I guess I'm getting old... can't play certain games anymore:

[PowerYoga]

Damn straight! At 40, WoT is the perfect pace for me. You need to plan your movements out before they happen because all the twitching in the world will not make your tracks spin faster or your turret turn faster.

and it's so easy to destroy COD morons who just rush head in expecting to be able to pwn everyone.

 

[Franz316]

I'm 28, and still got it Stomping those 15 year-olds like I have been, since I was one.

 

[alkemyst]

I am 43. I fire up a game and do pretty well.

The kids today don't play to reach the goals though. They just want to mess with people.

Single player I finish the game fast still.

That said I figured out some fair game advantages in my past and documented a lot of things as well.

Today I don't really game to much more than 15-60 mins tops in a week.

I fire a game up though and I do well.

 

[Rinaun]

I'm feeling it as well, OP. I just turned 34 and I'm just struggling to keep up with the young guys. I don't have that single minded obsession that I used to have; I'd rather bang my girl or play with the kids.

This pretty much sums up what I feel when I play games now. I just tried South Park: Stick of Truth; I ended up alt f4ing after maybe an hour of gameplay. It's not that it's anywhere near a bad game and I love south park. Its just that I feel I could be doing something ten times more efficient or fun with my life IRL during my gaming session.

I guess in the end it doesn't hurt toning my gaming down since I spent a large amount of my youth playing video games

 

[hans030390]

That is when we gave up CRT monitors for LCD. Get yourself a lightboost monitor and get back to motion blur free gaming. Made all the difference in the world to me. I just put over 30 hours into the ESO beta last weekend and zero fatigue.

Maybe you haven't seen my posts in the video card section.

Very familiar with high refresh rate and 2D LB monitors. Consistent 60FPS is the bare minimum for me these days. I still get fatigue and other feelings of being unwell when playing a lot of video games, especially first-person games (but not always).

I'm just getting old...at a young age.

 

[xantub]

This pretty much sums up what I feel when I play games now. I just tried South Park: Stick of Truth; I ended up alt f4ing after maybe an hour of gameplay. It's not that it's anywhere near a bad game and I love south park. Its just that I feel I could be doing something ten times more efficient or fun with my life IRL during my gaming session.

I guess in the end it doesn't hurt toning my gaming down since I spent a large amount of my youth playing video games

I'm the opposite. When I'm working I'm thinking of the time I'm wasting instead of playing

 

[Obsoleet]

I'm the opposite. When I'm working I'm thinking of the time I'm wasting instead of playing

^^^ QFT. Unless you own your own company, work IS the waste of time here. Unless you truly have fun working as you do in a game (be shocked, and pleased if so, but hard to believe unless you have sex with hot women or something similarly awesome for a living).

 

[Mondozei]

I'm 25 years old. I feel a LOT younger, not in terms of maturity(I've always felt older than most of my peers) but more in terms of physical stamina and emotional and mental discipline.

But am I better than I was when I was 17? On MMORPG's and so on, probably not, in large part because of the amount of time I was willing to sacrifice back then.
On more reflex-dependent games, in some ways yes and no. My situational awareness and gaming intelligence is through the roof compared to back then and I was even back then pretty good at stuff like that, and I find that aim is kind of overrated anyway compared to gaming intelligence/positioning, but when I have to aim, I do very well anyway.

The only thing I've gotten "worse" at is doing something I don't enjoy.
Basically, grinding. This is part of the reason why I don't play MMORPG's that much. Even on FPS shooters, if there are too many level-ups/unlocks before you close the gap between those who are new and those who are not, I might be bored.

I just feel like a game should be like Counter-Strike. Everyone starts basically equal and the only differentiator should be the skill level.

But whenever I play a new game, like Titanfall beta last time, I pick it up really fast and do quite well. I was beating people on level 14 on a regular basis in my first 2-3 online matches on Titanfall.

As an old Freelancer diehard, I'm also massively looking forward to Star Citizen.

I guess age 25 isn't that old, in comparison to people over the age of 40.
I also think that games have actually become a bit slower. Even CoD isn't nearly as fast as Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament were. Those were really Twitch games.

I also become really, really good at Tribes: Ascend which came out like 2 years ago or so, despite never having played any previous games and that game is a lot faster than CoD and also has a lot more tactical elements to it, as well as a much higher skillcap due to the enormous amounts of movements you can do.

But yeah, MMORPG and RTS games are still fun as well and not an issue to get good at. Too bad that both genres, especially RTS, have seen a decline in the number of games coming out. I grew up on RTS before I discovered FPS, especially AoE.

 

[HeXen]

I'm 37 and there are certainly types of games I just can't play like I once did. Adventure games, a lot of Indie games, RPG's and JRPG's. Even some racing games just seem to bore me quickly.
Partly I don't have the patience which is a result of me not having the time I once did. Most games don't keep me excited enough to want to spend what free time I have on them. The last one that did was Dishonored and Thief 3.

I'm pretty much down to certain FPS games. Twitch shooters get dull for me too quickly but I never could get into online games. BF 3 was about it but generally I'm pretty decent at them.

 

[Obsoleet]

I am 43. I fire up a game and do pretty well.

The kids today don't play to reach the goals though. They just want to mess with people.

Curious, what games are you referring to?

 

[alkemyst]

Curious, what games are you referring to?

Could be anything from slacking at WoW with an inactive account to BF4. L4D. Probably more I don't think about so much.

I am a oldy at gaming.

 

[sf101]

Im 30 this year and i was thinking the same thing a few years ago. but after a accedent and alot of time off work "recovering from a broken back" i realise its not reflexes or brain rot from being old.

It was mostly just time.. time invested and the amount of actual fun you used to have experiencing new things.

