myself. I couldn’t tell you the last time I’ve actually beaten a single player game, I tend to get bored and lose interest half way through.
Redacted@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Too bad you need friends to do that
Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
This is what drew me to Minecraft. Common goals or just solo’ing. And other people take great pride in showing their builds. So chill.
Rooster326@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I wish split screen/couch co-op was back in fashion.
Everyone wants everyone to buy 2 copies and set up 2 computers right next to each other just to play, and it’s not happening. I’ll just move on. Take Two seems to be the only sane one - I’ll pay for full price for it since it has a free coop copy.
Actionschnils@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
There are a lot of Couch CooP Games with only one copy and Gamesystem needed- but mostly indie games. Some friends and I get together from time to time and have a great time.
lordziv@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
This is going to be extremely niche, but I find the surf mini game in Counter Strike Source to be incredibly relaxing and rewarding while also being a quasi multiplayer game. The community is quite helpful and friendly and there are almost 1000 different maps of all skill levels so there is something for everyone if you are into movement based mechanics.
64bithero@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I personally mostly use video games as a means of an escape from real life. And to me multiplayer pulls to much of real life back into games it can be unenjoyable.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Cheating and involving money ruined multiplayer gameplay.
GhostFace@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Once any game gets big enough it’s all downhill. Games are the most enjoyable when they’re new, before they’re ruined. I’ve had so many childhood games get popular, the content creators come in, change the game to their liking and then leave when the toxic following they’ve brought destroys the community and the fun of it.
Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I sometimes miss counter-strike, but i lack atleast the time and the people to play it on a level where that game is fun and probably the reflexes.
PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The alternate modes like arms race or demolition are fun and quick.
Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
and not what i’d want from the game ;)
it’s either a 5vs5 in a serious setting or in service of getting better at that, otherwise it’s not the game i miss.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I’ve always preferred single player games. I hate multiplayer, all those strangers running around in my TV, chaos everywhere. I want to relax and explore, but multiplayer is stressful. I don’t want to deal with other people.
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.
Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Sometimes I force myself to try multiplayer, but other than Gran Turismo, Last Of Us factions and Gears of War, I never found how it could be considered as enjoyable.
And even these games are way better as single player games.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
I only stopped playing multiplayer games because all the current MP games suck shit.
Somsphet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Deep rock galactic. Best multi-player game i played recently other then stardew valley. Sometimes a multi-player game gets better with someone else
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I used to be pretty good at the usual stuff like COD, CS, Battlefield… but each game got fucked up in its own unique way. Stuff became just too sweaty and annoying, all the while the sense of community faded. COD back in the 360 days was fun. Now it’s just annoying.
These days, I’m fully single player. It’s just not worth the price of modern games to deal with all the multiplayer bullshit.
Azrael@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Online multiplayer games used to be fub but they have really gone downhill recently.
The most fun I have ever had in a video game was hunting a bear in RDR2 to make clothing with the pelt. It took several days but I think that’s what made finding the bear so satisfying.
Weirdfish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.
I play exclusively on consoles, and enjoy a slower pace to gaming.
Have a huge backlog of games I haven’t touched, and a few that I just keep coming back to.
Really gotten into permadeath gaming, which slows things down even more, but makes every decision and hour of gaming truly count.
Factorio, Cities Skylines, Far Cry 2, Subnautica, the Fromsoft catalogue, Mass Effect, I’ll do a full play through at least once a year.
Finally playing the Witcher III while listening to the book on audio.
I get why people enjoy multiplayer games, but it hasn’t been for me for a long time.
I think the last one I really spent any time on was America’s Army around 2006.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not opposed to playing multiplayer games. But I’m not going to be playing the vast majority of modern multiplayer titles.
Most of the time I wonder if there is even another player on the other end of modern game, or if it’s just bots
I like playing old games organized on discord and sites like game date
Somsphet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I get it, but my favorite multi-player game is mobile suit Gundam battle operation 2. Try it. The community has really been pruned of trolls and bad actors. The game makes it more frustrating for them, but more fun with people who just wanna play giant robots. Sure sometimes you get stomped because of a whole ducking clan attacking at once, but I find the wide range of mechs with lots of different playstyles counter the stomping.
nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was pvp hardened in Eve Online, exactly because of that I will probably never touch anything multiplayer again.
Pipas66@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Single player games are so great, but it does get lonely sometimes. There’s a whole genre that needs to be invented : multiplayer city-builders. For instance in Going Medieval it would be dope to be able to visit other players’ settlements for trade or raids on your server
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I don’t play multiplayer games anymore.
First off, they always seem to enable the worst of game companies trying to financially ruin their players.
Second off, I’m in my 40s and my reaction time isn’t what it was when I used to play Counter-Strike. You can’t improve an aged reaction time or dedicate the time that you would need to to get even somewhat better, let alone competitive, and getting repeatedly stomped isn’t fun.
