Feel like you're getting too old for videogames? - Page 4

Genjimaru

Canada515 Posts

August 21 2012 08:53 GMT

#61

I'm currently 23 and I don't feel like I'll ever stop gaming. Whether it's casual or hardcore. Gaming is almost a part of my life. Though I've felt a decline in certain genre's (like rpg's). A lot are better than ever. Depends what you like really. I hope everyone can continue to enjoy them. I hope to, for as long as i can.

Blacktion

United Kingdom1148 Posts

August 21 2012 08:59 GMT

#62

One of the guys a regularly play games with us is 29, engaged and has a mortgage and a pregnant missus, while hes still playing with us i cant use too old as an excuse. I dont think ill ever quit gaming, but i am without a doubt more casual then when i was younger. Back in the day it was LANs and CS for hours every day, now its a few ladder matches or a quick raz on TF2/BC2 whenever i get the chance. I havent played for 4 days, which was unheard of back when i was 15-16. Thats because of lack of time though, not because i think i should be doing something more 'mature'.

IskatuMesk

Canada969 Posts

August 21 2012 09:01 GMT

#63

I'm 25 and I dropped out of school many, many years ago. But I'm still getting too old for games because games are getting more and more simplified while I am getting more sophisticated. I turned away from playing games and towards making games a long time ago, though, so that may be why. I don't consider myself a gamer and haven't for the better half of a decade. There is just too few games worth playing.

ThePlayer33

Australia2378 Posts

August 21 2012 09:08 GMT

#64

this is the quality of quality of threads. <3

FlamingForce

Netherlands701 Posts

August 21 2012 09:16 GMT

#65

Sometimes it just kinda hits me that it's been a very long time since I game'd almost non-stop when I was on my pc, instead of what I do these days like just kinda surf the web and watch SC2, sometimes I even just go outside.

And when that happens I can't help but wonder if I'll ever do that again..Games just seem to be getting worse and worse in terms of good gameplay and immersion.

Alone, on my pc, nothing and nobody else on my mind then what I've got on my screen, I do miss that.. ^^

WombaT

Northern Ireland26505 Posts

August 21 2012 09:17 GMT

#66

For me it's not so much being too old for it, I like the idea of playing videogames. Kind of like as MountainDewJunkie said on the first page, it's the direction that I see games going in that would put me off playing, rather than my own age.

I find it sad that games like Deus Ex are increasingly rare, when given tech advances they should be coming out more frequently. I hate the trend to try and create a pseudo-movie vibe to most games in lieu of actual immersion too. There has to be a bloody string section accompanying everything you do it gets obnoxious.

bokeevboke

Singapore1674 Posts

August 21 2012 09:22 GMT

#67

I'm 27 and I spend 2-3 hours a day for gaming. I start playing after my father/worker duties are done (around 10 pm). Couple tips when you get old:
1. You won't stop playing video games. (although gaming time will get shorter as more organised you get)
2. You play mostly multiplayer casual games.
3. You have to sacrifice something in order to play. (gym class, sleeping time, hobbies)
4. You play only when your friends are online, otherwise you will be disinterested. Most likely you'll enjoy being with friends rather than the game itself.
5. Any singleplayer game gets boring really fast.
6. You won't watch streams a lot.

_fool

Netherlands682 Posts

August 21 2012 09:28 GMT

#68

I'm 34, married, with cute 3yr old. I still play computer games every day. I visit 3 LAN parties a year, with a core crew of guys that are all 30+. We're still playing, but games have a different role for us now than they had back "in the days". Back then, LAN parties where the only way to play multiplayer games together. So we'd make the most of those weekends, playing for 16 hours straight, sleep, then play again. Nowadays, we can play multiplayer games whenever we want to from the comfort of out own home. The LAN parties have become more of a social event, with some people not even bringing their computers (cowards

)

Oh: I agree with the post above ^^. Except for 6. I watch streams whenever the missus watches tv

Tobberoth

Sweden6375 Posts

August 21 2012 09:29 GMT

#69

I've had more of an upswing. I'm 26 and I work fulltime as a system consultant, but I still spend a lot of my free time playing games, though I played much less earlier. Not only do I have some games I focus quite a bit of time on (SC2, Dota 2), I also try to play a ton of new games at least for a bit, I switch these games a lot. Played a lot of Dark Souls recently, currently massing time in Sleeping Dogs... also dicking around with old games, currently playing Parasite Eve.

Gaming is just too much fun, and I will definitely buy at least one of the next generation consoles as well.

And people whining about the direction of games need to get over themselves. There are still TONS of great games released, all YOU have to do is support the developers who don't do dumb shit like EA. Dark Souls is a perfect example, if you're one of the people who whine about the current direction of games and haven't bought that game, you're a hypocrite.

