Too Old for Video Games

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. . which explains much of what goes on on trade O:-)

There's clearly a generation gap over the whole "Too old for things". I expect that in a few decides it will go away. More and more people are realising that video games are not just for kids.

Grow up. Throw the stupid video games away. Trust me. I had the same issue. My obsession was video games for 18 years. You have so much you can accomplish. For instance, once I stopped playing video games I started socializing, making money, learning, becoming confident, and mature.

You can socialize while playing games. You can make money, if your good & I am pretty confident I could own you lol. Learn to be a kid, so you can play with a kid that you have & you learn while playing a game.

You also could get into modding or level making or get together with people & make a game dev hobby group.

So That's out the box, thinking for ye. Mature is overrated.

You're an adult, case closed as far as your parents pulling rank.



If it's your special interest, you should be designing games or doing something productive with them. Otherwise - I'd start to try and think of it more as a pastime, like watching TV or reading paperbacks.



Me too.



You're an adult, you decide, and accept responsibility for your decisions. If you decide to play games (or watch TV or whatever) instead of attending to your responsibilities, then that's all on you. The flip side of that is, you have the power/freedom to make decisions for yourself without being second-guessed.

Unless, of course, you refuse to accept responsibility for your decisions and make excuses. Then you're essentially being a child. But if you're accepting all the consequences of your decisions, well, you're an adult and a free person and it's up to you, completely up to you.



Nothing wrong with that. It's basically the new television. There were all the same issues when TV started to replace books and radio.

I still play them and I'm 45. I was there for Pac Man and Space Invaders and I'm still there. To me they've never lost that shiny "Christmas morning" excitement.

I have to fit them around working full time and being in a relationship and other hobbies but I still enjoy them.

Games are still seen as an adolescent pastime but I imagine that label will fade. Once upon a time pop music was seen as being for teenagers only but those teenagers grew up and stayed with it and now it's not seen as at all unusual for someone middle-aged to listen to pop.

As a side issue, I never feel that actually playing video games is childish - solving puzzles, mastering control systems, exploring environments and so on. What I do sometimes feel embarrassed about are the dreadful cut scenes and stories, which are often absurdly violent, sweary, sexist and just plain toe-curlingly awful. If only they could develop a bit of sophistication then gaming would be much more widely accepted (IMHO).

When I was a child. My dad was an adult. And my very early memories are him playing on the N64 Quake and Doom. And sometimes the Super Nintendo where he played Mario. He also played on the PC Quake. And he chatted with people online. These are my ealiest memories of his adult life. He went to work and he payed for the bills.

I am doing what I can to take on adult responsibility, but I think I can play some games too ya know.




But I take care of my responsibilities. I'm the one who does the laundry here at the house, I'm the one who puts away dishes and vacumns and cleans kitchen. I am intership right now and volunteering and networking so I cna get into a good field. I am trying to boost my writing career. I've always wanted to write stories for video games and comics and movies.

I am looking for a job. I'm going to school. I'm doing the best of what I can. My entertainment is video games. And I should be allowed to spend some time on video games. I always earn my pleasures. I do not take pleasures without earning them.

You know, it's your life. The only thing I could see causing problems is if you are always on the family TV or something and then it needs to be addressed as you have to share that time with others.

I'm 35 and my hubby is 37 and we play World of Warcraft daily. So no shame in "being too old" for video games by others' standards. To each their own, right?

It's a cultural POV, and you'll probably find societies where males in their 20s do play video games. I myself was thinking it's pretty common. So, maybe try seeking the company of others and distancing yourself from your parents a bit?

The real issue though is that my dad was my age when I was a child playing video games while I was a child. It's hard to tell your kid do not do what I did.

No one is ever too old to play video games! (says the girl who is still obsessed with Pokemon at 24 years old)

So tell them that. You're an adult, your parents aren't supposed to second-guess your decisions unless there's a serious problem.

I'm 29 and I still play video games. I know you're not doing this, yet still I wouldn't advise playing them the way that I used to, which was get up, have breakfast, play video game all day... up to 12 hours at a time! This was back when I was obsessed with games and went into their worlds to escape this one. Now I'm obsessed with my boyfriend so I don't play as often, which is probably healthier for me.

My mom is 53 and she likes to play video games. Right now she is more addicted to things like Cafe World or facebook games in general, but still, adults are playing games left and right. Don't let anyone tell you that it is immature to play games of any sort. We all need stress relievers and ways of zoning out for a while.

As my previous post in this thread wasn't particularly on topic, I will add a post that is: I also play video games (although computer games moreso, to be specific).

I am a big fan of old DOS games, and suppose part of my interest is figuring out how to make the games work rather than the actual playing of the game, and also in just collecting them on my hard drive (they are generally very small, and so I think I must have over 500 different ones, all of which look pretty fun, downloaded from various abandonware sites). One of my passions as a kid was to try to find more cheap shareware computer games for under $2 (but I seldom succeeded in finding them), at yard sales or in the bargain bin (as the internet was not very common then). I suppose my adult self feels it has hit the jackpot with these freeware/shareware game sites and is storing against such a drought in the future. I mean, there are so many freely released games out there these days that were the top of the line just a decade or 2 ago (not all back there is like pong). Take this one, for instance: link

I have also played WoW (am like level 75 or something), but if I play a MMORPG these days, it is Lord of the Rings Online, which I think is prettier and more relaxing.
I also have a Wii, which I will be able to play more after school is out, with games borrowed from the library. Primarily during the school year, though, b/c I don't have much time to really get immersed in any games, I have just been playing Facebook games, Castleville being one of my favourites. I like how it's not so open-ended as Farmville because there are lots of quests to unlock things and to place extra plants and such, so you still get to customize a ton, but it's not totally open-ended. I am also enthusiastic right now about fixing up a slightly broken Nintendo DS I got for cheap; I found you can use a mod card to get it to do all sorts of things, like show e-books and play movies, in addition to the original game playing capabilities (plus I have ordered a replacement touch screen which I will install b/c the one it came with is scratched).

My Dad's general gaming experience is Farmville, which I got the impression over the holidays that he was quite familiar. I hear lots of older adults like Farmville.
My Mom doesn't play any computer games, but she is computer-phobic in general.

You are never too old for video games the day you are too old is the day you die. I am 29 I still play video games I know people in their 70s play video games. My grandmother from my fathers side before she died played game boy and super nintendo. I play mmorpgs as well my favorite is Everquest main atm is a 95 iksar shadowknight.

This statement bothers me - I don't think there are really very many "you should be doing this" criteria involved in special interests. Especially "doing something productive with them." The criteria for autism, PDD-NOS, and AS, all of which refer to special interests as being unusually intense or focused, is that the symptoms together should impair one's functioning. Special interests are often not productive. They can be, but they don't have to be.