I was already outdone like 10 years ago by my cousins who practically came with gaming consoles out of the womb. Idk how they figure the stuff out so fast.
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late 30's and I'll still whoop your ass at Street Fighter 6 or The Finals
I'm not even in the initial phases of ~~dental~~ denial, and Im a millennial, I'm not ready to get attacked like this in a meme!!
Me, on the other hand, I gots my toothbrush right here in my pocket, and I'm ready to go.
(Lmao! Also wtf scumbag brainhole.)
I have my electric toothbrush in my pocket too, ~~ready to go~~ already went, but I'm not wearing any pants.
Happened to me ages ago :3
I don't play enough competitive games to care anyway tho
This is the real reason to have kids. I'm not up on the Mario Kart meta, but I'll whup my seven year old around rainbow road any damn day.
Getting there. I'm introducing my oldest (3) to all the Mario games now.
Super recommend Mario and the Rainbow Stars! It's a free fan game with a ton of fun moments. They'll have fun watching, and you'll get something new to keep your interest.
Never heard of that one, but will look it up. Thanks!
I'm in this picture and I don't like it.
Don't have to worry about gaming skills disappearing if you never had any in the first place :3
Tried Ark the other day, looked awesome. So much damn micromanaging and juggling. Just nope
It can be fun if you ignore the breeding and dinosaur related stuff
15 minutes to build a simple 4x4 shelter and tame a dodo. Raptor appeared in my tiny peninsula, killed my dodo, wrecked my house, and almost killed me. I'm too old for that crap.
It's not me who changed. It's the esports driven fast twitch game style that has. I should probably try out my backlog of rainbow six games.
48 years old and I haven't dipped yet 😂
Not only that but my shit talking is unmatched!
Tomas Jerby
I'm 45 and have been playing games relentlessly for 30 years now. My hands are destroyed. I can barely use controllers, my thumbs hardly work. Can't click the space bar the arthritis is so bad. Hades and Sekiro were major culprits, button-mashing and parry precision intensity. I still play of course but it's difficult, slow, and I just can't play those high-action twitch reflex games anymore. Good thing there is endless games that are easier on the hands!
When you finally accept that the days of truly fun competitive shooters are gone, replaced with loot boxes grinders and gatcha mechanics, so you opt to play the actually fun, solo games.
Honestly, going 27 years (of gaming), and I never was smarter and quicker to make tactical decisions. My hand may move slower, but I don't rely on dexterity when flanking your cover.
And other gaming skills, only better.
Have to relate to this somewhat, it's hard to find time or interest to practice fighting games with all the accumulated responsibilities of being responsible adult and a parent. While boomer reaction time checks are one thing, the bigger problem is having to practice against multiple different matchups in 3-4 different games. Probably should play these online a lot more, currently mostly playing on locals few hours once a week.
never was all that good, but declining coordination and a desire to quit investing time/money playing games made me stop. Asynchronous social interaction is more my speed now. also gave away my guitars for similar reasons. quit driving last year. if you are still having fun, keep going. I can still type, sort of.
Idk I keep hitting full combos in my favorite rhythm games
The vast majority of games are overrated anyhow. They aren't really putting out anything new nowadays, just using the same tired old concepts over and over again.
Just play different games. Sure the kids may have fast reflexes but they don't have the wisdom to commit the number of warcrimes that an older gamer can in Rimworld.
Or maybe ya'll are have been so full of hubris and are now finally getting wiser with age and start to recognize that you were always shit or average at best.
It's entirely demographical.
I was unemployed for a while when private equity butchered the company I was manager at, at some point I spent about a week playing as dedicatedly as some of the younglings and I got really good, really fast, but the moment I had to get back to the grind I fell off again.
You simply cannot compete with kids who's primary concern in life is if their mom will keep paying for their ChatGTP subscription to do their homework for them when you have bills and family and medical procedures and loans and thousands of ropes of responsibility pulling you in different directions. You simply will not compete with people who can play several hours a day when you only get weekend nights, when you're already exhausted and just want to sleep anyway.
What? I don't find that at all.
People are too stressed and exhausted to live at a basic level, that tends to impact their ability to game although sometimes it makes them even more competitive with the small amount of time they have... but no I don't agree at all.
I am far better at video games than I used to be, admittedly I play a lot of them but that only makes my hand eye coordination locked in, the actually "being good" at games has little to do with that most of the time.