Are you a gamer for life?

[exoneuk]

The mere thought of me not gaming makes me laugh. I will continue to game long into the future and I can't see myself stopping as such unless it interferes with my work to such an extent that it would be beneificial for me to stop.

But then I'll always have that DS next to the bed... so even then I doubt I'd stop.

 

[Susan Arendt]

Absolutely I'll always be a gamer, though I expect the type of games I play will likely change. I somehow doubt I'll be as willing to put up with the kind of frustrations and nonsense when I'm 70 that I do now. (Bad controls, lack of story, etc.)

 

[Anton P. Nym]

I've been gaming for nearly 30 years now, in one form or another... don't see myself stopping any time soon.

-- Steve

 

[Lachlann]

Well, I'll be 40 next month, and I've been playing games since I had an Atari 2600.

So.... yes. Not only will I be a gamer for life.... I already am.

 

[SteinFaust]

i'll be playing as long as i can hold a controller, or watch brightly colored bloom without an having epileptic fit. i'm hoping for the eventual creation of full-body 3d immersion gaming. doubt i'd get to breach and clear a room otherwise.

 

[Shadow Tyrant]

Really, it depends on how shitty games get in the future. It's okay now; there's still a lot of good games with a few shitty ones in between. But as time goes on, that margin is going to change. It'll be "a few good games and a lot of shitty games" and then "One or two games worth playing" and then "All games suck." At which point I'll be forced to break out my "old school" 360 and play that. If it isn't RROD'd by then.

I'll still be a gamer in spirit, but I don't know if I'll be playing them or not.

 

[Goenitz]

I dont plan on ever quiting gaming, although Im sure my girlfriend will eventually make me slow almost to a halt. I find that I have less and less time for gaming, which makes it more and more important that I only play the best of the best.

Currently replaying Superman 64 for the 3rd time. <--- BEST GAME EVAR!

 

[GenHellspawn]

I've been gaming since I was 4 years old, I've got a kickass computer, and I'm doing perfectly well financially. So I see no rational reason to stop.

 

[UPS Express]

I think I will continue gaming for a while, but maybe, somewhere down the road...

I will always try to be a gamer, but that may not always be possible.

Might switch to PC gaming instead of console gaming in old age, so I don't have to try and use the controller.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

I can't do it anymore, not enough time to finish, and not enough money to get them >_<

Clear Sky, BIA: HH (which, looks okay), and Mercs 2 is coming out like, in the next week..

I haven't even finished my old games, which were designed to be played till the end of time.

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I sure hope so. Starting college in a week. I guess we'll see.

 

[mrnelsby]

Its an excellent question.

I grew up in the 70s. I was a geek for the most part. Started gaming at the old arcades with Pong. My first home-gaming experience was with Commodore Pet (4k of ram, yeah you read right). The games were just attrocious, but I was hooked. My first real gaming rig was the Apple IIe and it was an awesome experience. Still remember all those great games in green and black (choplifter, captain goodnight, the original ultimas). My first consoles were in my late teens (my parents wouldn't let me have an Atari/Intellevision/Coleco) a Turbographix 16 (regretted not getting the sega genesis) and an original gameboy which I bought with my own money. College came and I started my PC gaming life, and shortly thereafter PS1, N64, PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, 360, wii... and here we are...

Then there was W.o.W.... I was obsessed for a while, being a couple of years. When I came out of that cloud, I frankly didn't want to LOOK at a screen. Took sort of a break from gaming. These days though, I'm back to the good old days... I'm about to turn 36 and feel that it is just part of my life. Not a major one, but something I do here and there...

I'll always be a gamer, though I sometimes wonder if I will not be able to compete in CS anymore as the kids get crazier with their energy drinks and whatnot...

 

[Sammich]

Unless new games keep coming on the market that are innovative and genuinely fun, nope. And it seems that time is approaching faster than I thought. Eep.

 

[emge]

Think i'll always be a gamer. I'm closing in on 30 and even tough my playtime has gradually gone down from 16 hours a day to 1-2 It's still my preferred recreational activity. I can't wait untill I get retired and can play games all day, and just imagine the graphichs we will have in 35-40 years. Really my life right now is just about getting the kids, family and work deal out of the way so I can start saving up for my retirement gaming rig.

 

[s0denone]

I'll always be a gamer, though I sometimes wonder if I will not be able to compete in CS anymore as the kids get crazier with their energy drinks and whatnot...

Now there's something interesting.

I'm from Denmark, and I follow the Danish counter strike scene (I have to, really, since me and some mates are starting a clan hoping to enter DEL quite soon. DEL being Danish Esport League, which is restricted to pretty much top 20 clan in Denmark)

While I consider myself pretty good at the damn game, I can't help but be outclassed by 13 and 14-year olds. I will cry about cheats, as none of these players have yet to compete on LAN, but I still know that they can't all be cheating, which saddens me a bit.

I even knew a guy, when he was 11, he played with Lithium in Denmark, that's an oldschool clan, that eventually had about 6 months of fame, after they were the only Danish clan to have ever beaten "GK", or "Gatekeepers". Everyone in the clan was between 16 and mid-twenties, but damnit if he didn't play with them when he was 11.

 

[RemSaverem]

27 here, been playing games since before I was 3. I have fond memories of playing Pong against my dad on our Commodore Vic20. Still own every system I have ever obtained, never sold or gave any away. My commodore 128 came along to college with me. Working in the games industry now, loving every minute. My mother asks me when I'm going to grow up and get a "real job" but she can go boink herself, I'm getting paid well to translate video games from Japanese to English, and she's a 54 year old unemployed secretary who's been doing the same type of job since she was 16.
I've got an 18 month old boy and I'm teaching him to be a gamer. He loves helping me play Lego Star Wars.

 

[Some_Jackass]

I sure hope so. Starting college in a week. I guess we'll see.

Yeah.....you'll be fine. If nothing else, you'll play more.

 

[Jolly Madness]

My first game was Pac-man, I was a gamer since I was born.

 

[dart sifilis]

I won't stop gaming. Why the hell should I? I've been playing video games since I was 5 or 6 and still doing well.

 

[DeadlyFred]

I'd say "yes", as I've been playing games for the majority of my 28 years but, honestly? The current state of gaming is a fricken' sad-ass disappointment. The rise in popularity of the industry has lead to it being marginalized and diluted with useless crap for mainstream markets. Big developers and growing production costs have either swallowed/drowned smaller dev houses or destroyed them entirely. I'm frankly getting pretty bored with it, there's just nothing new, nothing interesting, very little actually worth playing. But I guess that's as good a motivation as any to "grow up" and go do something besides sit around and play games all day, right? *sigh*