I'm 30. It's not that I'm getting too old to game I feel. It's a combination of two factors:
1) Games feel like they're getting stale to me. Not as much innovation. Most just slightly improve on the past and upgrade the graphics. Indie games might address this a bit, but I don't want to risk spending money on an unknown.
2) As I've grown older, I've found other things I like to spend my money on and also less time spent gaming. This leaves me with less of a gaming budget then I had 5-6 years ago. Which means I want to make sure what I do spend on games is worth it.
1) Games feel like they're getting stale to me. Not as much innovation. Most just slightly improve on the past and upgrade the graphics. Indie games might address this a bit, but I don't want to risk spending money on an unknown.
2) As I've grown older, I've found other things I like to spend my money on and also less time spent gaming. This leaves me with less of a gaming budget then I had 5-6 years ago. Which means I want to make sure what I do spend on games is worth it.
Sulaco
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One thing I've noticed is far less desire and ability to "binge game".
Pretty much gone are the days from my very early 20s and late teens where I could and would look forward to playing games for hours on end. I'd sit down with one (good) game for 3, 4, sometimes 5 hours at a time.
Or if I had a bunch of free time, spend most of it gaming. Play one game for 2 hours, switch to another for an hour or two, pop in another for 2 hours after that, with only a few quick breaks in between.
Those days are pretty much gone. Sure, games like Civ or other deep, involving strategy games MIGHT hold my interest for a couple of hours.
But now, after usually no more than an hour or hour and half, I'm simply ready to move on to another activity.
Pretty much gone are the days from my very early 20s and late teens where I could and would look forward to playing games for hours on end. I'd sit down with one (good) game for 3, 4, sometimes 5 hours at a time.
Or if I had a bunch of free time, spend most of it gaming. Play one game for 2 hours, switch to another for an hour or two, pop in another for 2 hours after that, with only a few quick breaks in between.
Those days are pretty much gone. Sure, games like Civ or other deep, involving strategy games MIGHT hold my interest for a couple of hours.
But now, after usually no more than an hour or hour and half, I'm simply ready to move on to another activity.
what I think [rant on]
we need better games for PC , not 8hrs of ported cut scenes from consoles for $60.00.
-NVIDIA AND AMD need to vet these ports and not make drivers for sub standard ports to PC.
XBOX or PS3 would not allow any game to run on their machines the same way PC ports run on our machines.
-giving some of the PC dev's room to grow.[who's left ?]
-we will not get a lot of games but at this point what we are getting is crap anyways.
- game content cut down for consoles -8hrs but the console kiddies can play the game over and over using a different armor\ hair style\double cross bow\male-female or both and what not.
-added cut scenes to save resources\programing\story line.
-more money in the game ad budget [knowing no one would buy the crap based on it's own merit], than for game programing budget.
I look at steam every day for a good PC game and only see the same ported crap. so yea I don't play much any more.
[rant off]
we need better games for PC , not 8hrs of ported cut scenes from consoles for $60.00.
-NVIDIA AND AMD need to vet these ports and not make drivers for sub standard ports to PC.
XBOX or PS3 would not allow any game to run on their machines the same way PC ports run on our machines.
-giving some of the PC dev's room to grow.[who's left ?]
-we will not get a lot of games but at this point what we are getting is crap anyways.
- game content cut down for consoles -8hrs but the console kiddies can play the game over and over using a different armor\ hair style\double cross bow\male-female or both and what not.
-added cut scenes to save resources\programing\story line.
-more money in the game ad budget [knowing no one would buy the crap based on it's own merit], than for game programing budget.
I look at steam every day for a good PC game and only see the same ported crap. so yea I don't play much any more.
[rant off]
not too old to game, too old to game with much of the crap being released now. So maybe I'm too old after all...
shortylickens
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Thats my thought in an easier to read format. Not too old, just too old for the current glut of simple, pretty games with no substance.
Strangely, thats how I feel about women too........
