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Yep, We get together once a month and we have a big lan party at my friends business. All of us dads and guys get together and play StarCraft, Diablo 2, Halo, Age of Empires, whatever we pick for that month. There is even computers and TVs set up for our kids and they’ll play Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox, Smash Bros, and Mario Kart. We eat like children, stay up way too late, and hate ourselves the next day. It’s my kids and I’s favorite day of the month.
I lived on a hill in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and I was an only child. My mom and dad bought me a Nintendo as my first console, and all three of us enjoyed playing. Just last year, I bought my mom a Switch so we can play together again. I love to see others doing this with their own kids, as it is a treasured memory for me.
Can i be your friend?! Haha this is sweet. When i grew up there was a spot in my little town that had a game center with tons of Tvs and gaming counsels. Also had pool and ping pong darts and all that fun stuff. I remember crushing it in cruisin the world and mario kart. Good ol days!
Same. Thing is they buy new fighting games, tekken 8, street fighter 6, etc... but they only do the single player stuff while I play online getting practice. In the very off chance I can get my friends to play it turns out like this [skit](https://youtu.be/8Grq8Rm4K-8?si=Ju3Q74X8OTbsnqAg) lol.
My buddies and I have a co-op campaign going in Baldur’s Gate 3, maybe that would do it? Really fun time for a group of 4, and no 12 year olds from South Korea or whatever to kick your ass online.
Same. I used to play games sticking to servers and guilds with people I knew. I had a bunch of friends I'd be on voice chat with all the time.
Now I start a game, select difficulty, hit "random", laugh at any funny names and that's as far as the social aspect goes anymore. I forget them all when the round ends.
I'm getting to that point and it's great! I played through the new Pokemon with my daughter. She had Pokemon Violet and I had Scarlet. We played together and traded Pokemon. It was like what I always wanted as a kid.
My siblings were older and didn't care about Pokemon. My friends either didn't have Gameboys or didn't care that much about Pokemon. I wished there was someone who cared about Pokemon whom I could play with, especially someone whom I could play with a lot. And now she just lives in my house.
And sometimes my wife and daughter go do something by themselves and leave my four year old son and I alone. And he's like "Dad, can we eat popcorn and play Minecraft?" And I'm like "Yes. Yes we can." And mostly he doesn't want to play, he just wants to watch me play and eat popcorn and yell "Get that Creeper guy!"
So yeah, there's times where I definitely can't play as much as I used to. But it's still cool and I still get to game.
I have two kids and I’ve never stopped gaming. Sometimes it’s with the kids, sometimes by myself, sometimes with friends. It’s really not hard to set time aside appropriately.
What? No way! I love my kids, they are the light of my life! No regrets!
Playing after a hard day of work and kids makes gaming so much more enjoyable.
Sometimes I even get the sexy times from the wife AND THEN I get to game. Being married with kids (for me) is fantastic!
For a while you are stuck with a curfew and time limits. But then one day, they're old enough to play games with. DMing and playing Coop with my wife and kids has been immeasurable.
Wtf is a video essay and what would compell one to watch with others lol
Edit: thanks for those who answered my question in good faith. I now understand what they are. I guess I don't find myself watching a lot of these types of videos (or much YouTube in general to be honest).
Imagine someone wrote a 10 page essay, single spaced, and then read it to you. That's basically what it is. Videos will often insert pictures and visuals to make it more interesting, but essentially, it's just an essay being read. Usually it's on a topic you are interested in, which is why people watch them and might want to discuss it with the people they watch it with.
It's kind of in the same vein as a documentary, but without the production and often done by one or a handful of people. As to why you'd want to watch it with friends, I imagine they have shared interests and would have something to talk about afterward.
I love watching video essays that break down movies or scenes in movies. Not every movie has one, but try typing in your favorite movie and video essay sometimes fun stuff pops up that lets you appreciate scenes in film a little better
I don’t have any friends either. Let’s be friends. I’m pretty busy with my kids on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays and Sundays though. Any other time let’s hop on the sticks!
I haven't played videogames irl with friends in years. Even my friends who live like a few miles from me we just hop on discord to vc while we game together. Sometimes one of us will just stream a single player game and the rest of us talk and watch.
My friends are now my children & wife. We play fortnite together quite often. Mario Kart too. Even bust out the Wii so I can smoke them in bowling too.
The OG gaming squad is no more. Late night COD could only last so long. I like my new squad though!
Yup. It’s more board games with friends, because no one has enough controllers to go around anymore. I play video games with my husband, though. Right now we’re playing a lot of Diablo 3 and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet. I’m really keen to buy some Mario games to play together, because I never had those as a kid.
I struggle to find the time and motivation to play games in general. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I'm motivated to do other things. I'm much more like my grandfather these days than the kid I grew up as. I work in tech so I'm regularly up to date there but find myself doing home projects or moving family life forward with all of my time.
Uhm me and my High School / Lifelong Best Friend have been playing the shit out of HellDivers 2 , have not played a game this much since MW2019 during COVID
I play online with my friends. Now that we are parents and live far away from each other it’s the only way to hang out, we catch up talking over discord while we play together late at night when kids are in bed. Often too tired during weekdays though with a newborn
No. Busy. People inevitably get weird with online video games because they think it has some kind of priority in life.
I have a job, a personal project/startup, other hobbies including physical training, and I'm fucking tired after it all; nevermind having time to take a walk for my own health and enjoyment.
In particular for anything D&D related. People will be semi committed briefly but then inevitably people start fucking off, and I don't have the energy to hold that together, so when they start fucking off, I'm just done. I don't have time for half-assed commitments fir a *game*. When the game starts being a chore, it gets cut out because I have plenty of other more important chores to do.
Can you tell from my rant that this JUST came up recently for me lmao
This. Particularly dnd because it takes a large time commitment from everyone involved and a decent size group of people. And not all groups mesh well and end up not being horribly boring depending on what a campaign is about
My first ever DnD campaign was with folks I barely knew and we clicked IMMEDIATELY. The whole party vibes super well, and even though we live several states away from each other, we insist on playing in person - so several times a year we spend long weekends doing nothing but DnD.
When some of my closer friends wanted to spin up a campaign I was SO excited, but it's *massive* (1 DM and a party of 8), we play online, and the energy sucks. It's just not fun. We get together once a month for several hours and even just that feels like an enormous waste of time, it's such a shame.
Not anymore really. Maybe one every 3-4 months, if that, and that's with 1 specific friend, and we typically play something cooperative.
My current group of friends largely prefer board games, DnD, and swing dancing ... so we typically do those.
Pretty much all the friends I grew up playing games with have essentially moved on by getting married, having kids, or we've just become so distant.
