I'm giving my dad my old PC to replace his 2003 (I think) Macbook (he has been using it for Photoshop somehow for a decade)
added an SSD too and it runs better than it did when I used it
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popcap shit like zuma bejeweled and peggle
unironically
This, my grandparents are that age and my grandma in particular played a lot of PopCap's games to death.
My grandpa has said that he thinks video games are very interesting but can't be bothered to learn how to play any new ones. He really dug Missile Command when my mom was a kid.
It depends on what you mean with comprehend
>Is it understand the gist of it and play it?
May be almost any casual game from the late 2000s to the late 2010s
>If you mean they'll be able to master it?
games like what anon mentioned and as a matter of fact, things like candy crush are mostly played by boomers
>just understand it enough to bench someone else playing them?
I think any game as long as it's not too much off the balls, and with grounded themes/narratives, like COD games, Total War games, etc.
Casual games
Portal
My mom is 60 and couldn't get Portal. Or Paper Mario.
she's also a woman
Football manager is a must if he's euro
Lode Runner
Metal Gear Solid 3 unironically. The story is good enough and grounded in reality that anyone can enjoy it regardless of age.
only hand your elderly relatives a kojima game if you're gaslighting them into thinking they have dementia or schizophrenia
he is unironically a coomer so I don't think he'd care
lol get him VR then
would keep him more active too
could also enjoy the artsy shit if you say he can use photoshop
>"hey dad, are you winni-"
Wii Sports. I remember seeing a news coverage of a nursing home getting the seniors into playing wii sports with each other. Shit got competitive.
get him the ultimate dad game, myst
Peggle
Just buy one of those namco arcade game collections or something simple like that. He can figure out pacman, tetris, universal games understood by all ages. Don't try and give him some dumb shit like persona
Literally anything, if they're that old they were alive before the post-WW2 mindfrick.
old enough he saw the Beatles in concert
and was draft age in Vietnam
Euro Truck Simulator maybe?
I played that for a few hours and encountered so much jank, I don't think a boomer could deal with it.
the telltale games are really simple
boomers also usually really like games with lifesim shit, like rdr fishing/hunting stuff
or maybe something like house flipper
also he's open minded enough that he saw all of cowboy bebop
It depends on what he likes. He will be more interested to learn a game if its about something he's interested in. If he likes basketball, get him one of the old NBA 2k titles. If he's into cars, get him a racing game. My old man is a fan of Star Wars (A New Hope was the first movie he ever saw at a cinema) and, when he was younger, he used to play board wargames like Great War at Sea, so he was near-instantly hooked on Empire at War despite barely knowing how to play it.
actually I wonder if he might be able to handle kotor
he likes Star Wars (Star Trek more but I don't know any decent trek games)
I just watched a video yesterday of a 60 something year old playing DayZ, I wouldn’t worry about his age slowing him down as much as I would setting him up with a game he’ll actually enjoy.
I think you should start with something less intense than DayZ obviously, but I think you might want to give electronic old men some credit, after all they run the world in this new age.
dink smallwod
Medieval 2 total war
Mario series
X-Com
Mario Rabbids etc
Red Dead Redemption
Tetris
Minecraft
COD (the early ones or WWI+II)
Wii Sports
Puzzle games
I'll try disco elysium on my mom. Wish me luck.
Chess
Mahjong
Solitaire
Minesweeper
Civilization 2
Quake 3
hey moron, when I was 18, 21 years ago, I played hearts on msn gamezone vs geriatric americans. Let me tell you they were GOOD (and I was able to remember up to 26 cards), so dont ignore some 60-70 year olds, they will destroy you in a lot of areas.
Also they are wicked salesmen, go to any old market and ull see.