:hmm:
But I actually did find some pleasure in browsing Steam for simple, underrated games. Been enjoying Armored Princess even though its very simple TBS and has lots of pretty colors and no real story. Orcs Must Die, Portal 2. Gaming can be good if you look past all the big blockbusters the industry crams down your throat.
waggy
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Kalmah
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If only they would stop re-hashing all the same old crap. I don't know if I should rant or just stop beating the horse right now. There are many styles of games that have been untouched for years. I want to dig out a dungeon, fill it with traps, have a dungeon heart, first person view, multi levels, spells, a tagging system like Evil Genius has... Or maybe even a very animated fantasy-board game with multi player, a lot of strategy, perhaps 'cards' like magic the gathering that are distributed in the same fashion as Diablo item drops, strategic turned based battles, different battle maps that are 3d and with multi levels. Shit just give me something new or bring back the old with today's technology.
Powermoloch
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I'm 26 right now (turned 26). Haven't been playing much games lately due to Nursing school (ALMOST THERE YEAH!). I still buy games and hopefully will play amongst the few hundred titles waiting to be loaded in the PC WHOOO.
lately i've been investing alot of time in LoL hah!.
lately i've been investing alot of time in LoL hah!.
I don't feel I'm too old to game, but I do have less time for games. I still play often enough, just not as often as I used to, but more importantly, I enjoy it just as much. In some ways, even more now that I can afford all the nice hardware that I used to only be able to envy.
What I'm about to say next has nothing to do with age, but more of the "sign of the times" gaming is less... Memorable, these days, and I think much of that goes to the ever popular digital distribution format. I have a bookshelf with all the boxed copies of all the games I've ever purchased. I look at those from time to time and it brings back all the fond memories I had playing them. I don't get that same feeling of nostalgia when I look at a game in my steam library.
What I'm about to say next has nothing to do with age, but more of the "sign of the times" gaming is less... Memorable, these days, and I think much of that goes to the ever popular digital distribution format. I have a bookshelf with all the boxed copies of all the games I've ever purchased. I look at those from time to time and it brings back all the fond memories I had playing them. I don't get that same feeling of nostalgia when I look at a game in my steam library.
thejunglegod
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I guess i'll never be too old to game. The only problem is the shortage of time due to work and other responsibilities.
How do you have more free time at 41? Aren't you supposed to be sitting in a pile of work at that age? Please share your secret with me
How do you have more free time at 41? Aren't you supposed to be sitting in a pile of work at that age? Please share your secret with me
happysmiles
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I'm 23 and I don't game nearly as much as I did because I have other hobbies I want to invest time into.
I game at the end of the day after I've done everything else or I tend to push everything else to the side and end up over indulging! and a unhappy girlfriend!
Probably 3-5 hours a week mostly Dota and TF2
I game at the end of the day after I've done everything else or I tend to push everything else to the side and end up over indulging! and a unhappy girlfriend!
Probably 3-5 hours a week mostly Dota and TF2
Nobody likes a spammer. We like it even less when they are trying to encourage people to pay for FREE software.
Full story here if anyone is interested: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/24/the-flare-path-dont-buy-virtualpilot3d/
TL: DR, don't ever buy VirtualPilot3D or ProFlightSimulator, as its free anyway.
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its never too old to game... what changes with age is the taste of what game you enjoy playing.
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amen, esp on the women comment! I think I've learned several lessons in both areas...maybe I'm too picky or too smart for simple, pretty and no substance...
I've been gaming since I was 5 (I'm 24). I view games like drugs.. my dopamine tolerance continues to rise and my expectations only grow for the "next one". Over the next year I might play through AC3, and maybe play BF3's MP 3-4x times in 30 minute sessions. The daily 6 mountain dews, daily 16 hour summer play sessions, weekly lan parties might have blew the fuse though too. I don't know.