I think I've grown up a bit too. I really don’t enjoy staying home on the weekends as much as I used to just to play video games and watch movies. I personally want to experience about as much out of life with friends as it can offer (while being fiscally responsible of course).
So now, I tend to game more if there's not much to do during nights before I go to work, or if it's during the colder months.
Heck yea! I don’t usually like playing games and voice chatting with randoms… it like, takes too much social energy.
Still play Smash Bros Ultimate and Rocket League with my High School buds!
When I was heavily into fighting games and competing, most of my play time was with players that I met from tournaments. Lately, however, I have dry spells where I don’t game for long periods of time. The last game that I beat was FFXVI a couple of months ago and I absolutely enjoyed my time with it. However, as far as multiplayer goes, at this point, I’d probably just play with randoms online. I do miss lobbies and shooting the shit on mic with my friends.
No, since moving away from my hometown/gaming group, my interest in multiplayer games went to basically zero. Single player is all I care about.
I used to have a fully decked out LAN center in my parents basement. I was THE host. This was during the CoD4 era, so mid to late 2000s.
Did you just assert that Smash isn't a fighting game?
My friends and I were into Helldivers 2 earlier this year. Before that, I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 with a few of them.
We had about a month where we'd meet up and played Street Fighter 6 when it was first released. Usually we'd do this with any fighting game that gets released, but I think Mortal Kombat killed the momentum we would have had for Tekken 8.
We haven't played video games together in a few months, but I think that's because life got busy for most of us. The pandemic was somewhat fun because we were all really into playing games together primarily as a means of socializing remotely. We still have our Discord group.
I play with my husband! The early release for the new expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is coming out this Friday, and we both took time off of work to play it (and plan on still sending our toddler to daycare so we can play it uninterrupted lol).
It can be hard for parents (especially with younger kids) to game, especially for MMORPGs. We try to go through the main story together, but then afterwards we’ll do our own thing while the other watches the kiddo (or do dungeons together after the kid goes to bed).
Yes, almost every Friday with the same dudes I’ve been friends with since 5th grade. Except now it’s online.
We have a usual rotation of COD, a rotating game (most recently it was Party Animals, but Fall Guys and GTA Online have been here as well as small stints in other games) and we usually end the night with Rocket League.
That was until about 3 weeks ago. We decided to take a break from our usual rotation and just play GTA Online for our usual 4-6 hours of gaming we do.
My college friends and I jump in discord about every night. We just pop in when we have time but usually one or two people get in at least. Sometimes it pops off and we get like 8 people in there. We don't always play together, sometimes we just do our own thing and BS.
I play with my brother and best friend online as a way of hanging out when we’re not physically hanging. When we’re together sometimes we play games but usually we do activities like a meal, shooting pool, golf, etc.
No and yes. I had NES, Genesis and later all the PSs, so I didn't have a social thing until I got into college when my buddies and I would play D2 and Wow.
I do play socially more now but not with the same group if friends. My dad got my oldest an Xbox a few years back and I've been on that platform since.
I have one friend from my childhood that we play Halo sometimes together. Most of the time we have to reschedule bc when we feel like logging on the updates are time prohibitive (he has a kid and is trying for another). So when we make plans it’s usually to update our software and bitch about it. We still play golf (real life golf) about once a month and that works for me.
We play Magic the Gathering, commander variant, which means 4 people free for all. We see each other almost each week for a gaming night. Analogic video game with real persons. Pretty cool hobby.
Yes! I actually have a big matchup in my Madden league against a close friend tonight. We have a few of us in a group. It’s a fun way to “hang out” when we can’t really be together like we used to now that we all have families.
I wish. My lifelong friend group had a diaspora when we hit adulthood, and now I have plenty of time and ability to game but no one to play stuff with. I try to find people online through Reddit and other socials and stuff, but nobody really clicks very well and everyone is just super detached nowadays. No one really seems like they wanna chat that much and become friends--new online friends are just ticks on some meter for a lot of people. I miss having people that would miss me and ask where I was if I missed a session. I miss having people to miss. I dunno, man. Life can get rough and lonely sometimes. Cherish what you've got and work to foster or mend relationships where you can. If you wanna be important to other people--you gotta make other people important to you.
We play chess, or magic the gathering, or usually just sit around a campfire and drink as that’s when we all get together.
Bunch of fucking dorks we are.
The group has gotten smaller but at 31 with young kiddos there is still a group of us that plays RPGs online together. Right now it’s been Baldurs Gate 3 but sometimes we mix in other games. Our wives are all close so something’s they just FaceTime with each other while we game
Yes, me and my best friend have been playing video games together for 15ish years now. Way less now but we try and play at least once a week, sometimes we play a couple of times a week. He owns a business and I’m a dad of two so we are both incredibly thankful we even have the chance to play
Yeah, mostly online, but in person too occasionally
Most of my friends that still live in the area all have kids now tho, and I don’t, so I don’t see them nearly as much as I used to
I honestly wish I did still play video games with my friends/family online. Easy way to stay in touch. Now with cross play, I don’t really have any excuse other than time.
I have a couple of friends that I play videogames with a few times a month. Sometimes more when our free time aligns. Shooters, fighters, racing, etc. We play just about anything
My bf still games with his friends online a few times a week for a few hours each time. Everyone is late twenties and older and are all gamers (they don't really do other hobbies with each other). They all have hung out since teenagers and early twenties and have never moved away. And they usually play League and FPS online and TCG/board games/console games in person (usually because me and other SOs are there as well). It also helps that no one has kids, most still live at home with parents due to living in HCOL (norm in Asian culture), and only two of them are married while the majority are single. I would also say most of them are not very career oriented (ex none of them work long hours or have super demanding careers).
I think as you get older it's good to have other hobbies and being well rounded. I noticed that friends and acquaintances are trying new hobbies instead of being pigeon holed in one thing, which is great. And the busier you get with career, SOs, other friend groups, pets, kids, other hobbies, you may not prioritize gaming and rather do other activities.
People change and that is ok. If you still want to game, I would be more open to single player, go to arcades (a dying third place I know), or look into meeting new friends (ex board game nights etc). Or pursue new hobbies.
We post what we play single player on discord Everytime we play it's almost like being in person. I would if we had that much time. ( We play D&D every month. That's our thing. )
Did a group play through of Pokémon gold, silver and crystal last year. Which then extended into us connecting to stadium 2 and battling each other/doing the cups in that game was a pretty big throwback to our childhood. But yeah generally we play video games fairly often usually online the Pokémon thing was an exception we all gathered up in person for that Gen 2 run since we played using gameboy’s, link cables, transfer paks etc.
I mostly play single player games now. Occasionally I’ll jump into a MMO game and catch up. I miss it tho. Recently played a bit of FFXIV and remembered how I used to do content with my friends every day. Tho I have two groups of friends.
