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Anyone else like me and thinking that maybe they're getting a bit old for gaming, it's not that I think it's childish or immature i'm just starting to loose intrest. A few years ago I would be able to sit and spend a whole night playing through games, nowadays at most I play for an hour then get bored and go out.
They just don't seem to be as intresting as they where a few years ago, maybe it's that the standard of the games is slipping and they just don't hold the longetivity of older games, games such as Metal Gear Solid used to keep me glued to the screen until i'd completed it or at least got to a stage when I thought "oh crap it's 2am and can't get any further", but nowadays I just can't stick with games, I recently came into possesion of a copy of Devil May Cry, very nice game it is to, but for some reason it just doesn't get me gripped like a game like this should, if I find myself getting stuck in it, I don't have the will power to work out what I have to do next, I just get bored and turn my PS2 off.
I had the same problem with Silent Hill 2, I got stuck and I haven't touched the game since, the only game that has really got me addicted is GTA3 but that didn't last long, the only reason enjoyed it was cause there was no real set path to go down, the majority of the time I just spent driving around running people over.
I've come to the conclusion that either I am growing out of games or the Industry hasn't changed enough in the last few years, we really need something new, i'm fed up with all these generic racing games and Platform games, we need a new genre something that will really wake me go WOW I wanna play that. Unfortunately the closest thing we get to originality nowadays is Miyamoto and his set of fluffy creatures, surely Miyamoto should realise that he is allowed to make at least one adult orientated game.
Anyway enough of my rambling.
They just don't seem to be as intresting as they where a few years ago, maybe it's that the standard of the games is slipping and they just don't hold the longetivity of older games, games such as Metal Gear Solid used to keep me glued to the screen until i'd completed it or at least got to a stage when I thought "oh crap it's 2am and can't get any further", but nowadays I just can't stick with games, I recently came into possesion of a copy of Devil May Cry, very nice game it is to, but for some reason it just doesn't get me gripped like a game like this should, if I find myself getting stuck in it, I don't have the will power to work out what I have to do next, I just get bored and turn my PS2 off.
I had the same problem with Silent Hill 2, I got stuck and I haven't touched the game since, the only game that has really got me addicted is GTA3 but that didn't last long, the only reason enjoyed it was cause there was no real set path to go down, the majority of the time I just spent driving around running people over.
I've come to the conclusion that either I am growing out of games or the Industry hasn't changed enough in the last few years, we really need something new, i'm fed up with all these generic racing games and Platform games, we need a new genre something that will really wake me go WOW I wanna play that. Unfortunately the closest thing we get to originality nowadays is Miyamoto and his set of fluffy creatures, surely Miyamoto should realise that he is allowed to make at least one adult orientated game.
Anyway enough of my rambling.
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Well, I'm 20 and every now and then I'll get bored of playing games and won't play one for about a week or two btu they always seem to draw me back. I don't think that you could ever be to old to play games and I don't think that people should look at older gamers as immature or lazy. People just need to face the facts and accept gaming as a large part of society.
it's a question that gets asked often.
I'm 19 (20 in march) and i kinda got out of gaming as the DC started to die. But then i managed to get a temp job where my Dad works and PC games where getting good again so i decided to build a new PC with the hard earned cash.
Anyway i built a new PC and bought myslef a copy of Max Payne and i played it and played it till i finished it. I also got red faction as well which i got adicted to.
I went out of gaming for about 4-5 months as the games on the DC just didn't interest me at all. I bought crazy taxi 2 and sonic adventure 2 on the dreamcast and played sonic 2 for a while then i got bord of it (it's still not completed) and crazy taxi 2 was a massive dissapointment as it was just same old same old but it lasted me a little while.
You just got to keep up with the new technologies as i found this xmas with my new PS2 and i'm like a little kid again. i've been playing GTA3 and there are so many games i want i don't know what to get.
i didn't think that i could play games for hours and hours like i used to but Shenmue 2 proved i can. i just couldn't put it down it kept me hooked for hours the xmas day came and i was playing GTA3 for 4-5hours stright.
Anyway i think my point is maybe you will get back into gaming and maybe you won't it seems to affect different people in different ways and you can never get to old for gaming. My Dad got my little sis a GBA for xmas and when he found that the old Tetris game will work on it he's been playing it for an hour to 2 hours at a time and he's never been much of a gamer and his 54 years old :)
I'm 19 (20 in march) and i kinda got out of gaming as the DC started to die. But then i managed to get a temp job where my Dad works and PC games where getting good again so i decided to build a new PC with the hard earned cash.
