I'd write a lengthier response on agreement but my mid-50s ass has to finish DA:I before Veilguard comes out...
ETA: my reddit friend who has been helping me with game questions is delighted by all the anticipation for the new game so keep playing everybody! Every time you level up, an angel gets their wings.
I’m 48, have the series X, a gaming laptop, and just got a quest 3 and most of my free time is burning through free trials on the horizon store to see a little of everything.
I'm only about 2 years older than you are, give or take a few months (probably). I've still got my Atari VCS from 1980. It would later be known as the 2600. It works beautifully, too. Also have my Intellivision, NES, SNES, TG16, and most systems up to the PS4 and Switch. I would have bought myself a PS5 last Christmas as I made enough during Halloween* but my car needed a new serpentine belt and that took priority. Maybe this year... But yeah, I like to wave my collector flag high.
*I read Tarot and Halloween through New Year's is my busy season.
Louder for the younglings in the back. 30 min a few times a week while you're young will make everything soooo much easier when you get up there, and it'll likely extend your gaming career too.
IN shape is not the same as having the beauty standard shape. Don't worry, round folks! Just get some exercise, stay on top of your medical checks, and eat more healthy food than junk. You'll be fine
Im 66. It's a secret but we never grow up. We do develop better social graces, wisdom and a whole bunch of other fine qualities, but my 94 year old granny told me she still felt like she was 18. So don't worry, when your in the parking lot and you want to ride the shopping cart, don't let your age stop you.
I’m 65 and was in a waiting area of a hospital which was quiet. I was waiting in a corridor that was really long. I was sitting on a chair that had wheels and it swivelled. I had a sudden urge to go scooting down the corridor. So I went for it. I had the biggest grin on my face and my specialist sprung me. He had a surprised look on his face but it broke the ice of what was going to be a very serious appointment.
Glad it helped. My thing is shopping carts. I prefer a slight incline and not a lot of cars in the parking lot. Sure I've gotten a few looks. Thats the best part.
42 as well but all PC and VR. Similar number of games in my collection. The beauty of gaming these days is the wide array of choices for your own personal taste.
You gotta pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers! /s
I'm 40 and play PC and VR, have three high end gaming PCs (I have two sons) and two Switches. I just checked and my PC gaming library has over 300 games, my kids' libraries are at least 100 each, and We have at about 15 Switch games, plus duplicates of some.
My buddy is late 30’s, makes a great salary, married, and also happens to have one of the largest game and console collections I’ve ever seen! Like, it’s museum level lol.
I'm 45, and I just took a break from Rocket League to scroll a bit. I'm gonna get Wukong on my next pay day lol. My 9 year old and his mom (she's 40) are gamers. It's one of our biggest connections. We played that dumbass stick man battle game for a couple of hours today laughing our asses off and shouting "SNAKES!" whenever the snake guns appeared lol
Hey , just like me :D I wanna like it, but i think deep inside, i just want them to make dragon age origins, but pretier.. and i dont think i will ever get that. I didnt really like the switch to more action rpg instead of the more tactical DA:O...
Might try to beat DA:i one more time.. put it on normal this time to speed things up.. though i dont have the highest hopes for Veilguard either so.. who knows
Ugh bro honestly I've beaten the first 2 games but I just can't finish the 3rd one same with the mass effect trilogy I played the first 2 games but I just can't bring myself to finish the last game
Between work, social life, and books calling my name, I’m surprised I’ve gotten 40 hours in on this run of DAI. Just about two months to go, we can do this!
completionist here and, yes, 100% agree. actually every time i think about DA:I it's about how bloated it is as far as activities etc. - i had to give up on a lot of things just to get through the damn game (e.g., once i realized how many stupid materials you would need to harvest to get all the gear/upgrades, i kinda beelined for the end).
still enjoyed the star puzzle things and all the dragon hunts, though. but there's a lot of kinda fluff that just drags things out.
100% completed here. It's not about the collectables and the gathering for the gear. It's the different choices to make. Some choices are just as impossible to not make the 15th time as they are the 150th time.
I "finished" it on my first run (as much as I could when some of the collectibles were bugged and were never fixed except through mods, but everything that could be done, I did it) and I swore I would never touch another ocularum again. Fuck those things.
Nearly 36 here and I cannot believe the wait is almost finally over!! I’ve been legit waiting for the 4th DA game since I finished DA:I for the first time, ten years ago, when I was still in my 20s 😂
Honestly I like my XCOM gritty, so chimera squad wasn't my favorite. I respect the effort, but all my doomed squaddies led by a single jaded sniper can't be distracted by snek tiddies. I was too stuck in "humanity against monsters" and CS diluted my moral purity!
The natural story telling that comes out of XCOM is amazing. My troops all had back stories and relationships and tragedies and it all comes from your head.
Chimera squad does take that away from you.
I do hope the mechanic of being able to stack up on a door and all go in at once somehow makes a come back in the next game though.
I’ve tried getting through DA:I in at least 3 separate attempts and never could. I also just got it for free via Epic and I’m tempted to try again haha.
