Well this is kind of a strange one. Because on one hand I have nothing against any age enjoying any medium, however there is a big difference, and that is that when watching a movie or reading a book etc. You don't actively engage with young children on a regular basis. So from that I think gaming is fine for older people but it can be a bit weird if they are generally playing multiplayer games and with people much younger then themselves. Although I've found I don't really mind playing multiplayer games myself with older people as I kind of have a mental image of everyone being my age and base it more on their personality then the how old they are.
Poll: Gamers Over 30 Are ?Weird?
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I know plenty of people who are 30 and over and they still play videogames. As many people hav already pointed out, you don't "grow out" of reading books and watching movies. It's a lot healthier than injecting a potentially lethal toxin into your face (I am looking at you Kathy Lee)
for some reason that made me LOLxXxJessicaxXx said:Well I'm 30 next year.But it makes it okay if I'm female right? RIGHT?
[small]It probably makes it worse doesn't it...[/small]
But seriously video games are the biggest entertainment industry in the world and we aren't supposed to like it? Sigh.
I think part of the reason is because gaming as evolved at lightspeed, they havnt quite caught up, its still "kind of" a niche thing, so alot of people dont really understand this huge THING that is gaming
As torture? Yes. =PxXxJessicaxXx said:I tried to watch xfactor once.IamQ said:Female? That makes it awful! You should be out shopping, gossiping about celeberties and exploiting men at bars! Don't you understand? That is what a normal and healthy life looks like!xXxJessicaxXx said:Well I'm 30 next year.
[small]It probably makes it worse doesn't it...[/small]
But seriously video games are the biggest entertainment industry in the world and we aren't supposed to like it? Sigh.
Does that count?
OT: Since when have we cared what these uneducated fools think? Let them live their ignorant life, blind to reality, while we all go about doing what we love, because we want to.
Aren't their developers that are over 30? Does that make doing their jobs weird?
Anyways, weird is a shorthand for "does not fit cultural norm or ideal" (shutup, it is) so whether it is weird or not depends on the person and their cultural and experiences and blah blah, get a degree in anthropology.
Anyways, weird is a shorthand for "does not fit cultural norm or ideal" (shutup, it is) so whether it is weird or not depends on the person and their cultural and experiences and blah blah, get a degree in anthropology.
As a 35-year old gamer, who does not plan on ever putting away the mouse, I'd just like to say that these overpaid twats don't have a clue what they're talking about.
Only if they're obsessed and that's the problem. A bookworm isn't someone who reads a book every now and again or has a book on the go all the time, they're someone who reads books constantly, over other things. A film buff isn't someone with a passing interest in films, who watches the new releases and good films and so on, they're someone who obsesses over films and is generally considered a douche.jamesworkshop said:
The term gamer tries to label anyone who games in the same way, as someone who obsessively plays games over doing other things in life. It's ridiculous.
If we want to play the game I would be a gamer, I play pretty regularly. I also watch a lot of films and know the industry fairly well so I guess I'm a film buff, I also read a lot of books, mostly highbrow, so I suppose I'm a bookworm. I go to the gym 3/4 times a week so am I a gym...er...? I have interest in music and a lot of knowledge of that industry too so am I a music nerd?
It's just a ridiculous label, I'm not a gamer any more than I am those other things. I'm sure there are a good number of people who are obsessive over games (see: WoW player stereotype) but not all of them are, in the minds of the layman, no thanks to ignorant fuckwits like these bints, a gamer sits in their mum's basement at 37 with no job, covered in stale red bull and cheetos while leering at virtual titties. That's just not the case and is the fundamental problem with the label, it's completely inaccurate and used to generalise a group (which right now is incredibly vast) into something it's not. It is not used for parts of the group, a gamer is seen as binary, you either are or you aren't and heaven forbid if you are.
I'm still not sure where this perception that videogames are for young kids anyway, because look at every generation and children were never the main concern. Only really the wii can argue that at the moment
These people are just clueless ignorant folk who are stuck in another age.
Likely they have realized somewhere deep down that the world has left them behind and thus their first response is to try and attack the new medium of entertainment instead of giving it a try.
Just like those folk 50-60 years ago who attacked television, or the folk 100 years ago who attacked radio.
there is always a core of folk left behind by the world who attack the new way of things.
It probably started with cavemen who attacked those who used bone to make things when 'stone was good enough'
Likely they have realized somewhere deep down that the world has left them behind and thus their first response is to try and attack the new medium of entertainment instead of giving it a try.
Just like those folk 50-60 years ago who attacked television, or the folk 100 years ago who attacked radio.
there is always a core of folk left behind by the world who attack the new way of things.
It probably started with cavemen who attacked those who used bone to make things when 'stone was good enough'
Being Weird in my opinion is Perfect anyways. I don't care what other people say, if they say gamers over 30 are weird, it should be a compliment; why would they want to be someone else? Were all weird
Considering I'm 30 next month and most certainly an avid gamer, I think you can guess what my opinion is. Thing is, I've always known I would be a life long gamer... Even from the age of 8. At least I had that conviction then and it hasn't been shaken for a moment in the following 22 years.
I think some people are just born gamers. And to be Frank, I kinda see myself going out (hopefully at a ripe old age) slumped over my PC witha game running.
I think some people are just born gamers. And to be Frank, I kinda see myself going out (hopefully at a ripe old age) slumped over my PC witha game running.
Given that I'm 29 1/2 and don't intend stopping any time soon, and even in the 90s my dad played a few (if rather lower-action) games of his own - in fact, in my infancy (born during HIS 30th year) he was WRITING games on "our" borrowed spectrum - I'd like to think this is a load of crap.
Really hardcore gamers, maybe, because you wonder what they're doing for a career now they're no longer in college and shouldn't have the time to develop true pwning muscles, but hey - everyone needs a hobby.
These days, given that we have about 35 solid years of home and arcade videogaming history behind us, gamers over 30 - or even, over 40 (...over 50, just?) aren't wierd, but "people who were born and/or have grown up surrounded by videogames, found they liked them, and haven't found any good reason to stop liking them or playing them".
Most of our hand-me-down (and soon enough, after we got a chip, copied) PSX games came from an uncle who's recently had his 50th birthday, after all... Since losing his GT priveleges (marital pressure, lol) he's compensated instead by buying a Focus ST. I may have to suggest to my aunt that it would be far cheaper and safer all round just to let him play a PS3 thru their 57" mega-TV
Really hardcore gamers, maybe, because you wonder what they're doing for a career now they're no longer in college and shouldn't have the time to develop true pwning muscles, but hey - everyone needs a hobby.
These days, given that we have about 35 solid years of home and arcade videogaming history behind us, gamers over 30 - or even, over 40 (...over 50, just?) aren't wierd, but "people who were born and/or have grown up surrounded by videogames, found they liked them, and haven't found any good reason to stop liking them or playing them".
Most of our hand-me-down (and soon enough, after we got a chip, copied) PSX games came from an uncle who's recently had his 50th birthday, after all... Since losing his GT priveleges (marital pressure, lol) he's compensated instead by buying a Focus ST. I may have to suggest to my aunt that it would be far cheaper and safer all round just to let him play a PS3 thru their 57" mega-TV