Anyway i built a new PC and bought myslef a copy of Max Payne and i played it and played it till i finished it. I also got red faction as well which i got adicted to.
I went out of gaming for about 4-5 months as the games on the DC just didn't interest me at all. I bought crazy taxi 2 and sonic adventure 2 on the dreamcast and played sonic 2 for a while then i got bord of it (it's still not completed) and crazy taxi 2 was a massive dissapointment as it was just same old same old but it lasted me a little while.
You just got to keep up with the new technologies as i found this xmas with my new PS2 and i'm like a little kid again. i've been playing GTA3 and there are so many games i want i don't know what to get.
i didn't think that i could play games for hours and hours like i used to but Shenmue 2 proved i can. i just couldn't put it down it kept me hooked for hours the xmas day came and i was playing GTA3 for 4-5hours stright.
Anyway i think my point is maybe you will get back into gaming and maybe you won't it seems to affect different people in different ways and you can never get to old for gaming. My Dad got my little sis a GBA for xmas and when he found that the old Tetris game will work on it he's been playing it for an hour to 2 hours at a time and he's never been much of a gamer and his 54 years old :)
By the way, that's a post I wrote about 5 months ago on the same topic.
Gaming is generally seen as being for the younger generation in society. Nintendo who, by and large, target their games at a younger audience, reflect this.
Recently however my Mum asked me "Are you going to still be playing games when you’re 25?" To which I replied "Probably". This short and sweet conversation got me thinking though. Are you ever too old to play and enjoy games?
I know there are numerous ‘Older gamers’ on this site (I’m looking at you Goatboy and Meka) but they still seem to get enjoyment out of their games. So will this ever change? Well, no I don’t think it will. As long as YOU personally still have fun playing games then you’re never going to be too old. Mario and his ilk can still appeal to you when you’re 30 or over. In fact, Goatboy and Meka seemed to have proved my point for me.
Take Clive Sinclair for example. He was 43 when the ZX81 was released. HE obviously wasn’t too old. Shigeru Miyamoto’s another. He’s well over 40 and he still creates superb games... like Zelda! The developers themselves are never too old. They can’t be. If they were then I’d have a top job with Nintendo! With Grix and co doing all the technical stuff...
But CAN you be too old? Well, I think that depends on whether you are still interested in gaming when you reach a more mature age. If you’re not interested in the gaming world then you’re never going to get the same enjoyment factor out of playing games. But as well as staying interested you’ve also got to keep up with what’s happening. You can’t stay stuck forever on one console, because, eventually, it will splutter and die. No more games will be made for it and you will be left with a gameless console. You CAN’T be a throwback in the gaming world. The constant technological advancements make sure of that, so this forces you to buy a new console, which will eventually die... and this goes on.
However, if you don’t buy a new console when your old one gives up the ghost then you’re going to start to lose contact with the gaming world. This contact will then get less and less, and then one day you realise that you haven’t bought a games magazine or looked at a gaming website for over a month. But by then you can’t be bothered and you just don’t care. So you give up all together. And that’s when you’re fun-filled fling (:-)) with the gaming world peters out and is left as a thing of the past. Something for you to look back on and say "Those were the days" :-)
Then I thought of another question. If you’ve never played before can you start when you’re older?
Well, yeah you can. But you would have had to have had something to do with that gaming world before that. For example. You can’t easily get your grandparents to play a games console, can you? Why’s that? Well it’s all foreign to them. They were around when you got caned at school and there was only black and white tele. So forcing them into the future can’t be done. They either won’t except it or won’t understand it. You’ve GOT to be up to date with modern technology to be able to play games if you’re from an older generation. Otherwise it will all seem complicated and strange.
So, you see, you’re never too old to play games and enjoy them, but if you don’t enter into the spirit of gaming fully, then you’ll eventually be left behind as the world advances, changes and evolves around you as it no doubt will.
RBS
Ergh Schplatt.
Recently however my Mum asked me "Are you going to still be playing games when you’re 25?" To which I replied "Probably". This short and sweet conversation got me thinking though. Are you ever too old to play and enjoy games?
I know there are numerous ‘Older gamers’ on this site (I’m looking at you Goatboy and Meka) but they still seem to get enjoyment out of their games. So will this ever change? Well, no I don’t think it will. As long as YOU personally still have fun playing games then you’re never going to be too old. Mario and his ilk can still appeal to you when you’re 30 or over. In fact, Goatboy and Meka seemed to have proved my point for me.
Take Clive Sinclair for example. He was 43 when the ZX81 was released. HE obviously wasn’t too old. Shigeru Miyamoto’s another. He’s well over 40 and he still creates superb games... like Zelda! The developers themselves are never too old. They can’t be. If they were then I’d have a top job with Nintendo! With Grix and co doing all the technical stuff...
