[GRAEME]

I'm not sure when I became a grown up gamer.

But I can definitely see the difference between the maturity I had when I was in my teens versus now.

When I was younger I was a a troll, incredibly vulgar, and just a downright terrible person. I was the guy who'd be killing themself -- losing points for your team. I'd be betraying you in Halo. I'd be the impersonator, the manipulator, the instigator and it never ended well. I enjoyed that part the most.

Whenever that completely stopped -- thats probably when I became a grown up gamer.

[Donald Richards]

About a year ago, I'd say. I was a very pretentious "grown up" gamer before that. I probably still am to a less grating degree.

And yes, I'm going to answer the thread title despite it not being the real subject.

[Marion Geneste]

I don't want to grow up. I'm a Toys-R-Us kid, one of the original.

[Hairul Hafis]

I'm not really sure I understand the question: it's like asking when I became a grown up eater, or a grown up walker. I'm just a gamer.

[Big Homie]

Where do they find these fools? The tone in most of their articles make them seem like they are passing themselves off as some sort of video game gurus who are just a 'little ahead of the curve' when it comes to gaming, and somehow superior to us non professional gamers because they wasted 10+ grand and a few years of their life studying video game media in hopes that it actually means something.

I laugh any time any of them talk about their job at IGN as a career. They're a bunch of pseudo journalists, no more credible then your friendly neighbourhood tabloid journalists who write articles in those terrible magazines.

I am of course referring to the site and the personnel as a whole, and not to just this specific article.

[Tai Scott]

Who are you calling grown up?

[!beef]

I consider myself a gamer.

[Theodore Walling]

I don't think I'll ever grow up, and people who think they have are kidding themselves. Also he makes it seem like the only possible good thing to do with ones life is have a bog standard one. Actually I know this could be taken as my own insecurity showing forth, but I have to say I'm picking up on more than a little resentment from the author/s. He doesn't make it sound as amazing as he wants it to. Grass is always greener on the other side as they say.

[JAY]

I would say that when my kids became a reference for finding good games I was clearly an advlt gamer.

[Catharine Krupinski]

What he said

DISCO!!!

[Tha King o Geekz]

Grown up gamer?

Surely by this point we can dispense with the idea that videogames are just for kids?

Surely by now we don't think people are childish for playing videogames?

We're not talking about arcade machines, we're talking about a colossal entertainment industry.

The whole concept behind that article is [censored].

[Barbequtie]

I'm not sure I understand the question or the point of the linked responses. But then I'm only sixty-two (two weeks shy of sixty-three). Maybe when I grow up I'll get it.

[leni]

Grown up gamer? Hmm... No. I will continue just to call myself a gamer, thank you.

[Jennifer Munroe]

I don't know what a grown up is, but it sounds like a terrible thing. I'm just a gamer.

[le GraiN]

I've always been a grown up gamer. I've never been a mindless Madden/CoD drone, I *try* to conduct myself properly in an online environment, and I have great taste.

[Liii BLATES]

I started out as a "grown up gamer", and now I'm working my way back to "teen gamer", then "pre-teen" and, if I live long enough, "gamete gamer".

[saxon]

I'm not a gamer, because I hate that word, and game (verb) and gaming.

I'm just a person who likes to play video games. I'll use my own word and be a gamerman, like fisherman.

[Claire Lynham]

[sarah]

http://ign.com/articles/2014/01/13/ps4-xbox-one-takes-8x-dev-time-of-current-gen-consoles

This is getting ridiculous. At one point is it too much?

[Tyler F]

I'll let you know if it ever happens.

[Guy Pearce]

Just because the potential keeps going up, doesn't mean you have to max it out. It simply gives you more freedom. If you are Bobby Kotick and want to throw bajillions at a game, or if you only got tree fiddy, you can do it as long as you have competent people. I dunno.

[Baby K(:]

Well, technically that would be around 1987 OR 88. I was well into my teen years by then and almost out of High School.

When did I realize it? I had given up gaming entirely for about 10 years(aside from the oddball game you find at the local dive bars around town here). Sometime around 2007 I finally bought a pc after winning a lawsuit against my former landlady, and started gaming again. If I had to put a date on it, it would probably be around that time, but TBH, it really is a gradual process...not something you wake up one day and say, hey, I am now a grow up gamer. For people like me, we've been like this for over twenty years now.

[Steve Bates]

Is that why the first part of Metal Gear Solid V is $39.99 for the PS4 and $29.99 for the PS3 and 360 on amazon?

[Luna Lovegood]

Bahahahahahaha! They merged your threads! That's funny as hell.

[Anna Krzyzanowska]

My very own thread. I feel special