Who finds himself loving VG more despite getting older

@TheEroica:

Thanks for the clear up on the birth thing. And yes I agree that companies in the old days put more effort into making the best game they can.

@PSP107: Sure, I'd love to see gamers take the hobby back to an extent. More critical spending to start, but I'm no one to be telling someone how to spend their money.

Nope. Been buying less games and finding myself interested in less games.

im pretty much going to be gamer till im buried. I havent stop since I was a kid with my atari and will keep on going.

@jg4xchamp: That was terrible. Honestly was hard to watch

Not for me, I read and talk about gaming more than I play it. I have been gaming for 22 years and 1 day and its been a couple of years that I find most game I play to be dull. Don't get me wrong there is always that game out of nowhere that make me glad I'm still a gamer.

Lol i know, I find it amusing for how fucking shitty it is. Imagine it chute, someone legit said all this shit, and meant it. No jokes, no troll, was honest.

Oh wow my friend, congrats!!! 90 days until being a Dad? You and your family are in my spiritual prayers brother. I am one like you. I was always a very athletic guy, so I played sports (hockey, American football, martial arts) in my life. Since injuring my hip, left arm and abdominal surgery in the US Army not so much. My gaming increased at first, but then I got into college with my GI BIll and school takes most of my time. But I love gaming. I love gameplay and the story telling aspect. I find it funny how so many say gaming stories are trash, and worse they cant link me to any story they, themselves have created or had published. I like this medium and enjoy the stories. I don't expect Shakespeare or even Sam Shepard but they're better than what I have done.

I am loving video games more now than ever before but at the same time it is getting harder to impress me.

@cainetao11 Less than 45 days actually, the date is set for Feb 11 and might even be pushed forward to Jan 29.

@cainetao11 Less than 45 days actually, the date is set for Feb 11 and might even be pushed forward to Jan 29.

I am drunk, and for that reason a month and half = an hour and half numerically. LOL

So I turned 31 this year and my wife and I had our first child.

Video gaming has been my hobby since I first saw Super Mario Bros when I was 3 years old. I now own most of the consoles between the NES and the PS4. Today, for example, I played a ton of Bubble Bobble, Paper Boy and Hogan's Alley with my wife, while my 2 1/2 month old baby watched in excitement. (at least that is what it looked like to us) Now that they went to sleep I am playing some Virtual Boys games while waiting for Shadow of Mordor to download on the PC. And then I will play some Pokemon, Alpha Sapphire while laying in bed.

That is unless the baby wakes up of course....

As I've aged there's been advantages to enjoying gaming that have gotten better, like an expendable income, to get what I want when I want it (considering I can afford it). But besides that, games are getting better both creatively and technically. I can imagine when men our age get to their golden years they're not just going to sit around reading the newspaper bitching about how the world is going to hell, we'll be online making teenagers cry when they're totally getting owned and trashed talked by old men with liver spots.

My brief background on gaming:

Flash forward to today. I love gaming just as much as I have before. It's a real passion. But my tastes have grown more refined, and I have become a lot more strict with myself on what I should spend my time and money on as I have plenty of other things to do. So I don't buy nearly as much anymore and I miss out on a ton, but I think it's okay. I'm not gonna waste my time on bad games or hard games, but games that I can have fun with and enjoy. And that's okay.

I've become a casual, a filthy casual, but one that loves the industry and the games in it.

yea i love and enjoy gaming now more than when i was younger. Sure i played mario games and got addicted to tony hawk, but i played gaming casually. It wasnt until after highschool, i think when i turned 21 that i started getting into games more often. 2004 is when i think i became a hard core gamer. I got a 2nd console and went from 15 games to 115 games in one year lol.

now its a full blown passion. I enjoy games now a lot more...

Just past 30. Been a PC gamer my whole life, got away from it for 10 years to pursue an action sports career. That recently fell apart so back to working a boring job and having fun back with PC games. Just upgraded my system, hopefully new video card next month. Still just a big Quake & Payday 2 player, with some SC2 on the side. Have had zero interested in any of the console offerings.

