r/Age_30_plus_Gamers

Hi everyone, I've posted here before but, unfortunately, met some people who wanted more than just gaming and chilling. I'm a 35-year-old female who plays mostly on PS5 but I have a couple PC games that this old gaming laptop of mine can still run.

Right now I'm making my way through God of War (2018) and then Ragnarok. I slept on those games, can you believe it? I just finished both Horizon games, which I also slept on. But as soon as September 2nd hits, I'm gonna go all in on Blood of the Dawnwalker.

Looking for mature people around my age or older that want to shoot the breeze and watch each other game, I can even invest in some multiplayer games. If you mainly play on PS5 that would be great! I have kind of a small list of games on Steam, but a stacked catalogue on my playstation. I have the Dark Picture Anthology games, been looking for someone to play those with. Also definitely someone who knows how to play Disco Elysium because I think that could be a fun game to play with someone else. I have no idea what I'm doing lol!

Just looking for friendship and a real gamer!

I'm in the U.S EST

If you're interested, send me a DM!

Favorite games: The Witcher 3, RDR2, Mass Effect trilogy, Dragon Age 1, 2, and Inquisition, Batman Arkham games, The Last of Us, God of War, Cyberpunk 2077, Horizon Forbidden West, KCD 1 and 2, Dying Light 1 and 2, Ghost of Tsushima

I took 2 weeks off between jobs and I have been working like crazy on my house the whole time. I start on Monday so I have 4 days to myself.

I built a decent PC Last year and honestly haven’t put it to good use.

I enjoy shooters. I grew up on call of duty and halo. I miss making friends online. I have tried the battle royale games like apex and don’t really like them but I’m willing to try something new.

I did get into Factorio for a while but I’m burnt out on it.

Something cheap would be great but I don’t mind spending a little bit

Thanks in advance, if you want to link up and show me the ropes to your suggestion then DM me. I’m 32 from the south and just a normal married dude with a kid on the way.

I realized how different my approach when starting a new game has become as I've gotten older. Younger me approached a new RPG or strategy game like an exam I had to cram for. I would have so much knowledge about a game before I start playing it, otherwise it would feel uncomfortable somehow.

These days that whole approach just sounds exhausting and counter productive to me. I play video games to relax and have fun, they are not research projects. I really love ARPGs, and its genre a lot of people use guides for, to make sure they are playing the optimal builds and farming in the most efficient ways. Not me, I boot up Last Epoch to play one of my janky homebrew builds and it’s way more fun than using someone else's optimized setup. In fact sometimes I make a silly build on purpose just to see if I can make something really stupid work, like my beekeeper necromancer (works surprisingly well lol).

And when it comes to unreleased games, I used to obsessively read everything I can about them, test everything I can think of in the demo so I can have an “edge” when they come out. Whereas nowadays after I decide I like a game I add it to my wishlist, maybe try the demo out to see if it plays well on my hardware and that's it. Right now I’m hyped for The Dark West, love everything about the setting (occult western) and the demo is fun. Instead of figuring out what class and build will be optimal on release, I plan on just jumping in completely blind and playing whatever looks like the most fun, doesn’t matter if it's “suboptimal”.

Before It was all about not messing up. I remember reading the optimized starter builds and memorising which choices secretly locked me out of content and things like that. I'd cross reference the wiki so I wouldn't waste my stat points or miss some item forty hours down the line. The idea of playing a game "wrong" stressed me out, so I did hours of homework before I started playing. And it worked, in the sense that my characters were always efficient and strong. It also robbed me of the opportunity to figure things out on my own, but I didn’t realize that at the time.

Which has me wondering how common this is with age. Anyone else abandon the min maxing, efficiency obsessed way of playing as you got older? Letting go of the pressure to play optimally makes video games so much more fun for me, and more relaxing.

As the title says really!
I’ve found the past few years it has become harder to get that social aspect of gaming.

A lot of the games I used to play and have good nights chatting and having a laugh are now either silent or full of screaming kids shouting slurs trying to be edgy.

Are there any games that have a more mature player base but still keep it light and fun?

FWIW 40+ M.

GTA might be the only massively hyped franchise I'm just not feeling anymore. I've played every single GTA game, IV's still my favorite, but somewhere along the way I straight up outgrew the formula. It's just not doing it for me at this point.

