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Teki187

Teki187

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I'm interested in peoples opinions of people who play computer games from the middle 20's and over.

The original "consensus" was basement fatty playing Dungeons and Dragons, but with the development of "Mature" gaming, has the face of computer gaming took on a different look?
 
apeZ said:
Why not?

What makes it less socially acceptable than any other activity?
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The reason why i ask, when i was at school back in the late 90's, if you claimed to play computer games you were branded as a nerd and exiled. Up until the early 2003+ era, i feel that claiming to be a gamer was a social suicide, but now a days i feel its more acceptable.

But yet, people still speak in hush's when they talk about being a gamer to "non" friends. A lot of people at my work for example play WoW and will only talk in private about it, rather then in a group.
 
Camelpaw said:
Depends who you tell really, and how you say it, and how you look, I guess. All factors into how people perceive you really.
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So if we go by that, how would you judge the following:

30's man, dressed casual and fashionably, lives alone and works a normal job.

40's man, dressed very casual and not fashionably, lives with wife and 2 kids and works a normal job.

50's man, dressed old, retired with wife and kids in there early 20s.

(not trying to pick an argument here)
 
RDM said:
I have yet to find a game, even some of the best RPGs, that has the depth of even a decent novel or well scripted film. The industry as a whole is only now starting to take the "writer" role seriously and has some serious catching up to do. Take Dragon Age as an example, a far too cliched plot with some absolutely terrible dialogue in parts and it is one of the better written games on the market currently!
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But book writers have had generations to perfect there art along with films, gaming has only been around "properly" since 2000
 
Nitefly said:
With the latter example, I think it's pretty odd that somebody can be bothered to invest such a large amount of time in something so isolated and unproductive.
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But isnt progressing and completing a game a productive thing for a gamer?

And such spending 100+ hour sin obilivion is the higher end of hardcore gaming.

Bare in mind computer games were single player before multi player.

You can easily spend 100+ hours in some PC games on your own, but that might not be in 1 sitting and over many many sittings.
 
I get around said:
Typical nerd response.
They're both nerd games is my point, where people powerlevel and take it really seriously. It's a true depiction of nerd gaming.
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But is WoW gaming any different then clan gaming in FPS's?

Both genres sit on ventrilo type applications barking orders and working as a team, surely you cant say one is better then the other when both are technically the same?
 
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