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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.
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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 UT or Quake. You can't improve an aged reaction time nearly as easily, yes, because it's gotten slightly worse with age, but also because you become less willing and / or able to dedicate the sheer volume of time that you would need to to improve. Getting repeatedly stomped isn't fun, and quite simply, I've got better and more important things to do.
Third off, I don't like the constant recycling of content that you see in multiplayer games. A handful of maps are expected to last you infinite plays. I like changes of scenery, storylines, and varied experiences. Doing the same thing over and over again is just boring.
Fourth off, player communities in some games are aggressively dogshit and I really don't want to interact with them at all.
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've 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.
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 around 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.
(IMHO, the world top people at for example sports, are the ones who already early in their careers combine top physicallity with experience, smarts and wisdom)
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 near peak-level it's noticeable if you pay attention as you can't just reach the peaks you could reach before.
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.
I'm 50 and it's started getting noticeable in the last year or two.
Doing the same thing over and over again he’s boring.
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.
In single player games you can also cheat a little,bug abuse and glitch the game for giggles without ruining the exp for others too
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.
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.
I miss multiplayer video games. I wish someone still made them.
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.
Or team based PvE games where it's just trying to keep up with the speedrunners farming.
In addition getting 30 min of uninterrupted time can be a luxury, so pause feature is a must have.
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.
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.
I'm in my early 40s. Back then, I used to play Quake 3, UT 99 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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 your data.
I was initially so mad when they blocked League of Legends on Linux. Then I was grateful 😂
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.
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.
The closest thing to multiplayer I touch now days are Fromsoft invasions.
Every time I'm like "ughhh goddammit..."
But I never turn the feature off lol. No chat def helps.
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
I think the friendslop trend is great. It brings the couch gaming experience into the modern era after a long time in coma.
I miss split screen. Too many games nowadays, in order to play with my kids, I have to buy multiple copies, finagle multiple PCs and accounts just to play multiplayer. Finally my ancient laptop collection has a use
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.
Cheating and involving money ruined multiplayer gameplay.
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.
Multi-player is fun at a good old fashioned Lan party and not much more.
I've recently been playing Tales of Maj'Eyal and it's such a nice vibe. There's an in-game chat for people just going about playing their single-player adventures, generally filled with kind and intelligent people. The game is complex enough that being able to ask questions in the chat is a nice option.
I only stopped playing multiplayer games because all the current MP games suck shit.
Helldivers 2. It’s at a point now, where you can make your build, drop in for 45 min and then leave. Most folks are super cool. No screaming profanities and racist shit in the lobby. It’s great.
I just don't want to compete with other people. I used to play a lot of quake and team fortress, but it just feels kind of pointless now.
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.
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.
It’s also making my move to Linux gaming way easier.