I'm 25, married with a child and a mortgage, and as harsh as it seems one of the only things that gets me genuinely amped up is video games. My family are an annoyance more than anything these days, although I do still love them and I wouldn't leave my daughter for the world (I know that makes no sense).

Fact is you should always accept and encourage what makes you you. If that's video games then sod the judgement of other people and just revel in it. You'll only be depressed otherwise.

Lol, im the youngest here then? I was all of 2 years old when the first fallout released.

32 here and I know at least 5 or more 30+ year old buddies, who are all excited about this game. Some are in college, some have a kid on the way, and others are just working.

Can only agree with the sentiments so far.

At 36 I still play pretty much every day. (Work, drinking or [censored] not withstanding.) 4 consoles and a PC. It's just a matter of what to play.

At daft o'clock in the morning while my housemates were asleep, I was watching the Beth con. And let out an audible, "Yessss!!" when they announced the release date. And an "F@@@ Yeah" when they showed the Pip Boy edition.

The next morning I booked that week off work for the sole purpose of getting as much time in the F4 world as possible.

I was the same way when Skyrim was announced. The truth is, these games, these worlds, and the stories and experiences we have in them mean a lot to us. And when we're presented with the opportunity to create new ones that play on nostalgia/past, it excites us.

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

I'm old enough to have played Pong in bars back in the 70's. And I was already an advlt by that time.

There is no age limit on excitement. The day you stop being excited about life is the day you have stopped being alive.

I just turned 58, and will be ordering the Pip-Boy edition myself. It's all good, because everyone has their own thing. People who can't (or won't) appreciate that are made out of wood and should be written off as a bad time svck.

Just to add:

That quote "We don't stop playing because we get old; we get old because we stop playing."

- George Bernard Shaw

Time you enjoy wasting isn't wasted time my grandad always used to say when he took me fishing as a kid.馃槉

Hey I'm 57 and on the hype train along with my 25 year old daughter and my 18 year old son. I've preordered and my daughter got the Pip boy edition. The latest TES usually determines when I upgrade my PC ( fortunately or unfortunately my last one died so I have a brand new beast of a machine built by said daughter and with out twin systems, we're ready for FO4 )

I didn't even begin to play video games until I was 49. The first video game I ever played was Oblivion, which I received as a gift in 2010. And I'd say I'm pretty excited.

Oh, that's who it was. I already used that quote, but didn't remember who made it.

Well, I am 51, will be 52 before the game release and I am excited about it. Of course I have my Pipboy edition on pre-order.

However, my mom, she is 73 and is looking forward to it and was asking me all kinds of questions about it. But, she will be playing on release day.

My 74 year old dad was going to have to wait to play FO4 until my mom finished, but I solved that by buying him an XBox1 (mom uses a PS4) so he can get his own copy.

I turned 22 this year and I have a lot of big steps to make in my life, just got a job and I'm moving to a new city and such. And I worry all the time if I'm wasting my life on video games or am I getting to old. But I see threads like this in so many forums that just go to show that all things can be good in moderation. I know I'm not old but when you play video games your whole life 22 feels like the end times. Luckily I have a group of friends in the same boat. I'll play till the day I die because that's what I love. Anyways just want to thank you older guys for showing me that it's alright to keep playing!

This is awesome!

I'm 31 and I definitely get overexcited for things like this. I went to Star Wars Celebration dressed up in a costume and it was the best 4 days of my life XD

35 and super excited for Fallout 4. The wife thinks I'm a super dork for pre-ordering the Pip-Boy Edition but that's one of the many reasons she loves me.

I still can't get over the fact that it will be here in the fall!

This is the best thread in the forum. All smiley faces and no bickering =)

I'm 43 and have twins on the way. My wife's due date is Jan. 6 but no one expects the babies to wait that long, so a December birth is likely. Assuming they aren't too premature, I am hoping for one precious month of Fallout 4 before the little ones arrive and I'm finally forced to "grow up," as it were.

P.S. How can someone "walk into" a story and order the Pip-Boy edition? Everywhere online is out of stock.Are B&M stores getting their own separate inventory?

I am 33 and will take 1-2 week of vacation on november 10th . I like the fact that finally we are not a "kid" in the game also

Perfect time to take some paternity leave =)

One way to look at games, especially games like this, is that they are like a good book.

For a time, there were some choose-your-own-adventure type books that attempted to draw the reader into the content more so than a typical novel.

The best of novels, on their own, often develop into series, and for the bibliophile are read and re-read.

They provide depth of detail, color, emotion, story architecture, and a vision that isn't provided in a 2 hour movie, and, they can be read or experienced at leisure.

The modern RPG, and some other games are like those books where a person is more indelibly immersed into a story, and all the intricacies available that programming and hardware architecture can offer.

These games, in some ways, are even better than some stories because they offer such tangential variety. A player can spend hours picking flowers, building a gazebo out of toasters, or tracking down every single NPC in the game and making them bald with a console command or mod so your character can be the only person with magnificent hair in a kingdom of bald people.

Of course, there's all the proper side stories/quests, and the main story line too.

There can be hundreds upon hundreds of hours of distraction in just one game alone ... more than some folks invest in reading.

Thus, the modern RPG, especially open world play grounds the likes of what Bethesda gives us, there's certain no call for shame or embarrassment.

Go make a gazebo out of toasters.

Make everyone but your character bald.

... or play the game any other way, because that's an element books don't offer, and, you can go back and do it all differently another time.

A warning to anyone who has ordered the Pip-Boy edition: for all of you who develop a 'mystery illness' around the second week of November, as I'm sure many of you will, when you do go back to work, don't forget to take the Pip-Boy off first!

You mean the doctor recommended health monitor bracelet?

That's the one!