Gaming and getting old

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Same here, If I don't play from work, I fly AH a few hours a month if any. I used to spend hours on games like COD/GTA/FORZA/SKYRIM and early MMOs. Really cheap and exciting entertainment. My worst was 41H straight in Falcon 3.

Two things. For our generation playing online 'affordably' was always a dream, everything was single gaming. So office LAN parties were step 1, MMOs step 2 our of childhood fantasies. Now it's been there done that.

The other side of the coin, at least for me is video games are really a time killer at best. Having more disposable income, my life is busy. I always have something to do. Or I deal with work, or rebuild one of my car, or I'm working on my house, or I'm working on my land ... my favorite free time is to go hike a mountain, go explore the desert with my wife. When I'm sitting it is to read/learn about how to do something. I don't even have cable TV, I don't go to the movies and I occasionally watch/rent something. Same boredom, movies genres feel so scripted that you have seen that before. 

With gaming, I still enjoy it immensely and there are extraordinary games out there but I feel bad if I sit for too long, like I'm wasting my life waiting to die.  Don't feel bad about your lack for skill level, like everything, someone spending gazilion of hours on something will get God like at it (like my 12 YO nephew at COD Ghost) ... but he can have it. As he is busy parading his ubberness on a virtual scoreboard and Youtube, I built a couple of things that will still be around for a few years. 

[Meatwad]

I got on a few games that were posted in the Oclub, Hobowars and Ogame, both text based browser games. After a while it got boring and lost interest

Right now im playing Minecraft on the PC. I dont have the skills to build anything fancy or interesting, just get on and play on an online server to kill time. Before that I played Kerbal Space Program, which is fun seeing if what you build actually makes it into orbit or not. Also a time waster.

Stuff like Call of Duty or games like that I just have no interest in anymore. Last time I actually played them was right after we had our first child which involved long nights of rocking them back to sleep (sound muted of course). About a few months of that I havent played it for 4 years now. Just too much to do around the house and with family to get involved into games like I used to

[mbailey]

Feel your pain sir......my son tried to teach me to play COD but it was an epic failure.   I can't get use to the new style controller (Xbox, PS4 type) with the little joysticks for moving and looking......think I'll just stick to flying badly

[Oldman731]

AH is the only game I play...I've got 2 acres of farm simulator in my backyard...night before last it turned into a FPS farm simulator as a raccoon was killing my chickens...he didn't make it...and I have to replace the back door of mychicken house...its even more fun when it a grass picking simulator...

Classic.

- oldman

[Gman]

For me the AAA COD type games, Far Cry, and the like, are the ones I DO actually play through when I buy them.  Usually takes a couple/few days, and then the single player is over.  Frenchy made me think of all the flight sims I should be playing besides AH that I have -

Falcon BMS (most recent).
All the DCS (I have 90 percent of the modules)
IL2 Cliffs/Dover with that Fusion mod
IL2 Stalingrad (just got in for over 1/2 off on the Steam summer sale)
ROF - bought it last year on the summer sale with the complete/all in package
Flight Sim X - bought as well on summer sale for cheap.
Steel Beasts - just ordered this 100$ tank sim, supposed to be "the it" armor game
Silent Hunter 4/5
Dangerous Water - again, Steam sale for like 3$ or some such
Wargame Europe/China/etc
Star Citizen
Elite Dangerous
Kerbal space - I just got it and played a bit, hilarious and fun

I'm missing others, but the general idea is JUST the sim games - so many great, great options.

Frenchy, you still doing work with the Mirage 2000 DCS?  I'm waiting for it to show up on Steam, as I have a large credit there I"m wiping out with DCS modules, and it's one of the last ones (F5 too) that I want to get.

edit - Puller that got an actual out loud laugh, good times.

[WEZEL]

Have you tried pie chart simulator 

[SFRT - Frenchy]

The campaign for the M2000 is 13 missions long. I think you will like it. Baltic Dragon did a good job with keeping you entertained as you are going thru them. And ... you'll get to hear my voice telling you what to do as the all so relax squadron leader.

