Did your enjoyment of video games fall off in your 30's?

No but you get more picky with age, when i was small i could play any shitty game and fantasize about it for weeks

hah no, sometimes i even get sweaty and shit talk the 13 year olds in multiplayer games with voice chat. that only gets sweeter with age.

Yes. All I play is TF2 with the Anon Babblean on the weekends occasionally and otherwise I've quit playing video games altogether. They just don't interest me anymore and neither does anything else.

Nah, 20s because I was working so hard, now I've got a good work/life balance at 38 and I'm playing a lot more.

Seriously, why are there so many old people here? I always assumed that most of the posters here would be between the ages of 18-21. I'm 19 and if I saw myself posting past the age of 21 I would kill myself, so I can't imagine all these guys in their mid 20s and 30s using this website and feeling okay about it.

My enjoyment of life ended at 8 after watching my dad cave my moms head in and fail at killing me and himself by driving the car off a hillside. The only thing I enjoy now is watching the world go to hell.

The average Anon is 34.

Did your enjoyment of video games fall off in your 30's?

Nope

It's just a site bro lol, why do you think You need to have some sort of comitment to come here

no

Nah

the young folks these days just use an app, anon. most of us get free Anon Babble vacations once and a while just to keep it fresh.

You think I want to be here anymore? I'm here because my life is in shambles. I can't leave this place. I've been posting here since 2006, I don't know how to leave at this point, it's become part of my life.

Modern video games yeah, not my fault they're all dogshit. Still love older games though.

That week Anon Babble was down was the worst week of my life.

The world handed you an edgy anime revenge plot and you decided to mope about it.

I'm 28 and already there. I just tried replaying Doom 2016 after previously liking it and got tired of it 3 hours in, repetitive and lame
fuck it

I just can't infinitely replay stuff as much now.

I told myself the same thing 15 years ago, peter pan

i'll see you here again in one of these threads in 10 years
Get out now while you still can. If you think you can.

To be honest, it was actually refreshing, it sucked at first but then I got used to it and it was nice to have a break.

Hahahahaha.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Its already too late for you, laddie, you're here forever, just like us!

Well my standards become a lot higher of course.
When i had no point of reference i enjoyed the C tier games.
I still play as much as i did when i was younger, albeit it more selectively.

Same. I try to replay games I really enjoyed and find I hate them so much now, I've given up because I don't want to ruin any more fond memories of them.
I can count on 1 hand the number of games I've enjoyed in the past decade, old and new.

Disliked

Dark Messiah

Half Life 2

Max Payne

You know faggot, you just don't like videogames

No, because I was generally happier in my thirties than I was in my twenties, and now I am forty. I find that the happier I am with life in general, the more I enjoy vidya.

That's the same thing I asked myself years ago when I was still in my 20s. Now I'm in my 30s. I don't know how to answer that question.

Overrated trash.

I always assumed that most of the posters here would be between the ages of 18-21

You assumed that this two-decade old site would be populated mostly by people who weren't alive when it started?

Massively yes. Though I give 0 fucks about anything new so basically all games I buy are on sale which is nice.

In my 40s now and it's been declining for a few decades. There's no meaningful jump in graphics since PS4, most of my friends are busy with kids, I'm busier with work, and there's just less new novel experiences to be had with the medium after playing for so long. AAA has been mediocre slop since the mid 00s and I'm never paying more than 40 quid for a new game.
It feels like there's more choice than ever, but worthwhile games are rarer than they've ever been.

My enjoyment of life in general fell off in my 30s

when I play a game I kind of enjoy I generally think I would have really enjoyed it if I were younger, it's depressing

you're one of us, anon. you just don't know it yet.

Dark Messiah is a weightless balloon sword fighting sim with a suffocatingly bland world and story, its only real saving grace is goofy physics and kicking people
Half Life 2 is a tech demo whether you like it or not, and it's far too cinematic
Max Payne is broken bullet spongy crap, plus too cinematic and repetitive. kill some enemies, Max waxes poetic, cutscene, kill more enemies and repeat. the third-person perspective also adds nothing to the game and hinders it in places since you can never fully see what's in the next room. if it was an FPS it would be clearer that is has abysmal level and encounter design

Yes but only because of mental illness, and it's getting better

sword fighting sim

you clearly didnt play this game

what games are they

I'd give anything to return to the world as it was in the 90s-mid 2000s, but I think if I was 30 back then, I'd probably be just as miserable. It's only because I was a kid/teen at the time that I look back on it so fondly.

I generally don't feel anything with most games nowadays. Maybe a game every couple year kind of does something for me.
Last I can remember were Sekiro, Death Stranding and E33

I'm more than twice your age. Enjoy your newfound addiction to anger.

You expect oldfags to vacate for a bunch of newfags?

Team Fortress 2
Minecraft
Unreal Tournament 2004
Cities: Skylines
That's it. Those are the only games I consistently go back to and still find enjoyable.

You literally could walk into places and be hired on the spot. Don't you ever fucking downplay how good the world once was.

