Gaming

Finding time for them has become more difficult. The kids dont typically play great games. Its fun to play some things with them but by the 3rd lego game I was done, its so repetitive. I keep playing stuff like that to entertain them, not really to entertain me. Playing more adult games requires setting up a separate space or waiting for kiddos to be in bed, and man I’m too old to stay up so late. I still enjoy them and haven’t grown out of them completely, but in a sense I sort of have just because of competing responsibilities that win the fight for my time.

There are certain video games that I feel like I’ve outgrown, but I will never outgrow video games as a whole. That’s like saying you’ll outgrow movies.

Well I’m 53 and my wife is 56 and it hasn’t happened to us yet.

I had thought about this today. When I was young, I would endlessly draw pictures for my future games. My parents pushed me into a different career path. Now I'm 34, have a child and coding my first game as a hobby. Video games are the media of my generation.

I'm in my 40's. The dad of one of my childhood friends is in his 60's. He (the dad) grew up playing arcade games. He's not just still playing them, that man and his boomer disposable income has had like every console that's ever been made. He passes previous Gen consoles on to families in his community that he knows have little income when the next Gen comes out.

He's not just still playing games, he's promoting them for the people least likely to be able to play

I've been a gamer since the 70s. Started with pong, Atari 2600, Atari 800 with basic... Compute magazine where games weren't included on media, it was 5 pages of code you had to type in to play the game ...

I keep telling young people the reason you have these awesome titles today is because of my generation playing fucking pac man.

I mean I definitely play them a lot less, even when I find myself with some time it's difficult to get invested when I know I won't have more time going forward. But I do still play them, and I do still love them. Card games board games video games they are still a ton of fun with friends I just don't have the ability to dedicate entire days to them anymore

"You will be to exhausted from being exploited at work to pursue your passions." Is another option here.

Maybe one day. But that day is not today.

yea what if your kids enjoy games that you really find stupid?

Closest I've come to this is how I've overplayed the few games I've been playing recently and it's started to become boring because of it. Though, I think I've ended up addicted enough to where I couldn't fully quit games as a hobby, even if I wanted.

Can confirm! My daughter is getting pretty good at video games and our video game time together is some of my fondest.

Any parents looking for a good co-op game, I can't recommend Wobbly Life enough. It's basically kid-friendly, multiplayer GTA with zero predatory mechanics. It's a flat $15, and goes on sale sometimes. There's loads of content, and more coming out pretty regularly. We're 55 hours in and nowhere near exhausting the fun.

It's not a phase, dad!

"Game developers will change games from things you buy to things you rent and lock you out if they feel like it."

In my funeral pyre...maybe

Personally I feel that games are just one form of entertainment among many, it's not all that uncommon for people to have points in their life where binging tv-series or reading books can feel more novel and interesting. It's also possible that one finds a new hobby or interest that develops in to a obsession taking most of the free time with it.

Sure as an adult you'll have more responsibilities and less free time to play but I feel that at least for millenials and zoomers gaming in some form or another will persist throught our lives. For some it may be few hours a day, for others it may be few hours a month but it'll still feel good to pick up that new/old title and have some fun.

I and all my adult children play computer games. I started playing when I was about 6. This graphic is me.