Jokes on you. I never had the skills to begin with.

Oh no I no longer can play the incredibly toxic matchmaking multi-player games and instead have to enjoy the automation, exploration, story, management and strategy games I've always loved

MFW: you have given up PvP in favor of single player and PvE games as that live service treadmill and toxicity are too much now

It just means it’s time for solo 4x and single player RPGs.

Honestly the opposite happened to me. I'm 31 and I've been playing much better in terms of aiming than any other time ten or 20 years ago.

Me being terrible at games now is because I am old and can’t sink the same time into it. But I beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES. Do I really need to prove myself anymore?

Wait, y'all had gaming skills to begin with?

I can barely play online games against anyone without getting wiped in 0.0001 nanoseconds if it's a PVP game. Never had skills, so I'll never be in denial about losing what I never had.

Play 4x/grand strategy and youllvonly get better as you get older.

You might find yourself playing on slower speeds with rts styles though

The best part, I've never been competetive so I never tested myself, but sure as hell I am getting currently better at gaming.

Mostly because I am finally fighting off a list of mental shit I picked up growing up so my mind is growing cleaner and hand is becoming more sure. xD

This is the real reason to have kids. I'm not up on the Mario Kart meta, but I'll whup my seven year old around rainbow road any damn day.

I cut my teeth on games when being balls hard was the standard. I paid my dues. Nowadays I just put them on easy (and use save states for old games).

late 30's and I'll still whoop your ass at Street Fighter 6 or The Finals

Happened to me ages ago :3

I don't play enough competitive games to care anyway tho

59 years old today and still in denial.

From Atari's Combat, through Tribes, and now Helldivers, the gaming goes on. There may come a day when I put away my mouse and controller ...

BUT IT IS NOT THIS DAY!

Strategy and turn based RPGs FTW!

Beating modders and pros in Halo piece of piss.

Top 0.1% PvP stats in Destiny.

Get a job and a family, get back online and told to kill myself for being so bad.

For me it was the Doom reboot. I discovered my twitch reflexes just weren't what they used to be. Now I play only strategy games if anything at all.

I never had skills in gaming to begin with, I ain't good at all. At best I'm OK at strategy, but even then I'm bad. Just give me the computer and let me do DnD

My FPS skills have diminished mostly because I stopped playing them. But my souls skills are still good up until I get the adrenaline shakes in PvP.

But.... Why is the logo for this community a Bad Dragon?

I was never that good.....and then I got old. Still enjoy gaming though.

Late 20s: You realize gaming from the couch is getting difficult because the distance to the TV is too blur without glasses

Mid 30s: No longer able to consume infinite packets of instant ramen. In fact it kinda tastes nasty. Halo 3 at Legendary still tho.

Early 40s: Quake 3 Arena and Half Life 2 now give you motion sickness. Can still get by Halo at Heroic.

Late 40s: The 2ft distance to your monitor now looks blur without glasses. not getting past gold or silver in ranked Overwatch

Mid 50s: Gonna need reading glasses to play. Clair Obscur difficulty now set to Story.

Tried Ark the other day, looked awesome. So much damn micromanaging and juggling. Just nope

It's not me who changed. It's the esports driven fast twitch game style that has. I should probably try out my backlog of rainbow six games.

Fine, my kids can beat me at Rocket League sometimes now, but they still can't manage their duchies and bloodlines for shit in Crusader Kings.

Nope. Not me! I’ve got new glasses. That was the entirety of the problem. Nothing to see here…I’m not old

It's frustrating because I feel like my skills are actually still improving and better than they used to be but there's always some 11 yo kid who will absolutely wreck me over and over again to the point where I just quit out of shame.

I'm not even in the initial phases of dental denial, and Im a millennial, I'm not ready to get attacked like this in a meme!!

48 years old and I haven't dipped yet 😂

i still go on cod ww2 to pwn noobs but if i ever lose its because im going against no life sweats

Don't have to worry about gaming skills disappearing if you never had any in the first place :3

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.

I was already outdone like 10 years ago by my cousins who practically came with gaming consoles out of the womb. Idk how they figure the stuff out so fast.

When you finally accept that the days of truly fun competitive shooters are gone, replaced with loot boxes grinders and gatcha mechanics, so you opt to play the actually fun, solo games.

Have to relate to this somewhat, it's hard to find time or interest to practice fighting games with all the accumulated responsibilities of being responsible adult and a parent. While boomer reaction time checks are one thing, the bigger problem is having to practice against multiple different matchups in 3-4 different games. Probably should play these online a lot more, currently mostly playing on locals few hours once a week.

Tomas Jerby

Priorities change. Now I spend more time working on my house or riding my bike than I do gaming and that is OK. It’s fun to be casual too.

Just play different games. Sure the kids may have fast reflexes but they don't have the wisdom to commit the number of warcrimes that an older gamer can in Rimworld.

What? I don't find that at all.

People are too stressed and exhausted to live at a basic level, that tends to impact their ability to game although sometimes it makes them even more competitive with the small amount of time they have... but no I don't agree at all.

I am far better at video games than I used to be, admittedly I play a lot of them but that only makes my hand eye coordination locked in, the actually "being good" at games has little to do with that most of the time.

Honestly, going 27 years (of gaming), and I never was smarter and quicker to make tactical decisions. My hand may move slower, but I don't rely on dexterity when flanking your cover.

And other gaming skills, only better.

Or maybe ya'll are have been so full of hubris and are now finally getting wiser with age and start to recognize that you were always shit or average at best.

Idk I keep hitting full combos in my favorite rhythm games

never was all that good, but declining coordination and a desire to quit investing time/money playing games made me stop. Asynchronous social interaction is more my speed now. also gave away my guitars for similar reasons. quit driving last year. if you are still having fun, keep going. I can still type, sort of.