I'll still spend hours and hours on gaming websites, following nearly every "interesting" game - while knowing full well I won't play them when they come out because of their more-than-likely failure at attempting to hold my attention post-release. (SimCity 2013, Arma 3, GTA5). If I'm not wasting time on IGN, its reddit, and even thats getting boring.
Nothing really excites me anymore. Now I've found Netflix and have started to watch television. (Never was a big fan of waiting week to week being drip fed television shows). Watched every Breaking Bad, West Wing, Homeland, House, Family Guy, 30 Rock, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, etc., in a matter of months during all my free-time.
It's only a matter of time before I run out of good shows to watch, and then I'm screwed.
I'll still spend hours and hours on gaming websites, following nearly every "interesting" game - while knowing full well I won't play them when they come out because of their more-than-likely failure at attempting to hold my attention post-release. (SimCity 2013, Arma 3, GTA5). If I'm not wasting time on IGN, its reddit, and even thats getting boring.
Nothing really excites me anymore. Now I've found Netflix and have started to watch television. (Never was a big fan of waiting week to week being drip fed television shows). Watched every Breaking Bad, West Wing, Homeland, House, Family Guy, 30 Rock, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, etc., in a matter of months during all my free-time.
It's only a matter of time before I run out of good shows to watch, and then I'm screwed.
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If it weren't for Steam/Minecraft I probably would have quit gaming or only "gamed" in browser windows/flash. I am 29 and have definitely gotten more casual in my gaming. I used to play FPS games like it was my job.
GAME ON... Mid 50's and I will stop when they pull the keyboard from my rogor mortise filled hands.
I have SEEN a decline in my skill set. Which makes me sad. But it is what it is. Right now, multiplay D3 with my son (28) and his GF. I am looking around examining loot... They are off and running and killing more.
FPS? Love them to death. These days... I am the cannon fodder to distract the others so my teamies can kill them (I NO lonnger play CS)...
We are doing Borderland 2 as a team also... More quirky and fun than serious (I hope LOL).
Nope... Gaming till I DIE....
I sympathise, although I don't think this is down to age, times have changed not us...
Back in the "old" days it was more interesting to be an enthusiast, we had games that really pushed the limits of technology and so getting your build just right, getting the OS tweaked to use minimal resources required effort, overclocking was tricky and required a lot of trial and error and often selecting the right components from lots of research.
Now a days we have almost no games that stress video cards, consoles have utterly destroyed this generation of PC gaming, we've had to move to stuff like 3x1 eyefinity configurations to really stress anything, 120hz @ 1080p is a sinch for 3D gaming, even massive 2560x1600 panels that REQUIRED SLI or crossfire back in the day all run fine on top end single GPU cards, it's pathetic how much we've stagnated.
Add to that the enthusiast scene is on the way out, you can buy a decent CPU cooler for a few pounds, install it on a 2500k or 2600k CPU and have it at nearly 5Ghz in about 20 minutes of testing, with 16Gb of ram dirt cheap we no longer need to tweak OS services to get the most from our system. With so much CPU power, system RAM and now SSDs performance of almost all non-distributed tasks is a solved problem. Games are all made for consoles and almost never have advanced graphics to tweak any more, modding is slowly being killed off to promote DLC and so it's becoming harder to turn to modders to fill these gaps.
Many of us were hanging on the new generation of consoles to kick things back in to gear, but it's starting to look like they will release with hardware grossly behind the curve and so these dark ages of gaming might be set to last another 6+ years unless we can get out of this slump.
Back in the "old" days it was more interesting to be an enthusiast, we had games that really pushed the limits of technology and so getting your build just right, getting the OS tweaked to use minimal resources required effort, overclocking was tricky and required a lot of trial and error and often selecting the right components from lots of research.
Now a days we have almost no games that stress video cards, consoles have utterly destroyed this generation of PC gaming, we've had to move to stuff like 3x1 eyefinity configurations to really stress anything, 120hz @ 1080p is a sinch for 3D gaming, even massive 2560x1600 panels that REQUIRED SLI or crossfire back in the day all run fine on top end single GPU cards, it's pathetic how much we've stagnated.
