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Any 60+ year old Gamers here?

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I just turned 70 in May of this year. I've been gaming since Wolfenstein 3D came out in 1992. This year, I finished Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West. Since my reaction times are slower than they were when I was younger, I find myself playing these AA and AAA games on easy setting. After finishing the game, I may go back and repeat it at a normal setting. I'm currently trying to play Ghost of Tsushima and having a challenge even on easy setting using a mouse and keyboard.

So what are you old farts playing that are at least 60 years old or order?
 
I'm "only" in my mid 40s, so not your target audience for this thread, but I love seeing people older than me who still enjoy gaming - especially on PC! I definitely still want to be gaming in my 70s as it's something I've always enjoyed. Hopefully everything's not a subscription by then, but even if it is I have plenty of untouched games to last me and tons that I do/would enjoy replaying if it came to that. I will always prefer buying to renting and will continue giving my money to studios who have that mindset over ones that want to kill access to older games in order to push people to the newest (oftentimes worse) product.

My dad really didn't play any video games that I know of until after I got an NES as a kid. I had a blast with him playing Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Golf, Slalom, etc. but he sort of lost interest (or just didn't have time) after I got the Super Nintendo a few years later so he totally missed out on PS1, N64, XBOX, GameCube, etc.

Fast forward to when he retired at 65 in 2017, and to alleviate his boredom during the winters here he dug out my son's consoles from the attic and started telling me about all of these PS2/X360/Wii games that he was playing. It was great. He was so proud to have finished some of them like Ratchet & Clank, but struggled with some of the fast-paced shooters like COD that required aiming with the analog sticks and utilizing all of the buttons. You have to remember, the last controller he used for any real length of time was the NES controller with only a d-pad + A/B buttons so he never experienced the gradual step-up of the SNES/Genesis era before there were dual analog sticks and multiple shoulder buttons. At any rate, it didn't really matter which games he was playing...the fact that he got the itch and returned to it himself was enough to make me happy. :) I got my son an Anbernic handheld for one of his Christmas gifts a couple of years ago and we launched a few of those old NES games for dad - his mind was pretty blown seeing all of those games available on one console and being able to quickly switch between them without swapping discs or cartridges. He'll be 73 this year. Maybe it's time to get him his own retro console so that he can relive some of those memories this winter! But I know there are a bunch of other 5th and 6th generation games that my son didn't own that he would enjoy, also. He's been an amateur golfer my entire life and I'd love to get him Hot Shots Golf, Mario Golf, or one of the Tiger Woods games from the early 2000s. Those were all a ton of fun.
 
Pong on black and white TV was my first video game. Now mostly flight sims starting with Aces of the Pacific on a 133mhz Intel cpu. FPS like BF1942 games were fun for awhile but the rampant cheating really ended that quickly. Currently playing through Stalker 2 and a couple VR combat flight sims as well as MSFS.
 
narsbars said:
If you liked Fallout, you will like London.
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I haven't played a bethesda game since skyrim because they suck
Fallout 3 was OK and I like the idea of a fallout game just if the writing was better and yhr overall gameplay experience was better
 
My dad is 72 and still games. Last time it came up he'd just finished his second run through Baldur's Gate 3. We'll see what he gets into next. He's got a lot of hobbies so sometimes he takes a few months off in between games.
 
Personally, I would keep fighting to play the fast pace stuff on easy as long as you can, not only is it fun but keeps your reflexes and mental response times literally decades younger. But there's limits to everything as we age.

As for gaming if for whatever reason fast twitch just isn't working or appealing anymore:

Any action oriented game where pausing at will is allowed. FTL: Multiverse, any Fallout game, RimWorld, the Homeworld games , and a nearly infinite number of squad tactics games. Outer Worlds has time dilation and very low difficulty on easy if needed.

The Horizon games are near souls like on hard but very tame on easy as you can creep in on fights to take them on your terms and abuse the weapon system a bit as you don't have to rock paper scissors all the enemies properly on easy. There's also limited bullet time available as you progress.

I know these aren't super new games but ones I'm familiar with the mechanics and difficulty settings.

I would also think that all the Witcher games on easy should be possibly very doable as the combat mechanics are massively different from hard and you can prep for fights.

And what about Starfield? Played that yet? It's not awful, it just didn't remotely live up to the hype. Tons of ways to clear enemies at low difficulty.
 
I have 2 kids that game: my 40 year old son and my 30 year old daughter. She wants me to play Skyrim. I only started to play RPG games just last year. I finished all the Far Cry games except for #2 which I did not like. I always felt the first Far Cry game was excellent. Bummer they don't upgrade it to current standards. Anyway, I really liked the Horizon games. I actually cheated a bit on HZD. There was a youtube video on how to get the ancient armor early in the game. Took several tries but I did get. Made playing a lot easier on normal.
 