After months of messing around at home gaming again i can honestly say im just as quick as i ever was in shooters.

although i still have the problem of not seeing half of them as fun games like i used too.

I still find myself sometimes just turning the game off and watching some tv or a movie instead.

When i was a teen ager that would never happen. if i had some free time id be logged into , deltaforce, Rougespear , counterstrike , UT , BF1942 or bf vietnam or one of any other Games i used to compete in.

Back then i never really got board with it like i do now so i do believe now a good portion of it is Time and the other part is wanting to play or attention to playing.

I can say just even from my steam time from then and now since injury i used to play much more then and i can still play just as good and sometimes maybe even better since nothing surprises me in fps anymore i think at this point we know all the neat tricks like quickscopes and tactics so gaming is also harder then it used to be.

The real trick is for us old geezers to find games that still can grab our attentions for more then a few hrs and make us want to play it and not feel we need to play it.

The games ive always been best at are the ones i truely enjoyed playing even in pubs.

 

[Genx87]

I lose interest in FPS due to the twitch factor. Back in the day Tribes consumed hours a day and I was really good. I don't have hours a day to play games. And if I did, FPS would frustrate me that there is no way I could spend the time to become decent again.

I prefer slower paced games like wargame, Warthunder, and Hearts of Iron 3.

 

[Makaveli]

Everyone is different i'm 33 now and I game at the same level I did at 20. The difference I've found is I no longer do the marathon gaming sessions because I have other things to do. As with anything if you take a break like not playing fps for years you will have to practice and get back into it.

As I do agree certain types of games you will no longer care for.

The rate at which your physical abilities decline is not the same for everyone some people just have superior genetics

 

[HeXen]

I lose interest in FPS due to the twitch factor. Back in the day Tribes consumed hours a day and I was really good. I don't have hours a day to play games. And if I did, FPS would frustrate me that there is no way I could spend the time to become decent again.

I prefer slower paced games like wargame, Warthunder, and Hearts of Iron 3.

No one's got the hours like this guy.http://www.1milliongamerscore.com
He puts in 12-16hours a day and is about to do 24 hours I guess to get the highest score within a day title.
Posterchild for sure.

 

[BrightCandle]

One possibility is spending some time playing some online flash games to improve your aiming skills. If you search for "FPS Train" you'll find a few sites but there is one with a variety of flash games that help with assessing your mouse movement and accuracy. Spending some quality time with this may very well improve your competitiveness.

http://aim400kg.ru/en/

 

[devhda]

memory and focus get worse with age: fact.

 

[Midwayman]

I guess age 25 isn't that old, in comparison to people over the age of 40. I also think that games have actually become a bit slower. Even CoD isn't nearly as fast as Quake 3 or Unreal Tournament were. Those were really Twitch games.

WTF? 25 is pretty much the absolute peak.

 

[Keeper]

At almost 42 years of age I can still play fps games on single player at Normal to Hard settings. Though multiplayer it moves so fast I can't even tell who is on what team and get my ass handed to me. My 2 friends at the same age as myself still OWN on many fps beating the hell out of teenagers/young adults. Guess just some people got game...I don't

LOL, wait till you are 55 like me. I have adapted a position though. I no longer have anything to prove when it comes to games. I still play on normal/hard, but if I hit a spot, and I am looking at 7 or 8 tries to beat it, and I KNOW I have the answer. I move the game to easy. My Play time is SO much more precious now between kids and grandkids. Im not spending a dozen reloads to beat a section. NOPE.
There were 5 or 6 spots in the Mass Effect series where I had to ratchet down.
Once in each version the first two Uncharted games. The first one pissed me off a little LOL. I played the WHOLE game on normal/hard. Could not beat that guy on the ship deck (I think it was a ship deck). Went to easy. Beat him. I log out as beating the game on easy. Didn't know that was the last fight and something really uncool about 99% means nothing LOL. But such is life.
My friend, I still love the story, the immersion. But there are some things that just wont be happening. That is life.
When it comes to MP, I know my son (28) is watching my back when we play, and sometimes he gets owned for it... More often than not he doesn't but I do LOL.
Hell, I had to get him to reboot D3 so I could beat Diablo. I just could not. No matter what I did. He logs on... And we own him first time.
Nope, never giving it up.
No matter HOW you beat the game, you can still enjoy the ride. Its NOT always about the destination. The ride can rock JUST as much. The person who beats it on easy had a VERY similar trip as the person who beat it on iron man.

 

[Super56K]

I'm younger than many of you posting in this thread, but all the same I've not noticed any kind of Murtaugh like too old for this feelings. Maybe the difference for me is I've never much cared for the competitive online play beyond my teenaged years with LAN parties and split screen Halo with friends. I'm a narrative driven gamer, and I enjoy those games as much as I used to. In a way they've grown up with me as the industry matures and branches out into new and interesting areas. Video games are as prevalent in our lives as they've ever been.

One thing to always remember - Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

 

[Makaveli]

WTF? 25 is pretty much the absolute peak.

25 is the peak of what?

 

[sweenish]

Your body's physical development.

 

[Midwayman]

Your body's physical development.

Yup. Or very close. 25 is physical prime.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I'm 34 here. I'm not as good in twitch gaming as I once was. Used to dominate every server in Quake 2 deathmatch. Then dominated 100% in Team Fortress Classic when I played that. Then RTCW: Enemy Territory I used to dominate servers pretty consistantly.

I've played Team Fortress 2 when the orange box came out ... and That's when I started to notice it was much harder to dominate a server. Orange box was late 2007 IIRC, so I was 27 at the time.

 

[alkemyst]

I am betting most at 25 here are no where even close to physical prime. Including those debating it's true.