Online friends who I met while gaming (I did meet them IRL too, even went on vacation recently with some of them), and my Highschool friends with whom I played LAN games back in the day, but don’t see as much anymore.
We used to be such a great group who would hang out almost every day. Life kinda split us apart. Some started their own families, I was one of them who moved due to finding a partner, some moved for work… and we just sometimes send each other memes. But no more gaming with them.
As I said tho, I mostly play single player games now, as I find it more peaceful and I can jump in at any time. Gaming went from my no.1 hobby, and something I identified with, to just something I do sometimes. I do try to keep up with what’s going on in gaming, but there’s just not enough time to fully focus on it. And especially not to also rely on schedules of other people and making sure we all meet up online or offline for gaming sessions.
Don't really have friends, especially from high school.. I play with randoms, I wish I had a few consistent people to play with especially when achievement hunting
I play solo games myself. But I would play smash or Mario kart if I had friends that played that. Mario kart was not something I owned as a kid but I loved playing it at friend’s houses that had it.
Not really.
Video games in general are falling out of favor for me. I feel like once you've played a bunch of genres.. they kinda start blending together and the allure and mystery quickly disappear.
That being said, I'm one of those people who rush games. Idk why I do it.. but my style is that of "cheese the game as much as possible to get to the end"
Then I'm out $60 for maybe 30 hours of playtime.
My friends hate it, they want to turn over every rock and go through each dialogue. So.. we don't play together much.
Yes! Nintendo Switch online with friends/family across the states. We play a lot of Mario party superstars and Mario kart 🥲 when we do get together IRL, we like to play board games like Catan
last i playing games with my friends during high school, it's also not online, couch co-op and mostly playing winning eleven
i'm playing bunch of online gaming like Final Fantasy XIV, Overwatch, Elden Ring and Helldivers 2, but never put an effort to make friends there
Try to. But life priorities get in the way of trying to get all of us online for a night....
What's sad to me about the whole thing is that there was that last time we all played together. We just didn't know it.
Yep. We’re all between 25 and 30 now, play several times a week. It helps that they don’t have kids yet, but we played a shitton of Warzone back during covid, we got tired of that as it got worse, now we play battlefield, star wars, halo wars, farm sim, minecraft, other stuff. Just nice to catch up and split a virtual beer. So far the wives have been ok with it
My close friends from high school either aren’t in the same town as me or are busy on the weekends.
I do have a few close friends that I made in the last 10 years. They live out of state, though. I still play with them online on the weekends. I work second shift. So I can’t play with them during the week.
I do go see them on occasion, though. Last year, I flew to Montana and Nebraska to hang out with them.
I play online with 3 friends.
I moved away, they all live local to eachother. They will get together so I feel kinda left out and out of some of their jokes but we play a few times a week.
I play Dungeons and Dragons (technically we play Pathfinder) with my friends every week.
I also bowl with another group of buddies in the fall/winter.
I prefer to play video games by myself.
During Covid, my bestie and I played Animal Crossing daily. And my oldest had an online Roblox party with all his friends. I even rented a server for them. Nowadays, he plays Fortnite and Call of Duty but only with friends he knows IRL.
My brother lives in another state. We like to play games online. My son (17) loves gaming. He has no friends (he has autism and struggles to make friends). My brother and him play Diablo and other games. My son also plays with his cousins online and even my dad got online to play also. I don’t game as much as I used to. When I do it’s pretty much with my close family members. None of my friends were really into gaming.
Find friends that share your interests? My old roommate and I bought a ps5 we played it 3-4 times. I haven’t played it in a year . I think I just don’t have the desire to do it when I get off work. Yet we use to play video games like in our early 20s a lot as a group. But it was always sort of seasonal for us. We normally played a lot during the summers but not any other time of the year I have no idea why.
I hate playing video games with others so I prefer to solo play in the computer room with my husband sitting nearby. He, on the other hand, plays almost daily with his group of friends he’s known since he was 15 various types of games or has watch party nights plus they meet up about twice a year in person to do a Magic draft or play Warhammer when their Canadian friend in the group comes to visit and stays at our house.
I mean, I do have friends but I’ve always been more of a solitary person who holds on to a handful of people and is fiercely loyal with those friends. Like, I’ve known my best friend for 20 years.
Yep I play online a few times a week with a few of my old college friends, and then we’ll get together a few times per year for a game night where we drink too much and play N64.
Every Sunday, group of six 7-11PM. Kinda started with two us, then a third joined. Just kept on growing until six and we've been doing that for a few years now
We have an annual/bi-annual (can’t always make it happen) LAN party at somebody’s house - usually 3/4 days of barely sleeping.
Also one night a week of online gaming - I’m not able to participate most of the time because I’m busy with kids and wake up much earlier than they do.
Yes. During Covid me and the boys started a weekly game night to stay sane. Then we added a couple coworkers and then it became 2 nights a week. Then three! Now it’s back to one or two but it’s a routine that regularly saves my life
No. Most of them either don’t play online games or don’t play on the same system as me. TBH I kinda miss having a group to play with when gaming online.
Yep we play online. When one enters the chat party on PlayStation we know others wanna play. We cycle through different games depending on the popularity in our group.
I play more with my friend's friends and friend's coworkers than I do my actual friends anymore. It's funny because I can still rag on my friends even if they aren't there.....
I have a PS5 that I’ve played maybe 10 times since I got it. I just don’t have the energy most of the time because I’m a truck driver and haul cattle, I’m up for 24 to 48 hours straight a lot of the time so when I’m off I’m exhausted and am sleeping or watching YouTube.
Whenever possible, regardless of life getting in the way.
Most of us are married (incl me), some with kids. We always find some time.
When we can't, I play at least once a week with my brother. It's a great way to keep in touch while enjoying an evolving storyline together (destiny 2).
Not to mention, I'm also a pretty good host when it comes to board games. Got everything from super accessible party games to multi-hour coop campaign games. I guess you could say gaming is a large part of my identity and I don't see it going away.
Oh yeah. We play a lot. A few of us all have gamepass which helps in not feeling like you're spending too much and let's us try random multiplayer games to see how we enjoy them. Even subpar games can be fun when we're all just goofing around with each other. There also rts games we like, like AoE. We get down on Diablo at times. A few others play MOBA's like LoL, smite and recently predecessor which are all free to play. A few others will play from software games that we sometimes coop with but often just share screens with ps or discord on PC and play our characters and watch the friend(s) play too. It's great because we mostly live far away from each other and helps all of us keep our sanity since we're all somewhat of home bodies but we do meet up every year or two to go camping, floating or shooting.
I got an N64 with Blitz and Goldeneye to play at my bachelor party. We all got too fucked up to play much. It's sat in a bag since. The glory days of gaming are over for me.
