players over 50 how you doing?

Now I don't feel bad about playing games @35. I hope to still be at it when I'm 63 (god willing I live that long). I always figured I would reach an age where I'd outgrow video games, but I just don't see it happening tbh.

Hi, just hit 50, joined PoE for 3 months, and I have an LV80 Templar in the standard league. I know I am slow in reflex, and I could panic if things go bad such like a half of life gone in a sudden, so I make everything simple in the game play.

For example, I use one single attack skill, Leap Slam only, for both AoE and single target, and I have several keys linked to this skill, Q, W, E and mouse right, so I can always react to the enemies timely. I have 3 red flasks lined up on my belt, all Bubbling, so no matter I hit 1, 2 or 3 I always get the same life restoration. And, I link every buff/debuff to my 2 sets of CwDT, like endurance cry, molten shell, enfeeble, etc. as it's just too much for me to manually cast all of them when encountering a pack of monsters. Well, I like the trigger gem so very much.

Soloing, I have started running LV66 / 67 maps, only die once or twice for every 5 maps which I run per day, most of time it's because of those DAMN rogue exiles ambushing me from nowhere. I love PoE, it's the best game I ever play.

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Nibli wrote:

Yea, I wondered if there were any senior citizens out there.

Well, I'm not a senior myself, but I'll gladly help you over the street if I bump into you. :D

Forty-one and feeling like a senior citizens every morning I wake up! :)

So great to hear that there are older people playing this magnificent game :)

"Johnny! Is that one of those bleeping VHS games you have there?"

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WhatTheHex wrote:

Did you old folks play when you were younger. Or have you been playing for a while? If I would in theory play till i'm 60 (i'm 20 now) do you guys think I would lose that much of my reflex capability?

I wouldn't say it's about reflex so much as RSI. I'm 50 and have aches and pains that relate to me sitting at a desk for work, using a computer (programming) all day. I don't count myself as a games player; I've only taken up about 10 games in the past 30+ years, but it doesn't matter if it's for work or for pleasure, if you are spending a lot of time at the keyboard, make sure you have good posture.

The first games I remember getting into were Crazy Comets on the C64 and Repton on the BBC. (I never owned these computers but I did have access to them because I sold them as my job). A demo version of Diablo was included on a magazone cover CD at the time that I bought my first PC (in 1997) and since then I've played it, Startcraft and PoE. That's about it.

And to answer the OP's question, my Ranger is lvl 78 in Domination, playing self-found and it's 2 levels since my only attempt at Piety. I've been farming / levelling in The Catacombs for some time now; it will soon be time for another crack at Piety.

I don't have much interest in micromanaging skills or theorycrafting, but I put that down to my disposition, not my age. Having said that, I'm getting better at both and if I were to start a new character, I'm sure it would be an improvement, just as my current lvl78 is over my previous ranger, who got stuck in Act II Merciless IIRC.

A large part of my reason for playing a ranger is that I couldn't be doing with spam clicking with a melee character. I don't think that is good for anyone, nor enjoyable for me.

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WhatTheHex wrote:

Did you old folks play when you were younger. Or have you been playing for a while? If I would in theory play till i'm 60 (i'm 20 now) do you guys think I would lose that much of my reflex capability?

I'm only 41, but I have been video-gaming since I was eight or nine. It started with one of those generic Pong-like consoles, which was followed by an Atari 2600. Then came the first computer, an Amstrad CPC 6128, which was succeeded by a bunch of Atari ST, STE and TTs (which decided my career) until I eventually bit the bullet in around '91 and switched to a IBM compatible system with DOS. (Because the Atari era was ending; I had wanted a Mac, but I couldn't afford one at the time ... lucky circumstance, in retrospect!)

I actually don't feel that my reflexes got worse. I was never really very good at extreme twitch games (which I feel PoE isn't -- that'd be hard platformers or beat'em-ups), and I'm doing as well in PoE as I did in D2 over a decade ago. I don't know what it'll be like in twenty years, but I don't think that reflexes really go down the tube as severely as it's sometimes believed. (Illnesses aside.) 60 really isn't very old anyway.

Age 63 and playing PoE , Respect

I actually work with an 80 year old who is in GREAT physical shape. She could probably play this game but wouldn't do very well I imagine.

Nice thread, keep up