Topic: Older XBox Players

I'm in my early 60s and love to play first-person shooter games. I'm wondering if there are others in my age range that play games and what games are they playing?

I've got a while to go until I'm in my 60s, but I hope I'm still playing when I am. I still won't have cleared my backlog by then though 😂

Have you always played games or is it a more recent thing?

I'll be 56 this year and still love playing xbox games. Currently playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor. I tend to prefer single player games and I'm crap at MP shooters LOL

I'm 49 this year and enjoy playing my Series X, although I too tend to stick to single player, with the very occasional jaunt into Halo multi player. I get far too frustrated with online as I'm usually terrible at it.

I'm in my 50's too and still enjoy gaming...

I will be 40 this year... My gaming taste has changed a bit with time. Mostly as I almost completely dropped FPS, fighters and more because there are not many available RTS). This has been because I was never a very competitive person and those genre are nowadays almost only for that.

I tend to play 90% of the time platformers, metroidvania, RPG and TPS/action adventure

@dmcc0 I've played Halo since it came out. Been playing Destiny since Destiny 1.

I'm 49 this year, and was chatting about this with a friend recently, how our tastes in games have changed over the years. Since COVID I have been getting into RPGs, something I had zero interest in when I was younger. Recently finished Witcher 3, and v much looking forward to Mass Effect trilogy and Cyberpunk this year!

I’m edging closer to 40 now! My gaming habits definitely change, sometimes online with a friend, but recently pretty much exclusively playing solo games. Quite a wide variety, from Mario Wonder to Red Dead, to Avatar right now. Whenever I get back into a good solo game it reminds me why I enjoy them so much!

Online is fun but I only play with friends who I know in person.

I’m 55 and have been gaming since the days of Space Invaders and the Atari VCS. No intention of stopping now! I like to alternate big in-depth games (BG3, Starfield etc.) with shorter indie oddities (Dredge, Jusant etc.)

i’m in my 20s but feel older when it comes to games . i don’t enjoy them like i used to, but i honestly blame it on lack of good new IPs instead of my age .

@nomither6 wait until you get into your 60s. The game play seems faster than what I remember. I can't play Doom. It just too fast even in crybaby mode.

@trekr200 do you play FPs games online, or mainly campaigns etc?

@BowsersBuddy campaigns

Recently turned 42, and my tastes are the same, but the industry has changed. You're right, everything got competitive, but it's also been pushed more and more simulation on everything. More realism, instead of just graphics looking more real. I hate ADS. I'll never understand the appeal of the weapon blocking half the ***** screen. Give me the option of the old school reticule.

Lots of games used to offer infinite ammo and other fun modes/options. I put 187 DAYS on Halo Reach because of the arcade style firefight and some social PVP (multi-team, etc). Gears 3 also had infinite ammo and super bullets for horde, but the new ones are a shitfest of ammo starvation, and the devs spent more time blocking speedruns on 4 than actually adding features to make it fun. The only thing I look forward to now is new Earth Defense Force games on PS, since they skip Xbox lately. Nothing else seems to offer infinite ammo and arcade shooter fun in co-op.

I used to like hack and slash games too. Now everything is either ***** slow "Souls like" or just terrible in some way while being called an "action RPG". What happened to all the proper hack and slash games? I did play the ***** out of Sekiro and beat it on the highest possible difficulty (NG+7+bell-charmless).

Sports/racing titles went to ***** too. All sim, including the wrestling games...even though wrestling was never real to begin with!

Nobody seems to offer anything really addictive to grind stats on like Reach was back in the day, or uncapped leveling like Diablo 3 was, etc. Even when I find something decent like Sniper Elite 4, the leaderboards are full of obvious hackers the devs won't do anything about, and the newest game (Sniper Elite 5) was ***** compared to 4. Those devs ***** up Zombie Army 4 too with DLC weapons never appearing in online survival whether you own them or now. Total *****.