Im 43 years old
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@RD-Cash-Pesos82_PSN said in Im 43 years old:
if the person like my self over 40 years old
I'm 61, at the 500-600 level in RS. I like playing Events and BR online. They're All-Star difficulty (Events are sometimes HOF). My reflexes certainly aren't what they used to be, but I still enjoy online play and the rewards that go along with it. These old eyes can still play at AS level online.
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I’m in a similar boat. I’ve been playing the show since the beginning back in 06. I love the game and the collecting and grinding aspects. Ranked and Weekend league are a lot of fun. I am in my early 40s and tore a retina this year and had to play one-eyed for most of the year. I cannot compete above a certain level and I’m okay with that. I still pitch with the best of them and keep my games close and pray I can make them pay when they screw up. It’s still fun to me. I abhor losing in almost anything, but I just have accepted my mortality and find enjoyment where I can.
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Another option for us old folks that don’t want to play on legend is custom leagues. Find one that plays on all star. I played in one last year and the competition was pretty casual.
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I never needed to play online.
I still get my baseball and hockey fix playing their Ultimate Team modes offline.
I started playing sports games way before online came along in '99, fwiw.
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Im 48 and my vision is definitely not what it used to be 2-3 years ago. I had to adjust my perspective. I rarely play online, last time I played was in October. I'm having more fun now doing mini seasons with my new perspective. I play all star, I quit playing legend my eyes can't keep up. All star gameplay is still pretty decent not good but decent and the cpu still tries to win. 100+ fastballs I take unless it's down the pike and I'll take a hack at it and if I foul it off I consider that a victory, but I sit offspeed with the flamethrowers. Someone said on this forum in one of these threads if you get 3 hits every 10 at bats then you are doing job that's what changed my perspective and get less frustrated at the game. I realized my limitations and tI am trying to adjust to my limitations instead of the game.
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@DrBear100_PSN Do you play on a monitor or a TV?
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TV, I have customized to where I have pretty low latency. I thought about a monitor but the problem is the closer I get the blurry everything gets. Farsightedness has really set in. I have also adjusted to fact there better times to play this game. For instance between 9 and midnight on Sunday evenings are unplayable not so much the game because the internet in the area of county I live is extremely congested. Mid week evenings and mornings through the afternoons are good so I play those times and avoid times that are congested.
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@DrBear100_PSN said in Im 43 years old:
the closer I get the blurry everything gets.
I play with a monitor and wear reading glasses...
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I hit 100% better with a monitor. But I really only set that up around weekend classics now. Otherwise, it’s the tv.
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That's a pretty good idea, I'll probably try it with a relatively good inexpensive monitor first to see how I like it.
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My favorite thing is when I’m playing in ranked and lose 2-1 or 3-1. Something like that and the opponent was a cheese ball bunt dancing, holding r2, running in circles under f8 cans of corn, and constantly going to the dugout on the pre-intentional walk screen, replaying their home run and they send me an unsolicited message saying I suck. I have started messaging them back saying Father Time is undefeated. They don’t get it. But one day they will.
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@DrBear100_PSN said in Im 43 years old:
That's a pretty good idea, I'll probably try it with a relatively good inexpensive monitor first to see how I like it.
It made a huge difference for me. Plus, it keeps me out of the main living room so I'm not bothering my wife. I only have 1.25 readers, so my vision's not terrible yet, but it's so much clearer with them.
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43? Lol men used to go to war ahh comment
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@DeleteyourTTVBTW_MLBTS you were born after 2010, weren’t you? Hint: we already know the answer to this.
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Some of us have been playing the show longer than many of the younger crowd has been alive. Also, imagine a world where your phone was attached to the wall and you didn’t even know what the internet was and over the course of a summer you played over five hundred nine inning wiffle ball games and a full little league/all star season at the same time, and your parents never watched a single practice unless your dad was the coach. But on a rainy summer day you and your buddies played rbi baseball until your nes could heat up a cup of ramen. That was what us 40 year olds remember. That and chasing a ‘89 upper deck card card #1.
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@LHUBison58_XBL Amen
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Oh how I remember those days. My brother, our friends and I would get my dad's tennis balls and use them for baseballs remember feeling like Jose Conseco hitting nukes.
It was all about that Griffey Jr RC and the Score Barry Sanders RC those were the 2 I chased hard for.
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It took me a bit but I started to be able to hit on legend and got over 1000 rating this year and I am 42 years old. I turn 43 in a few months. I am just inconsistent though depending on the game, the day, and really how much sleep I get.
