Gaming when you're old

[Beryl77]

Lately, I've been thinking what I'll be doing when I'm an old man and with old I mean 70 and older. Of course gaming is a possibility because it's physically not so demanding and I'll probably have more free time than I want.
So it got me wondering, will I still enjoy games when I'm old? Will I only play old games or will I always be up to date and only play the newest games, or a combination of both?

So tell me, what are your thoughts on this: Do you think you'll still be playing video games when you're old? Will your taste change and you'll be playing completely different games? Will you only play retro games?

Bonus question: How do you think the games will be like in 30-50 years?

Spoiler: Also, 1000th post!

 

[the spud]

I've thought about that too. I guess I'll still play games, but it is hard to tell what games will even be like in 60 years.

 

[Erana]

I pray to God that in the coming decades, video games will become the subject of much exploration in the art world.
Its a new, burgeoning and practially magical medium! How dare they claim that art is dead when we have the means to fabricate a reality in which physics are our toy!

Really, though, I've recently discovered that I'm very interested in pushing artistic mediums. And video games reek of undiscovered potential.

 

[Aeonknight]

I will be beating noob asses on CoD MW 300 long after I'm an old man. Show them young whipper snappers how you do it old school.

 

[farscythe]

i dont plan to stop gaming for old age.. but i am finding that the older i get the less time i have to play starting to think that by the time im retired ill have had so many other things to do that gaming fizzled out n wont be restarted again

 

[SidingWithTheEnemy]

My uncle (hitting uhm more than 65 years and kicking) started to play video games some years ago, in fact he is playing COD and Halo and stuff. He really likes military FPSs. He mostly enjoys single player but he really plays them franctically. He even memorized the locations of the North Korean soldiers in Crysis.

I look forward to be the game playing grandpa. With diminished eyesight and advanced senility I might be finally able to re-enjoy those pixellating ugly but otherwise brilliant Strategy Games like Civ Call To Power, Master of Orion II and of course DukeNukem3d, Quake I and Wolfensteid3d. I only hope I find a rig where the emulation software is going to work out for those games.

How the games will be like in 50 years, you asked?
Easy, just one word:
sh*t

 

[The Lugz]

i'll have FINALLY completed my Minecraft world, and ill be ready to die.

 

[The Madman]

Kinda hoping for holo-chambers myself, gonna be awesome and you can be damned sure I'll be there enjoying those.

 

[Jazoni89]

Well, i guess in around twenty years time, people will be uttering Videogames in the same breath as classic movies like Citizen Kane, and Star Wars. So, by then videogaming itself will be a far more acceptable, and matured form of media. Then you will have the very elderly playing videogames as well.

It just new technology, and generation gaps. Soon there won't be hardly any soul on this earth that remembers a time before videogames.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

If I make it to a ripe old age like that then I'll probably just limit myself to games that don't require an internet connection to play. There are a ton of games out now and that will be released that I haven't played so there's a big pool to draw from. I'm starting to build up a collection now but the only problem could be connections. I don't have an NES at the moment but when I get some, I may not be able to connect it to my flat-screen. Same with the Sega Master System. The oldest I'll probably go will likely be the Atari 2600 or, Commador 64. The later being it's own thing so I don't have to worry about connecting it to a TV but what if, in the next 50-60 years, outlets are changed? That could completely fuck me up!

I will definitely be gaming in the future though. At some point though, I'm going to say screw the new games/ screw the current. Now that I think about it, I should probably find an older TV just in case...not old-old but maybe something from the 80's or early 90's...

 

[Mouse One]

Funny, last night I was playing Left 4 Dead 2 with a couple who told me they'd been married forty years. They played pretty well, in fact.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

Well, I think this is kind of irrelevant, because in 50 years we will all be robocops. And do you have any idea how hard it is to port games onto a robocop?

 

[somonels]

If by some freak accident I do manage to see my retirement days I shall spend them gaming and making children miserable.

I remember a news about a study that gaming at an elderly age slows mental decline. Google "elderly gaming" and you will find some articles.

Elders do game, I can vouch for that. Now, women on the other hand ...

 

[username sucks]

ill probably have terrible arthritis by then because it runs in the family to have it bad. Im only fifteen and already my joints hurt when its about to rain. i hate genetics

 

[Mafoobula]

When I'm absurdly old and brittle I'll probably have to stay away from the REALLY intense stuff. I imagine hardcore MMO raiding will be the limit for what my frail little heart could take. Oh wait... I won't be able to stay up until all hours of the night when I'm 80. Screw it, I'll just move somewhere in the world where it's mid-afternoon local time, 1700 server time. Annnnd I'll be playing mage-types, since those guys use maybe three spells and the rest is staying out of the fire.
Anyway, in short, of course I'll be gaming when I'm older than dirt, it's just I'll be playing different games. Professor Layton when I'm 75 sounds just fine to me, thanks.