I'll be sure to let my Dad know about this topic. He's in his late 50s and currently playing through the Assassin's Creed series.
Poll: Giving up gaming because you're old
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I apologize if anyone mentioned this, I only skimmed the thread, but...
I must direct your attention to a woman that refutes your friend's entire argument through her mere existence.
I'm only 21, but I want to be her when I grow old.
I must direct your attention to a woman that refutes your friend's entire argument through her mere existence.
I'm only 21, but I want to be her when I grow old.
I've near on giving up on gaming. I'll still play the older games, but there are far to few good games coming out these days. Games now seem to focus on introducing a cool mechanic, and then basing the entire game around it (particularly a fair share of indie games).
...so I guess it's not giving up on gaming, but nearly giving up on the current gaming industry. I'm still having more fun playing Final Fantasy 7 than I am finishing Assassins Creed Brotherhood. Granted, there are still a few gems which come out every year, but the massive flood of games that tend to come out around March and November has never looked so....uninteresting. To me, of course.
...so I guess it's not giving up on gaming, but nearly giving up on the current gaming industry. I'm still having more fun playing Final Fantasy 7 than I am finishing Assassins Creed Brotherhood. Granted, there are still a few gems which come out every year, but the massive flood of games that tend to come out around March and November has never looked so....uninteresting. To me, of course.
I don't think I could ever give it up completely and as others have said, a lot of seriously older people didn't have these things growing up and would have only come to their attention fairly if not very recently and have likely showed no interest in gaming. It varies from person to person. Your friend is incorrect as to the whole "magic switch" thing, it's more a case of having less time to play video games than suddenly stopping.
If you do that, don't mention the word "old", he might take offenseFrozenCones said:
I'm in my early 40's and I don't consider myself old.
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Pretty much this. I've also have much higher standards for games than I did a couple of years ago. X-Men Legends 1 was one of my favourite games when I was about 14. 8 years later, I'd only play it if I was bored out of my mind.PrimitiveJudge said:
I also don't have the time to sit through long periods in games where you're not actually playing, but just running a to-do list. For example, comparing items in RPG's to find out which one will give you a minor advantage ("This sword gives me +7 to damage and +5% to fire resistance, but this axe gives me +9 damage and +3% to ice resistance").
And as much as I love hard ass games like Mega Man Zero, I *really* do not want to reload my game, sit through a boring ass conversation and unskippable sequence every time I die/screw up my rank in a mission, simply because Capcom didn't have the foresight to include a "restart mission" option that you can access without killing yourself until all your lives are gone.
I understand the people that say I don't have the time for games anymore but I will always try and play games till I can no longer physically play them.
At 35 and married I still love gaming BUT I'm not the kid I was. The best example of this is still loving my PS3 but recently selling my Vita and just playing more casual stuff on my phone and tablet when I'm not at home. I couldn't have imagined this back when I owned Sega AND Nintendo machines but priorities change and some things become less important, even if you still love them.
So long as I continue to have fun playing them and have time to play them, I will do so. I am 28 right now, I don't know how old some youngings think that is.
Say what you will about motion contol in gaming but there have been several projects where homes for elerly have invested in gaming machines particularily machines that allow for motion control, and while also a very appreciated form of entertainment ut has also shown to be great in perserving and somtimes even increse cognative and physicalq ability, and there by increasing quality in life.
As to your actual question, no, I intend to continue gaming for as long as I have an interest to do so. Though I can imagine it gets harder to make time for it.
As to your actual question, no, I intend to continue gaming for as long as I have an interest to do so. Though I can imagine it gets harder to make time for it.
What's more likely to happen is as you get older, you continue with the hobby (gaming in this case) which you loved throughout your life, however the world may have moved on beyond your grasp.
It's just a generational thing. We keep doing what we love, but unfortunately, we find it harder to accept the "Next thing" eventually.
Perhaps a version of Connect which reaches into your brain to place you directly into the game whilst simultaneously bombarding you with Ads, which the younger generation appear to be completely oblivious of... but serves as a barrier to entry for the older generation with different sensibilities to the younger ones... or the controller sets off your hearing implants.
Kids rarely make model airplanes, play with plastic soldiers or model railways anymore. That type of escapism has died out in favour of video games.
You won't find a switch being flicked.... instead the world will change around you you try to change with it and while it seems that you'll be able to keep up, eventually for most of you it will leave you behind.
