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When you retire, will you still be playing games
Kworn
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I recently turned 30, it's strange but turning 30 really did instill a mindset change for me.
This year I have managed to get Engaged and I will be having a baby in a week. So my priorities have changed as well as hitting a milestone.
I still love playing games but I just dont have the physical time to fit it in anymore. I used to play at least 5 hours a night now I can barely fit that into a week.
So I was wondering, what am I going to be like at 60+. Will it still be the same or will I play at all, I am sure it will be all holodecks and shit in 30 years just think about what gaming was like 30 years ago compared to now....pong I am looking at you lol.
Anyway do you think you will still be a gamer when you are older or when you are retired and have plenty of time on your hands?
This year I have managed to get Engaged and I will be having a baby in a week. So my priorities have changed as well as hitting a milestone.
I still love playing games but I just dont have the physical time to fit it in anymore. I used to play at least 5 hours a night now I can barely fit that into a week.
So I was wondering, what am I going to be like at 60+. Will it still be the same or will I play at all, I am sure it will be all holodecks and shit in 30 years just think about what gaming was like 30 years ago compared to now....pong I am looking at you lol.
Anyway do you think you will still be a gamer when you are older or when you are retired and have plenty of time on your hands?
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Unless your responsiblities strip you of all your hobbies, then you're kind of screwed.
I may not play games like I do today in the future, but I have a hard time seeing myself not using it as a place to escape to when I need it. Like how some people try to dedicate a small time to themselves during the week for freetime to de-stress I'll probably play games then.
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Mostly kidding, but your hobbies don't typically change a whole lot as you get older. My Mom still plays the piano like she has since she was six and my Dad still reads comic books (though he's more about buying the old ones and collections of old ones off eBay than the new issues that come out.)
It helps that my wife enjoys games, because that means we can play them together when we have time. As a pair, we've probably put three hundred hours into Dragon Age since it came out.
I can't see a time in the future when I'm not playing video games. With any luck I'll be losing at Street Fighter to my kids in fifteen years or so.
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It has made me reconsider my game buying habits. I did not buy Fallout 3, Dragon Age, or Borderlands since I new I would never be able to find the time to get what I wanted from them.
It does mean I get a lot of mileage out of the games I buy. I spent 2 months playing Grand Theft Auto IV back when it was new, and I'm currently picking away at Brutal Legend, Madworld, and Zelda Spirit Tracks. Those 3 will likely last me a few months. Then I will be able to look back at the mass amount of great stuff coming out between now and then, and get into some of those. This summer I will probably be spending my small amount of free time with No More Heroes 2 and Bowser's Inside Story.
When I think about the future and being 50 or 60 years old, I look forward to being possibly retired, and having more free time to spend on video games.
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You see I recently bought Dragon Age and I love it, but I just cannot put the time needed to put into this game that IT needs. It's very hard to play with only 30 minutes here and there. Another game that I am really into is Modern Warefare 2, i love it so much but the time consumption is huge to get all I want from the game.
like you say it is a "picking away at the game" type of affair and I am finding games that are quick pick up and play more to my liking. I love playing games like Catan on Xbox live for example or magic the gathering. It's just so much easier to drop in and out of.
A real nightware is renting games as well, because I start playing a game like Batman Arkam Asylum and I love it and want to play more but this means I end up keeping it for extended periods of time and the rental price ends up being just as expensive as buying it.
I think I need to sort out my priorities.
Will we have less occurrences of some mental diseases because our brain has been somewhat more active and we are constantly using our hand-eye coordination?
Or will the endless hours on a keyboard give us all such horrible arthritis that we have to type with a stick in our mouths?
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I will game until I can't. Hopefully when I'm older I can plug the games into my mind
I'm 36 married with a two year old and another on the way, play sports and work out a fair amount. So I'm busy.
During the week I'm able to fit in about 15 to 30 minutes of gaming in a day.
On the weekend I get about 1 or 2 hours a day.
Every now and again I'll play for 1 to 2 hours before bed (paying for it the next day)
Gaming is just too much fun and relaxing to give up.
I personally think the main reason gamers have trouble adjusting their hobby as they grow up is that they either don't realize or refuse to admit that their lifetyles and their tastes can change. Like, I found myself getting bored with the state of gaming a year or so ago, but then I realized that my "old" gaming tastes -- long JRPGs and tactical SRPGs, hard-as-balls shmups, wacky Japanese-flavored curios -- didn't really hold anymore. Not only do RPGs not really fit into my schedule, but they just don't appeal to me much anymore, outside of nostalgia and maybe a junk-food binge on a dungeon crawler or two.
