They're not open-minded... unlike some people. :foodndrink:

^

Gamers are gamers no matter six, age, race, religion, etc. , etc... and anyone who says differently is just not a gamer. Heck i'm even hearing about games made for cats, dogs and monkeys so we're not the only species playing anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZsUmoZaivg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40

Time to get new friends!

I'm 39 my wife 38 and we play on Xbox Live nearly every day. We have many friends our age and older who are die hard gamers. We all have kids, homes, jobs, and a life.

I figure that since I was playing computer games since long before they were born, why should I stop now? I have a partner, my own house, done the career thing long enough to be disillusioned, so I figure I've nothing to prove. I like games and the idea that I should've stopped 23 years ago sounds preposterous.

Edit: for those who think few people my age are gamers, most of my contemporaries seem to be. Looking back 30 years, pretty much every kid at school had a computer or a console at home, and it seem few were such tedious farts that they saw the need to grow out of it!

This is not something to be addressed at this point in time. The next time they start going off on a tangent, casually take your phone out and take a video of them.. Don't be obvious about it, make it look like you are doing something else.
Then wait.
Wait until it's one of their 21st birthdays,(if your even friends with any of these [censored]s by then) go out, get hammered, and head back to the pad to play some sloshed multiplayer afterwards.
While they are playing, excuse yourself to the bathroom, and duck over to the computer. Pull up the video, blast the speakers, hit play and walk out. Later, if any of them asks why you walked out, tell them you refuse to be friends with hypocrites.

My thoughts, they have the whole thing backwards. Young people should be out enjoying themselves, getting girlfriends, having a good time. If they are spending their years with the bearable hangovers sat in playing on the xbox, then I think http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2623/3678169976_5d5eb4366e.jpg may be appropriate.

hear hear for us dinosaurs!!



I do appreciate the slower games these days... :blush:

I always appreciated the games that only required glacial responses from me. :laugh:

The same can be said of people who don't enjoy it. They don't suddenly decide to start playing at the age of 25. More people are being born than dieing. For every one person that leaves the 13-24 demographic, 1+ enters it. Like my example demonstrates, just because the average AGE of gamers is 30 doesn't mean the avg gamer is 30. Gamers in their 40s, 50s, 60s and even 70s bring the avg up considerably and skew the data.

I'm 36 btw.

How old are your friends?

I have a gf and we both play games. Most people that don't like games have never played them, it is just another form of ignorance.

(Plus they must have svcked at any games they played ^^)

Hey, I svck at most of the games I play, but it doesn't stop me enjoying them!

What does Skyrim have to do with General Community Discussion? Enlighten me.



Also this. From American movies, I've seen that people who play Magic the Gathering, video games, D&D etc are usually shown as social retards and skinny and pale and like chemistry and crap. Lemme tell you, I work out, have chicks and a gf (heck, even she started playing games), run a rock band and I dropped out of school (the latter not being a really good thing, but I'm just proving a point). In fact, most of my friends do all of that "nerdy" stuff, and non of them have problems with friends, girls, going out or anything like that. It's just a stupid stereotype that's really rare (like most movies stereotypes).

Just tell your friends to stuck it up

I keep my gaming habits to here and to myself.

I don't know a good anology for it...Maybe its like an HR rep from a hiring company finding inappropriate pictures on your facebook account...?

I'll update this post when If I figure out what i'm trying to say.

My grandpa:

72 years old.

He hunts, goes fishing and enjoys playing PC games. That’s right he’s a Pc gamer.

Awesome guy, love him. Just went hunting with him. When I got back to his house my grandma (His wife) cooked us a meal and I helped him out on some parts in Battlefield 3.

My future self.

You sir, have an awesome grandpa.

To OP, I know a bunch of these people. The case is that they usually think like that for everything else. It's their logic. I wouldn't not be friends with them just because of that. Unless they're major jerks. Then stop hanging out with them.

42 years old, been gaming for over 30 years.

Got a life (work 40-60 hours a week).
Got a wife (see her about 10 hours a week).
Still gaming (20+ hours per week).


Gotta have priorities in life.

My Gran(59) has a laptop which she uses daily and she has a DS which she uses to play mario games.
There is nothing wrong with it. Your friends need to grow up. And after all its only their opinion, there opinion doesn't matter but yours does.

In my point of view it depends on degree. If ALL a person does is play games then I think they have a point. I'm 41 and I certainly think I should get a life and get a girlfriend ect. But you might have a rich and full life and enjoy playing games. It all comes down to moderation.

What if the person in question spends their free time playing video games, is a video game designer, and has a video-game loving partner?

They probably work at Bethesda!

As for the rest of us non-designers, there have been a few pairings-off on these forums - members falling in love with other members. So maybe you could "get a life" through gaming!

In my own case, my husband got me into gaming when we first started dating. I was getting bored watching him watching sports, so he sat me down in front of the computer and told me to occupy myself playing games. Pretty soon, he was having to drag me away from the PC so we could go on dates and stuff. It does help, though - typical conversation:
Him: "That new Batman game looks interesting."
Me: "You're right. Let's split the cost and buy it together."

Dunno. I've found that 'gamez iz fo da kidz' mentality a bit narrow and dumb. But me personally, I think it's always cool to see older gamers around here, heck, some of my favorite posters around here are roughly 20-30 years older than me. I find video games a great stress relief and much more appealing than television personally.

What people perhaps fail to see, is that for gamers, playing games is the norm. Just like for sport enthusiasts, the norm is to watch all the matches on TV, or at least try to. Both are just ways to pass time. Videogames are just interacitve. Other than that, there isn't much difference.