5 ways to tell your getting too old for videogames (article)

[Project_Xii]

Oh wow... I'm getting so old

I agree with a lot of that article. It was well written. The only thing I don't like is being forced to face my own reality. So if that's an ok thing to ***** about: down with the authors! How dare they say true things I don't like to admit!

Seriously though, games back in my day WERE pretty mindless and stupid. Sure, they were fun... at times. But generally only after months of practise and frustration until you knew the game so well that it BECAME fun. Everything up until then was controller-crunching nightmares.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

But cracked just makes full of itself and doesn't take itself seriously with jokes and satire. Like the Pope upside down cross symbol. While there a bit of truth in it that people complain about this stuff too much so should people pipe down who think the complaining is all nostalgia as it isn't.

People should be banned from taking cracked seriously.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Oh wow... I'm getting so old

I agree with a lot of that article. It was well written. The only thing I don't like is being forced to face my own reality. So if that's an ok thing to ***** about: down with the authors! How dare they say true things I don't like to admit!

Seriously though, games back in my day WERE pretty mindless and stupid. Sure, they were fun... at times. But generally only after months of practise and frustration until you knew the game so well that it BECAME fun. Everything up until then was controller-crunching nightmares.

Don't even get me started on not being able to save...

I don't know who invented save games but I love them for all eternity!

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

this stung a bit when i first read it.
maybe i am getting too old

 

[Alon Shechter]

It seems that in the age of 14 I am already too old for video games.
Well, I have to admit, I do game a LOT less recently, even when I have the time..

 

[Broax]

Well... I think he *is* a bit cynical... He started well enough point some good points to which I agreed... Then I think he just over-generalized... I still think there are great, deep story driven games (Alan Wake, Fable series, Heavy Rain, etc.) but there are also mindless time killers and games that fall somewhere in between... I think a lot of kids don't take much care about the story line and have their fun, which I think it's fair enough... When I was a little kid I was barely able to say "what time is it?" in English (I'm native Portuguese) and I still had tons of fun playing games that I had no idea had a story... I think that the bigger appreciation for the finer details (story, characters, music, etc.) come with age... Usually you start appreciating that stuff when you enter your teens... Either that or you turn into a Bieber fan or some shit like that.

As for his analogy that we get dead inside... I'm just 26 so I wouldn't know but I still feel pretty much alive and enjoying stuff.. I must disagree with his McDonald's analogy, though... I'm very demanding of food and I know what is a good meal but there are times where I get a whole in my stomach that only a cheeseburger can fill... Everyone I know of every age some times just wants to eat crap and it tastes like the greatest meal on earth when you eat it.

I do agree that MP feels like bullshit mostly 'cause of annoying teenagers with annoying voices making stupid insults that they think are very original and cool (they're not) and that today I just don't have that much time to play games anymore... I remember dreaming about a game like WoW but I had to terminate my account 'cause I was just wasting money... Most of my friends closed their accounts for the very same reason except for one which is currently unemployed...

I think he nailed perfectly part of the problem. The games I dreamed about when I was a kid (huge games with detailed characters, world and endless hours of gameplay) are now mostly unavailable to me. That makes me annoyed by the fucking irony of life.

I think the author must be going through some sort of a midlife crisis and this was his way of dealing with it... Nothing he said comes as a big surprise for some one that has a job and a bit of maturity... Like I said... I still pretty much enjoy games... I have a full-time office job and I'm studying... I have a ton of stuff I do on my free time (volunteer work, band practices, guitar lessons, etc.) and I still find some time to finish a couple of games I like...

Although some of his points were bullshit I generally agree with what he said...

 

[Fieldy409_v1legacy]

david wong is awesome and always right. I can already feel these things starting to happen at 22. but.... I WILL FIGHT IT!!

 

[Julianking93]

I... honestly don't see the problem here.
They're not saying gaming is "immature" or anything.
They're saying that as we grow older, we no longer have time to sink into hours spent on gaming with friends and that our own nostalgia is a big problem when it comes to enjoyment of newer things.
I don't find it cynical. I find it funny. Almost satirical in a way so I'm not taking it too seriously

If I did, I'd have to agree with the guy who's on about each point, saying "This article is illogical"

 

[Sharkeyboi]

"Kids get more excited for things than adults," seems to be the rather obvious message. I don't think the writer was trying to say you should stop playing games but rather that your childhood memories do not meld with your adult sensibilities.

The writer is just putting the idea forward that some of the current gamer's complaints are based from behind rose coloured glasses and that even something that is exactly what they want, won't grab them the way it might have when they were a child.

The title of the article is misleading but that's really the only complaint I can take away from it, but the title got me to read it so maybe that's an invalid complaint anyway.

You still like playing games? Keep fuckin' playing them. Just don't expect your inner-child to catch fire while wrapped up in the damp, world weary blanket that is your aged mind.

 

[Vault101]

well one thing I dont agree with is my dislike for multiplayer

I dont dislike multiplayer because of the nasty kids, I dislike it simply from an expereince perspective...I just dont enjoy it as much as a story driven single player game, why cant people (and the industry) understand that?

 

[SD-Fiend]

a good place to leave this here:

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

*reads article*

Fuck, that's me. Fuck, I'm old. Anyone know how to fix that?

Edit:
@OP
You're twenty.

 

[Hosker]

Very good article. It hits the nail on the head repeatedly, while also being funny.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

One comment stood out in particular:
By Nuclearpolitics
"One does not grow old for books,
one does not grow old for films,
one does not grow old for music,
one does not grow old for video games.

This article is illogical."

I agree with the above.

I like the idea that my generation will have PS10s and Xbox3600s in our retirement homes. Just imagine a group of 4 people in floating wheel chairs with wireless hydrogen-fusion battery powered controllers, playing CoD:whatever

 

[dillinger88]

To me it just sounds like they're bashing on people who are blinded by nostalgia and admitting that they in fact are to an extent too.

They're not saying "we're too old for video games", it sounds more like "I don't view games the same way I used too". They're saying that it is this notion that makes people think old games were way better, when really they just REMEMBER them being better.

I personally think the article makes a few good points and I think that those that complain about how gaming is dead should read the "But the truth is" sections and realise that they just might be jaded by nostalgia.

EDIT:

snip

Basically this.

 

[Smooth Operator]

They actually make good points that come up as you get older.

This goes for all aspects in our lives, as we are kids all experiences tend to be new amazing and mind blowing, and once we collect a good chunk of knowledge the novelty isn't really there anymore, soon it takes hell of a well made meal / story / movie / game to move us at all.
But it also comes down to personal cynicism, if you get in too deep you quickly start to dismiss all things that might appeal, simply because everything must suck in this world.
Some call it getting too old, I would call it getting too bitter.

I will never grow too "old" for games, but the bar get's raised higher with every great game I play, and it irritates me to no end when developers don't learn the stuff that was figured out already.

 

[Thetwistedendgame]

If you read something expecting it to be bad you will see it as bad.

 

[Rossmallo]

I'll be in the cold, cold ground before I think I'm too old for them. I'm still very imaginative when it comes to games - Especially when I fill in a lot of blanks in certain games myself (Like, with in Oblivion - when I use the wait command in one spot for ingame days at a time, I can visualise my character sitting down against the wall, taking a day or two to just read or draw to pass that time rather than just going into an upright coma).

To put it simply:
Todays game stories still compell me.
I stil love multiplayer.
I think the longer games are, the better.
Originality is still going strong.
And most of all, games are still fun for me.