I'll never quit gaming or stop thinking of myself as a gamer, but man I just never play them anymore. It feels like all the games coming out are games I've played before with graphical updates. That just doesn't appeal to me. I stick with franchises I know like Zelda and Halo (I know I'm being contradictory there. Also fairly mainstream, but shut up you hipster *bleep*ers.), but I don't really get excited for new games anymore. I have Dark Souls but I haven't played it in a month. I'll get back to it one of these days. Just as soon as I tear myself away from work and don't have other social obligations to attend to. I'm genuinely excited about Last Guardian, but that's been caught up in development limbo for years.

I dunno. I'm so out of the loop with games now it's hard to know what I want. I'm not a portable gamer and never will be again. That died when I stopped taking the bus to school every morning after graduating from high school. I'm strictly console or PC now, and my PC is a cheap replacement of my previously powerful one, so I can no longer play the taxing games. That limits me to my XBox, Wii or PS2. So hello replaying Shadow of the Colossus, Zelda and Halo. I have no problem with that.



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Ill more than likely be playing video games till the day i die in some capacity

These days i mainly play on Football Manager games as they don't take as much effort to play and you can easily do other things while your doing it. I still play on my PS3 but nowhere near as much as i used to as i used to come home and play everyday pretty much where as these these days i struggle to find a few hours a week.

Another reason i have found is that there aren't as many games released that interest me enough to buy, for example i can only think of three that i will be getting on release in the next year or so which are the Last of us, GTA and Sim City.



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I will never stop gaming. My grandkids will be wondering "why is Grandpa playing video games?" My friends are losing interest left and right and I don't know why. Maybe because they aren't as seriously interested in them as I, but oh well.

I have to agree the FPS market has become stale with most companies making modern warfare games(no pun intended). Regardless, there are still some creative FPS's out there, like Borderlands, and someday the cycle will break.



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Personally, I've been finding games somewhat, I dunno, lacking. FPSes are just a mess of adrenaline, I find that really uncomfortable. I play an RTS like Dawn of War, I can't keep up. I play Civ 5, too slow. Takes far too long. And none of my friends actually play video games, so there's that. I can't remember the last time I played a game with irl friends, xD. So as to the future, I honestly don't know. :L



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quote Roy

I completely forgot about arthritis. It's bad enough we are typing on these keyboards, so it is still a possibility, because it is considered and elderly thing, just like getting blind for some people.

There is the argument that the constant use and stretching of fingers which i often do when gaming could help stave off arthritis and alleviate the painful effects later on.

Dunno how accurate that is, its a 'big up' for gaming though.

Wouldn't worry about it too much either way. By the time you're old enough for it to be relevant, arthritis prevelance and treatment will be so advanced as to make it virtually a non-issue.

As for me, I'll be making a career out of video games, so I'm not sure I'll have a choice.

It's basically the same path when it comes to computer programmers. It's not a choice if that's what you love. Sadly this is the field that I will be going to in a sense. Good luck with your career in games though.

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quote Roy

Unless it is Halo, I will not usually start the game on Hard difficulty, nor will I start it on Easy, usually the medium difficulty. I mainly use my Xbox for Hulu Plus, but I still play games, but 75% less of what I was normally doing before.

I always start my games on the easiest difficulty. After that, I may do more playthroughs on harder difficulties.

I think differently. I will go ahead and play on the hardest difficulty regardless of the type of game. Yeah you get frustrated sometimes but that is the thing that make games last as long as they do.



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