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You can have my game controller when you pry it from my cold, dead hands. And I’m not alone. We are many. We are legion.
You’ve heard of dementia villages that mimic old city neighborhoods? Gen-X is gonna need that to look like a mall. A video arcade would make sure over half of them never try to leave1. We’re not done gaming, not by a longshot.
1 - The rest are going to tend to cluster up in the food court or Tower Records.
34 here, reporting for duty
Same… If you switch the digits.
30’s?? That’s rookie numbers, I’m nearing my 50’s.
Nearing? I’m already there and I’m the young 'un in my group of gaming buddies. The eldest is in his 60s and we’re all playing most evenings.
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Godspeed you magnificent bastard
You youngsters can eat my shorts, I’ll be gunning for you (in game f course). Excuse me, I need to yell at those damn kids to GET OFF MY LAWN
Same. And I still game. Who the fuck quits when they pwnd everyone and still have tea bags to spare?
The tea bags are a bit saggier, but they’re still good!
It just means you don’t have to squat as far.
Right on time too my knees are shot
Maybe it’s been an evolutionary trait all along!
At 45 my knees are hanging in there (even with the cycling and skiing). It’s my ankles that are becoming an occasional problem oddly.
I grew up playing video games in the 80’s - of course I still play video games even though I turned 50 this year.
I swear the younger generations forget gaming has been around for a LONG time long before they were born, also that people don’t change what they enjoy doing just because they get older……
in the '80s*
43 and on the daily, whether PC, Steam Deck, or one of the kid’s consoles.
The fuck with this question. My youngest is barely 31. I guess I’m dust and fading memories. I will watch my anime and horror movies and shout at the clouds with an onion tied to my belt, fuck you very much
An onion? At what time was that the style?
The ancient 80s
Is that back when you could get 5 bees for a quarter?
I have a 10, 2 and 1 year old and none of em are havin kids yet so I got some time.
I mean this purely as an observation, but: almost certainly literal child detected
I’m in my mid 30s, and the people in my extended social circle around my age that don’t fire up a game at least once or twice a week are few and far between, even including the harried, busy, regular not-yet-grand parents, haha
Quick edit: imo, the ones not playing video games at my age (again, in my area) are generally the ones who seem the least like they have their shit together. It’s weird but it’s a thing I’ve noticed
I mean, if they are 30 and haven’t adapted to how society is yet, its not surprising they havent got their shit together. We grew up alongside modern tech growing up, if you’ve been avoiding technology till now, its exceedingly hard to function in our current society
It’s such a fucking kid move to not have enough imagination to understand adults needs recreation too.
Do you think you’ll stop gaming in, like 20 years when you’re 30?
It’s somewhat based in reality, isn’t it? I’m still gaming in my late 30s and most people I get to play with are on average 10-15 years younger than me. People leave the hobby with time, en masse, and almost no one my age seems to be joining. There are some games that let you ignore that more (single player, matchmaking. Although even in single player, what’s the point of gaming, if you don’t get to discuss it with most of your friends), but some are really difficult to continue playing (coop :().
Although even in single player, what’s the point of gaming, if you don’t get to discuss it with most of your friends
… The point is to… play… the game? I have exactly two current games that I play or talk about with friends. The others are all single player games that I play solely for the enjoyment of playing the damn game. Like, what do you mean, what’s the point? This view is utterly baffling, just play it?
Same here. I’ve got a handful of friends that only want to talk about the latest call of duty or rainbow six, but I’m just not into the competitive gameplay. I just want to play the game. Single player is the way I go and I play it because it’s like an immersive movie. I get to control the character and see the story unfold, it’s like magic. Every now and then I get to talk about how amazing the story in that one game was, and it’s just like talking about a movie, but I don’t play the single player games solely for the purpose of being able to talk about it. I got to experience it, and play it the way I wanted.
Yeah, most of the playerbase is young, as young people spend more time playing videogames.
I think the amount and maybe type of game change a bit, but that’s about it. Ofc some people just stop, because there’s always some people, but I don’t think our generation (I’m roughly the same age) will leave out gaming as much as the previous one did. And I still know plenty of people from gen x who still game avidly. Relatively avidly, at least.
Gaming was more of a “kids thing” when we were young. Like a lot more. Now it’s a viable career. Not a common or easy one, but probably more viable than say “racing-car driver” in the 80’s.
You are just playing the wrong games if you think everyone is young. I play on a lot of classic wow private servers and the average age is probably 35+
No, not “everyone”, but if you look at the games being played the most and look at what age the people are who put in most hours, it’s obviously teenagers.
