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Over 40 and less into new games?
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mamenewb100:
IMO no console controller should have more buttons than the SNES. For arcade games 6 buttons, since the buttons are bigger and you only have one hand available to use.
lordnacho:
Look at all the old fogies in here.

I hear ya though, you mentioned Batman.  Sort of interesting, I could play the game and generally pull off the moves as needed.  But in the damn upgrade screen, I always hit the wrong trigger button, like every time.  Something about my brain turning back on.
Sort of like typing on a keyboard.  I can type super fast when I'm not thinking about the keys and just thinking about what I want to type.  But when I think oh where's the P button, I look down for it.  I'm a big Starcraft fan and after playing it with the mouse for so long, I can't wrap my brain around using the keyboard like all the Koreans do :) 

As for choices in games, I don't really care.  They never really affect much other than an alternate ending.  I'm more into game play than story line.  My friend is the exact opposite, wants to listen to every NPC talk in games.  <yawn>
Upgrades are just a filler in games, more game time to get more upgrades.  Pick the ones that you want and don't waste much thought on it.   Some games that have so many upgrade choices have a reset, where you can pick another path if you get bored, like Borderlands(already mentioned).  But the good thing was you can just play it and not bother with it or analyzing every weapon you come across. 
jpS14:
I'm not over 40. I'm in my late 20's but the only thing that keeps me from playing new games all the time is what vigo said. It just take so long sometimes to even get the game started. If you haven't played a certain game in awhile then there is going to be an update and then it has to install and by the time I get to the start screen I'm not interested anymore. I remember my older brother used to make fun of the ps2 games because it would say loading then go to another screen that said loading. load to load lol
ChadTower:



+1 on time as said above.  Between my job, spending as much time as I can with my sons outside, and my sons' increasing interest in classic gaming I just have no interest in new stuff.  I don't have 20 hours to figure out how to play a game.  I want to walk up to a game, spend 15 minutes learning it, 15 minutes playing it, then go make dinner.  Or take the boys fishing/kayaking/hiking/anything else.  Or go play pinball. 


I think for me the real clincher was going online in a PS3 war sim.  I don't even remember which one it was.  Probably a Call of Duty.  I wasn't even talking but within 5 minutes had been called an amazing variety of gay, my mother/wife/sister had been threatened with lethal forms of rape, and every time I was shot the shooter would run up and rape my corpse while laughing hysterically.  It felt like a concentrated dose of the worst of the internet aimed right at 14 year olds.  ---fudgesicle--- that quite thoroughly, kthx.
Vigo:
Yeah, that sounds like the standard online Call of Duty experience.

If I can't mute out other players on an online game, I won't play anymore. 

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