The issue we have is RAZBAM keeps on tweaking the M2000 removing/adding/changing functionalities that screws up the script everytime we explain a system in the first few missions.

[SFRT - Frenchy]

Have you tried pie chart simulator 

 

[Maverick]

The computer game industry is doing the dying cockroach from what I see. Everything is now geared towards the game box and is what I call twitch games. Games that are so fast that the player twitches the controller more than anything else. The grandkids have an xbox and the boys like to try and get me to play. I hate the controllers and won't play most of the games. There are a couple that do work, shooters that will allow some tactical aspects to work rather than run blindly around shooting everything. On a couple of those the kids have found out that the old guy can be a nasty opponent or a good partner.

Most of what I play on my own anymore are the old Command and Conquer games, the latter ones. They work on win 7. If I have time and am bored I'll do the campaigns otherwise it's skirmishes set to a decent level of difficulty. Occasionally I'll break out the far cry games. Once we started traveling I got rid of all the flying games and my joystick / rudder pedals.

[FLOOB]

For me the AAA COD type games, Far Cry, and the like, are the ones I DO actually play through when I buy them.  Usually takes a couple/few days, and then the single player is over.  Frenchy made me think of all the flight sims I should be playing besides AH that I have -

Falcon BMS (most recent).
All the DCS (I have 90 percent of the modules)
IL2 Cliffs/Dover with that Fusion mod
IL2 Stalingrad (just got in for over 1/2 off on the Steam summer sale)
ROF - bought it last year on the summer sale with the complete/all in package
Flight Sim X - bought as well on summer sale for cheap.
Steel Beasts - just ordered this 100$ tank sim, supposed to be "the it" armor game
Silent Hunter 4/5
Dangerous Water - again, Steam sale for like 3$ or some such
Wargame Europe/China/etc
Star Citizen
Elite Dangerous
Kerbal space - I just got it and played a bit, hilarious and fun

I'm missing others, but the general idea is JUST the sim games - so many great, great options.

Frenchy, you still doing work with the Mirage 2000 DCS?  I'm waiting for it to show up on Steam, as I have a large credit there I"m wiping out with DCS modules, and it's one of the last ones (F5 too) that I want to get.

edit - Puller that got an actual out loud laugh, good times.

Dangerous Waters, coool. You should check out FPSchalzy's tutorial videos on youtube. It's a complicated game and the tutorial vids that come with it didn't seem that helpful if I recall.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOSvzqNmdX71x2COOyM-p2qHIpRNOvpGQ

[Brooke]

My favorites are Cooking Mama and Soccer Physics.

I'm waiting for a good washing dishes simulator.  Totally a market opportunity for some enterprising game entrepreneur.

[Bizman]

Way back in the days of yore when I knew nothing about flying sims, a buddy and I gathered a group of gentlemen for some Toca2 racing every Saturday afternoon. One of the other guys felt relieved when he heard my age. He himself was closing the mature age of 30 and had been in the belief that gaming past that would be childish and embarrassing.

There's times when I find watching grass grow utterly interesting. That added with a couple of bumble bees for audio sometimes make a perfect morning.

Hint: Don't review your wife's lingerie in the laundry machine as an erotic movie, though. If you get aroused by watching the round glass door, keep it to yourself...

[fd ski]

we've gotten old, that's all.

I find that only Civ type games manage to hold my interest for any period of a time those days

[pipz]

I think that is just human nature Gman. When ya had less time it made play time more valuable perhaps and it was new. Now that ya have been there and done that and have more time it just may not be as important to ya. I still enjoy AH but I don't put in 10-12 hour days at it anymore either. When I was new to flight sims I couldn't get enough now I can take it or leave it.

[pipz]

AH is the only game I play...I've got 2 acres of farm simulator in my backyard...night before last it turned into a FPS farm simulator as a raccoon was killing my chickens...he didn't make it...and I have to replace the back door of my chicken house...its even more fun when it a grass picking simulator... Nothing more fun than crawling around 1800 sqft of plants pulling grass

Sounds very immersive!