Why 20 year old gamers are better than 50 year old gamers.

[SvennoJ]

I'm 42, started gaming at 6. Younger games don't appreciate the progression games have gone through and beg for a mid gen upgrade cause it's not going fast enough :p I guess I grew up at the right time as apparently this is the last gen!

Last night I had the pleasure of playing an adventure game again without the temptation of the internet (14 hour power outage due to ice storm, yay for laptops) It's much better. Games are diluted and padded in length to the max nowadays. It has to be easy yet must last long too, so kill counts keep going up. Playing on hard is fine yet gets boring after the same thing over and over, might as well skip most of the fights and do a few fun bosses on hard.

My reflexes are still fine in racing games, although that's more anticipation and learning the tracks, aka muscle memory, than reflexes. Same for platformers. I grew bored of rts, a genre I used to love. Same with competitive multiplayer, just not as much fun online as in LAN. Plus now it's all about levels and perks and crap. In my day you ruled when you knew all the locations of the power ups. Near daily rounds of HL Quake and UT with 4 to 8 people in LAN was awesome.

My journey with games has been epic. Started with my dad's homemade PC running Basic, then first PC green and black with beeps 0.8mhz 10mb hdd to 4 color cga, ega 16, vga 256 colors. MSX 3 tone midi music, C64 funky music, first home made sound card, Amiga 500 awesomeness, first online multiplayer fs4 over dial up, downloading cheats and games from various bbs in 2400, 4800 then 9600 baud, first cd-rom player cd's still loading in trays, Soundblaster 16 every sound format mixed through the pc in crystal clear 16 bit in 1992, first gpu, first dvd player Tex Murphy Overseer in early 98, tv card to watch tv on pc in a window or play pc on tv via svhs, first stereo graphic 3D game Descent 2 on a projector, first surround sound, the birth of the internet, first mmorpg, and then we're finally at the ps2.

I pity those that are skeptic of VR because the tech is supposedly not powerful enough yet. It's not going to look like the Order 1886 or mythical Crysis with 1000 mods, oh noes. How did I survive playing at 0.0008 ghz!