I'm in my early 50's, and though I've slowed down with gaming I still enjoy playing. I'm more into the building enjoyment than the gaming end now, but I'm sure that's the age thing.
 
I love gaming, but the hardware and tech and tweaking stuff has always been my favorite thing even when I was a kid. I'm not 60 yet though. Late 40s. And I'm in that age space where I'm gaming a bit less and focusing more on setting up a retirement and dealing with physical assets while I'm still sort of in my prime before I get too physically old to deal with it. That clock alarm goes off for everyone I think.
 
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I'm not that old yet, but I raid with multiple teams in World of Warcraft that have players over 60. They seem quite happy and are still able to play the game fine.
 
I'm 67. Both my boys are avid gamers (one's a cop, one's a chef) and have recently purchased new video cards so dad's got to catch up.....:D My wife and I have our PC's set up near each other, and we LAN game Unreal Tournament 3 every night.
 
I noticed a lot of older gamers in Wargaming's games, namely World of Warships. It has battleships so I get the older people appeal, lol.
 
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I am getting up there and play FPS games.

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One year and two months I'll be 60. Started playing games on Timex Sinclair Z81 3 years before enlisting in the Marines. Atari console as well.

Currently playing Horizon Forbiddon West to finish the Steam achievements but will be taking a break to load up Fallout London this weekend.
 
I'm not old enough to join the club but I'm interested in the topic, think about my gaming future. I wonder if the alert mechanics for dodge/blocks will let me keep playing souls-like stuff. I'm thinking about Legacy of Hogwarts (not souls like but still) which gives you those premonition alerts so that you know when a hit is about to come.
 
SecretStash said:
I'm not old enough to join the club but I'm interested in the topic, think about my gaming future. I wonder if the alert mechanics for dodge/blocks will let me keep playing souls-like stuff. I'm thinking about Legacy of Hogwarts (not souls like but still) which gives you those premonition alerts so that you know when a hit is about to come.
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I think you'll be OK in single player games. It's the faster paced multiplayer games that I see the most complaints from older gamers, namely the BF6 open-beta. Back in my day of BF1942... :ROFLMAO:
 
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I think you'll be OK in single player games. It's the faster paced multiplayer games that I see the most complaints from older gamers, namely the BF6 open-beta. Back in my day of BF1942... :ROFLMAO:
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BF1942 was an FPS that just wasn't that serious. I remember 10 players standing on the wings of a B17 flying around the map shooting at foot soldiers and then becoming paratroopers to quickly grab a spawn point. Goofy stuff like that just made it fun for all ages. Just watched the trailer for BF6 and it looks like a meat grinder of epic proportion. My days grinding it out on BF are fondly in the rear view but I do enjoy videos of squad vs squad on you tube occasionally to see how game engines and tactics have progressed. Depending upon how much air support is integrated in BF6 I might be tempted to do something like that but the grind is not my thing anymore.
 
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BF1942 was an FPS that just wasn't that serious. I remember 10 players standing on the wings of a B17 flying around the map shooting at foot soldiers and then becoming paratroopers to quickly grab a spawn point. Goofy stuff like that just made it fun for all ages. Just watched the trailer for BF6 and it looks like a meat grinder of epic proportion. My days grinding it out on BF are fondly in the rear view but I do enjoy videos of squad vs squad on you tube occasionally to see how game engines and tactics have progressed. Depending upon how much air support is integrated in BF6 I might be tempted to do something like that but the grind is not my thing anymore.
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You could still do crazy stuff in the BF6 open-beta but more to come after launch I'm sure. I didn't do that because PTFO reasons, lol.

Other than that I suspect developers have a challenge to make games that appeal to younger and older gamers. I will note that older gamers typically have more money in the bank.
 
I'm still doing some grind in The Finals. But my skill ceiling is limited both by choice and physical limits. At least the matches don't run past a dozen minutes if you get a bad one.

That game also has a "little" bit of the duality of silly and tryhard that early Battleflield did.

I mean, they literally have a sledgehammer weapon and a skill of a running "charge and slam" that can very rapidly destroy walls a and knock down entire multi-story buildings. Once in a while, especially when the game throws a contract at me to do a million points of arena damage I make it a personal goal to try to get it in ONE game. :)

Sometimes, people get salty as hell. (PTFO!) And sometimes they really get into it because it's silly fun and you almost never see an arena completely demolished with 5 minutes left to go and it makes the map play very different as you do nothing but slog through rubble EVERYWHERE.

But... PTFO! ... but... sledgehammer fun... :sneaky::whistle: which to choose.
 
