re: Do you still play video games at all? If not when did you stop?

I've been playing video games since I was 6 or 7, and I'm 28 now. I remember playing duck hunt and Super Mario Bros at my best friend's house. He also had that track game with the pad you ran on.

I still play my Ps4 when I have the time, mostly sports games and FPS. Really into Madden Ultimate Team right now, and 2k15. I've tried to get into RPGs but I just can't. Even bought Witcher 3, but maybe have put a total of 8 hours into it.

I'll probably keep playing games as long as they keep making them. I am really excited for Project Morpheus and what that's gonna bring to gaming. #Gamer4Life.

Still enjoy it, havent played in probably 6 months. I have a Wii, PS3, and Xbone. We have family over often, and it gives the kids something to do. I've tried to not play much since my son was born 2 years ago, I dont want him to be glued to video games like some kids. So far so good, dude loves to be outside, we only watch tv when were getting ready for bed.

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Do you still play video games at all? If not when did you stop?

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I haven't really sat down and played a game to completion in a LONG time. Ex Wife was in Law School. GTA Vice City, God of War, and an Action RPG I can't recall the name of for the life of me.

Since then, I've tried Assassins Creed on Xbox, Morrowind on PC. I just have too much opportunity cost these days, even it's just reading historical non-fiction, playing with kids, yardwork or groundwork for path to pussy.

Oddly enough I STILL get them giddy teenage feelings(when sega and nintendo commercials were the new shite) when a video game commercial comes on. I hope to play again someday.

Since receiving my undergraduate degree and entering grad school/real world, I found myself having much less time for video games. Honestly, at most, I may hop on video games for 3-4 hours each week.

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Too busy drinking now.

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You must be really cool

I was big on Sega Genesis in college and then played a lot of FIFA on the first playstation. When I tried playing with Xbox, the controller just seemed like it needed 50 fingers to be able to play and I gave up.

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I don't play nearly as much as I did before I had a job and responsibility. However it's still one of my favorite things to do at night when I'm bored.

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This, and a lot the game series I used to like they don't make anymore.

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I don't play video games because I'm a grown arse man. Video games are for kids, nerds, and fgts.

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There's plenty of grown arse men far more successful than you that play video games.

I stopped playing video and computer games regularly around 2011. I've been playing them since the 1980's.

I always enjoyed playing them and I've spent countless hours on computer strategy games like Civilization and MMO's. I would spend whole evenings playing NCAA Football on Xbox.

But it all kind of lost its appeal for me once I hit 40. For a number of reasons. First, I started doing more things with my time outside of that realm. I bought land to manage for hunting, I started grad school. Honestly the main reason why I stopped was I didn't have time for it anymore.

But once I had been away from it for a while, I realized some things I didn't like about how video games have changed. For starters, I've found the whole multiplayer focus of console games to be unrewarding and repetitive. It's like developers have ditched a good PvE experience in favor of multiplayer battlegrounds where they do less work on content. And the people on those things... ugh... don't me started.

And speaking of PvE, I don't like games that aren't open-ended, which railroad you along a story that you can't break out of. And there's so many of them now. Zero replay value on almost all of them.

The whole scene is so money-driven now, with in-game purchasing, extra fees for downloadable content that should have been there to begin with, monthly subscriptions...

I just find it all to be less "wonderful" now than it was years ago, when picking up a game meant spending some time in a new world. Now, it just resembles some place I never want to visit, with assholes, pimps and barkers constantly in my face, wanting either my time, my patience, or my money.

These days, when I have time to play games, I just invite friends over for Catan or 7 Wonders or board games like that. The games are more fun because actual people are more fun, and in-person human interaction is rare and, sadly, novel again.

Pushing 50. I still play. Kids are grown and I have free time.

41 here. Been playing since Pong.

I will stop when the arthritis makes me.