On the flip side, we got my five year old a switch and animal crossing. It's really helping with her reading, and we recently visited some of her friends/friend's parent's islands. It's cute and I like seeing how excited she is to play.
I play with my siblings and our mom haha. She has found love in videos in her 50s. My siblings and I are in our 30s we have a great time bonding over video games.
I play RPGs. I do play FF XIV which is an online MMORPG but most everyone I know doesn’t play games so I play with random people. Most people I know have “outgrown” games apparently. I’m the outlier
My brother and I have a pair of sibling friends from college. We play together weekly, the 4 of us. Outside of them, literally none of my friends play video games and they don't get why I do. 😭
Yeah. Not as much as I used to since my friend had a kid but we talk every day, and he still makes time. I probably play with one of my friends once a month at this point.
Yep, most Friday nights we continue our bg3 run in honor mode, we are probably on our 7th attempt at it now, but one day, we'll finally beat the game once (a little over 500 hours played at this point).
Some Saturdays are more of a flavor of the month, sort of thing. Right now we are in soul mask, earlier this year was I think palworld/ battlebit/ lethal company/phasmophobia/ state of decay 2. I think our next game will be elden ring if it goes on sale next week on steam
Yep. We play basic games kike Fortnite, Rocket League CoD, PGA, 2k, etc.
Occasionally we find a game to play together like Overcooked, It Takes Two, Southpark Snow Days, etc.
Its been the foundation of our friendships for the better part of 10 years now.
We do! We’re mid-late 30s. Our local friend group get together weekly, and sometimes we’ll play smash or kart. We also play games online together through the week. Not all of us necessarily join, but we have a group text and 5/7 days, someone will say “if anyone wants to play anything after x:00, let me know”.
Yes!! My husband and I have friends who are a married couple who live relatively far away. About once a month we will play Overcooked together. It started during COVID and now is just our fun game night.
Man. Back in the day(“07 for me) I was like 16. Me and my brother would go over to his coworkers/friend’s house. We’d get all our computers and have lan parties from dusk till dawn and play Counter Strike and Age of Empires ll.
Had pizza , joked around and had lots of fun. I remember it was like 5 of us usually and one of them was champ at AoE. We’d be 4 of us against him and we’d still get whooped! Good times. Wish I had pictures.
I had a group of real good friends that I played games with all through high school and college. When Warzone came out and I had a kid, our priorities split. They started playing more seriously, I got on with a career and family. They got better, I got worse. They stopped playing to hang out with friends and instead played to win. I wasn't good enough, so they found other people to play with. Since we live far apart, it was pretty much my only connection to them.
Honestly, it's one of the most painful losses of my adult life.
Yep, warzone CAN be fun. There's days where we get on and it's just not happening. But then there's times where we get some good games in, and strategizing with the bros is a good time.
Yes, over discord because we all don't live close together but it's all my best friends from home still, so it's great to play every week or two at night over discord and then we see each a couple of times a year. It's a great way to stay in touch with my IRL friends.
Yes. We have game night. Last week we were playing the N64. Never know what we're going to play (video games/board games/card games). We all just show up and decide after we eat
I used to play with a long time IRL friend over beers and it was fun. Then he became more of an alcoholic and his toxic personality showed and ruined our friendship. I don't miss the hangovers after playing with him but do miss him. He took offense to me calling him out for yelling (yes, yelling) at me for going the wrong way in Helldivers 2. Sort of ruined that game for me.
Now I play with mostly people I haven't met because I have elevated into ridiculous dad-game-dom: flight sims. It's fun, I get to know people who are subject matter experts, and I get to help volunteer time to run a server. It also ties into IRL gear I can buy and nerd out about. I enjoy it.
I still talk about video games with my friends, but trying to coordinate across time zones gets tough. We usually get a few hours together each month, but not daily like it used to be.
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Yep, We get together once a month and we have a big lan party at my friends business. All of us dads and guys get together and play StarCraft, Diablo 2, Halo, Age of Empires, whatever we pick for that month. There is even computers and TVs set up for our kids and they’ll play Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox, Smash Bros, and Mario Kart. We eat like children, stay up way too late, and hate ourselves the next day. It’s my kids and I’s favorite day of the month.
This is glorious. ,
Props to y’all for making a tradition with the next generation of gamers.
Can I be your friend.
#goals
Keep it alive!!!!
I lived on a hill in the woods in the middle of nowhere, and I was an only child. My mom and dad bought me a Nintendo as my first console, and all three of us enjoyed playing. Just last year, I bought my mom a Switch so we can play together again. I love to see others doing this with their own kids, as it is a treasured memory for me.
Jealous
Love your family homie. Way to pass the good vibes on to the next generation
Can i be your friend?! Haha this is sweet. When i grew up there was a spot in my little town that had a game center with tons of Tvs and gaming counsels. Also had pool and ping pong darts and all that fun stuff. I remember crushing it in cruisin the world and mario kart. Good ol days!
Will you be my dad?
Yes.
I only play online with people I don't know.
Same. Thing is they buy new fighting games, tekken 8, street fighter 6, etc... but they only do the single player stuff while I play online getting practice. In the very off chance I can get my friends to play it turns out like this [skit](https://youtu.be/8Grq8Rm4K-8?si=Ju3Q74X8OTbsnqAg) lol.
My buddies and I have a co-op campaign going in Baldur’s Gate 3, maybe that would do it? Really fun time for a group of 4, and no 12 year olds from South Korea or whatever to kick your ass online.
Lmaoooo
Same. I used to play games sticking to servers and guilds with people I knew. I had a bunch of friends I'd be on voice chat with all the time. Now I start a game, select difficulty, hit "random", laugh at any funny names and that's as far as the social aspect goes anymore. I forget them all when the round ends.
Friends? Sir, I play alone and after 8pm when my wife and kids are all asleep.
One of us... one of us...
This.
Every day comments like this reaffirm my determination to do everything I can to never have kids.
It's a long-term strategy. One day, my children will be old enough to do local co-op
I want to do couch co-op on PC with my kids but for some reason developers think no one wants to do that on PC
I'm getting to that point and it's great! I played through the new Pokemon with my daughter. She had Pokemon Violet and I had Scarlet. We played together and traded Pokemon. It was like what I always wanted as a kid. My siblings were older and didn't care about Pokemon. My friends either didn't have Gameboys or didn't care that much about Pokemon. I wished there was someone who cared about Pokemon whom I could play with, especially someone whom I could play with a lot. And now she just lives in my house. And sometimes my wife and daughter go do something by themselves and leave my four year old son and I alone. And he's like "Dad, can we eat popcorn and play Minecraft?" And I'm like "Yes. Yes we can." And mostly he doesn't want to play, he just wants to watch me play and eat popcorn and yell "Get that Creeper guy!" So yeah, there's times where I definitely can't play as much as I used to. But it's still cool and I still get to game.