For me, it wasn't. I ended up just browsing the other Altchans.

The newer games are so fucking spastic with their fucking run-stop-aim-shot formula. It's all the same games! I genuinely thought the new Delta Force would be something new and refreshing but holy fuck, it's just cawadooty hero run and shoot bullshit. There's barely anything fun anymore. Everything is centered around the newer generation that has the attention span of a retard. If things aren't constantly flying in your face, they won't make a game of it.

I have a good job, but I have no friends anymore and the world just seems so bitter and superficial now, but plenty of people were saying the exact same thing back then which is why I think it's seeing the world through the eyes of a child that made it seem better than it really was.
Still can't imagine being a kid today. It just seems awful with how much technology and constant surveillance they have to suffer with.

I need to finish my backlog before I have kids.

I stopped browsing this shithole when I was 18, only coming back over a decade later because it was the only place you could find footage of the wu flu ripping through china. I cannot imagine having spent the last of my teens or any of my twenties on this sit lmfao.

Nah, it was lit with none of this modern bullshit.

I'm gonna be 45 in a couple months and I've been here since 2006. You are here forever. It will happen to YOU.

yeah

Zoomer fucking picks.

be newfag

find old website

"wtf why are there a bunch of oldfags here? I'm going to go somewhere else in a few years"

Where anon? Where else? To a new website?

New games don't attract my attention as they used to, and if they do, I prefer simple games that don't force you to play 24/7 or have 150 hours of gameplay to finish them, and you can stop playing for weeks without having to start from scratch because of complex mechanics.
But of course, I'm autistic over racing and fighting games and those are the exception.

It doesn't. Your frame of perspective does.
You no longer have 10 hours of free time to mod a game to your specific autistic liking anymore, only to realize on tiny thing is off, so you have to start over again.
You no longer have thousands of free hours to grind the gear and skillset to compete in some online slop.
You no longer have the opportunity to play all of the things that you liked as a kid for the first time again.
That's just how it is on this bitch of an earth.

But still, I occasionally find a time fucking vampire of a game that sucks me in harder than the biggest fucking whore in Las Vegas. Those kind of games are rare now, but they come by.

This site was made before you were born. It lacks a lot of features that appeal to your age group since it pushes the old mentality of not giving away personal information online and doesn't actively encourage users to turn using the website into a fucking job.

Everyone calls this website a shithole and it kinda is, but no joke I see less obvious AIslop and "influencer" marketing than any other major website so long as I avoid the politicized shithole boards/threads.

I cannot imagine having spent the last of my teens or any of my twenties on this sit lmfao.

And yet you came back here anyway.

I turned 30 last July and I've played (and completed) more games since than ever before.

Dumping my list:

Kult: Heretic Kingdoms

Space Marine 2

Valfaris

Dishonored

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided

Terminator: Resistance

Risen

Risen 2

Age of Mythology: Retold

Greedfall

Dread Delusion

Gothic II

Expedition 33

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines

Elden Ring

I'm currently finishing Lords of the Fallen and I've also played a few other games that I couldn't be arsed to finish like Shadow of Mordor,Spellforce 2,Tower of Time,Guild Wars and Last Epoch. Not that they were necessarily bad games but they couldn't keep me interested in either the story or the gameplay for too long.

Yes, thanks for stating what was already said sherlock. Want me to add the addendum where I didn't spend the best part of my youth here while (you) will?

Somewhat. I don't have much time anymore, and the decline of the industry is also helping me just let go
That said, E33 made me feel in my 20s again, and now I grabbed tales of symphonia for very cheap and I'm also really enjoying it. I just need to be very selective with the games I'll play

I didn't spend the best part of my youth here

Where did you spend it? Slaving for shekelberg? Getting indoctrinated at university? Doing vapid normalfaggot shit? You wouldn't be here if you had anywhere better to be.

This. But i dont really want to do anything else

30 anon

You wouldn't be here if you had anywhere better to be.

Didn't say otherwise. Just as my twenties will be infinitely better than yours and there's not a single fucking thing you can do about it. LOL!

I turn 30 this year and first started using this site when I was eleven.

it's taken me until my 30s to fully understand what I actually like and stop being so embarrassed and self conscious about
I also appreciate the work and craftsmanship that goes into things I really like infinitely more and it makes me enjoy things way more than I ever did as a retarded kid trying to be cool and feeling isolated in a boomer family
so no, fuck off with your HURR TIME PASSING BAD thread number 178293963638736

In this economy? I doubt it.

Based and same.
I'm enjoying my thirties more than any other period of my life to date.

No, because I'm not a depressed sack of shit. Video games are still fun, so are my other hobbies, I still have aspirations and friends. Responsibility and stress existing and the world going to shit in a lot of ways doesn't mean you have to be miserable and lose joy in what you once loved.

How do I stop gaining weight?

If the game is good I will enjoy it. Problem is most games suck now.

