Anons over 40, how do you cope with being an older gamer?

because the game sucks

I've wasted my life

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And this is why you're a virgin at 40

Still curious that you havent shifted to solo games (meant to be played at your own pace and they have a real story).

pathetic, have sex incel

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Zoomer here, you're full of shit; while your on high expectations on games are fairly well made, your argument exploded into shambles when you even implied that the broken mess of a game piranha bytes worked years on is good, elex is a completely broken game with bugs that make a bethesda game have blizzard polish in comparison.

And no! People do remember Ultima VII, the Gothic Series, and even some of the less known titles you mentioned like Albion & Dark Sun; just because there isn't a thread up all the time discussing these old games it doesn't mean they're forgotten. Your point on console centric shit is also full of shit, you just want a excuse to shit on newer games, just because a game is universally aclaimed it doesn't mean its console garbage, maybe the witcher 3 has been given all these awards for years because it's a genuinelly well made game that setup new expectations on the industry as a whole or nah its just journos shilling consoless and open world games of old are obviously better YOU FUCKING NIGGER

>unironically following tradition for the sake of it
>unironically caring about the future when you're just gonna die and everything you do will be forgotten in a few decades anyway

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>being this much of a fucking nihilist

>not wanting to make the most of the live you're given unless you wanna relive the same amount of suffering when you inevitably restart your life in a new timeline
based boomer

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>tfw nephew never had the makings of a varsity athlete

>Still curious that you havent shifted to solo games (meant to be played at your own pace and they have a real story).
Oh, I am single-player focused through and through. We are talking about 4 DOTA bot matches over a year, or around 6 hours of Overwatch since January. Other games this year, for instance, are over a hundred hours each in Risen 3, Wizardry VIII, Prey, and a Neverwinter Nights module.

Who says marriage is getting the most out of life? I know lots of people who have gotten married and ended up all the more miserable for it. Having someone to love, to hold, etc, doesn't mean much when the resentment sets in when one of you inevitably can't do what you want to do, for the sake of the other.

So why are you on Yea Forums instead of outside trying to find your unicorn wife to start a family with?

How about you let people decide how they want to live by themselves?

nothing objectively matters buddy, everything else is coping, the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, good people suffer under psychopaths, nothing in that equation has changed for thousands of years, no point being part of the cycle by having children and forcing them to live through it like you have because your own ego of immortality by proxy

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>maybe the witcher 3 has been given all these awards for years because it's a genuinelly well made game that setup new expectations on the industry as a whole
opinion discarded

whats the difference between coping as an older gamer and a younger one. Your still a nerd/loser. The thing that matters is what you have in life besides gaming and that goes for any age

im 19 and i hope i dont get to the point where i still post on Yea Forums when i'm 40

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You're already half way there, user. It'll happen to you.

>there are people in there 30s posting on Yea Forums
I can't wrap my brain around this. The amount of shitposting convinced me that most people here are 14-19.

don't worry, I doubt you'll make it to 40 with whats coming up

2008 ruined the future for millennials, among other things

>tfw you're 39 and still posting on Yea Forums
just one year left

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you never had the makings of a veracity gamer

It's entertainment, why would you need to cope? Do 40yo cope with being a movie/tv watcher?

If you're over 25 you need to get the fuck out
Grown ass men obsessed with a website for porn addicts and social retards is as low as your life can get. I do not believe that any of you even have kids so don't bullshit me.

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What happened Uncle Jun
Based.

Exactly this. Yea Forums is full of teenagers who really lack perspective, so I'm not surprised that they are nervous about aging.

Damn.. it's almost like if you focus on only the bad stuff.. the only thing you see is bad stuff.

Who gives a shit how old you are

that's what we all said my dude

you'll still be here. the years will pass by very quickly, and suddenly it will happen without you realizing it

pls no

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>there are people on Yea Forums that don't want wizard magic
normalfag central

There's always this faggot.

I am thankful I didn't start coming to Yea Forums until I was over 40. Its good knowing that I didn't waste my youth in this shit hole.

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Hey man, I got my wizard powers taken from me while I was having a sleepover at my cousins house, and she mounted me while I was asleep.

>how did you fail so hard in the game of life?
I was born with crippling social anxiety disorder

I live like I am 35

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try having your entire future stolen because of chronic illness that makes you a burden on family, then somehow finding a girlfriend during tour depression who understands everything and helps you get out of it, only for half her family to die randomly, but you try to move on with her and get a place from her inheritance , then 6 months later she gets diagnosed with a degenerative disease making her worse off than you so now you're both housebound and broken which means children are no longer possible and now your mom has moved in to help you both but then another 6 months later she too dies randomly and now matters at all since neither you nor your girlfriend have a future. Now a year later you're arguing online how pointless life is to some asshole that tells you to make the best of your totally hopeless situation

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Stop watching youtube skeptics kid

>anons over 40
it sounds ridiculous

i think you should try reddit if the thought scares you

how do you know that user isn't happily married?

because you can't be happily married

how do you know that anons not married

This image is like 5 years old now

How can you yearn for the olde days of gaming while bitching about consoles? Are you fucking serious? In 2nd generation gaming there were over 18 different consoles, majority of which were shit. In 8th gen gaming there's only 4, all of which are good.