Add to that the enthusiast scene is on the way out, you can buy a decent CPU cooler for a few pounds, install it on a 2500k or 2600k CPU and have it at nearly 5Ghz in about 20 minutes of testing, with 16Gb of ram dirt cheap we no longer need to tweak OS services to get the most from our system. With so much CPU power, system RAM and now SSDs performance of almost all non-distributed tasks is a solved problem. Games are all made for consoles and almost never have advanced graphics to tweak any more, modding is slowly being killed off to promote DLC and so it's becoming harder to turn to modders to fill these gaps.
Many of us were hanging on the new generation of consoles to kick things back in to gear, but it's starting to look like they will release with hardware grossly behind the curve and so these dark ages of gaming might be set to last another 6+ years unless we can get out of this slump.
Geosurface
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Unfortunately most of the older, cred-establishing boxes are in the second or third row back, making them invisible
I kind of feel like this, I've been gaming on the PC regularly since I was about 13, I'm now 29, the stuff doesn't excite me like it used to, and I've not owned a TV since I lived with my parents because TV generally pissed me off, fixed schedule + adverts, but always watched TV on my computer, that trend only grew over time and with the recent years of gaming just being utterly fucking horrible I ended up becoming more picky with my TV shows and finding more digital copies, well let's put it this way, the amount of space I have in my PC probably gives you some indication, check my sig.
I love the high quality production from HBO and AMC amongst others, some of the shows you list like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire are amongst some of my favourites, you might also like an old series called Deadwood an amazing western by HBO, Milch the guy who wrote that went on to write Luck another HBO show which was unfortunately cancelled but season 1 was fantastic. The Walking Dead by AMC is also awsome.
I've become more picky with movies as well, and as that side of entertainment got more interesting for me I invested more in my home set up, I dropped £1k on a 1080p projector which is money that would have gone in to my PC otherwise, have a massive 122" screen to watch stuff on, I spend at least as much time watching TV and movies on that as gaming these days.
The nights and weekends of caining it through singleplayers are all but gone the odd RPG will hold me for extended periods of time but generally not interested in most singleplays, competative gaming is a total JOKE right now and not worth touching with a barge pole, the whole thing disgusted me for ages but I just see it as pathetic now. I now know not to keep my hopes up for anything, no more PC exclusives, most of the ports are trash, sometimes I feel like saying some are good, worth playing, but honestly its just because our expectations have slipped and slipped over the years. 6+ years ago ports of consoles games on the PC were completely unacceptable and got trashed by the PC community as what they were "shitty ports", now it's just the accepted norm, what the fuck happened in those short few years.
So yeah...first time since I was 13 I have skipped having a flagship card from every major generation, my last card was the 580 and I refuse to get anything from the 6xx range or equivalent, not until my 580 struggles with 120hz @ 1080p or 60hz @ 2560x1600 will I bother, until then money gets saved for more cinema kit, next on the list is a 120hz/3D projector to replace my current 2D one. I will continue to ignore games on release day and wait until they''re a few quid on steam because why fucking bother?! It's the same shit constantly what exactly am I paying the premium for, again this is all money that's going elsewhere until this situation fucking improves.
evident
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i'm 27. No games out there catch my interest anymore. Diablo 3 put the nail in the coffin for me. I still play starcraft 2 every now and then, but realized that I no longer have a desire to be really good at the game in multiplayer, simply because I don't have the time or patience. FPS? forget about it. I wont touch another one unless if it's a proper sequel to unreal tournament or quake 2. i've realized that i can spend my time learning new hobbies and doing stuff in the real world that will occupy my time much more productively
new super mario brothers on the wii is pretty fun with people over, but that's very casual and short.
new super mario brothers on the wii is pretty fun with people over, but that's very casual and short.
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