But CAN you be too old? Well, I think that depends on whether you are still interested in gaming when you reach a more mature age. If you’re not interested in the gaming world then you’re never going to get the same enjoyment factor out of playing games. But as well as staying interested you’ve also got to keep up with what’s happening. You can’t stay stuck forever on one console, because, eventually, it will splutter and die. No more games will be made for it and you will be left with a gameless console. You CAN’T be a throwback in the gaming world. The constant technological advancements make sure of that, so this forces you to buy a new console, which will eventually die... and this goes on.
However, if you don’t buy a new console when your old one gives up the ghost then you’re going to start to lose contact with the gaming world. This contact will then get less and less, and then one day you realise that you haven’t bought a games magazine or looked at a gaming website for over a month. But by then you can’t be bothered and you just don’t care. So you give up all together. And that’s when you’re fun-filled fling (:-)) with the gaming world peters out and is left as a thing of the past. Something for you to look back on and say "Those were the days" :-)
Then I thought of another question. If you’ve never played before can you start when you’re older?
Well, yeah you can. But you would have had to have had something to do with that gaming world before that. For example. You can’t easily get your grandparents to play a games console, can you? Why’s that? Well it’s all foreign to them. They were around when you got caned at school and there was only black and white tele. So forcing them into the future can’t be done. They either won’t except it or won’t understand it. You’ve GOT to be up to date with modern technology to be able to play games if you’re from an older generation. Otherwise it will all seem complicated and strange.
So, you see, you’re never too old to play games and enjoy them, but if you don’t enter into the spirit of gaming fully, then you’ll eventually be left behind as the world advances, changes and evolves around you as it no doubt will.
RBS
Ergh Schplatt.
You can NEVER get too old for game playing!!! There are games out there suitable for people of any age, you just have to look for what you like. Nintendo aim there's at kids but they are also highly suitable for the older generations!
As I get older, only games that show signs of originality get me excited. I've almost completely lost interest in many genres: survival horror, beat-em-ups, racers - they're all much of a muchness to me.
I agree with SONICRAV that "Rez" is looking like it's going to be something special (and original) - thanks again SEGA. Just hope it makes it to Dreamcast.
I agree with SONICRAV that "Rez" is looking like it's going to be something special (and original) - thanks again SEGA. Just hope it makes it to Dreamcast.
I go through loads of phases like that but then I'm 34 so have had a lot of time for a lot of phases. I remember getting bored with the ZX81 until I decided to learn about machine code programming.
I remember getting bored with the Sega Megadrive until Rings of Power came out.
I remember getting bored with the PSX but then Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid came along.
The Dreamcast I never got bored with for some reason, same with the PS2 but I've only had it a few months.
If I do lapse now my fallback game is Tiger Woods golf because I can play that for 20 minutes or I can play it all the time, depends how late in the day it is. So I actually find myself thinking about getting a fishing sim or Cricket 2002 for the PS2 (which got panned by the critics but I'm still thinking of getting it).
Then of course there's online gaming via the PC which I've never been bored with because the variety out there is pretty much infinite.
I remember getting bored with the Sega Megadrive until Rings of Power came out.
I remember getting bored with the PSX but then Final Fantasy 7 and Metal Gear Solid came along.
The Dreamcast I never got bored with for some reason, same with the PS2 but I've only had it a few months.
If I do lapse now my fallback game is Tiger Woods golf because I can play that for 20 minutes or I can play it all the time, depends how late in the day it is. So I actually find myself thinking about getting a fishing sim or Cricket 2002 for the PS2 (which got panned by the critics but I'm still thinking of getting it).
Then of course there's online gaming via the PC which I've never been bored with because the variety out there is pretty much infinite.
Hey! Good post! ;)
Anyhow, I often find that I have phases where nothing interests me... and then something brilliant will come along and drag me back in front of the TV playing games!
Like Jet Set Radio... how original was that!
At the moment, the only game that really excites me on the PS2 is Rez... that just looks to bring back old skool shooters big style! I must get that game! (Oh, and it got 9/10 from Edge... that's superb!)
Sonic
Anyhow, I often find that I have phases where nothing interests me... and then something brilliant will come along and drag me back in front of the TV playing games!
Like Jet Set Radio... how original was that!
At the moment, the only game that really excites me on the PS2 is Rez... that just looks to bring back old skool shooters big style! I must get that game! (Oh, and it got 9/10 from Edge... that's superb!)
Sonic
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