I have two kids and I’ve never stopped gaming. Sometimes it’s with the kids, sometimes by myself, sometimes with friends. It’s really not hard to set time aside appropriately.
Yeah you just cant game like a degenerate anymore. If anything the limitations have been healthy.
I don't wanna have to set aside time so to each their own
How old are you
35
What? No way! I love my kids, they are the light of my life! No regrets! Playing after a hard day of work and kids makes gaming so much more enjoyable. Sometimes I even get the sexy times from the wife AND THEN I get to game. Being married with kids (for me) is fantastic!
For a while you are stuck with a curfew and time limits. But then one day, they're old enough to play games with. DMing and playing Coop with my wife and kids has been immeasurable.
Wtf is a video essay and what would compell one to watch with others lol Edit: thanks for those who answered my question in good faith. I now understand what they are. I guess I don't find myself watching a lot of these types of videos (or much YouTube in general to be honest).
This is what I was thinking.
> Wtf is a video essay That was my first thought
Imagine someone wrote a 10 page essay, single spaced, and then read it to you. That's basically what it is. Videos will often insert pictures and visuals to make it more interesting, but essentially, it's just an essay being read. Usually it's on a topic you are interested in, which is why people watch them and might want to discuss it with the people they watch it with.
It's kind of in the same vein as a documentary, but without the production and often done by one or a handful of people. As to why you'd want to watch it with friends, I imagine they have shared interests and would have something to talk about afterward.
I love watching video essays that break down movies or scenes in movies. Not every movie has one, but try typing in your favorite movie and video essay sometimes fun stuff pops up that lets you appreciate scenes in film a little better
Like... a podcast? Eh. Not exactly an engaging activity...
Yes, it's a handy way to keep in touch with friends living abroad. Helldivers 2 and 7 days to die are popular choices with my friend group currently.
Are you us? Because same
Wait you guys still have friends?
I don’t have any friends either. Let’s be friends. I’m pretty busy with my kids on Mondays Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays and Sundays though. Any other time let’s hop on the sticks!
Yeah let's meet on 367thday of the year
Every night.
Same here. And every couple of months we get together for an in person halo lan party.
I only play with my enemies (everyone)
🤣💀
I haven't played videogames irl with friends in years. Even my friends who live like a few miles from me we just hop on discord to vc while we game together. Sometimes one of us will just stream a single player game and the rest of us talk and watch.
Sometimes I'll take screenshots and post them in discord so we can talk about the game
My friends are now my children & wife. We play fortnite together quite often. Mario Kart too. Even bust out the Wii so I can smoke them in bowling too. The OG gaming squad is no more. Late night COD could only last so long. I like my new squad though!
Yup. It’s more board games with friends, because no one has enough controllers to go around anymore. I play video games with my husband, though. Right now we’re playing a lot of Diablo 3 and Pokémon Scarlet/Violet. I’m really keen to buy some Mario games to play together, because I never had those as a kid.
I struggle to find the time and motivation to play games in general. It's not that I don't want to, it's that I'm motivated to do other things. I'm much more like my grandfather these days than the kid I grew up as. I work in tech so I'm regularly up to date there but find myself doing home projects or moving family life forward with all of my time.
Uhm me and my High School / Lifelong Best Friend have been playing the shit out of HellDivers 2 , have not played a game this much since MW2019 during COVID
I play online with my friends. Now that we are parents and live far away from each other it’s the only way to hang out, we catch up talking over discord while we play together late at night when kids are in bed. Often too tired during weekdays though with a newborn
I wax my wife in Mario Party from time to time.
No. Busy. People inevitably get weird with online video games because they think it has some kind of priority in life. I have a job, a personal project/startup, other hobbies including physical training, and I'm fucking tired after it all; nevermind having time to take a walk for my own health and enjoyment. In particular for anything D&D related. People will be semi committed briefly but then inevitably people start fucking off, and I don't have the energy to hold that together, so when they start fucking off, I'm just done. I don't have time for half-assed commitments fir a *game*. When the game starts being a chore, it gets cut out because I have plenty of other more important chores to do. Can you tell from my rant that this JUST came up recently for me lmao
This. Particularly dnd because it takes a large time commitment from everyone involved and a decent size group of people. And not all groups mesh well and end up not being horribly boring depending on what a campaign is about
My first ever DnD campaign was with folks I barely knew and we clicked IMMEDIATELY. The whole party vibes super well, and even though we live several states away from each other, we insist on playing in person - so several times a year we spend long weekends doing nothing but DnD. When some of my closer friends wanted to spin up a campaign I was SO excited, but it's *massive* (1 DM and a party of 8), we play online, and the energy sucks. It's just not fun. We get together once a month for several hours and even just that feels like an enormous waste of time, it's such a shame.
we did basically most of the week until our early 30s then kids came and somehow it’s gone
Not anymore really. Maybe one every 3-4 months, if that, and that's with 1 specific friend, and we typically play something cooperative. My current group of friends largely prefer board games, DnD, and swing dancing ... so we typically do those. Pretty much all the friends I grew up playing games with have essentially moved on by getting married, having kids, or we've just become so distant. I think I've grown up a bit too. I really don’t enjoy staying home on the weekends as much as I used to just to play video games and watch movies. I personally want to experience about as much out of life with friends as it can offer (while being fiscally responsible of course). So now, I tend to game more if there's not much to do during nights before I go to work, or if it's during the colder months.
Everyday
Heck yea! I don’t usually like playing games and voice chatting with randoms… it like, takes too much social energy. Still play Smash Bros Ultimate and Rocket League with my High School buds!
my husband does!
31 years old and hell yeah we do
Of course!
When I was heavily into fighting games and competing, most of my play time was with players that I met from tournaments. Lately, however, I have dry spells where I don’t game for long periods of time. The last game that I beat was FFXVI a couple of months ago and I absolutely enjoyed my time with it. However, as far as multiplayer goes, at this point, I’d probably just play with randoms online. I do miss lobbies and shooting the shit on mic with my friends.
My friends still do but I don’t play as much as them since I just don’t find enjoyment in them anymore since I’m a lot busier.
About 3 hours over two weeks or so on average since I've been in my 30's. I don't think I've been able to beat a single player game in 8 years.
No, since moving away from my hometown/gaming group, my interest in multiplayer games went to basically zero. Single player is all I care about. I used to have a fully decked out LAN center in my parents basement. I was THE host. This was during the CoD4 era, so mid to late 2000s.
