-|ScottFree|- said:I’m 32. I have been playing computer games for years and I’m an avid online gamer. I may seem old to some of you younger fella's but I feel no different about gaming than I did 10 - 15 years ago. I love it...even more to a degree now!!!
I upgrade to the latest and greatest hardware and I’m a subscriber of PC Format magazine. I love everything about PC's. I love building them and talking tech with mates of mine.
My son loves computers and gaming too, he also loves the fact that I'm into gaming, but when will I be too old for it.
I often think that I should have moved on and be potting plants or going off to the local Marks and Spencer’s and buying jeans with elastic waist bands, oh and the shoes that you get in the Newspaper adverts, the ones with that are furry inside and zip up the middle, is that what I should be wearing... of coarse not!! But that’s how I feel sometimes...
How old is too old....when it comes to gaming!!!
How old are you?
we hear you mate.....
first off there are people out there older than you and people out there younger
i just say roll with it. i am 31 and have seen more console action than most and certainly pc action when i was able to afford (ps thank you goes out to the forward thinking goverment that brought in student loans - without them i would have been pc constrained)
whilst i prefer berghaus and northface to marks and spencer and i can manage to do my own shoe laces up still - the one thing most of us have in common is that gaming and on-line gaming more so - introduces us to people we would never meet ever! there is no judgment based on physical appearance, race, colour, dress sense, or even what car you drive (although i do drve a subaru...)
i have meet some great people on these forums over the last 8 years when celly overclocking was a lottery and was not just a case of buying pretested chips and "guarentted" bits and peices. i remember the early days of these boards when there was a big swansea following - spesh was one guy i remember. i have gone on to meet some great lads and lasses playing online albeit on ET where there is a good following of nice people - GJRC, Binks, Divine, Hendrix, Alpha, Snapshot (missing u big guy), qwerty, grim, kilo, big john morell, cuban and flopsie (although not sure if he used these forums much). the break up of [OcUK] allstars still hits me hard...
there seems to be a built in - kick the d1ckheads via peer pressure that works well on good well modded forums and servers which has always meant that i have felt some sort of connection with people who use these boards - although i have become less active due to work and the great cleansing that went on 2 -3 years ago of forum members and things just moved on for me.
my missus laughs when i tell her i have friends who are busy studying for their alevels etc but that is one of the great things of the web - it allows like minded individuals to connect to become greater than the sum of the individuals regardless.
i hope that your son has a great time playing on family friendly servers or ones that at least stop the swearing! ('cause it aint big or clever!). i hope that he can still be fraggin his old man in the years to come and that he has been taught the fairplay and respect that is required by any
"game" or sport - in the flesh or as computer drawn charecteur that is generated on a server 100's of miles from the human input devices.
pot plants as well OFC but remember to spend an hour or two getting pwned or pwning every now and then.
just remember to
GL & HF!
(only old game I owned that I can remember atm lol). I'm still into games but not as I was years ago. I think I was most fanatical about games when I got my 486-DX2 as I was buying pc magazines with demo cd's and loads of games each week. Soon changed when I got into online gaming tho. I started on duke3d, then quake and most memorable was quake2. Then quake3 which I'm still playing atm.
I don't really want to play a game to be reminded of the wars and killing of innocent people which happens in real life. So much bloodlust it's untrue. Yet none of the gamers who play these emulations would ever join the army.
