Poll: A gamer ! For how long ?

[SimuLord]

I've been a gamer for 26 of my 31 years. I've been a hardcore PC gamer for 8. I've written for GameFAQs and contributed to the Escapist because I like writing about games almost as much as I like playing them. My wife complains I spent more time in Tamriel than with her over the course of three months and she was right.

Yeah. Pretty sure there will always be something worth playing that keeps me in this hobby until I drop dead of a heart attack during a boss fight.

 

[karmapolizei]

It's the same as asking whether I'll listen to music forever or watch movies forever, and the obvious answer is: Yes, of course!

Intensity is a completely different thing, though. I know, I just "returned" from a hiatus of several years - although I always did a bit of gaming, at friends or something. But being a PC gamer through and through, and lacking both the rig necessary rig to really play AND the will/money to buy one, I haven't really been into it for about five years. A console never came in question, don't ask why, I don't know. (Ok, I do know: I mostly play FPS games, and I couldn't ever get used to controlling them with a pad. That's why.)

 

[MisterDevil]

Not the best place to ask this particular question. The demographics for this board, I am willing to bet, I don't have the figures in front of me are likely older by a couple years than other forums, more aware and intelligent gamers. An industry foundation population.

A gamer that is likely going to stop gaming upon marriage, career, or growing up is not the kind of person who signs up for an account on the escapist.

Barring the trolls and the fifteen year olds who think that they are all grown up and will never change their priorities.

I will be a gamer for life, but my career is in the industry I need to keep appraised. And given the gigantic waves in this particular form of entertainment and its position in the market place it is hard to predict what will happen in the future.

With advanced style gaming coming to different platforms (say cel phones) how long before there is A New York ADA playing a shooter level between dockets when he hasn't gamed since University?

let`s get real here for a sec. I`ve been gaming my whole life, even won a PC (part by part) at a few competitions. Now, after a 22 hour Heroes 3 match, i came to post here. Don`t get me wrong, i was at a point when i was getting money out of gaming, but now ... when i`m looking for fun, i find clones, and when i`m looking for competition all i get are nice graphics and low AI/Gameplay.
hope i`ll play forever, heh, i don`t need a life, i`m a gamer, i have many lives.

 

[WlknCntrdiction]

Since the dawn of the first xbox

 

[FrankDux]

I've been gaming for about 12 years now. I'm not sure if that's realistic, but I think Dark Forces is about that old and that was my first real big gaming experience that turned me into a gamer.

 

[Stevato]

When im very old and probably senile, i'd play video games

I been playing video games all my life, ever since me and my dad finished the first half life together. Cant say i agree with MMO's though, i stopped playing WoW last year and it was probably the best decision i made in my life

 

[COR 2000]

Well, I've started playing since I was six and the year was 2000. I've been gaming ever since and I don't plan to stop.

 

[ipop@you]

i've been gaming sice before i was born (according to my scan). and im going to keep it up till my death in fact i might get buried with my first handheld the gameboy (NOT the gameboy colour)