SPOILER
I fell younger in my 40s, 30 is the shit eating decade

i have, i've started to not really like it that much. i don't like the culture it has anymore.

I thought I was the oldest guy here at 30

You gotta look for those golden nuggets of things to savour, as there's a negative stigma surrounding anything when you look at the surface; Yea Forums and reddit are gonna have bad, easily digestible content if you're lazy, just different coats of familiarity. Don't get stuck in here, learn a skill, have aspirations, look to fix conditions in your neighborhood, and volunteer.

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Same user, im just starting my life to. Only sadness awaits.

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i mean i have skills (im a drawfag and musicfag) but i got like no reliable way to intrinsically give myself motivation on stuff even if i really wanna do it on new things (like 3d modeling/animation) cuz i have a fear of failure that i don't have the discipline to resolve myself

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It's the nature of cultural evolution/decay. I don't get "infuriated" about it but then I'm secure in my opinions and don't feel the need to convert others or for others to validate me. There's nothing you can do about it so I don't get upset.

>Grown ass men obsessed with a website for porn addicts and social retards is as low as your life can get.
>a website for porn addicts and social retards
That's most social media sites, user.

>then I'm secure in my opinions
You missed his point. He said it impacted genres/sales. I don't know about PB games but I definitely agree with him based on my experience with how other genres have devolved. You sound pretty arrogant to be honest.

hey, marriage can be fun, don't generalize

>I don't get "infuriated" about it but then I'm secure in my opinions and don't feel the need to convert others or for others to validate me.
why are you twisting his post, lol
he mentioned how some obscure niche games get shat on because of the mindset, this obviously implies revenues and thus profits, future investment, firing personnel, and in the end no games in the niche

Yea Forums these days, lol.
>secure in my opinions
>proceeds to trying to self-validate it by strawmanning

the path to overcoming it is belittling every challenge you face

telling myself "well fuck my anxiety cant get worse who fucking cares" went a long way towards nutting the fuck up for me, user

i think im gonna make it. you can too

Oof the cringe is off the scales.

I've accepted I'm never going to have kids, so instead I'm going to be the best Uncle I can be for my nieces and nephews.

Unironically have sex.

>been alive for 50 years
>haven't played one good vidya yet

this life is just one long stream of shit games.
it doesn't get any better ever...

50 years from now we will probably all still be here complaining about shitty vidya.

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its sad that you would be taken more seriously if you fucked a roastie and had 5 neglected kids running around.

It's the crux of humanity that we suffer inside(not to sound too melodramatic), procrastination and fear/anxiety is a natural reaction to pressure from what we expect ourselves to be, and what we THINK of how impossible progress can be. Our time is limited so there is intrinsic fear of misusing it. The first step is the hardest, I should know I'm only 19 myself. Here's a process I use that could help you.

1:Detach from what you're currently doing if you're procrastinating
2:Contemplate why you're not doing what you want to do to improve yourself
3:Listen to handpicked music at low volume while you switch focus from procrastinating to actively working
4:Enjoy what you're learning. There's always a hump, but if you've been doing something for too long and are doing it only for the sake of completion, DON'T. We work best when goals are tracked not by how long we do them, but how MUCH we accomplish in a session.
5:Take breaks, both hourly and weekly. We're not robots.

Feel free to ignore what I said if you feel I'm talking out of my arse, I'm learning to live life happily as well. Also, and this is big, don't focus on simply on improving yourself. It's necessary, but only in the short term. Instead, really take time to help others. Volunteer at a food bank or goodwill. You meet good people, and hopefully make good connections or experiences. Lastly, don't stay on Yea Forums or reddit for hours everyday. This place will take a toll on your life if unchecked, as seen here. Don't be too nihilistic. That philosophy really only suits the SELF, and not the whole. Personally, I've gone from enlightened centrist to social democrat (ye I succ dem), check out RationalWiki, as well as Contapoints, Shaun, and Three Arrows. Don't buy into the /pol/koolaid my friend. People can act cool and sling insults, but it doesn't matter if we can't make life better for ourselves or other people

Also have you seen that new SBfBB rehydrated gameplay? Shit looks lit

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Why are you even here?
>inb4 "hurr implying Yea Forums likes videogames"

Zoomers aren't supposed to destroy us based boomers like that, what the eff.

this was a long ass monologue, but hopefully I wasn't too preachy, you're your own person so make of what I said what you will. Seriously though this place, and really by extension any social media can whittle your life down to paranoia. I shilled a little, I won't lie, but they really are people who made me see points more clearly(kyle kulinski and "knowingbetter" as well, to mention just a few), especially compared to this dump. There's a reason m00t left. Don't get caught in the dumpster-fire.

