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This is more about our age group than the video games.
Me, I hardly play them anymore, certainly not the first shooter ones, certainly not Farmville's mate, Zooville.
To Zooville, I saw how it roped me in and I couldn't break free. The thought of my electron animals starving because I was neglecting them was just too much to bear so I had to return each day. (I know, I am a sentimental idiot). What saved me was the game rebooting, setting me to ZERO.....and I never restarted.
With the first person shooter games, I think they lost their fun when they were overtaken by the professional players. The man who had my job before was into the on line games (the job is like that) but to me, that kind of attention to it was just Bleh. As far as "professionals", to me, those are those from those who make it their private little universe and hell for anyone else such as blasting it with their music, using cheat codes, wiring up their team ("Jake, look out, Tamara is around that corner with a sawed off shotgun,") to those who increase their statute by actually paying money into the game and beyond.
I didn't get into paying money for I saw that as foolish. If the game disappeared, what did you have to show for it? Disappear it did. Myspace had two games I was into, "Mob Wars" (I think) and an electronic paste board cat. With my cat, I moved him to a desert island and when Myspace zapped Classic one night, we-ll,......."So this is the tale of our castaways, they're here for a long long time. They'll have to make the best of it, it's an uphill climb.".
I use to play the "home version" of the "game", me against the computer but when a Windows upgrade nuked it.......I never bothered with any other. It might have just been that no one else around me was playing one.
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I was never really into them. Our kids had Nintendo when it first came out, and I played Super Mario a few times but games like that, and later Angry Birds just didn't seem productive to me, when I have so many hobbies that result in something to show for them. I'll see my wife or others playing some candy related game, and my 9 year-old grandson playing Minecraft, and just don't see the appeal.
While I'm not retirement age yet, both me (mid-late 30s) and my father (who is retired in his late 60s) have a similar habit when it comes to video games.
He still plays the same games today as he did when he first got video games in the early-mid 90s, when he was in his late 30s/early 40s. He also really enjoyed arcade games in the 80s. So now he plays some Nintendo games (I set up his PC to emulate them and buy him Nintendo controllers that plug into USB), some old PC games like 1998's Risk and SimCity. Outside of that, the only video games he plays are ones with his grandkids on their Wii, like WiiSports bowling. Overall, he is not really interested in keeping up with newer games.
This is more about our age group than the video games.
Me, I hardly play them anymore, certainly not the first shooter ones, certainly not Farmville's mate, Zooville.
To Zooville, I saw how it roped me in and I couldn't break free. The thought of my electron animals starving because I was neglecting them was just too much to bear so I had to return each day. (I know, I am a sentimental idiot). What saved me was the game rebooting, setting me to ZERO.....and I never restarted.
With the first person shooter games, I think they lost their fun when they were overtaken by the professional players. The man who had my job before was into the on line games (the job is like that) but to me, that kind of attention to it was just Bleh. As far as "professionals", to me, those are those from those who make it their private little universe and hell for anyone else such as blasting it with their music, using cheat codes, wiring up their team ("Jake, look out, Tamara is around that corner with a sawed off shotgun,") to those who increase their statute by actually paying money into the game and beyond.
I didn't get into paying money for I saw that as foolish. If the game disappeared, what did you have to show for it? Disappear it did. Myspace had two games I was into, "Mob Wars" (I think) and an electronic paste board cat. With my cat, I moved him to a desert island and when Myspace zapped Classic one night, we-ll,......."So this is the tale of our castaways, they're here for a long long time. They'll have to make the best of it, it's an uphill climb.".
I use to play the "home version" of the "game", me against the computer but when a Windows upgrade nuked it.......I never bothered with any other. It might have just been that no one else around me was playing one.
I wonder if a person's generation makes a difference. I am an early boomer and never got involved in real video games. I do remember playing online solitaire years ago, to pass the time. More recently I play Candy Crush Soda or Candy Crush Jelly to pass the time. But never did the kind of serious gaming some of you are talking about.
Not necessarily due to age per se but perhaps the pursuit of other interests. I loved video games but not interested now as would cut into my time doing art.
I played Pac Man, Tetris, Donkey Kong and maybe a few others back in the day but I can't recall the last time that I played a video game unless you count Wii Sports which I play maybe once or twice a year.
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