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

[Vault101]

so once again David wrong (and jhon cheese) are talking about Videogames

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games_p2/

you know I get the feeling david wong really doesnt like videogames

now I get some of the points in this article...but you know thease articles are beggining to annoy me/rub me the wrong way

its just why the fuck do they need to be so friggen cynical?..ALL the time, suyre I may end up like that..but still I dotn know, it makes me want to punch my computer screen, for some reason

 

[Supertegwyn]

It wasn't that cynical. You need to calm down a bit.

 

[Random Encounter]

I thought they made some rather good points.

Also, I think Cracked has become far less cynical, especially when you compare the current articles with their older work.

 

[BryceS62]

Why is the number reason 2 before reason 1? i wonder....

 

[Matrixbeast]

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."

 

[Mr Thin]

Why is the number reason 2 before reason 1? i wonder....

They go in descending order; there were five entries total, that was the second page, containing the last two.

OT: Cool your jets, vault girl. David Wong & John Cheese are some of the best writers on there. I didn't find anything particularly bitter in that article; it was all quite reasonable.

Are you upset because some of it applies to you? Bloody hell, you're not 40 yet, and when you are games will probably be all virtual reality and lasers and stuff. No need to weep for the lost joys of childhood; we live in the sci-fi age, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[Wuggy]

its just why the fuck do they need to be so friggen cynical?

That wasn't cynical at all, in my opinion. In fact, that was downright positive in my mind. The people wearing rose-tinted-nostalgia-glasses should be brought down a notch. Everything wasn't so much better 'back in the day', that's just nostalgia-covered memories of childhood-wonder talking. Everything 'these days' isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

 

[Eleima]

Why is the number reason 2 before reason 1? i wonder....

It's because the article started at #5 and counted down from there, but the OP linked to the second page of the article.

So once again David Wrong (and John Dheese) are talking about video-games :
http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games/

There, fixed it.

I actually think they raise very valid, very strong points, and this actually is the general tendency we've been observing in games for the past 10 years. Infinite re-playability instead of a solid story, flashy graphics instead of true immersion. ANd yeah, I *do* think most multiplayer is bs.

Wow, wait a sec... Maybe I'm getting too old for video-games! XD I think you're taking the article's title too literally though. It's not that we get too *old* for video games per se. You never get too old for gaming. You just have less time for them. You have a job, you start a family, and those things are going to take priority. That's just a fact of life. And that's why the only game I'll be playing for the next two years is Skyrim. Because I just don't have the time for 12-hour gaming sessions anymore. It's just that simple.

Bloody hell, you're not 40 yet

You don't have to be 40 for it to apply. I haven't hit 30 yet, and I already find myself in the frame of mind the article was written in.

 

[Zhukov]

Sounds to me like that article hit the nail on the head. Several nails, in fact. Several times over.

Not sure what you're so annoyed about.

 

[Rylot]

I rather liked that article. Gave me some perspective on why I dislike multiplayer and a lot of the newer games that are coming out: I'm slipping out of the target demographic for most games. The perspective was rather nice to help define why I so strongly hate certain common trends in gaming.

 

[ChupathingyX]

#5 - I do not think multiplayer is bullshit, I've had some great experiences playing mutliplayer with friends.

#4 - Never really felt this way to me. If a game can keep me entertained for a long time than it is a good game, if it drags out and becomes boring I'll stop playing it. Almost the exact same thing can be said for movies, books etc.

#3 -

And what modern game can possibly match that amazing 20 minute-long ending cinematic for FFIII that wrapped up the storylines for each of the characters we'd come to know and love in the course of beating the game? And then again while beating it eight more times?

Well this is just me personally but I felt this way when I finished Fallout: New Vegas, and the DLCs.

Of course I haven't played FFIII but NV had an ending custscene that wrapped up many characters, locations and events in the Mojave, along with the DLCs.

#4 - Even if originality has become more rare these days, that does not stop people from expanding on ideas and polishing them to make them even greater.

#5 - My definition of fun is different than yours, sorry buddy.

Also this quote sums it up quite nicely...

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.

 

[veloper]

The only valid point against this article is that it's supposed to be comedy on a comedy website.

Cracked is becoming more and more discovery channel/serious articles and less funny stuff.
Only Sean Baby remains true.

As for the article itself taken as a boring, serious piece, it's describes exactly what mature gamers are experiencing.

 

[Arina Love]

number 5 is fits me (about multiplayer) but others don't, i'm single player type of gamer, and it doesn't mean i'm too old for games.

 

[Titan Buttons]

I thought that site mainly did things for the fun of it and had next to now actually research, isn't just the writers sole opinion?

 

[xFrankieGirlx]

its just why the fuck do they need to be so friggen cynical?

That wasn't cynical at all, in my opinion. In fact, that was downright positive in my mind. The people wearing rose-tinted-nostalgia-glasses should be brought down a notch. Everything wasn't so much better 'back in the day', that's just nostalgia-covered memories of childhood-wonder talking. Everything 'these days' isn't as bad as people make it out to be.

Yup. Also there is this thing where being all nostalgic for the 80s is fashionable. Even kids born in 1995 are playing vintage games and banging on about 'the good old days'.

The article made a point, but I've learned not to take Cracked seriously at all; it's like watching Zero Punctuation and burning your computer because Yahtzee spits out an F-bomb.

 

[Nackl of Gilmed]

Ok, half of that article was just self-deprecating/making fun of the people who actually do go around saying that games have gotten progressively worse since the 19XX's (whenever they were a kid). It's not cynical, it's just pointing out that as you get older you experience things differently.

"They play Gears of War and laugh their asses off when they chainsaw an alien, and then proceed to do it over and over and over again, never getting tired of it. I swear I watch them play these modern games and it's almost like... and this can't possibly be true, but it's almost like they're having just as much fun as I had when I was their age.

It's like the poor bastards don't even know any better."

This is satire.

 

[marfoir(IRL)]

Ok, half of that article was just self-deprecating/making fun of the people who actually do go around saying that games have gotten progressively worse since the 19XX's (whenever they were a kid). It's not cynical, it's just pointing out that as you get older you experience things differently.

"They play Gears of War and laugh their asses off when they chainsaw an alien, and then proceed to do it over and over and over again, never getting tired of it. I swear I watch them play these modern games and it's almost like... and this can't possibly be true, but it's almost like they're having just as much fun as I had when I was their age.

It's like the poor bastards don't even know any better."

This is satire.

This man got the point.

 

[veloper]

Ok, half of that article was just self-deprecating/making fun of the people who actually do go around saying that games have gotten progressively worse since the 19XX's (whenever they were a kid). It's not cynical, it's just pointing out that as you get older you experience things differently.

"They play Gears of War and laugh their asses off when they chainsaw an alien, and then proceed to do it over and over and over again, never getting tired of it. I swear I watch them play these modern games and it's almost like... and this can't possibly be true, but it's almost like they're having just as much fun as I had when I was their age.

It's like the poor bastards don't even know any better."

This is satire.

Did you LOL though?
This is more like a normal observation, with some strong words thrown in.