Poll: Giving up gaming because you're old

[Darth Sea Bass]

Not likely I'm 40 and i the only thing I'm tired of about gaming is the corporate bullshit.

 

[Judgment90]

I won't give up gaming if I turn old, but if there isn't any good-quality games out when I become old, I may think otherwise.

 

[MopBox]

I think there was a time when this may have been true for a lot of gamers who were safely in their teens at the time of the console wars in the early nineties. It's reasonable to think if someone was 13 or 14 at the time when the Super Nintendo was released might have look down the road at the Nintendo 64 and thought that they had out grown the hobby. These days however, the media has changed pretty wildly and steadily lurching into the mainstream culture. In another ten years or so this will be like asking us if we ever thought we'd outgrow the movies.

 

[Jason Rayes]

I notice quite a few people have said "If the games are still good". Ever since Ive been gaming since the early 80's there have always been some games Ive been interested in. Even in these days of corporatism there are still good games being made. Indeed with the rise of the indie developer over the last few years now is probably the most interested I've been in gaming for some time. Dungeons of Dredmor, FTL, Endless Space, those are just a few of the awesome indie titles that have been keeping me busy. Even in the mainstream there are titles that have given me huge amounts of entertainment Darksiders II, Arkham City, Saints Row 3, Skyrim...even the controversial Mass Effect 3 was a game I enjoyed a lot. As long as there are creative people (And lets be honest they have existed since the first man painted on a cave wall and they aren't likely to go away soon) they will find a way to make creative games, whether independently via things like kick starter, or even within the current publishing system.

Edit: I know, I'm optimistic, it's a hobby.

 

[toadking07]

Here here! I saw you're never too old to game! Will I still play Halo when I'm old (80+) not likely, I'll probably have moved on to game that are more thought provoking, or at least don't rely on such knee jerking response times. I know right now as a college graduate I have less time to play video games than I did as a middle schooler and the games that are interesting me these days aren't the same as back then.

I don't think you grow out of gaming, unless you decide to, you just grow in your gaming tastes.

 

[MopBox]

As adult responsibilities set in, leisure time decreases, so you have to carefully pick and choose what you want to do with your time. I'm not saying games aren't worth playing, some certainly are. But with careers, spouses, possibly kids, time becomes a rare commodity. After a hard days work, some people just don't want to deal with screaming 12 year olds online, or with ME3's shit ending, or with Diablo 3's ebay, etc.

Don't play trilogies?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'm 30 and I'm not going to stop gaming any time soon.

I don't plan on having kids and a boring ass husband who doesn't let me game though so there's that.

 

[F'Angus]

I think when you get older, start a family, get a full time job, get nagged at by the wife, not being allowed to play violent games in front of kids etc... you just stop having the time to play as much as you want so you turn to other things.

Plus they'll probably bring in some new fangled game system in sometime in the future that'll be just to confusing for our old minds to work so we won't bother.

 

[mattaui]

The idea that 'real life' is something that happens to you that makes you like games less is a misconception. Now, will real life prevent you from gaming 'till dawn whenever you want, or require that you actually spend disposable income on something other than games? Yes. Will real life give you more and more commitments and responsibilities that will cut into all your free time? Yes.

I've yet to meet a person who was a dedicated gamer in their youth suddenly give up games because they no longer had the time to play. They definitely give up gaming -as much-, but that's not nearly the same thing.

I've actually met several people who weren't gamers when they were younger, but have come to enjoy the hobby as an adult, because their adult gaming friends got them into it. And no, not just something on the Wii or on a mobile platform, but strategy games and even MMO raiding.

It's a matter of what you decide to make time for. I do game a bit less now at 35 than I did in my teen years, but it's not because I'm any less interested in gaming.

 

[ninjaRiv]

Fuck that shit! I'm gonna be playing games at 102! A nurse will be carrying away a bowl of old man poop while I play the latest console.