It's just a generational thing. We keep doing what we love, but unfortunately, we find it harder to accept the "Next thing" eventually.
Perhaps a version of Connect which reaches into your brain to place you directly into the game whilst simultaneously bombarding you with Ads, which the younger generation appear to be completely oblivious of... but serves as a barrier to entry for the older generation with different sensibilities to the younger ones... or the controller sets off your hearing implants.
Kids rarely make model airplanes, play with plastic soldiers or model railways anymore. That type of escapism has died out in favour of video games.
You won't find a switch being flicked.... instead the world will change around you you try to change with it and while it seems that you'll be able to keep up, eventually for most of you it will leave you behind.
I plan to keep playing games for as long as I feasibly can. The only things that will keep me from doing so in my old age will be either if my hands become too arthritic (at which point I hope I will have effective medication) or if I go blind. If I die then I'll just be a poltergeist who plays video games.
I'll still be gaming when I'm 94 and pushing the grankids off the PS51 or whatever console at that time.
My very first experience of online gaming was in about 2003 when I picked up a cheap copy of Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator at around the time I got my very first internet connection. I clicked on the "Play it on the ZONE" button and within a couple of days had been kind of "adopted" by one of the clans ("squadrons" in the world of online air combat sims). They guy who ran it was in his late 70's, and one of the most active members.
In fairness, he didn't actually join any games that weren't purely intra-squadron, and the odd inter-squadron arranged game. By his own admission he wasn't always able to keep up with the "young guys", although I find in general there are not many kiddies in the world of online flying, and the ones there are tend not to be of the potty-mouthed XBOX Live variety. Most players are anywhere between their early 20's and late 50's.
Without wanting to generalise too much, I think that the nature of the gameplay - long periods of inactivity and managing the aircraft systems, combined with a few frantic moments of adrenaline pumping combat, closing with an opponent at hundreds of miles per hour, then trying to keep track of everything going on in a 3 dimensional battle space - appeals to a type of gamer who was brought up with games that were often more complicated and sophisticated in pure gameplay terms.
I don't think you grow out of gaming. You just stop being mainstream. Today's mainstream fashions and trends in gaming are tomorrows niche market. A lot of people stop for other reasons; it's hard to fit gaming around a family and a job too, but I don't know anyone who ever stopped because they thought they were too old.
In fairness, he didn't actually join any games that weren't purely intra-squadron, and the odd inter-squadron arranged game. By his own admission he wasn't always able to keep up with the "young guys", although I find in general there are not many kiddies in the world of online flying, and the ones there are tend not to be of the potty-mouthed XBOX Live variety. Most players are anywhere between their early 20's and late 50's.
Without wanting to generalise too much, I think that the nature of the gameplay - long periods of inactivity and managing the aircraft systems, combined with a few frantic moments of adrenaline pumping combat, closing with an opponent at hundreds of miles per hour, then trying to keep track of everything going on in a 3 dimensional battle space - appeals to a type of gamer who was brought up with games that were often more complicated and sophisticated in pure gameplay terms.
I don't think you grow out of gaming. You just stop being mainstream. Today's mainstream fashions and trends in gaming are tomorrows niche market. A lot of people stop for other reasons; it's hard to fit gaming around a family and a job too, but I don't know anyone who ever stopped because they thought they were too old.
For me, it is a time issue more than anything. I'm usually in bed around 10-11, then work 7am-4pm, so I have about a 6 hour window there of free time on week days. Also have to make dinner, do other misc things in that time, and do other things with my life. For example, yesterday I was home for maybe 10 minutes after work, then went out until about 11. My computer (which I mostly play games on) hasn't been on in a few days. Its probably more of a "lack of time" thing than a "lack of interest", unless gaming is just a fad for whoever it is.Jason Rayes said:
Nah. I plan to start collecting once I start getting enough money to do it, and there's no way in hell I'm just getting rid of it all when I get old.
See, this sort of thing is completely understandable. Like most people with jobs and responsibilities you don't game as much, not due to lack of desire, but due to other commitments. In the long run my question was more to do with actual old age and gaming, this situation you mention is one I'm familiar with from my own experience. But when Im older and I have more free time, I definitely intend to do some catching up. I certainly won't be taking up lawn bowls or quilting.Assassin Xaero said: