Well, let's see here.
I'm 48, my sisters are 53 & 56, my brother is 58, and both my Father and Stepmother are 79.
We all play.

If people would stop thinking of video games as toys, perhaps more would see them as just another source of entertainment. You're never too old to watch a movie, read a book or listen to new music. A video game is nothing more than another source of entertainment. You, as the player, are an actor in a script. You even get to occasionally ad-lib your scenes! You are director, star, and sometime script editor.

You're never too old because video games are not toys. They are simply another form of electronic entertainment.
My parents, siblings and I have been thoroughly enjoying this latest source of TES entertainment.

Edit: I hope that alleviates any undo stress in your young gaming soul.

I've stopped playing Skyrim at age 17... I'm 17. I will NEVER give up.

age really is irrelevent, the day i stop playin games like TES is when the fail to offer me enough gameplay and content for me to entertain my self for 600+ hours.

I'll quit gaming when the types of games I'm interested in are no longer being made, which, if this generation is anything to go by, will be sooner rather than later.

Then again, I plan on buying more games this year than I have the past few combined, so we'll see.

There was a thread on another forum a while back where a bunch of Skyrim players who were in their sixties were talking. There were probably 20 people in their late 50s - 60s, and most of them were playing on Master.

I've got a ways to go before I'm that age, but my first TES game was Daggerfall, and I'm definitely not stopping anytime soon.

The age/date that reads from 1983 to X on my tombstone on the moon or mars whichever we colonize first.

Hi Nef . Families that game together stay together.

I'll stop playing Skyrim at some point in the future when I actually get it.

Will be 40 next year, and I play more now than I ever have in my life. I don't see any reason to stop. Maybe if I develop some serious arthritis when I am much older, I might have to cut back, but theres a good chance there will be other control mechanisms available by then.

I assume when I'm an old man, however, since I am only 16, that is quite a ways off.

Video games are replacing most other forms of electronic entertainment for me. Movies? Not much that's new or interesting there. TV? Same old, same old. Music? There's only so much you want to listen to in a day.

Looks like it's going to be mostly video games and books for me, from here on out. I'm happy with that.

Mid 50s, probably.

I don't.

Never.

When I'm physically incapable of it.


Even better is gathering with others at a friend's house to play games (board games, miniatures games, tabletop RPGs) while only the people who want to drink. Less crowding, less random drunks, less obnoxious loud music.

(In the process of doing this, I can see examples of my thirty- and fourty-something friends playing videogames with their 4-10 year old kids. )

I've been playing video games for roughly 35 years now...ever since dad brought us home our first ATARI back in the 70's. Sometime around the mid 90's I stopped gaming almost entirely...aside from the oddball game you find in your local bars. I didn't pick it up again seriously until 4 or 5 years ago when I was finally able to scraqe together enough money to buy a computer. I don't see myself going through another gap in gaming the way I did way back when I was still treating life like there was no tomorrow.

For as long as my PS2/360/N64/GBA works AND as long as the discs/cartridges remain readable.

As for new games in generations to come..I'm done. Skyrim will be the last.

But why?

Never. Unlike movies games like Skyrim are totally interactive with the player able to change just about every outcome. Ever since i got into computers in the late 1980s i've watched less and less television til it got to the point where i only watched movies on vhs and dvd along with the daily news to see whats going on.

Thanks to Youtube and the internet though am back to watching something akin to a television experiance but still with more choices and control on what i wanna view.

A friend of mine told me he wished porm was more interactive.



I told him to go get laid.

I reckon in the next 10 years or so. I'm finding it harder and harder to really focus on a game for more than 45 minutes. Probably (if ever) I get a wife and kids.

One day it will be probably with Japanese robotics.

Your friend still probably wont get laid cause it'll cost too much for that sixy fembot

Wha? I didn't (really) start until I was in my forties.

...unless 20 hrs on NES Castlevania counts.

Brilliant observation. I have had a few good nights out clubbing, but more than I can remember where I'm stood there at 3 am thinking - "I would rather be in a Siberian Gulag than here right now."

I felt like that in the late '90s, nothing much inspired me, but the last 10 years has seen a huge revival in my gameplaying. I think maybe we'll need the occasional break, but stopping entirely? Nah.