GAF: how old are you and until when will you continue playing?

SkyHighTrees said:
25 and was on some self doubt about how much importance I give my games.

safe to say thread has helped me, be gaming til i die. currently only at like 1-2 hrs a day
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1-2 hrs a day at 25 is a healthy dose. I've actually found myself gaming more as I get older. No kids and the wife is a gamer as well, so it ends up being the go-to hobby. We have a pact that she would die first because she can't handle my loss. If things go according to plan, I will die alone with a controller in my hand. Hopefully, I would have completed Witcher 3 and the DLCs by then.
 
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39 here. I'll keep playing until I'm physically unable to. The thought has crossed my mind many times. What would gaming for me look like if my hands and motor skills deteriorate? Or my eyesight?
 
50 here and don't plan on ever stopping. Unless I'm reading or listening to a podcast my sit-down time is all video/Tabletop gaming. I don't do TV too much anymore, a little YouTube or an old 80's movie is about it.
 
Mid 50's and will play as long as physically able to.

Used to work in a computer shop after school in the early 80's and there was an old professor of astro physics that used to come in buying the latest games.

He was in his 70's and enjoyed chilling out playing games
 
A buch of old fucks in here uh? We should rename the game section into geriatric section and gift walking canes instead of gold :lollipop_grinning_sweat:

Btw i'm 38 and i don't plan to stop playing until Microsoft is finally gonna win a generation.
 
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44. I play single player games to de-stress from responsibility, so I can't see any reason I would ever stop so long as there are games worth playing.

A guy I worked with for years retired about 18 months ago at age 70. We would talk about games at work all the time and he's spent more of his time playing and enjoying games since he retired.
 
Tokio Blues said:
It's awesome to read this.
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GymWolf said:
A buch of old fucks in here uh? We should rename the game section into geriatric section and gift walking canes instead of gold :lollipop_grinning_sweat:

Btw i'm 38 and i don't plan to stop playing until Microsoft is finally gonna win a generation.
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For sure, well known to be an "old person" forum.. which is hilarious but also understandable. All those kids, I suppose, aren't using forums. At least, to my aged understanding. :messenger_tears_of_joy::messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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49 here. Started with the 2600 and Combat--and one of my cherished childhood memories is my mom calling to complain about how much ET sucked (she told me after the call that the rep told her everyone else was calling, too).

Not gonna lie, for most of the last 18-24 months, I've been more into movies than games, but the last few months I've been swinging back more toward games (and working on that backlog of games I kept buying while I was mostly watching movies). My thumbs and wrists are definitely not what they once were, and while I appreciate the easier difficulties devs have been adding recently, I can see the end where it's just not worth it anymore. Hopefully that's still a few years away. I can also see a point where my gaming is strictly turn-based and strat games, nothing that requires continuous or timed inputs.
 
40s. Sadly I rarely play games anymore, and when I do i give up before I make any progress. Now I just fly in heli-x rc simulator with my mikado vcontrol transmitter. at least what I'm learning in heli-x i can actually apply to flying my real rc helicopter. Just seems like a waste of time for me for everything else. I will get hate for this but life is too short to be wasting it away in some game, for me at least at this stage in life. Maybe something special will come along and change this, but I doubt it.
 
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VenomousCoffee said:
49 here. Started with the 2600 and Combat--and one of my cherished childhood memories is my mom calling to complain about how much ET sucked (she told me after the call that the rep told her everyone else was calling, too).

Not gonna lie, for most of the last 18-24 months, I've been more into movies than games, but the last few months I've been swinging back more toward games (and working on that backlog of games I kept buying while I was mostly watching movies). My thumbs and wrists are definitely not what they once were, and while I appreciate the easier difficulties devs have been adding recently, I can see the end where it's just not worth it anymore. Hopefully that's still a few years away. I can also see a point where my gaming is strictly turn-based and strat games, nothing that requires continuous or timed inputs.
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It's a polar opposite with me. I can hardly stand to watch a movie or television series the older I get, but I used to enjoy even movie theaters, all of it 20 years ago.
 
39, continuously losing interest in the hobby over the years. At this point not even for the state of development (you can always find good stuff if you try), but rather because of the absolute hilarity of the hardware side of things. There's not a single platform I don't have at least one major issue with, PC being the least offender.
 
I'm 45. I'll keep playing games so long as I find it enjoyable, which is thus far.

...but at the same time, I love how much drama there can be had for such an innocent hobby. I also love to be in the sidelines with popcorn.
 
Bunch of youngin's…

I was born in the summer of 65. I started playing games on Mattel handhelds when I was about 7-8 years old. My parents bought us consoles and a PC as I grew up so I was never without them. I believe it was easier/cheaper to buy consoles for four kids than to buy them each a big gift separately. Thanks siblings. As I got older, I kept buying and playing even after my siblings moved on. I will probably never stop playing video games of some sort. They make it too easy these days.

/life story *or ramblings of an old man. :messenger_winking_tongue:
 
I'm a 51 year old 23 year old (it's a mental thing). I plan to game for as long as I can, hopefully passing away peacefully in Skyrim... unless The Elder Scrolls 6 proves to be better.

Edit: If I had the choice, I'd spend my final moments standing in the streets of Whiterun, with this tune playing as I drift off one last time.
 
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In my 40's… I've slowed down a lot in the last few years (but it's also because the trends are going away from what I prefer).

I still tinker a bit, but I'm far more selective in what I play. Time is precious and I want to do a lot of different things.
 
Idleyes said:
I'm a 51 year old 23 year old (it's a mental thing). I plan to game for as long as I can, hopefully passing away peacefully in Skyrim... unless The Elder Scrolls 6 proves to be better.

Edit: If I had the choice, I'd spend my final moments standing in the streets of Whiterun, with this tune playing as I drift off one last time.
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Jeremy Soule's opus.

Without that soundtrack, that game is not near as good
 
I'll be 56 in April. I grew up in the 70s and early 80s completely obsessed with video games. Not long after I hit puberty I lost all interest in games, and getting up early for Saturday morning cartoons, and spending my allowance on Star Wars action figures and Tempest. Didn't even think about gaming all through high school and college. I got back into gaming after I finished school, literally by accident. I blame Super Mario World for pulling me back in. That was in 1991 and I've never stopped since, so I kinda doubt I ever will at this point.
 
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52. Been playing some kind of game since those cheap LCD handhelds and plan to continue for as long as I can hold a controller. Hopefully by then we won't need them.
 
35 here. Most of my gaming time is spent sim racing these days but still play the big titles that drop. I'm part of a discord server for iracing that contains quite a few people in their 60's. One had to recently give it up as his arthritis had gotten too bad. So I can see the only thing stopping me being something like that, otherwise I will always continue to play games.
 
Age 52. Although my interest in video games has decreased a bit in the last few years, as long as quality games like the one in the picture come out, I will continue.
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That's like asking when I plan to stop reading books or watching movies. I don't, it's entertainment. when I'm physically incapable.
 
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