why do you feel like you're past it? I'm 42 and I'm fine with gaming

If you still enjoy gaming then you aren't past it.

As time moves on the average age of gamers is always going up, in a few years there will be OAPs that are still regular gamers.

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My dad is 72 and still plays Borderlands

Join any proper gaming community, nobody gives a fuck about age.

I’m 49, and I’m not past it. Who said you are? You could be 75 and happily playing games.

I’m an electronic musician and half of the artists I love are DJing in their 60s!

Ps, love the zx81. Monster maze was amazing at the time! Now playing Fortnite and No mans Sky in Vr :)

Never stop playing.

Can’t really pass gaming, people play all the time, you might be a more casual gamer, but most people play video games, especially now with smartphones. You might just feel burn from playing. Might take a break or find a new game that might excite you

(my wife and I are both 31) I sometimes feel the same way that maybe I'm too old for it but then my preschool teacher wife keeps reminding me that you're only as old as you let yourself feel so we have a fun time gaming together and I still game by myself on games I like. The wife and I play D&D and we larp and all kinds of things a lot of people our age thinks is for kids. We have a blast and we hope our daughter has just as much fun as we do when she starts growing up.

Had some shit experiences. I used to play Counter Strike Source. I was good at that. Then tried CsGO. When did everything get so serious?

This is great to hear

I played Counter Strike since the mod days and well into CSS. Now CSGO is so serious and full of try hards. I made so many real life friends from my CS clan days. We used to compete on clanbase. Now, so many take it way too seriously. And it's happening in many other games

I'm 43 and I don't care about being 'past it', I still feel the same as I did twenty years ago. I love gaming too, I never cared about being cool even when I was younger, just be yourself.

People who think they are cool are annoying anyway

I'm 52 and my current mainstay is, "The Division 2." I also have worked on AAA games and currently make them as an Indie Dev. One thing you have to know is that the average gamer worldwide is 36 years old. That cliché of most games being kids was at one time true. When I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s. Generation X are the original games and made the gamer culture. We also make all of your AAA games and comicbook movies and the good Star Wars spin-offs.

I'm not only very good at videogames that I play but I will always play them because I like them for entertainment and I really do appreciate the artistic expression of them. Sometimes, in many games, I just stop playing and take in the cool atmospheres that are meant to be... ATMOSPHERIC. Then I get back to going rogue on someone who's obviously in a menu looking at their inventory.

See you on the battlefield soldier!

When I was younger I was expecting to be past it later in life but here I am at 44 still beating the majority of people on line. Sure I've slipped a bit, from when I was younger and on top, down the rankings on games a little but I'm still in a respectable place.

I tend nowadays to think of it like a boxer, like Mike Tyson, say. Yes, at 44 he probably had a disadvantage against younger boxers in his weight division and skill level from his 20s but put him against most average people he would still be knocking their heads off if they started on him (and he'd still beat some of the young champions too on a good day).

What I'm trying to say here is yes, you slip a bit, you become past it at least to qualify at champion level, but it's all relative.

Everything with shooters now is twitch reflexes and speeding around catching people by surprise. More so than back in the CSS days and I sucked at CSS. 6 months ago I would have been consistently massacred in a COD multiplayer match because I was so out of practice. It takes me a few weeks to get back to the level of competitive against normal players and much longer for my muscle memory to start working again to the point where I can even begin to defend myself against the sweatlords flying around the maps.

You can thank the end of servers for that. It used to be a group of people all playing on the samer servers and a lot of the time you'd wind up getting to know the group of people. Now with matchmaking there is none of that. You might try a slower paced game like a BR. Still very competitive but it is more strategic in timing and map movement.

Years ago when I was 46 I led a 300 members WoW guild, you're never too old and for multiplayer games you might not be the quickest but I bet you'll be the best leader and organiser.

I mean, what else are you going to do? Play golf? Fish?

I’m not sure what you’re asking or telling us. Are you saying you’re past the age to get into games?

What makes you think you are past it? Past what exactly?

i felt this way at 25 now im 29 and and decided to go back and play games from gen 1 consoles on up. now ive spent all year getting to 1997 in games and having a blast. just need something to remind you why you fell in love with gaming in the first place!

Its entertianment. Thats it. Nothing other than a way to fill your R&R time slot.

My dad is 65 and plays Path of Exile on the regular. I'm 42 (near 43 in Feb) and I just downloaded that Throwdown Fox animation card game the other day. Still play Fallout, Stardew and No Man's Sky. Never stop :)

I think you get a lot more tryhards these days because many want to be streamers, and streaming is a source of revenue. Just like the rest of the internet, when money got in the mix, it fucked up the vibe.

But there's nothing preventing you from continuing to game until you're damn well good and tired of it.

Yeah there's been a massive shift. Used to just be pop a server list, join a server with players and reasonable latency. Pop in, play some rounds until you get your fill, and pop out. If someone was causing trouble, like cheating, the server admin would just give them the boot.

Now everything is ranked and matchmaking. Losing blemishes your profile and more take things seriously. Starting a ranked match is a commitment and you are punished for abandoning. You might get stuck playing with a cheater, and you're punished for voting to kick/boot too often even if it's warranted and not rage/toxicity. There's still casual and unranked, but it's not what most people play and has fallen out of fashion.

I'm 46 and still game. From firing up mame to play double dragon 2 and tmnt, to skyrim on my ps4, and everything in between. I do find myself going for longer periods between playing at this age tho. So little time...

48. Still game.

48 here, still game but I've moved away from PvP type games since everyone is running the same load out. I hate the whole "meta" playstyle.

What does "past it" mean? You're too old to play? too old to be good? nah dude I'm 49 and I still, as the kids say, slap. Who cares what anyone thinks anyway. It's about having fun.

You don't stop playing because you get old. You get old because you stop playing.

Similar to my dad, who boots up Heroes of Might and Magic 3 every year over christmas break.

We do too. HoMM 3 while we work on projects

>Apparently, for some, I'm past it.

Do you think you're past it?

There is no age boundary, as long as you enjoy gaming, keep gaming.

55 here and still playing for a hour or so every day, some times just have to make those kids curse when they beaten in battle Royale 😎

Video games are for all ages. If you enjoy them, then by all means, play them! The gaming community cares less about age and more about what games people play (probably too much). Anyway, I hope you continue to enjoy them as much as you seem to have so far

I think people were of the mindset that video games were for kids because if you think about it gaming at home has not been around that long. Now we are getting to the point that we actually have people in their 50's that are lifelong gamers. Give it another 30 years and the trope will be. "Gaming? That's for in the retirement home". I don't know about you but I sure as hell plan on spending my late 60's, (maybe 80's if I stop eating garbage), in the old folks home pwning those cocky 50 year old punks.

58 here and been gaming since I was 12. You are NEVER past it.