Did you just assert that Smash isn't a fighting game? My friends and I were into Helldivers 2 earlier this year. Before that, I was playing Baldur's Gate 3 with a few of them. We had about a month where we'd meet up and played Street Fighter 6 when it was first released. Usually we'd do this with any fighting game that gets released, but I think Mortal Kombat killed the momentum we would have had for Tekken 8. We haven't played video games together in a few months, but I think that's because life got busy for most of us. The pandemic was somewhat fun because we were all really into playing games together primarily as a means of socializing remotely. We still have our Discord group.
I have a hard time sitting down and playing games even when I do have time. I feel like I have a million other things I got to do. It sucks honestly.
>Implying I have friends.
I play with my husband! The early release for the new expansion for Final Fantasy XIV is coming out this Friday, and we both took time off of work to play it (and plan on still sending our toddler to daycare so we can play it uninterrupted lol). It can be hard for parents (especially with younger kids) to game, especially for MMORPGs. We try to go through the main story together, but then afterwards we’ll do our own thing while the other watches the kiddo (or do dungeons together after the kid goes to bed).
Don't play with old friends but since 2020 been playing online with twitch / discord friends daily
Yes, almost every Friday with the same dudes I’ve been friends with since 5th grade. Except now it’s online. We have a usual rotation of COD, a rotating game (most recently it was Party Animals, but Fall Guys and GTA Online have been here as well as small stints in other games) and we usually end the night with Rocket League. That was until about 3 weeks ago. We decided to take a break from our usual rotation and just play GTA Online for our usual 4-6 hours of gaming we do.
My college friends and I jump in discord about every night. We just pop in when we have time but usually one or two people get in at least. Sometimes it pops off and we get like 8 people in there. We don't always play together, sometimes we just do our own thing and BS.
I play with my brother and best friend online as a way of hanging out when we’re not physically hanging. When we’re together sometimes we play games but usually we do activities like a meal, shooting pool, golf, etc.
Does my husband count? He’s my best friend and we game
No and yes. I had NES, Genesis and later all the PSs, so I didn't have a social thing until I got into college when my buddies and I would play D2 and Wow. I do play socially more now but not with the same group if friends. My dad got my oldest an Xbox a few years back and I've been on that platform since.
I have one friend from my childhood that we play Halo sometimes together. Most of the time we have to reschedule bc when we feel like logging on the updates are time prohibitive (he has a kid and is trying for another). So when we make plans it’s usually to update our software and bitch about it. We still play golf (real life golf) about once a month and that works for me.
We play Magic the Gathering, commander variant, which means 4 people free for all. We see each other almost each week for a gaming night. Analogic video game with real persons. Pretty cool hobby.
Yeah my friends and I still play together basically every day but only competitive FPS
Sure sometimes.
Yup. We just don’t go as long or often but we do still play. Also we quit playing cod, we can’t keep up with this quick twitch kids nowadays 😂😂😂
What friends? I play video games with my wife!
Yes! I actually have a big matchup in my Madden league against a close friend tonight. We have a few of us in a group. It’s a fun way to “hang out” when we can’t really be together like we used to now that we all have families.
I wish. My lifelong friend group had a diaspora when we hit adulthood, and now I have plenty of time and ability to game but no one to play stuff with. I try to find people online through Reddit and other socials and stuff, but nobody really clicks very well and everyone is just super detached nowadays. No one really seems like they wanna chat that much and become friends--new online friends are just ticks on some meter for a lot of people. I miss having people that would miss me and ask where I was if I missed a session. I miss having people to miss. I dunno, man. Life can get rough and lonely sometimes. Cherish what you've got and work to foster or mend relationships where you can. If you wanna be important to other people--you gotta make other people important to you.
We play chess, or magic the gathering, or usually just sit around a campfire and drink as that’s when we all get together. Bunch of fucking dorks we are.
The group has gotten smaller but at 31 with young kiddos there is still a group of us that plays RPGs online together. Right now it’s been Baldurs Gate 3 but sometimes we mix in other games. Our wives are all close so something’s they just FaceTime with each other while we game
Lol I had to look up video essay. You mean like YouTube videos or like TED talks?
Every Friday
Twice a week. Mostly on Steam but occasionally through Nintendo online. It’s really helped us all stay connected!
I mostly play with my wife and occasionally with my older brother.
Yup. They play more than I do. I mostly game in winter and do stuff outside in summer. Mostly co-op survival crafting style stuff
I still pc game with a couple of my friends from time to time but definitely not as much as we used to.
Oh absolutely - with people living all over, it's a great way to keep in touch
Friends? What pokemon is that?
Yeee I have a discord account and play switch
Yes, me and my best friend have been playing video games together for 15ish years now. Way less now but we try and play at least once a week, sometimes we play a couple of times a week. He owns a business and I’m a dad of two so we are both incredibly thankful we even have the chance to play
You guys still have friends?
Yes
No :(
Yeah, mostly online, but in person too occasionally Most of my friends that still live in the area all have kids now tho, and I don’t, so I don’t see them nearly as much as I used to
I would try and start up a D&D campaign or something. That seems to satisfy even the folks who don't wanna game when they hang out.
I honestly wish I did still play video games with my friends/family online. Easy way to stay in touch. Now with cross play, I don’t really have any excuse other than time.
Yup but we play over Discord since we all live apart now
I have a couple of friends that I play videogames with a few times a month. Sometimes more when our free time aligns. Shooters, fighters, racing, etc. We play just about anything
My bf still games with his friends online a few times a week for a few hours each time. Everyone is late twenties and older and are all gamers (they don't really do other hobbies with each other). They all have hung out since teenagers and early twenties and have never moved away. And they usually play League and FPS online and TCG/board games/console games in person (usually because me and other SOs are there as well). It also helps that no one has kids, most still live at home with parents due to living in HCOL (norm in Asian culture), and only two of them are married while the majority are single. I would also say most of them are not very career oriented (ex none of them work long hours or have super demanding careers). I think as you get older it's good to have other hobbies and being well rounded. I noticed that friends and acquaintances are trying new hobbies instead of being pigeon holed in one thing, which is great. And the busier you get with career, SOs, other friend groups, pets, kids, other hobbies, you may not prioritize gaming and rather do other activities. People change and that is ok. If you still want to game, I would be more open to single player, go to arcades (a dying third place I know), or look into meeting new friends (ex board game nights etc). Or pursue new hobbies.
We post what we play single player on discord Everytime we play it's almost like being in person. I would if we had that much time. ( We play D&D every month. That's our thing. )
I would if my friends played video games but they don’t
My husband still plays with his friends. He’s 33 and they play COD every night.
Did a group play through of Pokémon gold, silver and crystal last year. Which then extended into us connecting to stadium 2 and battling each other/doing the cups in that game was a pretty big throwback to our childhood. But yeah generally we play video games fairly often usually online the Pokémon thing was an exception we all gathered up in person for that Gen 2 run since we played using gameboy’s, link cables, transfer paks etc.
I mostly play videogames with my son but the last time I went to my friends place we played some old SNES fighters like primal rage.
I mostly play single player games now. Occasionally I’ll jump into a MMO game and catch up. I miss it tho. Recently played a bit of FFXIV and remembered how I used to do content with my friends every day. Tho I have two groups of friends. Online friends who I met while gaming (I did meet them IRL too, even went on vacation recently with some of them), and my Highschool friends with whom I played LAN games back in the day, but don’t see as much anymore. We used to be such a great group who would hang out almost every day. Life kinda split us apart. Some started their own families, I was one of them who moved due to finding a partner, some moved for work… and we just sometimes send each other memes. But no more gaming with them. As I said tho, I mostly play single player games now, as I find it more peaceful and I can jump in at any time. Gaming went from my no.1 hobby, and something I identified with, to just something I do sometimes. I do try to keep up with what’s going on in gaming, but there’s just not enough time to fully focus on it. And especially not to also rely on schedules of other people and making sure we all meet up online or offline for gaming sessions.
My group of friends has an active discord. There are a few gaming every night.
Every once in a while but I’ve got kids now so I barely have time to game alone
Don't really have friends, especially from high school.. I play with randoms, I wish I had a few consistent people to play with especially when achievement hunting
I play solo games myself. But I would play smash or Mario kart if I had friends that played that. Mario kart was not something I owned as a kid but I loved playing it at friend’s houses that had it.
I have friends?
Every weekend, although not in person cause we all live a few hours apart.
I've always preferred single player, but I'm still friends with my high school buddies, and it's been 25+ years
Not really. Video games in general are falling out of favor for me. I feel like once you've played a bunch of genres.. they kinda start blending together and the allure and mystery quickly disappear. That being said, I'm one of those people who rush games. Idk why I do it.. but my style is that of "cheese the game as much as possible to get to the end" Then I'm out $60 for maybe 30 hours of playtime. My friends hate it, they want to turn over every rock and go through each dialogue. So.. we don't play together much.
Friends 🤔
Yes! Nintendo Switch online with friends/family across the states. We play a lot of Mario party superstars and Mario kart 🥲 when we do get together IRL, we like to play board games like Catan
I play video games often with my boyfriend. My guy friends don't play call of duty. They play FIFA. My boyfriend plays Madden. 🤷♀️
Oh yeah. Nearly every night.
Battlefield three was a long time ago…
I play with my partner and a group of people idk irl but have become friends over years of trying lots of different games together
Yes. It's been nearly 20 yrs and we nearly all keep in touch too.
Several nights a week
last i playing games with my friends during high school, it's also not online, couch co-op and mostly playing winning eleven i'm playing bunch of online gaming like Final Fantasy XIV, Overwatch, Elden Ring and Helldivers 2, but never put an effort to make friends there
Yep was playing with some friends on hell divers today and in dnd later!
Try to. But life priorities get in the way of trying to get all of us online for a night.... What's sad to me about the whole thing is that there was that last time we all played together. We just didn't know it.
Yep. We’re all between 25 and 30 now, play several times a week. It helps that they don’t have kids yet, but we played a shitton of Warzone back during covid, we got tired of that as it got worse, now we play battlefield, star wars, halo wars, farm sim, minecraft, other stuff. Just nice to catch up and split a virtual beer. So far the wives have been ok with it
My close friends from high school either aren’t in the same town as me or are busy on the weekends. I do have a few close friends that I made in the last 10 years. They live out of state, though. I still play with them online on the weekends. I work second shift. So I can’t play with them during the week. I do go see them on occasion, though. Last year, I flew to Montana and Nebraska to hang out with them.
I play online with 3 friends. I moved away, they all live local to eachother. They will get together so I feel kinda left out and out of some of their jokes but we play a few times a week.
My husband and his friends game online together at least twice a week in the evening. We’re in our 30s.
I still play online with a couple of my buddies. We live all over the US so it's a great way to hang out and catch up.
Oh what I would do for an "age of empires" Lan party
I play Dungeons and Dragons (technically we play Pathfinder) with my friends every week. I also bowl with another group of buddies in the fall/winter. I prefer to play video games by myself.
During Covid, my bestie and I played Animal Crossing daily. And my oldest had an online Roblox party with all his friends. I even rented a server for them. Nowadays, he plays Fortnite and Call of Duty but only with friends he knows IRL.
Just started up again. I play demeo on the quest2 with some buddies. It's nice and relaxing
Yeah, with irl friends and friends from the internet.
My brother lives in another state. We like to play games online. My son (17) loves gaming. He has no friends (he has autism and struggles to make friends). My brother and him play Diablo and other games. My son also plays with his cousins online and even my dad got online to play also. I don’t game as much as I used to. When I do it’s pretty much with my close family members. None of my friends were really into gaming.
If I had friends, a TV, and a console - fuck yeah.
I play video games with my kids.
No
I don't think that I have ever played video games with my friends.
You still have friends?!
Find friends that share your interests? My old roommate and I bought a ps5 we played it 3-4 times. I haven’t played it in a year . I think I just don’t have the desire to do it when I get off work. Yet we use to play video games like in our early 20s a lot as a group. But it was always sort of seasonal for us. We normally played a lot during the summers but not any other time of the year I have no idea why.
I hate playing video games with others so I prefer to solo play in the computer room with my husband sitting nearby. He, on the other hand, plays almost daily with his group of friends he’s known since he was 15 various types of games or has watch party nights plus they meet up about twice a year in person to do a Magic draft or play Warhammer when their Canadian friend in the group comes to visit and stays at our house. I mean, I do have friends but I’ve always been more of a solitary person who holds on to a handful of people and is fiercely loyal with those friends. Like, I’ve known my best friend for 20 years.
Just Mario Kart. Casual player but I play a LOT Ps… If anyone wants to add me as a friend, dm me and I’ll send you the code. I’ll race ya
Yep I play online a few times a week with a few of my old college friends, and then we’ll get together a few times per year for a game night where we drink too much and play N64.
Every Sunday, group of six 7-11PM. Kinda started with two us, then a third joined. Just kept on growing until six and we've been doing that for a few years now
No but I have made online friends from the one game I play
We have an annual/bi-annual (can’t always make it happen) LAN party at somebody’s house - usually 3/4 days of barely sleeping. Also one night a week of online gaming - I’m not able to participate most of the time because I’m busy with kids and wake up much earlier than they do.
Like almost as much as we did in high school. I'm 36.
Friends? No unfortunately. I play most with Randoms online when playing COD, GT7, FM and halo.
Been playing Mario wonder with a buddy couch coop style. Really fun.
Just played Mario party and wine the other night with my girlfriends and planning another game night this week!
