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gamelover2000 on 24 April 2010

Nintendo started my gaming, then I guess Sony saved it and that's where I am now :P



Currently playing: MAG, Heavy Rain, Infamous

 

Getting Plat trophies for: Heavy Rain, Infamous, RE5,  Burnout and GOW collection once I get it.

 

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eggs2see on 24 April 2010
Khuutra said:
eggs2see said:
Put all the nintendo fanboy-ism posts aside and look at this thread for what it is.

I have been where you have come from, it isn't nintendo, or any other company (i realise in your case it most certainly was the wii but just stay with me), the fact is, you are a gamer at heart and you will be a gamer forever, and that is the reason you came back to games. Like a smoker who quits only to come back several years later, you are addicted..

No people who are "gamers" drop gaming all the time. It happened to my father a few years back and he was never able to get back into it. Lost the will to play games, as it were.

Then your father is most certainly NOT a "gamer". Sorry mate, but ur dead wrong



theprof00 on 24 April 2010
Khuutra said:
theprof00 said:
Khuutra said:
theprof00 said:

my mistake.. your OP makes it seem like your kid actually games when he couldn't be any more than 5 right now.

Children that age are some of the biggest gamers on the planet if you let them have free reign.

Should have seen me with the NES....

Yeah, I got my first NES when I was 5 too..

The difference though, is that the only game I had for a year was mario, and had to borrow games from friends who were reluctant in their sharing of prized possessions. I was just surprised that his son had a "huge universe of games". I drew the conclusion that the kid must've just been older than 2-5 because by the time I had a decent collection i was 10 or 12.

If we assumed that everyone's experiences are based on our own....

I would have to assume the world was much more awesome.

*puts on his obnoxiously large shades and rides off on his motorbike*

we should start a motorbike gang. The new Nintendo street team Tunnel Snakes. Just ride up to different places and set up nintendo dancing events. I just need a motorbike now.



Khuutra on 24 April 2010
eggs2see said:
Khuutra said:

No people who are "gamers" drop gaming all the time. It happened to my father a few years back and he was never able to get back into it. Lost the will to play games, as it were.

Then your father is most certainly NOT a "gamer". Sorry mate, but ur dead wrong

My father was gaming back before people called them "video games" and he didn't stop until about 2001. He played and owned more games than many people on this board. There is such a thingn as a lapsed gamer, or a gamer who just ceases to enjoy the hobby. Coming back and playing the games isn't some quality that's inherent to you, it's about whether or not games appeal to you. Without appealing games, no one would play.



theprof00 on 24 April 2010
Khuutra said:
eggs2see said:
Khuutra said:

No people who are "gamers" drop gaming all the time. It happened to my father a few years back and he was never able to get back into it. Lost the will to play games, as it were.

Then your father is most certainly NOT a "gamer". Sorry mate, but ur dead wrong

My father was gaming back before people called them "video games" and he didn't stop until about 2001. He played and owned more games than many people on this board. There is such a thingn as a lapsed gamer, or a gamer who just ceases to enjoy the hobby. Coming back and playing the games isn't some quality that's inherent to you, it's about whether or not games appeal to you. Without appealing games, no one would play.

I think it's easy to use that as an excuse though...no appealing games? For those of us that have stuck around with gaming, it seems like gaming gets better every year. It's impossible that there are no appealing games, just that you aren't aware of any appealing games.



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Khuutra on 24 April 2010
theprof00 said:
Khuutra said:

My father was gaming back before people called them "video games" and he didn't stop until about 2001. He played and owned more games than many people on this board. There is such a thingn as a lapsed gamer, or a gamer who just ceases to enjoy the hobby. Coming back and playing the games isn't some quality that's inherent to you, it's about whether or not games appeal to you. Without appealing games, no one would play.

I think it's easy to use that as an excuse though...no appealing games? For those of us that have stuck around with gaming, it seems like gaming gets better every year. It's impossible that there are no appealing games, just that you aren't aware of any appealing games.

