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

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video games are for kids, nerds, fgts

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I fit non of those descriptions but I love me some call of duty. Fuk DA hate.


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STFU clown. I bet if i punched you in the stomach, it would snap your damn neck.



Oh and I play video games.

Im 36 with 2 kids and I still play about 8-12 hours a week. I have given up on playing the long RPGs though. I wait until after the kids are asleep and play for a few hours. I'm lucky my SO also plays so we feed each others addiction nicely.

First off, you gotta upgrade your console.

In my 40's and play regularly and I will be one of the wrinkly old fricks playing games one day. Doesn't prevent me from doing other things that I enjoy.

If I had an old Atari. I sure would.

BTW, Teds Frostop across from Tulane stadium has free video games for those who dine there. The have Pac Man!!!

I stopped playing a couple of years after the PS3/360 came out. I had just started college when I quit, but I don't think that had anything to do with it. I basically just got tired of playing the same rehashed games over and over, so I sold my PS3 and 360 after a couple of years due to lack of use.

It seemed like up through the PS2/XBOX generation of consoles, there was always a good mix of different game types. Platformers, shooters, puzzle games, decent console RPG's, etc. Then, starting with the XBOX 360 generation, most big name games just became too similar. The graphics were better, but the innovation stopped. More and more games were either standard FPS rehashes or basically bad movies with boring quick time events in-between long arse cutscenes.

I even switched to the Wii for a brief period, and Nintendo does still make some fun games (although they rehash their old shite even more than everyone else does), but they only release like one game a year which just wasn't fast enough to keep me hooked on gaming as a hobby.

Now I play indie games on the PC from time to time, and occasionally I'll start playing a game on my phone, but I definitely don't follow gaming news or anything like I did when I was a kid.

I play now more than ever. In recent years I've learned a lot about how games are made and it really makes you appreciate how much work goes in to one. Of course you have the technical aspects of it, then you have to design character models and every square inch of the environment, create hours of music, write a story with character development, record voice actors, test for bugs, then on top of all that you have to make sure the game is somehow innovative and fun to play. It really is the most exhausting and impressive artform

49 and I still play.

About to turn 30, wife and 7 month old, and I still play. When they go to sleep at night I stay up and play. I still do what I need to during the day but I'm far more relaxed when I play.