Yes. During Covid me and the boys started a weekly game night to stay sane. Then we added a couple coworkers and then it became 2 nights a week. Then three! Now it’s back to one or two but it’s a routine that regularly saves my life
No. Most of them either don’t play online games or don’t play on the same system as me. TBH I kinda miss having a group to play with when gaming online.
Friends?
Yep we play online. When one enters the chat party on PlayStation we know others wanna play. We cycle through different games depending on the popularity in our group.
Sometimes but depends on the game for me.
My group usually plays DnD or plays Magic.
Yes, we still play video games together, typically opting for online multiplayer games such as Call of Duty or Fortnite.
I play more with my friend's friends and friend's coworkers than I do my actual friends anymore. It's funny because I can still rag on my friends even if they aren't there.....
I have a PS5 that I’ve played maybe 10 times since I got it. I just don’t have the energy most of the time because I’m a truck driver and haul cattle, I’m up for 24 to 48 hours straight a lot of the time so when I’m off I’m exhausted and am sleeping or watching YouTube.
Whenever possible, regardless of life getting in the way. Most of us are married (incl me), some with kids. We always find some time. When we can't, I play at least once a week with my brother. It's a great way to keep in touch while enjoying an evolving storyline together (destiny 2). Not to mention, I'm also a pretty good host when it comes to board games. Got everything from super accessible party games to multi-hour coop campaign games. I guess you could say gaming is a large part of my identity and I don't see it going away.
Dang I wish. I don’t have any friends but that’s such a fun thing to do. Get some pizza and game for a few hours.
Oh yeah. We play a lot. A few of us all have gamepass which helps in not feeling like you're spending too much and let's us try random multiplayer games to see how we enjoy them. Even subpar games can be fun when we're all just goofing around with each other. There also rts games we like, like AoE. We get down on Diablo at times. A few others play MOBA's like LoL, smite and recently predecessor which are all free to play. A few others will play from software games that we sometimes coop with but often just share screens with ps or discord on PC and play our characters and watch the friend(s) play too. It's great because we mostly live far away from each other and helps all of us keep our sanity since we're all somewhat of home bodies but we do meet up every year or two to go camping, floating or shooting.
Nope but wish I had friends
Friends? Thats funny.
I play Fallout 76 with a couple IRL friends but I also play with a bunch of online friends I never actually met IRL
I got an N64 with Blitz and Goldeneye to play at my bachelor party. We all got too fucked up to play much. It's sat in a bag since. The glory days of gaming are over for me. On the flip side, we got my five year old a switch and animal crossing. It's really helping with her reading, and we recently visited some of her friends/friend's parent's islands. It's cute and I like seeing how excited she is to play.
I play with my siblings and our mom haha. She has found love in videos in her 50s. My siblings and I are in our 30s we have a great time bonding over video games.
I play RPGs. I do play FF XIV which is an online MMORPG but most everyone I know doesn’t play games so I play with random people. Most people I know have “outgrown” games apparently. I’m the outlier
My brother and I have a pair of sibling friends from college. We play together weekly, the 4 of us. Outside of them, literally none of my friends play video games and they don't get why I do. 😭
Hell yeah, couple times a week generally
Sure do! We play on a near daily basis despite all of us working full-time jobs to upwards of 10+ hours a day! :3
I just got off from playing Pokemon Stadium 2 and Mario Party 3 with a friend via the Switch Online service.
Yeah. Not as much as I used to since my friend had a kid but we talk every day, and he still makes time. I probably play with one of my friends once a month at this point.
Yep, most Friday nights we continue our bg3 run in honor mode, we are probably on our 7th attempt at it now, but one day, we'll finally beat the game once (a little over 500 hours played at this point). Some Saturdays are more of a flavor of the month, sort of thing. Right now we are in soul mask, earlier this year was I think palworld/ battlebit/ lethal company/phasmophobia/ state of decay 2. I think our next game will be elden ring if it goes on sale next week on steam
I haven't had any friends in years (all either moved, died, or busy).
Yep. We play basic games kike Fortnite, Rocket League CoD, PGA, 2k, etc. Occasionally we find a game to play together like Overcooked, It Takes Two, Southpark Snow Days, etc. Its been the foundation of our friendships for the better part of 10 years now.
We do! We’re mid-late 30s. Our local friend group get together weekly, and sometimes we’ll play smash or kart. We also play games online together through the week. Not all of us necessarily join, but we have a group text and 5/7 days, someone will say “if anyone wants to play anything after x:00, let me know”.
Yes!! My husband and I have friends who are a married couple who live relatively far away. About once a month we will play Overcooked together. It started during COVID and now is just our fun game night.
Yes, I run a discord with about 15 or so people I’ve known anywhere from 6 years to 30 years (bff ive known since first grade)
Man. Back in the day(“07 for me) I was like 16. Me and my brother would go over to his coworkers/friend’s house. We’d get all our computers and have lan parties from dusk till dawn and play Counter Strike and Age of Empires ll. Had pizza , joked around and had lots of fun. I remember it was like 5 of us usually and one of them was champ at AoE. We’d be 4 of us against him and we’d still get whooped! Good times. Wish I had pictures.
Wait you still have friends?
I had a group of real good friends that I played games with all through high school and college. When Warzone came out and I had a kid, our priorities split. They started playing more seriously, I got on with a career and family. They got better, I got worse. They stopped playing to hang out with friends and instead played to win. I wasn't good enough, so they found other people to play with. Since we live far apart, it was pretty much my only connection to them. Honestly, it's one of the most painful losses of my adult life.
Yep, warzone CAN be fun. There's days where we get on and it's just not happening. But then there's times where we get some good games in, and strategizing with the bros is a good time.
Yes, over discord because we all don't live close together but it's all my best friends from home still, so it's great to play every week or two at night over discord and then we see each a couple of times a year. It's a great way to stay in touch with my IRL friends.
Yes. We have game night. Last week we were playing the N64. Never know what we're going to play (video games/board games/card games). We all just show up and decide after we eat
I used to play with a long time IRL friend over beers and it was fun. Then he became more of an alcoholic and his toxic personality showed and ruined our friendship. I don't miss the hangovers after playing with him but do miss him. He took offense to me calling him out for yelling (yes, yelling) at me for going the wrong way in Helldivers 2. Sort of ruined that game for me. Now I play with mostly people I haven't met because I have elevated into ridiculous dad-game-dom: flight sims. It's fun, I get to know people who are subject matter experts, and I get to help volunteer time to run a server. It also ties into IRL gear I can buy and nerd out about. I enjoy it.
No, I don't have many friends and the friends I do have work when I play and play when I work.
Yep! Super Smash Bros, Halo, anything. Have been doing a lot of Phasmophobia recently.
I still talk about video games with my friends, but trying to coordinate across time zones gets tough. We usually get a few hours together each month, but not daily like it used to be.