That isn’t to say that “everyone is young”. Me saying America has a majority of white people wouldn’t mean me saying “everyone is white”.
Ofc a private server for a group that has probably existed for 10 years or more will not have the same statistics as looking at just what age plays most.
“Wrong games” lol. Yeah my brother plays a lot of OSRS and the average age for that playerbase is probably higher than 20.
But it’s a very minor part of the whole group of “everyone who games”.
On a side note I play and follow the classic Tetris scene and it’s been wild seeing the game change in terms of age demographics in only a couple years. Went from mostly middle age 30+ to kids 14-25 at least at the top of the game.
No, it’s not. Some adults wake up and trade video games for board games.
It’s like having friends you can spend time with, for real, instead of just being a joke and without real social engagement. Regardless of how many subscriptions to a gorram MMORPG.
being a fucking joke and without real social engagement.
Aww, guess remote work isn’t real work either, huh?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
It’s not like we’re interacting now, because this is just text so ofc it isn’t real engagement. What about split-screen party games? Those not “real engagement” either? So… where’s the line? Because for instance for TTRPGS, especially for D&D, people definitely use tablets and phones while playing to keep notes / character sheets. What’s the difference between an online session of D&D and an IRL one? Sharing a bathroom?
All of your rhetoric sort of strongly implies you can’t be have “real social engagement” with friends who aren’t in your immediate vicinity. To say that in this era of technology is a pretty strong tell you don’t have any friends outside your small town, I guess.
Have you ever tried telling a partner that texting and phone calls (or even video calls) aren’t “real engagement” and “it’s a fucking joke” to think it is?
“My preferred choice of recreation has more pieces and doesn’t use electricity, so it’s clearly more mature.”
Honestly, grow up.
Learn Kharma Mr. Behind.
It’s possible to like both board games and video games. Don’t be a dick.
Sure, but not to have real friends anymore.
This is a you problem, and everyone but you sees why.
Don’t stop VideoHallucinating
Look, it’s a cheaper hobby than drinking, or outfitting my vehicle. I don’t have the time to retreat to a fishing hole and there’s no hunting nearby.
Yes I play video game, geez.
Turning 50 this year. Still balling. Love a drink when I play. The combo remains cheaper than going to dinner
People act like video games are some niche hobby, while it’s a bigger industry than movies and music combined. And it’s not even close.
Yeah it was bonkers learning that video games are no longer niche and are now cool
They’re definitely not niche, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
I’m 28 and I’m a young-un in my Elder Scrolls Online guild lol
Living the dream. I gave up on finding guilds in online games because it’s always a bunch of kids I just can’t relate to.
It’s so good lol, no drama, just people enjoying a game they love. It’s hard to get people in for things consistently sometimes because life and family happens but I guess that’s the price you pay.
Seems like a pretty reasonable trade off haha.
I don’t have hard feelings towards the kids or anything, I just don’t really connect with them enough to want to hang out.
If you like world of warcraft give it a go. It’s full of guilds with people older than 30
48, just been gaming with my 15 year old. Love it, wouldn’t be without it!
I feel old playing TF2 these days. I still don’t know what “skibidi” means.
Hey fellow fossil! I just learned it means evil lol
Apparently there’s a show “skibidi toilet” where they’re just shitty people or something.
https://www.distractify.com/p/what-does-skibidi-mean
Tldr: nothing, it’s like the millennial word whomps
I haven’t been playing a lot lately, but today I connected my VR headset back up so my nephew could play it. I think it’s going to pull me back in for a little bit. It’s tethered to my PC but it has oled panels with great contrast (og Samsung odyssey). It’s been years since I used it, so some of the captivating novelty felt like it was back.
I played almost nothing but VR games in ‘18-‘19, including a 200 hour Skyrim VR play through. I do not tire of it as quickly as most, and I even still have to play through the second half of HL Alyx.
I’m in my mid 40s. Those of us in The Oregon Trail Generation got to watch video games grow up alongside us. Old pong and Atari games already exist, then the NES comes out when you’re in kindergarten or first grade. You read about the SNES in Nintendo Power later in elementary school before it hits. Then the N64 comes out when you’re a teenager, and if you’re lucky you can drive yourself to the store to marvel at Mario 64 at a kiosk in the electronics section.
And that’s just Nintendo. There was a whole different kind of progression on the computer side.
I’m only barely in my 30s but yeah! Hopefully going back to college next year to finish getting a game dev degree too