If you have psn, shoot me up at regulo1d if you wanna talk more.

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you don't belong here you normalfag zoomer also 80/20 rule and getting married is a bad idea thanks to divorce law

spotted the toddlers

the answer is existential defiance and anger, let your life be a testament to your unbreakable will to persist and wrap yourself in a blanket of glory

>volunteer
what the fuck kind of 19 year old are you? my mom dragged me to a soup kitchen every other day as a teenager and it was fucking awful. I admire your optimism though. Once you get into your mid 20's you become a cynical husk if you don't play your cards right.

AND MY LOOKS

haha, yeah I can understand that. Like I said, I don't do something if I don't enjoy it at least in some capacity, and going everyday would certainly wear you thin, regardless of outlook. Still, connecting with some people at my foodbank taught me alot (veteran's affairs, ICE, the fucked up healthcare in the us), and it's those experiences with people that help me trudge on, knowing if we could help each other, things can get better, although that's certainly easier said than done.
Yeah, the way society at large works can really grind one's spirits down (just look at suicide rates), and if I truly felt it was 'unwinnable', I probably would lose hope. But then, I remember my sister's lives, the efforts of my parents, and the compounding effect of realizing the common struggle we all face, and know without hope, there is no future as it's written in the dictionary. Of course, there's a fine line between hope and being foolhardy about life, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't push the boundaries, right?

>hes 18+ and plays videogames

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>poster is underage
b& incoming

>unironically following tradition for the sake of it
If you don't know what the fuck you're doing (most people don't), following tradition is generally the best decision.

guys I cannot refute his arguments

I think fucking wasted my lfe

youtube.com/watch?v=AAJB6lytG94

All of that will fade away. Thinking your anger and defiance will somehow matters to existence is the height of arrogance.

>All of that will fade away.
if you've convinced yourself you're defeated no one can help you
>caring about arrogance when your life is at stake
what a fucking pussy bitch attitude, sincerely

In the past about 40% of men never reproduced. I wouldn't be surprised if that number climbed to 50%-60% today

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And yet you you have no counters to what I said. Like a child thinking their silent attitude somehow affects their parents you're wiggling your tiny tiny hand at the universe thinking that it hears you. Your wannabe toughness will fade just like everything else leaving no traces of you ever being here. Why bother pretend your existence is more than what it is?

>getting the most out of life
>Fucking marrying and having kids

That's literally asking for your life to be over.

I've lost interest in newer games. I'm just playing old games. Once in a while I play new good games.
Had sex, but I think I really dgaf anymore about family.

>ooooh noooo baaaaw my personal life doesn't affect all of the universe for all of eternity
genuinely grow up and takes what you can have, your nihilism is nothing but a lame self defense mechanism to justify your apathy

you can still influence the people around you in your life and those moments are equally valid as any other moment in infinity, just because they are finite and will eventually pass on does not mean they don't matter while you are here, living to experience them

at least you got to know your parents and have someone you love, life can always be worse user. struggling against it, seemingly futile as it is, is the only defence in a chaotic world that does not care for us. struggle on, do your best to make her happy

too much Gabagool

>retarded zoomer trying to force his 'lol just stay positive' attitude he got from watching too many shounen anime on someone clearly older with more life experience
I love retarded zoomers that will always spout shit they have no clue about until they grow older. Don't worry, everyone is like that when they are younger :^)

>zoomer
>screeching this hard because i confronted you with your pathetic self defeating rationalization of apathy
stop being a pussy user go do something, age has literally nothing to do with it or you're just weak

>age has literally nothing to do with it or you're just weak
This. Even if you are a zoomer faggot, at least be better than some bitch wallowing so deep in his self pity that he wears it like a badge of honor.

>some bitch wallowing so deep in his self pity that he wears it like a badge of honor
yeah nihilism is total garbage lmao

this thing of ours..

If you're 40, just hang in there for another 10 years. Past 50 your body starts producing certain hormones and chemicals that'll make you feel "content" and sort of happy. You'll learn to accept whatever shitty situation you are in so that you won't be dangerous/a burden to the rest. Whether you like it or not.

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one step ahead of the youngsters to sweet release.

DESU, no matter what, you'll always leave your mark.
Your tiny brain just can't comprehend how your actions/inactions affect everything in a larger scale down the line.

but

>he cares about kids or having some roastie wife

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>toxicity
>likes for there to be no challenge
You're obviously a high-estro faggot.

based 40 year old boomers

32. Got a wife and kid.

>Have lost all interest in videogames
>Still download all the latest releases
>Install
>Play for 20 minutes and turn it off
>Have got 20+ games installed I'll never touch
>Occasionally play a game I've already completed before like Starcraft or Fire Emblem

How do I get my love of videogames back?

Honestly, very few married couples are happy. Most wives cheat. Most'll divorce you.

82% of women are having sex.
But only 72% of men are having sex.

What does this mean?

Sex with my husband

I think the recent stats are something like 40-50% of men and women never reproduce.