Too old for gaming?

That's like saying you're too old for Lego. I don't think there is an age that you no longer want to build stuff with lego. I wish I had the balls to ask for lego for Christmas...
 
32, married with a 2 1/2 year old and still get in 5-10 hours of gaming per week. No such thing as "too old" in my mind (unless it's something illegal). I'll stop playing games if/when I stop enjoying them and despite plenty of sequels/clones there are a stream of interesting games that still grab my attention.

I get 5-6 hours of exercise each week, love spending time with my family and think I have a pretty good balance. If I ever felt my gaming was harming my healthy or family then I'd ditch it but I actually feel I benefit from the "me time".
 
At work yesterday I was in a focus group meeting for the redesign of the intranet, and the IT bod in charge asked us what our favourite websites were. A woman in her late 40s across from me said "Well, there's this site called Wowhead..."

There is an old quote attributed to Benjamin Franklin that runs thusly: "We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." Try that on your mother next time she suggests you should have grown out of gaming.
 
If your asking the question are you too old for gaming then you have not been gaming for alongtime. Ive
Been gaming since 1979/80 ever since i was 4 or 5 almost everyday and i have no intention of stopping.
Ive owned almost every computer and console ever made long before the internet was even around through Grey import (Those were the days).
 
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Keeps the ol hand-eye coordination top notch.

Plus gaming is a social activity, nothing beats being on (insert VOIP program here) with some friends and doing some stupid stuff on BF3 for example, and laughing like a moron.

Que GF walking in, calling me sad, then goes back to Eastenders.
 
45 here and got into wow recently which im loving.

120+ games on steam which i play regularly.

Never to old to play :)
 
Fenris said:
She's your mother, that is her job.

Your job as a son is to nod politely and proceed to ignore every word.
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+5,000

Probably the most moral and best advice I have ever seen on OCuk! :)

You sir deserve a medal (I'm posting you for recommendations on mumsnet) :p
 
Not to old busy not got any free time :(

Full time job 4 kids 3 under 5 leaves me with not a lot of free time. Which is hard as I can afford the games and hardware but I never get s chance for a decent session like I used to play. 18hr bf2 session lol or quake 3 until 6am then straight to work. Ha ha.
 
Justintime said:
31 in a month, my mum popped by my flat today and saw my PC setup, gaming mice/keyboard/wheel etc.. and commented that I was 'too old' for this sort of stuff and she thought i'd have grown out of it by 25 :D
I play a lot of FPS and racing games, got a girlfriend, own my flat, good job and some modicum of a social life... why the hate man? :D

Is there really an age where its best to just put the controller down?
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as said above, certainly no such thing as to old for gaming

Don't listen, mothers don't know best
 
I've always wondered what our generation will be like when we're older(I'm 26)?! I mean nowadays old people spend there time gardening, knitting and generally just doing old people shizz. Will we be doing the same we are old or do you think we will still be gaming? There will be no more hate on the youngsters having all the time in the world to smash mmorpg's it will be all about us retired old folk racing to end game and moaning there's no end game content?! Do I sound mad or do you get me bros?
 
NeoReloaded said:
I've always wondered what our generation will be like when we're older(I'm 26)?! I mean nowadays old people spend there time gardening, knitting and generally just doing old people shizz. Will we be doing the same we are old or do you think we will still be gaming? There will be no more hate on the youngsters having all the time in the world to smash mmorpg's it will be all about us retired old folk racing to end game and moaning there's no end game content?! Do I sound mad or do you get me bros?
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ha, I get ya bro :D

It's like music, you'd be excused for thinking that when we get old we'll be listening to country or classical, because that's what old people do. But it's just what they've always done. So will I still be banging out the london techno at 80? why not! :D
 
NeoReloaded said:
I've always wondered what our generation will be like when we're older(I'm 26)?! I mean nowadays old people spend there time gardening, knitting and generally just doing old people shizz. Will we be doing the same we are old or do you think we will still be gaming? There will be no more hate on the youngsters having all the time in the world to smash mmorpg's it will be all about us retired old folk racing to end game and moaning there's no end game content?! Do I sound mad or do you get me bros?
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I don't,garden or knit but I do game on the PC and for a bit of retro gaming I have just got my hands on a Playstation 1 and around a dozen games. Game on, oh and I will be 60 this year.
 
Justintime said:
Is there really an age where its best to just put the controller down?
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Yep.

As soon as you find that the content of the game titles are totally boring, that the gameplay is totally repetitive, and that the whole process is intellectually and emotionally unrewarding, yet you persevere out of force of habit. That is time to put the gamepad down.

The above describes me with the majority of games these days. But then it also describes me with the majority of music that I hear on radio 1. Perhaps there is an argument to be made that the dumbing down and homogenisation of mainstream entertainment is bringing on the 'I am getting too old' effect much sooner than it would otherwise would occur. Thankfully, just as there is still the odd tune that gets into the charts that hits a spot, there is still the odd game(s) that come along that manage to immerse and stimulate my mind for long periods of time.....but they are increasingly fewer and further in between.

I am 37, and now own the sort of PC and all the cool peripherals that I would have sold my kidneys to own back even when I was 25 and totally lost in the world of Gothic 1, playing on a 14" CRT monitor at 640*480, all details turned down and running at a migraine inducing 7-15 frames per second. I also have a high end gaming laptop for taking with me when I go to work offshore. I find that when I am offshore, I can more easily bring myself to play titles that would bore me when I was at home* (Bioshock Infinite, Bulletstorm). Due to having much fewer entertainment possibilities or ways of keeping my mind stimulated, standards seem to drop and I find that I can keep myself amused with these sorts of games without that nagging feeling creeping in that I am wasting my time or that 'this game isn't improving my mind/life'.

*Providing STEAM hasn't locked me out of such games, which it does, every damn time I am without an internet connection, hence need for bootlegging STEAM games before I leave.
 
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