Like we’re not triple-A machine possessors at this point. A friend and I played in the era of the original Age of Empires, and StarCraft; Worms, and Dune. We were core SNES-PS2 era. We were never the ultra competitive hotkey speed run strategy types, but just played for fun.
Anyone out there in your late 30s to early 40s that have managed to connect to old friends despite long distances, what are you playing now?
How many of you are there? I’ve found that to be the biggest factor.
My friends and I are in our early 30s, but we started playing Age of Empires 2 together during lockdown. The main benefit to that is that you can play with up to 7 other people so there’s a lot of options in that regard. You also don’t need a decent PC or anything, and can comfortably play it on a laptop. There’s also Age of Empires 4, but we haven’t played that so I can’t comment on it.
We started to get bored of that after it became predictable, and have since moved on to Warzone (well, Warzone 2 now). The main benefit is that it’s free to play and is available on PC, Xbox & PlayStation with the ability to crossplay between them. The downside is we can only play in teams of up to 4 (or multiple smaller teams).
Just one friend I’d like to reconnect with. I haven’t had a PC with a graphics card in ages but that will hopefully change soon as I can justify the upgrade to use AI tools.