Too old for skyrim.... : V - Skyrim

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:33 am

You can never be to old for video games.

'nuff said.

» Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:54 pm

ROTFL :rofl:

Weren't we supposed to help the poor guy?

Cut down on the quality bed time? :ph34r:

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:13 am

I turn 40 the day after it comes out and have been a gamer since pong on a black and white TV. Gaming keeps me young at heart. I will game until am dead or can't see hear or hold the controller anymore. Why would I stop now? Look at the kind of games I get to play now. If it's something you love to do you find the time to do it.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:44 am

Others have probably said it, but pay attention to how you spend your downtime. If you're spending 4 hours a day watching crap TV you don't really enjoy, divert 2 hours of that to playing amazing games you do enjoy.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:58 am

Has nothing to do with "too old" for Skyrim. You're just "too busy". We all get 24 hours in a day. You choose how you fill those hours up.

Me? I game.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:43 am

I can tell you that there was a period in my life where other things took over from my gaming life. It just couldn't be helped. Oblivion is the game that brought me back in a big way and I'll love it forever for that. Life has priorities and you'll know what you have to do with your time. I wish I had managed mine in a way that included keeping up with major games but after a cross-country move and finding a job and taking care of family, there just didn't seem to be extra left over for playing games in a big way. You can do better than I did. TV doesn't offer much anymore and my gaming replaces that. No one can cancel my favorite game.

Anything in there help at all? I hope so and good luck.

Added: Zendrex is right.

:tes:

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:23 am

He he.
WHat a depressing thread

im 31 with a GF but now im even more scared of marring and having kids hhthan i used to be

i have no fear of commitment or anything but between my freelance work, the GF, eating,pooping and sleeping i do struggle a bit to find time to play.
Also since i work from home i often work on weekends so that svcks a lil bit.

Skyrim comes out in a middle of a very big project that i will be working on so its not a great timing, but im pretty sure i will find time for this game. Im really looking forward to it.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:25 am

If you like games, you will always find time for them, no matter how old you are.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:14 am

I'm 40, my wife is 34, and my daughter is 13.

My daughter will be playing, and my wife is half-interested in playing, assuming it doesn't make her motion sick (watching the demos did).

Half my husbanding and fathering time will actually be freed up. Sorta.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:35 am

This is about playing skyrim as an advlt. With like.... a full blown life outside of the game.

The only thing that's good about working away from my family and friends, living in a work camp 2 weeks at a time in the freezing cold this winter is that if i'm not completely exhausted i might have a few hours a night to have a crack at skyrim. oh and getting paid. that's good too. cheers.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 8:41 am

im 28 ty God teen age years are OVER....

and yah no children

EVER :sick:

I like my freedom ty very much.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:50 pm

I'm 18, with a very light load for college (13 hours a week, but that's technically about 11 since my Statistics class is actually online for all but one of the classes). I'm going to play it so much. :biggrin:

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:44 am

If you enjoy video games, play them. My girlfriend thinks im too old to play games and im only 19. I have a job, im in school, and im in a band. But I still make time for games because its something I enjoy.

This except I'm 17, without a job.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:55 am

you're never too old for video games and for feeling young again when playing them... i think the problem is more along the lines of your soul getting stripped from your body, and you're in danger of becoming a hollow shell of nothingness, like most people who forget what its like to enjoy themselves and be happy.

seriously, i have seen 70-80 year olds playing video games still... even modern day games, and enjoying themselves fine.

i assume your wife isnt a gamer? do your kids play games?

if not, that might also be part of the problem, a single gamer with a family who isnt interested in gaming is like gamer self-destruction.

» Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:31 pm

I'm 35, two kids, work full time running a business and looking to change careers ...I hear u my friend. Weekends are my game time.. well just one weekend day the other is for my wife. Anyhow..you are not too old.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:46 am

This article... http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games_p2/... hit a rather unnerving cord ith me. I turn 26 a week after Skyrim's release. I also have a daughter, a fiancee, college, 40 hour a week job, and a household to keep stocked and stabled.

I'm lucky if i get three hours a week to play video games, and more and more of those hours are being passed up for crappy ninties scifi movies on netflix.

Now skyrim is something i am truly looking forward too. TES had as much of an impact on me growing up as Zelda, Star Trek, and DnD. Now alas, as those DnD nights turned into poker nights, i find myself in a corner where i'm afraid i won't enjoy Skyrim as much as I did Daggerfall or Morrowind. Music doesn't reach down and grab me like it did when I was 15. Movies don't sweep as far away and convince me quite as much that i can be and do anything. At 26 you pretty much know what your capable of. The grand adventures of fatherhood and midterms makes blowing up death stars seem so trivial. Will it do the same for killing dragons? Or is that part of me that is capable of being that far detatched from realty really dead?

If it is that svcks cause i really enjoy that part of me.

The way things are looking it'll take me a week just to get past the manditory three hour character creation anyway...

Is anyone else looking at this same black void?

