My age is irrelevant the moment I load the game and slip on my HMD. I’m ten or eleven again only this time round my dreams came true and I’m inside a game that fires my imagination like only books had done previously.
My actual age requires me to suspend my disbelief in a way the ten/eleven year old me wouldn’t understand but it’s easy enough to do in-game, in-forum slightly less easy
I’m 45. Tried to play the original on my Dad’s ‘God knows what’ (he had a Dragon 32 for a while but I think Elite was on his Amstrad somethingorother) but it was hard to ever shift him - my memories are a constant loop of him attempting to dock; just gently rolling and rolling before crashing as spectacularly as you can with wire frame graphics. He may have been my first experience of rage-quitting
. I missed the subsequent games as I discovered bad influences, a propensity for teenage rebellion, followed by Uni which was much the same but camouflaged by talking earnestly (to girls I liked) about things I didn’t fully understand (but they probably did.) Eventually I left, got a job, grew up and only then got into gaming again - some fifteen to twenty years after last playing Chuckie Egg, Spy vs Spy or Way of the Exploding Fist.
My final admission is that I bought the game on Steam around 2016 but took two years to actually load it up and get going....how much money did I waste in CoD games in that time?