I also rarely have the desire to play for long stretches at a time. I feel myself get antsy if I play one game for more than 40 minutes or so, though that may mostly be because I rarely have time to block off an hour of uninterrupted gaming time. There's always something to do around the house, helping my wife with something, taking out our dogs, etc. -- when you're younger and have fewer responsibilities, yeah, you can dig into 40-hour epics with aplomb because you're on summer vacation and fuck it! But doing that with a mortgage and a side job is a lot more difficult. In this respect I'm loving this generation because between the DS and the download services on Wii and 360 I can experiences dozens of smaller bites of games, all on-demand and pausable. Dragon Age doesn't appeal to me because I can finish four or five smaller games in the same time and not feel like things are drawn out or that I'm bogged down. Or just spend 10 hours playing Geometry Wars 2 or Pac-Man CE, just in five-minute chunks amortized over months.
In that respect, I feel like I'm the hardest-core casual gamer around. :rotate:
I would not care about the arthritis too much because I would be smoking it up big time (Hash) to eliviate the pains.
It will be interesting to see if us old skool gamers would look back at games like our grandads do with train sets and the such.
Since it is somewhat related, I REALLY wish i could use public transportation for everything. With a DS or PSP I could so easily squeeze some gaming in with my daily two-three hour commute.
When I played Eve Online some time ago we had a guy in another corp in alliance. 65+ years old. Dude was slow as balls to get anything done but I will be damned if I did not respect him for doing something he wanted to do, even if it was difficult for him at times and against the perceived norm of his generation.
All I know is that I can't play TF2 every night for 3 years and still feel its fresh. I have no idea how people do that shit. I love the game, but I cannot play it for three years straight. Couldn't even do that with WoW and it's probably the most addictive game I've played.
As to the original question as to whether I'll be retired and still playing games I would wager that yes I would, although in a much reduced capacity to what I play now and have played in the past.
I've almost lost interest in games. There are too many coming out that aim to be exactly like another game in order to cash in on the genre. That bothers me a little. There's way too much similarity in games today so they all feel the same and serve to not entertain as long as they might otherwise.
Lol, a guy playing EVE Online at 65+ WOW. I respect the guy so much, I suppose the universe and gameply run at a slowish pace for him to handle it. OMG you need to put so much time into that game to grt anything out of it.
At this rate I'll be playing video games (or some derivative) as long as it's possible, and I wouldn't be surprised if my kids grow up with a love for them simply by being in the house with me :P
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I listen to a lot of gaming podcasts and read a lot of sites, which one do you write for? I find I dont have time to play with games as much these days but I pour 20+ hours into listening and reading about them, sounds crazy but I do. This is because I can fit listening to them at work or while commuting and even doing the washing up and cleaning around the house.
This is where my fix for gaming has gone to as I have gotten older, and sometimes to be honest I find it extremely enjoyable. I listen to 1up, rebelFM, giant bombcast, geekbox to name a few as well as watch area 5's CO-OP. If I am reading I will read EDGE magazine and a few internet websites.
Wow looking back at it I am more of a games geek who likes to know everything about all games rather than play them these days...lol
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I write for RPGamer.com. The staff is a good bunch of folks and it's one of the few sites that has stuck to its guns re: review scores. Score is 1-5 and most decent games get about a 3.
Thats cool to see, you must feel quite lucky to have a job writing about games in the games industry. Especially if you are into RPG's.
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Oh yeah, I forgot to mention public transit—since I started working in NYC and had a long bus commute, I ended up playing a ton of DS, PSP and iPhone games. Now I'm shifting up again and will no longer be commuting every day, so I think my general handheld will go down, but they're still excellent at-home devices for people who find themselves without as much time at home to game. Toilet gaming should never be underestimated; also, they're perfect for bursts of 10 to 15 minutes of gaming, and then when something comes up you can just close the DS lid and pause everything for a few minutes or a few days.
Speaking of family, the one interesting tack that many of us will face as we get older is a major bonus: Being able to play video games with our kids. My sister-in-law loves that I can play video games with my nephews, and more important I can give her good advice on what's age-appropriate and what's not.
The games I play will without a doubt change. My reactions and eyesight will get worse, but there are plenty of games that work perfectly fine as long as my mind keeps up.
I grew up with games. I don't see myself ever quitting completely, just like I'll never give up reading books.
There was a 6-7 year period after college where my gaming time was at its maximum because I didn't own a house or have a kid, I had a low stress, banker's hours job and many of my friends moved away for post college jobs out of the city/state/country reducing my RL socializing quite a bit. Basically any time not at work was free time. Back then my wife played games with me a lot too blurring the line between "quality time" and game time (awesome).
I'd like to think the might be me one day.
As games move away from the current gamepad and TV screen model, as I would assume they might, I could see myself giving up. If I'm 50, with a kid about to go to college and the Alien Wars on my mind, I wonder if I'll be ready to shell out for a new system with a whole new control scheme that requires 14 adapters to work with my 2016 TV set, or if I'll say "screw that, I'm going to go to Gametap and finally get around to beating GTA VI."