Are you a gamer for life?

[Erana]

I know its a little silly to ask the Escapist's crowd, but do you think you will ever stop being a gamer?
Also, do you think that gaming is something that people "grow out of," or is it a form of entertainment that buisy people have little time for, like television or reading?

I think, someday, gaming may go on the wayside for me while get a full-time job, or I reach enlighenment or something like that.

 

[TheKbob]

I'm a college student going into my 2nd Senior year, on my 4th Co-op rotation, and will have more and more responsibilities soon enough, but I will hopefully never, ever stop enjoying digital entertainment in which I control the action. My tastes my change to shorter titles or playing only the best storylines or even more casual titles, but I hope to be involved some how in the industry with hardware or development.

So the short answer: Gamer 4 Life.

 

[D_987]

I will certainly continue playing games - I am considoring a job in the gaming industry, so I don't think I'll stop playing games any time soon.

 

[type_zero]

I grew up using games as an escape and now that I'm older, I use it for stress relief (Nothing like killing hoard of people to relieve a hard day at the office) so I don't think I'll ever quit being a gamer.

 

[SomeBritishDude]

I don't know what life will throw at me in the future, and I don't know how gaming is going to evolve. So for this I just don't know.

Maybe, when I'm 90 something, ill be sat in my little cottage playing the PS12, or the Nintendo Poo or whatever. Or maybe I'll quit, either because I have more important things in life, or maybe games become insanely easy or, hell, the games industry may die out all together when the aliens come and we are their little pets.

We don't know what the future might bring, no one does, so just go with it.

 

[super_smash_jesus]

I work full time already, but I still find enough time to play about an hour a day. I doubt I will ever stop until I physically can't play anymore because of arthritis or something. I also have a large group of friends that still game who work full time and have kids /wife to contend with as well.

 

[s0denone]

I will certainly continue laying games - I am considoring a job in the gaming industry, so I don't think I'll stop playing games any time soon.

I know, I totally lay games all the times.

I sit with the hens, and they're all like "Dude, wtf? You can't lay eggs." And I'm like "Duuuuuh! I lay games, kay?"


OP: Yes, I will continue playing games, although I'm certian I will grow out of most RPG's at some point, a process which has already started - And I'll most likely end up just playing Football Manager and Pro Cycling Manager.

Football Manager is "Worldwide Soccer Manager" in the US, I think.

 

[GothmogII]

You know...I certainly hope so, I -plan- to be still playing well into old age. And by that point have such a vast wealth of gaming knowledge to impart, that I can hopefully direct that generation to the classics of old. Of course, if everything goes as planned.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

God i hope not, i'm 15 and i think if games move to all casual i'll drop out and i'd hate that.

 

[Drakstern]

Depends on how you use the term.

I mean, I certainly play a lot of games. Then again, I also read a lot of books and spend a lot of time doing bad comedy routines to people who are forced to put up with me because punching me would get them fired.

Really, I consider gaming a hobby, like papercraft or tooling around with cars. I scoff at the very idea of 'gamer culture' because it tends to be used by the very gamers I'd least like to associate with.

That said, I intend to continue playing video games until the day I die. I find the idea that 'playing vidya games = immaturity' hilarious, because I don't view them as being different from any other hobby, or even from reading and watching movies. You wouldn't call someone immature for reading books, why should they be immature for playing Katamari Damacy or Advance Wars?

They're interactive entertainment, and they're an evolving art form. Like movies in the early 20th century, except with more boobs and gore.

So, I'll keep playing.

Though I will admit to being entirely pathetic in my love for the Touhou shooters.

 

[Aries_Split]

College has tightened the amount of time I can spend gaming, but I still fit it in somewhere. I want to game till I die.

 

[D_987]

I will certainly continue laying games - I am considoring a job in the gaming industry, so I don't think I'll stop playing games any time soon.

I know, I totally lay games all the times.

I sit with the hens, and they're all like "Dude, wtf? You can't lay eggs." And I'm like "Duuuuuh! I lay games, kay?"


OP: Yes, I will continue playing games, although I'm certian I will grow out of most RPG's at some point, a process which has already started - And I'll most likely end up just playing Football Manager and Pro Cycling Manager.

Football Manager is "Worldwide Soccer Manager" in the US, I think.

lol, I didn't get it at first - but just forget it, I type to quickly I often miss a letter,but it always seems to be a crucial one too...

 

[s0denone]

I will certainly continue laying games - I am considoring a job in the gaming industry, so I don't think I'll stop playing games any time soon.

I know, I totally lay games all the times.

I sit with the hens, and they're all like "Dude, wtf? You can't lay eggs." And I'm like "Duuuuuh! I lay games, kay?"


OP: Yes, I will continue playing games, although I'm certian I will grow out of most RPG's at some point, a process which has already started - And I'll most likely end up just playing Football Manager and Pro Cycling Manager.

Football Manager is "Worldwide Soccer Manager" in the US, I think.

lol, I didn't get it at first - but just forget it, I type to quickly I often miss a letter,but it always seems to be a crucial one too...

I only tease you cause I love you!!!!

 

[Chaossebba]

i dont think i'll ever stop playing games entirely, played my first video game on the sega mega drive when i was 4-5, and 12 years later im still enjoying them. Allthough a bit less with school becoming more important each year.

 

[Janus Vesta]

I'm 17 and have been playing since before I was three (Obviously most ov the was sitting on my dad's lap as he played but oh well). I've been a gamer all my life and plan on being a gamer for the rest of it. I play games a lot but what with school, a social life, looking for a job, applying for college I can see my playtime bing drastically reduced in the near future. But just because I'll play less doesn't mean I'll stop. It just means games will last longer for me.

 

[TheKbob]

I'm 17 and have been playing since before I was three (Obviously most ov the was sitting on my dad's lap as he played but oh well). I've been a gamer all my life and plan on being a gamer for the rest of it. I play games a lot but what with school, a social life, looking for a job, applying for college I can see my playtime bing drastically reduced in the near future. But just because I'll play less doesn't mean I'll stop. It just means games will last longer for me.

Or you are like some of us who still buy them and then they stare at you from the shelf... and you feel so bad for not having the time to play them.

D:

 

[Some_Jackass]

Gamers do not just walk away...they adapt!

Got a desk job? You ease into PC gaming at work!
Travel a lot? Grab a game boy!
Shipped out to war? Hook up an XBox and tell your C.O. all this Call of Duty is practice!
...Or just milk Unemployment/Welfare/whatever and just never leave home and play all day.

 

[TheKbob]

...Or just milk Unemployment/Welfare/whatever and just never leave home and play all day.

Please... Don't even joke about this. You have no idea. I'm a Gamestop employee (if that wasn't obvious from some of my other threads) and you don't see the people I do coming in obviously on welfare and spending all their money on games.

 

[Khedive Rex]

Gaming is one of my many hobbies and I don't see myself dropping it anytime in the immiediate future.

Would I be able to? Sure. If I ever, for example decided I wanted to devote a good deal of my time to mastering the ancient arts of meditation at a temple in tibet or something or if I was selected to represent the human race at an interplanetary convention, or if zombies invaded, or if I had to band together with a group of angsty teenagers to overthrow a -

Merde! The time may come when I will no longer play videogames but apparently I'll never get it out of my head. That's a scary thought.