Third off, I don’t like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. One map is expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery and story.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s unlikely your reaction time has changed much in your 40s. You probably have well over a decade before that starts to happen. On your first couple of tries, reacting to something is going to seem impossible. After you seen the same stimuli and practiced what you should do in response, you’ll be right around where teens and 20-somethings are. If you don’t want to put the time in to make that happen, that’s fine, but don’t think it’s unattainable to get good at a given multiplayer if you were otherwise interested in doing so. E-sports are now old enough that we’ve seen enough folks age into their 40s and remain top talent, as long as that remained an ideal career choice for them when so few are going to be able to support themselves in that career.
otacon239@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Watching NakeyJakey’s video on competitive shooters put into perspective how hard it really is. I knew I wasn’t cut out for it, but that just demonstrated how not cut out for it I was.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
In my own experience, now in my 50s and having played games since my teens, including a long period of RPGs and FPS online, reaction times start dropping in your 30s.
It’s a tiny bit and you only really notice it when you’re operating near your limits (same for intelligence, by the way - if you’re using it near capacity, you’ll notice that your capabilities start falling at your mid 20s).
However, you can compensate it with experience, smarts and even wisdom - for example in FPS games you use the environment against other players, lead them into doing something predicable and get them then and/or prefer play styles that don’t depend on reaction speed.
It’s just a fact of life that physical and mental capacities do decay with age and far earlier than you seem to think, and whilst if you keep on using them it’s not that much, if you’re using them at a high enough level it’s noticeable if you pay attention as you can’t just reach the peaks you could reach before.
shadedmagus@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This also applies for some single-player games as well. I had to “git gud” on Expedition 33 in order to progress - learning how to time parries is pretty critical for getting through the tougher fights.
ati@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’m 50 and it’s started getting noticeable in the last year or two.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
That’s also a factor in the gameplay itself.
Competitive multiplayer games will always develop a ‘meta’ that you have to adhere to or respond to in order to be at all competitive.
In single player games, you can make a replay interesting by playing it a different way, trying different strategies even if they’re non-optimal, just to have the novel experience of playing the game a different way. Things like, “I think I’m going to try doing a no-vehicles run in Subnautica.” or “I think I’ll try Cyberpunk with a melee-focused solo build this time.” But stuff like that just isn’t viable in competitive multiplayer. You will be defeated early and often if you stray too far from the meta.
So not only are you playing the same few maps over and over, you’re playing the same few tactics and strategies over and over, making things boring from that angle as well.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
In single player games you can also cheat a little or bug abuse/glitch the game for giggles without ruinjng the exp for others too
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Being a meta slave is a mindset, not often reality. There are countless examples of players taking “useless” characters or builds far in the professional scene across many different genres and games.
SalamenceFury@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I’m 32. I just recently started getting better aim than I ever had throughout my entire 20’s. When it comes to gaming, age doesn’t really matter as much.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Well, I’m in my 50s and the previous poster is totally right about reaction speed - there comes a point were your aim is as good as it gets, but so is the aim of the kids doing the same FPS 10h/day and they’re faster than you.
That said, with age comes experience (well, can come, if you’re trying - plenty of people age but don’t learn) so you can beat the kids with smarts and wisdom (things like leading them into situations which are traps, using the environment in your favor and, more generally, just playing in ways were your reaction speed doesn’t matter).
That said, I’ve been out of the FPS genre for a decade now. Like the previous poster I simply don’t get enough fun from a game if it’s low complexity, which tends to be the case for fast paced games that require fast and/or precise moves.
PapstJL4U@lemmy.world [bot] 3 weeks ago
Oh. It’s clear you haven’t played multiplayer games for a long time, otherwise this false statement would not have come up:
Maps rotate constantly and change, active and passive maps, community maps.
AceTKen@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Oh I obviously understand that there are multiple (if not dozens of) maps, but how many times are you expected to play those maps over and over again? Without plot progression, I just don’t find it interesting.
grinning_serpent@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Twitch reaction time isn’t particularly important in most games. Quake and UT, sure, but even in those most twitchiest of shooters strategy will still carry you into the upper echelons of players.
Counterstrike is almost entirely based on spray control and map knowledge. Twitch reactions have only a minor role to play.
Even games like Starcraft are determined primarily by strategy and not mechanical speed. You could probably play at a professional level before a lack of speed compared to your peers would actually begin holding you back.
Plus… you can train reaction time and multitasking. An actual physical impairment like RSI might stop you, though.
The whole “ohhh I can’t do games because I have the olds” is such a nonsense cop-out. The rest of your post is pretty accurate, though.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t highly competitive Starcraft boil down to most clicks per second wins?