im only 13, i feel like i shouldn't;t be playing tes... i guess i did start at 10

im only 13, i feel like i shouldn't;t be playing tes... i guess i did start at 10

I'm 22. My first videogame was on an N64, "Super Mario 64" it was called.

I'm amazed at how fast videogames had evolved. When I was ten, "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" was considered THE biggest thing ever graphic-wise. To think that now, it looks pathetic compared to Skyrim. The idea of a person that didn't look blocky in any way, a person that looked fluid, moved fluidy...it was unthinkable in 1998. Videogame developers would've thought you mad if you told them that.

Truth is, I'm loving how in my lifetime, gaming is becomeing more advanced. In my grandparents day, it was the wireless, (as in radio, not Wifi) in my parents day, television and in my day, videogaming.

With Skyrim coming out, my RPG fantasy seems to be coming true (or a large part of it) so I'm glad to be alive when this happens to witness it

I like the fact that you are 40 and love to play video games. I think I found my new hero!
lol, you mentioned Pong. Hahaha! People with square swords and bullets?!?!?
Bwhahaha!
I cant wait for Skyrim! there should totally be a "Boxy" pixelated version of Dovahkiin fighting off hordes of boxy goblins in a side scroller somewhere! Maybe a witch curses you for a bit? Awesome!!!

Edit: Finally caught that last bit.
You said you don't think Skyrim will be that epic, and you are critical about most games nowadays?! Come on dude!
I'm sorry about the Pong thing...can you play Skyrim with us for a little bit, please?! That just sounds so awesome!!!

I'm amazed at how fast videogames had evolved. When I was ten, "Zelda: Ocarina of Time" was considered THE biggest thing ever graphic-wise. To think that now, it looks pathetic compared to Skyrim. The idea of a person that didn't look blocky in any way, a person that looked fluid, moved fluidy...it was unthinkable in 1998. Videogame developers would've thought you mad if you told them that.

39-yr-old here. I did mess around with Pong in the 'coffee-table format' where it was a glass-top table, but my real first real exposure to video games was on the Atari 2600. I did get to try stuff out on other consoles of the time, and I was especially jealous of some of the titles that came out for my friend's Odyssey. Later my early gaming experiences continued with the C=64/128 and the Apple II computers, and graduated to the Atari 1040 ST before settling with PCs. I was a big fan of the original Bard's Tale trilogy, ACS, the old Ultima games (played 3-7 and both Underworld games) and loved many of the Sierra games, especially the Quest for Glory ones and the "Conquests" titles.

Here's a http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oECMdFpMp-c using footage from a video game developoed in the early 80's (but not released until the early 90's due to the industry crash). Also, I just like Future Islands (the band who made the song).

Damn, someone just re-activated the Time Tunnel :shocking:

If you know what I'm talking about you are likely to be at least 50.

Hey right on, another ex-ACS user!
I wrote half the Wikipedia entry for Adventure Construction Set, fond memories of that one. Tried playing it recently, but found I no longer had the patience for the turn-based system. Still, it is the grandfather of the Elderscrolls' construction kits.

28 year old here. The graphics in games have indeed made a huge leap, but it's good to be old enough to have played games with ancient graphics to understand that good gameplay is much more important than good graphics. The younger generations seem to care only about graphics these days. I still play my old MSX Spectravideo, Commodore 64, NES etc. games on my PC with emulators.

My first TES game was Daggerfall. Regretfully me and my friends played Doom, Quake etc. FPS games more then. I still hadn't finished Daggerfall when Morrowind came.

Edit: My first games were these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T3woiAcaE0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGrKnpzZayc
Graphics don't matter much when gameplay rocks.

OMG!!!!!!!!! i watched the video and im sitting there telling myself i have seen this guys artistry before and i my guess was right!!!! Don Bluth is probably one of my most cherished cartoonists as a child. my all time favourite movie from him was Secret of NIMH. though i do love his American Tail movies. lol Disney really screwed up on loosing him, but then again i guess my childhood benefited from it too.

I love how video games have evolved over time. I'm 22 and I've been playing video games for as long as i can remember, i dont even remember what the first video game i played was but it was either donkey kong (the original arcade version) or the first mario video game, one of those two. My first console was a super nintendo (as buddy said before me, due to parental poverty) and that is still one of my all time favourite consoles still out. The super nintendo has some of the best games ive ever played, chrono trigger, zelda a link to the past(dont care what anyone says, this game blows ocarina of time out of the water) and shadowrun are 3 of the most influental video games out there (of course theres a lot of influental games out there). I've played lots of PC games back in the day my favourite ones being the police quest games, heroes quest games (quest for glory now), ultima IV, fallout, xcom apocalypse. Then i started getting into the newer games as they came out, Morrowind being my first ES game (ive played many hours for both the xbox and the PC version - pc is obviously superior).

Ive played all of these old school games and still love them, but i am now probably one of the most critical video gamers out there now. With new video games I always pay attention to small details, and i can tell when a developer actually spent time and effort in their video game and made the game because they wanted to make a good video game not because they want their next paycheque. Bethesda is one of these developers (one of the FEW). You can tell they put their blood, sweat and tears in their games and not just because it takes them 4 years to make a game but because they pay attention to the details.
Now a days they come out with crap video games and put a bunch of advertising and hype on it and it becomes a huge franchise that millions of [censored] drones buy not knowing what a good video game is.
Examples of these half assed video games are (in which the developers dont give a [censored] about their game and just want money): Assassins' creed (all of them), Mass Effect (number 2 and probably 3), Call of Duty (all of them), Infamous (all of them), God of war (all of them), Force Unleased (all of them), World of Warcraft, Dragon Age(all of em) Honestly i can go on for awhile.. But these games are responsible for dumbing down the gaming community and expectations of video games (lets say they 'lowered the bar for future video games'). Essentially they are the equivilant of the antichrist, but for the future of video gaming.

Now you take these [censored] new games and compare them to the new games that the developers actually CARE about their video games, for example: The Elder Scrolls (all of em), Condemned (1 and 2), Farcry (all of them), Crysis (havent played the second so not sure about that one), Mario (Yes, the 'core' mario games have a lot of effort and time put into them - which is why they take awhile to come out), Battlefield (all of em), Total War(all of em), Starcraft (both of em), Star Wars Knights of the old republic (1 and 2 not that MMO crap), Gran Turismo(all of em), Bioshock (1 and 2), Star wars battlefront (1 and 2), Fallout (all of them), Grand theft auto (all of them).

Play any given title from that first list and play any given title from the latter, wether or not you play those kinds of games you cant deny the fact that there is more effort and time put into the latter. Theres a reason why good games like grand theft auto take 4-5 years between games and [censored] games like call of duty or assassin's creed can be released 2 times within a year, or 4 times within 3 years.

Now im finished my rant, i just want to say most of us are more critical in judging video games because theres evidence of how far we've gone from games like pong and when a company releases a half assed (by today's standards) video game people get pissed, because theres a lot of game developers that come up with good games now a days and theres no reason not to, unless of course you charge WAAAY less for your game. (Sega is still making new Mega Man games, but they still take like 2 years for them to make AND they only charge 10 bucks for it, not like call of duty re releasing the same game with a storyline that took you 35 seconds to write and takes a normal person 2 and a half hours to beat and still they charge you 70 bucks for the game.)

I'm 36 and love playing video games. My wife is also 36 and also loves playing video games,. (put any LEGO game on the 360 and I never get on it).

Oh and as for being 40 and loving video games. Thats nothing, My dad is 61 and plays video games. My father in law has just turned 59 and sat and watch me play Oblivion, he was fascinated.