My younger brother still livs with my father and games constantly. It's not a problem of him not being aware of games - jsut that the games we own on the 360, the Wii, the Xbox, the PS2, and the Gamecube didn't appeal to him. Awareness is not the problem, nor the most convenient explanation.



eggs2see on 24 April 2010
Khuutra said:
eggs2see said:
Khuutra said:

No people who are "gamers" drop gaming all the time. It happened to my father a few years back and he was never able to get back into it. Lost the will to play games, as it were.

Then your father is most certainly NOT a "gamer". Sorry mate, but ur dead wrong

My father was gaming back before people called them "video games" and he didn't stop until about 2001. He played and owned more games than many people on this board. There is such a thingn as a lapsed gamer, or a gamer who just ceases to enjoy the hobby. Coming back and playing the games isn't some quality that's inherent to you, it's about whether or not games appeal to you. Without appealing games, no one would play.

I'm not quite sure wtf you just said... but i will make it simple.

Gamer's don't just give up, they come back... if your dad is a true gamer he will come back to games.. it may take him a few years but he will come back.  If he does not then he was never a true gamer.

 

Either way... True gamer's never die



theprof00 on 24 April 2010
Khuutra said:
theprof00 said:
Khuutra said:

My father was gaming back before people called them "video games" and he didn't stop until about 2001. He played and owned more games than many people on this board. There is such a thingn as a lapsed gamer, or a gamer who just ceases to enjoy the hobby. Coming back and playing the games isn't some quality that's inherent to you, it's about whether or not games appeal to you. Without appealing games, no one would play.

I think it's easy to use that as an excuse though...no appealing games? For those of us that have stuck around with gaming, it seems like gaming gets better every year. It's impossible that there are no appealing games, just that you aren't aware of any appealing games.

My younger brother still livs with my father and games constantly. It's not a problem of him not being aware of games - jsut that the games we own on the 360, the Wii, the Xbox, the PS2, and the Gamecube didn't appeal to him. Awareness is not the problem, nor the most convenient explanation.

Have you ever asked your dad seriously why he doesn't game anymore? Is it really that they don't appeal, or has he shut himself off?

I went through a phase back in the gamecube days where I just stopped gaming because I had important stuff to do.



Khuutra on 24 April 2010
eggs2see said:
Khuutra said:

My father was gaming back before people called them "video games" and he didn't stop until about 2001. He played and owned more games than many people on this board. There is such a thingn as a lapsed gamer, or a gamer who just ceases to enjoy the hobby. Coming back and playing the games isn't some quality that's inherent to you, it's about whether or not games appeal to you. Without appealing games, no one would play.

I'm not quite sure wtf you just said... but i will make it simple.

Gamer's don't just give up, they come back... if your dad is a true gamer he will come back to games.. it may take him a few years but he will come back.  If he does not then he was never a true gamer.

 

Either way... True gamer's never die

There's no such thing as a "true gamer". Just gamers who ontinue to have games that they want to play. If you didn't have any games you wanted to play then you wouldn't game, and if you think differently then you're lyingn to yourself.

He's been off the wagon for ten years. The Wii didnt' change it. The 360, the DS, the Cube, the PS2, the Xbox - all didn't change it. If he comes back it will be in th far-flung future. Sure as shit won't be soon.



Khuutra on 24 April 2010
theprof00 said:
Khuutra said:

My younger brother still livs with my father and games constantly. It's not a problem of him not being aware of games - jsut that the games we own on the 360, the Wii, the Xbox, the PS2, and the Gamecube didn't appeal to him. Awareness is not the problem, nor the most convenient explanation.

Have you ever asked your dad seriously why he doesn't game anymore? Is it really that they don't appeal, or has he shut himself off?

I went through a phase back in the gamecube days where I just stopped gaming because I had important stuff to do.

I have. He just doesn't enjoy them anymore. I've actually got him to sit down and play with me before, but he's never taken to them again.