Poll: Can you outgrow videogames?
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The amount of time I commit to playing video games may shrink over the decades, but I think I'll always enjoy a good gaming session. As for the interest in industry news and on-goings, I think that'll grow over time.
I outgrew anime and toys and also generally most cartoons. I can say this though, if video games didn't evolve from what they were 15 years ago I probably would've outgrown them by now. From Super Mario we now have Mass Effect. So if gaming continuously grows and matures then I'll never get tired of video games.
Well I've been playing them since the age of three, my father's been making them for almost as long as he's been in the programming business, the majority of my uncles and cousins play WoW an enormous amount and my uh, grandfather used to play chess on the commodore 64?
So I'd say no, it's like saying you can outgrow books or film.
So I'd say no, it's like saying you can outgrow books or film.
The way I see it is like this. Some might outgrow them, some might not. I believe that the ones who do not outgrow video games as they get older just find themselves changing priorities to things that really matter in their life.
I am turning 40 this month, I play Starcraft II gold league on both Europe and US. I have a level 80 rogue but Wow isn't really my thing. I love Zero Punctuation. Sometimes I fire up mame and play my old arcade classics. I have a blast playing GTA IV LOTD and TBOGT. I play Fifa and I do not suck at it. Not even when I get drunk. So no, I sure as hell won't outgrow gaming. The only thing I'm afraid of though, is that my dexterity will go to shit in about 10 years. But by then we should have mind controlled controllers so that's all good.
I don?t like the use of the word ?outgrow?. It implies maturing and growing up and videogames aren?t mealy for immature children. You can become more or less interested in various forms of entertainment at various points in your life. That plus you can get other responsibilities in your life that takes up a bit more time, meaning you can?t spend as much time with games.
For instance, books, I used to read a lot more books when I was younger. I would not think it right to say I have outgrown books.
For instance, books, I used to read a lot more books when I was younger. I would not think it right to say I have outgrown books.
You can't outgrow them, only get bored of them.
You cant exactly outgrow blood, sex, and swearing. Unless hax is involved.
You cant exactly outgrow blood, sex, and swearing. Unless hax is involved.
No, but you can get bored of them. Not the same thing. Except when you're so old you outgrow everything except watching TV with only a mild sense of interest.
I'd say - depends on the game. Some games are designed for younger audiences, and are generally not interesting to older people.
As an activity, I would say no. Yes, it can become less of an interest to some people, but it's not like "outgrowing" in the same way as outgrowing a game you used to play as a kid.
As an activity, I would say no. Yes, it can become less of an interest to some people, but it's not like "outgrowing" in the same way as outgrowing a game you used to play as a kid.
I am actually not sure. It does becomes a much smaller part of your life. For example, my dad used to play really old games, yet he still occasionally plays doom and old gta in his free time.
Yes, well sort of. I think I have out grown them because I now have much more constructive things to do with my spare time. I don't view them as immature, I just don't have time for them anymore. That's right, a memebr of The Escapist that doesn't really play games much. I still want to kinda. It's just that I have more important things to spend $80 on than a new game.
Maybe you're right.Xzi said:
But we don't get HBO or Showtime here in Norway (or at least not where I'm living at the moment)
True, or maybe for some it's that there is not many games sophisticated enough to match their tastes anymore. That could change in the future, one can hope.Kagim said:
Sorry to bring that here but you said you would delete my pm without reading it
I am trying to have an intelligent discussion, I'm having intelligent discussions with others than you who disagree with me too and they're not treating me like you are. That does say something on your personality.
-I wasn't just trying to win, I meant winning as in getting you to accept some of my view, which you did. You may not want to accept this, but that was my thinking from the start, I did not change it just to contradict you.
-you only assume most people are lying because it further your own interest, which is ironically of winning this conversation.
-I reviewed myself far more often than you, and from your attitude, I can tell.
-I was not being condescending, but you always were agressively defensive.
You barely gave me any examples to prove me wrong.
-The point about digitalisation af media and the article about the absence of copyrights not being so bad are separate points.
-I never changed my "tune", if I sometime changed attitude that was in a vain attempt to appease you.
-Right back at you:
"Learn the art of give and take and maybe one day you will have an intelligent conversation with someone of a differing opinion."