• @DaveA
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    7024 days ago

    Are gamers getting older? It would be interesting to see how this breaks down by age.

    I’m getting older. I have 3 kids and no time. 10 years ago I had no kids and 3 time. Now when I play, I just put it on the easiest setting and play it like an interactive movie.

    • @[email protected]
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      3024 days ago

      I hear this. My life is survival mode. Games are for turning off that part of the brain for a little while.

      • @[email protected]
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        224 days ago

        Na, gaming is where I can realise great strategy I cant do in real life. I’ve never been at work going “just want to do this” before I go home and sleep

    • @[email protected]
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      1224 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve played plenty of Civilization over the years, but I’m married now. I have a kid. I keep a note with what I’m doing because it might be a couple months before I play again. I could play more, but I want to spend time with my wife and my kid. Usually when I take time to play I want to play again the next night, but that’s often not feasible, and then it turns into weeks again.

      • @DaveA
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        924 days ago

        I started playing Morrowind maybe 6 months back, got hours into the game and was having a good time. Then I didn’t get a chance to play for a month, now I haven’t gone back because I have no idea what I was doing since half the stuff doesn’t seem to be written in the journal, and when it is, it assumes I remember who the person is or where I was supposed to be going. So I just haven’t picked it up again.

        • @[email protected]
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          724 days ago

          To be fair, Morrowind is just that kind of game. It’s been many years since I’ve played it, but I remember it being one of the last truly open world experiences I got from playing games. The plot drops you off in the first city and kind of just let’s you go at it. I remember hours of just wandering until I ended up at the city of vivec, which is the mess of floating pyramid temple lookin jobbies out on a lake somewhere. I didn’t know shit about anything but it was awesome and that was enough for me. Elden Ring almost brings this feeling back sometimes.

          • @DaveA
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            424 days ago

            It was great while I remembered what was happening! But sometimes your only reference to a quest is something that says “Go out the door, take the third left, and look for an orange door” and you just have no idea even what city you were in when you got that note 😆

            During the couple of weeks I was playing it, I didn’t actually feel lost at all. But now trying to return to it just feels more like a chore than a good time. I’m playing Baldur’s Gate 3 now instead, I’m back in the era of quest markers!

            • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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              324 days ago

              You can add map markers with custom descriptions in Morrowind. I use them to leave little “what the fuck am I doing” notes for myself before leaving the game if I don’t know I’ll be back on within a couple days

              For real though it can be a hard game to jump back into if you’ve had it on pause for a while. I usually just make a new character at that point see where the new adventure goes. There are so many factions and places to explore no one character can experience the game in full anyway

              • @DaveA
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                124 days ago

                Map markers are one of those things that so many games have, and I never remember to use them!

                Jumping into a new game and taking a different direction does sound like a good plan.

    • Paranomaly
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      324 days ago

      The article says that they couldn’t find subgroups to show trends, so seems to be pretty flat across the board

      • @DaveA
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        124 days ago

        Ah yeah though not directly mentioned, I guess it does imply that.