Age Matters

[1CCOSA]

Overall, I'm extremely satisfied with my life but if I could go back and relive my senior year of high school and the year after I would do it in a heartbeat.

[gamevet]

Originally posted by haohmaru
Hell, I'm 35 so I'll just shut up and stay quiet.

Ha! I'll be 35 this January. Sure gaming is'nt the same as it was say 15 years ago, for me, but there are certain games that break the barrier of the average game. I end up playing a lot of average games, until that one magic title comes along, that reminds me of why of love this hobby so much. Also the amount of free time for gaming is a lot more limited, as work, the wife and necessities take a good portion of it.


I hit a brick wall of gaming boredom, around the end of the 16-bit gaming era. All the games started to look and play the same and it was'nt until the 32/64 game systems came about, that I found myself enjoying games, as much as I had in the past. Now that the DC has died down, I'm finding it hard to find a truely unique title that pulls me in for extended play time. I have a feeling that Metroid Prime and Zelda will bring back that gaming magic, I so long for. Until then, it looks like I'll be catching up on some older classics and games from last year, to tide me over.

[1CCOSA]

Man, what I wouldn't give for a wife to take away time from my gaming. I wouldn't have said that 5 years ago.

[Jeremy]

The gaming industry's transition period (32-bit/64-bit) kind of dulled quite a few of us to gaming. Now that the 3D medium is out of its' infancy, and is blossoming, we're all seeing what the third dimension can add to the gaming experience.

[NeoZeedeater]

I thought the 32/64-bit era was excellent. My favorite genre(2d platformers) was brutally beaten to death but I didn't really care because there was so much other good stuff going on.

[Jeremy]

I also enjoyed the 32/64-bit era. That generation marked the genesis of some of my favorite games/genres that I enjoy to this day. I remember picking up Toukon Retsuden and being wowed at how amazing the gameplay was. Then buying Hermie Hopperhead and seeing how a 2D platformer could be done on a PSX.

[teenwolf]

Metroid Prime is fantastic, neeners to the xbox owners who are stuck using an inferior console..

I have more fun replaying and playing old 8-16bit games and Mame than I do with most of the new console/computer games that are released. It used to be that I had to rent any game I wanted to play and then save up to buy one really good game every now and then. Now I have money and end up buying games that go on a shelf and are never played. Gaming is different when you are a kid, you have more time and are more excited to play every new game that comes out. I have different interests now that I'm older and just don't have the time or the same excitement that I used to. Games like Metroid Fusion and Prime are an exception to that though. I had great fun with Fusion and am really enjoying Prime.

[Jeremy]

Gaming is what you make of it. You get exactly what you put into it.

[gamevet]

Originally posted by NeoZeedeater
I thought the 32/64-bit era was excellent. My favorite genre(2d platformers) was brutally beaten to death but I didn't really care because there was so much other good stuff going on.

I was totally excited, when the 32/64 bit market came about. I liked it so much, that after I bought my Saturn, I sold my Genesis and Super Nintendo, with all their games. After I came back to reality, I was able to buy back most of those 16-bit titles, intact (boxes and manuals).


The 32/64-bit generation, is one of my favorites and some of my favorite titles of all time, were on the Saturn. The PSX made the RPG market, what I had hoped for, for a long time, a reality.


Gaming has finally become a respectable market, enjoyed by people of all ages and it has grown to boast sales numbers equal to that of Hollywood movies. Now that I'm much older, it takes a special kind of movie or game, to get my full attention.

[tabion]

Cloud....are you me? Jeez I played FF7 in 7th grade and OoT in 8th along with Xenogears. May I just say that these were truly magical experiences because I was so much younger and careless. No college essays to do, no practice everyday until 6pm. Good times, I mean I still have fun but its not the same.