When you posted it the other day, I gave it a watch and mostly thought the dude was actually serious(ly pathetic)... the part about his virginity though, I mean WHAT THE **** BRO? I find it hard to believe... scratch that, I don't want to believe anyone can be that much of a twat.

I've known some straight up losers in my time, but that shit is off the fucking charts.

I enjoyed it. Shit was hilarious.

I only feel that way toward Nintendo games nowadays.

I'm not going to go too in depth other than saying that what I have realized as I've gotten older is that Nintendo is the most mature product out there. They stick to the essence of the video "game." Nothing touches their design philosophy. All these fanboys stating crap like "they recycle mario too much" when that isn't even what the game is about. Mario is used because people love mario, but the games would still be good if it was a piece of shit bouncing around the screen. Nintendo has a level of player/control/visual immersion that no other developer has reached, imo.

I am 38 and have had every major game system since Atari and Colecovision.

I even had a ADAM and Commodore 64 in the PC realm.

I have a full time job and family which leaves little time for gaming. With the holidays here I had almost zero time. Plus, I am a hobby whore. There is always something I am getting into or starting. This cuts into my game time too. My latest venture is metal detecting (old **** hobby) but even when I'm not gaming I am usually talking or thinking about it.

It depends on the game and how much time I have for me, but I stilllove gaming.

Unfortunately not. This is coming from vague admissions in interviews of Firaxis. Nothing is official.

Though one can assume they're atleast tossing around ideas right now. I would like an official announcement in 2015 and expect it to drop Q4 2016 at the earliest.

Not exactly.

I have found myself playing them for different reasons as I've gotten older though. I'm a fan of tight gameplay mechanics, unique ideas, and more-engaging storytelling ideas. I've gravitated to the PC for these reasons (and Nintendo in some cases) since that's what they provide.

I think I love them even more nowadays. :)

Absolutely. I'm pushing 27 here in 2 months and I play tons of games. Me now vs. the me in high school, I play a much wider variety of games. I have a huge backlog of games that I need to play and am never bored of games. Just finished a 140 hour Dragon Age Inquisition playthrough, played through a full playthrough DA:O and DA:II before it released as well (and I have played origins around 5 times total and DAII about twice beforehand. I'm currently playing Halo: Master Collection, Bayonetta and 2, Smash Bros and started another character in DA:I. I would take half a page to list my backlog between consoles and steam so I won't, but I game just as much. By owning all consoles and a PC, my wife plays games while I do as I hook up the small 32" TV for her and shes playing Captain Toad, Assassins Creed, Kingdom Hearts while I play my games.

I still play a huge amount of RPG's, but now I pretty much play every genre except sports (racing excluded, I love Forza). Got GTA V for Christmas (haven't really played a GTA game before other than a bit of 4).

I think people saying there are no games on the X1 and PS4 are crazy as I have about 20 between the two and have gotten much use out of them. I find I don't criticize games as much and just enjoy them for what they are. Every game is it's own and I don't want exact repeats of old games (im mixed, I personally feel DA:I feels like a next gen RPG (something old and new in the combat, and not a rehash of the past, but when the next zelda game comes out I want it to control like Ocarina, Wind Waker and Twilight Princess (GC Version).

Overall I play more games and enjoy them for what they are more. I just picked up a Razer Atrox and Killer Instinct Season 2, pre-ordered DOA5: Last Stand and Mortal Kombat X and plan on getting some more fighting games in too. Personally this a great time to be a gamer, I revisit old classics and enjoy the present.

I feel alot of gamers on these forums miss out on so many games due to stupid things. Like sticking way to much to the past, sticking to one platform, being unwilling to try something new and enjoy it, being just way to critical and not enjoying what the game has to offer. It's hard for me to label a worst game as I find something redeeming about most.