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[viveks86]

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

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.

 

[R6Rider]

I'm 403 years old.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

I checked my calendar and didn't see any date penciled into cease playing video games. Sorry about that.

 

[cireza]

18

The question was about your age, not how many great grandchildren you have.

 

[joeygreco1985]

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?

 

[Sweden85]

Will be 40 this year :-O ..well planning to play all of my life.

 

[Edmund]

Early 30s. Topher and HeisenbergFX4 are my inspiration and I'll play even when I'm a great granddad.

I'm gonna whoop all the teenagers in street fighter, battlefield and call of duty and send them crying to their mums.

 

[Bigfroth]

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.

 

[Thebonehead]

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

 

[bundylove]

Guess men realy never grow up.
We just grow old

 

[GymWolf]

A buch of old fucks in here uh? We should rename the game section into geriatric section and gift walking canes instead of gold

Btw i'm 38 and i don't plan to stop playing until Microsoft is finally gonna win a generation.

 

[rm082e]

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.

 

[saintjules]

It's awesome to read this.

Spoiler

Wrong gif

 

[Euler007]

45. Never stopping.

 

[Rush2112]

In my 50s and will continue playing WoW classic for as long as I have left.

 

[HercRaato]

I'm 57 and I'll play as long as I can hold a controller.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

41. Since the days of the NES in 1989.

Gaming will always be there in some capacity for me, even though I'm slowing down a bit.

Same on all fronts. Chad crew!

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

A buch of old fucks in here uh? We should rename the game section into geriatric section and gift walking canes instead of gold

Btw i'm 38 and i don't plan to stop playing until Microsoft is finally gonna win a generation.

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.

 

[TerribleAtThisGame]

Every forthcoming thread of console war drama will now result in me spamming this:

 

[VenomousCoffee]

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.

 

[Mr1999]

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.

 

[veterangamerUK]

53 and mostly just dip in for a short spell of "pick up and play" retro games now. I have had one eye removed and don't want to strain the remaining one too much.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

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.

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.

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

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.

 

[nowhat]

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.

 

[Nigel]

Late 20s and will continue until I'm old. My grandpa who's 75 still games too.

 

[DirtyBast8rd]

44. I will never stop. Been at it since 5 years old.

 

[Wolfpact1983]

Waiting eagerly for GTA VI while shitting in my pants.

 

[reinking]

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.

 

[BlackTron]

I think it's actually a pretty good activity in order to avoid becoming mentally seline.

I felt this way playing Game Boy titles. Modern triple A, not so much.

 

[Tunned]

37, like the Egyptian gods I will carry my PC with me to the afterlife by being buried with it!

 

[Idleyes]

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.

 

[hyperbertha]

Never ask a gamer his age. There is a good chance he is playing kirby at 39.

 

[Raven117]

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.

 

[Raven117]

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.

Jeremy Soule’s opus.

Without that soundtrack, that game is not near as good

 

[Idleyes]

I'd say the same about mods. Mine has around 3,500.

 

[Muffdraul]

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.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Jeremy Soule’s opus.

Without that soundtrack, that game is not near as good

Yeah, I really don't feel good about his absence in the future. His musical score is synonymous with Elder Scrolls for me at this point.

 

[Raven117]

Yeah, I really don't feel good about his absence in the future. His musical score is synonymous with Elder Scrolls for me at this point.

Yup.

 

[poodaddy]

37.

It ain't over till it's over.

 

[DeVeAn]

40

 

[lughnasadh123]

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.

 

[Danjin44]

36 and I will be playing game until I die.

 

[Digity]

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.

 

[DragonNCM]

51 & I hope I will still playing when PS10 is out !!!

 

[DrMano]

Holy shit, 34 crew reunion?

Rule 34

 

[Gamerasi]

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.

 

[Neilg]

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.

 

[JusticeForAll]

37. As long as I enjoy it.

 

[LectureMaster]

Early 30s. Topher and HeisenbergFX4 are my inspiration and I'll play even when I'm a great granddad.

I'm gonna whoop all the teenagers in street fighter, battlefield and call of duty and send them crying to their mums.

I'd be cautious picking my man Topher as a senior gamer model.

Guy couldn't figure out the difference between a second-hand mining 3080 and a brand new 4070Ti.