I'm still a worthless neet but feeling better about myself and the things I actually like has made me a lot happier
hopefully I can start being more productive and independent before my dad dies

Nope, I love video games and wish I was at home playing them now.

Did you try eating less and exercising? If yes, see a doctor. If no, get off your fat ass.

I eat once a day

I still enjoy videogames. I just can't seem to play them for more than 15 minutes a day anymore otherwise the pain is unbearable.

Skip starches and sugars most meals, cook from scratch, and exercise more (not just cardio).

Yes, but so did my overall enjoyment of life, so it kinds of balances out.

You can do it, bitch!

You're getting too many calories in for how much you're expending. Even if you have one meal a day, if you get 5000 calories and only burn 2000, you're going to have a surplus of 3000 calories that gets turned into fat

Being a kid was awful. My peers sucked, my teachers sucked, my friends sucked, my dad molested me for years and my mom didn't notice. Now I can get drunk and play all the vidya I want without dealing with those morons.

Video games? No.
Sex? Yes. The smell alone gets me and women my age have spoiled pussies that reek

inb4 clean girl

Fit, skinny, fat, it don't matter. It's like old people smell. Even the teens don't make me horny. Now its da bussy. Greeks, Romans, and Japanese had it right.

Nah, I still love games. The problem is moreso the lack of time/energy to play them since I have a job and a wife and kid.

I'm a lot more selective about what games I play and have no problem just dropping a game if I'm not enjoying it anymore. I also dropped out of the competitive online game scene entirely because I refuse to be a fucking scrub after being top 1% in any game I played online.

It's amazing how people on Anon Babble will confidently say the stupidest things while posting clips of themselves being bad at video games.

Are you implying the economy is better now than when I was 20? Or are you just fucking retarded. No need to answer.

This website is old as fuck. Even the idea of "visiting a website" is something that is foreign to kids and teenagers, probably even todays young adults. Of course its old.

exquisite bait, oldfag

I just got a lot more picky

anon thinks the you’re here forever is a joke

lol lmao

not at all. I play, enjoy, and finish more games now that I'm in my 30s. probably because I don't waste my time on mmo's and multiplayer slop anymore.

Honestly Anon Babble should steal some of the stuff from other altchans like letting you post more than one image on a post. It can’t be that hard to add

I always assumed that most of the posters here would be between the ages of 18-21.

Anon Babble is older than you.

In my 40s. Still playing games I played when I was a kid (modded).

36, not really

You are here forever and you are a pussy suicide takes courage

37
460 games finished
Still going strong

Hiroshimoot was too cheap to even update the site's backend until shit hit the fan and to be honest I have my doubts things actually updated. He's not gonna add a feature that will almost definitely increase overhead. I just want to see a move back toward forums and imageboards. I'm so tired of everything being either monetized or for social clout rather than just for the fun of it. Even trolling morphed from just fucking around to an actual full time fucking job in the form of astroturfing.

Fuck no, those look like shit 99% of the time and people just shart whatever stream of thought unrelated lines of reaction images to fill out the spaces.

Isn't this the board that wanks off "limitations breed creativity"?
Figure out what fucking image you want to post first.

vaginas stink

so I'll stick my dick in literal shit instead

It's okay to just admit you realized you were gay. It's not 2003 anymore.

Anon Babble is built by male 30+ pussyfree millenial virgins.

HAve some respect, zoomer.

bot post ignored.

It fell off when I was 19. Bought a 780 ti just because the Rise of the Triad reboot didn't run well. Between that and Planetside 2's terrible performance, I quit gaming for more than a decade.

Shut up, Stu

After 30 I still enjoyed games and I noticed I focused on a few. I also started checking out on the whole 'gamer' identity or avoided the whole gaming community thing as in I wanted to be less associated with that. I stopped collecting physical games or any merch etc. as well

Nope. I've been quite enjoying fantasy Life i and I'm looking forward to Stellar Blade. 35.

you're here forever

grim zoomer taste :[

No, it fell off a little before. Around 27 or 28 or so.

35 year old virgin

No, but I mostly play my DS backlog these days.

For me it's a combination of these two.

Brutal TRVKE

this, i think 20-25
i still play cause i dont have anything better to do

In a way, yeah.
Game design kinda got derailed by all the wrong people. I'm getting too old for all this parry timing shit too.

Look outside, regardless of your location, culture has changed. Many stay inside and ponder the orb, for many outside is dangerous or illegal. At least we are all equal in distrust, poverty, and fear.

i've seen this exact thread and posts before. get new material already, (you)s are not meant to be upbotes

Git gud.

When the newfags run the board and spam twitter and steamchart threads, it seems like the smarter move

"There's nothing new under the sun"

Contrary to popular believe websites like reddit and other forums have people in their 60's and even 70's using it, so how the fuck are you bitching about a 20 year old image board having anons in their 30's?
People older than you exist faggot, the world didn't just pop up specifically when you were born.

blood and piss vs shit

It do be like that

it dipped for a while I guess but then I got back into it
you guys are just depressing tbqh