I haven't read the rest of this thread, but OP, I know that feel bro. I know that feel.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:33 am

This article... http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games_p2/... hit a rather unnerving cord ith me. I turn 26 a week after Skyrim's release. I also have a daughter, a fiancee, college, 40 hour a week job, and a household to keep stocked and stabled.

I'm lucky if i get three hours a week to play video games, and more and more of those hours are being passed up for crappy ninties scifi movies on netflix.

Now skyrim is something i am truly looking forward too. TES had as much of an impact on me growing up as Zelda, Star Trek, and DnD. Now alas, as those DnD nights turned into poker nights, i find myself in a corner where i'm afraid i won't enjoy Skyrim as much as I did Daggerfall or Morrowind. Music doesn't reach down and grab me like it did when I was 15. Movies don't sweep as far away and convince me quite as much that i can be and do anything. At 26 you pretty much know what your capable of. The grand adventures of fatherhood and midterms makes blowing up death stars seem so trivial. Will it do the same for killing dragons? Or is that part of me that is capable of being that far detatched from realty really dead?

If it is that svcks cause i really enjoy that part of me.

The way things are looking it'll take me a week just to get past the manditory three hour character creation anyway...

Is anyone else looking at this same black void?

I'll be 20 years old when Skyrim is out and i'm working on getting my military career started but that in no way will stop me from playing Skyrim muhaha! :toughninja: :biggrin:

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:18 am

If you enjoy video games, play them. My girlfriend thinks im too old to play games and im only 19. I have a job, im in school, and im in a band. But I still make time for games because its something I enjoy.

LOL

try being 36 with wife and child.

I still like my xbox and elder scrolls

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:09 pm

There is no such thing as being too old for video games. All you need is a pair of working hands and some free time to spare, which aren't strictly age dependent.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 11:17 am

You are not required to finish the game in 3 days. No one has a timer tracking you.

I have kids, job, nightschool like many other people. Skyrim for me is a game that I will be going back to on and off for probably the next two years. When it is all over, I will have a bunch of different characters, done all the guilds, tried different things, builds whatever and then all the gimpy "use only a dagger" type playthroughs for the heck of it.

I buy one or two games a year. Each o be lasts me for awhile.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:19 am

You're never too old (well unless you start shaking and start blinding or deafening that is..) for video games

So as long as your senses aren't yet starting the get limited by old age, no you're not too old for Skyrim

» Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:39 pm

This article... http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-to-tell-youre-getting-too-old-video-games_p2/... hit a rather unnerving cord ith me. I turn 26 a week after Skyrim's release. I also have a daughter, a fiancee, college, 40 hour a week job, and a household to keep stocked and stabled.

I'm lucky if i get three hours a week to play video games, and more and more of those hours are being passed up for crappy ninties scifi movies on netflix.

Now skyrim is something i am truly looking forward too. TES had as much of an impact on me growing up as Zelda, Star Trek, and DnD. Now alas, as those DnD nights turned into poker nights, i find myself in a corner where i'm afraid i won't enjoy Skyrim as much as I did Daggerfall or Morrowind. Music doesn't reach down and grab me like it did when I was 15. Movies don't sweep as far away and convince me quite as much that i can be and do anything. At 26 you pretty much know what your capable of. The grand adventures of fatherhood and midterms makes blowing up death stars seem so trivial. Will it do the same for killing dragons? Or is that part of me that is capable of being that far detatched from realty really dead?

If it is that svcks cause i really enjoy that part of me.

ELY
i know what you mean but i would not 100% understand as i'm not a dad and work is scarce..
but you should always leave time for the child IN YOU, that's what i think i was 29 last week {me twenty-nine}. we are apart of a generation that has seen first hand the culture of the world advance so fast in technology, when you compare the 80s to the 90s and now 00s.
you as a father {congratulations bye the way, it must be a TRUELY EPIC feeling} have a new reality on the world, prob find it hard to RETREAT into the TES world as you did when you were younger.

i say, and it's only a reply to your thread and only my opinion, keep playtime for yourself. a certain fact i find is that we "grow up"
way to fast and this society of ours has a real clever way of making us believe how we "should" live our lives.
when i've got a lil prob i take a look at a photo of myself as a kid and ask "what would he say or think".
god i sound like a shrink....sorry.
respect to you as a father...TES memories will always be there to be made. ely
The way things are looking it'll take me a week just to get past the manditory three hour character creation anyway...

Is anyone else looking at this same black void?

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 2:22 am

You're only old if you think you are.

Its true in so many ways.

If your GF thinks you're too old for games, then perhaps she's too old for you.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:15 am

Women give birth in their 50's and 60's nowadays. A woman has plenty of time to have children at age 33. My own mother had me when she was 35. And that was decades ago.

Not Healthy. At that age there is a 50/50 chance of the child having down syndrome.

» Sun Sep 18, 2011 12:02 am

Not Healthy. At that age there is a 50/50 chance of the child having down syndrome.

Not really enough data to really establish that probability epidemiologically, since nearly all women begin their climacteric before then.

At maternal age 20 to 24, the probability is one in 1562; at age 35 to 39 the probability is one in 214, and above age 45 the probability is one in 19.

Paternal age can also have an effect, but not as strong.