I can't complain since I bought it for like $2 on Steam, but after zipping through DA2, I'm just finding getting around is so tedious and it's just "open" enough that I'm constantly unsure of what I'm supposed to be doing or I'll try doing something and find out quickly that I'm too low level to even be there. I'm toughing it out but not enjoying it as much as da2 (which is funny since consensus seems to be players didn't like da2 much? Glad in coming in late and missed it all).
I got a level chart for the regions and that helped but man, I kinda wish they'd left out jumping altogether so I wouldn't spend so much time trying to figure out how to get somewhere that's just above me.
For me it hasn't affected it at all. My hottest of hot takes us that aging increases your ability to game, not because of any physical attributes, but because you're more likely to have disposable income to put toward your hobbies. Case in point: me buying games for my teenaged nieces constantly. I'm comfortable enough I can buy any game I want instead of trying to decide which new release I can afford, and then I can buy deluxe editions so I can hang up the cool posters.
I think you're just at the regular physical risks of stuff like carpal tunnel and tendinitis like I got from using my mouse so much, but I feel like most users can get those.
Thanks for taking the time to answer. I'm at my 30s and noticed how my hands seem to have declined in terms of endurance and speed, but I guess it's because I'm comparing it with my teens. Good to know it might not be as worse as I fear.
Honestly I think it's just an individual thing. Keep an eye on it and if it turns into real pain and not just a decrease in micro, you can get it checked out. Most of what I notice isn't much different than the type of issues you suffer from working a desk job, and those can be bad too! Probably more difficult to notice since you're not defending against a zerg rush at work - unless you are in which case I want your job.
Dragon Age: Inquisition! I picked up the three original games on steam for cheap and there's a fourth coming out October 31st, I believe it's the date. Crpgs
I got a new rig to play it at release and I'm like 2k hours in, although in my defense, I leave it running while I go do other stuff, I swear. 🤪
But yeah, BG3 is pretty groundbreaking IMO for having such cinematic content, a good story with a lot of variance (I've killed every companion at least once) and a good implementation of 5e combat system for a crpg. I wish it didn't have such a "hey you can fuck a bear" reputation, but marketing is what it is!
I'm 32. Veilguard comes out on my birthday. When dai came out I wasn't even in college and now I will be right between residency entrance exams and 29 days from finishing med school. I never thought I would see the day lmao
I feel this deeply. I’m 42 and literally have a collection of 300 video games spanning all the way back to my original NES. My perfectionist-ass kept getting stuck in Lothering in the first Dragon Age. I’ve never managed to go back and beat it. So I have all three DA games that I want to beat before Veilguard comes out. 😭
Meanwhile my bf (43) have logged some 500 hours playing Divinity Original Sin 2 on PS4 over the last 5 ish years. Being an adult sucks. I would love to spend all my time playing my vast collection of games. Sadly bills must be paid, so as my Nana used to say “I owe I owe, so off to work I go”
In da2 I went all in on Fenris. I have a type, and it's grumpy.
I'm not that thrilled with my Inquisition options yet but I've pretty much settled on Cullen. It's the way he rocks that flouffy collar thing, and rests his hand on the pommel of his sword all the time.
Yall haven’t finished DA:1 yet?!?!? Ahhhh it’s my favorite one!!!! I’ve only beaten DA:2 maybe 3 times tho 🫢 I’m starting all 3 of em over later today so I can create my perfect timeline just in time for VeilGuard
I literally just finished my very first run through playing Solas’s route. I’m making that my canon, more or less, with some tweaks because I didn’t mean to exile the Wardens in my main save
As a 24 year old who loves (almost) everything BioWare has made, DA:I is one of my favorite games, especially if you have access to the Trespasser DLC. I finished it for the fifth time last week to get ready for Veilguard.
Origins kept crashing on me and while there's a fix for it, I'm bad at computers. I did finish da2 and liked it plus it was short. I'm finding dai got rid of 90% of what I liked from da2, and find a friend who's played it already to help you figure out the best way. The main quests are really cool IMO but the side quests are so much fetching. I miss my da2 boyfriend but that's a tiny tiny part of the game so I'll live.
That's my middle-aged summary of decade- old games!
My wife is really addicted to the series lol she’s finished inquisition like 10 times already.
I think I’ll have problems because it is SO MUCH DIALOGUE AND CUTSCENES. But she wants me to play to watch my decisions lol I’m a bit chaotic when I’m playing games
I'd say just don't talk to characters outside of cutscenes but your wife might not let you get away with being antisocial if she likes the companions that much. Since only recently playing them, I've found there is a serious shipping war culture. I hope you don't get dragged into it by innocently saying how much you like such- and- such character!
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u/ManicPixieOldMaid Aug 21 '24 edited Aug 21 '24
I'd write a lengthier response on agreement but my mid-50s ass has to finish DA:I before Veilguard comes out...
ETA: my reddit friend who has been helping me with game questions is delighted by all the anticipation for the new game so keep playing everybody! Every time you level up, an angel gets their wings.