Ercster

United States603 Posts

August 21 2012 09:38 GMT

#70

On August 21 2012 18:29 Tobberoth wrote:
I've had more of an upswing. I'm 26 and I work fulltime as a system consultant, but I still spend a lot of my free time playing games, though I played much less earlier. Not only do I have some games I focus quite a bit of time on (SC2, Dota 2), I also try to play a ton of new games at least for a bit, I switch these games a lot. Played a lot of Dark Souls recently, currently massing time in Sleeping Dogs... also dicking around with old games, currently playing Parasite Eve.

Gaming is just too much fun, and I will definitely buy at least one of the next generation consoles as well.

And people whining about the direction of games need to get over themselves. There are still TONS of great games released, all YOU have to do is support the developers who don't do dumb shit like EA. Dark Souls is a perfect example, if you're one of the people who whine about the current direction of games and haven't bought that game, you're a hypocrite.

You should play Darksiders 1 and 2 when you get the chance. FUCKING AMAZING!!!

Nisyax

Netherlands756 Posts

August 21 2012 10:00 GMT

#71

I still play games, but slowly less time is spent.

- When I was 14 and school started at 10 on Thursdays I would stand up at 6:45 and play like mad until I had to go
- When I was 16 I had my own CoD4 pub + private servers (together with a few others), pub server was basically full at prime times and apart from going out with friends basically all time spent went in playing CoD4.
- When I was 18 after finishing school before going to university I would sometimes play WoW till 4 in the night with people I got to know better and better. Still talk to some of them today.
- Now-a-days (21), I casually ladder with a friend, although we are masters (2v2/3v3/4v4), and sometimes do a few 1v1's.. barely any though (20/30 wins in the 2 seasons I've played). I like watching a good tourney however. I did buy the new CS:GO, but it shouldn't ever come above 10% of the hours put in CoD4 (around 2000 according to my old X-Fire). Starting Uni again and it should be top-priority (it wasn't always with school in the past

)

Patate

Canada441 Posts

August 21 2012 10:00 GMT

#72

I'd rather play video games, even in the mid 20s, than watch television. For one, gaming, Starcraft in particular, is way more stimulating for the brain, and it keeps the reflexes up and running. Like I said, it is way better than sitting in the couch and passively "ingest" all these images and sounds out of the TV.

WhiteDog

France8650 Posts

August 21 2012 10:22 GMT

#73

I played a lot for starcraft 1, diablo 2, warcraft 3 and then the early lol (before burning crusade) but until that point I never managed to get the same feeling from a game, like the game let me down at some point and the point of playing disappear. I managed to stop playing completly for my master degree, then played again at the beginning of SC2 and LoL, but everytime I need to work a lot, I just completly stop playing.

I always wonder if I can't play like I used to play because I am older or because the quality of the games and the community changed (like in lol, I can't make a game without angering myself because some moron always think he can insult his team mates for his own failure).

iPlaY.NettleS

Australia4404 Posts

August 21 2012 10:37 GMT

#74

I am 27 and have probably been playing more games than i have for several years this past year or so.Maybe 2 hours per day.Mostly for the reason video games is a cheap hobby , i have managed to save up a little over $20,000 over the past year or so by being more frugal.Past two months i have been playing PVP battlegrounds on World of Warcraft although i will probably stop when the new patch comes out in a couple of weeks as i do not like what they are doing with the talent trees they are too dumbed down.

Sinensis

United States2513 Posts

August 21 2012 10:45 GMT

#75

"Too old for video games..."

Please, you're never too old for hobbies. I think more seniors should pick up gaming they would be less lonely than watching TV by themselves.

Zinnwaldite

Norway1567 Posts

August 21 2012 10:50 GMT

#76

Too old? Pfft.. My father is 60 and he still plays..

Capped

United Kingdom7236 Posts

August 21 2012 10:52 GMT

#77

Epic video, but no, you can be too busy for video games, but not too old.

Pleiades

United States472 Posts

August 21 2012 10:56 GMT

#78

I play every now and then. Too busy to play like I use to these days. I miss spending hours on WoW

Kurr

Canada2338 Posts

August 21 2012 10:58 GMT

#79

I don't play as much because I don't have as much free time but it's pretty much my sole hobby besides anything else I do on the computer. Once in a while I play tennis or so but yeah : work, university, sleep then gaming.

I haven't gamed much at all in the past year beyond Skyrim/Kingdoms of Amalur which I played for like a month each but once Guild Wars 2 comes out that will change for a while to come.

forsooth

United States3648 Posts

August 21 2012 11:00 GMT

#80

I'm 25 now, but there hasn't been any major, consistent change in my gaming habits over time. I go through spells of playing a lot and other times where I hardly touch my games for weeks on end, and it's been that way since I was a kid. It's fair to say I have less time for games now than I used to, what with full time work and the other responsibilities that come with adulthood, but I still enjoy gaming.

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