Meanwhile I'm way more locked in on stuff like Witcher 4, the next FF7 chapter, whatever Atlus is cooking next with Persona 6, and honestly even the next Steam sale so I can finally chip away at my backlog. Game's like Crimson Desert, Black Myth Wukong, Assasins's Creed Shadows and many more. On PS5 side I'm hyped for Phantom Blade Zero, the next God of War, whatever Kojima's building with Physint, etc.

Not saying I will never ever play GTA VI but It will probably be after 3-4 years when it's on some sale on steam or maybe a bit more later.

Are You excited about GTA VI?

I love gaming but I find that because I have so many games, I force myself to play the bad ones so they dont go to waste. I have a problem with giving up on games after I start them.

Anyone else do this?

I'm watching a guy on Youtube completely run through Mortal Shell 2 on normal difficulty and he's making it look easy. He'll die here and there, but I know for a fact if it was me on the joystick I'd be getting completely OWNED. How do I get better at a game genre that feels like you are meant to lose and rage quit?

I've always been someone to do the mundane organize/cook/build/support tasks. I enjoy that role. I was a pocket healer in WoW for years, made sure my carry was set in League, etc... but over the years I lost touch with my gaming partners, interests changed, we got caught up with work, people moved on from the game. How do you all find new partners? Its so hard to randomize and find the right person or someone patient enough for me to learn their play style "needs".

Hi everyone! I bet this question comes up from time to time but I thought I would ask anyway.

I’m a gamer since I was 8 years old and I play mostly single-player games on the PS5 nowadays. My wife, however, was never into games. She had some passing interest in a few titles like The Last of Us when she saw me playing, though. I tried buying a few simple ones to play with her, like Crash Team Racing,
and Overcooked. No lasting interest.

To my surprise, she recently saw some gameplay on social media of this Steam game called “Librarian” and it was cheap so I bought it for her to play on my Steam Deck. She got so addicted to it. You guys have no idea. She got 40 hours of gameplay in like two weeks. Not even I play that much these days 😂

This got my hopes up again for finding other titles that she might like. I already got another one called “Shelves & Sorcery” that’s exactly the same as the “Librarian” one I mentioned.

Anyway, I thought you guys might have some ideas or maybe you want to share similar cases here.

TL;DR: Does someone have any suggestions of games for a beginner without a lot of subsystems, with a similar level of complexity as “Librarian” (from Steam) but maybe just a small step up?

I appreciate any input and wish everyone an awesome rest of your week!

EDIT:
Wow! You folks gave so many perfect suggestions. She will have an infinite backlog at this point 😂
And that’s the dream. I’ll start replying but you all have my sincerest thanks!

Hi gamers aged 30+, I am 34 years old.

Since I don't play online games, I rarely meet people with the same gaming preferences as me, so I wonder if I find one here.

My favorite videogames are: MGS 2 and 3, Final Fantasy X, XII, XIII, Kingdom Hearts 2, Bioshock 1 and Infinite, Death Stranding (DS2 is on my bucket list), Dark Souls 1 and 3, Bloodborne, GTA VC, SA and V, Tekken 3 - 7, Crash Bandicoot, Disco Elysium, Cities Skylines, Persona 5, Like a Dragon, TLOU, Journey, Nier: Automata, Hitman, Katamari.

I am from Europe, will prefer chatting in my timezone or close to it.

I am not looking for online gaming sessions, co-op games, or streaming. Just chatting about our favorite gaming things.

Anyone else miss the days where walkthough guides were published for just about every game? I get there’s the internet, go find a video, etc. just kind of miss thumbing through a book and being able to just book mark it in relation to my progress of the game.

I am planning on purchasing this game as the beta was awesome but don't understand something. Why is it important to play this single player game before it comes out?

I remember a time when early access was meant more for online multiplayer games. What is the incentive for me to play a single player game earlier? Though people have praised the game, they saw doing a second playthrough is a bit iffy. So I don't get it.

Does anyone else?

I think the reason a lot of people end up disliking many games is because they treat it like a race, one game at a time, rush to finish it, then move to the next. I've never played that way.

1. No day-one rule. I only touch a game after it's been out a year or more. Never day one.
2. Always juggling 3-4 games at once. Depending on my mood, I switch between them. That way I'm never forcing myself through something I'm not in the mood for, I just play whatever fits how I'm feeling that day.
3. I treat every game like it's an MMO. No rush to finish, no deadline in my head. I just let it take as long as it takes.
4. This lets me actually appreciate everything, big AAA stuff, underrated titles, random indie games, all of it gets its fair shot instead of getting skipped because I was "busy finishing" something else.