I'm still 27. I've been 27 for what seems like decades now.😎

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I'm 50 if I make it to 60 I'll be happy growing old sucks the worsey thing you can do is squander your life online scrolling your life away.
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Several years back I set a goal for myself and said that at a certain age I would step away from the computer stuff and be done with it. That age/time is getting real close now. I've been 'clicking the button' on the regular for over 20 years now and feel like I really should just to do it tbh, be done with it and find something new.

I set goals for myself all the time, for instance I haven't drank since before this summer started (June 14th ) and am going go until Sept 21st at least. I quit drinking all the time for like 3 to 5 months in a row, no big deal to me. Several years back I managed to quit for a year and a half, but I don't think my will power is that strong anymore :p

But anyway the computer stuff gives me a little balance in my life, so without them I'd probably just sit here and stare at the wall, or worse yet drink more (like probably a lot more) and I don't want to be doing that either. I don't watch TV and haven't watched or even owned one since 2008 and all my other hobbies like quads and dirtbikes are in the past as well. So idk, we'll see how it goes. Should yall stop seeing me post here sometime in the next few years you'll know why, or maybe it's because I got abducted by aliens or some shit, yeah probably that...Take care all you old sonzabiches :respect
 
I pray I make it to 70 OP, congrats! I'm 56 here. I still need to completed the 1000s of games I bought since the Atari 2600 for all the consoles I own, C64 and Amiga 500.. and my current favorite the PC. My Steam library has 682 games alone, I have hundreds more on disk and CDs.... My current favorite games are Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and when I want some FPS its Isonzo.
 
The biggest issue when you are over 60 is finding time to MOVE your body. Being stationary for hours is bad for your body. You don't notice it when you are young. I still remember going to a LAN party in San Diego with my young son at the time. I was in my mid 40's. My son was probably 10. I started to play at 7pm when it started and played until it was over in the next morning at 7am. I even outlasted my son who fell asleep around 3am. There is no way I can do that today. You get stiff and your body will ache now, instead of recovering quickly when you were young.

I retired at 65 back in May 2020. Had to find something to do so I recondition used laptops and sell them on the side. It's amazing what people throw away, when the laptops just need a little TLC to bring them back to life. You'll start to see a mass sell off of old laptops that can't run windows 11 in the next months, even though they can. So that is what I do now - I work on laptops and play PC games.
 
I built two gaming PCs this year, one for me and another for my daughter, and trying to see the pins was a huge PITA. Does reading glasses help for that?? I should be using reading glasses but I'm resistant to recognize my aging, lol.
 
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I built two gaming PCs this year, one for me and another for my daughter, and trying to see the pins was a huge PITA. Does reading glasses help for that?? I should be using reading glasses but I'm resistant to recognize my aging, lol.
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I am just about 48, and just got my first set of glasses as an adult. I spent my life being blind bro, but somehow managed to be able to build computers lol. Now glasses and a flashlight are mandatory items lol..
 
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I recently finished up some studio mic preamp and studio compressor kits. Little discrete op amps; almost 30 components on a ~1" square PCB...had about 10 to build. 100% success rate. Next to my trusty Weller temperature controlled soldering iron, my lighted desk magnifier was my best buddy....:cool:
 
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I built two gaming PCs this year, one for me and another for my daughter, and trying to see the pins was a huge PITA. Does reading glasses help for that?? I should be using reading glasses but I'm resistant to recognize my aging, lol.
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I am just about 48, and just got my first set of glasses as an adult. I spent my life being blind bro, but somehow managed to be able to build computers lol. Now glasses and a flashlight are mandatory items lol..
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Yes on both. I've been nearsighted since I was young, but being nearsighted is a plus when you get older. When you are in your mid 40's, your vision changes again. In my case, my vision actually got better. I confirmed this with the optometrist. I've actually caught myself driving now without my contacts or glasses. Far away objects are fine, but the symbols and lettering can be an issue, but as I get closer I'm able to see them with no issues. So for those that are nearsighted, you may be surprised when you are older that your vision will improve.

Yes - glass magnifiers and flashlights are a must when building or fixing PC's.
 
Seeing the pins should be relatively easy, whatever your age. I've worn glasses since I was about 3. It's about quality of life not just age. Hell, my glasses have blocked untold numbers of things from hitting me in the eyes over the decades. The big trick when you hit the late 40s is figuring out how long you can go without needing a dual prescription. Don't fear progressive lenses if it's time.

You can still have extremely good vision, you just have to accept the glasses.

I don't understand the bizarre vanity issue people have with glasses and never will.

If seeing the board pins and silk screen writing is "a huge pita" and you are younger than 70 then you are WAY over the line for needing vision correction. You're missing out on seeing fine detail on everything and don't know it.

Get some readers at least. Better yet, go spend $100 at Costco and get a prescription and your eyes checked so you have some idea how your eyes are doing.
 
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