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How long do you think you'll still be a gamer?

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I tend to question myself this from time to time as I'm kicking back with a session. How long will I keep buying & playing video games? I always figured I'd grow old continuing to still enjoy the joys (and hardships) that the hobby of gaming brings, and inevitably becoming what I am today; that cool Uncle with the awesome library of titles the kids love when visiting (like my Aunt before me).

A good portion of my friends no longer play video games and have "moved on" as they put it, to become occupied with more interesting things in life. My sister who used to be an avid gamer with her NES/SNES/PS1 has become a "casual" gamer of sorts, especially since having her own family. I don't see this happening to me anytime soon however, I suppose the one thing to change my mind would be the sudden shift to the production of abysmal quality titles, but then I'll likely just turn back to retro gaming. 20 years later after 1988 and I'm still enjoying this hobby, with the way things are going I don't see this changing anytime soon.

What about you guys, how long do you think you'll still be a gamer?
 
I will keep gaming until I stop enjoying it (which I dont see happening any time soon), im an even bigger gamer now than ive ever been and seem to be purchasing more and more games all the time.
 
Dark Drakan said:
I will keep gaming until I stop enjoying it (which I dont see happening any time soon), im an even bigger gamer now than ive ever been and seem to be purchasing more and more games all the time.
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Ditto to that, I've got more games this past decade than I've ever had prior... then again that's probably due to me getting them myself and no longer relying on the Mom & Pops when I was a spoiled little nugget.
 
Im hoping to still be a gamer when I get older. Ive always wanted an office room that would actually be my man cave. You know, like a place to get away from the spouse and kids. Ive always thought about myself in my fifties and sixties still playing games. Also when I turn 69 I plan on having a huge party and when my kids tell me no I"ll tell them to shut up because I did their mom.
 
Until I grow tired of it. And lately it seems like I don't have the usual excitement for playing video games like I use too. (Skyrim excluded)
 
I used to not even think of myself as a gamer, when I started playing video games they were something to do when there was nothing else to do anymore, now sometimes I'd rather beat the next mission and defeat the boss then go drinking with my buddies. My friend is a bartender/maid and we can get in.


Idk video games just kept getting better and better, back in those days it seemed like there were more videogames out then books in a library. Fable was the first game I was dedicated to, then Halo.

Then I got an xbox with Halo 2! My friend had xbox LIVE we could play against people all over the world WTF!???

The nail in the coffin was 360 yepp. I got it for my birthday along with a lotr game. It was so sexy. I didn't have a cell, ipod, or internet. The 360 was my piece of the american dream.

I thought no one could beat the vistas of Halo, then Oblivion came out and I got outside the sewers. A new era of gaming had just been released. I could not believe Oblivion. Halo 3 was perfect. And yah Fable was gone, I held on though, I did.


Now there's reach, cod, assassins creed, SKYRIM. But now they don't enchant me like they once did, 360 is getting old. I think I'm finally being weened. I'm even starting to read big books again. I think I've hit the zenith. If I do go come 2014 I'll defiantly have my eyes on the new generation.

ps remember VCR tapes lmao
 
Hard question to answer. About a year and a half ago, I could play games for hours on end each day.. My gametime on Red Dead Redemption when it came out was 3 and a half days.. In a week. Now, I spend maybe 2 hours max on my xbox a day, sometimes not even that. I just don't enjoy gaming as much anymore, sad really. I'd like to say I'd be playing games for years to come but I wont be a "gamer" for as long as that.
 
I've cooled off on gaming in the last few years. I used to constantly sit at my computer/xbox playing any game I could find. But after a while I started to care about how other people saw me, and I didn't want them to see me as a loser who spends all his time gaming. I still enjoy it, but my life doesn't revolve around it anymore.
 
It comes in waves for me. Recently, I haven't played much. The occasional ME II and C&C 3. Mostly I play LoL with my friends, because it's more fun. I don't see myself quitting for good, though. It usually depends on the games. Most newer titles are so bad I can only play them for a limited time and then quit. I'm also bad in the regard that I can never finish a game, even if it's good. I'd rather have 15 games I can constantly switch between than one game I'd have to play from start to finish.
 
queenofdisco said:
Until the day I die.

--Or when I have kids.

Same thing, amirite amirite?
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I can help you with both of those things.. ;)

Buuuut, I use to be into it ALOT, then cooled off, But I still game hard every now and then, but I even it out because I go off adventuring and what-not.
 
ScareCrowReturn said:
I can help you with both of those things.. ;)

Buuuut, I use to be into it ALOT, then cooled off, But I still game hard every now and then, but I even it out because I go off adventuring and what-not.
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Speaking of adventuring, I need you to teach me how to do a backflip when you move here.
 
Arseface said:
Speaking of adventuring, I need you to teach me how to do a backflip when you move here.
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Oh yeah, Im moving somewhere else now, inland of wollongong, whatever that place is called..

Hah! I cant backflip though, I try, but fail miserably..
 
But that's in New South Wales! New South Wales is **** (probably)!
 
My problem is my job. I work a lot, like today 12-6, and because I take the bus I get home at 7. Sometimes I open the next day which means I have to go to bed an hour after I get home, and 1-2 hours of video game playing is actually not enough time at all now a days. Games are longer and sometimes things IN the game takes longer. I'm more of a casual gamer now. My highschool days I used to play games CONSTANTLY, but there's so much I want to do with so little time.

Not to mention there's a lot of people I talk to on the computer, that I CAN'T talk to if I'm downstairs playing a game. Makes it hard to divide my attention. Either way, I'll probably be playing games for the rest of my life, or as long as my brittle arthritic hands can take it. I love them TOO much to EVER give them up, and it amazes me to see the new things they come out with.

That being said, someone buy me a Kinect and That Dancing game, cause I fricken want it. >:C
 
TRA Rotid said:
It comes in waves for me.
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Yes, this is one thing I forgot to mention. Since June-ish I didnt touch my 360 until Skyrim came out, and before that I was on and off on old games. Its usually the summer where my 360 is alone because of the lack of good releases during that time.
 
Until I become bored with it, I'm sure. If I'm ever able to find a hobby that can hold my attention as well as games can, I'll be all over that.

Perhaps when I start trying to write professionally?

FUTURE, HO! *flies away*
 
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